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The Yellow Brick Road to Super Salads – Grassy Roots Episode 9 – The 12 Steps to Raw Vegan, and Staying Inspired. Making Cauliflower Salad.
Overview
- Episode 9 of 14. Trailer and show are both in this post.
- Dr. Jim talks about the real life and day-to-day challenges of living a raw vegan diet. He discusses the 12 Steps to being a raw vegan, and how to keep yourself inspired.
- In the kitchen Beth Overgaauw and Dr. Jim focus on a variety of healthy recipes, including Cauliflower Salad.
- Grassy Roots show
- Jim Carey of Creative Health Institute, Michigan, and
- Beth Overgaauw of Channel 6 TV, Kentucky, discuss the benefits of eating a raw vegan diet.
- Originally aired on Channel 6 television, Louisville, Kentucky.
- Table of Contents
- Overview
- Summary
- Study Guide
- Transcript
Summary – by NoteGPT
In the ninth episode of Grassy Roots, Dr. Jim Carey and Beth Overgaauw explore the challenges and practicalities of adopting and maintaining a raw vegan diet. The episode centers on the “12 Steps to Raw Food,” a program adapted by Victoria Boutenko from traditional 12-step addiction recovery models, tailored specifically for those transitioning to a raw food lifestyle. This approach acknowledges the addictive nature of cooked foods and offers a structured path to overcoming cravings and dependencies, emphasizing that the journey is as much psychological as it is physical.
The discussion begins with an honest self-assessment through a cooked food dependency questionnaire, which helps individuals recognize their eating patterns and dependencies. Questions probe behaviors such as eating when not hungry, overeating at social events, and breaking personal promises about food consumption. This introspection is crucial for acknowledging the loss of control over eating habits, which is the first step in the recovery process. Dr. Jim highlights that even those who do not struggle with obesity can have addictive relationships with certain foods, such as sweets or processed items.
Step one of the program involves admitting the addiction to cooked food and recognizing that eating has become unmanageable. This admission parallels the first step in Alcoholics Anonymous and sets the foundation for change. Step two encourages belief in live vegan food as the most natural diet for humans, supported by anatomical and evolutionary observations, such as the structure of human teeth compared to herbivores. Dr. Jim views meat as an emergency survival food rather than a dietary staple, emphasizing that humans thrive best on plant-based nutrition.
The third step focuses on acquiring the necessary skills and equipment to prepare raw foods, which can initially be a barrier for many. Dr. Jim notes that food preparation in a raw diet is often quicker and simpler than traditional cooking, which can help sustain the lifestyle. Step four advises living harmoniously with people who eat cooked food, avoiding judgment and preaching, which can create conflict and resistance. Maintaining a positive and non-confrontational attitude helps preserve relationships and personal peace.
Step five stresses the importance of avoiding temptations, such as restaurants or social situations centered around cooked food. However, Dr. Jim acknowledges the social nature of food in American culture and suggests strategies like eating a satisfying raw meal beforehand, bringing a dish to share, or choosing restaurants with good salad bars. This balance allows for social engagement without compromising dietary goals.
Creating a support group is the sixth step, which Dr. Jim and Beth emphasize as vital for emotional encouragement and sharing knowledge. They mention local raw food groups found through platforms like meetup.com and online communities on websites and social media. These groups provide a sense of belonging and reinforce commitment through shared experiences and resources.
Step seven encourages finding alternative activities or hobbies to replace the role that cooked food played in one’s life. Since many people, especially women, have cooking as a hobby, this step suggests shifting focus to gardening, exercise, or other interests that promote health and well-being. Dr. Jim shares personal examples of using a treadmill during cold winters and considering bike rides as enjoyable physical activities that complement the raw lifestyle.
The eighth step involves letting one’s higher self lead the life, which can be interpreted through prayer, meditation, or personal spiritual practices. Dr. Jim highlights the importance of quiet reflection to listen to inner guidance, contrasting it with the busyness of daily life that often drowns out intuition. This spiritual connection supports resilience and clarity during the transition.
Step nine calls for a searching and fearless inventory of the real reasons behind seeking comfort and pleasure from cooked food. This introspection reveals emotional triggers such as stress, celebration, or boredom that drive overeating or unhealthy choices. Understanding these motivations allows individuals to develop healthier coping mechanisms and avoid self-sabotage.
The tenth step is about trusting intuition to guide food choices, distinguishing between what the body truly needs versus cravings driven by habit or emotion. Dr. Jim explains that initial strictness in the diet helps detoxify the body and reset taste preferences, after which one can listen more closely to bodily signals. This step fosters a personalized approach to nutrition within the raw food framework.
Step eleven promises that through clarity and detoxification, individuals will gain happiness and mental sharpness. As toxins leave the body, cognitive function improves, leading to better decision-making and emotional well-being. Dr. Jim shares anecdotes of people experiencing increased happiness and mental clarity as a direct result of adopting a raw food diet.
The final step, step twelve, involves providing support to other raw fooders, reinforcing the community aspect of the lifestyle. Sharing knowledge and encouragement not only helps others but also strengthens one’s own commitment. Dr. Jim encourages viewers to overcome false modesty and share their experiences, emphasizing that everyone has something valuable to contribute.
Throughout the episode, Dr. Jim and Beth also address common misconceptions and practical tips for transitioning to raw foods. They discuss the importance of organic produce to avoid pesticides and toxins, the role of enzymes in raw foods, and the cautious use of herbs and spices during detoxification phases. They highlight that while some ingredients like olive oil and honey are used sparingly, the focus remains on whole, unprocessed plant foods.
The episode includes a cooking demonstration of a raw cauliflower salad recipe, showcasing how traditional cooked vegetables can be enjoyed in raw form with flavorful dressings made from fresh herbs, lemon juice, garlic, and organic olive oil. This practical segment illustrates that raw food preparation can be simple, delicious, and adaptable to personal tastes.
Dr. Jim also critiques modern food systems, pointing out the widespread use of pesticides, genetic modification, and nutrient-depleted processed foods that contribute to chronic malnutrition and rising rates of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke. He stresses that while pharmaceutical medicine has its place, it often addresses symptoms rather than root causes, and that lifestyle changes, particularly dietary ones, offer a powerful, safe, and cost-effective means to prevent and reverse chronic illness.
The conversation touches on the ethical considerations of the pharmaceutical industry and the importance of being informed consumers of both food and medicine. Dr. Jim cites alarming statistics about deaths caused by pharmaceutical drugs taken as directed, underscoring the need for alternative approaches to health.
The episode encourages viewers to explore resources such as Dr. Ann Wigmore’s raw living foods lifestyle programs, various raw food websites, books like Victoria Boutenko’s “12 Steps to Raw Food,” and community groups to support their journey. It emphasizes that adopting a raw vegan diet is not just about food but about a holistic transformation involving physical health, mental clarity, emotional balance, and spiritual growth.
In summary, this episode of Grassy Roots offers a comprehensive guide to overcoming the addiction to cooked foods through a structured 12-step program, practical advice for daily living, and inspiration to embrace a raw vegan lifestyle. It balances scientific insights, personal anecdotes, and community support to empower individuals to make lasting changes for improved health and well-being. The inclusion of a raw recipe demonstration further grounds the discussion in actionable steps, making the raw food lifestyle accessible and appealing to a broad audience.
Study Notes -by NoteGPT
Brief Overview
This learner-oriented digest covers a programmatic approach to adopting a raw living‑foods lifestyle, combining a staged behavioral pathway, practical kitchen skills and recipes, and the program’s health and environmental critiques as presented in the source material. The material is organized to move a learner from initial framing and self-assessment through stepwise practices and skill acquisition, into hands‑on recipe work and sourcing choices, and finally into evaluating the program’s causal claims and community reinforcement practices.
The digest supports three kinds of learning: understanding the rationale and claimed mechanisms behind the program, applying concrete procedures and a worked recipe in everyday cooking, and using compact reference guidance for sourcing, precautions, and peer support. Intended phases of study follow a clear progression: framing and diagnosis → procedural steps and social/practical tactics → kitchen practice and recipe reproduction → causal mechanisms and critique, with community reinforcement woven throughout.
Key Points
- Staged pathway — A teachable progression is provided that begins with diagnostic self‑assessment and proceeds through actionable behavior changes and community-based reinforcement; it is meant to be followed stepwise for practice and assessment.
- Procedural focus — Core content renders the behavioral steps as explicit procedures with inputs, actions, and short‑term outputs so learners can practice and measure competence.
- Kitchen competence — Practical guidance emphasizes essential equipment, quick‑prep rules, and a worked recipe example to reproduce and adapt dishes with clear indications of what to generalize.
- Transitional guidance — Compact comparisons explain acceptable temporary allowances (salt, small oil, sweeteners) and when to reintroduce or avoid certain ingredients during transition.
- Detox and precaution rules — The material highlights likely detox interactions from potent herbs/spices and specifies boundary conditions and common failure cases to minimize adverse reactions.
- Claims and evaluation — The program’s critiques of modern food systems and its causal claims about lifestyle and chronic disease are presented alongside guidance for summarizing and critically assessing those claims with citations.
🪜 12-Step Program for Raw Vegan Transition
📖 Origins and adaptation of the 12-step model for raw fooders
This topic describes how a familiar recovery framework was repurposed to address patterns of cooked-food dependence. The 12-step structure underlying Alcoholics Anonymous was identified as the common template across many programs, and Victoria Boutenko adapted that template specifically for people struggling with cooked-food habits.
Instructionally, the adaptation preserves the 12-step architecture (including the role of an appeal to a higher power) while reframing the target behavior from substance use to patterns around cooked food. That keeps the program’s strengths — a staged path and group reinforcement — while changing the content and examples to fit eating behavior.
Practically, the adaptation is meant to help people recognize eating habits as an addiction-like pattern, to provide steps for attitude and behavior change, and to supply a community process for reinforcement. The presenters note that Boutenko surveyed many step programs and distilled the 12-step approach into a raw-food version titled “12 Steps to Raw Food.” A summary of those steps is included in the home study guide with permission.
A clear boundary the source emphasizes: the 12-step model relies on an appeal to a higher power and on group-style support; it is thus a psychosocial program adapted for dietary change rather than a clinical medical protocol.
| Element | What it contributes (source summary) |
|---|---|
| Basis | The 12-step model derived from Alcoholics Anonymous; many programs follow that template and Boutenko adapted it for raw fooders. |
| Core mechanism | Appeal to a higher power and staged recovery steps (as in historic Oxford Group → AA lineage). |
| Purpose of adaptation | Reframe addiction recovery steps to address cooked-food habits and the challenges people encounter when shifting to raw living foods. |
| Limit/Boundary | Emphasizes recognition and placing oneself differently; programmatic rather than a direct medical treatment — relies on personal/communal practice and belief. |
Key terms — concise source-grounded meanings
- 12-step — a staged recovery framework originally used by Alcoholics Anonymous and replicated across many similar programs; adapted here for eating behavior.
- Alcoholics Anonymous — the original 12-step program cited as the model and historical lineage (Oxford Group → AA → widespread step programs).
- Victoria Boutenko — the author who compiled and adapted a 12-step program specifically for raw-food transition (book: “12 Steps to Raw Food”).
- raw food — the living, plant-based diet around which the adapted steps are organized (presented as an alternative to cooked-food patterns).
The adaptation preserves the social and spiritual structure of classic 12-step recovery while translating its focus to cooked-food dependency and dietary practice. That preserves group accountability and staged change but keeps the method within a behavioral/support framework rather than medicalization.
📝 Cooked-food dependency questionnaire and self-assessment
The questionnaire is a short, behavior-focused screening tool: a series of yes/no prompts that highlight common cooked-food–related habits (accepting food when not hungry, eating when stressed or bored, cleaning your plate, late-night eating, etc.). It exists to provoke honest reflection and to flag patterns that resemble a dependency or an eating problem.
Instructionally, the tool is administered by reading the prompts and answering honestly; the scoring is a simple count of affirmative answers. The screening is intended to move people from vague discomfort to a clear recognition that their eating patterns may be problematic — a gateway into the first 12-step actions.
Interpretation is deliberately binary and low-effort: the source gives a single threshold rule (count of affirmative answers) and then points directly to the first step of the 12-step program when the threshold is met. The checklist is a diagnostic prompt, not a clinical test.
Be candid when answering; the presenter emphasizes honesty and reflection over debate. If the checklist produces a positive screen (see scoring below), the next step in the program is Step 1 (admit loss of control) as presented by Boutenko.
| # | Prompt (use as yes/no) |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you’re not hungry but someone offers your favorite food, do you accept? |
| 2 | If there’s delicious food on the table before bedtime, do you eat it even if it’s not a good idea? |
| 3 | If you’re feeling stressed, do you eat more than usual? |
| 4 | Do you continue to eat until your stomach feels completely full? |
| 5 | Do you eat when you’re bored? |
| 6 | Do you accept a free dinner almost always? |
| 7 | Do you overeat at “All You Can Eat” restaurants? |
| 8 | Have you ever broken a promise to yourself not to eat before bedtime? |
| 9 | Do you spend your last ten dollars on your favorite food? |
| 10 | Do you reward yourself with food for accomplishments? |
| 11 | Do you eat extra food rather than let it go to waste / feel you must clean your plate? |
| 12 | If a food will make you feel ill later, do you still eat it now? |
- Scoring rule — Count how many prompts you answered “yes” to. If you answered yes to three or more, the presenter states: you may have a quick food dependency.
- Next step if threshold met — Move to Step 1 of the adapted 12-step program (“I admit that I have lost control…”). The checklist is explicitly a prompt to begin the stepwise work, not a stand-alone solution.
A straightforward, low-friction checklist plus a single threshold makes this an exam-friendly diagnostic cue: honesty → count yes → 3+ directs you to admission and the 12-step pathway. The emphasis is on self-recognition as the doorway to action.
🔧 Step 1–3: Admission, belief in live vegan diet, and skill acquisition
These first three steps shift a person from recognizing a problem to building a practical foundation. Step 1 requires an honest admission that eating has become unmanageable; Step 2 is an explicit belief statement that live vegan food is the most natural diet; Step 3 focuses on gaining concrete skills, recipes, and equipment needed to prepare living foods.
Instructionally, the sequence is linear: admit the problem (psychological readiness), adopt the guiding belief about diet (motivational framing), then acquire the practical competence (skills and tools) that make change feasible. The source ties Step 3 to hands-on practice — learning recipes and securing equipment so food prep is doable in daily life.
Practical interpretation: admission creates willingness to change; belief orients choices toward plant-based foods (the source even references teeth comparisons and treating meat as emergency food); and skills/equipment turn intention into sustainable practice. The presenter notes logistical challenges (e.g., lacking equipment at a remote cabin) as real barriers that Step 3 aims to remove.
Practice when you encounter friction: if food prep is difficult because equipment is missing, prioritize obtaining or borrowing the necessary tools so you can rehearse recipes and build competence.
| Step | Core wording (source) | Inputs / prerequisites | Expected short-term outputs | When to practice / checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “I admit that I have lost control of my addiction to cooked food and my eating has become unmanageable.” | Honest self-assessment (questionnaire) | Readiness to begin change; psychological admission | Start immediately after honest screening; use as mental commitment statement |
| 2 | “I believe that live vegan food is the most natural diet for a human being.” | Reflection on diet, observational cues (e.g., teeth comparison cited) | A guiding belief that informs choices | Adopt early to guide meal decisions and priorities |
| 3 | “I shall gain necessary skills, learn basic raw recipes … and obtain equipment.” | Recipe resources, practice time, equipment (borrow or buy) | Basic recipes made, cooking competence, ability to prepare meals | Practice daily; remedy missing equipment (borrow/obtain) and rehearse simple recipes until routine |
A short checklist: admit → orient belief → build practical competence. The program moves from mindset to skill so intention becomes daily habit rather than theory.
🤝 Step 4–7: Social harmony, avoiding temptation, building support, and alternative activities
These steps focus on the social and environmental side of behavior change: living peacefully with cooked-food eaters, minimizing exposure to temptation, creating supportive groups, and replacing eating-focused hobbies with alternative activities.
Instructionally, the guidance is concrete and situational. Step 4 emphasizes nonjudgmental coexistence (don’t preach), Step 5 offers concrete tactics to avoid temptation when socializing, Step 6 pushes active creation or joining of support groups (including meetup.com and online resources), and Step 7 recommends replacing or rebalancing hobbies so food isn’t the primary social focus.
