Grassy Roots 4 – Organic Food, Detoxing and Dehydrating
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Summary
In this episode of Grassy Roots on Channel 6, hosts Beth Overgaauw and Dr. Jim Carey delve deeply into the benefits of eating organic foods and adopting a raw living foods lifestyle. They emphasize that consuming organic produce is more important than simply eating raw foods because non-organic foods are often laden with pesticides, herbicides, and other toxins that permeate the entire plant, not just the surface. The discussion highlights how the accumulation of these toxins in the body leads to fat storage as a defense mechanism, causing weight gain and chronic health issues.
Dr. Carey explains how switching to organic and raw foods helps the body detoxify stored toxins, leading to weight loss, reduced arthritis symptoms, and increased energy. They touch on the emotional attachment some people, especially women, have to fat and the different detox symptoms people may experience as their bodies purge long-held toxins, including those from vaccinations and antibiotics.
The hosts then transition into practical advice on sourcing organic foods—advocating growing your own, shopping at farmers markets, or buying from reputable stores like Whole Foods. They caution about misleading labels such as “free-range” eggs and discuss the benefits of establishing relationships with local farmers.
The show also explores raw food preparation, focusing on dehydrated snacks like crackers and pizza crusts made from flax seeds, nuts, and vegetables. Dr. Carey demonstrates the use of a food dehydrator, explaining its functions, benefits, and how it preserves the raw status of foods without cooking them. This segment stresses the importance of having crunchy snacks as part of the raw diet to satisfy emotional and physical cravings.
Additionally, the episode touches on the pervasive problems of modern processed foods, chronic malnutrition caused by pesticides, herbicides, and genetic modifications, and the ethical concerns surrounding pharmaceutical industries. They advocate lifestyle changes over medication, noting that many chronic diseases can be reversed by dietary improvements.
For viewers interested in learning more about raw living foods, various resources are promoted, including home study programs, DVDs, books, and online video collections. The show ends with a teaser about making raw pizza and encourages viewers to tune in next week.
Highlights
- [02:00] 🌱 Importance of prioritizing organic over raw foods for health benefits.
- [05:00] ⚖️ Explanation of how toxins get stored as fat in the body due to processed and pesticide-laden foods.
- [08:30] 🥚 Tips on sourcing truly organic and free-range foods, including growing your own and farmers markets.
- [17:30] 💧 Detoxification symptoms when transitioning to organic and raw diets and why they occur.
- [28:00] 🍪 Demonstration of making raw dehydrated crackers and pizza crust as healthy snack alternatives.
- [40:00] ⚠️ Discussion on the dangers of processed foods, pharmaceuticals, and chronic malnutrition.
- [55:00] 🔥 Practical dehydrator use and maintenance tips for preparing raw foods at home.
Transcript
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Coming up next on Channel 6 television grassy roots with Dr Jim Carey and Beth Overgaauw a show which will guide you down paths to healthier living by simply adjusting your eating habits stay tuned to channel 6 for Grassy Roots [Music] thank you [Music] hi this is Beth Overgaauw with another episode of grassy roots and I’m here with Dr Jim Carey hello Jim it’s always a pleasure to see you it’s always a pleasure to be here and I’m excited about today’s episode we’re going to
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talk about eating organic and why that’s that’s such a good thing it’s such a good thing because um you know I I let me start with this statement I think it’s more important to be organic than to be raw okay okay oh man because for the for the last three weeks people are like well they’re at the supermarket they’re eating lots of greens and all and all of a sudden it’s like oh wait a minute um Organics are hard to find I know I know but that’s why we did sprouting
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last week okay there’s my first source of Organics okay then again like grow that yourself right I grow that myself and that’s why I say starting with the organic seed is just a little heads up with the I mean it’s a little head start but um that’s my start on Organics and again it’s it’s like I said the other week is raw when possible organic when practical and pray over the rest so the more I put organic in my body the better now here’s the premise is when we’re eating organic
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and and I I know I’ve heard all the debates about whether or not there’s more nutrition our laboratory tests say yes I think a lot of times it has to do with who’s paying for the testing because I know that the big aggresses no I I’ve hear all this but I’m not going to talk I’m not talking I’m not going to stand on the fact of whether or not there’s more nutrition consider this non-organic means there are herbicides and pesticides sure I can wash the outside and I can take my little
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vegetable brush and scrub it really well like you do every time right I know even aware of this okay I don’t okay I mean sometimes but I don’t know what it is you’re in a hurry and while at least I rinsed it okay now I do use my water filter I rinse it under filtered water because if I take my organic or not uh tap water chlorines fluorines and who knows what else now they’re talking about pharmaceuticals yeah okay now so I’m putting more stuff on my food right so I use my filter tap
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water for starters to rinse it under with Organic I don’t have oh I’m sorry and those herbicides and pesticides get into the fruits and veggies also it’s not like it’s just on the surface no they’re in that soil they’re sucked up into the plant they permeate the plant now our bodies can process out toxins right if not we’d all die of toxic shock right forward 21. what happens to us on the standard American diet is we’re putting the toxins in faster than our body can take
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them out okay so I eat that bowl of sugar frosted blood blurp you know with all that milk on it for breakfast and all those vitamin D added and I you know we talked about sorts of vitamins I put all these toxins in my body the sodium mono glue you know yeah I used to say if you can’t pronounce it I don’t want to eat it now I say if it’s got a label I don’t want to put it in my body so we put all that stuff in our body and our body says hey no problem here’s a little nutrition here his electrician
