Doreen's Intro

[Guest guest]

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Hello, my name is Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan. I've been living in

Yisra'el for 21 years. I was 24 when I arrived. I'll let you do the

math yourselves.

 

I'm happy to be among you.

 

I live in close accordance with the Natural Hygiene recommendations,

as described by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond in their books. I was

astounded by the wisdom contained in those books when I first read

them, and adopted the way of life. My husband grew up with those

principles, actually. His mother was very ill with a stomach ailment

when he was young and was sent to a rest home. There she was put on

what is essentially the Natural Hygiene diet, after a few weeks of

juice fasting. It saved her life. Not being able to keep up with

both healthy food preps for herself and ordinary ones for the family

(and I guess not really wanting to), she announced that everyone in

the house was going to get healthy food. So, my husband was raised

on a Natural Hygiene diet, as was his two brothers. My husband is now

63 years old and still weighs exactly what he weighed when he did the

commando's and frogman courses in the army, i.e., 63-64 kilos. He

still climbs like a billy goat too and loves to go hiking. He and our

son climb the beautiful olive, fig, almond, and pomegranate trees

that grow wild in Tzfat and bring down buckets full of fruit and

nuts. Grapevines abound in Tzfat as well, and the clusters of grapes

on the venerable old vines are huge. Our daughter is also vegetarian –

proof positive you can live on the diet, although she has to watch

her iron levels, as they tend to dip.

 

I've learned a good deal about health from my husband, my M-I-L,

vegetarian and health conscious friends, and from study. I'm always

learning more. Sharing what we know, in addition to seeking like-

minded companionship is why I've joined the group.

 

Some of the friends I've learned the most about vegetarianism and a

healthy, holy way of life are the people known as " The Black Hebrews "

who came to live in Israel from the US. I wholeheartedly recommend

you visit their site and get to know a bit about that awesome (I

don't use that word much, but it fits in this case.) community of

people. Their site is:

 

http://www.kingdomofyah.com/

 

As I mentioned briefly in my post about kuzu, I live in the

incredible town of Tzfat in Israel. Links to the sites my hometown

are:

 

www.safed.co.il -and-

 

www.zfat.co.il.

 

There are many vegetarians and health conscious people in the town.

There are three health food stores in Tzfat, a town of about 30,000.

I think that's pretty good, per capita.

 

There is a marvelous school here for natural health according to the

principles of the doctor Maimonides (The Ramba " m, after whom so many

hospitals are named), as understood in light of medical and

nutritional findings since his time, a thousand years ago. There's a

rest house and organic garden on the premises. Their courses are very

reasonably priced. I think they may offer correspondence courses.

Their web site is:

 

http://www.rambam.co.il/

 

Just a look at the photo album of the place is worth visiting the

site.

 

We keep a strictly kosher vegetarian home. That makes things a lot

easier, as I do not have to keep two full sets of dishes, flatware,

pots and pans. Kashrut is not a vegetarian way of life, but

vegetarians often make good use of kosher products when looking for

products that do not have animal derivatives in them. Someone here

mentioned Ko-Jel, as an example. If anyone has questions about

kashrut, vis-a-vis vegetarianism, please ask.

 

Guess that's about it for now.

 

Thank you for having me among you.

 

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Yisra'el