Practical tactics are given for common social scenarios: eat a good meal before going out, pick restaurants with good salad bars, carry a side dish, or use a small card for the chef with your preferences. For support, the presenter lists modern online venues (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, raw-focused websites) plus local meetup groups and potlucks.
A key behavioral caution from the source: avoid trading one addiction for another — substitution helps only if it does not become a new addiction.
| Strategy | When to use it | How to apply (source examples) | Expected social outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live in harmony with cooked-food eaters (Step 4) | Daily family and social life | Don’t preach or engage in debates about others’ choices; avoid justifying your lifestyle in ways that start conflict | Less social friction; preserves relationships and models change by example |
| Avoid temptations (Step 5) | Social meals, restaurants, events | Eat beforehand; choose salad-bar restaurants; take a side salad or bring food; use a card for the chef; opt for non-food activities like movies or art strolls | Reduced impulsive eating; maintain social life without dietary slip-ups |
| Create / join a support group (Step 6) | When you need recipes, emotional support, or reinforcement | Use meetup.com, local groups, internet sites (Facebook, YouTube, raw websites); share recipes and success stories; host potlucks | Mutual reinforcement; practical help and ongoing accountability |
| Find alternative activities / hobbies (Step 7) | When socializing or leisure centers on food | Gardening, exercise (treadmill, bikes), crafts, or other interests; make food prep incidental rather than the central hobby | Less food-focused social time; new sources of fulfillment and habit anchors |
A compact takeaway: reduce exposure and debate, reinforce change through community, and reallocate social energy to activities that don’t center on cooked food. These tactics are presented as routine, situational actions to preserve relationships while maintaining the diet.
🧠 Step 8–11: Higher self, inventory, intuition, and clarity
These steps explain the internal mechanisms the program uses to change behavior. Step 8 asks that a person let their “higher self” lead (prayer, meditation) to create inner guidance. Step 9 asks for a searching, angerless inventory of why one seeks comfort in cooked food. Step 10 invites use of intuition to distinguish what the body truly needs from ego-driven wants. Step 11 promises clarity and happiness as toxins leave the body.
Instructionally, the sequence links motivators to cognitive and physiological outcomes: identify motives calmly (inventory), replace reactive behavior with mindful responses (higher-self practices), and then use bodily intuition to choose foods that satisfy real need rather than craving. The source frames detoxification as enabling mental clarity — the body heals itself, and improved brain function follows.
Mechanistically, the inventory reveals functions that food serves (comfort, celebration, relaxation). Once known, those functions can be addressed directly (e.g., relaxation via deep breathing instead of food). Intuition is presented as a trained capacity: after initial dietary cleansing, people can better hear bodily signals vs socially programmed wants.
| Practice (Step) | Mechanism described in source | Practical marker / example | Claimed effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Let higher self lead (Step 8) | Daily prayer or meditation creates space to listen rather than only ask | Meditate/pray regularly to build quiet time for guidance | Greater access to inner guidance and steadier decisions |
| Searching, angerless inventory (Step 9) | Analyze real reasons for comfort eating (comfort, celebration, misery) without self-directed anger | Use questionnaire prompts as thought provokers to identify motives | Ability to design targeted substitutions (e.g., relaxation techniques) |
| Let intuition help (Step 10) | Intuition shows what the body needs vs ego wants; requires initial detox/rigid start | Example: late-night craving resolved by a small juice after checking pantry repeatedly | More accurate food choices based on bodily signals |
| Clarity (Step 11) | Detoxification removes accumulated toxins so the brain works better | Reports of improved mental clarity and happiness as weight/toxins fall away | More mental clarity, increased happiness, reinforced behavior change |
EXAMPLE (source story): late-night snacking
Setup: The presenter recounts repeatedly scanning the kitchen for a snack before bed, deciding each option wasn’t what was truly needed, then drinking a little juice and becoming satisfied.
Details:
- Problem: habitual late-night search for food (stumbling block identified on the questionnaire).
- Action: pause, consider what body truly needs, choose a small juice rather than a calorie-heavy snack.
- Outcome: immediate satisfaction and cessation of the impulse.
Generalize as: use the inventory + intuition pattern — pause, question the motive, offer a simple, appropriate alternative — to break patterned cravings. The source warns substitution is acceptable only if it does not become a new addiction.
These steps link self-knowledge and simple contemplative practices to physiological outcomes; the program frames mental clarity as an emergent property of dietary cleansing plus mindful self-inventory.
🌱 Step 12: Providing support to other raw fooders
Step 12 reverses the roles: teaching and supporting others solidifies one’s own recovery. The source describes both online and local, in-person ways to give support (post videos, join groups found via meetup.com, host potlucks), and it explicitly encourages people to share what they know rather than hide their talents through false modesty.
Instructionally, the step is procedural: start small (a monthly potluck or local meetup), use available tech to amplify reach (websites and social media), and accept that teaching can be informal — if you know something, you can teach it. The act of supporting others both reinforces your own habits and spreads social reinforcement.
Practical organizing tips from the source include hosting a potluck once a month, signing up on meetup to join or start a raw-food group, and using web/video resources to maintain contact and inspiration. The presenter also frames sharing as part of the mission and warns against false modesty that keeps helpful skills hidden.
| Action | How to start (source examples) | When to assume a teaching role | Reinforcing effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host a local potluck | Invite local contacts or group members; a simple monthly potluck at home works | When you have practical experience or recipes to share | Reinforces personal practice and builds local support |
| Start / join meetup group | Use meetup.com to find or create groups; express interest to be notified of new groups | When you want regular live peer contact | Ongoing accountability and recipe/idea exchange |
| Share online resources | Post videos, recommend websites, participate in forums (Facebook, YouTube, raw websites) | When comfortable sharing experiences publicly | Extends support network and provides reinforcement through others’ success stories |
| Teach informally | Present recipes, demos, or tips in small settings | The source says: if you know something, you can teach it — avoid false modesty | Teaching others strengthens your beliefs and actions |
Offering support completes the cycle: acting as a helper both strengthens personal resolve and expands the community that sustains the change. The source frames Step 12 as a practical, accessible set of activities — potlucks, meetups, and online sharing — that anyone with experience can undertake.
🥑 Practical Raw Food Lifestyle Guidance and Recipes
🔪 Kitchen skills, equipment, and quick food prep principles
This topic explains the minimal skills and tools you actually need to prepare simple raw-food dishes and the small checks that prevent common failures. The emphasis is practical: get a working blender setup, learn a couple of cutting and pre-chopping moves, and use a single, repeatable quick-prep habit (for example, a daily green smoothie) to build confidence.
The instruction clarifies what each tool does in practice and why certain small steps matter: the blender produces dressings and blended drinks but only if the blade is correctly installed; basic cutting skills let you turn a head of cauliflower into ready-to-eat pieces without extra cooking. The text ties problems to context: limited equipment or unfamiliar settings (for example, traveling or a remote cabin) make basic prep harder and are exactly when quick-prep choices are useful.
Use quick-prep when the goal is to eat raw frequently without elaborate techniques — a single, repeatable blended recipe is an easy starting point and a practical learning scaffold. The content highlights one straightforward cue to memorize for exams or practical checks: always verify the blender blade is installed before switching the machine on.
Keep the focus on small wins: pre-dice vegetables so the blender handles them easily, and favor one simple blended item per day as an entry habit.
| Equipment / Item | Role in prep (what it does) | Typical quick-prep outputs (examples supported by the text) | Practical note / check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blender (with blade installed) | Purees and emulsifies ingredients into dressings, smoothies and blended condiments | Green smoothies; blended salad dressing (the recipe uses blended red pepper + other items) | Blade must be present — “it does not work without the blade in the blender.” Verify blade seating before use. |
| Knife / basic cutting | Breaks a head of cauliflower or dices a pepper into pieces the blender or hand-prep can use | Small cauliflower pieces; pre-diced red bell pepper | Pre-chop or pre-dice to speed blending; avoid over-handling. |
| Pre-prep / chopping technique | Preparation action rather than a tool: saves blender time and prevents jamming | Faster blending and more consistent texture | Pre-dice peppers/celery; chunk garlic to ease blending. |
| Step | Action | Quick checks / expected output |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inspect and fit blender blade; place prepared solid ingredients (e.g., diced red pepper, celery) into blender | Check blade installed; solids should fit without overpacking |
| 2 | Add acidic element (e.g., juice of ~1/2 lemon as used in the demo) and herbs as directed | If measurement unclear, taste and adjust; note capital-T vs lowercase-t when measuring tablespoons vs teaspoons |
| 3 | Blend to uniform dressing/sauce | Texture should be pourable for tossing over cauliflower or using as dip |
| 4 | Mix dressing with prepared cauliflower pieces; taste and adjust herbs/salt/oil minimally | Add herbs gradually — changes are reversible in raw preparations |
Short synthesis: a small set of steady checks (blade installed, solids pre-diced, taste-and-adjust) covers most quick-prep failures described. The simplest reproducible habit mentioned is “one green smoothie a day” or one blended dressing — both reduce the friction of raw-food meal prep while you build knife and blending habits.
🥗 Cauliflower salad recipe (worked example)
This worked example walks through a specific cauliflower salad demonstration and explains why each ingredient and step matters for texture and flavor. The recipe treats the cauliflower as the structural base and builds a blended dressing from colorful and aromatic components; the blended dressing both flavors and functions as a dip/sauce for the raw florets.
The demonstration emphasizes reproducible actions: break or cut the cauliflower into small pieces, prepare the red bell pepper and other dressing ingredients, ensure the blender blade is installed, blend the dressing, then combine and garnish. Mistakes in measuring (for example confusing a capital T for a tablespoon with a lowercase t for a teaspoon) happened in the live demo and are named as cautionary cues to prevent over- or under-seasoning.
This example also illustrates practical flexibility used on-air: the presenter reduced the garlic called for, adjusted herb form (dried when fresh wasn’t available), and later noted that removing oil or honey left the salad still acceptable — a concrete demonstration that these recipes are adaptable rather than fragile.
What this demonstrates for other salads: making a blended, spoonable dressing from a small set of aromatic and acidic ingredients can be applied to many raw-vegetable bases; dressings can also function as dips or sauces for other preparations.
| Ingredient (as used in the demo) | Role in the salad/dressing | Presenter adjustments / notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cauliflower — one small head, broken or cut into small pieces | Main structural base; provides chunk and mouthfeel for scooping with dressing | The presenter said it “just breaks apart perfectly” so aggressive cutting is optional |
| Red bell pepper — 1/2 red pepper | Color, sweet pepper flavor component in the blended dressing | Pre-dice before blending for ease |
| Lemon — juice from about 1/2 lemon (presenters squeezed more) | Acidity to brighten the dressing and balance flavors | Amount was adjusted by squeezing a bit more to taste |
| Fresh basil — recipe lists a tablespoon | Herbaceous flavor | Presenter accidentally misread measurement (capital-T vs t); dried basil used as a fallback when fresh unavailable |
| Fresh oregano — 1 tablespoon (capital T) | Savory, aromatic herb note in dressing | Measured and pre-counted by the presenter |
| Celery — 2 stalks | Adds green body and texture to the blended dressing | Pre-chopped; blended with other wet ingredients |
| Garlic — recipe called for 2 cloves; presenter used 1 large clove | Pungent flavor, savory depth | Presenter reduced garlic because a smaller amount tasted better to them |
| Olive oil — 1 capital T (extra-virgin, organic) | Small amount used mainly for flavoring/emulsion | Presenter notes: not a large amount, used sparingly for flavor |
| Celtic/sea salt — pinch (transitional allowance) | Balances and enhances flavors | Recipes traditionally call for Celtic sea salt; a pinch is suggested |
| Sweetener — honey (1/2 teaspoon) or stevia alternative | Light sweetening to round acidity if desired | Presenter prefers honey (organic/comb honey preferred if using) but indicates it is optional |
| Parsley (garnish) | Fresh finishing note and color | Chopped and used as a garnish |
| Prep step | Action | Why it matters / demo tip |
|---|---|---|
| A | Break/cut cauliflower into small, biteable pieces | Easier to combine with dressing; avoids cooking to soften |
| B | Pre-dice red pepper and chop celery; put these plus herbs, lemon, garlic into the blender (blade installed) | Pre-dicing prevents blender jams and speeds blending |
| C | Add olive oil, salt, and a small amount of honey or stevia if desired; blend to a pourable dressing | Blends into a sauce that coats larger cauliflower pieces; blending melds flavors |
| D | Pour/blend dressing over cauliflower; taste and adjust herbs or acid | Taste-and-adjust is safe — raw preparations tolerate incremental changes |
| E | Garnish with parsley; serve | Visual and fresh finishing note |
EXAMPLE: The live demo shows the presenter omitting some items (reducing garlic, later omitting oil and honey) and finding the result still tasty; generalize as: treat recipe measurements as starting points and adjust to taste during and after blending. A common misread to avoid: thinking that removing an optional ingredient “breaks” the dish — the demonstration explicitly contradicts that; add ingredients gradually and taste.
Short synthesis: the cauliflower salad example makes two practical lessons clear — a blended dressing approach converts many raw ingredients into a cohesive flavor, and tasting/adjusting as you go keeps the final dish good even if you change or omit optional components.
🧂 Ingredient sourcing and transitional allowances (salt, oil, honey, herbs)
This comparison clarifies which ingredients are treated as core raw-lifestyle items versus transitional allowances and how to use them sparingly. The material frames transitional items as temporary aids for people moving toward a raw-living approach rather than as staple requirements.
The program’s stance in the demonstration: salt is not part of the core raw-living-foods lifestyle but is acknowledged as a transitional allowance; oil is discouraged in general but small amounts (a tablespoon) can be used for flavoring; honey is presented as an acceptable transitional sweetener and preferred over stevia by the presenter, with a recommendation for organic comb honey when available.
The points of practical guidance are straightforward: when a recipe lists a small amount of oil or a pinch of sea salt, treat those as flavoring-level uses during transition; a minimal quantity is the implied norm in the demo. For sweetening, stevia is mentioned as an alternative but the presenter states a preference for honey if one must use a sweetener.
The sourcing note on honey emphasizes raw/uncooked forms: comb honey is preferred as evidence it hasn’t been heated or pasteurized.
| Item | Transitional? | Role when used | Presenter guidance / sourcing note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic / sea salt | Transitional allowance (not core) | Enhances and balances flavors; pinch is sufficient | Recipes call for Celtic sea salt but plain sea salt was used when Celtic wasn’t available; use sparingly |
| Olive oil (extra-virgin) | Small-quantity allowance for flavor | Lightly flavors and can help texture/emulsification | Demo uses one capital-T tablespoon — “not very much”; used as a flavoring rather than a base ingredient |
| Honey | Transitional sweetener (recommended by presenter over stevia) | Light sweetening to balance acid; small amounts only (demo: 1/2 teaspoon) | Prefer organic comb honey if possible to avoid heat/pasteurization; use sparingly |
| Stevia | Alternative sweetener | Sweetens without honey | Presenter notes stevia exists but prefers honey as the better option in this context |
- Use these items only sparingly during transition; think in terms of flavoring rather than core mass of the dish.
- If a specific branded or named item (Celtic sea salt) is unavailable, an ordinary sea salt was used as an acceptable substitute in the demonstration.
Short synthesis: treat salt, small amounts of oil, and limited sweeteners as transitional helpers — they are not framed as essential to the raw-living approach but can make the transition more palatable when used minimally and intentionally.
🌿 Herbs, spices, and detox interactions (precautions)
Herbs and spices are flavor tools that can also have strong medicinal effects; the material warns that during a healing or cleansing diet these effects can cause an overly rapid detox reaction. The practical advice is caution: minimize potent herbs and spices while someone is in an early healing/cleansing stage.
Instructionally, the point is preventative: herbs can be healing but their medicinal potency can accelerate detox processes in ways that are uncomfortable or destabilizing if the person is in an active cleansing phase. The demonstration explicitly recommends minimizing herbs and spices for people following the diet for healing purposes.