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there now I got to get rid of these toxins and it uses the liver and the kidneys and all of that and it’s processing them out and it’s working away like the Seven Dwarves they just go into town on it and uh that’s not a Disney copyright I hope Seven Dwarfs no it’s a little okay we don’t have to we have to cut that out of the bleeps in today’s world anyhow and then Here Comes lunch from one of those big chains you know with the greasy burger and I used to think if it wasn’t dripping off my elbows it wasn’t
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a real Burger you know oh I was yeah yeah come on that’s a marine I was a man’s man I still am you know I think I’m skydiving at 53 to burn off the excess energy after I went raw um no I’m still a macho kind of guy but here come all the toxins for lunch well the body hasn’t gotten rid of the breakfast toxins what does it do with them it can’t just say oh well abort abort no it’s stuck with them so to protect the body from the toxins left over from the breakfast foods or the
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lunch or the supper Foods it takes that little Toxin and wraps the fat molecule around it protect the body from it now it’s got to park it somewhere okay okay and it puts it right there and it remembers it too this is a nitrator remembers it and then the excess toxins for lunch and it puts them here here here here okay and boom boom boom and the next thing you know you got your spare tire and some people store it in the hips or wherever you know people store it differently but it’s fat when people go to especially it’s
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especially dramatic with a Hands-On program like creative health or there’s Optimal Health in California matter of fact uh what I’ll do on grassyroots.com is um more like a page called slash institutes okay okay and I’ll list all all the different Ann institutes when you go to one of these institutes Hands-On remember remember I dropped 20 pounds right in the first two weeks 30 pounds on the first month well when you’re putting good nutrition organic food into your body and the body says oh there’s
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no toxins here it doesn’t say I’ve got a day off like you or I would the body says oh I’ve got some free time now about that fat molecule I left right over there and it goes over it grabs that fat molecule strips it open takes the toxin processes that out the normal way and the fat goes out through your waist and it’s gone and that’s how you drop 20 pounds in two weeks now women don’t lose weight that fast okay women are more in love with their fat well I don’t think they emotionally
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think that well I just know they’re stronger attached to it guys go through the program and my weight loss was not atypical okay typically a guy will lose 20 15 to 25 pounds typically a woman will lose 10 to 15 pounds in the first two weeks so just don’t get your hopes up girls yeah you process your body processes it differently um I think it’s all about emotional attachment and that’s my adult be careful but that is what happens in the body and that is why organic is so good so even
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if you’re eating a standard American diet and and really I’m not saying that everybody should be raw vegan we all have different body types and for many people is not the ideal thing but for everybody eating organic is a step up I work with omnivores I work with vegetarians I work I work with vegans everybody if you know more about your health you’ll make better choices okay because like we said before the body has lost the ability to eat instinctively or intuitively so we we look towards the animals and
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see what they’re doing and then we follow that example and the healthiest animals are out there in organic Fields now where do you find the organic food I mean you can go the grocery one reason um you know I live in Georgia but our corporate offices are here are in the suburbs of Louisville one reason I’m staying here is I’m 20 minutes away from a whole food store I know that’s a plug but and I I know people call them whole paycheck but they do a wonderful service and the alternative is well the
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alternative is number one you grow your own okay and the sprouts and you could live on sprouts but boys monotonous yeah the number two window boxes small gardens okay um so growing what you can yourself number three Farmers markers if you have them now one thing I’ve learned at the farmers market if the science says organic it probably is if if the sign doesn’t say organic and you ask them if it’s organic if it’s really organic they’ll have a sign up but if you go regularly and you can establish a relationship
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with the farmers tell them what you’re looking for I’m looking for organic free-range eggs now under the USDA definition if the chicken coop door is open five minutes a day that’s a free range kid chicken oh they have to have access to the outside doesn’t mean they have to go out it only has to be open five minutes a day that’s the legal definition oh my goodness that’s a free-range chicken and a free range egg so what you want is you want my grandmothers my great-grandmother’s chickens yeah okay
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you had to well we had them Fest but you had to herd them into the chicken coop at night to keep the raccoons the weasel the fox away from them now that they still got in but those chickens truly lived out in the yard yeah okay and the roosters they lived out in the yard I mean they lived on the whole Farm but they’ll find their way home um and that’s a matter of meeting people like that and telling them what you’re looking for um Mother Earth News has has a lot of great ideas for Farmers
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um there’s I mean I’ve seen where you build this four by four by three foot ten and you literally pick it up and move it every day and the chickens are living out in the yard and yet they’re contained okay and you can actually do this on Wheels you wheel it up the chicken coop you open the door you hurt them in at night and yet they’re contained all day without having to have a large fan stereo so there’s things we can do if we own depending on zoning if we have three to five acres though
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there’s a certain amount we could do for eggs Etc but it keeps coming back to in the cities you usually have the whole food or or a similar like on Maui I’ve got Mana Foods um so in an urban in an urban area you usually have a good resource in a Suburban or a rural area like this you usually have Farmers just down the road a piece and then it’s a matter of talking to your neighbors finding somebody that’s receptive because to me with big aggrove getting involved in all this organic thing now that’s so popular
