this is john kohler with okraw.com and todayi have another exciting episode for you. this is one you guys have been waiting for, whetheryou’re a new raw foodist, somebody getting new into raw foods, or someone who’s beena long-time raw foodist this video is gonna open your eyes as to what raw foods is reallyabout. many people have no idea about what raw foods are about. i guarantee you guysafter you watch this video, you will definitely know if something is raw or not and if youmay want to eat it or not. so, did you know there are no raw food labelling laws? yes,i repeat that: there are no raw food labeling laws. this mesquite powder is labeled raw,this kombucha is labeled raw, you know, this [indistinguishable] is labeled raw: theseare all raw food products that may become
accepted as something you will eat on a rawfoods diet, but it may or may not really be raw and they may or may not really be healthyfor you. just because it’s raw, doesn’t mean it’s healthy, is what i like to say.and in this episode, you guys are going to learn truly about that. i was recently inhouston, texas, and gave a phenomenal presentation there, that now you guys are going to getto benefit from. so after watching this video, you guys are going to learn if something istruly raw and healthy or not. so without further adieu, let’s get into the video. thank you everybody for coming. now, can everybodyhear me? (yes) alright, good, i’ve been gifted with a loud voice. how many of youguys have watched my videos? wow, this is
cool. like most people, i’ve watched myvideos online and it seems like i’m shouting in some of my videos but i really just dotalk loud like i swear, and especially when i get really excited and passionate aboutsomething like some of the videos i do with jamie. how many of you have seen the videosi do with jamie? a couple, cool. awesome. the talk i’m going give tonight is called“just because it’s raw it doesn’t mean it’s healthy.†and the reason for thistalk, specifically, is because i went to a raw foods event in portland, oregon. outsideportland, in malala, oregon, it’s a raw foods retreat. but before i get into my story,how many of you have actually heard my story about why i got into raw foods myself? orknow it? ok, i think i might go over that
really quick because that’s actually reallyimportant and i always like to tell my story. i could give a whole talk just about my story,like for two hours. but i’ll give you the really condensed version. why i got into raw foods was that what happenedwas after college, i remember playing broomball with my fraternity brothers. and i was a chapteradvisor at that point, for my fraternity, and the next day i was stricken with spinalmeningitis. so how many of you know what that is? a bunch, actually. so it is a potentiallyfatal disease that you can get that can be viral or bacterial. basically, for the viralversion, there are no treatments, and unfortunately i had the viral version. i was put in thehospital and all i remember is that i had
a really bad headache and they had to do aspinal tap just to make sure that’s what i had, and the doctor said that’s what ihad. i was in intensive care and i asked the doctor, “when am i gonna get out of here?â€and he said the words that nobody ever wants to hear, especially when you’ve just graduatedout of college, and he said, “you might not make it out of here.†and i’m thinking,“oh my gosh, this can’t be happening, like this is not supposed to happen to youuntil you’re way old,†and i was way young. the doctor said there was nothing he coulddo for me and he was gonna keep me on the iv and medicine, but basically there was notreatment for a virus. so luckily i can only say through higher powers i made it throughthat situation, because there was nothing
the medical system could do at that time thati was in the hospital to basically fix me. growing up i thought the whole western medicalsystem was that you get sick, you go to the hospital, they make you better, and you gohome. we’d always go to--my dad would take us to the hospital because when me and mybrother were children we’d get really bad ear infections; i had allergies, eczema, skinconditions, and asthma as a child, and we’d go and they’d always seem to give us a drug,and we’d go home and we’d feel alright. now, was that the drugs fixing us or was itour bodies healing itself? we’re all led to believe that it’s the drugs that healyou; the drugs, in my opinion may reduce the suffering or mask the symptoms, but in myopinion most of them do nothing to solve the
problem. but when i was in the hospital andi was almost not going to make it out alive, i had a lot of time to think and i thought--becausewhat else can you do, you’re in the hospital, i have a tv on there, watching tv, and itjust smells bad, and it’s just a place you don’t want to be. but i thought a lot aboutstuff and i really thought, “ok, john, even if you have that corvette stingray with thet-tops and a million dollars or whatever you want, what good would it do you right now?â€even if you had two million dollars in the bank, could that help? could you write a check,“mr. doctor, one million dollars, do not cash unless john walks out alive.†all themoney in the world could not have saved me at that point. so i thought, maybe money isnot even that important. and then i thought,
what really is important if money’s notimportant? my health is important, because i’m almost about to lose it right now. ireally had some revelations while i was in the hospital and i prayed a lot that i madeit out of there, and i thought about if i’m not supposed to live to work and make a lotof money, and have this house and 2.2 kids and one dog and all this kind of stuff, whatam i supposed to do with my life? so i thought more and i thought, maybe if i get out ofhere i should live in service. because money’s not really that important, if i get out ofhere, i’m going to share with people what i learned to still be alive, because i reallyvalue my life. so that’s why i do the work i do today.and i put out so many videos; i try to put
out one video every other day to help peopleeither grow their food, eat raw food more successfully, or show them about the juicingequipment that allows them to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. plus i have to keepmyself out of trouble. so this is a good thing to do that’s positive, that keeps me outof trouble and doing other stuff. and i don’t drink, i don’t smoke, and i don’t do drugs.so that’s why i got into raw foods, because of my health. so i got out of the hospital, i asked thedoctor, “ok, mr. doctor, why did i get the spinal meningitis in the first place?†andhe said, “well, john, you have what’s called compliment immune deficiency.†andthose are some nice, big fancy words for basically
saying you have a chronically weak and depressedimmune system based on your genes. so at that point all i knew was i had a weak immune systemand my genes were maybe defective according to the doctor and that all i knew was i hadto do something to change the situation so that somehow i made my genes stronger or imade my immune system stronger so i didn’t end up back in the hospital again. becausewhile i did fight this battle, it’s not like the spinal meningitis is still alivein me somewhere, like cancer might be if you get over it. it was gone, but i could getanother virus of anything. how many people saw the boy in a bubble movie back in theseventies? i don’t know if they remade that. wow, a lot of you guys. the boy in the bubblemovie was an extreme case; the boy in the
bubble had to live in the bubble and not getanything or else he might lose his life. that’s here, and the regular person’s here whocan fight off diseases, so i’m more towards middle towards this side. so, more susceptible.so when i left the hospital, all i knew was i have to do something different. it tookme a while, searching and finding, and this was back in 1995 when i started and i gotinto raw foods, i found that through juicing i could build my immune system. i saw a juicemaninfomercial that said by juicing you can build your immune system; that’s all i neededto hear; i got on the phone, ordered the juicer and started juicing. six months later, i pickedup a book called cleanse and purify thyself by dr. richard anderson, and it talked aboutcolon cleansing and getting your body alkaline,
and he wanted me to buy like $200 worth ofsupplements and all kinds of stuff, [indistinguishable], bednight herbs, taking some every one anda half hours, and get colonics, and all this crazy stuff. so i cleaned out, and in thebook he says--and the other thing i mentioned was after i did that cleanse, which was $200and a lot of money, i figured the worst thing that was going to happen was i was going tolose $200 and i’m going to lose 2 weeks of eating food that i’m used to, which wasmostly a juice diet, and i didn’t eat red meat at that time. so i figured, okay, i’mjust going to do it. so i did it and i remember just one day, actually i still remember itin my brain, i remember taking a shower in my shower in a house i was renting on thegolf course in rohnert park, california and
