However, we believe you are what you eat and holding a special event for fundraising for cancer would do well to serve only healthy, fresh and nutrient packed foods.  Eating the foods that do not support your body in an effort to help reduce cancer, is a bit like screaming and yelling for peace and quiet.

go to http://www.itsuptoyou.com.au/get-started/raw-food-recipes/ to get some ideas for healthy cakes that will still give you that feeling of a ‘treat’ but without the risk to your health.

Once again, we hope Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is a successful one.

What does it mean?  Well, it describes a culture of MORE, which causes OBESITY.  We now have a culture of bigger popcorn, bigger burgers, bigger steaks, bigger bread.  More opportunities to eat, eat when driving, eat when travelling on a plane, even if you have already had breakfast at home before coming to the airport, eating at the departure lounge, eating at sporting events, eating when watching tv, more more more ….

Watch out for symptoms of morebesity in your life.  Watch out for behaviours that have the potential to become habits, i.e. eating when not a meal time and eating when not hungry and especially watch yourself when you say these words “a large one, please”.  Try not to order a large anything, go back to “regular” or if it exists order a “small”.

However, don’t be too prissy about Raw – if you feel like some steamed vegetables and fish – why not have it – it is more about what you ‘predominantly’ live on, what you do most of the time.  So if you are new to Raw, a simple trick is to look at your meal and double check that ’something’ on the plate is raw – it might be some sliced capsicum, some organic cos lettuce, some fruit.  If every meal has something raw included you are doing really well. 

We easily live on predominantly Raw during winter, but our meals are heated to 41 degrees, we live on curries with parsnip rice, spicy soups, Thai flax crackers with spicy dips, etc.  We even heat our Apple, Almond and Cinnamon porridge during winter months, putting it in the slow cooker before a long walk and coming back to it nicely warmed through.

Why not come to one of our Raw Food Cuisine Classes during May or June and see first hand how to do it.

• Type 2 Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Obesity
• Childhood Obesity
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Colitis
• Depression

a dramatic change of lifestyle behaviour, in particular a move away from processed and fake food, to a raw food diet, one predominated by leafy greens, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and some oils will have a huge impact on individual health status.  Rather than trying to ‘manage’ the symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes what about just simply curing it?  Rather than trying to ‘manage’ high risk individuals for heart attacks, what about trying to bring those individuals back to normal blood pressure, normal cholesterol, normal weight and excellent health?

If we could stem the tide of potential patients into the Hospital and Healthcare centres by, well … creating a healthy population, then we would free up the hospital systems and doctors waiting rooms.

For many individuals a raw food diet will dramatically change their health status and simply remove them from the healthcare system.

The fast food, processed food, fake food many people on a SAD (Standard Australian Diet) consume can be so diminished of vitamins, minerals and enzymes that it provides little actual nourishment.  One train of thought on Obesity is that the person may be stimulated into continued eating in the bodies vain attempt to gain nourishment. However, no amount of eating fast foods, processed foods or fake food is going to provide the body with the nourishment it needs.  The only real way to provide our bodies with the vitamins, minerals, nutrients, essential fatty acids, omega 3’s, enzymes etc is to have a balanced diet made up of real food, actual food, food that has not been processed in any way.

Our first Newsletter for 2010 is now available, please click here to read how you can commence your Raw Food Journey and make your New Year’s Resolution’s come true.

You’ll also find a little recipe to assist in elimination, just in case any processed food is still hanging around in your system.

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