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Vol.2 iss. 17 Vaccination for children - Good or dangerous

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:49:10 +0100

First of all, I want to say that we are no doctors and have no a background in western medicine or something like that.
This article is meant to communicate our beliefs and the outcome of our research only. We do not intend to tell you what you have to do or not.
You are responsible yourself to make good choices.
What we can offer you is our personal view, our belief.
Here is what we do: We do not vaccinate our children for several reasons.
As Benny is our oldest (he is 9 years) and our “raw food journey” just started 6 years ago, we where so different when Benny was a baby.
You have to know that Katie and I were so young when we became parents. We met when Katie was just 18 years of age, and we had our first child when Katie was 22.
We felt dependent on doctors (with a weird and weak feeling in the stomach already) at that point in time as we didn't know any better.
So Benny got some shots when he was a young baby, and he heavily reacted to them, as I know I did as well when I got the shots.
But since we are on raw food (almost 6 years ago) none in our family has had any vaccinations.
1. There is no real proof that vaccinations work anyway. I have heard and read about many cases, where kids got the shots and suffered from the diseases they have been made “immune” against later on. So they not only got the shots which have been proven to do terrible damage to the immune system, but they had no protection at all.
2. The side-effects are so strong that sometimes they can be worse than the disease itself. Not only do some of the vaccinations work in a way that they infect you with the real virus, so the little bodies get totally stressed to fight something that was not there before, but there have been many, many cases in which other diseases have appeared as side-effect of the vaccination, some of them with death as final result.
3. The side-effect of the vaccination itself. Some effects can be so strong that people have reported to get in shock and suffer long-term damage as direct results of the vaccination. Damage that is effecting them up until today and for the rest of their life's.
4. The unclear structure of pharmaceutical industry, government and the “gods in white” medical guild who gets paid by the pharmaceutical lobby to prescribe and give the drugs. As long as this structure is not clear and transparent, and billions of dollars can be made with fear and disinformation, you have to doubt everything you have been told from doctors and government. They are the puppets of the pharmaceutical industry.

In addition to these 4 reasons I want to mention that we have been traveling the tropics for a long time, together with our little children. This makes things even worse for people with doubt and fear.
One more reason to do all these vaccination is for protection.
It is so funny and fits perfectly in our modern way of thinking being separated from our intuition and mother earth, that we want to believe that some god in white gives us the magic pill, that will heal us from diseases and protect us from all further dangers. We are weak victims without power and knowledge if we believe in this picture the government and pharmaceutical lobby wants you to believe in!

As we travel countries with malaria, dengue, millions of bugs insects and other parasites a lot of people do ask us if we take for example malaria prophylaxes to protect ourselves, and what our experiences are regarding doing this with small children and infants.
Our answer is: None in our family has ever taken any chemicals, drugs, pills or prophylaxes to prevent diseases. None in our family has been sick at all since we went raw.
You see that is the point. We so desperately want to help you to take the power back to yourself. Back where it belongs.
You do not need the doctors and pills. They do not help you and you do not need any help, as you have everything you need to restore and maintain perfect health.
(Do not get me wrong. Doctors are great if you have an accident and break your bone. We need their knowledge and wisdom in these extreme situations. But only then. In all other circumstances can we and should we take care of ourselves in a responsible way!)
If you eat a healthy diet, do exercise, are in contact with Mother Nature every day and look for your mental and emotional well-being, there is nothing you have to be afraid of- and in our belief and experience there is no need for vaccinations then, as your body can take care perfectly care of itself.
That is really all you need!
This will help you to get in deep contact with your source and restore not only health but also trust, which is what is missing so much in our world.

We do not fear any anything as we take care of ourselves to the best of our abilities.
We allow ourselves to be and create without limitations or fear. We also take responsibility for our life and our health.
This is the key success to health and why you do not need vaccinations, doctors or drugs.
This is our belief.

Vol.2 Iss. 16 What can I do to raise my children healthy, but not 100% raw?

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:46:35 +0100

What can I do to raise my children healthy, but not 100% raw?

We see that there are many parents out there who don't want to raise their children 100% raw, whether this is because of your circumstances or because you simply are more comfortable with this solution.