i remember looking at my skin--and as i child,as i mentioned, i had eczema, and i had ichthyosis, which is a bad dry skin condition. and always,as a child, i would get teased about my dry skin condition. it is not fun, whether you’regetting teased for your skin and dryness, or color, or whatever it is, your weird haircut,it’s just not fun being the different one. i was kind of stunted as a child, growingup, because i wasn’t socialized; i was always the outcast and stuff, and it just wasn’ttoo fun. so when i was a kid, we’d go to the doctor’s, and we had a special dermatologistme and my brother would go to, and they’d give us hydrocortisone creams, all kinds ofstuff, and nothing really fixed me. and actually, if you look at my hands, that’s why my handslook prematurely aged: because of that hydrocortisones,
which are steroids, which are really not agood thing. so if that’s what it does to your hands. and it also ages me on the insidetoo, which i hope i’ve negated at this point. they prematurely age you, and they never reallyhealed my issue, it just kind of masked the issue or didn’t make me itch a little bit.and then one of the things my pediatric doctor said was, because i’d always have this skincondition, and i’d always ask him, “hey, doctor,†because doctors are, we lookedup to them, and they have all the answers, i said, “hey, doctor, when is my skin conditiongoing to go away? do you have a drug or something you can give me?†because i’d always getteased, and it was really a big part of my life when i was younger. and he told me, hesaid, “okay, john, when you’re thirteen,
your hormones will kick in and then your hormoneswill change and you won’t have your skin condition anymore. so i think he told me thatwhen i was like ten. so when i was eleven, nothing changed; when i was twelve nothingchanged; when i was thirteen, my thirteenth birthday was probably a really happy day andone the happiest days of my life when i was a kid, because i was so looking forward tobeing a teenager, and i was going to wake up and my skin condition was going to be gone!well, guess what? i woke up and what happened? nothing changed. so i was like, “oh, thedoctor’s wrong!†so maybe that planted a seed in me when i was younger about thewhole western medicine thing. not that they’re not good, but in a lot of things they mightnot have it right in my opinion. so, fast
forward to the cleanse that i was on. after the cleanse, i was in the shower, takinga shower, i looked at my whole body, and everything was just normal. like a normal person. i startedcrying in the shower, “oh my god, my skin’s normal.†that meant so much for me and iremember now that i cried so much that it meant so much that my skin was normal andthat i had to eat this raw foods diet because they said if you go on the cleanse, you can’tgo back to what you were doing before, or else everything was going to come back. soi’m like, “oh my god, what am i going to do?†so at that point, i said i was goingto go 100% raw and i wasn’t able to maintain 100% raw in the early years, but i have maintained,since that time, 99.999% raw. so like everybody
i’m not perfect and i had bouts with fate,and vegan potatoes and no oil, and mcdougall burritos--because i live in california bydr. john mcdougall and stuff. but i felt the difference when i ate those foods going fromraw, the next day i’d wake up and my energy levels would be way lower. i usually justget up, jump out of bed, rearing to go the days i ate the good foods--and i’m not goingto say they’re bad, but for me, i just didn’t have the same high-energy level that i normallydo. so to sum my whole story up, i got into rawfoods specifically for my health; to rebuild my health, because in my mind, even to thisday, i think if i eat things that are not healthy for me and i eat things that are cooked,then i could end up back in the hospital and
i don’t want to end up back in the hospitalwith doctors saying, “you might not make it out alive.†so i think, raw foods arehealthy and i want to be cool and be healthy for the rest of my life and have a lot ofenergy to do whatever i want to do. and that’s really important because some of you guysmight have gotten into raw foods for your health; some of you might have gotten intoraw foods for your weight; some of you might have gotten into raw foods because it’sthe next logical step, if you’re vegan or want to eat more raw foods. but i specificallygot into it for my health. and since i’ve started one of the principles i want to livemy life by is cani, which stands for constant and never-ending improvements. so whateveri do today, i always try to do it more efficiently
tomorrow, whether that’s building a garden,or whether that’s my diet. and all these years, all these years that i’ve been doingraw foods, i’ve always been trying to improve just a little bit. and one of my major latestimprovements is, because i was already eating a really good diet, was growing my own foodinstead of buying, because growing my own food was even better than the organic foodi was buying, and could do a far better job than anything i could even buy. even to thisday i still constantly research--a lot of the research ends up in the videos i put online,when i show you guys when i go to the health tradeshows for the industry to find out newproducts, and then i try to find instead of buying it in a supplement form, i’m like,“why don’t i just grow the plant and eat
it?†so a lot of things you might buy ina bottle like stinging nettles or powder, you could even have a little spirulina inyour kitchen in a fishtank if you learned how. instead of buying it powdered, eat itfresh, if you want to eat spirulina. instead of buying your kale, grow your kale--i’mhelping my friend kyle here put in a garden in the back that i’ll do another video on;it’s a great place in houston here to grow a garden. i’m envious in some ways becauseyou guys can grow some cool things that i can’t even grow in california, like papayatrees grow here really well and don’t seem to be too affected in the wintertime, wherein california they’ll just get too cold. so i always try to continually improve. andthat brings me up to the point where we’ll
get into the actual talk, just because it’sraw doesn’t mean it’s healthy. i’m about to tell the story about when i was in thatretreat in portland after i drink some of the raw water. so a lot of what happens in my life, talksi give, or videos i make, have a specific reason. always in my videos i like to notjust show what i’m doing but to always have a moral. like in “leave it beaver†i watchedwhen i was a kid, the beaver would always go through his trials and tribulations andat the end there was always a moral to the story. i always like to have a moral or severalgood points, that if you pay attention to my videos, you will learn at the end of them,and this is a specific example. the reason
why i came up with this talk tonight was becausei was at a raw foods retreat, and you would think, all the food’s going to be healthyand you’re going to feel all great and energized afterwards. i go to this retreat every year,hopefully they have it again this year because they’ve had kind of a financial brink; it’sa great retreat. it’s the living in raw spirit retreat. it’s a really cool eventbecause you go there, you stay in cabins, all day they have different talks you cango to, or nature walks, or wild food walks. i give a couple talks every year, and thenthey have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. normally breakfast is a buffet, so they have tablesset up with cut up fruit and sometimes raw pancakes, and all kinds of stuff to eat andyou can select what you want. for lunch it’s
the same thing, they have a big buffet withsalads and dressings and it’s just really nice that you don’t have to fix anything.and for dinner it’s always a catered meal, which is usually a two or three course mealwhere they bring out a soup or salad, a main dish, and then they’ll bring you dessert.it’s like eating at a raw food restaurant. so one night, i go to eat and they bring outa soup first and it’s a carrot-avocado soup and it tastes alright and i eat it all, andright after i’m done eating it, i start getting a headache. i was like, “whoa, thisis really weird, i’m getting a headache?†because normally when i eat food at my house,out of my garden, i never get a headache. so something must’ve been wrong with thefood--i don’t know if it was not organic
