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OVERVIEW OF THIS PUBLICATION
Hello, my name is Storm Talifero and I am the founder of the Ekaya Institute. The
purpose of this publication is to introduce you to raw living food. I've been a
vegetarian for over 35 years. I've been eating a primarily raw vegan diet for over
30 years.
The purpose of this publication is also to give you an overview of what the raw
food movement is all about. We are very fortunate to be in an age where we now
have the internet. This gives you incredible investigative resources at your
fingertips. You can go to a search engine like Yahoo and type in MSG and it will
tell you everything that you need to know about that food additive. You can do this
with all the food additives and pesticides. You can go to Yahoo and you can type
in Roundup and find out everything you need to know about that particular
pesticide. And then you can decide whether its better to eat organic foods or not.
We have compiled a
page from which you can access hundreds of raw foods
resources online including
even beyond our own recipes
that we include below. From these links you can learn all about sprouting, growing
wheatgrass, creating a kitchen garden, and more. There are links to sites where
you can buy equipment for sprouting, dehydrating, and juicing. We even have links
to stores where you can buy all kinds of raw foods online, such as olives, nuts, nut
butters and dried fruits.
We also have a section below devoted to cravings. One of the biggest challenges
for people going raw is how to deal with cravings. Cravings aren't negative. Once
they become a negative entity in your mind you are always fighting and when you
weaken a bit the craving gets the upper hand. So instead of fighting cravings we
like to satisfy cravings with healthy raw food alternatives or replacements.
You can take two people and they're both 60 years old. Though they may both be
chronologically the same age they didn't age at the same rate. One is still young
and vital. One is old and feeble. In this publication we also explore the aging
process and why some people are accelerated and why some people maintain a
youthfullness that defies time. There are whole groups of people like the Hunzas
who live to be 110-120. While other groups like the Eskimos around the turn of
the century had life expectancies of around 28 years old. So we explore the aging
process and how it relates to what we eat.
The main purpose of the work at Ekaya Institute is to explore natural food. We
don't advocate taking any supplements. We don't cook the food. We don't do
anything to the food that is un-natural. We don't use pesticides. We don't use food
that is genetically altered. We eat the food as it came out of the ground. The only
thing we do is blend things together and juice the food. That's about the only form
of processing we do. The closer you get to pulling the food out of the ground or
 picking it off the tree and eating it the better your diet is. That's the underlying
theme of this publication.
We include recipes below that give you a basic transition diet and we also include
all of our favorite raw recipes. There's no way I can give you all of the recipes that
are available to people who eat raw foods. There are literally thousands of
recipes. This publication is designed to give you the principles of preparing raw
food recipes. If you prepare these recipes you'll see that it is possible to put
together totally tasty meals that taste every bit as good and as anything that you
are now eating and that are incredibly healthy for you. You can do your own
research in gathering your own recipes. Or you can be very creative about using
the hundreds of different kinds of raw foods available, creating new recipes every
day. So I hope you won't think that the recipes here are the total range of raw food
recipes you should eat.
This publication is broken up into three main parts. Here is a quick overview of
each part:
PART 1 - WHY to eat raw?
- It is the food nature designed for us to eat, and nature is a very accurate and
precise designer!
- Nutrients die at 150 degrees of heat so when you eat cooked food it can't
nourish you!
- Try it for one day and you will feel incredible!
- Try it for one year and you will look and feel at least a decade younger!
PART 2 - WHAT to eat raw?
There are 1000's of raw foods, found in your produce section or better yet at
farmers markets or directly from farmers. Eat what is local, organic, and in season
first! Eat a variety of any whole raw foods (ideas below) and when cravings
overtake you, make the recipes found in this publication and then invent your own!
Veggies (and non-sweet fruits): tomatoes, cucumber, avocados, corn, peppers,
jicama, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, chard, kale, carrots, beans, peas, celery,
beets, sprouts...
Fruits: mangos, papayas, bananas, pears, grapes, apples, oranges, watermelon,
cantaloupe, plums, peaches, apricots, berries, pineapple, coconuts, guavas,
grapefruits...
Nuts/Seeds/Sprouts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin
seeds, soaked nuts, soaked or sprouted seeds, soaked or sprouted
wheatberries...
PART 3 - HOW to eat raw?
Although many people do best with a cold-turkey approach to leaving cooked
foods behind for a raw vegan lifestyle we recommend transitioning to a raw vegan
 diet slowly. Otherwise one may experience a rapid cleansing of too many toxins at
once which can be reabsorbed back into the body if there are any blockages in the
intestines. This can cause flu-like and other symptoms. We recommend a
TRANSITION DIET SCHEDULE: one month vegetarian (no meat), one month
vegan (no meat or dairy), one month raw with one cooked meal a day (raw food
and a meal such as rice and steamed vegetables), one month raw with one
cooked meal a week, one month raw using our vegan transition recipes and raw
craving replacement recipes, several months to a year raw using our 100% raw
craving-replacement recipes, and then 100% raw for life eating mostly whole raw
foods and some simple 100% raw whole food recipes.
