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Sumara's
Raw Foods Recipes
Divine Raw Chocolate Truffles #1
4 ounces raw cacao nibs
12 Medjule dates
½
cup hazelnuts (filberts)
¼ cup raw cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ teaspoon stevia powder
Coating
¼ cup raw chocolate
powder
¼ cup
coconut, finely ground
¼ teaspoon stevia powder
Place
the cacao nibs in a coffee grinder or food processor and grind until they are the consistency of
finely ground coffee.
Next,
run the dates through a juicer using the blank screen to make a paste.
Place
the coconut in a food processor with the blade in and process until finely chopped.
Remove and set aside.
Next,
place the hazelnuts in a food processor with the blade and run until finely
chopped.
Add
the rest of the ingredients and mix until well blended.
Mix
the chocolate powder with the coconut and stevia on a plate and set aside.
Take a
small portion of the truffle mixture and roll into a ball in the palm of your
hand, then roll in the chocolate mixture and place in a container.
Refrigerate for at least 2 hours and serve.
Makes about 2 dozen truffles
Divine Raw Chocolate Truffles #2
4 ounces raw cacao nibs
12 Medjule dates
1 avocado
½
cup hazelnuts (filberts)
¼ cup almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ teaspoon stevia powder
Coating
¼ cup raw chocolate
powder
¼ cup
coconut, finely ground
¼ teaspoon stevia powder
Place
the cacao nibs in a coffee grinder or food processor and grind until they are the consistency of
finely ground coffee.
Next,
run the dates through a juicer using the blank screen to make a paste.
Place
the coconut in a food processor with the blade in and process until finely chopped.
Remove and set aside.
Next,
place the hazelnuts in the food processor and process until finely chopped.
Add
the rest of the ingredients and mix until well blended.
Mix
the chocolate powder with the coconut and stevia on a plate and set aside.
Take a
small portion of the truffle mixture and roll into a ball in the palm of your
hand, then roll in the chocolate mixture and place in a container.
Refrigerate for at least 2 hours and serve.
Makes about 2 dozen truffles
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Raw Vegetables Fuel His `Engine'
by K. Srinivas Reddy, The Hindu
Who wouldn't agree that
eating vegetables is good for health. But Jaggavarapu Rama Reddy would further
qualify this statement. He would like you to eat raw vegetables and shun
eating cooked ones. And you cannot disagree with him.
He has been on a raw
vegetable diet for over a decade and is now a perfect picture of good health.
`Magic'
formula
He got rid of his arthritis
problem, his eyesight has become perfect again and his hair fall has stopped.
And yes, there is a spring in his step.
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More Raw Vegies May
Curb Pancreatic Cancer Risk, Study
ABC News Online
Eating more raw vegetables every day, especially
yellow and dark green ones, may help cut the risk of pancreatic cancer in
half, according to researchers.
Researchers at the University of California in
San Francisco found eating five or more servings of yams, corn, carrots,
onions or other similar vegetables is linked with lower risk of the disease -
one of the most deadly and hard-to-treat cancers.
Dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and
kale, and cruciferous ones like broccoli also worked well, they said.
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article.
The Healing Power of
Honey: From Burns to Weak Bones, Raw Honey Can Help
by
Kelly Joyce Neff,
News Target
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Raw honey – which has not been
pasteurized or filtered, and ideally taken directly from the hive – is
a treasure chest of nutritional value and medicinal remedies. It
contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals and is a natural and
powerful medicine, both internally and externally.
The list of honey's beneficial functions
is a long one. Honey increases calcium absorption; can increase
hemoglobin count and treat or prevent anemia caused by nutritional
factors; can help arthritic joints, when combined with apple cider
vinegar; fights colds and respiratory
infections
of all kinds; can help to boost gastrointestinal ulcer healing;
works as a natural and gentle laxative; aids constipation,
allergies
and obesity; provides an array of
vitamins and minerals; and supplies
instant energy without the insulin surge caused by
white sugar. Many have found raw
honey
helpful for its positive effects against allergies and hay fever, and
one or two teaspoons last thing at night can help with
insomnia. As an antiseptic, honey is
also a drawing agent for poisons from bites or stings or infected
wounds, and has outperformed
antibiotics
in treatments for stomach ulcerations, gangrene, surgical wound
infections, surgical incisions and the protection of skin grafts,
corneas, blood vessels and bones during storage and shipment.
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Microwave Cooking is Killing You!
by
Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney), Health, Wealth &
Happiness
Microwave
cooking is one of the
most important causes of ill health.
It is certainly one of the most ignored.
There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A
woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, but was killed by a simple blood
transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfusion in a
microwave oven!"
Logic suggests that if heating is all there
is to microwave cooking, then it doesn't matter how something is heated. Blood
for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not
therefore follow that microwaving cooking does something quite different?
A
little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the
University of Minnesota in a radio announcement...
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Chamomile
by Cindy Mortimer, Alive.com
What a hard day! You’re stressed out,
so you reach for a cup of chamomile tea to calm your inner self. But
what about your outer self? What about your complexion?
Chamomile’s healing properties do wonders. Its anti-inflammatory
nature will soothe redness and itching, reduce swelling and heat
associated with dermatitis and prevent inflammation and negative
reactions due to irritating cosmetics. Its antiseptic qualities
destroy bacteria, and the plant’s anodyne–which is similar to an
analgesic–relieves pain. The herb’s vasoconstrictive abilities aid
the narrowing and healing of unsightly facial capillaries.
Taking chamomile to cure what ails you is not a new trend. The herb
was used regularly by the Ancient Egyptians. It is commonly found
growing wild in fields of Europe. The Europeans became aware of the
plant’s medicinal benefits, and it is now specifically cultivated
for that purpose.
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