or [indistinguishable] with pesticides, ididn’t know what was going on. but i was like, i’m just sensitive because i am reallysensitive. i’m more sensitive than i think most people are, because i think i’m soclean, that it just keeps affecting me more, because my body’s trying to detox it andget it out. if i eat certain conventional produce items, i’ll break out in a rash,like that night or the next day. but then it comes and goes and then it’s over, sowhatever, no big deal. and normally that doesn’t happen if i eat at a raw foods restaurantbecause i eat 95% organic stuff, and a small amount non-organic stuff when i can’t findorganic. so i got a headache, and i would think, “oh, no big deal john, you’re justsensitive, whatever, let’s go on with the
dinner and enjoy it.†so what happened wassomeone else at the table said, “i ate the soup and now i don’t feel good,†and sheverbalized it, so it must have been kind of bad, so i go, “whoa, okay, this is not cool.i felt it, this lady felt it,†and then i see a lady from another table get up andwalk out of the room like she doesn’t look good. and then i’m really curious, whichis a great trait i have that’s helped me succeed at the raw foods because if you questioneverything, no matter what it is, it’s always going to push you to move forward, but ifyou accept everything, then you might get stuck in a dogma and might not do so well.so i got up, ran after her, caught up to her and was like, “hey, what’s going on, youdon’t look like you feel so good and i wanted
to know what’s going on if i can ask,â€and she was like, “i just ate the soup and i don’t feel so good, i’m gonna go liedown in my cabin.†and now i’m like, “okay, john, something’s going on, you’ve gotto find out what’s up because this is not cool, because people are literally gettingsick from the food they’re serving at the raw foods retreat.†so i ran into the kitchen--itried to be calm and collected but i think i was a little bit charged up and asked thechef, “ok, chef,†--and he was a famous chef from a new york restaurant that theymay still own--and i’m like, “what was in the soup?†and he starts listing offingredients: we’ve got carrot juice, we’ve got avocados, we’ve got this, we’ve gotthat, we’ve got bragg’s liquid aminos.
and i’m like, “ding ding ding ding ding,oh, it’s the bragg’s.†so, for many people that may or may not know or have orhave not researched this, like back in the late 1990s there was a big internet thing,you could google it, you could google “bragg’s liquid aminos†space “msg.†so it basicallycame out the bragg’s liquid aminos--how many of you guys still use that? a couple?--contains naturally occurring msg, and their fermentation process however they make itit’s part of the natural process. not to say that it’s bad, because all chinese foodpretty much has msg but i’m particularly sensitive to msg because i don’t eat thatin my diet. at that time, maybe the chefs put a lot of that stuff in there, so it wasnegatively affecting many people. so then
i understood, “oh, the bragg’s has msgin there,†and i wanted to talk to the chef because a lot of people, if they got intoraw foods not for their health or they didn’t see that thread on the bulletin board wayback in the 1990s, and they haven’t really researched things, one chef in one cookbookmight use bragg’s, and the next person sees, “oh, that chef used bragg’s, it must beraw, i’ll put it in my recipe book and i’ll use it as a flavoring agent,†and that persontalks to this person, and it just keeps going around and people keep using it because nobodyreally knows what it does because that person used it, and that person used it, and it mustbe alright because everybody else used it. so i said, “hey, do you know that bragg’scontains naturally occurring msg?†and he’s
like, “no, i’ve never heard that,†soi say, “yeah, i got a headache and some other people out there aren’t feeling goodafter they ate the soup, and you might want to consider using something else, like ifyou want a salty flavor it’s probably healthier to actually add sea salt, or some seaweedor something. or juice some celery juice to make it saltier. or shred the celery and dehydrateit to make some substitute or something. and he kind of felt i was attacking him; i guessi can have a kind of strong personality and one of the other ingredients was cashews andhow they aren’t raw, and actually i have one in my backpack upstairs. i have a realcashew in the shell. and the reason that cashews aren’t raw is because cashews in the shellif you try to break it open, like the one
i have upstairs, if you try to break it open,it’s caustic and it’s going to burn your hands with naturally-occurring chemicals inthere so that animals don’t eat the cashew nut. the animals can eat the fruit, but notthe nut, because why are the nuts around? why are the nuts around the cashew? it’sso that the tree can drop the nut and the tree could reproduce. every plant, animalon earth’s goal is to- our number one objective is to reproduce. so here’s the cashew nutin the shell. don’t break this open or anything, if you want to try, you can, but then i’vegot to film you so i can show people what happens. i don’t recommend doing that, butlet’s pass it around. but that’s the cool cashew nut. so i wentto costa rica, and when i was in costa rica
i went to this butterfly sanctuary, whichwas really cool, and they had this big cashew apple tree. and it had all these little fruitson it that were red and orange colored depending on the ripeness, and it looked like a littlechristmas tree, and that little nut appendage is on the top of it. so it’s not even insidethe middle. so you can eat the fruit--i didn’t particularly care for it because it’s actuallyhighly stringent and it just didn’t agree with me, but my girlfriend at the time actuallyliterally like them-- but what would happen is those would drop on the ground, they wouldrot, the animals would eat that, but then you’d see all those little nut appendagesgoing around on the ground, and the animals weren’t eating them. not even the monkeysor anything, creatures in nature, because
they know it’s caustic and it’s not goodfor them. i asked the guy who ran the butterfly sanctuary place, “hey, what happens to thosenuts there? can you eat them raw?†and he’s like, “no, we have to take them in and thenwe have to fry them in the pan and then that gets rid of the toxic chemicals,†so themajority of raw cashews that you find in the bulk bins have been heat-processed to takethem out of the shell. although there are some varieties of really raw nuts, the cashews,that have been taken out by people with gloves on and special equipment to keep them raw,but even if you eat the raw cashews in my opinion, nature doesn’t want us to eat them.if we didn’t have special tools or gloves, we wouldn’t be eating them, plus for mespecifically, if i eat cashews, just raw cashews,
and i chew them and swallow them, i’ll seesome pieces come out the other side plus i don’t feel that good afterwards. if i atethe same volume of macadamia nuts, and i chewed them up, they would number one, taste better,number two, digest better, and i feel better after i eat them too. and maybe that’s becausethey’re cooked. but even the really raw ones i don’t feel optimal after. and this chef didn’t know that either. andthen we got in a whole and he thought i was really threatening him but whatever. so thewhole point was the bragg’s was in there and it wasn’t healthy, i’m like, “man,this is really terrible,†because i went back to my seat and i thought, what couldi do other than tell the chef? how can i let
everybody here know? i don’t want to bethe bad guy and stand up and give a talk like, “you can’t eat bragg’s, you can’teat this, you can’t eat that, you can’t eat this, because bragg’s has msg and thishas this and this has this, your [indistinguishable] has theobromide, blah blah blah, so many things,and i don’t want to do that. one of my goals in life is to not just teach people information,but i really want to inspire people to teach themselves and figure things out themselves.i don’t want to just have a list of stuff. so i went back to my cabin that night andscribbled on a 8 and half piece—8 and a half by eleven piece of paper, like, “ok,john, by problem was how can i give a lecture—†because on the last day of this raw foodsretreat there’s an open period time, where
anybody, any attendee, can give a class. sayyou’re a dance instructor, you could actually have a dance class in that one hour. say youteach piano, you could actually teach piano or play piano for people. say you do wildweek walks, you could do a wild weed walk that hour. and i’m like, “ok, john, whattalk are you gonna give?†and i’m like, “ok, i’m gonna give a talk on this talk,â€which is just because it’s raw doesn’t mean it’s healthy. but how am i gonna doit? i had no idea. so what i came up with was a talk today based on a need because somepeople didn’t know just because it’s raw doesn’t mean it’s healthy. just not allraw foods, because bragg’s used to be labeled raw—bragg’s liquid aminos, and actuallyi think they took the words raw off the package.