We ourselves did not live 100% the last months, eventhough this is changing again. (Please have a look at this video I just uploaded TODAY. It is called "Rawfoodfamily food diary August 2010" http://www.therawfoodfamily.com/blog/the-raw-food-family-food-diary-august-2010-127 )
The point here is: It is absolutely NOT necessary to try to fit your family into this little box called raw food in order to experience super health. This box can be so small and unflexible.
And: It is all just a concept.

I think we can agree that eating a high percentage of raw food is something that does help to increase energy and health. And that you can also heal and reverse all sorts of diseases with raw food is also evident. Our personal family history gives proof to that. But the percentage is something that varys so much from person to person.

You also need to take it easy. You will help no one if you set up so incredible high standards and experience failure all day long. This will produce frustration, anger and guilt.

Better you understand and accept where you are right now, and make slow and small but persistent steps in the direction you want to go!
Most of all: Enjoy the ride! Enjoy the food you eat. Allow your children to enjoy it as well.

Do not judge yourself. You do not have to, as nothing ever stays the same. It changes.

So here are some things you can do to raise your kids to be healthy:

~ You can at least give them just raw food sweets. Let's say you decide you have cakes, ice cream, cookies, chocolate etc. in raw food form, and then you will make a dramatic and positive impact on your child's health.

~ You decide that you have raw food at home, but allow your child whatever they want when you are not home. Children are clever and they will learn to notice the difference in how they feel.

~ Stop eating animal products and explain to your child about the animal kingdom and how they suffer giving their life to us.

~ At least stop eating/drinking cow products and use just unpasteurized goats milk or cheese. After 4 years of the children being 100% raw, we wanted to offer them goat's milk to see if they liked and needed it. They all tried some and I didn't notice any unwanted reaction to it. Raw goat's milk has a lot of important nutrients and is much easier to digest for us than cow's milk.

~ Stop cooking meals with fast food ingredients. When your child is really hungry offer them a salad first.

I have a friend who is raising her child on raw food. Her child has to go to nursery because she is a single mum.
Her daughter has one cooked meal a day there, yet is still the healthiest child in the group!!
So as you see, there are options. There are ways and possibilities you can choose to raise your kids in a healthy way, yet still not on a extreme 100% raw food diet.

Of course I'd love to everyone raising their children on a high raw diet, but as I mentioned before: Don't get stressed out. Don't focus too much on the percentage of what you eat. Be with your children, feel with them, eat with them - live and love with them.

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Vol. 2 Iss. 15 How to support your children to make healthy choices

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:44:11 +0100

We all want our children to be healthy and happy. When they are young we have to make some decisions for them. Especially when it comes down to the diet, we take a huge responsibility for developing healthy eating structures. The first years of a life are very important to establish these hopefully healthy patterns.
But the older our children grow, the more we need to let them make their own decisions.
And sometimes this is the hardest thing to do as a parent. Supporting our children to find their own way does take a lot from us.

This works fine as long as they stay “on track”. Or what we consider as the “right track”.
If you see your kid making a bad choice, giving in to some strange peer group pressure, it is so hard to hold yourself back and let them experience the fault and the consequences (Of course not when they want to touch a pot with boiling water). In order to be able to make such decisions, they need to make some bad ones and learn from it.
In our belief this is the only way to support our children to learn to make healthy decisions.

There is nothing wrong with a bad decision. The very interesting question is more about how you deal with such an experience.
Please ask yourself this.
What are your consequences??
We need to trust our kids. This is the main message here.
We need to trust our kids, that they will find their way. They will walk their way in any way, but the more we support them with trust, the easier they will walk it and become happy and healthy adults.
The easier they will build up confidence to make a decision (even against peer group pressure) and stick to it.
They will learn to trust their own feelings regarding a topic and not what the strong leaders of their peer group have to say, or even YOU have to say.
We want our children to be strong! Strong enough to be able to make good decisions. So let your kids learn it from an early age.

This is one aspect I do not like so much about the western school system. Children are not asked for their opinion, for their interest. The teachers have to stick to a system, somebody invented at some point in time. It is about reproducing data, following strange rules in a streamlined way.
It can be hard for our kids to really stay in contact with their inner guidance system that always tells us what is right and wrong.

