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This eWellness letter is an article discussing the safety and importance of

vegan live foods. It is unique in that it is an honest discussion of some of the

potential individual issues of fear, ignorance and rigidity unscientific

idealism in the live foods movement today, that potentially get in the way of

being really healthy on the vegan live food diet lifestyle. It is an article of

support to help people become successful and face the fear-based arguments that

one may come up against on a vegan live food diet.

 

 

Many of these issues arise because of lack of education on live foods and

listening to proclaimed experts who often have a few years in living the live

food lifestyle or lack much of a medical background, or are ego fixated to a

particular idealistic theory rather than being open to scientific inquiry.

 

From this mess arises the legitimate skeptic who because of his or her failure

on the live food diet and lifestyle begins to focus primarily on the problems

and not the solutions. My work in the past thirty five years is to constantly

see the issues and look for the solutions so people can be successful. My books

Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, Conscious Eating, Depression Free for

Life and Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine plus the work on B12 insufficiency, as

well as my forth coming book Spiritual Nutrition – the six foundations for

spiritual life and the awakening of kundalini – have given my clients

practically a 100% success rate on an organic, vegan, individualized to your

constitution, high mineral, low glycemic, well hydrated diet and balanced

lifestyle. It is from this context that this article is a reply to the fear

filled, but valid concerns of the skeptic.

 

The skeptics have touched on some important issues in the raw food movement. I

acknowledge the skeptics courage to speak up and challenge the trend of

unscientific idealism and ignorance that has led to a certain amount of

difficulty in the success of the live food movement. The skeptics position also

reflects the issues of fear and ignorance. Over the last thirty-five years of

clinical experience, seeing thousands of people on vegan and lives food diets,

my work has been to figure out specifically how to make a live food diet safe

and successful.

 

We must understand that the main reason for eating live food for small

spiritually advanced groups has been a focus on divine union, not longevity.

Examples of these groups are the Essenes, the ancient Rishis in India, advanced

Taoists, and the Mormons whose inner circle and spiritual leader Joseph Smith

were live foodists. For these people their healthy diet and longevity is really

by-product of a spiritual path. At this point, I’ve established basic

successful live food approaches in Conscious Eating, The Rainbow Green Live Food

Cuisine and Spiritual nutrition and the rainbow diet, that support spiritual

life and general physical and mental well being. It is my experience with

thousands of people, not just a few anecdotes, that we can be essentially 100%

successful on a live food vegan diet, which is the most spiritually powerful and

healing for the planet.

 

The key principle to the live food vegan life style is individualizing the diet.

To be successful one must individualize the diet according to one’s

constitution: some people need a higher protein source input, some need a lower

protein source input, some need higher fat, and some need lower fat. Everyone

needs a certain amount of short, medium and long chain Omega 3 fatty acids, in

the form of purslane, hempseed, alpanizon flos algae and golden yellow algae,

which are now clearly attainable on a live food diet. The second principle is

that a live, vegan, highly mineralized, high hydration, low-glycemic, organic,

diet with B12 supplementation is successful for 99-100% of the population. Those

two principles cover the whole thing.

 

The physical and mental suffering that skeptics unfortunately experienced are

classic symptoms of B12 deficiency. Based on my research, B12 deficiency is the

main problem facing vegans, in general, as well as live fooders. A B12

deficiency can lead to a number of chronic diseases and difficulties including

heart, nervous system, brain, as well as chronic fatigue, anxiety and

depression. One aspect is that B12 raises the homocysteine, a lack of which

makes one more susceptible to heart attacks and nervous system disorders. I

have pointed out these issues in my last two e-wellness letters. This is the

final key of knowledge that makes a live food diet very workable and safe.

 

Unfortunately in our live food movement and in the vegan movement we have

unscientific idealists who believe you shouldn’t have supplementation. They

are the ones the skeptics are complaining about. The ones who would rather die

than give up their theories of how it should be. The symptoms that the skeptics

had and that other people have suffered in the live food movement are classical

B12 deficiency symptoms. One of the most famous B12 deficiency cases is seen

with Johnny Lovewisdom. He was on a hard-core fruitarian diet and created a

fruitarian community in South America. It was a total disaster. Johnny

Lovewisdom suffered many of the same symptoms that the skeptics did. I

examined this B12 issue in many articles and I explore it in greater detail in

my new book “Spiritual Nutrition.†Even though I have been bitterly

attacked by vegan and Natural Hygiene idealists for suggesting that we should do

something as “unholy†as take a supplement, it is clear to me that that is

the solution to being vegan at this time in history if we do not want to be

lacto-vegetarians.