it doesn’t say raw anymore if you look closely,and it used to. so this is what i came up with on the way to do it is thank god it’snot just me yelling at you guys for the next hour or half hour or whatever it is, thisis audience participation. and that’s why this is one of the funnest talks i give. soyou’re all gonna be expected to participate, and don’t worry i’m not gonna go aroundand point and call on people, this is a voluntary audience participation. so the first part of this talk is number one,i want to say there are no raw food labeling laws. everyone understand that there are noraw food labeling laws? so what does that mean? so maybe back like twenty years ago,anybody could put the words “organicâ€
on any package and it could basically meananything they want. nowadays if something says organic and it has the usda seal, itat least means something. some people say it doesn’t mean as much as it used to, somepeople say it’s good, but it means something because there is a specific law that saysthat if it say organic on it, it means this. with raw foods, anything can say “rawâ€or even the word “natural†since those don’t have legal definitions. if we seethat, we say, “it’s raw, i can eat it.†so i go to the natural products expos whichare the tradeshows for the health food industry and every tradeshow i go to, i usually makea video about it so you guys can see the latest products, but the other thing is i alwayslook for new raw products and every time there’s
always new raw food products and every timei go to the raw food booths, that have the new raw products, i like to check the ingredientslabels, and many of the raw foods products now, like the hail mary brand, they use thingslike maple syrup, and in my opinion, maple syrup, or actually in fact, maple syrup isdefinitely not raw. so why can they put raw on there if they’re using maple syrup? orthis company, raw revolution, had some bars that had chocolate chips. not just cacao nibs,full on, baked—however they make—chocolate chips in their bars, but it said raw on there.to me, that’s definitely not raw, and there’s all kinds of new products coming out all thetime that say raw, that may or may not be raw. and for a long time i had to researchit and i still usually do if there’s a new
product i research it. like when agave firstcame out i learned about it at one of the tradeshows way back in 1999—and this isthe other thing to think about, before that time, raw agave, or even agave syrup, wasjust nowhere in existence. it’s a food that was created in our generation now that isnow being fed to millions or trillions of people all around the planet. it’s not likea long time ago they were just leafy greens we could eat that was on the planet, thatyeah they’ve probably [indistinguishable] since then, this was a totally new food thatwas never before eaten in human history. so i researched agave and from what i determinedit’s not really raw based on how it was processed, and i actually wrote an articleabout it, about how it was not really raw.
but so many people in raw foods use agaveall the time despite it not being raw or if it is raw, or just because it says raw andit’s low-glycemic. i have issue with things, that as people, we like to compartmentalizethings and have blinders on, so, “oh, it’s low-glycemic so it must be good.†but whatabout, that’s only one aspect of it the glycemic index, there’s so many other aspectsof a food like how nutrient dense it is, does it have other nutrients in there, how highin calories is it, so many different things. so basically the fact of the matter is thereare no raw food labeling laws. so anything can say raw, like cacao nibs can saw raw,and are they really raw? i don’t really know. this raw water, this raw living springwater, this says raw on it, is it really raw?
did they heat water, really? i talked to theguys of this company at the tradeshow and had a really good interview and talked tothem about it. questioned them for like a half hour, and i truly believe if you’vegot to buy a bottle of water, this is probably the best stuff you could buy. now aside fromthat fact, so no raw food labeling laws, so now what we’re gonna do today is i’m goingto teach you some simple principles that you can put up these principles or criteria toany food that says raw, any new food that says raw, any food in your cupboard that saysraw, the criteria that we’re gonna come up with today as a collective group to determineif it’s raw or not and if you should put it in your body or not. so this is super simple,we’re gonna write on here, what does raw
mean? yeah, um i’ll give the play-by-play.so what does raw mean, that’s what it says. now we’re gonna come up with a number ofcriteria all the way down and i’ll leave this up after the class and i’ll announceeach one as we put it up, what we collectively as a group come up with. because to me, thereseems to be some kind of disconnect between what we inherently know is raw and then whatwe pick up as raw and put into our bodies, because it may not meet this criteria. sothis is a kind of fun process. and after we come up with our criteria, we’re gonna putup those criteria to some of the foods that i have in the box here. and we’ll see ifthey’re raw or not. so does anybody have a criteria they would like to add? yes?
no heat treatment. alright. so should we maybespecify that more clearly? so, not heated above 118 degrees, or 105, whatever the numberis, we’ve got to put that number up. i was in new york city gave this talk and thoseguys harangue you the worst. but usually i just put a blank you fill it in number. ipersonally would say 118, you might say 105, you might say 100, some people would say 140,and to be honest that temperature, it’s not just the temperature, it’s not like,something hits 118 and it’s dead now, no! it’s time and temperature plus the item.you can heat really raw, i don’t know, sunflower seeds in your dehydrator at 140, take themout, and they’re still gonna sprout. but if you do that with something else, it mightdenature the enzymes. we’ll just put up
there, not heated above 118, or fill in theblank, if you’re taking notes on the temperature. not heated above 118 degrees. okay, does anybodyelse have another criteria that they’d like to see up on this board? that we will allcollectively vote on, actually, so should we all vote on that one? does everybody agree,or the majority of people agree, that a raw food should not be heated above 118 degrees?alright, so i think we’ve got the majority there. great. so, does anybody have anothercriteria they’d like to put up on the board there? not irradiated. so does everybody agree thatwe should put not irradiated on the board there? show of hands. alright, that’s aneasy one. not irradiated. unfortunately, most
foods, you’ll never really know if the foodis irradiated; i think they do irradiate some dried herbs, and right now the food that iknow they’re irradiating that they mark in the case but not on the label is tropicalfruits. so if you go to buy dragon fruit, [indistinguishable], sometimes [indistinguishable]or [indistinguishable], like the asian markets, they probably have been irradiated. to check,you want to ask the guys that work there if you can see the box and there will be a symbol.it looks like one of those symbols you’d see on some sci-fi channel show. anybody haveanother criteria they’d like to see up there? yes. so, what is irradiation? irradiated islike if you put your food through the x-ray machine at the airport where they check yourbags. it’s kind of like, that’s the concept.
