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How to Practice Mindful Eating and Become a Conscious Consumer

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

http://youtu.be/qc-CrINmNbw

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram is always a fountain of inspiration and encouragement for living a healthy lifestyle that features raw fruits and veggies. In this heartwarming video, Kristina shares her tips on becoming more conscious of everything that surrounds the your mealtime. She reminds us that the things we put into our body will be used to produce an entirely new body (in which nearly every cell is re-built) twice yearly!

Kristina’s first tip for conscious eating is consistent with my #1 for life in general: do it with love. Kristina says “Love your food so that it loves you back.”

Her second tip “meditate while eating” corresponds with my advice to meditate always, since meditation is really a synonym for observation. By observing every color, taste, texture and every other aspect of each bite more profoundly, we can enjoy our food more and reap more health benefits as compared to eating the same food with an agitated, superficial mind.

Finally, she advises us to become a conscious consumer.  Kristina and I are in total agreement here, that we vote with our money… so we ought to invest wisely to support our health and a sustainable planet.

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Kristina’s Raw Coffee Alternative

Kristina's Raw Coffee Alternative

http://youtu.be/YSFy-WfzVs0

FullyRaw Kristina shares this extremely helpful recipe for those coffee lovers that are looking to cut out the caffeine to enjoy a more balanced energy level without the crashes or “lows”. Be aware that serious addicts will likely experience some withdrawal or detox symptoms such as headache and/or lethargy. But you will definitely recover, and you will feel lighter, fresher, and more liberated.

Tools needed:

  • Breville juicer
  • Vitamix or Blendtec blender
  • Coffee cup(s)

Ingredients:

  • 1-2 cups of coconut water
  • 5-10 pitted dates
  • ¼ cup carob powder
  • a few fresh peppermint leaves
  • a small vanilla bean or a few drops of vanilla extract (without alcohol)
  • a dash of cinnamon or nutmeg
  • 2 tablespoons of raw cacao
  • fresh almond milk (make your own with the following instructions)

Almond milk creamer:

Run 1 ½ cups of soaked raw almonds through a slow juicer (or blend with a Vitamix and strain with an almond milk bag). Run through juicer with water or if you want it to be sweeter, use coconut water instead.

Kristina's Raw Coffee Alternative
Kristina’s Raw Coffee Alternative

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Kristina’s Raw Banana Ice Cream Split

Banana Split

http://youtu.be/agfe3Vu25rk

You may already know how to make delicious vanilla ice cream using only frozen bananas and a few drops of vanilla. But here, Kristina raises the banana with a magnificent arrangement of three ice cream flavors, topped with gooey delicious fruit sauce and fresh cherries.

Ingredients:

  • 5-10 ripe bananas, frozen overnight
  • One perfect banana for your banana split
  • the water of one young coconut
  • 1 – 1 ½ fresh pitted dates
  • ½ cup of sliced pitted cherries and 3 perfect cherries to put on top
  • 1 cup sliced mango
  • 1 cup blackberries
  • 1 cup raspberries
  • ¼ cup Carob powder
  • Toppings:
    • ¼ diced mango bits and ¼ blended
    • ¼ chopped raspberries and ¼ blended
    • ¼ finely chopped blackberries and ¼ blended

Tools needed:

  • Vitamix or Blendtec blender
  • plate
  • ice-cream scoop
  • spatula

Instructions:

Blend the ice cream ingredients together as shown in the video, then blend the topping ingredients and pour over the ice cream. Sprinkle with more toppings!

banana split
banana split

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Kristina’s Raw Minestrone Soup

Raw Minestrone Soup

http://youtu.be/aNWMxbg1ZNU

Here’s a great recipe for raw minestrone soup from Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram.

Ingredients:

  • 10-15 tomatoes, juiced
  • 1 bell pepper,  juiced
  • 1 cup of diced carrots
  • 1-2 diced or spiralized zucchini
  • 1 cup of baby spinach
  • 1 cup sliced cherry tomatoes
  • 1 cup of chopped celery
  • ½ cup of parsley
  • ½ cup of cilantro
  • ½ cup of chopped mushrooms
  • ¼ cup of diced leeks
  • ¼ cup of diced green onion
  • fresh thyme
  • fresh sage
  • one small cayenne pepper, chopped finely

 

Instructions: Juice the tomatoes, the red bell pepper, and a few stalks of celery. Strain several times until you are left with a tomato broth as a base. Pour your base into a large soup bowl, and sprinkle in the other chopped ingredients! Your soup is now ready, but if you can resist the temptation to eat it immediately, the soup will become even more flavorful by waiting about an hour for the broth to absorb the flavors of the other ingredients.