This is both a boundary condition and a trigger-warning: the early/active cleansing state is when stronger reactions are most likely. The text does not give precise reintroduction timing; it only conveys that minimizing herbs/spices during a cleansing/healing phase reduces the risk of triggering too-rapid detox effects.
| Herb/Spice topic | Effect / role | Precaution stated |
|---|---|---|
| Herbs & spices (general) | Can be healing and flavorful | Minimize during a healing/cleansing diet — they can trigger a detox “way too quick” |
| Substitution (dried vs fresh) | Dried herbs can replace fresh when fresh is unavailable | Dried organic basil was used as a fallback and will rehydrate/wet up when blended |
- Misconception to avoid: assuming that more herbs/spices are always helpful during the early healing phase; instead, they may accelerate detox reactions.
- Trigger to watch for: introducing potent medicinal herbs or concentrated spice mixes while in an active cleansing period.
Short synthesis: use herbs and spices conservatively at first; where fresh herbs aren’t available, dried organic herbs are a workable substitute, but the overall rule is to minimize potent seasonings during early detox/cleansing stages to avoid overly strong reactions.
🔀 Recipe flexibility and personalization (guidelines not rules)
The demonstration repeatedly frames recipes as starting points rather than strict rules. The practical habit encouraged is to taste during assembly, adjust amounts, and accept that omitting optional ingredients rarely “breaks” a raw recipe — it often still tastes good.
This is operational guidance for everyday cooking: treat a written recipe as a guide that you adapt to your palate and circumstance. The on-air presenter removed oil and honey from the dressing and still found the result acceptable; adding herbs like dill or basil is explicitly recommended as a matter of preference.
Quick substitutions and acceptability are given as examples: omit oil or honey if you prefer, use dried herb when fresh is unavailable, and add herbs gradually because raw preparations are forgiving.
| Guideline | What to do | Acceptable substitutions / examples from the demo |
|---|---|---|
| Taste and adjust | Add herbs, acid, salt a little at a time; taste between additions | Presenter adjusted lemon, herbs, and garlic while assembling the dressing |
| Omit optional items if desired | Leave out oil or sweetener and re-taste | Presenter omitted oil and honey and still liked the result |
| Use dried when fresh not available | Dried organic basil can be used as a fallback | Presenter used dried basil when fresh wasn’t on hand |
| Treat dressings as multipurpose | Use a blended dressing as dip, sauce, or soup base | Demonstration notes dressings/sauces can be used in several ways |
- Retrieval cue: “you’re not going to mess it up” — add flavors gradually, taste, and accept iterations.
Short synthesis: recipes are guides to build confidence and flavor intuition; start with the given measurements, then personalize by tasting and making small changes — substitutions like omitting oil or using dried herbs are valid and often improve suitability for individual taste or healing needs.
🌍 Health, Environment, and Critique of Modern Food Systems
The material argues that changes in modern agriculture and food processing have turned the food supply into a driver of poor health rather than its protector. It names several industry practices — heavy processing, routine spraying with chemical agents, and genetic modification — as contributors to what the source calls a form of “chronic malnutrition.” The claim is that these practices reduce nutrient quality and coincide with rising rates of major diseases.
Alongside agricultural critique is a critique of a medical system oriented toward pharmaceuticals. The argument links a consumer mindset and a pill-for-every-problem approach to missed root causes in diet and lifestyle. The source presents a numeric claim about harm from drugs and contrasts medication-focused care with lifestyle-based prevention and reversal.
The program asserts a clear alternative: a raw living-foods lifestyle is presented as an accessible, low-cost way to prevent and even reverse chronic disease. The rhetoric emphasizes that food matters and that solutions are widely known across cultures.
Read these notes as a compact map of the claims: which causes are named, what harms are attributed to them, and what practical conclusions the source draws about prevention and treatment.
🏭 Critique of processed food and agricultural practices
This subsection summarizes the claims that modern food processing and agricultural practices lead to poor nutrient quality in foods and thereby to widespread chronic malnutrition and rising disease. The text connects heavy processing and soil/air/water contamination to nutrient depletion, and it questions whether current genetic modification methods actually improve food quality.
Instructional role: identify the causal chain the source asserts (processing/pollution → nutrient depletion → chronic malnutrition → rising disease rates) and retain a few concise recall cues for exams.
The source phrasing emphasizes: “polyprocessed nutrient depleted Foods,” routine spraying with “every kind of pesticide herbicide larvicide fungicide,” and skepticism about genetic modification: “we decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about.” It also links these trends to disease signals: “cancel rates going up heart disease going up stroke going up.” The source invites thinking of the population-level effect as “chronic malnutrition.”
| Claim (short) | How the source phrases it | Practical meaning to recall |
|---|---|---|
| Nutrient depletion from processing | “polyprocessed nutrient depleted Foods” | Processing removes or reduces nutrients in commonly eaten foods. |
| Routine chemical spraying | “we…decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide herbicide larvicide fungicide” | Widespread agrochemical use contaminates soil/air/water and is implicated in food quality decline. |
| Genetic modification concerns | “we decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about” | The source expresses uncertainty that current GM methods improve food health; outcome is ambiguous or risky. |
| Population-level effect | “think of it as chronic malnutrition” and “cancel rates going up heart disease going up stroke going up” | Poor food quality is framed as a form of malnutrition that coincides with rising disease rates. |
Takeaways to memorize:
- The source frames modern processed foods as “polyprocessed” and nutrient-depleted; treat that phrase as a retrieval cue.
- Widespread spraying with multiple chemical agents is highlighted as a central problem for soil, water, air, and food.
- The source is skeptical that genetic modification, as currently practiced, reliably improves health outcomes.
- The consequence named is population-level “chronic malnutrition,” linked to rising disease signals.
Synthesis: The core claim is a causal line from industry practices (processing, agrochemicals, genetic tinkering) to reduced food quality and population ill-health. Remember the compact cue “chronic malnutrition” as how the source encapsulates these combined effects.
💊 Pharmaceutical industry critique and risks of medication
This subsection presents the program’s objections to pharmaceutical-driven healthcare: medicines are profitable, the profit motive can misalign with public interest, and medication-focused care can miss dietary and lifestyle roots of disease. The source also gives a precise mortality claim tied to pharmaceuticals.
Instructional role: note both the ethical/profit concern and the operational consequence (over-reliance on pills). The text contrasts modern pharmaceutical practice with a prevention-oriented lifestyle approach and provides a specific annual-death figure to remember.
Key source lines: “modern medicine which is pharmaceutical medicine good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars,” “the drug industry has every right to make money… the ethics… need to be very closely watched,” and the numeric claim: “approximately a hundred and six thousand Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year and these are people who took the medication as directed.” The source links this critique to a turn toward alternatives because “what’s being done beforehand doesn’t work.”
| Concern | Source evidence/quote | What to recall for exams |
|---|---|---|
| Profit motive vs. health | “good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars” | Pharmaceutical incentives may favor profitable treatments over root-cause prevention. |
| Ethical risk | “the ethics I think need to be very closely watched” | The source urges scrutiny of industry behavior relative to public interest. |
| Medication harms (annual deaths) | “approximately a hundred and six thousand Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year and these are people who took the medication as directed” | Memorize this exact phrasing as the program’s numerical claim about medication risks. |
| Limits of pill-focused care | “if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything we’ve missed the whole point” | The source argues pills cannot substitute for dietary/lifestyle change. |
Takeaways to memorize:
- The source pairs a factual-seeming mortality claim with a broader critique of incentives in pharmaceutical medicine.
- It stresses that medication-focused care can overlook dietary causes and that many people seek alternatives because standard treatment “doesn’t work.”
Synthesis: The program frames pharmaceuticals as an imperfect, profit-influenced tool that can cause harm even when used as directed, and it presents lifestyle change as the necessary corrective to the over-medicalized approach.
🩺 Lifestyle change as a preventative and therapeutic approach
The program’s causal claim is that a raw living-foods lifestyle can enable the body to heal itself, preventing and even reversing chronic disease. The text states this plainly and repeatedly: “there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease” and describes that change as “cheap,” “simple,” “safe,” and “effective.”
Instructionally, this is presented as a mechanism-level claim: change what you eat and you change health outcomes. The narrative contrasts a pill-for-everything approach with a return to food-based solutions, summarized by the line “you are what you eat.”
The material links this healing pathway to addressing “chronic malnutrition” caused by poor food quality; correcting nutrient intake and changing food habits is framed as the direct lever that allows recovery and prevention. The source also emphasizes accessibility: the solutions “have always been here” and are culturally widespread.
| Mechanism / effect named by the source | How the source puts it | Practical implication to remember |
|---|---|---|
| Reversal of chronic disease | “there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease” | The source claims chronic conditions can be reversed via diet/lifestyle rather than only managed by drugs. |
| Accessibility and safety | “it’s cheap it’s simple it’s safe it’s effective” | The proposed approach is presented as broadly available and low-risk. |
| Addressing chronic malnutrition | “think of it as chronic malnutrition” → change diet | Correcting nutrient-poor diets is the purported pathway to improved population health. |
| Food as the core lever | “you are what you eat food does matter” | Emphasize dietary change as the central actionable item. |
Practical examples and behavioral cues (source-based):
- The text includes personal decisions such as “we’re going to cut back on the red meat” and changing how vegetables are prepared, illustrating modest, concrete dietary shifts the source endorses.
Generalize as: change in habitual food choices and nutrient quality — not more pills — is presented as the causal lever that produces prevention and reversal of chronic disease, according to the source.
Synthesis: The program frames a raw living-foods lifestyle as the primary mechanism for health restoration: improve nutrient quality, adopt simpler food habits, and the body will recover. Remember the compact descriptors (reverses disease; cheap, simple, safe, effective) as high-yield exam cues.
Transcript -by Whisper GUI
[00:00:00.000 –> 00:00:08.240] Coming up next on Channel 6 Television, “Grassy Roots” with Dr. Jim Carey and Beth Overgaauw.
[00:00:08.240 –> 00:00:13.400] A show which will guide you down paths to healthier living by simply adjusting your
[00:00:13.400 –> 00:00:14.640] eating habits.
[00:00:14.640 –> 00:00:41.560] Stay tuned to Channel 6 for “Grassy Roots.”
[00:00:41.560 –> 00:00:54.240] Hello and welcome once again to another episode of “Grassy Roots,” the show about eating
[00:00:54.240 –> 00:00:57.600] healthy to improve not only your life but your health.
[00:00:57.600 –> 00:01:00.800] I’m here once again with Dr. Jim Carey.
[00:01:00.800 –> 00:01:01.800] Hello.
[00:01:01.800 –> 00:01:02.800] Hello.
[00:01:02.800 –> 00:01:05.600] And who knows what we’re going to talk about.
[00:01:05.600 –> 00:01:10.200] Every week is something different and sometimes it’s way outside my thinking and I have to
[00:01:10.200 –> 00:01:13.960] readjust and look at it from another perspective and that’s a good thing because it makes you
[00:01:13.960 –> 00:01:14.960] think.
[00:01:14.960 –> 00:01:17.720] What are we talking about today, Dr. Jim?
[00:01:17.720 –> 00:01:21.080] Let’s talk about overcoming our addictions to cooked foods.
[00:01:21.080 –> 00:01:24.080] I thought you were just going to say addictions period.
[00:01:24.080 –> 00:01:29.160] Actually dealing with a cooked food addiction is the same as dealing with any addiction.
[00:01:29.160 –> 00:01:36.080] And we’re going to talk today about Dr. Victoria Butenko’s book, “12 Steps to Raw Food.”
[00:01:36.080 –> 00:01:39.640] And I know this looks ancient because I’ve used it to death in the last five years that
[00:01:39.640 –> 00:01:40.920] I’ve had it.
[00:01:40.920 –> 00:01:45.320] But Victoria, it’s a great story.
[00:01:45.320 –> 00:01:52.480] She’s like, “How come not only her but all her friends that were trying to be raw, how
[00:01:52.480 –> 00:01:55.200] come we have such a challenge being raw?”
[00:01:55.200 –> 00:02:00.360] So she went to the library and she started going through the self-help section and the
[00:02:00.360 –> 00:02:03.960] addiction section and they’d only let her take out 20 books at a time.
[00:02:03.960 –> 00:02:07.800] So every week and a half she’d then get another 20 books.
[00:02:07.800 –> 00:02:11.000] The librarian thought she had a heck of a substance abuse issue.
[00:02:11.000 –> 00:02:16.560] Oh, because it was all related to addictions.
[00:02:16.560 –> 00:02:25.080] And what Victoria found was that she identified 90-some 12-step programs and they’re all based
[00:02:25.080 –> 00:02:26.800] on Alcoholics Anonymous.
[00:02:26.800 –> 00:02:27.800] On that 12-step program.
[00:02:27.800 –> 00:02:30.560] On that 12-step program.
[00:02:30.560 –> 00:02:37.280] And what she did is she took the AA program, the NA program, just right on down the list,
[00:02:37.280 –> 00:02:41.320] they’re all the same and she adapted it for raw fooders.
[00:02:41.320 –> 00:02:46.880] And while the book is great, 12 Steps to Raw Food, Victoria Butenko, and that’s on the website
[00:02:46.880 –> 00:02:48.920] as grassyroos.com/books.
[00:02:48.920 –> 00:02:53.240] We’ll take you to the book review and the link.
[00:02:53.240 –> 00:03:00.720] But we have a summary, with Victoria’s permission of course, in my Home Study Guide book, on
[00:03:00.720 –> 00:03:06.680] page 287 we have the 12 Steps to Raw Food as a summary.
[00:03:06.680 –> 00:03:07.960] So you want to go over them?
[00:03:07.960 –> 00:03:08.960] Yes.
[00:03:08.960 –> 00:03:09.960] I’m scared but I’ve got to admit to.
[00:03:09.960 –> 00:03:10.960] Do I first say my name?
[00:03:10.960 –> 00:03:11.960] You can be Beth O.
[00:03:11.960 –> 00:03:21.560] Actually, the two pages before that is a food dependency questionnaire.
[00:03:21.560 –> 00:03:26.280] And if you’re honest with yourself on this, you have questions like, if you’re not hungry
[00:03:26.280 –> 00:03:30.160] but someone offers you your favorite delicious food, do you accept the offer?
[00:03:30.160 –> 00:03:32.320] Yeah, most often.
[00:03:32.320 –> 00:03:33.320] Most often.
[00:03:33.320 –> 00:03:36.520] If you know that it’s not good to eat before bedtime but there’s some delicious food on
[00:03:36.520 –> 00:03:39.480] the table, do you eat it?
[00:03:39.480 –> 00:03:43.720] I know it’s not a good thing to eat before bedtime and there’s not a delicious food.
[00:03:43.720 –> 00:03:44.720] Yes or no?
[00:03:44.720 –> 00:03:45.720] Yes.
[00:03:45.720 –> 00:03:49.280] If you’re feeling stressed, do you eat more food than usual?
[00:03:49.280 –> 00:03:52.160] No, that one’s not me so much.
[00:03:52.160 –> 00:03:56.440] Do you continue to eat until your stomach feels completely full?
[00:03:56.440 –> 00:03:57.800] Not as much as I used to.
[00:03:57.800 –> 00:03:59.920] Do you eat when you’re bored?
[00:03:59.920 –> 00:04:00.920] Yes.
[00:04:00.920 –> 00:04:01.920] Okay.
[00:04:01.920 –> 00:04:04.160] Do you notice restaurant signs even when you’re not hungry?
[00:04:04.160 –> 00:04:06.200] Do I notice the signs even when I’m not?
[00:04:06.200 –> 00:04:07.200] Oh yes.
[00:04:07.200 –> 00:04:11.480] If somebody offers you a free dinner, do you always accept?
[00:04:11.480 –> 00:04:12.480] Pretty much.
[00:04:12.480 –> 00:04:16.200] Do you overeat at all-you-can-eat restaurants?
[00:04:16.200 –> 00:04:17.200] No.
[00:04:17.200 –> 00:04:18.200] Oh, good for you.
[00:04:18.200 –> 00:04:22.400] Have you ever broken a promise to yourself not to eat before bedtime?
[00:04:22.400 –> 00:04:24.720] I don’t think I’ve ever made that promise.
[00:04:24.720 –> 00:04:25.720] So…
[00:04:25.720 –> 00:04:30.600] I didn’t know that was a rule.
[00:04:30.600 –> 00:04:34.320] Would you spend the last $10 in your pocket on your favorite food?
[00:04:34.320 –> 00:04:35.320] Possible.
[00:04:35.320 –> 00:04:36.320] Possible, yeah.
