Date Shake

1 cup soy milk
12 pitted dates, chopped
6 almonds
1 cup plain yogurt
4 ice cubes

Blend together until smooth.

Frozen Avocado Shake

1 apple (1/4 cup juice)
1/4 cup mashed avocado
1/4 banana, mashed
1/2 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
1/2 cup unsweetened soymilk
1/2 tsp. pure almond extract
1 cup ice

   Juice the apple. Set aside 1/4 cup of the juice. In a blender or food processor, combine the apple juice with the remaining ingredients and blend for 2 minutes, or until smooth. Serve immediately.

Fast and Easy Raw Food Recipes

    Our taste buds evolved over millions of years so that the foods we need for our bodies will taste good, making them attractive to us. But after decades of confusing our taste buds with artificial flavors, flavor enhancers and refined sugars, our taste buds no longer know what foods actually contains the nutrition our bodies need things that taste good often are bad for us. Foods that are good for us we might not even like. The goods news is that your taste buds can recover. After a period of time, which varies from person to person, your taste buds will learn to differentiate between good and bad foods and the result is that you will be naturally drawn to those foods your body actually needs nutritionally, youll only be hungry when your body actually has nutritional needs to meet and when you eat something your body needs, it will taste wonderful because it is just what you need! Then you are eating intuitively or consciously!

How do get children to eat veggies?

   Did you every watch someone try to feed a baby their first processed foods? Most of the time, in my experience, the baby spits it out. Babies dont want it - its dead. After months of nice, living breast milk (hopefully), weaning a baby on cooked foods is, in my mind, almost a form of child abuse! They dont like it. You have to force them. Eventually, with enough games and tricks, or added sugars, you can get the baby to eat that stuff probably because they are so hungry theyll eat anything. You are "conditioning" the child to eat dead food and that is a conditioning that is hard to break later in life, even as adults.

   Instead, start your kids on fresh veggies when they are very young, so theyll develop a taste for unprocessed foods right away. You can give them blended salads made in your blender or food processor. You start your blender going with cucumber or tomato cut it into slices. Place these at the bottom of the blender/food processor. These vegetable have the most liquid and will start the process of blending. After that, you may add raw green vegetables. Very young children, they can also have scraped fruit. This will have the consistency of applesauce. Cut an apple or pear in half and scrape it with a spoon and its ready. You will create a fresh apple or pear sauce. Kids love papaya or mango sauce (blend these). But make sure you skin them, and take out the seeds.
   For a nutritious drink for the very young, especially if the mother is deficient in breast milk or not well, try this:
 - 1/3 glass of fresh carrot juice
 - 1/3 cup of raw goat milk mixed
 - green chlorophyll powder.
Blend ingredients. Work up to one tsp. How much you give to the child depends on age and the ability of the baby to digest the ingredients. This is an excellent substitute drink for children who are not breast fed.
   Fresh young Thai coconut milk is also an excellent drink. Open the top of the coconut and pour the coconut ater into the blender. Split the coconut. Scoop out the coconut meat and add to blender. Blend on high until the meat is completely combined with the liquid. It tastes like a wonderful malted and its rich in protein.
   For older children who dont like vegetables, use your dehydrator to make patties or flat breads from the vegetable pulp thats left over after you make your vegetable juice in your juice extractor:
 - 1 cup of carrot pulp or a mixture of vegetable pulps (avoid celery and beet)
 - one cup of ground sunflower seeds
 - poultry seasoning to taste
 - 1 tsp. of miso mixed with a small amount of water
Mix ingredients together. Make into patties and dehydrate for a few hours. Add tomato sauce, black olives and ground up pine nuts as a topping.

Is there a relationship between how much we eat and health?

   Yes, UCLA found that animals fed half of the amount of food that they normally ate, lived twice as long as animals fed their normal diet. This is called calorie restriction. The biggest problem with overeating is that it creates more toxins in the body. The animals that lived longer had less toxins in their bodies. The less toxins and excess materials in our body, the more efficiently our body can function. Of course, a raw, organic diet is naturally low in calories, but higher in nutrition than a high-calorie diet made up of cooked, processed foods.

What about recreational or prescription drugs?

   All drugs are metabolized in the liver and therefore damage the liver. The liver is probably our most important organ. It prepares all the nutrients that feed the entire body. It has a tremendous amount of functions. Drugs take a big toll on the body. Today, with so many drugs advertised on television, you can find a prescription for everything. However, in almost every case, the side effects are worse than the symptom they are trying to cure. There actually is a popular drug for hay fever (sniffles, stuffed nose, sinus congestion) that warns of infertility and leukemia as possible side effects. Obviously, you would be better off with the hay fever. But dont throw the baby out with the bath water. For crisis intervention (i.e., emergencies) you may need to follow a health professionals advice to save your life. In that case, bend the rules! You can cleanse and detoxify from the medical treatments when you are back on your feet.

Is there a more ideal diet to slow aging

   

    There is no perfect diet, but there definitely is a very ideal diet. The ideal diet includes plenty of green vegetables, some fruits, a few nuts and grains, plenty of pure water and whole food supplements including antioxidants. As we discussed earlier, the nutrients in todays food arent what they used to be. Our ability to absorb all the nutrients present in our food may be lacking. Our digestive systems may be lacking the necessary enzymes to digest the foods. Whole concentrated food supplements are easily absorbed by the body which gives our bodies a boost and help us to stay younger longer.