This can be a fully raw (cold) soup. If you want it warm, you can use the warm soup function of a Blendtec or a Vitamix blender, which warms the soup slowly (due to the friction of the blades). Although this method does not actually cook or boil the soup, it is possible that some of the nutrients could be destroyed during this process.

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Recover from Diet Failure

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

http://youtu.be/thw2CrvpY_Q

In this beautiful video, Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram will inspire you to love yourself, reward yourself, forgive yourself. Deep down, we all want to be healthy, but we must be understanding of our human flaws… if ever we give in to the temptation of unhealthy food, self-forgiveness and self-love is a much healthier response than feeling guilty, weak or broken. Here are some of Kristina’s suggestions for getting back to good health as quickly as possible:

  • Take responsibility: Others may have tempted you but ultimately your own decisions will lead you to either wellness or illness.
  • Make a list that includes your most profound reasons for wanting to get healthier.
  • Meditate on these innermost desires to bring back the spark that will ignite you into positive action
  • Surround yourself with inspiring people and find or create a supportive community
  • Have fun in the kitchen, making delicious recipes alone or with a loved one
  • Stay informed through articles, books and documentaries
  • Use the buddy system for getting healthy together
  • A supervised fast can clean out your system prior to returning to a healthy raw diet
  • Move your body for 30 minutes per day or more
  • Reward yourself with healthy food. Recognise that unhealthy food is more of a punishment than a reward.
  • Volunteer in your community. Giving feels great.
  • Be humble, gentle, understanding and patient with yourself
  • Make a plan for your meals and exercise
  • Inspire yourself frequently by leaving notes-to-self all over your home

GIVE THE LOVE YOU WANT TO RECEIVE

This is crucial, since it is the love that we give that nourishes us the most. Each of us came to this world to provide a service. When we give the service that we came to give, we are living our dream, and following our mission. When we follow our mission, our body, mind and spirit function as a team. We feel more balanced when we are more balanced.

A tiny plant will push its tiny leaves above ground to absorb some nourishing sunlight. But the plant does not exist to receive. Its mission is to give… perhaps a nourishing food or a potent medicine or a beautiful, colorful, fragrant flower. Find your mission and give that service to the world.

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Kristina’s Raw Apple Pie

Kristina's Fully Raw Apple Pie

Here is another fabulous recipe from Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram: Apple pie that tastes exactly like Grandma’s sugary-toxic recipe. Hint: it tastes the same because both are made with the same amount of LOVE!

Ingredients:

  • Bushels of love
  • 8-10 apples of any variety
  • 3 pounds of pitted dates
  • Raw dried or fresh figs
  • Cinnamon and/or Nutmeg

More optional ingredients:

  • Dried coconut powder
  • Blueberries and/or raspberries
  • A few tablespoons of coconut oil
  • More love (actually this is not optional)

To make the crust, toss a pound of dates with 1/2 pound of figs in a food processor, and process until it reaches a cookie dough consistency. (Optional step: add a thin layer of dried coconut flakes to the bottom of the pie dish.)  Press this date/fig crust into the bottom of your pie pan dish. (If you started with the coconut flakes, they will stick to the crust but not to the dish.) Optionally paint a thin layer of coconut oil on top of the crust… if this pie ever makes it to your fridge, the coconut oil will harden and make your crust even stronger.

To make the apple pie filling, blend 3 apples with about 3/4 lb of dates, cinnamon and nutmeg, in a high-power blender such as Vitamix or Blendtec. Thinly slice your apples with a knife or with a mandolin and alternately layer the apple slices with your pie filling. If you are making straight-up apple pie that can easily rival Grandma’s, then you are finished now.

Kristina’s recipe is so yummy that you will want to make it over and over. If you are like me, then you may want to make it a little different each time, so at this point you can add an extra layer with the fruits of your choice. Pictured below, you will see the version that I made with a top layer of blended blueberries, raspberries and dates (and of course more love), and decorated with coconut flakes and more blueberries.

Apple Berry Pie
Apple Berry Pie

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Loren Lockman on his transition to a raw vegan diet

http://youtu.be/kOcl_7eklMM

I totally agree with Loren on this point: if you want your body to function optimally, you need to 1. Get clear on what it needs to do so (first cleanse and heal, then nourish appropriately with a raw vegan diet); and 2. Get committed to your health (that means not making excuses for continuing unhealthy behaviors).