[00:04:36.320 –> 00:04:40.320] It depends on how hungry I was.
[00:04:40.320 –> 00:04:41.320] Sushi?
[00:04:41.320 –> 00:04:44.960] Do you reward yourself with food for accomplishing achievements?
[00:04:44.960 –> 00:04:47.120] Not necessarily, no.
[00:04:47.120 –> 00:04:48.120] Okay.
[00:04:48.120 –> 00:04:50.960] Do you eat extra food rather than letting it go to waste?
[00:04:50.960 –> 00:04:51.960] No.
[00:04:51.960 –> 00:04:53.480] Good for you.
[00:04:53.480 –> 00:04:57.960] That’s a big mistake we make a lot is feeling that we have to clean our plates.
[00:04:57.960 –> 00:04:58.960] We don’t.
[00:04:58.960 –> 00:04:59.960] Right, right.
[00:04:59.960 –> 00:05:00.960] If that’s enough, that’s enough.
[00:05:00.960 –> 00:05:01.960] Okay.
[00:05:01.960 –> 00:05:06.560] So it’s more of a sin to overeat than it is to throw the food out.
[00:05:06.560 –> 00:05:09.280] I have heard about the starving children in China, though.
[00:05:09.280 –> 00:05:12.280] It’s not as if somebody hasn’t tried to get me to feed them.
[00:05:12.280 –> 00:05:13.280] Oh, I know.
[00:05:13.280 –> 00:05:14.280] We all threw up with that in our age range.
[00:05:14.280 –> 00:05:15.280] Yeah.
[00:05:15.280 –> 00:05:18.520] But the fact is that overeating is abusing our bodies, and that’s a lot worse than wasting
[00:05:18.520 –> 00:05:19.520] the food.
[00:05:19.520 –> 00:05:21.440] It’s not wasted food if I’m not hungry.
[00:05:21.440 –> 00:05:22.440] It’s leftovers.
[00:05:22.440 –> 00:05:23.440] Besides, wrap it up.
[00:05:23.440 –> 00:05:24.440] Wrap it up.
[00:05:24.440 –> 00:05:25.800] And it’s how the next meal.
[00:05:25.800 –> 00:05:29.400] If you know that eating a certain food you really enjoy will make you feel ill later,
[00:05:29.400 –> 00:05:31.400] do you still eat it?
[00:05:31.400 –> 00:05:37.880] I can’t think of one that really makes me feel ill now, except maybe meat, because I
[00:05:37.880 –> 00:05:40.560] haven’t been eating meat, and that might make me feel ill to eat it.
[00:05:40.560 –> 00:05:45.160] Well, if you answered just to three or more questions, then you may have a quick food
[00:05:45.160 –> 00:05:46.160] dependency.
[00:05:46.160 –> 00:05:47.160] Three or more?
[00:05:47.160 –> 00:05:48.160] You answered just to four.
[00:05:48.160 –> 00:05:49.160] Did.
[00:05:49.160 –> 00:05:50.160] Oh, you’re counting with your fingers.
[00:05:50.160 –> 00:05:51.160] I wonder what you were doing.
[00:05:51.160 –> 00:05:52.160] No, I was just…
[00:05:52.160 –> 00:05:53.160] Yes, I did.
[00:05:53.160 –> 00:05:56.160] At least four, I think.
[00:05:56.160 –> 00:05:59.680] So, the 12 steps to raw food by Victoria Butenko.
[00:05:59.680 –> 00:06:00.680] Step one.
[00:06:00.680 –> 00:06:17.480] I admit that I have lost control of my addiction to cooked food, and my eating has become unmanageable.
[00:06:17.480 –> 00:06:26.880] Now, in your case, obviously, obesity isn’t an issue.
[00:06:26.880 –> 00:06:32.360] Anybody that’s obese has an eating issue right there.
[00:06:32.360 –> 00:06:39.680] But anytime you can’t resist the chocolate, or you can’t resist the cookies, or you can’t
[00:06:39.680 –> 00:06:45.480] resist the fill-in-the-blank, you’ve lost control of your eating.
[00:06:45.480 –> 00:06:50.120] I’m not real sure I’ve ever tried to resist it, that’s the thing.
[00:06:50.120 –> 00:06:53.000] That may be what I need to see, you know?
[00:06:53.000 –> 00:06:58.560] Well, I bring these issues up this week, because we’ve been doing this for a couple months
[00:06:58.560 –> 00:07:01.000] now, and people are…
[00:07:01.000 –> 00:07:05.640] We hear back from the viewers and the website people, and people are eating more and more
[00:07:05.640 –> 00:07:06.640] raw.
[00:07:06.640 –> 00:07:07.640] Right.
[00:07:07.640 –> 00:07:08.640] And they’re encountering these issues.
[00:07:08.640 –> 00:07:09.640] Challenges sometimes.
[00:07:09.640 –> 00:07:12.160] Challenges is a good way to put it.
[00:07:12.160 –> 00:07:14.560] And I just want people to know they’re not alone.
[00:07:14.560 –> 00:07:16.800] These are normal challenges.
[00:07:16.800 –> 00:07:23.640] And just as any 12-step program appeals to a higher power, and that’s how 12-step programs
[00:07:23.640 –> 00:07:25.400] work.
[00:07:25.400 –> 00:07:31.360] Because before Bill W., and it actually goes back to Kyle Young, the psychiatrist, and
[00:07:31.360 –> 00:07:35.320] the Oxford group in England, alcoholism was incurable.
[00:07:35.320 –> 00:07:37.160] Had been for centuries.
[00:07:37.160 –> 00:07:45.240] But the Oxford group used love and an appeal to a higher power, and that was the cure for
[00:07:45.240 –> 00:07:51.800] alcoholism, which had been incurable until the 1920s.
[00:07:51.800 –> 00:07:57.640] It’s the same with any addiction.
[00:07:57.640 –> 00:08:04.000] We need to A) recognize what the issues are, and B) place ourselves in a different place.
[00:08:04.000 –> 00:08:06.680] Well, it’ll explain itself a little bit.
[00:08:06.680 –> 00:08:07.680] Step two.
[00:08:07.680 –> 00:08:12.080] I believe that live vegan food is the most natural diet for a human being.
[00:08:12.080 –> 00:08:13.600] Repetay after April Mock.
[00:08:13.600 –> 00:08:19.360] I believe, and I believe in this more and more, that live vegan food is the most natural,
[00:08:19.360 –> 00:08:21.960] that’s the key word, diet for a human being.
[00:08:21.960 –> 00:08:25.160] I’ve started looking at my teeth and there’s only two canines.
[00:08:25.160 –> 00:08:27.120] I’m just thinking it’s all about them.
[00:08:27.120 –> 00:08:33.320] Yeah, when you look at the dog, you look at the cat, and then you look at a horse, a horse
[00:08:33.320 –> 00:08:34.320] mouth?
[00:08:34.320 –> 00:08:35.320] You say, “Oh.”
[00:08:35.320 –> 00:08:36.320] Or deer.
[00:08:36.320 –> 00:08:37.320] That’s a good example.
[00:08:37.320 –> 00:08:38.320] I like deer teeth.
[00:08:38.320 –> 00:08:40.480] They look an awful lot more like human.
[00:08:40.480 –> 00:08:43.880] I think of meat now as an emergency food, really.
[00:08:43.880 –> 00:08:47.880] That’s what I think it is, a survival mechanism to get you through northern latitudes, rough
[00:08:47.880 –> 00:08:51.760] winters, crossing the Pyramid.
[00:08:51.760 –> 00:08:56.800] I think that’s why we’re omnivores, is that we can exist on anything, but we only thrive
[00:08:56.800 –> 00:09:00.680] on our natural diet, which is plant-based food.
[00:09:00.680 –> 00:09:01.680] Read number three.
[00:09:01.680 –> 00:09:04.360] Oh, okay.
[00:09:04.360 –> 00:09:10.760] I shall gain necessary skills, learn basic raw recipes, I’m doing that, and obtain equipment.
[00:09:10.760 –> 00:09:13.000] I borrowed all that to prepare live food.
[00:09:13.000 –> 00:09:19.560] I noticed when I went down to the cabin that food prep was a challenge because everything’s
[00:09:19.560 –> 00:09:23.080] up here at the TV studio, but you’re doing that.
[00:09:23.080 –> 00:09:24.080] Yeah.
[00:09:24.080 –> 00:09:26.160] You’re gaining the necessary skills.
[00:09:26.160 –> 00:09:27.660] Learning.
[00:09:27.660 –> 00:09:32.480] You’re working right out of my recipe book, that’s great, and you, by hook or by crook,
[00:09:32.480 –> 00:09:35.480] obtain the equipment.
[00:09:35.480 –> 00:09:39.280] Go ahead, what’s step four?
[00:09:39.280 –> 00:09:40.400] Okay, step four.
[00:09:40.400 –> 00:09:43.640] I shall live in harmony with people who eat cooked food.
[00:09:43.640 –> 00:09:46.440] I don’t have a problem with that, really, I don’t think.
[00:09:46.440 –> 00:09:49.520] I think it’s important we talk about it.
[00:09:49.520 –> 00:09:53.240] Number one is not preaching, like we’ve said.
[00:09:53.240 –> 00:09:55.240] When we go around and say, “How could you eat that?”
[00:09:55.240 –> 00:09:59.200] Be it a chocolate bar or a rare steak, whatever.
[00:09:59.200 –> 00:10:02.320] That just sows the seeds of discord.
[00:10:02.320 –> 00:10:03.800] Also it opens us up to a thing.
[00:10:03.800 –> 00:10:06.800] I keep saying we don’t justify our lifestyles.
[00:10:06.800 –> 00:10:10.360] By even bringing the issue up, we engage in that debate.
[00:10:10.360 –> 00:10:12.920] The debate just makes us acidic.
[00:10:12.920 –> 00:10:17.860] Becoming acidic is, well, that undoes what the living foods do, because living foods
[00:10:17.860 –> 00:10:21.360] make our bodies alkaline, and that’s how the body heals itself.
[00:10:21.360 –> 00:10:27.080] And the first time you get outside the diet and somebody you previously preached to notices
[00:10:27.080 –> 00:10:30.160] that, you’re going to hear it back, too.
[00:10:30.160 –> 00:10:32.560] I love it when they say, “You’re not supposed to eat that.”
[00:10:32.560 –> 00:10:34.080] And I go, “You haven’t even read my book.
[00:10:34.080 –> 00:10:36.080] How do you know what I’m supposed to eat?”
[00:10:36.080 –> 00:10:38.160] It’s like, “There’s none of your business.
[00:10:38.160 –> 00:10:39.920] I’m eating outside the program.”
[00:10:39.920 –> 00:10:44.600] But if you preach to them earlier about it all, then they’re more likely to say that
[00:10:44.600 –> 00:10:45.600] very thing to you.
[00:10:45.600 –> 00:10:48.720] Yeah, next week we’re going to talk about dealing with family.
[00:10:48.720 –> 00:10:49.720] That’s going to come up a lot.
[00:10:49.720 –> 00:10:52.360] What are we at, step five?
[00:10:52.360 –> 00:10:55.000] I shall stay away from temptations.
[00:10:55.000 –> 00:11:00.960] That’s just about it, saying don’t ever go in any restaurant in any area, anywhere at
[00:11:00.960 –> 00:11:01.960] any time.
[00:11:01.960 –> 00:11:07.800] Well, we have this balance of going out with friends, and so much socializing in America
[00:11:07.800 –> 00:11:09.840] is based around food.
[00:11:09.840 –> 00:11:14.360] Now when friends call me up and invite me over for dinner, one of my favorite things
[00:11:14.360 –> 00:11:20.760] is to try to talk them into going to a movie, or like Friday nights, or Friday nights once
[00:11:20.760 –> 00:11:24.200] a month in Swainsboro, Georgia, is an art stroll.
[00:11:24.200 –> 00:11:27.480] Let’s go for the art stroll.
[00:11:27.480 –> 00:11:30.760] So let’s find ways to socialize that don’t involve food.
[00:11:30.760 –> 00:11:36.440] But when they do involve food, A, eat a good meal before you go out, and B, have a side
[00:11:36.440 –> 00:11:37.440] salad.
[00:11:37.440 –> 00:11:40.240] And maybe even take something with you.
[00:11:40.240 –> 00:11:41.240] And that’s totally acceptable.
[00:11:41.240 –> 00:11:44.000] We’re going to get into that in a couple of weeks, too.
[00:11:44.000 –> 00:11:48.200] You can actually print up a little card for the chef and say, “Would you make me just
[00:11:48.200 –> 00:11:54.120] a wondrous salad with all these things that you like, and do it on these business cards?”
[00:11:54.120 –> 00:11:55.120] And you can tear it apart.
[00:11:55.120 –> 00:11:56.120] Oh, yeah.
[00:11:56.120 –> 00:11:57.960] And as a matter of fact, the wording for it is in the book there.
[00:11:57.960 –> 00:11:58.960] Oh, really?
[00:11:58.960 –> 00:11:59.960] Oh, okay.
[00:11:59.960 –> 00:12:05.480] So there are different ways to approach it, but my favorite one is to eat a good
[00:12:05.480 –> 00:12:13.360] meal before I go, and then I can pick at a salad.
[00:12:13.360 –> 00:12:19.880] And then it becomes like you learn to become a salad bar connoisseur, and you pick the
[00:12:19.880 –> 00:12:21.760] restaurants that have good salad bars.
[00:12:21.760 –> 00:12:22.760] Okay.
[00:12:22.760 –> 00:12:23.760] And there’s more to eat.
[00:12:23.760 –> 00:12:25.800] What do we have next?
[00:12:25.800 –> 00:12:29.080] I shall create a support group.
[00:12:29.080 –> 00:12:30.080] Very important.
[00:12:30.080 –> 00:12:31.080] Yeah.
[00:12:31.080 –> 00:12:40.400] One thing I think is great is on meetup.com we found a new raw foods group in Louisville.
[00:12:40.400 –> 00:12:46.600] And I missed a meeting because I had to go to Georgia last week, but we both intend to
[00:12:46.600 –> 00:12:48.760] get fully involved with that.
[00:12:48.760 –> 00:12:49.760] And it works both ways.
[00:12:49.760 –> 00:12:52.000] Actually, I’m getting ahead of this a bit.
[00:12:52.000 –> 00:12:58.120] Not only does it support us by sharing recipes and being emotionally supportive of each other,
[00:12:58.120 –> 00:13:01.960] but we actually help others by sharing what we know.
[00:13:01.960 –> 00:13:03.400] So it works both ways.
[00:13:03.400 –> 00:13:07.840] And that sharing reinforces your beliefs and your actions.
[00:13:07.840 –> 00:13:12.760] So having a support group, just like going to an AA group, is important.
[00:13:12.760 –> 00:13:13.760] Yeah.
[00:13:13.760 –> 00:13:16.040] There’s even Internet connections.
[00:13:16.040 –> 00:13:19.400] If you go to any of your websites, for example, you can read.
[00:13:19.400 –> 00:13:22.960] And that’s sort of a support group you don’t know yet, but it still supports you.
[00:13:22.960 –> 00:13:35.960] And that’s actually the modern stuff with us is facebook.com, twitter.com, MySpace, grassyroots.com,
[00:13:35.960 –> 00:13:40.160] she diet.com, blog, YouTube.
[00:13:40.160 –> 00:13:43.720] I’ve been putting more videos up every week on YouTube.
[00:13:43.720 –> 00:13:54.440] And you go right down, grassyroots, rawdoctors.com, chidietvideos.com, and wigmore.com, wigmorediet.com,
[00:13:54.440 –> 00:13:55.440] rawfamily.com.
[00:13:55.440 –> 00:13:57.320] There’s one I’m not involved in.
[00:13:57.320 –> 00:14:02.680] Out of that whole list, most of them I’m involved.
[00:14:02.680 –> 00:14:07.940] But all these things create support by reading success stories from other people, by finding
[00:14:07.940 –> 00:14:16.000] new recipes, just by putting your mind there for 15 minutes or an hour a day, really helps.
[00:14:16.000 –> 00:14:18.000] And the more you look, the more you find, too.
[00:14:18.000 –> 00:14:20.880] It’s kind of like, I remember when I was pregnant all three times.
[00:14:20.880 –> 00:14:22.400] It seemed like everybody was pregnant.
