Radiant on Raw Blog: Raw and Living Foods, Holistic Health, Latest News and Reviews

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Raising Healthy Kids

Mark your calendars! Starting Monday, June 22nd you are invited to join in on a one of a kind discussion about raising healthy children with raw foods!

The Raw Mom Summit is an online event starting on June 22nd and ending on June 30th. For 9 days and 9 nights the wisdom, experience and understanding of over 30 passionate health pioneers and some of the world's leading experts in alternative health, are bringing their voices together in the name of building healthy families and empowered leaders of the next generation.

Learn from top experts…

• What to do about fertility, ovulation and conscious conception?
• How to prepare for a healthy pregnancy, labor and childbirth?
• What is attachment parenting?
• Which natural remedies to use when your children are sick?
• How to feed a meat-eating partner if you are vegetarian or vegan?
• What should you feed yourself when you're overwhelmed with cravings?
• How to get kids excited and involved in their own food-prep?
• What to do when our kids rebel against our healthy diet?
• What is going on with the bees and why is it so important?
• How to shrink our carbon footprint?
• What is sustainability and permaculture?
• What superfoods are best for kids?
• Exactly what is the healthiest diet?
• What are the best ways to raise children naturally?
• What are the lesser-known common pit-falls of a raw food diet?
• Which foods help or hinder our hormones?
• What are the issues around veganism, B-12 and protein?
• What do raw children eat?
• How to get picky eaters to crave their veggies?
• Which foods help kids transition and stick to a healthier diet?
• What are the other top lifestyle factors besides diet for longevity?

Raw Mom Summit - Register Now!

With this many of the world's top health and wellness experts gathered together in a mom-friendly format, can you afford to miss out?

Diabetes Awareness Day - Take Action and Change Your World!

Do you know what happens when you bring together 53 experts from the raw food world in support of The Movement to Reverse Diabetes Naturally?

YOU get a lot of cool stuff!

Get Your Bonuses Now

These 53 experts are giving away a TON  of goodies in support of Reversing Diabetes Action Day and the film "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days."  There are 11 E-books, hours of audios, hundreds of recipes, an entire magazine, valuable coupons and more!

This film is a must see for diabetics AND non-diabetics. If  you haven't yet seen this film NOW is the time!  
Just click  on this link to learn more about the film and all of these goodies:

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

If you have picked up a copy already then get another copy of the film for a friend, neighbor or your  local library so that you can get all of these bonuses for yourself!   :)

This film is SO powerful in opening up people, both diabetics and non-diabetics, to the importance of raw and living foods and we need to get it out to more people!

Help us spread the word!

Check it out right away and make sure to support The Movement to Reverse Diabetes Naturally.  It is doing some important and powerful work!


Related Posts:
Diabetes Total Cost: $218 Billion!
The Raw Food & Diabetes

Paul Nison's Advice on Eating Healthy and Going Raw

Two days ago I had a pleasure of attending Paul Nison’s lecture in New York City hosted by www.beamgreen.com for Earth Day Celebration.

Paul has been traveling and promoting the raw food lifestyle for over 15 years. New York native, he now resides in Florida with his family.

What follows is my cliff notes from his lecture. The topic was the Daylight Diet, a new insight on how to be healthy, to stay fit and energized. Paul’s book with the same title is due this July.

• The biggest contributors to obesity and poor health are overeating and eating last at night (9 pm through 5 am are the best hours for good quality sleep).
• No daylight animal in nature eats after dark.
• Get up with the sun. This is important because you are in better position to go to bed early and not stay up late overeating.
• Eat your first meal during the 3rd hour of daylight.
• Stop watching TV late at night, especially stimulating shows. TV is loaded with commercials of food and they motivate you to overeat. What is more important – your health or a TV program? Pay attention to the word “program”.
• Do your best not to eat after the sunset. However, it gets dark late during summer months, so it would benefit you the most not to eat after 6 – 7 pm.
• Two meals per day are ideal, but you can eat three if you have a demanding schedule. Eating more than that is unnecessary. Snaking is considered a meal.
• Drink plenty of filtered, ionized water for optimal hydration.
• The three things Paul recommends to everyone: probiotics, digestive enzymes, and B12/Vitamin D supplementation (both are abundant in blue green algae).
• Don’t take supplements just because you think something is missing – do a blood test and then see what needs to be added.
• Eat lots of salads – find dressing recipes that appeal to you and use them to avoid boredom.
• Take time to relax in the evening – listen to classical music, go for a walk, drink herbal tea.
• If you are really hungry in the evening, have a glass of green juice.
• Sleep with windows open.
• To make sure you are having a well balanced diet, 75% of what you eat should be greens.
• The worst thing to put into your body? Raw Chocolate! Yes, you heard right – raw or not, chocolate is still a stimulant that overburdens the adrenal glands.