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Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie

Although I love to share my own recipes and the recipes of others, I must confess that I do not follow recipes myself. That’s because I have way too much fun just throwing random ingredients together for a new taste and texture at every meal.

Today my fridge is nowhere near full, so I figured this would be a good day to show you that miracles can happen with very few available ingredients. This experiment came out even more beautiful than I had planned. And by the way, I am pleasantly surprised quite frequently, so I would encourage you to live a bit “dangerously” too.

You can try my very own pink frothy smoothie du jour, or make any substitution that you want:

  • 1/2 pineapple (or some other sweet fruit… maybe mango or peach)
  • 1/4 head of purple cabbage (or I suppose any other cabbage or lettuce, but the purple fills this recipe with antioxidants and makes it look amazing!)
  • one thumb-sized piece of ginger (or maybe fresh curcumin, ginger’s cousin)
  • the liquid from one young coconut (or coconut milk or just regular spring water)
  • a squirt of pure vanilla essence (preferably not processed with alcohol)

Toss all the ingredients in your Blendtec or Vitamix blender, and hit the “smoothie” button, or otherwise just blend it until the mixture is so frothy that you can’t wait another second before drinking it.

Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie glass and blender
Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie

Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie ingredients: Pineapple, Purple Cabbage, Ginger, Young Coconut
Pineapple, Purple Cabbage, Ginger, Young Coconut
Aqui esta una receta facil para un batido rosado delicioso:

 

  • 1/2 piña
  • 1/4 cabeza repollo morado
  • un pedazo de gingibre (del tamaño del pulgar)
  • el agua de una pipa

Tira todos los ingredientes en su licuadora (recomiendo Blendtec o Vitamix), y presiona el boton para hacer licuados.  El licuado esta listo cuando tiene una textura ligera e irresistible!

Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie glass and blender
Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie

Pink Pineapple Ginger Smoothie ingredients: Pineapple, Purple Cabbage, Ginger, Young Coconut
Pineapple, Purple Cabbage, Ginger, Young Coconut

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Medicinal Cannabis

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Special: Weed uncovers the value of smoked and vaporized cannabis in treating epilepsy, cancer and other diseases. The video still misses the important point that eating raw cannabis is more medicinal and without the risks associated with smoke inhalation.

Dr. William Courtney

According to Dr. William L Courtney, MD, Cannabis is a vegetable and is valuable for both the treatment, and the prevention of disease. Raw cannabis has no psychotropic properties and should be consumed preventatively. Dr. Courtney is fighting to make Cannabis legal worldwide.

Dr. Leonard Coldwell

Dr. Leonard Coldwell says “You could live off of only hemp and never have a deficiency. Hemp and hemp oil is the cure for cancer. It cures skin cancer in 3-7 days.”

http://youtu.be/hTIe173g-Eo

Rick Simpson

The story of one Canadian that has made it his mission to help those in need. Rick has improved the lives of his fellow citizens without asking anything in return.

http://youtu.be/0psJhQHk_GI

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According to Dr. William Davis, a protein in wheat, gliadin, binds to opiate receptors in the brain, causing you to overeat. According to cardiologist Dr. William Davis, it is a perfectly-crafted poison to make you gain weight. No human should consume wheat. Eating wheat causes obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, dementia, autism and many other problems. Cut out wheat to lose up to 15 pounds in just 30 days.

Dr. Davis is the author of the book “Wheat Belly” and has recently appeared on the Dr. Oz Show.
Segun el Dr. William Davis, una proteina en el trigo, gliadin, se junta a los receptores de opio en el cerebro, lo que provoca comer mas. Esto significa que el trigo es un veneno perfecto para hacerle engordar. Ningun ser humano debe comer el trigo. El trigo causa obesidad, el diabetes, la hipertension, la enfermedad del corazon, el cancer, la demencia, el autismo y varios otros problemas. Eliminalo para perder 15 libras en solamente 30 dias.

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Dr. William Davis

Dr. William Davis é cardiologista e autor da “barriga de trigo” do livro. Recentemente, ele apareceu no programa Dr. Oz.

Segundo o Dr. Davis, uma proteína do trigo, a gliadina, liga-se a receptores opiáceos do cérebro, fazendo com que você a comer demais. O trigo é um veneno perfeitamente criado para fazer você ganhar peso. Não devem ser humano consumir trigo. Comer trigo obesidade causas, diabetes, hipertensão, doenças cardíacas, câncer, demência, autismo e muitos outros problemas. Corte de trigo a perder até 15 quilos em apenas 30 dias.