How to Make

 Vegan Massaman Curry

Thai-Indian Curry

This is a wonderful dish straight from May Kaidee’s Thai vegetarian and vegan cookbook. I have eaten at May’s many times and advise any vegan visiting Bangkok or Chiang Mai, Thailand to drop in and taste true Thai cuisine and all vegan! May is a lovely woman with a heart of gold and loves to sing and dance, when you leave this place you leave with another friend. There are cooking classes offered too. Details are listed at the bottom.

Ingredients:

·         1 Tbsp oil of your choice

·         1 Small handful each of onions, tomatoes and carrots

·         1 Tsp red chili paste

·         1 and a half tsp curry paste

·         1 cup coconut cream or coconut milk

·         3 Tbsp water

·         1 Tbsp soy sauce mixture

·         2 Tsp sugar (Or agave, I like to use this)

·         1 small handful non-leafy green vegetables

·         1 Tbsp prepared tofu (I skip this one, just as nice without the tofu)

·         1 Tsp lime juice

·         1 small handful cooked sweet potatoes

Method:

·         Fry onions, tomatoes and carrots in hot oil and add red chilli paste and curry powder until the paste is fragrant. It may be necessary to add water to avoid burning the paste

·         Add coconut cream and cook until mixture is thick

·         Add soy sauce, one tablespoon of water, sugar (agave*), mixed vegetables and tofu, and mix well

·         Slacken the mixture with further coconut cream and water to the preferred consistency

·         Sprinkle with roasted peanuts, add another dash of coconut cream and serve J

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A Nutritional Cure for Cancer

The Gerson Therapy

                                Charlotte Gerson

OK, so the last article showed how powerful good really is when it comes to diabetes but it doesn’t stop there; another programme that is thriving is ‘The Gerson therapy.’ This is a non-profit organisation working with cancer, among many other illnesses and with excellent results.

The diet used in the Gerson therapy was created by Dr Max Gerson in the early 1900’s, he actually created this diet for migraines but to his amazement it not only cured migraines but also diabetes, tuberculosis, cancers and just about everything else. He conducted an experiment with 450 patients suffering from tuberculosis and cured 446 of them before he went on to curing cancer patients using the same diet.

There was a lot of controversy over this and eventually in 1958 Dr Max Gerson was poisoned and whilst ill had all of his journals stolen. He nursed himself back to health and re-wrote his book ‘A cancer therapy – results of 50 cases.’ One year later Dr Max Gerson was poisoned again with arsenic but this time did not survive. Today his legacy lives on through his daughter Charlotte Gerson who carries on his work in Mexico curing many cancer patients, including many who had been given up on by the medical system and been told ‘’there’s nothing we can do.

’’ Well now you know Dr Max Gerson was a great man that only wanted to help the world, you know the diet cures many illnesses and you know Charlotte Gerson is still using this diet today with amazing effects but I bet your wondering what this diet is? Well it’s based around our little friends again – enzymes. The Gerson therapy diet offers jacket potatoes, home-made soups and a few more cooked dishes but is heavily influenced by the Raw vegan diet again, allowing an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, (all organic of course, the last thing the body needs when healing is a heavy dosage of pesticides and many other deadly chemical cocktails.)

The method of delivery chosen by the Gerson therapy is freshly squeezed juice, 13 glasses every day to be exact, these are made of freshly juiced carrot and apple. That’s an enormous amount of fresh organic fruit and veg consumed every day in juice alone. If enzymes are so important then you can see how this diet works so well can’t you.

By juicing you not only make it possible to take in the nutrients from an otherwise nearly impossible amount to eat but it works like an express delivery system, because it has been stripped of every bit of fibre it’s in your cells within minutes, now that’s quite amazing isn’t it? That means you can literally start your healing process and start living your new energetic, healthier life in just minutes!

But there’s something to think about first, before loading your body with wonderful vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes, are you already full of toxins? I mean, you are what you’ve eaten right? And if your diet is pretty similar to the S.A.D diet mentioned earlier then you may have quite a build-up.

