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We’ve long admired Representative Dennis Kucinich. For Living Nutrition vol. 16 he allowed me to interview him. Recently he revealed a surprising secret about his private life. Dennis Kucinich went vegan because of Crohn’s Disease!
Watch video: http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/42.html
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Get your sunshine and keep every cell in your body healthy! Expose as much of your bare body as possible. If you cannot get sunshine and you test low in vitamin D, try a tanning salon or a vitamin D supplement.
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Is Your Food Digesting or Rotting in Your Gut?
Eating in a manner whereby food does not digest completely will ruin our health. Eating in a manner which enables perfect digestion is the pathway to flourishing health!
by David Klein, Ph.D., H.D., Director, Colitis & Crohn’s Health Recovery Center
www.colitis-crohns.com
www.digestionperfection.com
Humans are provided with the senses and faculties to select and completely digest our most nutritious and biologically suitable foods. However, in our modern society we have departed from instinctual, simple whole foods and digestive maladies run rampant. Happily, with the help of some guidelines, we can correct our harmful eating habits and establish excellent digestive health.
The Joys of Healthful Eating
When we eat in a manner whereby everything digests completely, we derive outstanding results! When our natural foods digest completely, we can experience these major benefits and more:
• a clean internal bodily environment,
• a silent, unnoticeable digestive system,
• a clear mind and stable metabolism, unfettered by chemical imbalances caused by toxemia (a toxic blood stream),
• pleasant or no body odors,
• pleasant or no body waste odors,
• effortless, pleasant, regular bodily waste evacuation,
• freedom from most illnesses and strong resistance to environmental pathogens,
• the promotion of excellent, dynamic health, physical beauty and longevity.
The Miseries of Unhealthful Eating
When we eat unwisely, whether in our choice of food or in our manner of eating (we do have digestive limitations!), nutrients decompose in our gut via the action of bacteria. Under this scenario, fermentive and putrefactive bacteria decompose the food matter, weakening the intestinal tract, impairing nutrient absorption, defiling our entire body with pathological substances, impairing our mental functions and causing fatigue. This condition is known as “toxicosis” (general bodily toxicity or “auto-intoxication”) or, less formally, as “food drunkenness”; it impairs our health and eventually imperils our life. Indigestion (flatulence, belching, bloating) and foul bowel and body odors are just some of the unpleasant warnings signaling the beginning of illness.
Undigested protein (chiefly from meat, dairy products, beans, nuts and seeds) will readily putrefy (rot) in our warm gut, just as milk spoils at room temperature on a warm day. Putrefactive byproducts are highly toxic and carcinogenic. They include: methane, hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans (which yield the rotten egg odor when carried out by the methane gas), cadaverine, putrescine, ammonias, indoles, skatoles, leukomaines and host of other toxic and carcinogenic gases and substances. Just as hydrogen sulfide gas will decompose concrete, iron and steel sewer pipes, it will irritate and destroy the flesh inside our intestines and colon.
Under haphazard eating conditions, simple carbohydrates (from fruit) and complex carbohydrates (starches from grain products and white potatoes) are readily fermented by fungi and bacteria in the gut. The result is the production of alcohol and vinegar which is dozens of times more toxic than alcohol. These ravage bowel tissue and can cause painful ulcerations.
Furthermore, the overeating of slow-digesting fatty high-protein foods causes the stomach to secrete and retain copious amounts of acid. When this hyper-acidic condition occurs chronically, the stomach and intestines can become inflamed and ulcerated and the pylorus sphincter, which normally allows food to enter the duodenum, can become swollen shut. This typically leads to fermentation and putrefaction of the stomach’s contents, GERD (gastroesophogeal reflux disease), vomiting and great pain. Chronic inflammation and ulceration lead to cancer.
It is imperative to avoid operating our gut as a composting bin filled with odoriferous, rotting, acidic wastes at all costs! The toxicosis that results from indiscriminate, haphazard eating accelerates aging, causes disease, including gastritis, irritable bowel, colitis, Crohn’s disease and ulcers, and is the cause of most deaths! We don’t really want to endure chronic, incomplete digestion and toxic bowels. Sadly, most live this way and accept it as “normal.” Happily, there is a way to create perfect bowel health.