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and you notice like even at the Krogers and the Piggly wigglies and the Safeway you can find some organic right right so organic romaine lettuce there’s a good foundation for everything it’s fairly inexpensive that’s a start okay maybe I can’t be a hundred percent again organic and practical but can you mail order organic stuff like on the Internet or um on stuff like the seeds that’s where I get all my seeds and my nuts okay okay I just find good reliable organic sources it’s the produce that’s the
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challenge and it’s the things that don’t ship well eggs um meat um now I’ve gone to these health fairs again in the big city and I found people that ship organic Meats okay and they show you movies of the farm and the and they truly are free-range Castle cattle I I haven’t eaten red meat in years and years oh well a couple exceptions but basically you know maybe once or twice a year yeah um I still eat steak my people my friends Last Christmas I heard something like that you know I don’t remember offhand I
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think it was Easter um then this is December so um stay tuned for more grassy Roots after these words from our sponsors [Music] one of the best things terrorists could do is just build more fast food restaurants maybe add another pharmaceutical company have a couple more infomercials and encourage people to eat do what they eat now and everybody’s going to be dead in 100 years they can just walk right in don’t have to do a thing [Music] one quarter of what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat
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keeps your doctor alive [Music] cancer rates going up heart disease going up stroke going up we’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted Foods one of the major problems is what we do to the soil and the air and the water and everything we take in our food we for whatever reason decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide herbicide larvicide fungicide we decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about can we actually improve what has already
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been created and the answer is maybe but not the way we’ve been doing it if you want to know what’s wrong look down at the table it’s staring back at you think of it as chronic malnutrition because that’s what’s going on but if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything we’ve missed the whole point we have been taught our whole lives to be consumers so modern medicine which is pharmaceutical medicine good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make
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a lot of dollars so the drug industry has every right to make money no question about that at all the ethics I think need to be very closely watched what the pharmaceutical companies are doing may not necessarily be in the interest of that population you you can be as sincere and you can be sincerely wrong approximately 106 000 Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year and these are people who took the medication as directed there’s a lot more turning to Alternatives because what’s being done beforehand doesn’t
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work there is no magic bullet but there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease it’s cheap it’s simple it’s safe it’s effective the solutions are here they’ve always been here every single person in the world every culture every language every person in the world knows you are what you eat food does matter [Music] it’s a choice you don’t have to be sick for a full-length DVD copy of Food Matters go to grassyroots.com food want to learn more about a raw living
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for Body Mind spirit and Planet covers every possible Factor related to the subject this compilation has received rave reviews by those in the raw foods movement visit www.livefoodfactor.com for your copy the live food Factor by Susan shank and now back to grassy roots on Channel 6 TV with Beth Overgaauw and Jim Carey now when you start eating the organic foods and any of the that we’ve talked about the whole time and your body is changing the way it attacks the toxins you previously in um do you go through detox like you know
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you hear about oh very stupid you’ve been doing your homework girl so um yes you do have detox and and symptoms typical symptoms now the more raw organic faster you go the faster the detox will be okay okay but if we start eating organic and if we start eating highly Raw when we take these toxins out we we are going to go through detox symptoms um headaches nausea I had one more and I got a severe headache I was about the third week into being raw 100 raw at an Institute and I wanted a couple aspirin and and
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the director the co-founder Don Haughey convinced me to just go to bed take a nap lo and behold I fell ready to sleep I woke up around 11 30 12 o’clock in time for lunch it felt great and then the after a period of time you continue to diet then the detox and the detox will come well they’ll come in waves oh in addition to detoxing the toxins in the food you’ve eaten your body is accumulating toxins from all your vaccinations any recreational drugs you may have ingested I mean even going
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back your teenage years so you will have these symptoms um I had when I was in service I had every every injection on the man I was I was stationed in such a position I could be sent anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice yellow fever type soy typhoid black black plague I’ve had them all usually four or five they always gave them to us Friday afternoon you’re sick all weekend and you’re ready for duty on Monday and so much for your weekend pass I went through the yellow fever symptoms
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the difference was when I got the inoculation I was sick for three days yeah when I detoxed it I was sick for about three hours oh okay and you will get these symptoms back um antibiotics suddenly one day I I had severe diarrhea for a number of hours just like you get when they give you a heavy dosage of antibiotics what was the source of that it wasn’t my food because I’m eating the same thing as 30 other people right and my estimate is I was detoxing antibiotics because especially in the service but all my
