The Raw Vegan Network e-newsletter
April 2006
Editor: Vickie Fisher, owner Raw Vegan Network
Welcome to the Raw Vegan Network e-newsletter. This newsletter is for informational purposes only. It is not intended for diagnosing, prescribing or healing.
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IN THIS ISSUE
-Network Happenings
-Questions and Comments
-In The News:
-Health Tip: Stress
-Recommended Reading and websites
-Featured Network Member: Peggy McDonnell. Gold Hill, OR
-Favorite Recipes: Cream of Celery Soup, Butterscotch Pudding
-Products: Juicers, distillers, dehydrators, raw recipe e-book, supplements
Please email us with your feedback about the articles and recipes, and what you would like to see in up coming issues.
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NETWORK HAPPENINGS
-We provide online raw food certifications for those who wish to expand their portfolio of expertise enabling them to serve others in there locale that wish to experience the health benefits of living a raw food lifestyle. For information: www.therawvegannetwork.com
-We also provide free contact services for people desiring help in there local area for raw food services. For information: www.therawvegannetwork.com
**Check out the “member’s events” page at www.therawvegannetwork.com/events.htm. It has the latest on what members are doing, such as raw food classes, retreats, raw food delivery, etc
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QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
I love your e-newsletters so much I can't even tell you! I started getting them in May 2005. I always look forward to them! Thank you for all the information and encouragement. I love all the topics you reach on your e-newsletters and my favorite part is the featured network member's personal story. Thanks again for all you are doing and keep up the good work!
Shelley
Dear Vicky,
Thank you for this wonderful, inspiring and informative newsletter. The work you do to promote and inform others about the raw food health-style is truly needed, and very appreciated. I really enjoy reading the newsletters and look forward to receiving them.
Hope you are doing well and your days are filled with blessings...
love, peace and joy to you,
janice
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IN THE NEWS
**Worry: A Major Contributor to Poor Health BUPA Insurance February 15, 2006
**The U.S. National Uniformity for Food Act overrides state laws warning you about food ingredients that can cause cancer, birth defects, and other health problems
San Francisco Chronicle March 9, 2006
**Natural Health Guru Predicts Flood of Hate Mail Following Release of New Online Video Parody see this Yahoo news item about The Town of Allopath
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HEALTH TIP
Stress
Vickie Fisher/owner Raw Vegan Network
Do you feel guilty when relaxing? Do you have persistent need for recognition or achievement? Are you unclear about your goals in life? Are you especially competitive? Do you work harder than most people? Do you easily get angry? Do you often do two or three tasks simultaneously? Do you get impatient if people or things hold you up? Do you have difficulty getting to sleep, sleep restlessly, or wake up with your mind racing? Most of us have stress from time to time, but how we handle it is the key factor to maintaining our health while dealing with the stress. While we don’t always have control over stress, we do have control over how we react to it.
There are many stressors to which individuals react. They are physical exhaustion, demanding deadlines, infections, long exposure to intense cold or heat, radiation or chemotherapy, crash diets, fasting, major surgery, serious car accident, death of a loved one, unrelenting frustration, depression, mental illness, being fired form a job or position, retirement, extended illness of self or a loved one, anxiety, fear and hatred. The key is the reaction to the stress, rather than just the intensity or repetition of the stress.
Dr. Hans Selye has a theory that stress causes disease due to the fact that extreme pressure on a person activates the outer covering of the adrenal glands (cortex) to discharge high levels of hormones. These hormones, intended to help us survive stress, do so at a price: lowering of immune system efficiency and body resistance, leading to organ damage and disease. Continuous and excessive discharge of these hormones apparently does what Dr. Selye indicates. But is it the stress that sets off the high production of hormones or is it the person’s response to the stress?
Research indicates that it is how one reacts to the stress. A study of 117 college students by Harvard psychiatrist Steven Locke and associates reveals that anxious and depressed students had low natural killer cell activity ( a part of the immune system defense). However, the study showed the psychologically hardy triggered the release of less adrenal hormones, so the natural killer cell activity was higher than the other students.
What are some of the things we can do to handle stress? My favorite ways are eating a healthy diet, exercise, sunshine, and meditation (I personally meditate on scripture from the Bible).
When individuals react negatively to stress, the metabolic rate steps up, and key nutrients are burned up quickly. Stress increases the requirement for various nutrients such as protein, vitamin A, pantothenic acid (a B vitamin), vitamin C and magnesium. Protein is found in nuts and seeds along with vegetables (per pound broccoli has more protein than steak). Rich sources of vitamin A are dandelion greens, carrots, yams, kale, parsley, turnip greens, spinach, collard greens, chard, red peppers, squash, cantaloupe, persimmons, apricots, broccoli, romaine lettuce, mangos, papayas, nectarines, pumpkins, peaches, and cherries. High content of pantothenic acid is found in sunflower seeds, corn, peas, alfalfa, bee pollen, cashews, avocado, and walnuts. Rich sources of vitamin C are rose hips, acerola cherries, guavas, black currents, parsley, green peppers, chives, strawberries, persimmons, spinach, oranges, cabbage, grapefruit, papaya, elderberries, kumquats, dandelion greens, lemons, cantaloupe, green onions, limes, mangoes, loganberries, tangerines, tomatoes, squash, raspberries and romaine lettuce. Magnesium is found in kelp, sunflower seeds, almonds, brazil nuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, chard, spinach, coconut, corn, avocado and bananas.