The Formula for Perfect Digestion and Superb Health
Via the science and fine art of selecting our natural biological foods and eating them correctly—i.e., only when we are truly hungry, alert and relaxed, in proper sequence and combinations, in quantities which do not exceed our digestive limitations or point of satiation, in their fresh, ripe, raw state and chewed to the point of liquefaction—we can enjoy complete, perfect digestion and all the wonderful benefits of a well-nourished and clean body!
Here are basic, time-tested, scientifically proven healthful eating guidelines for promoting optimum digestion and gut health.
Choose raw, fresh, ripe, organic, whole, vegan foods. Base your diet in fruits and vegetables and eat only those foods which are attractive to your senses, especially your sense of taste. Obtain enough calories from fruit to maintain sustained peak energy and internal cleanliness. Avoid animal-derived foods—they are poorly digested and toxic when cooked. If you choose grains and legumes/beans (neither are recommended, since they also digest poorly), select them in their whole state and either sprout or cook them lightly. If you choose to cook vegetables, light steaming is the least deleterious method; however, they won’t digest perfectly, either. Fashion a diet with close to 80% of the calories from carbohydrate, 10% from protein and 10% from fat. Deriving more than 10% of your calories from fat and/or 10% from protein will invariably exceed your digestive limitations, resulting in toxicosis and disease.
Follow food combining guidelines to a “t.” Eat fruit only on an empty stomach, alone or with leafy greens, celery and/or cucumber. Eat melons alone. Eat citrus fruits at least one-half hour before non-acidic sweet fruits. Starchy foods (squash, potatoes, grains and old carrots) combine well with all vegetables and bell peppers; they do not combine well with tomatoes or other acidic or sweet fruits, nuts, seeds and avocados. Fatty, high-protein foods (nuts, seeds and avocados) combine well only with non-starchy vegetables (greens and celery), cucumbers and minimal amounts of acidic fruits including tomatoes; they do not combine well with starchy or non-acidic sweet foods.
The best sequencing is fruit-and-greens meals during the day, then, optionally, a glass of raw vegetable juice followed at least one-half hour later by a dinner of vegetables with one fatty food, i.e., avocado, nuts or seeds. Note: it is not necessary and, in many cases, unhealthful to eat a fatty food every day. Furthermore, it is OK to have a dinner of simply more fruit and greens.
It is most beneficial to space meals as long as is comfortably possible. Assuming you are not so fatigued that you need to take a nap to restore your energy, a slightly uncomfortable feeling in the back of the throat and a dip in your physical and/or mental energies are the signs that it is time to eat again. Sweet, juicy foods, eaten in sufficient quantity, will quell hunger, rehydrate you and supply your caloric fuel needs. To put it simply, eat sufficient quantities of nutritious, simple carbohydrate-rich, whole foods—primarily fruit—to keep your blood sugar and hydration at a level which assures sustained physical and mental performance.
Eat one or two types of juicy, sweet fruits for breakfast, or have a glass of fresh juice made of fruit and celery and/or greens, or a smoothie made of the same. Follow that with different types of fruits for each of the following one to three meals, eaten with or without greens, celery and/or cucumber, taking them in sufficient quantity for satiation and sustained energy.
If desired, drink raw vegetable juice, then at least one-half hour later follow it with a simple salad of vegetables and fruit-vegetables such as tomato and bell pepper. If you include carrot in your vegetable juice, avoid having tomato with your dinner. If you desire a fatty food, have one to two ounces of nuts or seeds, or two to four ounces of avocado. The fatty foods can be salad additions in whole or blended dressing forms. Caution: it is generally imperative to avoid fatty foods if you are fatigued and/or experiencing illness. If you prefer a meal of more fruit and greens instead of vegetable juice and salads, that is generally a healthful choice—follow and trust your senses when they call for raw, delicious foods!
You Can Do It!
These guidelines may seem tedious in the beginning, but within a week or two they become easy and “first nature.” Listening deeply to the body’s signals and eating simple, whole-food meals are the keys. As we experience digestive ease and the great revitalizing benefits, this way of eating becomes simple and most pleasurable. So, dig in! Digestive maladies will soon become a thing of the past. You’ll love eating, your tummy will love you and glorious health will blossom forth!
For further insight, study Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s; Raw Revelation; Health Reporter Special Issue on Food Combining; The Raw Food Pearamid and Food Combining Chart; as well as back issues of Vibrance and Living Nutrition. These are available from the Living Nutrition Bookstore at www.livingnutrition.com/bookstore.html. Also see www.colitis-crohns.com and www.digestionperfection.com.
