The raw food diet "as seen on TV"

Hi all,

"It" all started in the postwar years of the nineteen-fifties with Westinghouse spokeswoman Betty Furness' LIVE, on-camera TV performances when she brought her weekly, kitchen-oriented, homemaker-friendly sessions into our living rooms.

During these widely popular TV broadcasts, Furness often demonstrated the use of her Westinghouse liquifier/blender appliance before a LIVE guest and audience. The little Westinghouse Liquifier/Blender became the amazing vehicle to launch her now-famous, "multi-vegetable juice cocktail recipe."

Furness was responsible for this first-ever, eight (possibly more) liquified vegetable(s) Juice Cocktail, long before a similar, secret recipe ever became known as THE now-familiar V8 Juice Cocktail, and the property of the Campbell Soup Company. Furness, however, put V8 together FIRST, RAW, HOMEMADE, and on LIVE-camera TV before our very eyes, about fifty-one years ago. A nutritious and delicious new fitness drink recipe was born, and health-awareness history was made.

Soon afterwards, with so many movie screenplay characters mimicking Furness' morning vegetable juice cocktail ritual in their movie plots, the practice was quickly popularized as the homemade vegetable fitness drink, immediately making it a permanent fixture in modern-day, nutritionally-aware, upscale Americana.

To this day, over fifty years later, hundreds of thousands of us STILL follow Furness' timeless example, making our own FRESH, RAW, UNPASTEURIZED V8 vegetable juice coctails, every morning that fresh vegetables are available from our gardens, supermarket and/or refrigerators.

[Dr. Mercola, of internet fame, eats about 85% on the raw food diet, including raw eggs and raw meat.] "Raw food" is now the popular subject of more new books than any other of recent classification. ...The practice of "UNcooking" food, formerly prevalent only among primitive cultures dating from ancient Polynesia, but now de regeur in modern, upscale suburbia, is sweeping the environmentally friendly 'green' movement and becoming the silent revolution in kitchens all over the world.

Simply put, cooked food is not only an empty, enzyme-less morass of denatured anti-nutrients, but is, in its covertly sinister action, an insidious, progressive, blood vessel clogging substance. As such, it is little more than a caustic foreign agent, and a slow-acting systemic poison.

Consuming cooked food is scarcely more than subclinical suicide and is tantamount to tossing an odd collection of nuts and bolts into the finest, most delicately-balanced machinery known.

Although it may take decades of stealth to complete its sinister work, A) the processed/cooked food habit slowly and covertly nibbles away at our vital energy, B), it saps our strength and initiative, C), as the progressive disease process signs and symptoms eventually become serious enough to demand diagnosis, it is then given an orthodox medical name, and palliative medications are prescribed. As an expected outgrowth of this diagnosis and the orthodox medical treatment plan, eventually the usual crippling and reduced mobility develops. D), if no other action is taken to address the *true cause of the condition, the ravages of the process will continue unabated, eventually completely overwhelming ALL of the natural defenses of its unwary (and/or unwilling) host.

Why not take the time now to learn more about, invest in, rejuvenate, and re-vitalize your most valuable asset? We have but one body. A continued reliance on popular, albeit well-intended misinformation can slowly, almost imperceptibly, undermine and destroy health, at whatever its stage.

Can you afford to allow your state of health to follow its present course? In my opinion, two volumes can drastically alter that course for the better: 1) "We Want To Live" and 2) "The Recipe For Living Without Disease." Both by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD. For more information, go to www.wewant2live.com.

To your health,

Mark R., Birmingham, Alabama

Welcome to a new rawborn raw foodist!

My wife just gave birth to our newest addition, so welcome another raw foodist to the world...the baby was born a week ago, so I took the two older kids away for the weekend to give my wife some rest, in three days we split 18 [raw]eggs-they like theirs through a straw of course, in addition to raw meat and fish, I still get a kick out of watching them sip eggs through a straw-they were fighting over the lone straw, who gets to go next,-only one straw in the hotel room, it was just too funny.
Todd F., Chicago, Illinois

Children thrive on the raw food diet

To Steve O. in response to your post of 16 Feb:

I read your post and was fascinated. I have been on a raw diet for almost 12 years, 99% raw, I call it more instinctive eating, RAF [see Raw animal food diets in Wikipedia], sometimes vegan, just meat, whatever works! My wife is also on a raw diet and she has been for about 2 years. Our children Kayla who is 3 and Adam who is 2 are both raw, meat, eggs, chicken, fish, some dairy, veggies and fruit as well. Kayla started at about 11 months, Adam-since he was born. They both started with only raw breast milk for the first few months of life. My wife is pregnant now, full term, and due any day! We wouldn't do anything else! I would like to email or talk with you and compare notes, I am sure we could learn a lot from each other!

Todd F, Chicago, Illinois

If ORGANIC food means anything to you,

please sign this.
To protect our good food supply we must protect farming methods.
This is time sensitive. Please sign and send to anyone you know asap. [posted by Aajonus Vonderplanitz]

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Maria, President Obama has previously taken a stand regarding raw milk

Hi,
During my lobbying campaign for raw milk in US House and Senate in June and July, 2007, I received a letter from Obama in July 2007 stating that he was aware of the nutritional value of raw milk but that it was a bacterial health hazard. Obviously, he is brainwashed about the bacteria theory. The consequences are: process and poison food so that it is bacteria-free but chemically contaminated and with much less nutritional value.
healthfully,
aajonus
[note: you may obtain the very important and exact same report that was handed to Senators and Representatives that summer]

There is a 'slow food movement'

Hi everyone,

I thought this online article below could interest you foodie goodies. I had been wondering what President Obama's perspective on good food is and below is a bit of insight. I wonder if the fight for raw milk will get easier in the long run with this new administration? Any thoughts?

Apparently Obama has some understanding of the value of good food. With the economic downturn, I have been reading that more and more people are turning to vegetable gardening and growing as much of their own food as possible (btw, where could I find the best heritage seeds for cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, herbs, etc?).

The author predicts that the advocacy for good food will also increase since processing food not only ruins food but also uses too much fuel and is one of the contributors of climate change.
Contributed by Maria M. in Washington, D.C.

The link: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,606967,00.html