But we as parents can do our part to support and strengthen our kids!
We need to lead by example.
How do you deal with bad decisions?
How often do you do the right thing?
How delightful do you enjoy your greens and veggies?
How much TV do you watch?

These are important questions you need to answer in order to be the best support possible.
But even if you are not living up to your own expectations, there is no problem. It's ok!
As long as you really work on yourself and try to change things for the better your kids will see that.

This is all you can expect from yourself. This also all you can ever expect from anybody around you, including your children!

Be the change you want to see in your children.
And the last aspect is to simply take it easy!
We need to allow ourselves and our children to make mistakes, and still be in love with us.
This is what we need to teach our children, because this is the emotional space in which we can change our actions for the better.
When we start to blame ourselves for not being that perfect rawfooder, that successful ever-smiling human being with no problems, that mum or dad, we separate ourselves from what we are right now.

This makes it hard to change. We spin around in circles feeling bad about this specific characteristic.
We are what we are right now, and this is good.
As I said before: The only thing you can ask yourself for is: Work on yourself to become better.
A mixture of all the points above will really help your kids to become confident to make healthy decisions, sometimes even against the group pressure.
So you see, there is so much work to do. You still can do so much to help your children, even if you think that they do not listen to you.
If you work on yourself, you will shine and radiate as a living example of health and truth. This will have a stronger effect then a 1000 words, and it gives you the power back.
You can do something about it.

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Vol 2 Iss. 14 The biggest mistakes you can make on a high raw diet with kids

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:44:34 +0100

Featured Article:    The biggest mistakes you can make on a high raw diet with kids

We know this is almost a taboo topic in the Rawfood world.

But we are bringing it up anyway, because we've had some trouble ourselves and have seen a lot of raw families and raw children having problems.

We are the world traveling Rawfoodfamily and have lived on a raw food diet for almost 5 years now. But before that, our son suffered a long time from chronic diseases. We healed all his ailments with raw food in one week and we all felt so much better on this diet. All was well, but after a year on raw food, we felt stuck.

We have gained a lot of knowledge over the years, and we constantly question, change and improve our diet.

We were surprised when we experienced some serious problems with our children after this first year on our Rawfood Journey. And we've met many other Rawfood children around the world and noticed the same problems with most of them.

These problems do not show up right away when going raw. Most families, like ours, experience a significant increase in health and energy when first going raw. When you start leaving out cooked foods like white sugar, white flour and pasteurised cow's milk, just to name the most important ones, almost everybody experiences an increase in energy (sometimes after a process of detoxification).

During this first phase, it is not so much about which raw foods you eat, but about what you leave out of your diet. This is what allows the healing and detoxification to begin.

After living raw, or mostly raw, for a year or so, it starts to get really interesting. Once your body and its systems have had time to get clear, you are ready for the next level.

And here is where new problems can arise, especially with children. Now is when they desperately need the best nutrition possible in order to grow properly .

If you are not aware of what you are doing, you will be treading on dangerous grounds!

These problems include:

    * Weakness, tiredness
    * Insufficient growth
    * Dental problems
    * Parents ignoring the problems
    * Emotional imbalance
    * Lack of minerals
    * Bloating
    * Lack of vitamin B 12

This all sounds serious, and it is, if you ignore the signs. But if you become aware that your child is having any of these problems, do not be alarmed!

Everything is reversible.

We've been through all of this with our children, who are now quite healthy and happy. And because we've discovered some easy principles to facilitate their healthy development, we want to share them with you.

Rawfood is still the best food you can eat, even with your children.
But you need to be aware of some guidelines.
It is very important to eat a balanced diet. You need to eat fully ripened tropical fruits, lots of dark green leafy veggies, sprouts, other vegetables and good fat sources like coconut, avocado, olives, durian and hemp.

You need to create a good balance with these components.
We often tend to eat too many sugary fruits or fats like nuts.
Here is the place for complete honesty:
Do your kids have at least a pound of greens each and every day??
(The easiest way is to make juices!)

And if you are living in North Europe or North America, you also need to add some superfoods to your family's diet.
Foods like maca, goji berries, hemp seeds, honey, coconut, marine phytoplankton, blue green algaes and bee pollen are important to include when you want to make sure you have everything in place to raise healthy children.

It is also necessary to practice proper food combining. Please do not combine fruits with nuts, for example. At least don't do it too often. (Many raw food recipes, such as cakes, are made with nuts and fruits.)

