MMmmmmm, June was a blissful month here at RawReform of sun, cherries, watermelons and?sweating ;) Read on for more info and to see what we have lined up for the rest of summer?
Favourite quote of the month: "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." -- Cicero

In this issue:

-A Few of My Favourite Raw Things?
-Win a $10 gift voucher from RawVeganBooks.com
-In Communicado
-Upcoming Raw Events
-Wheatgrass and Ocean Water
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A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE RAW THINGS...

Aside from the obvious raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, I decided recently to share some of my other current favourite RAW things, on YouTube?
This was the result?http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FoL1cGzx8_U (Click this link if you don't see the video embedded below... ;)

Thanks for all the feedback so far?yep?I definitely enjoy life in ?musical-world? ;) Back in the ?real? world, here are some of my other current favourite things, which I?ve been writing about on the RawReform E-Journal?

1. Lucuma Powder    
This has long been my favourite raw sweetener and recently I?ve been experimenting and making some amazing recipes with it? It?s made from a dried fruit from Peru, comes as a golden powder which is low glycemic and it tastes like SHORTBREAD?just divine?
Lucuma isn?t always easy to locate, but you can see more about it and order some to start playing with for yourself HERE?
Here is one recipe I made up recently that is the nearest thing to raw shortbread I?ve ever tasted and so simple ? just 3 ingredients?yummmmmmmmm?

Raw Shortbread Recipe

Ground Almonds
Raw Honey
Lucuma Powder

Just combine those three ingredients together in whatever quantities you like to get the consistency and sweetness you love and ENJOY ;)


2. Tongue Scrapers  
I have a new toy ? a recent addition to my collection and I really appreciate it? It?s pink. It?s hard. It goes in my mouth and moves across my tongue?oooooo, matron ;) ?don?t get too excited - it is?a tongue scraper? ;)
I am really appreciating this simple little detox tool?I?d never used one before I got hold of mine during my Juice Feast, but now I use it every morning. It helps remove any white-ish/yellow nasty stuff that has built up on my tongue overnight. I always use it now before I drink my first water of the day ? it makes SUCH a difference for me ? it feels so much nicer to drink the water in to that cleaner environment, rather than swallowing down any grim tongue detox remnants, back into my body?I love it and totally recommend getting hold of one ? they?re so cheap (just $7) and will last you YEARS, as they?re made of stainless steel?see HERE to order one...marvellous?


3. Rebounding  
I LOVE rebounding?anyone who has heard me speak at lectures about exercise will likely know that this is my favourite form of exercise?in fact it is one of my current conditions for agreeing to live permanently anywhere in the future ? there must be a rebounder available ;) another condition is that the location is by a large body of water?well, the universe being the blessed manifestor of dreams that it is, has brought forth both for me already in my current location and I LOVE it?bouncing about on a trampoline daily while gazing out over a serene, huge forest-fringed lake is so divine to me?and rebounding is such an incredible way to exercise ? there?s some crazy statistic that 5 minutes of rebounding is the equivalent of about 20 MINS jogging?wow?I know which one I?d rather choose?;) It you?re your circulation going, tones the muscles, pumps the lymph system, gets you sweating, is quick and easy to do at any time?and FUN :)?a wonderful exercise tool?
You can see more about the marvellous Needak rebounders HERE?

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WIN A $10 GIFT VOUCHER FOR RAWVEGANBOOKS.COM

Those yummy people at RawVeganBooks.com want to share the raw bounty with you. This month?s giveaway prize is a $10 gift certificate to use on anything in their online store?hurray :)
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email in YOUR answer to the following question, to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

?What strategy would you recommend for raw foodies to handle mainstream social functions like dinner parties and business meetings??

Social issues, as we all know, is one of the most challenging aspects of being raw for most people. So, let?s share some fabulous tips and make all our lives a little easier ;) The winner will b drawn at random from all the entries at the start of August and announced in the next newsletter...

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RAWREFORM UPDATES ? IN COMMUNICADO

The RawReform E-journal is now being read by people in over 30 countries worldwide daily? :O wow...predictably, most of us are located in Canada, the US, the UK and Australia, but a big HELLO to those joining in too from Brunei to the Solomon Islands, Poland to Pakistan, Malaysia, Venezuela and Morocco to Saudi Arabia, Barbados, Vietnam and beyond?WOW?what a global community of like-minded light beings ;)
If you?re not already receiving the E-Journal updates, YOU can subscribe by entering your email address in the box below. You'll get the messages emailed straight to your inbox every time I post something new (usually every other day or so? ;)  

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instead interest his patients in the care of their body through nutrition." -  Thomas Edison

What is wheatgrass?  It?s simple really ? just wheat!  But simultaneously, it?s complex. 

When sprouted and juiced, wheat poses no problems for coeliacs, or any of the approximately 12% of people thought to be allergic to wheat.  This is because sprouting removes the gluten, and for wheatgrass juice, we harvest just leaves and roots.

We humans use vast amounts of resources to grow our food.  Oil and water resource limitations will soon begin to curtail meat production.  It will become essential to use a smaller area and quantity of inputs for growing our crops, thus compelling us to adopt more vegetarian diets.  