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life the cue for everything was absolin 500 take five or six a day killed every piece of bacteria in your body the healthy ones and the bad ones and those things accumulate but it does pass eventually so don’t be freaked out by it um you know I’m not saying don’t seek medical advice especially if it’s severe but acne can even come back right but this this and sometimes skin rashes tend to be a day or two acne tends to be maybe a week especially if you had acne severely as a kid you can look at that as you’re
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getting more youthful yeah yes so these are normal things but to me that’s why organic is so important if my body is going to go through all these detoxification symptoms that means it’s holding that it’s been holding this stuff up in my case for 50 some years yeah and now it’s coming out they can’t be healthy to hold it if I go through those symptoms and then that’s and then all of a sudden the arthritis goes away in the knees the arthritis goes away in the elbow the energy comes back and it’s like next
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thing you know it’s like why don’t we go skydiving this weekend they go why and I go I need something to do and mowing lawns isn’t enough around I understand I I most seven acres and I had it in Georgia and I was using a push mower but I still had energy to burn wow I took skydiving okay [Laughter] but I’m kind of looking forward to that I guess jumping out of it I’ll think of something different probably well good I don’t Skydive anymore because I realized that um well this guy skydiving was wonderful I
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also didn’t want to spend half of my life in a wheelchair like Christopher Reeves yeah you could break your spine yeah accidents do happen you can be healthy but you still well I met people called Sparky why do they call you Sparky so that’s probably because that time I ran into the high voltage power lines are those ones over there now we’ve talked in past episodes about blending Foods we’ve talked about eating them as they are raw is there a way to make something that resembles bread
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I mean there’s no baking yes well there’s several versions one is called a scene bread and it’s sun-dried okay okay but around my house you’re dealing with dog cats and if you forget to bring it in by Sundown raccoons Fox we have a panther in the area I know he Patrol they it’s a pair of panthers they Patrol a large area wow so they’re only around a few days out of the month but it’ll be that month if you hear that Panther you better have the dark and cats inside don’t go after anything smaller than a
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horse so dehydrator is a solution you can do it in the house you can control the time um I mean one thing we get in Georgia in the summer time is uh um I don’t run the dehydrator on the timer if I’m going to go to the store because if the dehydrator stops it’s so humid that by the time I get home the crackers will be soggy again oh for me I take them out of the hydrator straight into the fridge so it’s a matter of making some sort of Pate or a ground up something or other and then putting it
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on there and it’s about making some sort of goo or jelly spread it out actually uh pictures are worth a thousand words let’s go out the kitchen I brought the dehydrator okay and and I’ve had it plugged in for a while because the trip over they I mean this this humidity today um but I’ve got some tasty zesty crackers I did some spices some without because our body needs the Crunchies sure okay and what and well we’ll talk about it in the kitchen stay tuned for more grassy Roots after
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these words from our sponsors hi I’m Dr Jim Carey and sitting in front of me is Dr Anne’s raw living Foods home study program Dr Ann’s program has been taught for over 50 years around the world at a half a dozen institutes normally you go you spend two weeks and you learn to do the program however when I was director of creative Health Institute I found that after you go home you’ve been home for six months a year all that knowledge starts to fade there is a need for being able to
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refresh your memory and a need for keeping inspired so over the course of the last six years I put together a home study version of Dr Anne’s program and this is it in front of you I know it’s a lot it’s a 304 page handbook it covers everything from from the kind of water to drink through energy soup to how you combine your Foods there’s 180 page recipe book that covers everything from a raw breakfast through a raw dessert after supper and everything in the middle even has Thanksgiving dinner and
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all raw Thanksgiving turkey dinner with mock turkey her basic program is in this 10 DVD set right here but as you get into it you get into questions and you know it’s always like about having a second opinion about having more details and that’s what the rest of this program is over here we have the advantages of eating raw video I did one by Paul Nissan a couple by Victoria butenko including her famous One greens can save your life that’s a three hour video I know it’s Victoria’s number one seller
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this is all part of the home study program couple videos on wheatgrass a couple videos on sprouting and gardening a number of videos about rejuvalac lightly fermented foods and energy soup a couple more doctor and videos or TV interview um these four here are all about the benefits of the lifestyle the uh this one called program review for example is an overview of the program at creative Health Institute enzymes in food living Foods um living Foods preparation I’m sorry raw parenting with uh which is important
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to many people student testimonials colon Health transitioning to raw foods food combining with Dr Pfeiffer it’s as thorough as I’ve been able to make it in the last six years oh and I almost forgot two of Dr Anne’s books on tape read by a professional radio announcer Steve mulkiewicz a naturopathic doctor that happens to believe in Dr Ann so that shows in his voice I mean this is that’s a five CD set the other is a three CD set this is the most thorough thing you will ever see to learn about Dr Anne’s raw
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crunchy today and not like a carrots crunchy but like crackers are crunchy what we’re going to do today Beth is we’re going to play with our dehydrator and while dehydrated foods are non-essential part of a living Foods or raw foods diet it’s still nice to have snack foods sure okay um like guacamole and crackers watching TV would be great but you know those crackers are cooked they’re salted now aren’t they preservatives and you know what I said you know what I said on the show I used to say if I can’t pronounce