basically it’s like when you irradiate somethingyou change the molecular structure and potentially may make it toxic. when we get x-rays, that’slike radiation, and when we get x-rays they put that lead stuff over your private partsso you can still have babies. so if we’re supposed to do that when we’re getting x-raysso we can still have babies, who knows what it does to our food? why would they do itthough? good question. they do that basically to kill bugs, specifically the tropical fruits,like they’re afraid that if they don’t irradiate stuff to kill the bugs, and allthis stuff, they’ll have some new fruit fly outbreak or some crazy thing. or, that’son the surface level, but then you get even more sinister about all this conspiracy stuff.and actually, oh this is the worst, one time
at the wholesale produce terminal, i saw thatthey irradiated mangoes, but at least it was marked. in general i don’t think they irradiatemangoes, because i haven’t seen that again. or they’re not marking it. i don’t thinkthere’s any law that says they have to mark it. if you eat local, you’re probably guaranteedagainst irradiation. alright, so any other criteria that you guys want to add to thelist? c’mon guys, this is houston, you guys got to come up with stuff, usually at a talki’ll come up with at least eight, sometimes a dozen different criteria. organic? alright, so let’s talk about that.so, should we put must be organic? the question i have for that is i can see irradiated, becauseit definitely shouldn’t be irradiated, but
we can put organic if you guys want, but thething is, say if you live in the middle of tennessee somewhere and you just can’t getorganic food, or you can get organic carrots but you can’t find bananas or whatever.is that person not raw because they can’t find organic food? so let’s have a vote.should we put up organic on our list? alright. so does anybody else have any other criteria?yes. non-gmo. alright. i’m definitely with youon that. so non-gmo, show of hands. yep, non-gmo for sure. not gmo. alright, number four. whole unprocessed food.thank you, i was waiting for that one. so, a raw food should be whole and unprocessed.then someone might say, “john, what if i
take a carrot and put it in my juicer, thejuice is processed! is that not raw?†so instead of saying whole and unprocessed, andyou could be a whole and unprocessed person depending on what your definition of processingis, i like to say minimally processed, and we’ll leave the minimally processed up toyour imagination. if you think minimally processed is juicing, some people don’t agree withjuicing. so juicing could be outside their- could include the process. so, but it shouldbe minimally processed. because we don’t want to take it and fractionate it and turnit into some liquid or who knows what or concentrate it and all this stuff. so we’re gonna votenow on should be minimally or not processed. alright, i think we’ve got that one. minimallyor not processed was that one. yes, got another
one. should not be pasteurized. that’s an excellentone, that’d be like not heated above 118, but let’s talk about that for a second becausethis is cool. so many of you guys may know and many of you guys may not know that anyalmond that is now grown in california, by law, must be pasteurized to sell it and itcan still be labeled raw. the thing is, the raw, pasteurized almonds could be heat pasteurized,and that would meet this criteria, but there’s even a more sinister way that they pasteurizenuts is by chemicals. so i think we should definitely add- should we add, should notbe pasteurized on number five? so i think it’s terrible that they’re now pasteurizingand doing all this stuff and it’s all because
they don’t want to pay extra money if there’san e-coli or something outbreak because of their crappy farming practices literally causedby the poop they’re putting on the plants. because you can’t get e-coli from vegetables,and it’s only usually when there’s some contamination from an animal-based productthat these breakouts occur. so, we’ll put on there, not pasteurized. alright, we’re up to number six. yes. noadded chemicals. right, no added chemicals. that’s an excellent one. even on some driedfruits, actually many dried fruits, they often add sulfur as a preservative to keep it lookingnice and keep it lasting longer and to keep it chewy. so should we add up there, by showof hands, no added chemicals? alright, we’ll
do it. no added chemicals. so no added chemicals.number seven. anybody have any other ones? yes. oh, that’sa good one. so the one is, tends to spoil or short shelf life. after all, how many peoplehave seen that youtube video where they but a mcdonalds hamburger and they film it liketen years later and it looks the same or something or heard about that? we want to eat thingsthat spoil because things that are natural and don’t have preservatives and will spoil.everything spoils. so by show of hands should spoil or should have a short shelf life? alright,i think we got that one. alright, short shelf life or should spoil. number eight. anybody? yes. nutrient dense, i love thatone. so nutirent dense, for those who are
not familiar with the term of nutrient dense,what that means really is if you go to mcdonalds and you eat a big mac or most things on theirmenu those things are really calorically dense, they have a lot of calories, meaning fat,protein, carbohydrates, but they don’t have a lot of nutrients like vitamin d, vitamina, thiamin, riboflavin, trace minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, phytonutrients like luteinor zeaxanthin that are found in like the marigolds that we’re going to plant in the gardenthat you can’t eat the petals. so should a raw food be nutrient dense? by a show ofhands? think we got that one. nutrient dense. so that was nutrient dense. let me interject real quick, if you go toany whole foods market, in the whole foods
market, they’re using what's called theandi scoring system--how many people have heard of that? a handful-- aand the andi scoringsystem stands for aggregate nutrient density index, and in any whole foods market they’llhave a list or at least an abbreviated list of the nutrient density on most produce items.they have it in some bulk items, they have it, unfortunately for some other processedfood items int hehir store they do not have it because it'd make it look really bad, butbasically it’s a system that dr. joel furman came up with, and he's a medical doctor thatpreaches a whole foods, plant-based diet, and he rates foods on the scale of 1 to 1000and how he got the number is he took the nutrients in there, meaning the known nutrients andextrapolated the known and the unkown nutrients
and the calorie ratio and he calcualted whatare the most healthiest foods and he found that the most nutrient dense foods the listgoes from 1000 to like 0 or 1 and at 1000 we have things like kale, cauligreens, watercress,things like that, the dark leafy greens and then at a one is a soda. so we want to beeating high nutrient dense foods like the leafy greens at the top of the list, thennext are the fruits, and then we get into other things. so does anybody have another criteria we canadd on to the list? unflitered; i'd say we can lump that into the minimal processingbecause filtering is a process. and of course, this is a list we're coming up as a collectivegroup so if you have another one you think