[00:14:22.400 –> 00:14:24.120] All of a sudden you just see a lot of pregnant people.
[00:14:24.120 –> 00:14:27.640] You probably never experienced that, but it’s the same thing.
[00:14:27.640 –> 00:14:28.640] Same kind of phenomena.
[00:14:28.640 –> 00:14:31.640] Same kind of phenomena.
[00:14:31.640 –> 00:14:33.520] The more you look for it, the more you find it.
[00:14:33.520 –> 00:14:39.120] Yeah, and it’s there, and this movement is growing hugely.
[00:14:39.120 –> 00:14:41.280] By some estimates it’s quadrupling.
[00:14:41.280 –> 00:14:45.500] It’s growing fourfold in size annually for the last three years.
[00:14:45.500 –> 00:14:48.600] I know there’s a lot more public speakers out there.
[00:14:48.600 –> 00:14:52.640] I meet new people everywhere I go.
[00:14:52.640 –> 00:15:00.040] For any raw lifestyle or raw vegan or vegan festival or vegetarian festival, they’re huge.
[00:15:00.040 –> 00:15:02.200] And they’re record crowds.
[00:15:02.200 –> 00:15:06.120] One year they have 500, the next year they have 2,500 people show up.
[00:15:06.120 –> 00:15:07.620] So this is a really growing thing.
[00:15:07.620 –> 00:15:15.560] So as you look around, yeah, you’ll find support and you’ll find others.
[00:15:15.560 –> 00:15:20.080] Want to learn more about a raw living foods lifestyle?
[00:15:20.080 –> 00:15:26.240] There’s a wide collection of videos on the subject at Cheedietvideos.com.
[00:15:26.240 –> 00:15:32.160] You can find a video on any subject that suits your interest and your budget, including rare
[00:15:32.160 –> 00:15:38.600] footage of Dr. Ann Wigmore’s Raw Living Food Lifestyle Programs.
[00:15:38.600 –> 00:15:40.760] This knowledge could change your life.
[00:15:40.760 –> 00:15:48.360] Check out Chidietvideos.com.
[00:15:48.360 –> 00:15:52.000] One of the best things terrorists could do is just build more fast food restaurants.
[00:15:52.000 –> 00:15:55.960] Maybe add another pharmaceutical company, have a couple more infomercials and encourage
[00:15:55.960 –> 00:15:58.480] people to eat the way they eat now.
[00:15:58.480 –> 00:16:00.320] And everybody’s going to be dead in a hundred years.
[00:16:00.320 –> 00:16:01.320] They can just walk right in.
[00:16:01.320 –> 00:16:08.240] They don’t have to do a thing.
[00:16:08.240 –> 00:16:12.400] One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat keeps your
[00:16:12.400 –> 00:16:20.320] doctor alive.
[00:16:20.320 –> 00:16:23.640] Cancer rates going up, heart disease going up, stroke going up.
[00:16:23.640 –> 00:16:27.960] We’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted foods.
[00:16:27.960 –> 00:16:33.600] One of the major problems is what we do to the soil and the air and the water and everything
[00:16:33.600 –> 00:16:35.980] we take in our food.
[00:16:35.980 –> 00:16:40.120] We for whatever reason decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide,
[00:16:40.120 –> 00:16:42.840] herbicide, larvicide, fungicide.
[00:16:42.840 –> 00:16:47.800] We decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about.
[00:16:47.800 –> 00:16:50.040] Can we actually improve what has already been created?
[00:16:50.040 –> 00:16:53.360] And the answer is maybe, but not the way we’ve been doing it.
[00:16:53.360 –> 00:16:56.000] If you want to know it’s wrong, look down at the table.
[00:16:56.000 –> 00:16:57.920] It’s staring back at you.
[00:16:57.920 –> 00:17:01.280] Think of it as chronic malnutrition because that’s what’s going on.
[00:17:01.280 –> 00:17:06.280] But if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything, we’ve missed
[00:17:06.280 –> 00:17:08.040] the whole point.
[00:17:08.040 –> 00:17:13.400] We have been taught our whole lives to be consumers of modern medicine, which is pharmaceutical
[00:17:13.400 –> 00:17:14.400] medicine.
[00:17:14.400 –> 00:17:18.560] Good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars.
[00:17:18.560 –> 00:17:20.560] The drug industry has every right to make money.
[00:17:20.560 –> 00:17:22.320] No question about that at all.
[00:17:22.320 –> 00:17:24.720] The ethics I think need to be very closely watched.
[00:17:24.720 –> 00:17:29.200] What the pharmaceutical companies are doing may not necessarily be in the interest of
[00:17:29.200 –> 00:17:30.680] that population.
[00:17:30.680 –> 00:17:36.440] You can be sincere and you can be sincerely wrong.
[00:17:36.440 –> 00:17:45.160] Approximately 106,000 Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year.
[00:17:45.160 –> 00:17:49.320] And these are people who took the medication as directed.
[00:17:49.320 –> 00:17:54.920] There’s a lot more turning to alternatives because what’s being done before him doesn’t
[00:17:54.920 –> 00:17:59.120] work.
[00:17:59.120 –> 00:18:07.080] There is no magic bullet, but there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease.
[00:18:07.080 –> 00:18:12.320] It’s cheap, it’s simple, it’s safe, it’s effective.
[00:18:12.320 –> 00:18:14.000] The solutions are here.
[00:18:14.000 –> 00:18:15.800] They’ve always been here.
[00:18:15.800 –> 00:18:21.240] Every single person in the world, every culture, every language, every person in the world
[00:18:21.240 –> 00:18:23.960] knows it.
[00:18:23.960 –> 00:18:26.800] You are what you eat.
[00:18:26.800 –> 00:18:28.840] Food does matter.
[00:18:28.840 –> 00:18:31.440] It’s a choice.
[00:18:31.440 –> 00:18:35.120] You don’t have to be sick.
[00:18:35.120 –> 00:18:40.080] For a full length DVD copy of Food Matters, go to grassyroots.com/food.
[00:18:40.080 –> 00:18:47.040] You’re not going to cook anymore?
[00:18:47.040 –> 00:18:48.400] How will I live?
[00:18:48.400 –> 00:18:51.480] I didn’t say that I wasn’t going to cook for you anymore.
[00:18:51.480 –> 00:18:54.800] I said that I wasn’t going to cook the vegetables anymore.
[00:18:54.800 –> 00:18:57.480] And I said we’re going to cut back on the red meat for a while.
[00:18:57.480 –> 00:18:59.760] Where in the world did you get this idea?
[00:18:59.760 –> 00:19:03.700] I’ve been reading some of the articles that are posted on rawdoctors.com and they make
[00:19:03.700 –> 00:19:05.700] a lot of sense.
[00:19:05.700 –> 00:19:09.500] You’ve got aches and pains, I’ve got high blood pressure, and it’s time that we did something
[00:19:09.500 –> 00:19:10.500] about our health.
[00:19:10.500 –> 00:19:12.000] So, this is what I’m going to do.
[00:19:12.000 –> 00:19:14.560] Come on, do it just for a little while, sweetie.
[00:19:14.560 –> 00:19:19.360] To learn what Susan has learned and more, visit rawdoctors.com.
[00:19:19.360 –> 00:19:24.800] And now, back to Grassy Roots on Channel 6 TV with Beth Overgaauw and Jim Carey.
[00:19:24.800 –> 00:19:26.320] We’re to seven now.
[00:19:26.320 –> 00:19:32.160] I shall find alternative activities or hobbies as opposed to eating cooked foods, I assume.
[00:19:32.160 –> 00:19:33.160] Right.
[00:19:33.160 –> 00:19:38.120] And I started with, I alluded to it when I mentioned, let’s do something besides go
[00:19:38.120 –> 00:19:39.120] to a restaurant.
[00:19:39.120 –> 00:19:41.720] Okay, and that’s the very starter there.
[00:19:41.720 –> 00:19:45.800] But people, so many people, especially women, their hobby is cooking.
[00:19:45.800 –> 00:19:46.800] That’s true.
[00:19:46.800 –> 00:19:47.800] Okay.
[00:19:47.800 –> 00:19:51.280] Now, your hobby can still be food prep, but you’ll find as you get into the vegan lifestyle
[00:19:51.280 –> 00:19:58.040] you eat a lot less too because your body is getting the nutrients out of the food because
[00:19:58.040 –> 00:20:01.680] the nutrients weren’t there before, they were cooked out, the digestive enzymes issue.
[00:20:01.680 –> 00:20:03.240] And eat more to try to get what you need.
[00:20:03.240 –> 00:20:04.240] Right.
[00:20:04.240 –> 00:20:11.440] So you start eating less and as you get pro at this, you don’t have 90 minutes at 350
[00:20:11.440 –> 00:20:13.280] degrees as part of the recipe.
[00:20:13.280 –> 00:20:17.400] As you know from our kitchen stuff, it’s 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there.
[00:20:17.400 –> 00:20:23.880] And if you were whipping it up, it’s 15 minutes because I’m saying, “Oh, by the way, if we
[00:20:23.880 –> 00:20:27.120] just do it, food prep is quick.”
[00:20:27.120 –> 00:20:35.200] So again, while food prep could be a hobby, that’s focusing on food for socialization
[00:20:35.200 –> 00:20:36.200] issue.
[00:20:36.200 –> 00:20:37.200] True.
[00:20:37.200 –> 00:20:44.160] And if we remove that element, if we think about eating to live instead of living to
[00:20:44.160 –> 00:20:48.320] eat, then food preparation becomes an incidental thing.
[00:20:48.320 –> 00:20:56.520] Like talking to Bill M. in Louisville last weekend who had been raw for 20 years.
[00:20:56.520 –> 00:20:58.320] Food prep is something he sort of does.
[00:20:58.320 –> 00:20:59.920] It just happens.
[00:20:59.920 –> 00:21:03.640] His wife laughs about it because she’s a cooked fooder.
[00:21:03.640 –> 00:21:06.240] But his hobbies are other things.
[00:21:06.240 –> 00:21:07.240] Gardening.
[00:21:07.240 –> 00:21:08.240] There’s a great substitute.
[00:21:08.240 –> 00:21:09.240] Oh yeah.
[00:21:09.240 –> 00:21:11.600] Grow my own organic food.
[00:21:11.600 –> 00:21:13.480] And you can garden indoor year round.
[00:21:13.480 –> 00:21:14.480] This is true.
[00:21:14.480 –> 00:21:15.920] Yeah, with trays and window boxes.
[00:21:15.920 –> 00:21:22.200] Dr. Ann’s flat was a little place and she grew lots of herbs and greens and wheatgrass
[00:21:22.200 –> 00:21:26.800] between racks in the kitchen and window boxes on the window ledge.
[00:21:26.800 –> 00:21:27.800] Wow.
[00:21:27.800 –> 00:21:32.000] And then the other alternative activities and hobbies could also be exercise more.
[00:21:32.000 –> 00:21:38.040] That’s really what we’re getting to here.
[00:21:38.040 –> 00:21:45.520] Like I did last winter up here in this cold country, I got a treadmill over at the thrift
[00:21:45.520 –> 00:21:46.520] shop.
[00:21:46.520 –> 00:21:50.440] I had no idea how expensive treadmills were, but I found a great one for 25 bucks.
[00:21:50.440 –> 00:21:52.840] I mean, it took a little work, but I fixed it up.
[00:21:52.840 –> 00:21:53.840] I got it running.
[00:21:53.840 –> 00:21:58.000] Because I wasn’t, I’m not one to get out and walk in the cold, but I was on that treadmill
[00:21:58.000 –> 00:22:03.200] at least an hour every day, at least five days a week.
[00:22:03.200 –> 00:22:08.120] Weightlifting, going to the gym.
[00:22:08.120 –> 00:22:12.640] I’ve got two bikes in the garage, both with flat tires, but I’ve been thinking about getting
[00:22:12.640 –> 00:22:17.200] those tires fixed so that it will manifest itself and they will be fixed eventually because
[00:22:17.200 –> 00:22:18.200] I will get around to it.
[00:22:18.200 –> 00:22:19.320] And then going for a bike ride.
[00:22:19.320 –> 00:22:21.800] The weather is just right for that, or getting there.
[00:22:21.800 –> 00:22:22.800] Getting there.
[00:22:22.800 –> 00:22:25.840] You’re a Kentucky girl, you think it’s warm out.
[00:22:25.840 –> 00:22:26.840] I’m a Florida boy.
[00:22:26.840 –> 00:22:28.880] I think it’s frigid out there.
[00:22:28.880 –> 00:22:33.400] This is like our record lows, 55 degrees.
[00:22:33.400 –> 00:22:39.760] But you know, any kind of exercise or shopping and not buying necessarily because that could
[00:22:39.760 –> 00:22:41.440] turn into another new addiction.
[00:22:41.440 –> 00:22:45.800] You’ve got to be careful not to trade in one addiction for another.
[00:22:45.800 –> 00:22:48.240] That’s very important.
[00:22:48.240 –> 00:22:49.800] Not to trade one addiction for another.
[00:22:49.800 –> 00:22:52.160] That’s something to very much be aware of.
[00:22:52.160 –> 00:22:53.760] Substitution we call it.
[00:22:53.760 –> 00:22:55.960] Is that listed as one of these?
[00:22:55.960 –> 00:22:59.400] No, but you brought up a good point.
[00:22:59.400 –> 00:23:04.360] We do want to be careful that we don’t substitute one addiction for another.
[00:23:04.360 –> 00:23:08.200] That’s a very good point.
[00:23:08.200 –> 00:23:09.200] Step 8.
[00:23:09.200 –> 00:23:12.600] I shall let my higher self lead my life.
[00:23:12.600 –> 00:23:14.680] I like that one.
[00:23:14.680 –> 00:23:17.880] You’ve got to get in touch with that higher self more often.
[00:23:17.880 –> 00:23:21.400] Prayer, meditation, I mean I don’t preach.
[00:23:21.400 –> 00:23:27.480] And especially when we’re touching upon religious issues, it’s all a personal outlook.
[00:23:27.480 –> 00:23:32.260] But 98% of Americans are nominal Christians.
[00:23:32.260 –> 00:23:33.520] So we’ll just talk that way.
[00:23:33.520 –> 00:23:39.320] And whatever your church, whatever your denomination.
[00:23:39.320 –> 00:23:44.560] I have Buddhist friends that for a while they were very devout Buddhists, which means that
[00:23:44.560 –> 00:23:47.840] they meditated twice a day for an hour to an hour.
[00:23:47.840 –> 00:23:52.080] But then you get off on that path and it’s so easy to let modern life get in the middle
[00:23:52.080 –> 00:23:53.480] of it.
[00:23:53.480 –> 00:23:59.200] And you skip meditation here, you cut it down to 30 minutes until Buddhist friends have
[00:23:59.200 –> 00:24:01.040] said, “I haven’t meditated in a year.”
[00:24:01.040 –> 00:24:03.040] I have Christian friends.
[00:24:03.040 –> 00:24:04.800] They say, “When was the last time you prayed?”
[00:24:04.800 –> 00:24:09.880] And they go, “Last Easter at church.”
[00:24:09.880 –> 00:24:15.280] Doing these things daily, however we label them, really works and really makes a difference.
[00:24:15.280 –> 00:24:24.000] And we pray to the Divine Order of the Universe for strength, guidance and help.
[00:24:24.000 –> 00:24:30.400] And the reason I like meditation too, to me, like I tell people, is we’re so busy praying
[00:24:30.400 –> 00:24:32.720] we don’t stop to listen to God.
[00:24:32.720 –> 00:24:35.960] And that’s where this quiet time of meditation is.
[00:24:35.960 –> 00:24:41.040] Boy, if you’re talking all the time it’s hard for them to answer.
[00:24:41.040 –> 00:24:50.520] Okay, step nine, this is a long one, “I shall make a searching and fearless inventory of
[00:24:50.520 –> 00:24:54.800] the real reasons for seeking comfort and pleasure from cooked food.”
[00:24:54.800 –> 00:24:59.720] Now, I’ve heard that behind a lot of diets.
[00:24:59.720 –> 00:25:03.440] You hear people say, “It doesn’t matter what you eat, how often you eat, if you don’t know
[00:25:03.440 –> 00:25:07.280] the real reason that you’re going there.”
