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Not Raw Juice For Sale

jasmin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:01:12 +0000

I saw this bottles of juice at the cold section at a Coles supermarket in Sydney and just had to take a picture of it. I was actually disappointed because it wasn’t raw juice. It’s misleading because it’s really mainly constituted juice. If it’s not raw, it means that most of the enzymes have been destroyed.

I brought my mini blender with me for my one month trip there, but oh my, the fruits are so pricey. Apparently, the devastating floods near Brisbane had a major impact on the food industry. If it wasn’t for the flood, I was told, I could get a whole box of mangos for $10.

My thoughts are with those who suffered during the massive flooding.

Here’s a video of how bad it was.

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Peanuts and liver cancer

jasmin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:16:23 +0000

I just read this amazingly eye-opening book called The China Study.

It talks about why there were so many Filipino kids were having liver cancers. Apparently, Filipinos from poor families and their kids were encouraged to eat peanuts and peanut butter (PB) because it was a cheap protein. The problem was that peanuts often were contaminated with a fungus-produced toxin called aflatoxin. In a factory, they found that the workers will scoop up the whole nuts that were good and use to sell as premium nuts. The bad nuts that had aflatoxin were put aside to make PB. So when small children lots of PB, many of them contracted cancer.

That’s not all.

Apparently, kids that ate more meat AND aflatoxin had a higher chance of getting liver cancer than those who ate less meat. So what happened then was that the rich kids had a higher chance of getting cancer than the poor ones.

Scary stats huh?

Moral of the story? I don’t know, make your own peanut butter?

It’s actually very simple to make and here’s the recipe for it.

Homemade Peanut Butter

Ingredients:

2 cups shelled peanuts
2 Tbsp. vegetable oil that has no heavy scent
1 Tbsp. honey or sugar to taste

Method:

Roast the peanuts in a frying pan with low heat until it smells fragrant. Cool it.

Place the peanuts and honey in a food processor, and process for 1 minute. Use a spatula to loosen mixture from the sides of the bowl if it’s sticking. Then continue to process while slowly drizzling oil into the mixture for another 2-3 minutes, or until the mixture is smooth, thick and shiny. (Nuts will go from a rough chop, to finely ground, to a thick paste, and then finally a shiny, smooth peanut butter.) Remove and store in an airtight container, and refrigerate. If mixture is too thick and cool when you’re ready to use it, simply place the container in a warm water bath, or pop your needed amount in the microwave microwave to warm and soften it up.

For those who are looking for a healthier alternative or is allergic to peanuts like my son, try making homemade raw almond butter. The recipe’s below.
Homemade raw almond butter

Ingredients:

2 cups of raw almonds soaked in water overnight
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 tbsp honey

Method:

Strain the water from the almonds and place into the food processor. Blend on high until it reaches the consistency that you lie. From time to time, stop the food processor and push the almonds down from the sides of the bowl to make sure all of it gets ground up.

Add the cinnamon, vanilla and honey at any time. Remove and store in an airtight container, and refrigerate. It won’t last as long as the roasted PB. Some say it can keep for 4 months, but why keep food for that long? I’d rather consume everything up within 4 weeks or less. Otherwise, you can just freeze up extra almond butter if you can’t finish it within a certain period.

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Guess what’s Mimi’s age

jasmin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:14:51 +0000

You won’t believe how old this lady is. She’s 71 years old. Unbelievable.

Initially, Mimi Kirk saw a contest by PETA on Facebook for the sexist vegetarian above 50, and decided she would compete in this contest. Her popularity snowballed after that. She said, diet helps. Being a vegetarian and a raw foodie that is.

Below are two videos. One is from the Fox News interview. The one below that is about her talking about her diet.

Mimi On Fox News

Mimi talking about raw food

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More stuff on healthy living

Getting kids to appreciate more complex flavors

jasmin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:31:16 +0000

I added just a bit of dehydrated raw wheat grass powder in my plain water today. My almost 5 (so he says) year old rugrat took a sip and said, “Hmmm, this is good tea Mummy”. This is excellent because it means his taste buds are starting to appreciate more complex flavors.

ften times, we don’t know what they like. So it’s always good to keep introducing new food to them every once in a while.

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Now guess how old is Rosemary?

jasmin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:27:02 +0000

Guess how old Rosemary is. You really would not believe. She looks so vibrant and young. And look at her skin. So gorgeous.

In fact, Rosemary Fletcher had spent 11 years confined to a wheelchair and doctors said she will never walk again. She looked at how she ate and she healed herself naturally. Thanks to her self healing journey, she went from 305 lbs to 120 lbs and now walks one mile a day.

By the way, I had a reader who emailed me and told me that he didn’t believe Rosemary is in her 50s, must be some kind of scam or something. Let me just say, she was featured in Oprah.

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Loving Earth Raw Food Products now sold in Kuala Lumpur

jasmin — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:32:50 +0000

To all Malaysian raw foodies and those who are interested in health, we can now get Loving Earth (Australia) raw food products at Jaya Grocers! *Whoohoo*

There’s raw cacao powder (lots of good stuff and sinful too), Maca powder (Peruvian ginseng), oh so delicious raw cacao butter, and other great stuff.

If you have never tried Maca, you should try it now, cause previously the only way was to buy them online. Also great for guys who, for whatever reason, want to increase their *cough* sperm count.

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Where to get raw dehydrated wheat grass in Malaysia

Raw chocolate tastes so good

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