should be up here, feel free to add them toyour own personal list. so i think the next one, i'll kind of interjectone here, one of the things one of the criteria that’s really important to me is becausei almost lost my life is is it health-building because i'm eating the raw foods for my health,i want to put things in my body that will build my health and not detract from it soi'll end up back in the hospital. maybe if you’re into weight loss, one of the criteriacould be is it going to help me lose weight. so should we put is it health building onour list? i think we've got that one, yes. health builidng. is it health building? i'lljust put health building. alright, we're at ten. maybe let's try togo to twelve. do you think we can do it? i
want to hear a yeah on three. one, two, three,yeah! yeah, i was reading actually some nut butter. we'll talk about that. blanching isjust the heating process of a lot of heat in a short period of time. i'd probably callthat not heated above 118 degrees. yeah, so according to my research, because i've goneto the tradeshows and i asked the companies that make the frozen vegetables and all frozenvegetables are blanched. so if you’re trying to do all raw, and really anal about it, technicallyfrozen vegetables are not really raw but they’re still very healthy, probably healthier thanmost things you could eat, and i don’t recommend eating a 100% full raw diet crazily becausethe action itself might not be so healthy. oh, that's good. how would we word that? thecriteria is shouldn’t contain substances
that harm us. non-toxic? i think that's good.no naturally-occurring toxins? and then you have to leave up to your imagination how youwant to define toxins, we could talk about that for a long time. so how many people agreewe should put no naturally occuring toxins on our list? i think we got the majority.no naturally occuring toxins. so let's see, why don't i interject anotherone? one of my favorite ones to put is water-rich. i believe, in my definition of raw anyways,raw food should be water-rich because after all we are 65-75% water and foods that don’thave that much water dehydrate us, and we all know that being dehydrated is not goodand can cause many issues. so how many people agree should be water rich? or is water rich?alright, i think we've got the majority, thank
you. alright, getting down to number twelve.dehydrated foods are not water-rich, so hold that question and we’ll see how that worksinto this whole scheme of things in a minute. let's see if i can come up with one more.that's a good one, yeah, so like--anyting in a package. that's a good one. so i postedthis on my facebook page, and one of the guys i know put on there, "anything in a packageis not raw." and that may be in your definition, but let's put it up to the vote of the groupto see if that's in our definition or not. every group's different, it may be in yourown personal list but it might not make it up here. so i'm not gonna debate that, we'rejust gonna put it up to the vote. we'll get into that but let's just vote on if somethingin a package can be considered raw. so what
does raw mean, it means not in a package.how many people would want to see not in a package on our list? i don't think we gotthat one. i think that’s pretty hardcore there. alright, so the last thing that i would wantto put up on my list, that’s really important to me, is some people might call it enzymaticallyactive. that would be implied in not heated above 118 degrees, but i would want to putinstead is “has life force†because to me life force energy even if you believe init, whether that's the enzymes, or not, life begets life, is what i think. if we eat thingsthat are alive like raw foods we're going to be alive much longer than if we eat thingsthat are not alive, like dead pieces of flesh,
then maybe we will not be alive for so longeither. how many people would agree we should put has life force contains life force? ok,i think we've got that one, we're down to twelve i think we're good. has life force.however you want to define life force. i would define life force as if you put it in a kirlianphotography you would see the energy emanating from the object. alright, so that was not too difficult, nowthat we’ve got our list, now’s the fun part. we’re going to open up my little boxhere with just a few things i’ve tried to round up and i usually bring things with meall the time when i give this talk but i didn't really plan on giving this talk because i'mjust in town for a short week and then i go
home tomorrow actually and i got a lot donewhile i was here and i got to give a talk too. so these are just some random items andonce we go through these items, we’ll feel free to-- we'll take some items to put upto the criteria. the first thing we’ll put up to the criteriais what i had for breakfast today: an orange. so let’s put our orange actually from theco-op up to our list. what does raw mean? is it not heated up to 118 degrees? yes. isit not irradiated? yes. is it non-gmo? yes. is it minimally or not processed? yes. isit not pasteurized? yes. is it no added chemicals? yes. is it short shelf life/should spoil?yes. some of theh ones in the box are spoiling. is it nutrient-dense? yes. is it health-building?yes. is it no naturally occurring toxins?
yes. is it water-rich? yes. does it have lifeforce? yes. we just have to trust because it’s organic. from my research, they’renot gmoing oranges yet. if this was a corn, i might not say yes as confidently. i mightsay maybe or we don't know, and that's just the honest answer, we don't really know. unlessyou grow anythinng yourself with your seeds, we don’t know for sure. but to my knowledge,they're not gmoing oranges. i'm not the super crazy conspiracy person. you can think everytingis gmoed and you have to grow your own food underneath greenhouse domes so the chem trailsdon't get on it, but i'm not that crazy. yet, anyways. let’s go with one of my other foods. i'tsnot my favorite food, but it's kyle's. where's
kyle? kyle eats a lot of bananas. so let’sput our banana up to our list. is it not heated up to 118 degrees? yes. is it not irradiated?yes. non-gmo? minimally processed? not pasteurized? no added chemicals? short shelf life/shouldspoil? yes. nutrient-dense? health-building? no naturally occurring toxins? water-rich?has life force? yes. so you can see basically any fruit will put up to the list. would allbe yes. we can skip the apples, because we already know what’s going to happen. howabout the tomatoes? we’ll probably skip the tomatoes because we can easily see ifthose were yes that this is all gonna be yes too. but we’ll put up something like anonion. because believe it or not, onions can be quitecontroversial. so, is this onion not heated
above 118 degrees? yes. is it not irradiated?yes. is it non-gmo? is it minimally or not processed? is it not pasteurized? is it noadded chemicals? is it short shelf life/should spoil? is it nutrient-dense? is it health-building?yeah, right? maybe? i heard some maybes, some people say yes. but that's the honest answer,to you, is it health-building? maybe, because some people say there’s naturally occurringtoxins in here, but some other people may say the naturally occuring toxins are actuallygood for us because they’re said to help prevent things like cancer. so these two,maybe maybe yes, maybe no, maybe maybe, depending on your point of view on it. i'm not gonnadebate that today either. is it water-rich, and does it have life force? yes. so now youcan see on this onion, you’re like, “john!