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the name I don’t put it in my body but now I believe that it was got a label on it that doesn’t go on my body okay so and we call these Comfort Foods okay but in in the snack foods they’re not the eating between meals is good but if I’m going to stay on this raw path I need to fill all my needs physical mental emotional spiritual so that’s what I’m going to do is the emotional needs of things like crunchy foods and also wouldn’t it be neat to have pizza how about if we could have pizza with no
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cooked bread no cheese on it okay all vegan pizza okay sounds very interesting well what we’re gonna do today we’re gonna make crackers which are also the foundation for pizza okay for the crust for the pizza crust I’m sorry that’s the crust we’re gonna do and then we’ll do that at a later time but let’s make the pizza crust first that’s actually the hardest part the pizza is five minutes oh okay but the dehydrator part takes a day or so of the dehydrator also for
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Crunchies and snacks snack foods we’re just gonna we’re gonna dry some uh we’re gonna we’re gonna well I’m gonna I’ve got pears strawberries blueberries all kinds of things we can do as fruits yeah and we just dehydrate some fruits but let’s start with let’s start with our our crackers and our pizza crust it’s the same thing okay okay and what I’ve got here is those great little flax seeds Okay that we talked about in the green smoothie show that you know when
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we grind them up that they that they will thicken up the smoothie now plain flax seeds like this aren’t digestible but for the by the body okay um you know on all I see is we they should be soaked the problem with soaking flax seeds is that they get they turn in the glue oh a form of glue okay so it’s like my almonds I soak my almonds for 24 hours I dry them and if it was in a few days that’s great because they need that to get that enzyme out but what if I don’t need them all for well what I do I didn’t make any
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today but what I do is I run my almonds through the dehydrator too make a paste no just I I soaked my almonds for 24 hours drain them well and uh and then put them in the dehydrator for a day or so until they dry again then they’ll keep for about a month oh okay okay now you know almonds out of the store will keep for years right okay but once I’ve soaked them and I’ve removed that enzyme they don’t last long so back to flax seeds even though they’re not very digestible by the body it’s more
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important that we be happy and they’re still roughage there’s still fiber to them and they’re just gonna pass through us they don’t hurt and they give us crackers and then we’ll get our benefits from like our guacamole dip and what’s guacamole it’s avocado for two things so I’ve got you remember I don’t do much measuring I got a small bowl full and to really make a base tier of that I’m going to bring out the the plaxi grinder that’s been recycled and I’m
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going to throw oops all over the counter I usually pour them right out of the bag just enough to cover the blade that’s where the rest of them in my bowl okay this is going to really help stick it together but because these ones I grind up the ground up ones will be digestible foreign if you look at my recipe book I tell you like a quarter ounce of flax seeds and how much water and everything okay but [Music] I’m a I would do it by eye guy because what I want to do here is I want to get
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a nice paste that I can spread out and make into a uh to make into my cracker crust the wetter it is the easier it’ll spread the wetter it is the longer it’s going to take to dry now we saw there on camera that when I got these wet they’re just floating around in there okay but if I left them over at night they turn into a goo so I can’t really soak them I’m just gonna have to but you know the thins their thin holds seeds and the thinner the skin the less of that uh the less of that enzyme that we have to
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deal with or worry about now that’s two Loops now do you ever Sprout um black seed I’ve never tried I’ve never heard of it being tried okay um it’s probably it goes back to we Sprout things that grow quickly and sprout quickly it’s like I’ve done corn it’s great okay but most of my corn Sprouts I’ve got out of the field right after we planted um but corn seeds when I when you try sprouting the house they take about 10 days right well in 10 days I’m on my third batch of alfalfa okay
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you know you could do this with anything flax crackers have just become sort of the raw vegan standby and all I’ve done is I said okay I misjudged how much water so just like I do with my smoothie where I use black for a thickener I’m using plaques for my binder and my thickener and it’s getting there it would work like this but let me see it’s it’ll work like that but I can smell it it smells like flax I didn’t know that’s what flax smelled like yeah that’s what it has to be
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because there’s nothing in here but Flex yeah so obviously I overdid it in the water um and for me as a scientist as an engineer as a guy this is the fun stuff is I’m gonna make it work it’s different every time can you add ground pecans that’s the next thing oh okay now because I’m making this one for pizza crust now for crackers then actually what we could do is put our recipe in half but what I’m going to do is I’m going to do one layer of my dehydrator with pizza crust and
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in the sake of time I’m keeping it simple I usually dice up real small and I cut really slow that’s why for a second time really bad green pepper and red pepper gives a nice color it gives a little flavor because we’re not dealing with a chemical reaction dehydrating is not cooking there’s no chemical reaction so anything you want to add you can literally do your paste until you like the taste here take a little taste okay Miss crunchy because of the cheese but the flats alone taste good doesn’t it
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does yeah so we’re just going to keep it simple for this for this show um and then for our crackers we’re gonna uh well I brought cashews one of my favorites okay okay any cashews again they’re not really a raw food because they steam them to get out of the show but that’s okay if it’s a comfort food it’s better that I eat a few things outside then say ah this is too hard I don’t want to do it one thing I hear you have to prepare this this sheet of plastic oh I’m oh I’m sorry
