We’ve dulled ourselves
down with this toxic food
and food that’s not natural.
And when we bring back
the natural, we also
bring back the spiritual.
We invite in more glow
and more radiance and
we start to feel a sense
of something higher,
of something greater.
And the way I describe that,
and the way I phrase that,
is that we feel
something noble,
we feel a noble essence
in raw foods.
Welcome
beneficent viewers to
Healthy Living
on Supreme Master
Television.
This week
we feature the first
of a two-part interview
with David Wolfe,
a nutritionist, author
and lecturer who is
an expert on raw foods,
natural health,
beauty nutrition,
herbalism, chocolate,
and organic superfoods.
David is quite popular and
some of his celebrity fans
include co-founder and
chief executive officer
of Apple, Steve Jobs,
and Hollywood actors
Angela Basset,
James Caan
and Woody Harrelson.
For the past 16 years,
this accomplished individual,
who has a masters
in nutrition and
a law degree, has been
informing the world
of the benefits
of a raw food diet and
natural living through
over 1,750 live lectures,
CDs, DVDs and books.
Some of his best-sellers
include:
“Eating for Beauty,”
“Naked Chocolate,”
“David Wolfe
on Raw Foods,”
“Superfoods:
The Food and Medicine
of the Future”
and “The Sunfood Diet
Success System.”
He is the co-founder of
TheBestDayEver.com
Online Health Magazine
and is the founder
and president of
The Fruit Tree Planting
Foundation,
a non-profit charity
whose mission is to plant
18 billion fruit trees
across the globe.
Through
the Foundation’s efforts,
thus far tens of thousands
of fruit trees
have been planted
in North America,
South Asia, and Africa.
In our interview
we asked David
to discuss the advantages
of a raw food diet.
He began by defining
the term “raw food.”
What is raw food again?
It’s fruits and vegetables,
and nuts and seeds,
and seaweeds,
all raw and organic,
flowers, sprouts,
grasses like wheatgrass,
superfoods
and super herbs.
One of the great gifts that
it gives us, it allows us
to really begin to detect
what’s going on in our body
and it gives us a lot of
insight in that way.
Of course there’s great
nutrition in these foods,
and there’s wonderful
amounts of antioxidants,
vitamins and minerals,
and trace minerals,
and polysaccharides,
which are essential sugars
that heal us.
David Wolfe is well known
for his uplifting lectures
on how raw foods
can change one’s life
for the better.
Why does he feel
so passionate
about raw food?
Raw food has definitely
made me more open to
that infinite supply of love
that emanates from
all living things, and
really from everything.
It allows you
to tune into subtler forces
that are available to us.
It allows you
to tune into beauty,
and the beauty ethic,
and the power of beauty
and in transforming
our self and
in transforming others.
It tunes you
into the great depth of
the mystery of our world,
and the mystery
of the cosmos, which to me
is so incredible.
Because
our creator is so deep,
and so incredibly rich,
that it’s a mystery.
David is a firm believer
in the sanctity of life
and that our diet should
always reflect a respect
for all beings.
To bring the vibration
of this whole planet up
we have got to
stop this killing.
And it’s not just war.
It’s also what we’re having
for breakfast.
It’s not just there’s people
shooting each other.
It’s also we’re
shooting these animals
and we’re destroying
these noble life forms.
And we can very deeply
benefit spiritually from
removing ourselves
from that karma,
and opening ourselves
up to other choices:
vegan, vegetarian
and then beyond that,
raw food.
Raw foods feature
rich flavors and raw chefs
around the world
are continually creating
healthful new dishes that
replicate the taste of their
non-raw counterparts.
We can have raw coconut
cashew ice-cream.
Every flavor
you ever wanted.
Raw chocolate chip mint
ice-cream – no dairy –
it’s all made out of coconut,
and cashews
and pistachios
and you eat that
and you’re like, “Oh my!
This is incredible,
what is going on?”
And there’s no side effects.
So we get all those
goodies – no side effects.
According to the World
Health Organization,
globally cancer
accounted for
7.9 million deaths or
about 13% of all deaths
in 2007.
Countless studies
have demonstrated
that dietary choice
is a significant factor
in determining
the risk of cancer.
If we have a lot of sugar
in our diet,
if we have a lot of
runaway carbohydrates
in our diet, like
high fructose corn syrup,
what happens is
we tend to get
too much “yin” energy.
This is what the problems
are of civilization.
This tends
to feed into cancer,
it feeds into candida,
and we have got to
cut off that food supply,
by taking in rich
green pigmented foods –
green vegetables,
and green juices, and
green rich superfoods
like marine phytoplankton,
and seaweeds.
We begin
to bring back more of
the “yang” energy
that isn’t “sugared” out
and our body begins to
go into a healing process
that then allows us
to finally get a look at
what this cancer
really is all about.
Cancer feeds on sugar;
cancer is a process
of excessive oxidation
in our system,
immune system collapse;
raw food is a tool
that helps us
(to) spiritually reconnect
and in addition to that,
helps us to get the nutrients,
and the minerals,
the polysaccharides,
that help us
heal from cancer.
