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Sumara's
Raw Food Recipes |
Christmas Salad
This green, red, and white salad will help
spread Christmas cheer.
Candied Walnuts
1 cup whole walnuts
¼
cup maple syrup
Cheese
1 cup presoaked cashews
1 clove garlic
Juice of ½ lemon
1 tablespoon nutritional
yeast
1 teaspoon onion powder
¾ teaspoon Celtic salt
Dressing
¼
raspberry vinegar
½ olive oil
2 tablespoons raw honey
1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon Celtic salt
Salad
2 cups washed and spun dry arugula
2 cups washed and spun dry red leaf
lettuce
1 cup washed and spun dry Belgian
endive
1 cup washed and spun dry radiccio
1 cup washed and spun dry spinach
1½
cup white mushrooms, sliced
1/3
cup dried cranberries
¼
red onion, thinly sliced
¼
cup crumbled cashew cheese
Coarsely crushed peppercorns
To make the candied walnuts:
Pour maple syrup over walnuts in a bowl and
mix until thoroughly coated. Then dehydrate at 105 degrees for several hours
until the walnuts become candied.
To make the cheese:
Process the cashews and
garlic through a juicer using the solid screen and mix in the other
ingredients.
To make the dressing:
Place all ingredients in a highspeed blender and
mix until thoroughly blended.
To make the salad:
In a large bowl, toss all salad ingredients
together including the walnuts and cheese and enough of the dressing to just
coat the leaves. Serve on salad plates and top with coarsely crushed
peppercorns.
Serves 6
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Can a Raw Food Diet Cause
Changes in Eye Color?
by Tom Billings, Living and Raw Foods
A side effect of raw food diets reported by some
people is that their eyes become clearer and/or their eye color may even
change. Also, it is fairly common for vision to improve somewhat as the
(internal) cleansing effect of a raw food diet improves circulation. I noticed
some years ago when I returned to raw foods (after eating cooked food for a
while) that my vision improved slightly and my eyes became slightly bluer. It
took several months on raw foods for the color change to be noticeable
(improvement in vision took only a few weeks to be noticeable).
This effect is briefly mentioned in some of the letters in the book (of
letters) compiled by Viktoras Kulvinskas ("Life in the 21st Century", see pgs.
244-245, 327-329 for mention of eye color changes; also see pgs. 42-45,
242-244). In the iridology section of Viktoras' "Survival in the 21st Century"
(pg. 199) the claim is made that "As the body regenerates, the iris changes in
color value... With healing, the natural color will return. The whole iris may
become lighter in color". [Note: both books are available in the SF-LiFE
lending library; members have borrowing privileges...
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here for the rest of the
story.
Nuts will NOT Make You
Fat
by Dr. Michael Greger, Vegetarian
Baby & Child
The latest data suggests that you may be able to
cut your risk of sudden cardiac death IN HALF, just by eating nuts twice a
week.[1] And studying 25,000 Seventh Day Adventists, those that ate just a
handful of nuts (1 oz.) five or more times a week lived two years longer!
Years onto your life and delicious--that's what vegetarianism should be all
about. So surround yourself with nuts (which shouldn't be hard in the
vegetarian community--just kidding! :)
Yeah, but aren't nuts fatty, though? Yes, but they're packed with good fats
(especially almonds, hazelnuts, macadamias and pecans). There is not a single
study in the entire medical literature that I'm aware of that failed to show
health benefits from nut consumption. Nuts are one of the healthiest foods on
the planet. So why doesn't everyone eat them every day? Because there is this
persistent myth that nuts make you gain weight...
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here for the rest of the
article.
Think kids won't eat
healthy school lunches? Researchers say that's not true.
by Steve Karnowski, Seattle Times
MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe getting schoolchildren to
eat healthy foods isn't a hopeless struggle.
Bucking some common notions, a University of Minnesota study has found that
school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and that
more nutritious lunches don't necessarily cost schools more to produce.
"The conventional wisdom that you can't serve healthier meals because kids
won't eat them is false," said Benjamin Senauer, one of three economists who
wrote the study.
Previous studies have concluded that students prefer fatty foods and that
healthier meals cost more to make, the authors noted...
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story.
Shake the Need for Salt
by Lauran Neergaard, LimaOhio.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Think cooking the perfect
Thanksgiving dinner was stressful? Something else is far more likely to raise
your blood pressure: salt hidden in all those goodies.
Don’t blame the chef. Much of that salt was hidden from him, too.
Americans eat nearly two teaspoons of salt daily, more than double what they
need for good health — and it’s not because of the table salt-shaker.
Three-fourths of that sodium comes inside common processed foods like stuffing
mix, gravy, and yes, pumpkin pie...
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story.
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