 The Gerson therapy has an answer for this and that is the organic coffee enema, for those of you who are wondering what this is, it involves brewing organic coffee in spring/mineral water and bringing it down to body temperature. This will be poured into an enema bag and gravity fed through a tube into the anal cavity. When one litre is inside you may remove the tube and hold in for around 15 minutes. In this time the solution will empty bile sacks, purify the blood and clean the walls of the colon.

This technique of discharging bile, purifying human blood and cleaning walls is so efficient at removing toxins from the body that the Gerson therapy not only cure many people of many diseases including diabetes and cancer but they also cure drug addicts and alcoholics too. By removing such an enormous amount of toxins left behind from the substance you are trying to rid heavy cravings are much less likely, making the ‘ditching’ whatever it is much more likely.

In the words of Dr Max Gerson

‘’it’s the doctors duty to activate end reactivate the body’s healing mechanisms, then the patients heal and it doesn’t matter what you call the disease.’’

Live Food and Diabetes

Live Food and Diabetes

In America Dr Gabriel Cousens has been having great success for many years curing diabetes using a raw vegan based diet in which people are switching from their ‘standard American diet, S.A.D’ (Kristen Susanne. Raw chef and author.) consisting of convenience food, takeaways, fast food, chocolate, crisps, pastries and general junk food, to a Raw vegan diet consisting of fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds, no meat, no dairy, no sugar and nothing heated above 44 degrees Celsius, ( although this temperature fluctuates between sources) hence the name Raw vegan diet.

 Dr Cousens is reversing diabetes type 2 and type 1 in amazingly short time. As well as his book ‘There is a cure for diabetes’ he also has a documentary available on the internet called ‘Simply Raw – reversing diabetes in 30 days.’ In this video you see with your own eyes people changing from a situation they thought they would be in forever to a happier, healthier, medication and illness free lifestyle in only 30 days. This is the power of food! But is it because the food is not cooked?

 Results from studies done in the early 1900’s on cooked foods showed that when cooked food enters the body the body goes into a state called ‘digestiveluekocytosis’ this means your body is seeing this food as an enemy and attacking it. The body attacks it by releasing white blood cells, thus if the body is always busy attacking the food we eat then it cannot do what it is meant to, and after a lifetime or even generations of eating cooked food, who knows what that actually is?

 Well, all you need to do to find out is not heat your food above 44 degrees Celsius. The reason food is not heated above 44 degrees is because at this temperature the living enzymes in your food die. Yes you have living enzymes! Your food is full of them! Well ‘real’ food anyway. The enzymes are otherwise known as ‘little workers ‘and they are not only believed to be very important to life but essential. Food containing live enzymes may be referred to as Raw, live, or enzymatic food.

 There are many ways of getting these ‘little workers’ into your daily diet but the easiest still has to be a good old fashioned smoothie, and if you do not want the fibre then freshly juiced fruit is a winner.

If you would like to know more about the work of Dr Gabriel Cousens then the following link will take you to the home page of his website:

http://www.treeoflife.nu/

In my next article I will look at nutrition as a cure for cancer and a look at the famous Gerson Therapy J

You Really Are What You Eat

You Really Are What You Eat

This article has been taken from the ‘huge’ article I wrote as a final exam and posted on here as one of my first. It can now be delivered in more ‘bite sized’ pieces to hopefully make more enjoyable.

You are what you eat! Today it is said so often by so many people but do we really know how true this statement is? You are what you eat – does this mean if you eat a lot of burgers you will turn into a burger? Or if you eat a lot of vegetables you will start sprouting? No, it doesn’t, this statement needs to be taken literally, more like you are what you’ve eaten.  Please let me explain. . . . . . . .

To put it quite simply the food we eat is broken down into tiny building blocks which is then built back up into human tissue. Like I said ‘you are what you’ve eaten’. David Wolfe puts it perfectly when he says ‘’the food we eat creates the tissues of our bodies, the energy of our bodies and deliberately effects the quality of our thoughts.’’ Take a min to think about this statement, the food we eat creates the tissues of our bodies, so if what we’re putting in our mouths is processed foods with additives, flavourings, colourings, enhancers, stabilisers, preservatives, hormones, steroids, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, fast food high in fat, sugar, salt and MSG then the body has nothing else that it can build new tissue from except the building blocks that you have supplied, and in this example they are not the best choice of building blocks. If this was to be your diet then you would actually be built from this! You are what you eat!  You are what you’ve eaten!