Paul will be back in New York at the Raw Food & Yoga Expo on May 29th through May 31st and then in August promoting his new book.

Raw Food for Beginners 1-Day Class

 Do you want to upgrade your diet but don't know where to start?

Are you curious about the raw food diet but don't know where to start? Or maybe you tried the raw food diet before but with little success?

Do you want to learn quick, simple and easy healthy recipes to bring into your daily life that will allow you to spend less time in the kitchen and more time doing the things you love?

Then the Raw Food for Beginners class is perfect for you!

I will be preparing an impressive selection of quick, easy and healthy recipes (breakfast through dinner, plus mouth-watering deserts!) and also discuss such important topics as raw food shopping, menu planning and support.

This class will cover:

* Why raw?
* What to expect when you go raw
* How to transition safely and sensibly
* What's raw? (there are 20+ raw food groups, surprised?)
* Where to buy the best produce no matter where you live
* What a typical raw kitchen would contain - ingredients and equipment
* How to use a juicer, blender, food processor etc.
* How to use a dehydrator
* How to sprout seeds and beans, plus how to grow wheatgrass and sunflower greens
* How to make delicious raw food such as raw veggie-nut burgers, pizza, soups, nut milks, smoothies, flax crackers, raw vegan ice-cream and much more.
* How to come up with a daily/weekly menu that works for you
* PLUS Extensive Q & A session

What's included?

* 1 full day of teaching from 10:30am - 5:00pm
* Abundant amounts of delicious tasters throughout the day
* A substantial lunch featuring a raw food pizza (you have never tried anything this good before!)
* A Raw Food for Beginners recipe packet and class notes to take away with you

All this for just $127 - incredible value for the amount of food and information that will be presented to you!

Hurry! Only 10 places available (8 Remaining)!

To reserve your seat please go to http://www.radiantonraw.com/classes.html.

See you there!

The New Life Expo, Rawkathon, and the Best Year of My Life…

I honestly thought that nothing could beat the Raw Spirit Festival in how much fun I had, the amount of terrific people I met, and life changes it created for me.

Well, that was before Katharine Clark, business partner of Viktoras Kulvinskas, invited me to assist them at the New Life Expo that took place in New York City over this past weekend.

I got a change to share my passion for Simplexity Health products with hundreds of people, talk endlessly about nutrition, health, and raw foods, hang out with the most fun people, make new connections, and enjoy the most delicious raw food ever created made my good friend and a rising star Arianna Rose!

Don’t get me wrong - it was a lot of hard work, but it was a different kind of hard work. Have you ever noticed that when you do something you don’t care about it drains your energy but when you do something you are passionate about that work energizes you? This was truly a labor of love and I think I found a new outlet for my passion!

After the Expo closed, we went out to Pure Food & Wine to celebrate and it was like the icing on a cake.  I can honestly say that our table was the most fun at the restaurant: we laughed, sang, played music, and even danced! Well, I guess it’s unavoidable when you are a presence of Viktoras Kulvinskas and Happy Oasis! Yes, Happy, the founder of the Raw Spirit Festival, made her first trip ever to New York City and it was one of those magical synchronicities!

And we all got a chance to witness the most incredible scene – Viktoras Kulvinskas, the father of the raw movement, bursting into spontaneous dance! Seriously, this was one in a lifestyle opportunity. I believe this is a memory I will treasure forever.

The Raw Spirit Festival 2009 - Get Your Ticket Now!

This day is just getting better and better!

I am thrilled to announce that the Raw Spirit Festival 2009 tickets are now on sale and available at affordable price of just $149 for all three days! You can't beat that!

You may just be discovering the raw food diet and may not know about this biggest offline event of the year or maybe you've been wanting to go but for whatever reason couldn't make it this year - I truly hope you will make plans to go next year.

The Raw Spirit Festival will take place near Santa Barbara, CA, June 5 - 7. They will have 3 large camping grounds nearby as well as some hotels in the area.

This year's Festival was so much fun, so amazing, that I am still all smiles just thinking about it. And if you want to know more, I wrote a post about my experiences a few weeks ago.

I am sure the tickets will be selling very quickly, so I would encourage you to visit The Raw Spirit Festival website right now and get your ticket.

Do not wait any longer, this event will transform your life forever, just as it did mine!

New Life Expo in New York City

If you happen to be in New York City area this weekend, make sure you check out New Life Expo, America's largest mind, body and spirit Expo.

Over the course of three days (Friday, October 17th through Sunday, October 19th) you'll get a chance to explore the latest and greatest in the field of alternative medicine, holistic medicine, nutrition, energy medicine, and everything "New Age".

For only $30 days for all three days ($35 at the door) you get access to 150 speakers (10 lectures going on every hour of three days) and 150 exhibits. Take a weekend of your ordinary life and enjoy a world of extraordinary possibilities! Over 14,000 people attend this Expo every year, so there's no saying who you will meet and what connection you will make but everything is possible.