am i supposed to eat onions? it didn’t haveall yeses! i can’t eat this anymore!†well, that’s not the point of this exercise.as we go through some more of these, you’ll kind of see more the point and then i'll explainit. so now let’s get into something really cool:these guys! so if you live here in houston, or somewhere where it's hot in the summertimelike california or las vegas where i'm at right now, you want to grow these guys theseare called rubra spinach; it’s also called red-stemmed malabar spinach. these are oneof the leafy greens that will grow accidentally in the hot summer. so if i picked a leaf,and i won't do that to this baby plant because we want it to have its full leaves so it canphotosynthesize and grow faster, if i picked
a leaf of this plant and ate it, is it notheated above 118 degrees? is it not irradiated? is it non-gmo? is it minimally not processed?is it not pasteurized? are there no added chemicals? is it short shelf life/should spoil?is it nutrient-dense? is it health-building? is it no naturally occurring toxins? is itwater-rich? and does it have life force? yes; the life force is off the charts, man! it’sstill living! i could eat it here. alright, i ate a little bit. now this is where we get into some packagedfoods. we didn’t put packaged foods on there, it didn't make the list. so, what’s thefirst packaged food that’s fun? how about this one: so, honey. we didn’t put “veganâ€on the list because this wouldn’t have made
it. local lonestar liquid gold texas bestcomb honey. i don’t know if it says raw on here… it doesn’t say raw on the package.so keep that in mind as we go through the list. is it not heated above 118 degrees?the honest answer is we don’t know. it may or may not; it doesn’t say raw, i wouldfeel that is probably is heated, but just because it’s heated above 118 does it meanit’s not raw for honey? the honey industry may have their own definition of that. isit not irradiated? it’s probably--it’s a local honey, so it’s probably not irradiated.is it non-gmo? it’s probably not gmo. is it minimally or not processed? i don’t know;honey in a comb would be totally minimally or not processed. they had to eat this upor spin it out or do something to get it in
the bottle and filter it, otherwise therewould be a lot more junk in there. is it not pasteurized? we hope so, but we don’t reallyknow. is there no added chemicals? i don't know, if you didn't make the honey in yourback yard and know what's happening, you're not spraying your bees with mitocides andstuff, we hope so, but we don’t really know. is it a short shelf life/should spoil? well,honey has naturally-occurring things in it that actually keep it good for a long timebut it will spoil at some point. is it nutrient-dense? generally i’d say it’s generally morenutrient dense than some of the other concentrated sweeteners on the market. is it health-building?depends who you ask. some people would say honey is the best thing since sliced bread,and others will say it’s bee vomit. some
people say, i'm just saying it. is it no naturallyoccurring toxins? i think so. is it water-rich? no, because if it was water-rich it wouldspoil faster. the bees actually flap their wings to heat it up so it evaporates the waterand that’s what makes it concentrated. this is literally nectar of the flowers with thewater removed. so we should all be eating flower nectar. i like to pick my pineapplesage flowers-- hummingbirds like to stick their beaks down this nice narrow flower--and at the base of it there’s a little white part and you eat it and it’s sweet. i alwayswish i could take a million of those and juice it; it’d be insane. if you want that ina concentrated form, i guess you gotta let the bees do it for you, because it's a lotof work. no naturally-occurring toxins, water
rich-- does it have life force? i don’tknow, we’d have to kirlian photography it and see, but if it’s heated there’d beless than if it was straight out of the hive and the comb. so now you can see, you havea couple yeses, a couple nos, a couple maybes, a couple i-don’t knows. john, you’re confusingme man, am i supposed to eat honey? i don’t know! let’s keep going. alright, let's do this one. it's gonna befun. so this is the organic, once again raw, creamy almond butter. it says usda organic,and on the label it says “raw, unblanched, organic almonds.†and that’s the onlyingredients. and it says raw, and it says product of the usa. so if it says productof the usa, you can assume the almonds are
from california, because they don’t reallygrow almonds too many other places in commercial quantities. so knowing that, and it says gluten-free,vegan, kosher, organic, and raw. so let’s put this raw creamy almond butter up to thetest. is it not heated above 118 degrees? i don’t know. do we know? it says unblanched,organic almonds, but technically, almonds are pasteurized to be able to be sold-- tobe sold. so, we don’t really know. i would personally think yes, but we don’t know,really. not irradiated? if it’s organic, it should not be irradiated. is it non-gmo?if it’s organic, it should not be gmo. is it minimally or not processed? it dependsif you think grinding up almonds is minimal or not. i don’t know, i’d probably sayyes. is it not pasteurized? well, these almonds
might be pasteurized. does it have no addedchemicals? yes. is it short shelf life/should spoil? how many people ever had almond buttergo bad on them? i think i used to eat it faster than it’d spoil. i don’t know. is it nutrient-dense?i’d say yeah. is it health-building? if you ate this whole jar it probably wouldn’tbe too health-building, but it depends on how much you eat. is it no naturally occurringtoxins? if it's not still in their nuts it might have enzyme inhibitors in the shellthat’s now fractionated now in this butter. it depends on how paranoid you want to get.is it water-rich? no, because it’d spoil if it was. does it have life force? i don’tknow. a sprouted almond would have much more life force than this, so you might want tobuy your own almonds, sprout them and grind
them up into nut butter so it’s still wet;that’d be better than this. let’s get into some controversial stuffhere. you guys are getting bored here. how about this one? cacao nibs. it says organic,raw cacao nibs. so, organic raw cacao nibs is it not heated above 118 degrees? maybe.we don’t know, because there’s no legal definition of raw. raw doesn't mean not heatedabove 118 degrees, it is what the manufacturer wants it to, maybe they heated it, maybe it'sjust not roasted like in the case of raw cashews or even raw almonds. in the bulk bins now,it’s totally been heated above 118 but it’s still called raw on it, so the answer is wedon’t know. there’s some people that say, "oh, our cacao nibs are raw but nobody else’sare because we have the special ones," or
is that just marketing crap and they justwant to sell their product instead of other stuff. i don't know. is it not irradiated?well, it says usda organic so that should mean non-irradiated. is it non-gmo? once againit says organic so it should not be gmo. is it minimally or not processed? it depends;you gotta to take the cacao fruits, open it up, take off the pulp, they you have to takeoff the little test of skin off the cacao, then you have to dry it or ferment it, thenyou gotta to crack it up to make the nibs. so if that’s minimal to you, yes; if not,no. is it not pasteurized? we hope so. is it no added chemicals? we hope so. i haveheard that there may be bug parts in the cacao. does it have a short shelf life/should spoil?i don’t know, does this stuff spoil? i don’t
think so; i think you could keep it for almostever. is it nutrient-dense? some people would say yes. is it health-building? maybe. somepeople would say yes, some people would say no. is it no naturally occurring toxins? iwould say it has naturally-occurring toxins. once again, this is the seed of a plant wecould open the cacao fruit and eat the fruit take the fruit out and eat it i've eaten itbut if you take the raw bean out it tastes very bitter and you’d probably just spitit out. once again, no animals i’ve seen eat the cacao beans because once again thecacao tree wants to proliferate and reproduce so it has naturally-occurring toxins in there.just because we ferment it or think it tastes good because it’s bitter--is that good ornot? i’ll leave that to you because i’m