And most of all:
Don't get stressed out about your diet. You do not have to become 100% raw together with your children. By simply cutting back on meat, refined white sugar, pasteurised cow's milk and white flour you will increase the health level of your family soooo much!
No reason to get stressed out about any of this. Take it easy.
The more relaxed you are about the whole thing, the easier the transition will be, and the easier it will be for your kids to join in.

It's all good.
Ka Sundance from www.therawfoodfamily.com

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Vol.2 Iss. 13 3 reasons to let go of a 100% raw food diet with your kids

Tue, 25 May 2010 18:29:31 +0100

3 reasons to let go of a 100% raw food diet

Life is a constant, floating circle of change.
That includes all areas of life. That means that there isn't only one single truth that applies to all humans, to the whole universe, but that there are many truths. And they are all true.
The same principles apply to our diet. Raw food is just one truth, one way.
It is a truth, but there are many others.
Even though we are the Rawfoodfamily, and we believe that, when done correctly, the raw food diet is probably the optimal diet for us humans, we need to be real about it.
If we talk about eating it "correctly,” we are talking about fully ripened “old” tropical fruits like jackfruit, durians, coconuts, cherimoyas, mangos and so on.
Here comes the first reality check and shock.
Most of the people, families and children out there do not have access to these kinds of fruits. The second aspect of doing the raw food diet “correctly” has to do with greens.
We all need at least between 750 gr and 1.0 kilo of dark green leafy vegetables EACH DAY!
Especially our children are in desperate need of these foods. They provides us with vitamins, minerals and loads of high quality proteins and EFAs.
Do you and your children eat that many greens every day?

And if you do not have both of the things we are talking about here (fully ripe, old tropical fruits, and about 1 kilo of greens) we do NOT recommend going 100% raw, or even trying to become raw!!

We really need to be realistic. There is so much misleading information out there, and with this article we are taking a very clear position.
You can still be on a very high raw diet, if you add lots of high potency superfoods to your diet and add supplements during the wintertime. But we need to pull the plug on the sacred status of the 100% raw food diet.
So many people have this high goal. For most of us it is too high, unrealistic, and ... yeah I have to say it: unhealthy!
Only 3-5 % of the human population has access to the kinds of foods you need to really deeply thrive on this pure diet.
The rest of us need to think of alternatives, or import all the good fruits from tropical areas, which costs a lot of money.
If you are willing to invest that kind of money and live with the consequences of the environmental problems caused by transporting and packing your food, it is still possible and good.
But for the majority of us, we need to be practical about what we are capable of doing.
This was a huge realisation we had in the last few months, when we experienced for ourselves what a big difference there is between the food you have access to in North Europe, the USA and Canada, and the paradisal tropical belt around the earth.
We see and feel the difference very strongly when we watch our children.
The food accessible in Europe and the USA is not suitable for going 100% raw.
So we honestly want you to feel comfortable adding some cooked food to your diet, if you do not belong to the small group of fortunate ones with a lot of money or living in a tropical country.
If you are eating or transforming to a high raw diet, cut out refined sugar, white flour, red meat and highly processed food and junk food. If you do, you and your kids will feel and become sooo healthy!

This is a goal you can reach, and it will change and transform your kids, your family and you!

Just go with the flow, take it easy and enjoy the food you eat to the max. Benny, our oldest, is back to eating some cooked food, maybe once a week or every two weeks, after being 100% raw in United Kingdom.
Even though we have access to all the tropical wonders of nature here, he still asks for it from time to time, and we totally support him in following and exploring his desires.
He hasn't changed. He is still healthy and vibrant.
He still eats mostly raw and is part of The Rawfoodfamily.
It isn't a lot of cooked food and it's very simple, like a little rice with some steamed veggies.
I want to share this with you, to show you that we aren't living a dogma, and we don't even think we should. It will change. It always does.
Life is a constant, floating circle of change.
It's all good.

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Vol.1 Iss. 12 How to live successfully raw with your kids NOT living in the tropics

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:51:01 +0100

How to live raw successfully with your kids NOT living in the tropics

We were overwhelmed by the feedback we received regarding the last e-Zine. The feature article was about the importance of old, tropical fully ripened organic fruits. (old? sounds rotten) (mature sounds better?)