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let’s let’s back up here for a moment because I didn’t work fast enough and this is hardening up on me oh see they’re turning into little they’re turning in the cookies okay well all they are now now they’re cookies but if I get them before they solidify I’ll make them back into a taste again but yes I should talk about the dehydrator shouldn’t I this is an inexpensive one it was thirty dollars at the discount store that’s probably a better Pace as long as I keep working quickly but I had to buy
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some add-ons first off it didn’t come with these plastic trays now on the website at grassyroos.com dehydrators I’m gonna have a list of them there Excalibur is a very recognized brand it’s got a it’s got a more accurate temperature control than this one it’s also got a timer on it okay so it’s shut off automatically but my problem with the dehydrator on the farm is if I’m not home with an hour or two in the summertime it starts rehydrating because the humidity is so high in Georgia oh
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yeah okay and they have teflix sheets that are even slippier so the um the plastic trays here that hold the goop um they cost a few bucks extra so I’m probably 50 in the whole thing I also got a couple of these trays that you can take the center out so let’s have a dehydrating flower arrangement or something yeah and I can’t think of anything you’d do in raw foods but um I can see dehydrated flowers making dried flowers if you want it higher I got a couple of these trays rather than
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the standard ones so I could do something just give me flexibility I’ve had this five or six years My Philosophy was that when uh um when I burned it out I buy another one yeah I had Debbie I had uh Donna may ship this up to me from Georgia I couldn’t see spending a hundred dollars or more on a fancy dehydrator when I’m on the road so much and traveling so much so as the goal here to get them fairly thin right and you you hit the nail on the head you can make them it’s thicker as thin as you want
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but it’s going to greatly affect your dehydrating time and I’m sort of an instant gratification kind of guy so my crackers are usually done tomorrow that’s where you make them a little goopier you can take about that size there and you can make yourself something looks like Mama’s sugar cookies or Grandma sugar cookies my mama doesn’t either like if you gave it to some child expecting it to be a sugar cookie they might be a little bit disappointed but if you have sweetener in it right well what you do
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oh now here’s another little trick on this um wet your spatula okay for this I’ll use tap water for some pressure I’m gonna rinse all that nasty City stuff off of it and a wet spatula will allow you to smooth this down and you just gotta puzzle that hoop ear is easier when you’re starting but I don’t want to be here at the studio every day this month stay tuned for more grassy roots words from our sponsors you’re not going to cook anymore how will I live I didn’t say that I wasn’t
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going to cook for you anymore I said that I wasn’t going to cook the vegetables anymore and I said we’re going to cut back on the red meat for a while where in the world did you get this idea I’ve been reading some of the articles that are posted on rawdoctors.com and they make a lot of sense you’ve got aches and pains I got high blood pressure and it’s time that we did something about our health so this is what I’m gonna do come on do it just for a little while sweetie do you learn what
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Susan has learned and more visit rawdoctors.com want to learn more about a raw living Foods lifestyle there’s a wide collection of videos on the subject at gdietvideos.com you can find a video on any subject that suits your interest and your budget including rare footage of Dr Anne’s raw living food lifestyle programs this knowledge could change your life check out cheatietvideos.com [Music] one of the best things terrorists could do is just build more fast food restaurants maybe add another
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pharmaceutical company have a couple more infomercials and encourage people to eat do what they eat now and everybody’s going to be dead in 100 years they can just walk right in don’t have to do a thing [Music] sure of what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive [Music] cancer rates going up heart disease going up stroke going up we’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted Foods one of the major problems is what we do to the soil and the air
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and the water and everything we take in our food we for whatever reason decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide herbicide larvicide fungicide we decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about can we actually improve what has already been created and the answer is maybe but not the way we’ve been doing it if you want to know what’s wrong look down at the table it’s staring back at you think of it as chronic malnutrition because
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that’s what’s going on but if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything we’ve missed the whole point we have been taught our whole lives to be consumers so modern medicine which is pharmaceutical medicine good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars so the drug industry has every right to make money no question about that at all the ethics I think need to be very closely watched what the pharmaceutical companies are doing may not necessarily be in the
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interest of that population you can be as sincere and you can be sincerely wrong approximately a hundred and six thousand Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year and these are people who took the medication as directed there’s a lot more turning to Alternatives because what’s being done before him doesn’t work there is no magic bullet but there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease it’s cheap it’s simple it’s safe it’s effective the solutions are here they’ve always
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been here every single person in the world every culture every language every person in the world knows it are what you eat food does matter [Music] it’s a choice you don’t have to be sick for a full-length DVD copy of Food Matters go to grassyroots.com food and now back to grassy roots on Channel 6 TV with Beth oberhow and Jim Carey by the way when I came in earlier today you were filming that cooking show this of course being the uncooking show and uh I just I gotta ask this um oh it’s here