PART 1 -
WHY
TO EAT A 100% RAW/LIVING ORGANIC FOOD DIET
Welcome to part 1 of Ekaya Institute's raw living food nutrition education program,
which covers the WHY of going raw.
WHY NOT EAT MEAT
When people ask me why I don't eat meat, my answer to them is why do you eat
it? You don't need it. If you really stop and think about it, if you do the math, you'll
see that meat is one of the worst things that human beings can eat. One of the
hardest things that we do to our body is our consumption of meat.
If you look at other meat-eaters, animals that are professional meat eaters, they
don't eat muscle tissue. For the most part, if a lion kills a wildebeest, they eat the
liver, they eat the kidney, and they eat the organs, because that's where all of the
nutrients are, and they leave the muscle for the scavenger. But when people eat
meat, they focus on the muscle tissue, the things that no self-respecting full-
blooded professional carnivore would even touch. Why not? Because it's tough,
it's stringy, and it doesn't have the nutrients in it. Its not rich in the iron, it doesn't
have the same quality of protein.
WHY NOT EAT SEAFOOD
People say, "I don't eat meat no more, but I do like seafood. Like, I just eat fish
now, I don't eat red meat any more". Understand something about seafood. We
make allowances for seafood that we wouldn't make for land animals. If I invited
you over for dinner and I said I was serving buzzard burgers, and I was going to
BBQ a few buzzards, a jackal, and a hyena, do you think anyone would show up at
my house? Would YOU? You don't want to eat a scavenger. You don't want to eat
a land animal that eats other dead animals. It's repulsive to you. But at the same
time you will eat a crab, which is a bottom feeder. You will eat a lobster, which is a
bottom feeder. You will eat the carrion of the sea, but turn your nose up at the
carrion of the land. To me it's all the same.
Seafood decomposes at a much faster rate than beef, chicken, or turkey. Say you
take one fish. Take a salmon for instance. Leave it on the table for 3 days. On the
4th day when you open the door to your house you can smell that salmon. It will
affect every single room of your house. Just that one plate. You will not be able to
take the smell. But at the same time, you'll put it into your body. You don't have a
 refrigerator in your body. You don't have any way to keep that fish from spoiling in
your body. You have a 36-foot long intestinal tract. By the time that fish makes it
all the way to the end, IF it makes it all the way to the end, IF you don't have a
prolapsed colon, IF it doesn't get caught up in some pockets, where it can stay for
weeks, by the time it makes it all the way to the end of your intestines its in the 3rd
or 4th stage of decay. This is totally unacceptable.
WHY NOT DRINK MILK
People say, "Why don't you drink milk?" I say do the math. When you drink the
milk of a cow, you have to understand one thing; that milk is precisely formulated
for an animal that's going to weigh 2000 lbs. and have a brain half the size of a
cantaloupe. Nature is very precise in the way she formulates things. So therefore
the calcium ratios, everything that goes to make up the body of a cow, is encoded
in that milk. So when you drink that milk, you are drinking something that is far too
heavy for your body. Not only that; when a calf nurses at the udder of its mother, it
is drinking the milk directly. YOU don't drink the milk directly. The milk goes into a
machine. The milk is heated up to the boiling point. The milk stays on the shelf for
who-knows-how-long. And then when you finally get that milk it bears very little
resemblance to what originated in the body of that cow.
So when people ask why I don't drink milk, I tell them I was weaned when I was
six months old. Man is the only animal on the planet that as an adult, drinks milk.
Milk is designed for infants to take them from infancy to a certain level of maturity
and then the mother weans them and they don't drink any more milk for the rest of
their life. Unless it's a house cat that's been domesticated by man and has fallen in
with bad ways.
Now, they did some studies. They took a calf and they fed it pasteurized milk; in
other words they took the milk from the mother and boiled it and fed it to the calf.
Another calf got its milk directly from its mother until it was weaned. Which one of
those two calves do you think had major health problems? Not only that, the
health problems that the calf that was fed on the pasteurized milk had were a lot
the same health problems that humans have. If you have too much calcium in
your system the body has to do something with it. What does it do with it? It throws
it around the end of a bone. Then that bone becomes malformed and this turns in
to arthritis.
This doesn't happen all at once. It accumulates over time. So when you first start
out, you can do anything and still feel good. But as you reach age 30 and go into
the 40's, everything you've been doing before then begins to build up,
accumulates, and you start to have symptoms. But these symptoms are of such a
major national epidemic level that nobody realizes that they are symptoms caused
by what they are eating or by their bad habits. It's just considered that "oh you're
getting old", "oh this is normal in a person your age". It's not normal. We have
accelerated our aging process.
Understand aging. Scientists have not been able to find one reason why the
human body should die. The human body is a self perpetuating, self-recycling,
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