Because these fruits are hard to get in the northern part of the world, and not everybody has the money to order them individually, we want to give you some options and solutions today.
Once more: In our opinion based on our personal experience raising 3 kids on a raw food diet, the ideal diet looks like this:

Like I said above:
1.Fully ripened tropical fruits like durian, jackfruit, coconut, sapotes, …
2.dark green leafy vegetables (especially in the form of wild edibles, and other wild greens)
3.sprouts
4.seeds
5.high quality fat and protein sources like hemp, flax, avocado and raw olives

The problem in the raw food world is that there is often a lack of honesty. (or integrity)

People tell us that they have wild edibles and the fruits we mentioned above, but when I ask them very precisely about their diet, and the diet of their children, it often comes out that they do NOT eat exactly the way they pretend to.

You need to be very honest with yourself, for the sake of your health, and the health of your children. What does your everyday diet REALLY look like? If you do not have a balance of these 5 components above, we need to look for alternatives.

This is what this article is all about.
We want to show you alternatives and solutions, so that you can go as raw as you want, and be sure that you are doing the very best for your children.
We are fans of (We support) the natural way of living life. We know that it is possible to live 100% raw and thrive!

But if you are in a situation where you cannot access the resources we described here, we need to advise you to add some superfoods, and even some supplements to your diet.
On top of that it is even more important to go outside into nature every day!

If you cannot put the best parts of nature inside your body, then your body needs to go outside and be immersed in the best parts of nature.

Just spending time outside with your children will stimulate your immune power. It will help to connect with the energies of nature that are very important to becoming healthy. These energies do not reach us inside our concrete floor houses.

It is also much easier when you go outside to really look for wild edibles and harvest some of nature's most precious treasures while walking through the woods.
Get as much sunshine as possible.

If you have only limited access to sunshine because of long winters and cold periods, please soak up the sun as much as possible.
Kids seem to feel that, and want to act on that with their instincts. (feel what? act on what? Feel the value of the sunshine? or they feel the sunshine?)

You see kids get undressed all over the world when it gets warm.
Sunlight on your skin is just another form of connecting with the strong powers of nature, which not only provide us with the gift of Vitamin D, but much more. Sunlight nourishes us and our little loved ones on a cellular, emotional and spiritual level.
More and more research has been providing us with facts about the connection between sunlight and health.

Create spaces where kids can just play without being interrupted by our strange adult world so often. In the tropics they can have this kind of feeling so much more.
There are less rules here, more space and freedom, and they can just explore the interesting aspects of life more freely.

Try to create a space for your kids, where they can do this.

Again, nature is the best playground for that. They can run around, shout and dance, make noise and a bloody mess, get real dirty and so much more, which is forbidden or restricted in most “civilised” areas of our crazy adult world.
As funny as this may sound, this will help your children become more healthy. Kids need this space. They need nature and they need the sun!
On top of that I also want to recommend some superfoods here.

The number one superfood for us is coconut. Coconut is probably one of the most nutritional foods on earth. The coconut water IS probably the most nutritional water on earth!

It is possible to get this water. At least in the UK I know of a company that sells coconut water.
Please try Marine Phytoplankton. This superfood is also very powerful. It has more than 70 trace minerals, and over 30 vitamins in it!

There is more stuff like maca, organic raw honey, bee pollen, hemp and flax seeds, goji berries, algaes and much more, but these are the major ones.
There is one other superfood worth mentioning here. It is called Mila and is a blend of chia seeds. (blended with what?) These seeds are an ancient food here in Central America, and we want to promote them here as well, because they have the highest amount of Omega 3 (EFA) of all foods on earth.

Omega 3 is especially important for your children. They need it to build healthy new cells, and to build muscles, bones, cells and their brains. (brains because children is plural) Mila is also high in vitamins, |antioxidants and is very powerful for those of you who do not get enough quality greens!
You can have a look at our website here, to get more information about this “new” superfood, at http://www.therawfodfamily.com/mila which will be better known all around the raw food world very soon.

I hope you now have a better feeling and understanding for what you can do to succeed on a raw food diet together with your kids.

It is all good, and we want to help you. (People commonly say: It's all good. Not it is)
Please contact us, if you still have any questions.

