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LATEST UPDATE 1/28/2012:

In 2009 and 2010, Dave the Raw Food Trucker experienced a cancer remission, full kidney recovery and complete diabetes healing using the “rainbow diet” nutritional program created by Dr. Gabriel Cousens. Dave lost almost 200 pounds and was able to return to work.

In 2011, Dave the Raw Food Trucker suffered a heart attack.

Now, in 2012, Dave has recovered from his heart attack and is once again promoting a mostly raw lifestyle. He will be coming out with a book within the next two years and will have products, services and more information at that time.

The videos below of Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Dave’s inspiration, may help explain the diet Dave used. Thousands of people have experienced Dr. Cousens’ diabetes cure and now live a medication free life.

Another great benefit of Dr. Cousen’s diet is the normalization of weight. Again, Dave lost 200 pounds on the diet. Currently, under the tutulage of Dan McDonald a raw food “liferegenerator,” Bill Barlow lost 90 pounds in only 4 months on the green juice diet. Bill eats all the fresh, raw vegetables he wants, as did Dave.

(Note: Dr. Cousens is a medical doctor, and as such, can presribe and recommend medical treatments. If one is seeking to lose weight or regain health, it is highly recommended that you do your own research and read Dr. Cousens’ books and other fully qualified medical authors in full, and consult with a credentialed professional.)

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DAN THE MAN – DAN MCDONALD LIFEREGENERATOR
RAW GREEN JUICE RECIPE
with DAVE THE RAW FOOD TRUCKER & BILL BARLOW

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Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine - By Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. This book has the recipes that helped Dave eliminate his diabetes.

Recipe for Green Juice – Great for Dieting and Losing Weight

This is the original green juice recipe that Dan the Man and Dave the Raw Food Trucker used back in 2009. Dan is now a popular raw food hero and strong proponent of fresh, live green juice. He believes in the natural healing and diet benefits of raw fruits and vegetables.

These ingredients are what Dan and Dave used to make 3 gallons worth of juice at once. This is an ULTRA LOW-glycemic juice that Dan and Dave credit for helping cure his body of Type II Diabetes & Stage IV Colon Cancer.

Dan, Dave and Bill are ALL about having their produce be 100% organic. Just do the best you can!

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* I n g r e d i e n t s  *
* F R E S H  R A W  D A R K  G R E E N  L E A F Y  J U I C E  *

More Recipes? 10 Green Juice Recipes You'll Ever Need - This is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to green juicing for both beginners and advanced juicers. It teaches you everything you need to know and understand to start and maintain a healthy and fulfilling green juicing journey. It highlights the common mistakes to avoid and ways to stay motivated after the initial excitement wears off. It comes packed with the ONLY 10 juicing recipes you will ever need and with suggested modifications, special benefits and best uses for each recipe.

— 5 bunches Spinach (w/ stems intact; not just the leaves)
— 2 bunches Red Chard
— 3 bunches Collard Greens
— 3 bunches Kale
— 4 bunches Cilantro
— 1 bunch Fresh Basil
— 4 bunches Beet Greens (Dave ONLY juices the greens of the beets & NOT the actual beets, as he’s still recovering from the diabetes. For those not dealing w/ diabetes, feel free to juice the beets!
— 6 Red Bell Peppers
— 4 Yellow Bell Peppers
— 2 heads Fennel
— 4 heads Celery
— 12 Cucumbers (unpeeled if organic; peeled if inorganic)
— 2 dozen on-the-vine Tomatoes
— 3 heads Broccoli
— 1 pound Baby Bok Choy (or 1 bunch Bok Choy)
— 1 bunch Mustard Greens (use a smaller amount if the flavor is too strong)
— 4 bunches Parsley (2 Regular, 2 Italian)
— 1 bunch Asparagus
— 1 large Fresh Aloe Leaf (inorganic ok; organic is rarely available…also, only juice the lower portion of it & always juice a bit & taste, juice a bit & taste, as it can be VERY potent)
— 1 bottle of E3Live Algae (Blue Green Algae)
— Rainbow Light Advanced Systems Digestive Enzymes (to help control gas, especially when you first jump into a program like this! If you can’t find this brand, look for a type that’s raw vegan & whole-plant sourced)

* IMPORTANT – Whatever you do, be SURE a diet is right for you by checking with your physician, or at least reading up information from a bonafide DOCTOR. There are books referenced by Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D., here, to start with. *

Dave also added Hallelujah Acres Barley Max (Barley Green Powder)

*Dan added a couple more ingredients,
picked fresh from the garden!*
— 1 bunch wild Lamb’s Quarters
— 1 bunch wild Plantain

* B e n e f i t s *

— Plantain ~ Moves the lymphatic system: Pulls mucus, etc. out of the body
— Tomatoes ~ For delicious flavor!
— Aloe Leaf ~ Soothes the GI tract, especially if there are ulcers and/or inflammation!
— Broccoli ~ Some call it the “answer to cancer” but what do you think?