‘’We must make nutrition the primary prevention strategy for the global population and we have to be as zealous on nutrition as we apparently are on global warming. What we have to do is persuade the public you are what you eat, food can change your mood and you are everything you have ever done to yourself.’’ (Philip Day. Investigative journalist and author.)

Food really does matter. In these modern times with our fast food restaurants, takeaways , microwave meals and processed packaged snacks at every corner we turn, we really do forget how important food is and not only how important food is but how powerful food is, Hippocrates, the godfather of modern medicine’ said ‘’let medicine be thy food and food be thy medicine.’’  He truly believed the body had an innate power to heal itself from all illness. He’s not the only one, there are many people out there right now curing people of all types of illnesses using only nutrition, no modern medicine what so ever and with shockingly excellent results in all areas.

 In my next article we will look into diabetes mellitus being cured using only nutrition by the great Dr Gabriel Cousins.

I hope you have enjoyed this article J

How to make fresh raw almond milk

Simple Raw Almond Milk

Ingredients:

      ·         Almonds

·         Water

·         Dates (optional)

Apparatus:

·         Blender

·         Jug

·         Nut milk bag/cloth

·         Bowl

Method:

·         Soak the chosen amount of almonds in a jug of water for 6 hours or more (the amount of almonds you use depends entirely on the consistency you require, the more nuts the creamier the milk. I like you use 3 handfuls of almonds for 1 litre of milk).

·         Once soaked well, wash the nuts and throw into the blender.

·         Add water to the required amount, eg. 1 litre.

·         Blend until thick, white and milky. Two blasts of about 30 – 40 seconds does a nice job.

·         Put your nut milk bag/cloth into a bowl (nut milk bags/cloths very easy to buy on the net, ebay, and very affordable. If not a linen pillow case can work nicely too), now pour the milk into the bag.

·         Lift bag and squeeze until all of the milk is out. You will be left with a bag of blended nut, with this you can dispose or make some lovely Raw or just vegan almond cookies J Yum!

·         You can either bottle the milk you have made and save it in the fridge for another time or wash the blender out and start mixing your ‘super shake’ of your choice.

·         If this milk is too bland or you just think it may be a bit nicer sweeter then you can add some dates to it. You do this by soaking the dates for about 20-30 min’s, just until you can pull the skin off. Once skinned throw them in the milk and blend again. Alternatively soak, peel and add to nut and water mix on the first blend. Hey, whatever works for you!

·         Other sweeteners can include; Stevia, Agave, Banana . . . . be creative J

A home-made caffeine free fruity fresh tea

Fiery fresh fruit tea

Fresh lemon, fresh ginger, dried aniseed, dried cinnamon

Slice a 1 inch cube of ginger finely, slice half a lemon. Take one whole aniseed and a small stick of cinnamon and crush in a mortar and pestle. Put all ingredients into the pot of your choice and leave for ten minutes.

A lovely mix of flavours; sweet, but with a sour spicy bite and many health benefits.  

Endurance - Circuit Training Session

13/04/2012

A Sickly Circuit

Duration – 1hr   (My time today was 51 mins)

·         25 x Burpees

·         25 x Press-ups

·         25 x Jump Squats

·         25 x Sit-ups

Run 0.25 mile

·         50 x Burpees

·         50 x Press-ups

·         50 x Jump Squats

·         50 x Sit-ups

Run 0.5 mile

·         100 x Burpees

·         100 x Press-ups

·         100 x Jump Squats

·         100 x Sit-ups

Run 1 mile

FINISH

Walk it off and stretch

WARNING:

 Remember to always warm up and stretch before exercise! My choice today was; 5 mins mobilisation of joints, 7 mins warm up jog with knee raises, full body stretch, 5 – 7 mins re-warm and ready to go J