 

However, while I agree with the skeptic on the points mentioned, I object to his

comments when he is associating live foods with death. This is a classic media

fear technique. For example, there was a recent news report about the deaths of

three high school wrestlers who died after putting on rubber suits and riding

stationary bikes in a sauna to lose weight. Their deaths were linked to

creatine, which has an amazing safety record, rather than to dehydration. This

kind of logic results in false conclusions and unrealistic fear. Paavo Airola, a

lacto-vegetarian died at age 69. Can we, with integrity, say he died because he

was a lacto-vegetarian and took supplements?

 

People on any diet can bring imbalance to their bodies such as the deaths from

the high protein diets reported in the news a few years ago. People die from B12

deficiency (pernicious anemia), acute viral myocarditis, the flu, etc. It is

also definitely possible to activate “food trips†and anorexia on any sort

of diet. This is not the fault of the diet. It is the responsibility of the

individual and of those who create fear and simplified conclusions. Making

unsubstantiated guilt by associations amplifies ignorance and fear. Even

meat-eaters die from anorexia. My one contact (although I never saw him in

person) with such a death was a hard-core macrobiotic advocate who refused to

change his diet. These unfortunate and inexcusable deaths should be associated

with idealists and extremists, not with a thoughtful, common sense live food

diet. It is the extremists who have created an ego-self-righteous environment

where people hurt themselves and suppress reality as the skeptics point out.

 

The issue of supplementation is very interesting. As far back as 1936 the U.S.

Congress said that 99% of the population are deficient in minerals. In my

extensive clinical experience, I have not seen anyone, meat-eater or vegan, who

does not have some deficiency in minerals and doesn’t need some

supplementation. There is no diet in the world that doesn’t have deficiencies

because of the excess environmental and emotional stresses people face today

beyond anything we have known in history. My solution is the same as other

healthy leaders in the live food movement such as David Wolfe and Viktoras

Kulvinskas. The answer is the use of super nutrition and of some

supplementation.

 

The skeptic focuses exclusively on the unhealthy extremist spectrum of the live

food movement. We can instead acknowledge the thousands of healthy people like

myself (I have been on live foods for 25 years), David Wolfe. David and I

compiled a list over-forty, incredibly healthy people who have been on a live

food for twenty years or more. Why has the skeptic chosen to ignore Dr.

Gerson’s work of fifty cured cases of cancer written in the 1950s and Dr.

Szekeley report of 123,000 people healed on live foods in his Mexico clinic from

1940-1970? Why has the skeptic focused on the so-called live food “expertsâ€

who neither “walk their talk†nor even know how to “walk their talkâ€

while ignoring the legitimate information from people who are successful? My

books Conscious Eating and Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine and the “Conscious

Eating†courses at the Tree of Life make practical success at live foods

realistic and attainable over time if one puts in the appropriate self-effort.

Obviously I agree with the important issues Nazariah has raised of fear,

ignorance, false idealism, extremism, and confusing a health crisis with a

passing healing or detox crisis, but am offering more life affirming and

sustaining solutions.

 

The issue of protein that the skeptics bring up is a theory that was developed

by Frances Moore Lappé who developed the concept of protein combining. This

concept the skeptic recites is physiologically unsound and inaccurate. I believe

that as early as 1981 Frances Moore Lappé herself agreed that her concept of

protein combining was totally inaccurate. Paavo Airola in his book Are You

Confused points out and cites ten studies where people are able to live for

extended periods of time on 20 grams of protein per day – that is less than

two tablespoons of spirulina. Vegans and live fooders are able to get inordinate

amounts of healthy protein from protein concentrated food, besides nuts and

seeds, from sources such as spirulina, chlorella, bee pollen and hemp seed

protein concentrates. There are people who need very high amounts of protein

according to their constitution. These people do quite successfully when they

use these concentrated protein foods. They absolutely do not need dairy, fish or

chicken for protein. In fact, recent research has shown that vegetarian protein

is superior to flesh-based protein because vegetarian protein has certain

elements that seem to decrease insulin resistance.

 

This is new research I find fascinating. Up until now, such famous institutes

such as the Max Planck Institute in Germany, as well as the various nutritional

organizations and journals in the United States have all agreed that vegetarian

protein is equal to a meat-based protein. The American Dietetic Association says

that pure vegetarian diet contains twice the protein required for daily need.