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WHAT TO DO WITH THE PULP?

Cure for Diabetes Book by Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. - Dr. Cousens goes in depth on how to cure your diabetes with a very special and delicious diet.

Here’s a list of things you can do with the pulp remains:

* Make delicious broth for soups
* Broth for cooking sprouted grains, rice, etc.
* Broth for a delightful “vegetable tea”
* Use pulp to make nutritious cookies, muffins, cakes
* Pets love simmered pulp leavings – delicious! : )
* Added to home made pet food
* Excellent Compost for your cozy bin of worms (they love it : )

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Enjoy!

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Notes:

Some people believe that many people no longer have all the digestive enzymes they need and cannot simply digest all the nutrients they need. People crave more food because they’re not getting what they need. Today’s food in cans, jars, bottles and boxes have lost all their enzymes.

About Juice Feasting
“After starting a juice feast, a lot of women who are post menopausal regain their periods after day 10 and 22. Raw juicing can bring your body back to where it really belongs.”

SUMMARY OF THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED DAVE AND DAN:

** The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
** Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine Gabriel Cousens
** There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program Gabriel Cousens
** Gabriel Cousens, MD: Rainbow-Green Live-Food Cuisine
* Conscious Eating: Second Edition Gabriel Cousens
* Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples

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Raw Food Restaurants

— Euphoria loves Rawvolution Cafe & Retail Store —
2301 Main St. (btwn Yoga Works & Urth Caffe)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Open daily 11AM – 9PM
Visit http://bit.ly/15M0qF for the menu…

**PLUS!! Rawvolution offers NATIONAL OVERNIGHT DELIVERY to anywhere in the continental US, as well as LOCAL delivery in LA & NYC. Check http://rawvolution.com for details.

— Juliano’s Planet Raw —
609 Broadway Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Mon-Fri:10AM – 10PM
Sat-Sun:10AM – 11PM

— Leaf Organics —
in LA (Culver City) & Sherman Oaks
visit http://bit.ly/eSQkj for location details

— Au Lac Restaurant —
16563 Brookhurst St.
Fountain Valley, CA
visit http://bit.ly/IJ2jk for details

— Café Gratitude —
in many locations!
San Francisco, Berkeley, San Rafael, Healdsburg, and in the Oakland Whole Foods!
visit http://bit.ly/IkveG for location details
visit http://bit.ly/5kNle for menu

**IN WASHINGTON STATE**

— Chaco Canyon Organic Café —
4757 12th Ave. NE (@ 50th St.)
Seattle, WA 98105
visit http://chacocanyoncafe.com for details

— Thrive —
1026 NE 65th St. (@ Roosevelt Way)
Seattle, WA 98115
visit http://generationthrive.com for details

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Juice Recipes for Healing *
Fasting Juice Recipes *
Vegetable Juicing *
Vegetable Juice Recipes for Weight Loss *
Raw Vegetable Diet *

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* B e n e f i t s * according to Dan the Man

— Red Chard ~ High in betacarotene

— Collard Greens ~ High in phytonutrients

— Kale ~ Has the highest known level of phytonutrients in it that are digestible by humans (over 2x the level of spinach!)

— Beets ~ Beet green leaves have 2,000x the level of Vitamin K in them than the actual beets, so that’s why its worth it to Dave to buy them just for their greens!

— Bell Peppers ~ Great for flavor

— Celery & Cucumber ~ Function well as a hydrating juice base

— Tomatoes ~ Dave likes them because of the lycopene and chooses not to believe what they say about having to cook tomatoes in order to get more lycopene, for if you’re cooking tomatoes, you’re destroying the very enzymes that your body needs to digest the lycopene! What good is ingesting more lycopene if you can’t adequately digest, assimilate & utilize it?

— Aloe Leaf ~ Incredible for the cardiovascular system!

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i don’t know if it’s just me or other people as well, but i’m utterly disarmed, charmed and bewitched by the raw life style in the videos below.

I truly believe these wild greens and fresh organic raw fruits and vegetables were exactly what the child in me would have craved once upon a time. Life would have been incredibly different with such a dreamy, lovely, idyllic way of living.

Ka Sundance (Daddy of the Raw Food Family TV Show) and his family moved to Costa Rica via Thailand, Great Britain and Germany most all the while living on raw foods even while on planes and trains. And with 4 children in tow! :O

PS: Ka explains how Costa Rica is not perfect… So i won’t pine for Costa Rica. After all, home is where the heart is. We can bloom where we are planted.

So just had to share this little playlist i made, below. It would be nice to know if anyone else was touched in the heart by this as i was. It struck my most visceral chord down to my most primal being.