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RECOMMENDED READING AND WEBSITES
As an oversight in last month’s newsletter, the featured network member Nell Neufeld’s website was excluded. www.rawbeauty.com
If you want to learn more about factory farming and how corrupt our modern food production network is, you absolutely must watch this short video clip. If you enjoy it, pass it along to all your friends www.themeatrix2.com
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FEATURED NETWORK MEMBER
Peggy McDonnell
Gold Hill, OR
www.angelshealthfoodinstitute.com
In 1990 I was working about
16 hours a day, 7 days a week, just as I had done most of my life. Then, in
1993, with 3 bouts of heart problems, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Hypothyroidism,
Colitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Migraine a one-hundred pound weight gain in
nine months, I became bedridden.
My struggle for health has been more than a decade of rigorous study and
research. After working closely with over two-dozen doctors, the best that they
could offer me was a diagnosis that read "terminal". With no positive results
or prognosis to cling to, I finally chose to take responsibility for my own
health. The journey was tedious, but it was by far the best decision I could
have made. Over a decade of heavy research later, after pouring through
hundreds of books and videos, I finally have my health back.
In finally learning how to achieve optimal health through a living foods diet
and the powers of positive thinking, self-reliance, exercise and the inner
strength and resolve that I've found in environmental, animal, and human rights
activism, I knew that I had to give something back. I knew that there were
still millions of others who also were desperately trying to help themselves but
simply don't know where to look. People who were also exhausted, who also
didn't know whom to trust anymore. I also learned that there were just as many
people who were imply looking to increase their energy, help their sleep,
control their weight, or to live preventatively.
I want to help them. I believe it is part of healing, part of coming
full-circle, to spread this message of joy and health. I love teaching others
about the simple lifestyle and philosophy that saved my life, restored my
freedom, and reversed my dis-ease. That is why I became a certified living foods
instructor, raw lifestyle coach, and raw chef. Now I am able to teach others
how to take responsibility for their own health, and I can think of no greater
honor or gift to impart upon mankind. I am so grateful for the dis-eases that
steered me to the place that I am today!
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FAVORITE RECIPES
Peggy McDonnell
Gold Hill, OR
www.angelshealthfoodinstitute.com
Cream of Celery Soup
1 -1/2 cups almond milk
3-cups water
4-5 small avocados
1/4 cup Bragg’s
1 tsp. garlic powder
2 small zucchini
1 small bushel broccoli
2 carrots
2-3 celery stock
INSTRUCTIONS
Blend all except zucchini, broccoli, carrots in vita-mix. Pour into serving
bowl. In food processor, chop the remaining vegetables and fold onto the soup.
Ready to serve!
To change the soup around at different time chop red pepper, green pepper,
mushrooms, cauliflower, fold in and enjoy!!
Butterscotch Pudding
2 large, soft avocados
1-1/2 tsp butterscotch extract
ATB coconut oil (melted)
1 cup ground cashews
2/3 cup agave nectar
INSTRUCTION
Blend all ingredient in vita-mix, This will be a warm pudding enjoy!!
**Are you enjoying the recipes from the Raw Vegan Network members? We also like to feature readers’ favorite recipes too. If you, the reader have a favorite recipe to share, please email your recipe to info@therawvegannetwork.com .
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PRODUCTS
**Need help getting started with incorporating healthy raw food choices into your diet and maintaining the raw vegan lifestyle? Put together an entire holiday feast or a light meal. Mostly Raw Recipes by Vickie Fisher (owner of The Raw Vegan Network) is available at www.therawvegannetwork.com/productindex.htm
**The Raw Vegan Network is offering juicers, distillers and dehydrators for sale. Products are available at www.therawvegannetwork.com/productindex.htm .
**In today's environment, even if you are eating all organic fresh raw fruits and vegetables you may not be receiving all the nutrients you need for optimum health. If you are not a raw vegan, then you definitely need to supplement your diet. That is why we decided to add a line of all natural health products that we believe are the best health supplements available on the market. These are available at www.myaimstore.com/pathway2health .
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FEEDBACK
-If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email us at info@therawvegannetwork.com and we will include them in our questions and comments section. Please email us with your feedback about the articles and recipes, and what you would like to see in up coming issues.
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