The well-known British journal Lancet says that vegetarian protein is no longer

considered second class. The Max Planck Institute reports that vegetarian

proteins are superior, if not equal to meat protein. The Journal of Clinical

Nutrition says we only need 2.5% of our total calories as protein. When even the

conventional journals honor vegetarian protein as complete, why suggest fish

which is filled with mercury, PCBs, etc., which have been associated with a

variety of problems as I point out in detail in Conscious Eating and Rainbow

Green Live Food Cuisine? The other area to discuss is milk and dairy. It is

clearly true that the Essenes, as far as I and other researchers can tell, were

live food lacto-vegetarians. However in the context of the issues we face today

2000 years later this fact is not relevant. The issue of environmental pollution

makes it unwise to have dairy in any form. The use of dairy and fish – dairy

for B12 supplementation and fish and meat for protein supplementation – is

unnecessary, risky, and highly detrimental. In Conscious Eating and Rainbow

Green Live Food Cuisine, I discuss the neurotoxin and cancer dangers from

pesticides and herbicides, and genetically engineered food.

 

Why is this? Cooked dairy available in stores is unhealthy because of hormones,

antibiotics, genetically engineered BgH, pesticides, herbicides and it is

pasteurized and homogenized. The issue of pollution is intense. Cows

concentrate pollution and carry 5.5 times higher pollutants than vegetables. The

breast milk of mothers who are vegan has 1% the pesticides and herbicides of

non-vegans. The Chernobyl disaster points to the dangers of eating dairy which

no amount of fermenting can remove. Three months after Chernobyl, peri-natal

mortality in the Boston area increased 900%. This was traced to the fact that

concerned pregnant mothers were drinking a lot of milk (this includes goats and

organic cows as well). These animals were eating a lot of grass, which they do

obviously. Unfortunately the grass contained fallout from Chernobyl. This

radioactive I131 was poisoning the fetuses and children. This dairy came from

animals whose bodies had concentrated the radioactive toxins from the

environment.

Studies from Denmark show that milk from leukemic cows increased the rate of

children with leukemia. Another study showed that 100% of monkeys who drank milk

from leukemic cows got leukemia after one year. The cows were passing on

disease vectors in their milk. According to Robert Cohen at www.notmilk.com,

milk ranges from 633 million pus cells per liter in Florida to 236 million pus

cells per liter in Montana.

 

Now we have to look at the most important disease from ingesting animals and

animal products. We call it Mad Cow Disease. It is both hidden and not so

hidden. According to the Friends of the Earth Journal and also personal

communications, several autopsy studies in the U.S. show, that between 3 and 13%

of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are actually suffering from Creutzfeldt

Jakobs Disease (CJD). This is the human form of Mad Cow Disease. This is a

pretty serious statement. We deny that it actually exists in the U.S. and the

government is doing very little to stop it except to avoid reporting it. The

danger is alarming. It only takes one gram of diseased cow tissue--we’re not

talking about the nervous system or brain, which has the highest amount of the

prions--but just one gram of diseased tissue to infect a cow. Just one gram!

And there are many loopholes to the controls in the present system. For example,

farmers are allowed to feed calves cattle blood as a substitute for milk despite

the finding that blood can transmit the disease.

 

How can we continue to believe that U.S. beef is safe when more than forty

countries have banned import of American beef. This is significant. There is

an implication, according to the Friends of the Earth, that as many as 120,000

cases of Creutzfeldt Jakobs Disease (CJD), Mad Cow Disease, in the U.S. that are

excluded from the statistics. Getting accurate statistics is difficult because

the U.S. Center for Disease Control still refuses to make CJD a reportable

disease. It is a fact that our fish, deer and elk now have Mad Cow Disease. It

is spreading throughout the United States and our organic cows are not even safe

from it. This is what we do know: Anyone who consumes dairy is at high-risk.

 

As if this danger of Mad Cow Disease were not enough, there are many other

problems involved with dairy. Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine, research in the

Fungal/Mycotoxin Etiology of Human Disease vol. 2, 1994 cites milk as having 5

million pathogenic organisms per cup, eggs 37 million per egg, and fish and

chicken 337 million ounce. The average American diet is 750 million to 1 billion

pathogenic organisms per meal while the average vegan diet is 500 pathogenic

organisms per meal. This is a difference of up to 2 million times more per meal.

Ignorance and fear does not do well with facts, but here they are. One

interesting anecdote is that two of my live food clients who had perfect blood

on the dark field test showed up with blood filled with many pathogenic

microorganisms. I asked them both what they were doing that was different. Both

said they were drinking organic goat’s milk from a range fed goat. To complete

the spontaneous experiment I asked them to stop the goats milk. Three weeks

later, both of their blood on the dark field was perfect.

 

There are so many problems with dairy that Indian yogis that come from India

will not even drink the milk of the United States because they get sick from it.