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and uh you guys were they were making hockey pucks oh yeah three times two times maybe that doesn’t go that doesn’t happen in a dehydrator you might have to leave it in for a month or two to do that is it actually don’t break a tooth no I dropped one on the floor over there was cracked the tile yeah well I think it’s funny that your cooking show uses all that side of the of the studio yeah the oven all that and that’s a big fancy side and our uncooking show uses the cleanup side
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and the refrigerator once in a while oh yeah all those greens yeah how come I how come I I know what it is Staff loves my stash don’t they yeah keep coming in here and stuff’s missing whatever my romaine lettuce Fred did it for lunch yeah if you wanted to get really creative I guess you could get cookie cutters and make little patterns oh wow what a wonderful idea yeah yeah that’s what that’s that’s that’s why these become family projects and they’re really great for that is
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dancing as I want crackers for the football game and you get the kids out there and Mom says you know we got cookie cutters next thing you know you got the whole family out there doing food prep getting really involved and it’s like when I grew up when when I grew up in the 50s because you’re so much younger than me when I grew up in the 50s and you know we got two stations on TV up at Grandpa’s place we got one and we’d sit around at night and play the piano and sing and play games
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and uh this this can be the kind of stuff you get the family doing stuff together again so untalented as I am at this because I am not a gourmet food prep Chef I’m The Regular Guy there’s other people in living Foods people like Paul Nissan Naomi Shannon Victoria butenko all dear friends whom I greatly respect and the you’ll find all their websites listed on grassyroots.com and they will show you all the fancy ways and and what they do is wonderful yeah but pizza crust is ready to go on the
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dehydration all right okay and we’ve been let’s see that was 10 minutes from from start to finish um now let’s just go through this dehydrator obviously I didn’t have enough left for crackers okay okay and crackers actually they take less plus you put a blob down and then how thick or thin do you want them if they’re thicker we call them cookies okay if they’re thinner they’re crackers then I re I was usually just just a little swipe of it really thin so I get them really crusty now I’ll take off the
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Excellence I don’t know I showed you I mean the extra ones I don’t need um I showed you how some of them come out all right and then other ones you know they hold fruit just fine that’s a permanent one and the Plastics popped up down in here oh well there’s the fruit down in here um oh the mesh is different yeah they come with a I’m trying to get a corner up I’ve used I gotta Head Start and uh it’ll probably yeah and here we can see this on camera this way I think so is
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this mesh that I probably didn’t need it for pears and strawberries but um heck I had it I wasn’t using it but for thinner things sometimes that mesh helps oh I like the mesh because it’s easier to clean up you see how this one’s stained yes yeah and that’s from doing apples probably and you soak them and soak them you just can’t get the stains out and it’s really not I mean there’s nothing Health Wise about it this just doesn’t look pretty so I sliced up a pair
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and I got a three and a half out of the pears and then I always find a way to fill off the tray can you do cantaloupe I’ve never heard of anybody doing cantaloupe do you know what that’s anything about what we’re doing here it’s a good science project okay um you know what you got a cantaloupe open over there we’ve got we’ve got enough time we got the trays I got a slicing board here I got a knife down at the bottom of the sink and oh by the way you know what hi I remember the sprouting show yes scoop
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these seeds out soak them overnight put them in your sprouter now I don’t know how long it takes us to to smoke crumble see but you add yourself an organic cantaloupe here try sprouting them yeah I mean your if it doesn’t work you’re out put a dirty mason jar and four ounces of filtered water yeah what’s the fun about this and I like I like my fruit slices like potato chips I should have showed that on camera but that’s the thickness I went for or thinner okay and if it’s like a uh what do they call
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that when you could see through the sandwich to see the peanut butter slice out there we had some lean times in the kit um we just ate the chips a wish sandwich I wish I had a sandwich and I just ate the sandwich that’s you know I don’t do this chop chop chop thing when I get down the end and my fingers are endangered I always do this before supper because I’m halfway full when supper’s ready right so now the neat thing is except for the skin itself The Greener it is the more vitamins there are in it oh now
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see I always was told you’d have to go to the bathroom Elijah maybe you do but maybe you do but maybe that is not such a bad thing um I’ve actually done watermelon with a potato peeler oh really yeah it’s the same thing as watermelon the Rind has more vitamins than the red part so you eat it right down to where it starts getting bitter and that’s where I stopped because this is based on taste um I’m going to be a I’m just going to be a little quicker quicker here and take it off but if you
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want to do healthy ones they’d be like that if I cut it differently I could get nicer slices but for this we’re just going to have little strips little wedges I guess that could be taken the wrong way strips thank you both let me just add some cantaloupe strips and we’ll see how they turn out we’re out what a little slice of cantaloupe and that’s the neat thing of raw foods if I like them this way why wouldn’t you like them dry you know something you know I don’t know they
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might come out like rubber well that’s true but so what I’m about a slice of cantaloupe and now I know and if you do enough of those experiments you know what you got your own raw recipe book that’s true I was trying to think of some other multiple streams of income and just come up with something hey with the internet you’ve got an instant publisher built in it’s not like where do I get it published you put out there in the internet you sell it for five dollars make it as a PDF file