[00:25:07.280 –> 00:25:12.740] We started on that with that little checklist I ran, that I read off.
[00:25:12.740 –> 00:25:19.840] The real purpose of that is not to really have a discussion about it, it’s to sit there
[00:25:19.840 –> 00:25:22.240] and really analyze it.
[00:25:22.240 –> 00:25:25.600] In other words, those were discussion points and you say, “Oh, I never thought of it that
[00:25:25.600 –> 00:25:30.480] way,” or “Maybe I do,” or “I never have.”
[00:25:30.480 –> 00:25:39.320] But those thought-provokers get us into, especially obesity, that’s a rather obvious one, “Why
[00:25:39.320 –> 00:25:41.000] do I overeat?
[00:25:41.000 –> 00:25:43.160] What am I seeking from food?”
[00:25:43.160 –> 00:25:45.320] And typically it’s comfort.
[00:25:45.320 –> 00:25:49.120] I overeat to celebrate and I overeat when I’m miserable.
[00:25:49.120 –> 00:25:55.080] Same thing with people that drink or people that have a cigarette, they may use those same
[00:25:55.080 –> 00:25:56.080] arguments.
[00:25:56.080 –> 00:25:57.080] Exactly.
[00:25:57.080 –> 00:26:02.200] Again, different addictions, this perfect example.
[00:26:02.200 –> 00:26:06.040] So why do I do that?
[00:26:06.040 –> 00:26:13.920] If I have a serious health challenge, diabetes, heart disease, MS, and I’ve seen that this
[00:26:13.920 –> 00:26:20.720] raw living food lifestyle really can handle my body, or can heal my body, or actually
[00:26:20.720 –> 00:26:23.480] the body heals itself by putting good material in.
[00:26:23.480 –> 00:26:25.320] The lifestyle doesn’t heal anything.
[00:26:25.320 –> 00:26:27.640] The body heals itself.
[00:26:27.640 –> 00:26:34.480] But why am I shooting myself down by going out and having a steak dinner when I know
[00:26:34.480 –> 00:26:39.000] that my body needs this and I know how much better I feel after these two months of green
[00:26:39.000 –> 00:26:41.680] smoothies and lots of salads?
[00:26:41.680 –> 00:26:43.180] Why am I shooting myself down?
[00:26:43.180 –> 00:26:44.420] What is that about?
[00:26:44.420 –> 00:26:50.920] As we analyze these things, then when the temptation comes along, we say, “Oh, I’m just doing that
[00:26:50.920 –> 00:26:55.920] because…” see what I mean?
[00:26:55.920 –> 00:26:57.720] If we understand ourselves, we can deal with ourselves, and that’s how we overcome our
[00:26:57.720 –> 00:26:58.720] addiction.
[00:26:58.720 –> 00:27:00.920] Why do I want a cigarette?
[00:27:00.920 –> 00:27:03.240] Because it relaxes me.
[00:27:03.240 –> 00:27:08.960] Oh, well, if this is about relaxation, then let’s just take a little time out, take a
[00:27:08.960 –> 00:27:17.200] few deep breaths, do a little inhalation therapy, and get that same relaxation that the cigarette
[00:27:17.200 –> 00:27:18.700] gave me.
[00:27:18.700 –> 00:27:24.880] But I could only do that if I understood why I wanted the cigarette or why I wanted to
[00:27:24.880 –> 00:27:26.620] eat the chocolate cake.
[00:27:26.620 –> 00:27:27.960] What am I getting out of that?
[00:27:27.960 –> 00:27:31.760] If it’s satisfaction, then maybe a new outfit.
[00:27:31.760 –> 00:27:35.800] Take off 10 pounds, reward yourself with an outfit.
[00:27:35.800 –> 00:27:40.000] Reward yourself with a DVD.
[00:27:40.000 –> 00:27:43.420] Education reinforcement really works.
[00:27:43.420 –> 00:27:48.280] For me, well, I’m in the DVD business, the video business, and for me, watching these
[00:27:48.280 –> 00:27:52.800] videos on the test monitors and stuff in the office, there’s always something running.
[00:27:52.800 –> 00:27:55.520] That helps keep me re-inspired.
[00:27:55.520 –> 00:28:01.080] So going out and rewarding yourself with a home study program or with a DVD every month
[00:28:01.080 –> 00:28:05.760] is a great way to give yourself satisfaction if that’s why you were eating.
[00:28:05.760 –> 00:28:10.880] So it’s a substitution, and substitution is okay as long as the substitution is not
[00:28:10.880 –> 00:28:13.080] becoming new addiction.
[00:28:13.080 –> 00:28:14.080] Right.
[00:28:14.080 –> 00:28:15.080] Okay.
[00:28:15.080 –> 00:28:20.440] Step 10, I shall let my intuition help me.
[00:28:20.440 –> 00:28:22.560] I’ve never heard that.
[00:28:22.560 –> 00:28:25.160] Of course, I’ve not studied 12 steps before.
[00:28:25.160 –> 00:28:31.920] Well, this is Victoria’s variation on it.
[00:28:31.920 –> 00:28:36.760] We’ve all seen examples of good intuition, and we actually were all very intuitive.
[00:28:36.760 –> 00:28:42.200] Our bodies know what they need, but we put all this stuff up here, this software, this
[00:28:42.200 –> 00:28:50.640] programming by society, etc., that has, that overcomes the intuition.
[00:28:50.640 –> 00:28:56.000] So it becomes what does my body need versus what does my body want.
[00:28:56.000 –> 00:29:00.560] Intuition will show you what your body needs.
[00:29:00.560 –> 00:29:07.040] The reason that Dr. Anne’s home study program is so rigid to start with is we have to overcome
[00:29:07.040 –> 00:29:12.880] these addictions and get feeling better and get educated.
[00:29:12.880 –> 00:29:19.800] After we get to that point where we don’t miss meat, we don’t miss the rich gravies
[00:29:19.800 –> 00:29:25.600] and all that stuff, at that point we can start listening to our bodies, and our bodies say,
[00:29:25.600 –> 00:29:26.960] “Hey, I really miss tomatoes.
[00:29:26.960 –> 00:29:27.960] They don’t hurt me.”
[00:29:27.960 –> 00:29:30.800] Okay, fine.
[00:29:30.800 –> 00:29:34.160] And maybe there’s a nutrient in the tomatoes your body needs.
[00:29:34.160 –> 00:29:37.960] But in the beginning, we avoid these things to clean our bodies out.
[00:29:37.960 –> 00:29:39.240] And then start back.
[00:29:39.240 –> 00:29:45.440] Right, because we have to learn to listen to the intuition versus the ego-based logic
[00:29:45.440 –> 00:29:47.040] that sits this and that.
[00:29:47.040 –> 00:29:50.440] I have found that lately with the late-night snack, because that was more stumbling block
[00:29:50.440 –> 00:29:54.760] I had in the questionnaire, before you go to bed eating.
[00:29:54.760 –> 00:29:58.480] Thinking I want to eat something, go in the kitchen, open the refrigerator, open every
[00:29:58.480 –> 00:30:02.960] cabinet, open every drawer, look at everything that’s in there, and go, “No, that’s not
[00:30:02.960 –> 00:30:03.960] what I want.”
[00:30:03.960 –> 00:30:06.160] Over and over, every place I look, “No, that’s not what I want.”
[00:30:06.160 –> 00:30:08.400] I’ll just drink a little juice, and then I’m happy.
[00:30:08.400 –> 00:30:09.400] I’m satisfied it’s done.
[00:30:09.400 –> 00:30:10.400] So you’re changing habit pattern.
[00:30:10.400 –> 00:30:14.080] Changing habit pattern, because I kind of rethink.
[00:30:14.080 –> 00:30:16.600] That’s not what I’m intuiting that I really need to do.
[00:30:16.600 –> 00:30:18.440] My stomach’s not the one talking to me.
[00:30:18.440 –> 00:30:23.000] It’s something else that might just be go to bed.
[00:30:23.000 –> 00:30:28.840] When I went raw for the longest time, I always walked through the bakery.
[00:30:28.840 –> 00:30:30.720] I miss the bakery, okay?
[00:30:30.720 –> 00:30:32.120] I miss the cheese department.
[00:30:32.120 –> 00:30:36.560] I would go by for a visit, but what was fun was that I never bought anything, because
[00:30:36.560 –> 00:30:42.080] as I looked at it, my logic says, “That’s not going to be good for me.
[00:30:42.080 –> 00:30:44.800] I don’t really need that.
[00:30:44.800 –> 00:30:46.080] I don’t have to have that.
[00:30:46.080 –> 00:30:48.560] I may want it, but I don’t need it.
[00:30:48.560 –> 00:30:53.920] But I’ll just go through and visit and smell and gain two pounds.”
[00:30:53.920 –> 00:30:55.480] Okay.
[00:30:55.480 –> 00:31:02.360] Well, like step 11, through clarity, I will gain happiness.
[00:31:02.360 –> 00:31:04.360] Through clarity, I will gain happiness.
[00:31:04.360 –> 00:31:05.360] Hmm.
[00:31:05.360 –> 00:31:06.360] Clarity.
[00:31:06.360 –> 00:31:08.480] You want to clarify what clarity is all about?
[00:31:08.480 –> 00:31:15.200] Well, as your body detoxifies, as you go through this program and the toxins peel out and the
[00:31:15.200 –> 00:31:22.920] weight falls off, but in particular, the accumulated toxins fall out of the body, you’ll find that
[00:31:22.920 –> 00:31:24.400] you have more mental clarity.
[00:31:24.400 –> 00:31:26.240] You’re smarter.
[00:31:26.240 –> 00:31:28.840] You see things better, okay?
[00:31:28.840 –> 00:31:29.840] It really does happen.
[00:31:29.840 –> 00:31:32.520] I mean, I have hundreds of examples.
[00:31:32.520 –> 00:31:33.920] I hear it all the time.
[00:31:33.920 –> 00:31:37.680] We don’t talk about it that much, because it sounds like, “What do you mean, the food
[00:31:37.680 –> 00:31:40.400] will make you smarter?”
[00:31:40.400 –> 00:31:46.080] It’s not that the food makes you smarter, it’s that the body heals itself, and thus
[00:31:46.080 –> 00:31:50.680] the brain works better, and effectively you are smarter.
[00:31:50.680 –> 00:31:52.320] You are clearer.
[00:31:52.320 –> 00:32:00.640] So, when that happens, and it’s just automatic, when your brain becomes clearer, you become
[00:32:00.640 –> 00:32:01.640] happier.
[00:32:01.640 –> 00:32:07.200] And I love it when people walk up to me in Walmart and say, “You sure look happy today.”
[00:32:07.200 –> 00:32:09.560] I say, “I’m happy all the time.
[00:32:09.560 –> 00:32:11.120] Why is that?”
[00:32:11.120 –> 00:32:16.240] And you can say, “Oh, it’s because I’m on Raw Living Foods,” or you get into that
[00:32:16.240 –> 00:32:20.440] whole conversation, or you just say, “That’s because the Divine Spirit of the Universe
[00:32:20.440 –> 00:32:21.800] blesses me.
[00:32:21.800 –> 00:32:25.680] God blesses me in so many ways, I’m just tickled pink at my blessings.”
[00:32:25.680 –> 00:32:27.120] And they walk away feeling good.
[00:32:27.120 –> 00:32:28.120] Oh, that’s true.
[00:32:28.120 –> 00:32:33.160] Okay, and there’s this principle in psychiatry that when you do somebody a good deed, it
[00:32:33.160 –> 00:32:35.200] generates serotonin in their brain.
[00:32:35.200 –> 00:32:37.000] That’s the feel-good chemical.
[00:32:37.000 –> 00:32:41.780] It generates serotonin in your brain, too, and it also generates serotonin in the brains
[00:32:41.780 –> 00:32:44.880] of everybody that observes that good deed.
[00:32:44.880 –> 00:32:46.920] I can believe that.
[00:32:46.920 –> 00:32:50.100] So it becomes a self-reinforcing thing.
[00:32:50.100 –> 00:32:54.320] But the clarity comes automatically through getting the toxins out of your diet.
[00:32:54.320 –> 00:32:58.480] That’s why I stress organic, even if you’re not raw, even if you’re still cooking your
[00:32:58.480 –> 00:32:59.480] food.
[00:32:59.480 –> 00:33:02.800] At least get the toxins out by going organic.
[00:33:02.800 –> 00:33:05.680] That’s a great start right there.
[00:33:05.680 –> 00:33:12.880] And number 12, drum roll, “I shall provide support to other raw fooders.”
[00:33:12.880 –> 00:33:14.440] I’m doing number 12 right here today.
[00:33:14.440 –> 00:33:15.440] That’s why I do this.
[00:33:15.440 –> 00:33:16.440] That’s right.
[00:33:16.440 –> 00:33:17.440] You are.
[00:33:17.440 –> 00:33:18.440] Yeah, and so are you.
[00:33:18.440 –> 00:33:23.800] So it goes back to seeking a support group, and the support group goes both ways by having
[00:33:23.800 –> 00:33:29.880] that support group and being in that support group, especially the live people in Louisville.
[00:33:29.880 –> 00:33:33.840] And oh, I found them on meetup.com.
[00:33:33.840 –> 00:33:36.800] You find all these groups, and even if there isn’t a group, there’s a place you can sign
[00:33:36.800 –> 00:33:42.600] up and say, “I am interested in vegan lifestyle, vegan diet, living foods.”
[00:33:42.600 –> 00:33:44.320] That’s how I found this.
[00:33:44.320 –> 00:33:49.560] I signed up six months ago, somebody started the group, and boom, it automatically mailed
[00:33:49.560 –> 00:33:51.960] everybody that expressed an interest.
[00:33:51.960 –> 00:34:00.080] So like you said, websites, books, videos, they are effectively a modern technology support
[00:34:00.080 –> 00:34:01.320] group.
[00:34:01.320 –> 00:34:05.660] But this live support group, and it can be as simple as doing a potluck in your house
[00:34:05.660 –> 00:34:08.560] once a month.
[00:34:08.560 –> 00:34:13.220] I mean, many groups start that way, but meetup.com has really made things easier for people
[00:34:13.220 –> 00:34:16.320] to find people with interest.
[00:34:16.320 –> 00:34:19.120] And this not being…
[00:34:19.120 –> 00:34:21.500] Let me put it this way.
[00:34:21.500 –> 00:34:29.920] When people say, “I can’t teach,” just when people say, “I can’t teach,” if you know something
[00:34:29.920 –> 00:34:32.900] about it, you can teach.
[00:34:32.900 –> 00:34:35.120] Many times we say, “Oh, I can’t do that.
[00:34:35.120 –> 00:34:36.840] I can’t stand in front of a camera.
[00:34:36.840 –> 00:34:37.840] I can’t teach.
[00:34:37.840 –> 00:34:39.640] I can’t give a lecture.”
[00:34:39.640 –> 00:34:42.640] It’s a false modesty.
[00:34:42.640 –> 00:34:44.600] It’s an ego-based thing.
[00:34:44.600 –> 00:34:49.040] And as a false modesty, what you’re doing is hiding your light under a bushel.
[00:34:49.040 –> 00:34:51.880] If you have a talent, if you have a gift…
[00:34:51.880 –> 00:34:52.880] Share it.
[00:34:52.880 –> 00:34:56.520] …then sharing that is part of our mission.
[00:34:56.520 –> 00:35:03.440] And I argue that it’s effectively an ego-based sin to say, “Oh, I can’t do that,” when you
[00:35:03.440 –> 00:35:04.440] can.
[00:35:04.440 –> 00:35:05.440] When you can.
[00:35:05.440 –> 00:35:12.000] So modesty, humility is important, but false humility is just that, false.
[00:35:12.000 –> 00:35:13.000] Right.
[00:35:13.000 –> 00:35:17.560] Now, this was in, of course, the “Home Steady Guide,” and then Victoria’s book…
[00:35:17.560 –> 00:35:22.360] “12 Steps to Raw Food” goes into a lot more in depth.
[00:35:22.360 –> 00:35:27.080] Right, and she discusses…there’s a chapter devoted to each step.
[00:35:27.080 –> 00:35:30.480] And she has lots of tips and tricks.
[00:35:30.480 –> 00:35:35.520] Especially, she goes into a lot of detail about how you can start your own raw support
[00:35:35.520 –> 00:35:38.280] group.