Ayurveda recognizes that poorly prepared dairy products from badly treated cows

increases mucus and toxins in the system, clogs the nadis and turns milk into a

poison. In ancient times milk was rasa and was very healthy but today’s milk

is ama or toxin. Cows are generally mistreated; cows are given estrogens and

antibiotics that come into the system. Mentally the dairy industry has turned

the cow into a machine. It used to be that the cow was allowed to give milk to

its calf first – only the leftover milk was taken for humans. The dairy

industry removes calves from their mothers and slaughters the calf. The cow

suffers because she knows that her calf is going to be killed and the stress

causes toxins to be secreted in their milk. Cows are mistreated in many ways:

confined to pens, milked by machines, produced through artificial insemination

and genetically redesigned to produce more milk that is healthy for them. They

swallow hormones, antibiotics, fish and sheep parts and who knows what else.

Most of the milk today then, besides being pasteurized and homogenized, which

further weakens its life force, is a degenerated food filled with fear, the pain

of death and enslavement, with very little energy in it, very little love and

very little nourishment. Milk taken from an organically treated cow is still

going to have concentrated pesticides and herbicides and has the risk to being

exposed to the mad cow disease because it is a cross-species disease.

 

The last question that comes up is the question of longevity. Studies vary. I

am not familiar with the studies that the skeptics cite. However, I am familiar

with the fact that there are two principles here that are very important. One is

that we need to have different diets for different constitutions. For example,

a life-expectancy study done on 5000 people showed that people with blood type A

who regularly ate flesh, dairy or eggs usually died at the age of 61 of heart

disease or cancer. People with blood type A who lived on a basic vegan diet

usually lived about sixteen years longer. Longevity and constitution create a

significant variable.

 

Although human longevity studies are very difficult we know one thing for

certain the less you eat the longer you live. This second principle, which is

far more important, is seen in cross-cultural studies and recent studies since

1930 on all levels of life including mammals. This is the only thing we can

actually say about general longevity principles with any accuracy. It has been

established in all species, that when calories are cut in half, the longevity of

that species significantly increases. Why is this one point important? Because

when you eat live foods you naturally, easily, and without a sense of

restriction, achieve what now the top researchers of longevity are talking

about: calorie restriction. Why is this? When you cook food, you destroy 50% of

the protein and 70-80% of the vitamins and minerals, and close to 100% of the

phytonutrients. The result is that you need to eat at least twice as much cooked

food to get the equal amount of nourishment as on live foods. When you are on

live foods and you are eating adequately you naturally eat half as much to get

equivalent nutrition from food. You therefore achieve the concept of

calorie-restriction that the leading researchers are talking about today. I

repeat: calorie restriction is the only thing in the last eighty years that has

been consistently able to make any difference in longevity. It is irrelevant

whether you are a meat-eater or a vegan. This is the only thing we know. I

discuss this in detail in Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine.

 

In closing I want to sincerely thank the skeptics for their courage to speak

out. I pray that people will let go of ideologies and start to look at what is

the most effective diet. After more than 35 years of research, looking for the

best diet for spiritual life and general well being, I conclude that the most

appropriate diet for survival, well being, and spiritual life in a highly toxic

world is a personalized live food organic vegan diet, that is low-glycemic,

highly mineralized, and well hydrated. This conclusion is based on thousands

upon thousands who have lived successfully on a live food diet. It is also the

diet that creates the least amount of pain and suffering to the animal kingdom,

the least amount of chronic disease, and least ecological damage.

 

My work has been to not only find the best diet, but also to support people to

achieve this diet successfully. People need to take responsibility and follow a

more scientific way, rather than in an ideological way. The live foods way is

like a powerful horse, if you don’t bother to learn how to ride, you can fall

off. My message is “pay attention.†It is possible to be fully successful

on a live food diet for almost everyone. At the Tree of Life we have a variety

of Conscious Eating courses, apprenticeships in live food preparation and vegan

farming and a master’s program in live food vegan nutrition. Education is the

best antidote to fear and ignorance. As I wrote in Spiritual Nutrition and the

Rainbow Diet back in 1986, the art and science of spiritual nutrition requires

the process of self-study (trial and error) and artful intelligence. I encourage

all of you to become conscious and successful live food practitioners and not

succumb to ignorance and fear. I do not feel that the live food diet was the

historical diet of the masses. It was the diet of the inner spiritual circles of

the Essenes, the Taoists, the Mormons, and yogis. In these times, however, it is

the diet for the healing and transformation of the planet! It is the diet that

can save the ecology! And it is the most powerful spiritually transforming and

awakening diet on the planet for everyone. Because of our advanced food

technologies, transportation abilities, and consciousness, this is the first

time in history that the vegan Divine guidance of Genesis 1:29 can be put into

practice for the world community. Live food veganism is the diet of the Now.

 

Sincerely, Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H), Diplomat Ayurveda

 

 

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Hello Raw Soul: Thank you for this heavy duty article. I am going to

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