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and last week I couldn’t spell engineer now I use one I think I’m going to put this on the uh this way because it’ll flow the air through better and they’re a little bit yeah if I had another piece of that plastic left I’d use them because it does clean up yours easier then just spread them up get air all the way around them that is important to uh you know give them some breathing room otherwise they’ll be different at where they’re touched along those edges notice I intentionally kept the greens bus to
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see how they’ll come out and Bobby just throw that on top okay now what were we going to do with the cashews oh uh we were gonna mix the cashews in with the crackers that’s and this is why if you use the measured recipe or if you know we have to watch time for television but um I think what we should do here I got enough time to okay um at least a few oh this is another good one um I mentioned dehydrating the almonds but what I’ll usually do and we got enough time let me grab a couple
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um staff put everything away um cleaned up at me wait I think they’re right here you know I can’t get up okay camera crew in the woods cameraman’s wave me off okay Mike um I usually pull the tray up with something at any rate this kind here now things like the Excalibur they’re neat the drawers slide in and out you put them in the corner they’re permanent and this one yeah pop open door and the trays I’m sorry the trays slide in and out and those TEF Flex sheets that they come with they
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clean up in the snap this one this real high tech I’m gonna turn on and plug it in what temperature are you setting it at oh good very good no the definition of cooked food is 108 degrees Fahrenheit okay and I’ve got a 105 right now but when you’re dehydrating you know when you go outside especially if you go outside and you’re wet and the wind is blowing you get out of the you come out of the lake you’ve been swimming and it’s suddenly the air is chilly okay that dehydrating that evaporation of the
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water off of your skin or off of this keeps it cooler right so so you could go up a little higher than if you want to be a purist you leave it on this one I got 105 to be safe you want to be purest you do it like that but it takes so much longer and because of that principle of dehydration or actually it’s a principal evaporation causing Cooling it’s not going to make it that much hotter so you can actually start up in around 125 for the first hour or so okay now one thing I did do on this
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inexpensive brand when I bought it I put my thermometer in there and I kept an eye on it just to see if it’s okay and I find that it runs a few degrees cool well that’s safe that’s good but what if we’re in five degrees hot yeah okay so since it runs a few degrees cold I put on 125 knowing I’m about 122. okay so I did a little engineer testing on this so I but don’t forget about it you’ll cook your food but so add it after about an hour and I’m sorry remember how soon I made
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those fruit strips after about 30 minutes that quick it’s 125 degrees I’m gonna check on them and if they’re starting to feel a little dry or a little warm and we peel the top here it’s warm now oh yeah but that’s just the top okay half the little temperature guide there too for different you know that’s all for cooked food people too okay herbs and spices well I guess it works herbs and spices 95 degrees seeds and that’s 105. okay and what it’s doing the heating element that’s blowing down
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is blowing air down through here and coming out the bottom okay okay so I’m going to circulates through that’s why the hole is down the center now you’ve got a good camera angle up there um so hot air is here it’s blowing down through and there’s actually a little tray here you can feel it coming out okay and like I said don’t block that okay you can feel the warm air coming out oh yeah and actually you know if you use as much as I have over the years I can tell by this feel that yeah and when it’s it’s coming
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out a lot cooler here than you felt it at the top and that’s the dehydrating so how long and overall generally speaking does it take to do all that you’ve got in there it’s usually overnight because if I’m going to leave the house or go anywhere I’ve turned it down to 105. if I’m going to bed I’ve turned it down to 105. but if I play with it like this a head start um and we don’t have much in there we might well be ready by tomorrow morning because the more volume we have in there
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of course the difference it’ll make also on this inexpensive type I will rotate my trays top to bottom after a few hours this is not because the Heat’s coming from here down so I’ll take my top the top half of the trays I’ll take the top two here put them on the bottom bring the bottom two up sort of even it out um I guess I guess the thing I really want to make plain to people here is how easy it is right okay uh I mean it’s and again there’s room for experimentations and it’s inexpensive yeah it’s not like
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I know like I blew up the engine on the car you know yeah the jumper experimentation you can’t blow up the kitchen it’s not a science experiment and 95 of your experiments are going to work out well and play with the kids how about taking those pear slices with a cookie cutter sure yeah and a Christmas ornaments or teddy bears put grapes on them and like little animals because you know grapes are raisins I got a shortcut for that one yeah okay that’s well thank you thank you [Music]
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anymore how will I live I didn’t say that I wasn’t going to cook for you anymore I said that I wasn’t going to cook the vegetables anymore and I said we’re going to cut back on the red meat for a while where in the world did you get this idea I’ve been reading some of the articles that are posted on rawdoctors.com and they make a lot of sense you’ve got aches and pains I got high blood pressure and it’s time that we did something about our health so this is what I’m gonna do come on do it just for
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a little while sweetie did you learn what Susan has learned and more visit rawdoctors.com be sure to tune to channel 6 next Wednesday night at 8 o’clock and find out how the pizza turns out