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Vol. 2 Iss. 11 Why you need access to fully ripe organic fruits to thrive on the raw food diet ...

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:50:47 +0100

Why you need access to fully ripe organic fruits to thrive on the raw food diet together with your children

We all want the best for our children. And of course there is nothing less than that what they deserve.
After having the comparison of living long term in 2 worlds, we need to share some of our observations with you.
We come from northern Europe and did spent most winters there. But since we became raw almost 5 years ago, we managed to spend 3 out of these 5 winters in the tropics.
And we did not only spend a 2 weeks holiday there, but many months.
2005-2006 we have been in Thailand and Australia, 2007-2008 we spend the winter on the Canary Islands located at North-West Africa and 2009-2010 – as most of you know -we were in Thailand.
And because we experienced such a huuuuge difference in how we felt and thrived we need to share this with you.
We just always felt so much better being somewhere warm! And of course it is partly exactly because of this fact. It is warm, you have access to sunlight, are close to nature, and the kids could run a round naked on the beach. This is one aspect, which helps a lot to be more healthy. But there is another aspect, and this aspect is what I want to talk about here: It is about the quality of the food.
The raw food in warm countries is just so much better!
This is something I was not so aware of being in the cold winter, but being back in the tropics I just see, how much more we, and especially the kids, shine and thrive having all that fully ripe tropical fruits.
The most important differences are:
1.The variety. You have access to many, many different fruits and can alternate them, which makes sense from the nutritional point of view. Different fruits offer different nutrients, and so we can provide a wide spectrum of them to our children.
2.They are ripe! All of the fruits you can get in the supermarket in the northern hemisphere are picked unripe and green. They lack nutrients, because their connection to the mother tree to mother earth has been cut too early for them to store the amount of nutrients they should have.
The fruits in the tropics have had the honor and pleasure to stay on their trees and bushes as long as possible, before they joyfully were received by us. This is evident.
This is important.
You have access to more nutrients, eating in the tropics. This is essential for our kids. Some of the green picked fruits delivered to the USA, Canada and Northern Europe are even toxic in their unripe state.
3.They are local grown. This is also a fact that just makes so sense. We should eat where we live and eat what lives around us. We absorb the energy and the nutrients from the land we walk, eat and love on, and create a wonderful circle of life which is natural, ecological and the most healthy way of consuming food, not only for us and our children on a physical, and spiritual level, but also on a much bigger scale, on a environmental and global level.

Do you get a sense now, how important it is to have access to these kind of fruits?
The good part is: You can still have them, no matter where you live. There are various high quality distributors on the internet, which will offer you exactly these kind of fruits I am talking about here.
In Europe there is for example www.orkos.com
But you need to be aware of one thing: This costs money. Money you need to invest, if you want healthy children! If you want to go 100% raw, or even high raw, you need to invest in good food. If you can not afford to buy good food for yourself and your little loved ones, we do NOT recommend eating or even thinking about eating 100% raw!

You will not gain the health level you are looking for by ignoring the facts we write about here.
These ripe exotic fruits are essential for growth and health of your children.
On top of these fruits, you need to take extra care during long and cold winters.
We are no friends of supplements at all, because we believe that you can live and thrive only on natural food, and sunshine but if you live somewhere really cold, things become different.
We recommend taking B12 supplements, Vitamin D for sunlight supplementation and Vitamin K2 if you are eating vegan.
Taking all this into account, it was such an obvious decision for us to move closer to where our food is living.
But as I said: You can still be successfully raw with your kids, if you take the things to your heart, which have been mentioned here!
All the best for you and your kids.

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Vol.2 Iss. 10 Why it is so important the have information about the raw food diet when you ...