[00:35:38.280 –> 00:35:41.160] She goes into detail…well, she goes into details on each step.
[00:35:41.160 –> 00:35:47.280] And it really is our hope that Grassy Roots motivates you to think about your eating habits
[00:35:47.280 –> 00:35:52.240] and about your health, and motivates you to do some research on your own.
[00:35:52.240 –> 00:35:56.920] There’s certainly a lot of different avenues you can pursue to do the research, such as
[00:35:56.920 –> 00:35:59.640] the books we’ve mentioned on the show and the websites.
[00:35:59.640 –> 00:36:09.720] The websites I mentioned on the show…there’s probably 4,000 articles, videos, audio recordings.
[00:36:09.720 –> 00:36:14.320] I mean, there’s months’ worth of materials just on the websites that I’m involved with.
[00:36:14.320 –> 00:36:20.720] And even if you’re pretty much a skeptic or a naysayer or…on the opposite side of the
[00:36:20.720 –> 00:36:24.960] fence way over there, it doesn’t hurt to listen and think about it just a little bit.
[00:36:24.960 –> 00:36:30.040] There might be just one little tidbit of something that really rings a bell with you.
[00:36:30.040 –> 00:36:31.720] One green smoothie a day will change your life.
[00:36:31.720 –> 00:36:32.720] That’s true.
[00:36:32.720 –> 00:36:33.720] That’s the place to start.
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[00:38:00.280 –> 00:38:02.040] You know, I had so much fun.
[00:38:02.040 –> 00:38:06.040] The last time we made a salad and it was very tasty.
[00:38:06.040 –> 00:38:10.200] And I think I alluded to the fact that I wanted to try some of the recipes that come with
[00:38:10.200 –> 00:38:16.160] the home study program in the raw living foods, let’s find the front cover, the raw living
[00:38:16.160 –> 00:38:20.920] foods recipe cookbook, a recipe uncooked book.
[00:38:20.920 –> 00:38:21.920] Food prep book.
[00:38:21.920 –> 00:38:24.880] Food prep book that I thought I’d try a salad myself.
[00:38:24.880 –> 00:38:27.040] And you can watch and make comments.
[00:38:27.040 –> 00:38:28.040] And tell me.
[00:38:28.040 –> 00:38:30.160] And I’m going to.
[00:38:30.160 –> 00:38:32.240] I would look over your set here.
[00:38:32.240 –> 00:38:33.240] Okay.
[00:38:33.240 –> 00:38:34.640] Well, I’m sure you do.
[00:38:34.640 –> 00:38:40.080] And this particular recipe is by a lady named Kay Schlaufeitz.
[00:38:40.080 –> 00:38:41.080] How would you say that?
[00:38:41.080 –> 00:38:42.080] Schlaufeitz.
[00:38:42.080 –> 00:38:43.080] Schlaufeitz.
[00:38:43.080 –> 00:38:44.080] Okay.
[00:38:44.080 –> 00:38:48.840] It’s a cauliflower salad, which I thought was pretty cool because in my usual way of
[00:38:48.840 –> 00:38:50.400] eating I always cook cauliflower.
[00:38:50.400 –> 00:38:53.920] I never thought of making a salad out of cauliflower.
[00:38:53.920 –> 00:38:58.600] So I thought that might be a good way to learn to eat cauliflower again uncooked and prep it
[00:38:58.600 –> 00:38:59.600] this way.
[00:38:59.600 –> 00:39:02.800] But I’m going to go very strictly by the book pretty much.
[00:39:02.800 –> 00:39:04.320] I’m already eating my salad.
[00:39:04.320 –> 00:39:05.320] Okay.
[00:39:05.320 –> 00:39:08.240] It said to use one small head of cauliflower cut into small pieces.
[00:39:08.240 –> 00:39:12.520] I don’t see any reason to cut it because it just breaks apart perfectly.
[00:39:12.520 –> 00:39:14.400] And then one half of a bell pepper.
[00:39:14.400 –> 00:39:16.640] And it said red, red bell pepper slice.
[00:39:16.640 –> 00:39:17.640] Sorry.
[00:39:17.640 –> 00:39:21.200] This already looks like a holiday salad in a way.
[00:39:21.200 –> 00:39:24.720] And so this is one half of a bell pepper.
[00:39:24.720 –> 00:39:29.520] Now everything else according to this recipe is going to be the salad dressing.
[00:39:29.520 –> 00:39:35.280] So you can make a dressing occasionally out of all these other things you see.
[00:39:35.280 –> 00:39:38.800] And you’ve got to remember to have the blades in the blender.
[00:39:38.800 –> 00:39:39.800] We’ve been through this.
[00:39:39.800 –> 00:39:40.800] We’ve been through this.
[00:39:40.800 –> 00:39:41.800] Yes.
[00:39:41.800 –> 00:39:44.240] It does not work without the blade in the blender.
[00:39:44.240 –> 00:39:45.240] Okay.
[00:39:45.240 –> 00:39:46.240] So put the blade in there.
[00:39:46.240 –> 00:39:48.440] And it says to mix in blender.
[00:39:48.440 –> 00:39:51.000] One half of a red pepper.
[00:39:51.000 –> 00:39:54.600] So I helped it along by pre-dicing that.
[00:39:54.600 –> 00:40:01.000] And then it says three tablespoons of lemon.
[00:40:01.000 –> 00:40:06.760] Foods with thin skins like blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, organic was very important
[00:40:06.760 –> 00:40:09.400] because the herbicides and pesticides soak into the skin.
[00:40:09.400 –> 00:40:14.120] But when you have something with a thick skin like a banana, avocado, or lemon, organic
[00:40:14.120 –> 00:40:17.600] is better but it’s not nearly as important on those items.
[00:40:17.600 –> 00:40:20.840] That was two tablespoons so far with half a lemon.
[00:40:20.840 –> 00:40:23.660] I probably could squeeze that some more.
[00:40:23.660 –> 00:40:24.660] You want to do it?
[00:40:24.660 –> 00:40:25.660] All right.
[00:40:25.660 –> 00:40:30.260] The little bitty guy walks into the bar and the bartender says, “Bet you five bucks I
[00:40:30.260 –> 00:40:32.480] can get more juice out of a lemon than you can.”
[00:40:32.480 –> 00:40:34.320] And the bartender is this big burly guy.
[00:40:34.320 –> 00:40:36.800] So this is a bar trick he does all the time.
[00:40:36.800 –> 00:40:38.000] So he squeezes the lemon.
[00:40:38.000 –> 00:40:39.000] He squeezes the lemon.
[00:40:39.000 –> 00:40:41.360] And the little bitty guy says, “Yeah, I can get more out of it.”
[00:40:41.360 –> 00:40:42.720] And the little bitty guy takes the lemon.
[00:40:42.720 –> 00:40:47.880] He gets another whole tablespoon after the big burly bartender is done.
[00:40:47.880 –> 00:40:50.000] And he says, “How did you ever do that?”
[00:40:50.000 –> 00:40:51.320] He says, “I’m a tax man.”
[00:40:51.320 –> 00:40:59.120] Now, it’s at one tablespoon of basil.
[00:40:59.120 –> 00:41:04.840] And I made the mistake of thinking that was a teaspoon when I was fixing my little pre-prepped.
[00:41:04.840 –> 00:41:11.080] And it called for fresh basil but I didn’t have any so it’s dried but it’s dried organic.
[00:41:11.080 –> 00:41:12.080] So that’s good.
[00:41:12.080 –> 00:41:13.560] And the juices will sort of swetten it up.
[00:41:13.560 –> 00:41:19.240] But anyway, as I was saying, I didn’t realize there’s a capital T for tablespoon, a lower
[00:41:19.240 –> 00:41:21.760] case T for teaspoon.
[00:41:21.760 –> 00:41:23.240] And so I had to add more when I realized.
[00:41:23.240 –> 00:41:24.240] You’ve learned, don’t you?
[00:41:24.240 –> 00:41:25.240] Yes, we do.
[00:41:25.240 –> 00:41:29.680] It just shows you that I have not been much of a cook or uncooked through the years.
[00:41:29.680 –> 00:41:30.920] So I’m learning fresh things.
[00:41:30.920 –> 00:41:33.240] Now that was the basil.
[00:41:33.240 –> 00:41:39.760] It also said to add one capital T tablespoon of fresh oregano.
[00:41:39.760 –> 00:41:41.840] That’s this one I pre-measured.
[00:41:41.840 –> 00:41:46.920] One thing I’d like to point out, Beth, is when people are on a healing diet that they
[00:41:46.920 –> 00:41:53.360] probably shouldn’t use spices or herbs or at least minimalize it.
[00:41:53.360 –> 00:41:58.000] Because while herbs can be healing, when you’re on a cleansing diet, sometimes they can trigger
[00:41:58.000 –> 00:42:01.800] a detox way too quick, way too fast.
[00:42:01.800 –> 00:42:03.520] So what you’re doing is fine, it’s great.
[00:42:03.520 –> 00:42:05.600] We haven’t talked about that.
[00:42:05.600 –> 00:42:10.180] But when people are doing this as a healing diet, you should really minimize herbs and
[00:42:10.180 –> 00:42:13.240] spices because they can trigger that strong detox.
[00:42:13.240 –> 00:42:15.400] A medicinal effect sort of thing.
[00:42:15.400 –> 00:42:16.400] Exactly.
[00:42:16.400 –> 00:42:20.200] And the next thing it said was two stalks of celery, which are already pre-chopped.
[00:42:20.200 –> 00:42:21.640] We’re going to blend them.
[00:42:21.640 –> 00:42:23.440] And that was organic celery as well.
[00:42:23.440 –> 00:42:24.440] I saw that.
[00:42:24.440 –> 00:42:27.240] Everything in the celery today was organic.
[00:42:27.240 –> 00:42:29.720] Now we are to the cloves of garlic.
[00:42:29.720 –> 00:42:35.080] Now it called for two cloves of garlic, but I thought that was an awful big clove.
[00:42:35.080 –> 00:42:36.080] That is a big clove.
[00:42:36.080 –> 00:42:37.080] I agree.
[00:42:37.080 –> 00:42:38.960] And so I thought one big one would be good.
[00:42:38.960 –> 00:42:43.760] I’m going to cut that little piece off right there without cutting my thumb off and kind
[00:42:43.760 –> 00:42:46.280] of chunk it up a bit, I guess.
[00:42:46.280 –> 00:42:48.760] That’s hurt.
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[00:43:29.640 –> 00:43:33.280] One of the best things terrorists could do is just build more fast food restaurants.
[00:43:33.280 –> 00:43:37.240] Maybe add another pharmaceutical company, have a couple more infomercials and encourage
[00:43:37.240 –> 00:43:39.760] people to eat the way they eat now.
[00:43:39.760 –> 00:43:41.600] And everybody’s going to be dead in a hundred years.
[00:43:41.600 –> 00:43:42.600] They can just walk right in.
[00:43:42.600 –> 00:43:49.520] They don’t have to do a thing.
[00:43:49.520 –> 00:43:53.680] One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat keeps your
[00:43:53.680 –> 00:44:01.600] doctor alive.
[00:44:01.600 –> 00:44:04.920] Cancer rates going up, heart disease going up, stroke going up.
[00:44:04.920 –> 00:44:09.240] We’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted foods.
[00:44:09.240 –> 00:44:14.880] One of the major problems is what we do to the soil and the air and the water and everything
[00:44:14.880 –> 00:44:17.280] we take in our food.
[00:44:17.280 –> 00:44:21.480] We for whatever reason decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide,
[00:44:21.480 –> 00:44:24.120] herbicide, larvicide, fungicide.
[00:44:24.120 –> 00:44:29.120] We decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about.
[00:44:29.120 –> 00:44:31.400] Can we actually improve what has already been created?
[00:44:31.400 –> 00:44:34.640] And the answer is maybe, but not the way we’ve been doing it.
[00:44:34.640 –> 00:44:37.280] If you want to know what’s wrong, look down at the table.
[00:44:37.280 –> 00:44:39.200] It’s staring back at you.
[00:44:39.200 –> 00:44:42.560] Think of it as chronic malnutrition because that’s what’s going on.
[00:44:42.560 –> 00:44:47.560] But if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything, we’ve missed
[00:44:47.560 –> 00:44:49.320] the whole point.
[00:44:49.320 –> 00:44:54.560] We have been taught our whole lives to be consumers of modern medicine, which is pharmaceutical
[00:44:54.560 –> 00:44:55.560] medicine.
[00:44:55.560 –> 00:44:59.840] Good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars.
[00:44:59.840 –> 00:45:01.840] The drug industry has every right to make money.
[00:45:01.840 –> 00:45:03.600] No question about that at all.
[00:45:03.600 –> 00:45:06.000] The ethics I think need to be very closely watched.
[00:45:06.000 –> 00:45:10.520] What the pharmaceutical companies are doing may not necessarily be in the interest of
[00:45:10.520 –> 00:45:11.960] that population.
[00:45:11.960 –> 00:45:17.720] You can be sincere and you can be sincerely wrong.
[00:45:17.720 –> 00:45:26.440] Approximately 106,000 Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year.
[00:45:26.440 –> 00:45:30.600] And these are people who took the medication as directed.
[00:45:30.600 –> 00:45:36.240] There’s a lot more turning to alternatives because what’s being done before him doesn’t
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[00:46:21.360 –> 00:46:28.320] You’re not going to cook anymore?
[00:46:28.320 –> 00:46:29.680] How will I live?
[00:46:29.680 –> 00:46:32.780] I didn’t say that I wasn’t going to cook for you anymore.
[00:46:32.780 –> 00:46:36.120] I said that I wasn’t going to cook the vegetables anymore.
[00:46:36.120 –> 00:46:38.760] And I said we’re going to cut back on the red meat for a while.
[00:46:38.760 –> 00:46:41.040] Where in the world did you get this idea?
[00:46:41.040 –> 00:46:45.000] I’ve been reading some of the articles that are posted on rawdoctors.com and they make
[00:46:45.000 –> 00:46:47.000] a lot of sense.
[00:46:47.000 –> 00:46:50.800] You’ve got aches and pains, I’ve got high blood pressure, and it’s time that we did something
[00:46:50.800 –> 00:46:51.800] about our health.
[00:46:51.800 –> 00:46:53.240] So, this is what I’m going to do.
[00:46:53.240 –> 00:46:55.880] Come on, do it just for a little while, sweetie.
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[00:47:04.440 –> 00:47:09.000] Okay, now, I know that I’ve heard this one.
[00:47:09.000 –> 00:47:10.960] You try to stay away from oils.
[00:47:10.960 –> 00:47:13.560] But this particular recipe even says so, I think.
[00:47:13.560 –> 00:47:14.560] No, it doesn’t.
[00:47:14.560 –> 00:47:15.560] But it’s a transition recipe.
[00:47:15.560 –> 00:47:21.360] It says that the foreword in the book by Dr. Flora Van Orden talks about these issues.
[00:47:21.360 –> 00:47:22.360] Transition, yeah.
[00:47:22.360 –> 00:47:24.760] These are transition recipes in my book.
[00:47:24.760 –> 00:47:28.320] But this is organic and extra virgin olive oil.
[00:47:28.320 –> 00:47:30.440] You did the perfect thing with that one.
[00:47:30.440 –> 00:47:36.800] And it calls for one capital T, which is tablespoon, we’ve learned.
[00:47:36.800 –> 00:47:38.600] So we’ll dribble that in there.
[00:47:38.600 –> 00:47:40.720] Now, that’s a good point.
[00:47:40.720 –> 00:47:44.080] Now, while you’re using the oil, you’re not using very much of it.
[00:47:44.080 –> 00:47:45.960] That’s true.
[00:47:45.960 –> 00:47:47.360] That’s just enough for flavoring.
[00:47:47.360 –> 00:47:51.320] Now, the next thing was Celtic sea salt.
[00:47:51.320 –> 00:47:53.360] Now, I look for Nordic.
[00:47:53.360 –> 00:47:54.360] I look for Celtic.
[00:47:54.360 –> 00:47:55.360] I look for Pacific.
[00:47:55.360 –> 00:48:01.160] All I found was sea salt, just plain old sea salt.
[00:48:01.160 –> 00:48:03.800] It’s Han, wherever that is, Scandinavian, maybe.
[00:48:03.800 –> 00:48:06.800] I don’t know, but it says sea salt.