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Thanks to YummyDelicious.com : )

So What’s the Problem with “Dead Food?”
Dead food is devoid of natural enzymes and other living factors that boost bioavailability of nutrients and enhance nutrition. Living foods are known by every past culture to even have medicinal qualities. As Hippocrates, the most famous physician of all known times said, “Let food be your medicine, and let your medicine be food.”

Animals and Dead Food
Animals that have been fed strictly “dead” foods are much more likely to come down with illness and disease at an earlier age than animals fed a natural, raw food diet. Cats fed raw meat recovered from illness while others with similar illness did not fare so well when fed cooked, or dead food.

Over 35?
Most healthy people can eat cooked foods with little problem. But, after the age of 35, raw foods can really be a boon to help stay younger and healthier longer, especially is they adhere to the “less is best” philosophy.

Nevertheless, those younger than 35, eating raw foods can reap tremendous rewards and benefits to their future health and constitution. However, it’s very hard to resist all the processed and fast foods that tempt with addictive and tasty spices and additives.

If you can increase your consumption of “living foods,” you will be doing yourself a big favor. And, if you can eat salads, you CAN eat raw or living foods.

Hints, Tips and Tricks
Here are some hints, tips and tricks to aid in successfully integrating Living Foods into the diet. This will help you ease through the transition more comfortably.

1. Chew thoroughly. This will help aid in the digestion of all those nice plant fibers and help prevent indigestion.

2. Juice or Blend. This way, you get to drink something absolutely delicious while getting a nice selection of raw goodies without all that chewing.

There’s a natural tendency for many people to chew quickly and eat on the go. With cooked foods, this is more easily accomplished.

However with raw foods, this does not work the same. It is not necessarily good for your digestion to swallow raw foods whole or partially chewed. Therefore, juicing or blending, especially in the beginning, can really help chew for you in the beginning. Children especially love blended raw juicy smoothies, shakes drinks.

3. Buy Organic and Local. Organic fruits, vegetables and grains are used by the finest gourmet restaurants in the world. Why? Because they taste absolutely delicious when compared with their factory farmed counterparts.

So why shouldn’t you reap the rewards of the superior taste and nutrition of organic? The richest people on Earth eat it. And so should you. The better it tastes, the more you’ll eat. Raw, that is. : )

Another factor to consider regarding “organic” is that today’s ordinary factory farmed grocery fruits and vegetables may be beautiful to look at, but devoid of the magnificent flavors and nutrition inherent in their heirloom predecessors of long ago.

Naturally farmed fruits and vegetables using natural compost and healthy manure from hormone free and organically fed animals is MUCH more likely to contain valuable and vital nutrition in higher quantities.

4. If Necessary, Start Gradually. A nice, gradual start and introduction to Living Foods will help you acclimate to the new flavors and consistency of living foods. Feel free to mix living and “dead” foods so that you become acclimated to “raw” over a period of time.

If you are adventurous, you can start with raw juice fasting. However, this normally seems to work best when one is driven by other motivations such as poor health or sports competition. It takes considerable will power and knowledge to adhere to juice fasting.

5. Don’t Give Up! As you eat more and more living, raw foods, your mood and health will change for the better. It will become easier and easier. And soon, you’ll be craving delicious salads and raw goodies because they taste fantastic, look beautiful and become increasinly delicious to your fresh, clean tastebuds. And, your body will love you for it.

Protein
Did you know that spinach, collard greens, English peas, green beans, lentils, beans, seeds and nuts, grain germs and a few other vegetables contain all 8 of the necessary amino acids (protein) that the human body needs?

A wisely planned vegetarian diet can provide all the necessary nutrients to sustain a beautiful and healthy life.

B12
Some say that vegetarians can suffer from Vitamin B12 deficiencies. If this is your case, you can take a sublingual form of B12 to supplement your diet.

However, this does not occur in all cases. Many vegetarians have perfectly adequate amounts of B12.

Organic vegetables may contain the beneficial bacteria that help provide B12 in the gut. Some vegetarians will eat eggs or raw dairy products to supplement.

Consider the Manatee
An interesting animal is the manatee. These very large and lovable sea mammals can live very healthily and successfully on specially grown romaine lettuce, (no chemicals or preservatives allowed!) cabbage, greenleaf, iceberg lettuce and spinach. For treats, they get occasional grapes, apples, carrots and sweet potatoes.

Who doesn’t like sweet? : )

In the wild, they strictly live on ocean greenery.

They grow to be quite massive and derive all their protein, vitamins and minerals from their vegetarian diet. Living plants are chock full of the highest quality vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber and valuable enzymes.

Be like a Manatee… Beautiful, Happy, Well Nourished, Healthy, Loving and Strong with Living Foods. : )

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