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:41:50 +0100

Why it is so important the have information about the raw food diet when you have children

We all want the best for our children. Especially when you think about increasing the level of your diet towards more living food, you are a parent who is even more aware of this.
The problem is, that there are so many different styles, diets and beliefs out there what the best way is.
Especially when you come from a place, where you are not fully confident with what you do, and want to improve the quality and level of health within your family, things can get even more complicated.
When we started with the raw food diet, we felt almost overwhelmed with all the information. At the same point of time, we really knew nothing in depth.
In our case there was a lot of guessing, trying and ,.. yeah – learning by doing which included mistakes we did.
We would like to help you avoid doing mistakes, with the health of your children.
The absolute essential part here is: Information.
You need to gather as much information as possible on doing raw food (high raw or 100%) together with children.
It is different doing it with children. If you change your diet, you do this out of free will. Children (especially when they are very young) do not have this choice. They follow you, and you set the course.
This changes things.
If you have information about what is important and what not, you can much form your own beliefs and opinions on topics much more profound. It is good to have information, to see different angles of one topic. You need to see different angles. This only will put you in the position to evaluate the arguments and finally make a decision.
The only thing that stands between a person and their own perfect health is information. Empowered with the right information, anyone can improve their health, reduce their dependence on prescription drugs, enhance their quality of life and expand their mental awareness and creativity.

Once you are more comfortable with this lifestyle, because you received and processed all the information, you will be able to make a lot of your decisions based on your feeling. Your feeling never lies.
But when you are new to this, or are doing major changes right now, you need good information to make decisions.
Our children are in desperate needs for a high nutritional value and best quality food.
You need to give this to them.
So please, do good research about the raw food diet, and how to adapt to this lifestyle together with children.
Look also on other diets, other theories, or other raw food mentors and teachers. Open yourself up.
You will again feel what makes sense to you.
I am just saying that it is important to do research and gather knowledge in order to become clear with a decision.
We can be one resource for you and can give you even more. Up until the end of March we give you our e-book called “Raising Raw Children” on a 30% discount. This is because we want to share this important knowledge with you. We want to share and we want to help.
Start all over in a better life. It is spring. It is your time. NOW!

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Vol. 2 Iss. 9 What you need to do yourself, to create a healthy diet and surrounding for your ...

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Volume 2 Issue 8 The art of trusting your children withy their diet, and letting go

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:25:07 +0100

The art of trusting your children withy their diet, and letting go

We are living a raw food lifestyle since almost 5 years now together as a family. The kids are 100% raw since 4 years (it took us parents a bit longer to really stay 100%)
So if you trust many of the rawfoodists out there, who say and preach that after eating raw food for such a long time, your system will almost collapse if you put just any little, tiny amount of processed cooked food in it, the we have someting to share.

We already wrote this a cuple of weeks ago, and we would like to share how it developped. Benny(our oldest) told us in December, that he wanted to try some cooked food again.
To be total honest with you: I was a liile bit shocked about that. You know; We are The Rawfoodfamily.
There was no real reason or sign which was warning us. It came out of the blue.
But on the other hand I felt so happy and proud, that Benny was telling us about his wishes in all honesty and trust.
Of course I talked to Katie about this, and we both agreed, that we wanted to honour Bennys wish and reward his honesty with total trust.

We thought, that it would be best to allow him to follow his desire and find out for himself, what is good or not good.

To be totally honest with you again: I hoped deep inside, that he would taste it once, and feel so sick afterwards, that he would never touch it again.

But now comes the amazing part about this story:

After studying all the raw food experts, and reading books, I was so afraid of the consequences.
And not only that, but we are also THE Rawfoodfamily. I do not want my kids to suffer from bad food. And I am not interested in eating this way for myself.
It is written in most books, that especially kids who are so pure after years of eating that way, could suffer fromn a toxic shock.
At least they would get sick, and throw up.
But the thing was:
Nothing happened!

Isn't that amazing? He didn't eat much of it, maybe half a plate, but still: It is amazing.
He deeply enjoyed the food, and feeling the freedom and the trust we had in him. He was gently testing the food, very slowly and with all his awareness.

After this first time he repeated his wish several times. Maybe 1 time a week.

But after a liitle more then a month, he decided to cut down on this again, because he felt for himself, that he was feeling different.

I am so happy and grateful for my littel son! He went through this process all by himself. It feels so good! I am very proud of him.

The bottom line here is, that we need to trust our children with their diet. Of course not when they are infants, but there comesw an age, when we need to give them the trust they deserve and need.

Everybody will profit from this trust. All is good.
You can click here and watch a TV-Show, where I talk about Bennys change and meet him personally!
http://www.rawfoodcoach.net/raw-secrets-tv/shock-after-years-on-a-100-raw-food-diet-eating-cooked-again-

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