[00:48:06.800 –> 00:48:10.360] Salt too is not part of the raw living foods lifestyle.
[00:48:10.360 –> 00:48:15.560] But it’s transitional, and if you’re going to use salt, well, that’s why all the recipes
[00:48:15.560 –> 00:48:18.680] say Celtic sea salt, but at least sea salt.
[00:48:18.680 –> 00:48:19.760] Sea salt, yeah.
[00:48:19.760 –> 00:48:22.160] And it doesn’t really even say how much.
[00:48:22.160 –> 00:48:24.720] I guess a pinch would be plenty.
[00:48:24.720 –> 00:48:28.960] And I suppose you could substitute that dulse that I’ve seen you use before.
[00:48:28.960 –> 00:48:29.960] Exactly.
[00:48:29.960 –> 00:48:31.800] I wonder if I’d rather do that, because it’s not outside.
[00:48:31.800 –> 00:48:32.800] I’ll do your book recipe.
[00:48:32.800 –> 00:48:34.480] Okay, I’ll do my book recipe.
[00:48:34.480 –> 00:48:36.480] That should be plenty.
[00:48:36.480 –> 00:48:38.480] Now, honey.
[00:48:38.480 –> 00:48:45.200] Now, the transitional food, it’s been an ongoing debate for years and years as to whether or
[00:48:45.200 –> 00:48:48.400] not it’s even vegan, because it’s processed by bees.
[00:48:48.400 –> 00:48:52.880] As a transitional food, especially as a sweetener, it’s the only thing I’d recommend.
[00:48:52.880 –> 00:48:55.120] Now, again, this is organic honey.
[00:48:55.120 –> 00:48:58.840] I don’t know how they told those bees which flowers to go to to be organic.
[00:48:58.840 –> 00:49:01.320] Whether it’s pasteurized, isn’t it?
[00:49:01.320 –> 00:49:02.320] Pure and wholesome.
[00:49:02.320 –> 00:49:05.640] I don’t know about the pasteurized.
[00:49:05.640 –> 00:49:11.080] And it calls for one half a teaspoon, so it’s not very much to taste.
[00:49:11.080 –> 00:49:12.800] Or it says to use stevia.
[00:49:12.800 –> 00:49:15.680] And I had no idea what that was.
[00:49:15.680 –> 00:49:18.560] Didn’t know what department in the grocery didn’t look for that in.
[00:49:18.560 –> 00:49:22.840] It’s a somewhat natural sweetener, but I’d rather recommend honey than stevia.
[00:49:22.840 –> 00:49:27.760] So much of the thing about living foods is the enzymes, the digestive enzymes that are
[00:49:27.760 –> 00:49:28.760] in the food.
[00:49:28.760 –> 00:49:33.000] And pasteurization, heating, cooking, it destroys those enzymes.
[00:49:33.000 –> 00:49:36.960] So what I recommend if you’re going to use honey is get the comb honey.
[00:49:36.960 –> 00:49:37.960] Oh!
[00:49:37.960 –> 00:49:41.080] If it comes in the comb, you know, they couldn’t have heated it.
[00:49:41.080 –> 00:49:42.920] Or if it says on pasteurized, on the bottle.
[00:49:42.920 –> 00:49:50.040] But typically you have to find the comb honey in the little plastic tub to…
[00:49:50.040 –> 00:49:54.320] You know what I misread part of the recipe.
[00:49:54.320 –> 00:49:58.160] You saw me only put one teaspoon of olive, I mean, tablespoon.
[00:49:58.160 –> 00:50:00.000] Yeah, and I said that was pretty good.
[00:50:00.000 –> 00:50:02.560] Yeah, you complimented how great that was.
[00:50:02.560 –> 00:50:03.560] He says three.
[00:50:03.560 –> 00:50:04.560] Do your recipe.
[00:50:04.560 –> 00:50:05.560] I do the recipe.
[00:50:05.560 –> 00:50:06.560] I just had to look back.
[00:50:06.560 –> 00:50:09.960] My eyes must have flicked from one place to another.
[00:50:09.960 –> 00:50:15.800] So we could compromise and do two.
[00:50:15.800 –> 00:50:20.280] Now this is, we learned the last time we used this, that you had to get everything seated
[00:50:20.280 –> 00:50:23.160] just right or it won’t turn on.
[00:50:23.160 –> 00:50:24.160] Here we go.
[00:50:24.160 –> 00:50:25.160] Blend it up.
[00:50:25.160 –> 00:50:26.160] Look at it go.
[00:50:26.160 –> 00:50:40.400] One thing you could do also, if the oil is to liquefy it, there’s always filtered water.
[00:50:40.400 –> 00:50:41.400] That’s true.
[00:50:41.400 –> 00:50:42.400] Yeah.
[00:50:42.400 –> 00:50:43.400] Or rejubilack.
[00:50:43.400 –> 00:50:44.400] Or rejubilack would be more good or yet.
[00:50:44.400 –> 00:50:46.200] More good or yet.
[00:50:46.200 –> 00:50:51.640] Let’s try it before we mess up the whole salad if we don’t like it.
[00:50:51.640 –> 00:50:52.640] It’s pretty good.
[00:50:52.640 –> 00:50:54.720] Oops, I over floated.
[00:50:54.720 –> 00:50:56.920] I guess you shouldn’t take the blade out first.
[00:50:56.920 –> 00:51:00.040] Gosh, I’m learning.
[00:51:00.040 –> 00:51:01.040] Unplug it.
[00:51:01.040 –> 00:51:02.040] Oh me.
[00:51:02.040 –> 00:51:03.040] All right, there it is.
[00:51:03.040 –> 00:51:11.560] I’m going to get a little taste of it here.
[00:51:11.560 –> 00:51:12.560] Wow.
[00:51:12.560 –> 00:51:13.560] Whoa.
[00:51:13.560 –> 00:51:17.920] That’d be good on crackers too.
[00:51:17.920 –> 00:51:24.400] That’s the neat thing about living food recipes is a soup is a dip is a sauce is however you
[00:51:24.400 –> 00:51:25.400] want to use it.
[00:51:25.400 –> 00:51:28.840] And there’s no tomato in it, but it has the idea of a tomato in it.
[00:51:28.840 –> 00:51:31.200] Here, you want to taste it?
[00:51:31.200 –> 00:51:33.280] You afraid of my concoction?
[00:51:33.280 –> 00:51:38.040] It’s got salt, it’s got oil, it’s got honey.
[00:51:38.040 –> 00:51:39.040] I’ll try a taste.
[00:51:39.040 –> 00:51:43.120] It’s just a fourth of a teaspoon.
[00:51:43.120 –> 00:51:48.000] It’s hard to get off a teaspoon.
[00:51:48.000 –> 00:51:49.000] It is good.
[00:51:49.000 –> 00:51:50.000] A little oily.
[00:51:50.000 –> 00:51:51.000] Well, that’s me.
[00:51:51.000 –> 00:51:52.000] I’m not used to eating oily.
[00:51:52.000 –> 00:51:55.000] Well, I tell you what, we won’t put the whole amount in the salad.
[00:51:55.000 –> 00:51:57.000] I’m just not used to eating oil anymore.
[00:51:57.000 –> 00:51:58.000] Yeah, that’s right.
[00:51:58.000 –> 00:52:00.920] You’ve been on this diet for some time.
[00:52:00.920 –> 00:52:01.920] There’s my spoon.
[00:52:01.920 –> 00:52:05.560] Look how colorful that is.
[00:52:05.560 –> 00:52:07.440] It’s really pretty.
[00:52:07.440 –> 00:52:11.160] Now the last ingredient is a garnish of fresh parsley.
[00:52:11.160 –> 00:52:12.160] I was wondering how that would go.
[00:52:12.160 –> 00:52:13.640] And I’ve already chopped that up.
[00:52:13.640 –> 00:52:17.120] Are you sure that’s the parsley, not the cilantro?
[00:52:17.120 –> 00:52:18.120] Yes.
[00:52:18.120 –> 00:52:22.640] Now, if you’d like a whole bowl of it, I’ve got a little extra bowl here.
[00:52:22.640 –> 00:52:23.640] Here’s your fork.
[00:52:23.640 –> 00:52:24.640] Thank you.
[00:52:24.640 –> 00:52:25.640] Go ahead.
[00:52:25.640 –> 00:52:28.640] Am I your taste tester?
[00:52:28.640 –> 00:52:31.640] Like working for the Queen?
[00:52:31.640 –> 00:52:37.120] See how this plays in?
[00:52:37.120 –> 00:52:43.040] Now is that considerably different?
[00:52:43.040 –> 00:52:46.040] It’s very good.
[00:52:46.040 –> 00:52:53.720] I just eat out of a big bowl.
[00:52:53.720 –> 00:52:56.920] By itself, the dip was pretty strong.
[00:52:56.920 –> 00:53:01.200] When you spread it out like this over the bigger chunks of cauliflower, it’s really good.
[00:53:01.200 –> 00:53:07.720] Now, this thing I’d like to remind people is that when you’re doing raw food preparations,
[00:53:07.720 –> 00:53:15.320] because it’s not a chemical reaction like cooking is, if you really like basil or we
[00:53:15.320 –> 00:53:20.120] have dill over here that we didn’t use, etc., add what you want.
[00:53:20.120 –> 00:53:22.520] Add to taste, because you’re not going to mess it up.
[00:53:22.520 –> 00:53:23.520] That’s true.
[00:53:23.520 –> 00:53:25.520] Add spirit in me at first.
[00:53:25.520 –> 00:53:27.160] Taste as you go.
[00:53:27.160 –> 00:53:31.520] But that’s the neat thing about these recipes is you can add the spices that you like and
[00:53:31.520 –> 00:53:35.120] you’re not going to mess anything up.
[00:53:35.120 –> 00:53:40.720] So the recipe book, to be honest, my recipe book is a guide book to get you started, because
[00:53:40.720 –> 00:53:45.800] in the end you’re going to say, “Oh, like I did, I had this wonderful sauce I made, but
[00:53:45.800 –> 00:53:50.060] I’m like, I really don’t need the oil in there.”
[00:53:50.060 –> 00:53:52.280] So the oil went first and it was still good.
[00:53:52.280 –> 00:53:54.760] And then I realized, “I don’t need the honey.”
[00:53:54.760 –> 00:53:56.760] And it was still good.
[00:53:56.760 –> 00:53:59.160] You can do that with a cooked food recipe.
[00:53:59.160 –> 00:54:05.400] So the recipes are guides, guidelines, and you make it the first time like this and then
[00:54:05.400 –> 00:54:08.880] after that you flavor to taste.
[00:54:08.880 –> 00:54:12.760] Let it grow, let it shrink, try it all kinds of ways.
[00:54:12.760 –> 00:54:13.760] Well thank you for …
[00:54:13.760 –> 00:54:14.760] Well thank you, Beth.
[00:54:14.760 –> 00:54:16.080] You did a very nice job here.
[00:54:16.080 –> 00:54:17.080] Thank you.
[00:54:17.080 –> 00:54:18.080] Thank you.
[00:54:18.080 –> 00:54:21.000] And thank you guys for watching Grassy Roots on Channel 6 Television.
[00:54:21.000 –> 00:54:24.040] Be sure to tune in for another episode.
[00:54:24.040 –> 00:54:25.040] Thank you.
[00:54:25.040 –> 00:54:25.040] Bye-bye.
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[00:56:08.040 –> 00:56:12.040] [music]
[00:56:12.040 –> 00:56:16.040] One of the best things terrorists could do is just build more fast food restaurants.
[00:56:16.040 –> 00:56:19.040] Maybe add another pharmaceutical company, have a couple more infomercials,
[00:56:19.040 –> 00:56:22.040] and encourage people to eat the way they eat now.
[00:56:22.040 –> 00:56:24.040] And everybody’s going to be dead in a hundred years.
[00:56:24.040 –> 00:56:26.040] They can just walk right in, don’t have to do a thing.
[00:56:26.040 –> 00:56:32.040] [music]
[00:56:32.040 –> 00:56:34.040] One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive,
[00:56:34.040 –> 00:56:37.040] and three quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive.
[00:56:37.040 –> 00:56:44.040] [music]
[00:56:44.040 –> 00:56:47.040] Cancer rates going up, heart disease going up, stroke going up.
[00:56:47.040 –> 00:56:51.040] We’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted foods.
[00:56:51.040 –> 00:56:56.040] One of the major problems is what we do to the soil and the air and the water
[00:56:56.040 –> 00:56:59.040] and everything we take in our food.
[00:56:59.040 –> 00:57:02.040] We, for whatever reason, decided we were going to spray everything
[00:57:02.040 –> 00:57:06.040] with every kind of pesticide, herbicide, larbicide, fungicide.
[00:57:06.040 –> 00:57:11.040] We decided we were going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about.
[00:57:11.040 –> 00:57:14.040] Can we actually improve what has already been created?
[00:57:14.040 –> 00:57:17.040] And the answer is maybe, but not the way we’ve been doing it.
[00:57:17.040 –> 00:57:19.040] If you want to know it’s wrong, look down at the table.
[00:57:19.040 –> 00:57:21.040] It’s staring back at you.
[00:57:21.040 –> 00:57:24.040] Think of it as chronic malnutrition because that’s what’s going on.
[00:57:24.040 –> 00:57:29.040] But if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything,
[00:57:29.040 –> 00:57:31.040] we’ve missed the whole point.
[00:57:31.040 –> 00:57:35.040] We have been taught our whole lives to be consumers of modern medicine,
[00:57:35.040 –> 00:57:37.040] which is pharmaceutical medicine.
[00:57:37.040 –> 00:57:41.040] Good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars.
[00:57:41.040 –> 00:57:45.040] The drug industry has every right to make money, no question about that at all.
[00:57:45.040 –> 00:57:48.040] The ethics, I think, need to be very closely watched.
[00:57:48.040 –> 00:57:52.040] What the pharmaceutical companies are doing may not necessarily be
[00:57:52.040 –> 00:57:54.040] in the interest of our population.
[00:57:54.040 –> 00:57:58.040] You can be as sincere and you can be sincerely wrong.
[00:57:58.040 –> 00:58:08.040] Approximately 106,000 Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year,
[00:58:08.040 –> 00:58:12.040] and these are people who took the medication as directed.
[00:58:12.040 –> 00:58:16.040] There’s a lot more turning to alternatives
[00:58:16.040 –> 00:58:19.040] because what’s being done before it doesn’t work.
[00:58:19.040 –> 00:58:27.040] There is no magic bullet, but there is a lifestyle change
[00:58:27.040 –> 00:58:30.040] that reverses serious chronic disease.
[00:58:30.040 –> 00:58:35.040] It’s cheap, it’s simple, it’s safe, it’s effective.
[00:58:35.040 –> 00:58:39.040] The solutions are here. They’ve always been here.
[00:58:39.040 –> 00:58:44.040] Every single person in the world, every culture, every language,
[00:58:44.040 –> 00:58:47.040] every person in the world knows it.
[00:58:47.040 –> 00:58:50.040] You are what you eat.
[00:58:50.040 –> 00:58:52.040] Food does matter.
[00:58:52.040 –> 00:58:57.040] It’s a choice. You don’t have to be sick.
[00:58:57.040 –> 00:59:06.040] For a full-length DVD copy of Food Matters, go to grassyroots.com/food.
[00:59:08.040 –> 00:59:12.040] When truth rings, curiosity sins.
[00:59:12.040 –> 00:59:14.040] Finding yourself raw curious?
[00:59:14.040 –> 00:59:21.040] Dr. Ann Wigmore’s Raw Living Foods Lifestyle Home Study Program has the answers.
[00:59:21.040 –> 00:59:27.040] Check out shediet.com and satisfy your raw curiosity.
[00:59:27.040 –> 00:59:34.040] When it comes to food, it’s not about the food.
[00:59:34.040 –> 00:59:39.040] When it comes to obesity, it’s not about how much you eat.
[00:59:39.040 –> 00:59:41.040] It’s what you eat.
[00:59:41.040 –> 00:59:47.040] Learn more with Beth Overhgaauw as she chats with Dr. Jim Carey on Grassy Roots TV,
[00:59:47.040 –> 00:59:51.040] airing Wednesday nights at 8 o’clock on Channel 6 television.
[00:59:51.040 –> 00:59:55.040] Getting back to the roots of healthy eating.
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