We now have an idea
about the goodness
of raw food, but
what about super herbs?
David Wolfe says
these plants can
both prevent and
address various common
health conditions.
The greatest herbs
in the world,
we call them tonic herbs.
It’s tonic, we can take it
all the time.
And therefore,
it’s preventative
and it’s curative,
if we’re already in trouble.
Those herbs, coming out
of Chinese medicine,
for example, and Ayurveda
and North America
and Central America
and South America
and Europe and Russia
and Africa and Australia.
Those herbs that we need
are just the best of the best.
So, what’s the best
of the best coming out
of Chinese medicine?
Reishi mushroom
(Spirit mushroom).
It doesn’t just grow
in China.
It grows in the forests
of Canada, I’ve seen it
in the forests of Asia.
It’s all over the place.
And you learn
how to use it,
making teas out of it.
And then
you can advance into
other tree mushrooms.
And the tea mushrooms
are the noble
herbal mushrooms
that gift us with
immune system power.
Let’s look at another one
and one of my favorites:
asparagus root.
We all know
about asparagus
but how about
the root of asparagus?
(It is) considered
in the top three
in Chinese medicine
and in Ayurveda.
So, we can eat certainly
the shoots of asparagus,
wonderful, but we can also
eat the root of asparagus
which activates
our immune system, it
activates our joint power,
it’s a wonderful tonic herb,
it generally is
an adaptogen so
it helps us adapt to stresses
of all different kinds.
We can grow that
in our garden
anywhere in the world.
Let’s look over
at Amazonia.
There we have
Cat’s Claw, known as
Unghi di Gatto –
it tastes great and is a
very powerful anti-viral.
Pau d’arco, is a
very powerful anti-fungal
to help us fight
these fungi conditions:
cancer has
a fungal component,
candida is a fungus,
the stuff on our skin
and splotches
and finger nail fungus.
Pau d’arco is
a very powerful remedy
and preventative
of those things.
Chu Chu huasi.
It rejuvenates our kidneys,
our reproductive power,
our adrenals,
and our lower back.
And then
we have another one:
Chanca Piedra ,
so those of us
who speak Spanish,
the “breaker of stones.”
So it breaks up
stone formations,
in particular
in our kidneys –
kidney stones,
liver stones,
stone formations,
and arthritis in our body.
So this is another herb
we can add in.
Ginseng is a root.
What’s interesting
about ginseng
is it accumulates
all these energies
over many years.
That thing might be
30 years old
but it has accumulated
all that wisdom
and knowledge.
And we have that image
in our mind of that great
Taoist immortal sage
who lives up
in the high mountains
of China,
and is a ginseng eater.
Because the energies
that we surround
that sage with:
the psychic insight,
the spirituality,
the meditation,
the oneness with nature,
all those energies are
in ginseng.
They’re part of it
so as you take that on,
it brings deeper wisdom,
deeper connection,
and all of it.
In addition to
how ginseng can enhance
our relationship
with the Divine, here are
some final thoughts
from David Wolfe about
how he sees raw foods
benefiting our personal
and spiritual growth.
My dear teacher,
Walter Russell, said to me,
“Genius is self-bestowed;
mediocrity is self-inflicted.”
The activation
of our potential
begins with this: “I can.”
It takes just as much energy
to believe you can
as believing you can’t.
One of the things
about these live foods
and this education
that we get is
it helps to focus on
our attention and
where our attention goes,
energy flows.
As we get healthier,
we hold onto
higher vibrations easier.
We can see grander visions
of possibility.
We can see grander visions
of our own work
and how we can
become more creative
in our own work.
We can access much more
of our capabilities
if we eat well.
We tell our body,
by eating well,
that we
believe in ourselves,
and that we have
high self-esteem, and
that we have the courage
to actually seek out
the best foods.
So we are kind of
informing our higher-self
that we are in the game,
that we’re ready to play.
And then as we develop
a clear consciousness
through healthy food
and healthy eating –
raw foods, superfoods,
the great herbs of the world,
living spring water –
then we start being able
to really access
our genetic capacity.
We are, each one of us,
an incredibly creative being.
We have the ability
to access the grand halls
of our imagination.
We have
an infinite capacity for
knowledge and memory.
Thank you David Wolfe
for informing us about
the power of raw foods
and encouraging everyone
to find the creative spark
within themselves.
May the people
of the world soon enjoy
ever more health, peace
and love from a shift
to animal-free diets.
Imaginative viewers,
please join us
next Monday
on Healthy Living
for the conclusion
of our interview
with David Wolfe
where he will share more
of his inspiring knowledge
on raw foods
and natural living.
For more details
on David Wolfe,
please visit:
www.DavidWolfe.com
Books, CDs, and DVDs
by Mr. Wolfe
are available at
www.LongevityWarehouse.com
We appreciate
your company
on today’s program.
Coming up next is
Science and Spirituality,
after Noteworthy News.
May love always vibrate
in the hearts of all beings.