Why would food scientists, or cooks, be able to produce better food than nature itself?  Instead of ensuring a regular supply of food that genuinely fulfils, our societies now produce denatured ?stuff? passed off as food but with depleted nutritional value. There are a variety of alluring tastes and textures? prices are claimed to be lowered, consumers rejoice and the governing bodies breath a sigh of relief! However, the ?on-costs? are not accounted for in the food costs.  In a country like the UK, this impacts the bill for the National Health Service (NHS) tremendously, because the food people are consuming simply does not keep them well. 

Obesity and diet related diseases account for over 40% of the British NHS budget.  The cost is rising and is debated by many, yet lasting solutions are sought or found by few.  The urge to eat is very often related to signals from the body that it needs some unsupplied macro or micro nutrient supply ? or maybe even just water. 

There are two feasible solutions to this situation here.  Increase expenditure (exponentially?) to ?repair? ill people OR act preventatively.  The former would involve extraordinary expenses and seems to make little sense, so the latter seems to be our best option.  This solution calls for fundamentally altered diets.

Life is mineral, a reality we often seem to forget or ignore, at our peril.  Minerals provide electrical impulses, and from that, every cell functions optimally. Minerals are essential for our health and well-being, yet most foods currently available are very mineral-depleted.

One great way to ensure you are receiving the full range of 90+ known minerals into your body is to drink wheatgrass grown in ocean water.
Tonic Attack wheatgrass is grown hydroponically indoors, thus using no root medium, and using artificial light and heat.  Our ?crops? go from seed to harvest in 2 weeks.
What do we feed them?  Ocean Solution, which is diluted seawater, providing a complete, balanced, supply of all the 90+ naturally occurring mineral elements.  Balance is the key to the sodium (salt/saline) fraction not being problematic.  Sodium is the first, and arguably, most crucial element plants ?imbibe?.  It drives the osmotic process that ?collects? all the other minerals needed.  Yet, this assumes that they?re all available and abundantly, whereas in reality, often they are not ? for soil grown crops. 

Wheat is one of very few plants which needs and can utilise all the 90+ mineral elements to build simple and complex nutrients, ultimately benefiting the green plant?s consumers. 

Ocean Solution is a big interest of mine, and it?s a mine of interest!  There is more information, including educational and illuminating articles at www.oceangrown.com. Much work was undertaken by Dr. Maynard Murray in the middle of the last century on this topic.  He sailed the oceans, observing minimal illness in sea animals.

Dr. Murray experimentally used sea solids (dried out seas where they?d become salt flats) to grow land-based crops.  His results, including the health benefits for animals, were amazing.  Sadly this was not embraced by the mainstream, which preferred to sell more profitable but less complete artificial fertilisers. This system of course helps ensure people return for some other product to fill each of the nutritional or health gaps that the previous one(s) left!

At Tonic Attack, we cut and juice all the wheatgrass leaves and much of the thick root-mat.  Crucially we juice both in a special slow-speed machine, thus preserving nutrients otherwise easily wrecked by motion and heat.  We then, uniquely, bottle the juice.  Traditionally wheatgrass juice has a ?shelf-life? of about 1 day, but, largely as a result of using the Ocean Solution to grow, we get 14 DAYS and hope to extend this soon. 

Thus we make wheatgrass available to those without the energy or time to either grow or daily harvest and juice for themselves.  Which is most people, it seems.   
Tonic Attack wheatgrass juice is also definitely ?raw? ? as raw as food could be!  No pasteurisation here?

Tonic Attack wheatgrass delivers all the nutrients ? proteins, enzymes, vitamins, and more, that our bodies need, naturally, thereby satisfying our ?Hidden Hunger?.  Furthermore, we fully digest them very quickly, strain the body less, and leave ourselves more energised and with longer waking hours. 

An article on my website, by Don Jansen, underlines this.  It is entitled, appropriately, ?Feeding the Hidden Hunger?.

Fundamentally, disease thrives in the absence of oxygen ? anaerobic conditions.  The vast proportion of what we eat is lifeless, having been ?over-treated? or ?cooked to oblivion?, and offering poor oxygenation for the digestive tract.  Chlorophyll ? the stuff that makes green foods green - is naturally rich in oxygen.  Its structure is identical to haemin, the key part of haemoglobin (our blood), other than for a switched iron and magnesium atom. 

Real food, real health, no gimmicks!

Is this wheatgrass juice a novelty?  No!  Make a machine or body with the full kit of parts and it will be durable and give pleasure!  Leave parts out, and watch it disintegrate, prematurely.  We can enable people and their health to be durable, not miserable and ?doctor dependent?.

Oliver Dowding runs Tonic Attack, shipping pre-bottled, fresh wheatgrass juice from Somerset, England. For more information, see www.tonicattack.com or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0044 (0)1749 812652.

To order some Ocean Grown solution for yourself, see HERE          . 
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Wishing you all the very best for a blissful summer of sun, satisfaction and romantic raw joy?

One love,
Angela. xxx

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