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My new website is up:
“Digestion Perfection”
http://www.digestionperfection.com
Dr. David Klein
Colitis & Crohn’s Health Recovery Center
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Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti. Let’s all help. This month Living Nutrition will donate $10 from each new Vibrance subscription and $10 from each Vibrance subscription extension toward Haitian earthquake disaster relief. Kindly subscribe at http://www.vibrancemagazine.com or please extend your subscription at http://www.livingnutrition.com/subscribe/login.php.
Together we co-create the compassionate world we wish to live in.
Thank you.
Dr. Dave Klein
Living Nutrition LLC Manager
Vibrance Executive Editor
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Living Nutrition’s first 2 Vibrant Raw Food Cuisine Shows with Chef Novalee Truesdell:
http://www.youtube.com/user/VibrantRawFoods
We’ll be bringing you a long series of shows covering every aspect of healthful raw food cuisine. Enjoy!
Dr. Dave Klein
Executive Editor, Vibrance Magazine
http://www.rawndelish.us
http://www.livingnutrition.com
http://www.vibrancemagazine.com
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Raw Health Talk this Tuesday:
“How to Avoid Colds & Flu & Thrive on a Vegan Diet in the Winter”
by Dr. David Klein with host Christie Czajkowski on TruthBrigade Radio
January 12 * 5-7 PM PST / 8-10 PM EST
Followed by 1-hour Live Text Chat at http://www.livingnutrition.com/chat.html
Dr. David Klein is a Hygienic Doctor, 25-year vegan and best-selling author who has coached 2,000 clients from the throes of crippling disease to vibrant health. Dr. Klein will present the best natural healing/health-promoting strategies for staying healthy and thriving on a vegan diet in cold winter climates. He will explode the myth of contagion and explain how we are the cause of our illnesses. It’s a matter of eating for internal cleanliness and high vitality and living a health-promoting lifestyle. Learn the causes of and purposes of colds, fevers and flu and the keys to keeping healthy each winter.
Details: http://truthbrigade.org/smf/index.php/topic,4934.0.html
Listen: http://americanfreedomradio.com/
Call in: 512-879-3805
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I will be filming the 1st episode of Living Nutrition’s Vibrant Rawfood Cuisine Show on Monday with Chef Novalee Truesdell. We’ll shoot many episodes for Youtube release, and you can find them on the Vibrance Magazine Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sebastopol-CA/Vibrance-Magazine/195009820276?ref=mf and at the Living Nutrition / Vibrance Magazine site http://www.vibrancemagazine.com. We’ll also make an instructional DVD this year. The videos and DVD will cover the gamut of healthful rawfood recipes from every category, drawing from our Raw ‘n Delish Vibrant Recipes book http://www.rawndelish.us. Stay tuned!
Dr. Dave Klein
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Dear Fellow Health Enthusiast,
Health is our birthright. But becoming and staying healthy takes work. Always remember: health is the result of consistent healthful habits. The more we practice, the healthier we become and the more joy we experience. Our gut, all our organs and each and every cell are always striving to improve themselves, completely heal and work perfectly in unified wholeness. When we cooperate with Nature, i.e. with body wisdom, and live healthfully, fulfilling all our biological mandates, healing and rejuvenation happen.
Let’s make healthful living our #1 endeavor in 2010, every day in each and every way. Here’s to your glorious health!
Dr. Dave Klein
Colitis & Crohn’s Health Recovery Center
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The Prime Requisites of Health
1. Love of Self 
2. Healthy Self-esteem
3. Passionate Love of All Life
4. Awareness
5. Intention
6. Inner Focus/Listening
7. True Knowledge
8. Pure Water
9. Pure Air
10. Sunshine
11. Warm Climate
12. Abidance by the Senses / Intuition
13. Graceful, Grateful, Respectful, Generous Attitude
14. Organic, Properly-combined Vegan Diet
15. Fitness and Posture
16. Security and Peace of Mind
17. Rejuvenative Rest and Sleep
18. Heart-centered Self Nurturing
19. Sharing of Love
20. Relaxation
21. Humor
22. Creative Expression
23. Emotional Flow and Release
24. Rhythmic Movement
25. Musical Indulgence
26. Simple Lifestyle
27. Communing With Nature
28. Gardening
29. Service — Living Your Life’s Purpose
30. Engagement in Self-improvement Challenges
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Twitter: @DavidKleinPhD