This amazing event will be held at:

Hotel New Yorker

481 8th Avenue (at 34th Street)

New York, NY 10001

You can buy tickets in advance at http://www.newlifeexpo.com

And if you do come to the Expo, please stop by the SimplexityHealth booth and say hello - I will be working there alongside Viktoras Kulvinskas, the grandfather of the raw food movement. Viktoras, Katharine Clark (his business partner), Arianna Rose (a raw food chef from Rockaway, NY) and myself will be sharing our passion for this amazing line of products with everyone seeking to improve their health and vitality.

Hope to see you there!

Freshlife Automated Sprouter - Update

A few days ago I wrote a post about Freshlife Automated Sprouter I got at the Raw Spirit Festival.

It arrived about a week ago along with several packages of sprouting seeds I got at the same time. Anxious to get started, I loaded up the Sprouter with a variety of seeds and beans and I am very happy to report that I just "picked" my first harvest!

Here's the image of my sprouter (two trays, one with the remainder of buckwheat and sunflowers sprouts and the other with green peas and red lentil still sprouting).

In just one week I got a nice amount of sunflower, buckwheat and mung beans sprouts, green pea and lentil sprouts, along with some wheatgrass (not shown here, half of it is juiced and the other half is in the fridge). Now, since this was my first experiment I did a little bit of everything just to see how much comes out and how fast.  Those two containers of alfalfa sprouts you see above came from about 2 tablespoons of seeds! Definitely beats buying them at a supermarket, and they are organic, pure, and grown with love.

What really impressed me though is just how fast these spouts came to life. For example, most sprouting tables say that sunflower seeds are ready in 10-12 days, however, I picked mine in just seven days. Same goes for wheatgrass. Green peas are supposed to be ready in 3-4 days and yet I got mine fully sprouted in just 2!

This is such an amazing machine, I am considering buying a second unit just to be able to grow more volume of sprouts. Last night I made myself nori wraps with Alissa Cohen's salmon pate and my freshly picked spouts and it was the most delicious meal I've had since Raw Spirit Festival!

And although I bought my unit from Tribest at a discount, I found it at even better price at Amazon.com

And if you want to see this wonderful machine in action and you are in NYC area, do come to my upcoming Raw Food for Beginners class when I do a whole segment on sprouting and various methods of doing it. Not to be missed!

The Biggest Online Event of the Year...

My dear readers,

I have something I think you'll be really excited about, I know I am...

Over the last month, Kevin Gianni, co-creator of the Raw Summit, has been busy putting together something that's never been done before.

For those who aren't familiar with the Raw Summit, it was an online teleseminar event that brought thousands of people together to learn more about raw and living foods.

What Kevin is up to now is even bigger and better...

He's spent the last month putting together an event called "The Rawkathon."

This is a collection of candid, one-on-one interviews with 15 of the top raw and living food experts on the planet and it will be broadcast for you to watch or listen to in a few short weeks.

The interviews--from what he's said--are like no stage presentation or "how-to" DVD you've seen before.

Not only do these interviews cover how to stay raw, how to stay motivated, and the best ways to do so--Kevin has also said that they capture the true essence of each expert.  Almost like you were there in the room with them as the interview was being conducted.

So when you're a part of the event, you get to hear 15 amazing interviews that really have never been created before or likely never again.

As with all of Kevin's events, to get involved, it's 100% free.

It costs nothing for you to watch or listen to these interviews. 

All you have to do is register now and you'll be sent information on how you can be a part of raw food history...

Right now the project is set to release on October 19th and only is broadcast for one week, so I wanted to let you know early. 

There is an opportunity to get all the interviews in a digital or hardcopy package at a special price with special bonuses, that won't be up after the event starts.

So please go ahead and register now...

Be healthy, be happy, live long!

Alina

P.S. In just a few short weeks, this event will be over, so don't miss the opportunity now!

Are You Ready to Experience the Best Raw Food Class Ever?

I am very excited to announce a new date for my Raw Food for Beginners 1-Day Class - Saturday, October 25th, 2008.

If you couldn't make it to my first class, not is the time to reserve your spot before all the seats fill up.

This is such a terrific class, I cannot wait to share it with everyone who signs up for it. 

If you are ready to:

* explore the raw food diet or get back on track,

* taste a wide selection of easy, delicious, and quick recipes,

* spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying your life,

* meet new people and make new friends,

* spend a day having fun, learning, and eating great food,

then register for Raw Food for Beginners class right now!

All the ingredients I use are raw and organic (whenever possible) and I also serve ionized alkaline water in abundance.

Because I teach at my home, I can only accommodate 8 people.  Don't miss this terrific opportunity to experience Karen Knowler's famous RFFB class first hand!