not going to debate that, but in my opinionit does have naturally-occurring toxins. is it water-rich? no. does it have life force?probably not as much as a fresh one right off the tree that i’ve eaten before. so now are you guys thoroughly confused aboutwhat this whole thing is about? because we’ve got yes, no, maybe, and it’s like there’sno clear definition. that happen to some of you guys? yeah? let’s just do one last thing.i have stuff like salt in here, and i have organic palm sugar that doesn’t say rawon it, but some do. i’ve got some sun-dried figs. this’ll be fun. so these sun-driedfigs that are organic and it says, specifically, sun-dried. so are these sun-dried figs notheated above 118 degrees? yes, because they’re
sun-dried. and if they are sun-dried, is itnot irradiated? and these are organic. yes. is it non-gmo? is it minimally or not processed?i’d say sun-drying, the fruit could be on the tree and the sun could hit it and thenit’s dried. i’d say that’s minimally processed. is it not pasteurized? yes. isit no added chemicals? yes; we hope so. is it a short shelf life/should spoil? yes. isit nutrient-dense? yes. is it health-building? yes. is it no naturally occurring toxins?yes. is it water-rich? no. does it have life force? i don’t know. it has not as muchlife force as a fresh fig. we could go on and on. we've got things likecarob powder; i’ve got some lara bars; i’ve got that raw revolution bar thing here. basicallywhat’s going to happen if we just put this
up to the list--it says, organic dates, organiccashews, organic sunflower seed crumbs, organic agave nectar, organic almonds, organic sproutedflax seeds. but any food product we put up to this list, we’re going to get a couplethings: all yeses, which in my opinion is probably something you want to eat, becausethat’s undisputed. basically, if you put any fruit or vegetable that’s fresh up tothe list you’ll get all yeses. so that’s cut and dried, easy, you should probably eatit. one the flip side, if we put a mcdonald's hamburger up to this list or something else,we’d probably get almost all nos, or mostly all nos. if you get all nos, or mostly allnos, then you probably don’t want to eat it. now we have the two ends, now we justgot to have something in the middle. so, “john,
what about all the things that are some yeses,some nos, some maybes, some ‘i don’t know’s?†here’s how i’ll break it down for youguys to sum this up really quick: how i look at this list is if i was just to eat somethingwith all yeses i’d basically be eating fruits and vegetables. and i do want to recommendthat the majority of your diet is fresh fruits and fresh vegetables. and water-rich foods.do i eat some things on this list that i might have a no for? absolutely. but here’s thething: you take this out in the health foods store, pull it out, "ok, i'm gonna go downthis list, boom boom boom," you're sitting there, maybe you talk to yourself, like ido sometimes we all talk to ourselves we just don't do it out loud sometimes so don't thinki'm weird, "hey, john's going down that list,
hey that guy's weird," so you won’t feelweird in the health foods store when you’re going through your list mentally or out loud,what i like to do is to minimize this list down to the three most important things toyou. whether you’re trying to lose weight, whether you just definitely don’t want gmos,whether it has to be health-building because you almost lost your life like i did. so forme, the top three i use on this list are health-building because i almost lost my life and i don’twant to lose my life; number two: is it water rich? the fact of the matter is we are 65to 75% water and i want to maintain my high water percentage because if you’re not fullyhydrated and have dehydration that can cause a lot of issues. and the last one that’simportant to me is: has life force. because
i want to eat things that are alive and lifebegets life. so now, whatever three for you, you want to remember those--and that’s nothard to do, remember three things--and then any food you pick up at the health foods store,whether it says raw or not raw, put up those three criteria and here’s how i work it. a lot of the criteria that i would put foodsup to: is it health-building, is it water-rich, and does it have life force? obviously, onceagain, any fresh fruit or vegetable would obviously be yes, and would there be a packagedfood that i might eat? this is something i actually travel with--i got it as a free sampleat a tradeshow and i haven’t eaten it yet; i don’t know. the expiration date is 7 2015;i think i’ve had it in my bag for a half
year and i’ll dig into this if i’m totallystarving on an airplane or i’m in the middle of nowhere and there’s no other food. butthis is nutrient-rich--so we know it meets the nutrient-rich one--matcha powder. superfoodof the inca. warriors, even. and it’s by some raw food company; it’s non-gmo andorganic. so if i put this red matcha power up to my list, “ok, john, is it health-building?â€i’d probably say yes. is it water-rich? no! does it have life force? not as much asthe matcha that i'm growing in my garden right now, i'm gonna have a matcha root and i'llmake a video when i harvest it and eat it raw. so, “john! this has two nos and oneyes! are you still going to eat it?†well, if i’m in the middle of nowhere and there’sno fresh fruits and vegetables and i’m really
hungry and i’ve got to eat something, yes.because it’s health-building and i don’t want to lose my health and there may be nutrientsin here that might not be in something else. another thing that i might eat is spirulinaor algae powders. algae powder would be in a similar pack like this and i don’t haveany in my backpack because i eat the algae powder before i eat the matcha. they’regone, i can show you guys any; i’ve got some more at home i have to put in my bag.so is algae powders health-building? in my opinion, absolutely. does it also containtoxins? some people would say yes. is it water-rich? no, but i usually add it to water on the airplaneand make a little green drink and drink it. does it have life force? well, not as muchas fresh algae powder, but number one for
me is health-building. so i believe it canadd to my health and not subtract to it. some people would say that the algae powders arepond scum and that it’s not good for your health. we’re not going to debate that tonight,but just to know that i would eat it because i think it’s health-building. so whateverthe food is, i encourage you guys to just think critically, do your own research, havethe three criteria that’s most important to you so you at least know or have some criteriato judge if it’s a raw food according to your definitions, because once again, theindustry does not have a legal definition of raw foods and there’s so many packagescoming out every day that are labeled raw that in my opinion, i would probably not eator put into my body.
does anybody have any questions about thissystem, about this method, that we just went over tonight? is everybody clear on this?i mean it is really simple; break this list down to your three most important things beforeyou buy anything or put anything in your mouth; ask yourself the questions real quick, andtry to get all three yeses, because then you can eat it; if it’s all three nos, you probablyaren’t gonna eat it. if it’s yes-no-no, yes-maybe-maybe, then think a bit harder aboutit. with these tips and techniques, i’m confident you’ll definitely be eating ahealthier diet than you were when you came out here tonight. thank you. congratulations, you guys made it to the end;i’m impressed; that was definitely a long
talk; but i surely hope it was worth yourtime. i know it was worth mine to give the presentation, to think up the presentation,and now to edit it and put it on youtube for that all you guys who could not make thisparticular presentation could now view it and it could change your lives as well. iwant you guys once again to learn to think for yourselves, and teaching in this methodgets people thinking, which i think is only a good thing. if you enjoyed this video pleasegive it a thumbs up and be sure to share it with your friends. also, if you're not alreadysubscribed to me make sure to click subscribe i'll put a link right above so you can benotified of all my future videos which basically teach the nuts and bolts of raw foods anda healthy plant-centric diet and how you can
do it too. the final thing i'd like to sayis i want each and every one who listened to me talk right now to leave a comment onyour top three criteria on what a raw food is to you after watching this episode thatcould help benefit others and i know i will. once again, this is john kohler with okraw.com,we'll see you next time and remember, keep eating your fresh, ripe, and raw fruits andvegetables, they’re the best.
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