We enjoyed this conversation so much - I am happy to link you in to this one. Click here for the interview!

Also, if you have ever at any time been a paying member of JuiceFeasting.com, do make sure you check out The Green Room and sign up so that we can get you in there (you are in for life with any previous or current paid membership of any duration!!). I (David Rainoshek) am blogging my own blog in The Green Room almost every day, in addition to answering numerous important questions on Juice Feasting and life transformation. Katrina and I have also established Juice Feasting Women's and Juice Feasting Men's Groups, and the whole Green Room is set up for you to create your own groups!

Enjoy the talk we have for you, and have a wonderful week!

With peaceful steps, 

David and Katrina Rainoshek
www.JuiceFeasting.com

General Mills Purchases Lara Bar: Raw Foods Movement for Sale?

Big news in the world of raw food today: Lara Merriken, creator and former owner of Humm Foods which makes Lara Bars, sold her company to General Mills. Katrina and I read the news on Heidi and Justin Ohlander's site:

http://rawfoodrightnow.blogspot.com/2008/06/larabar-bought-by-gener...

Coca-Cola bought Odwalla a few years ago, remember that?

For starters, I have a lot of things I could say about Lara Bar's new ownership, and what it means in the context of creating a movement. Katrina and I are going to watch to see what the general reaction among the raw food community is to this news over the next day or so, and then decide whether a long discussion about the Raw Foods Movement from our perspective will be a helpful addition to the conversation.

We do want to say something to place our view in the initial days of conversation. So, in short, this is a poor decision from the perspective of maintaining the integrity of the Raw Foods Movement, regardless of how economically or business savy this may have looked internally to Lara Merriken and crew. We are creating new economies, new thoughts, new Life Practices - not merely gaining enough success to improve the image and bottom line of companies which have helped create the multitude of health problems and social problems and economic problems we now have - all stemming from a poor food environment.

As far as this spreading raw foods? Some people have suggested that this sale will further the awareness of the RFM. That is a non-starter. Lara was already in nationwide U.S. grocery store chains, without General Mills' ownership of her company, Humm Foods.

Let's create a new economy. We will not be buying Lara Bars anymore, which will only feed a corporation that advertises Boo Berry, Betty Crocker, Trix, Count Chocula, Pilsbury, and Totinos. Here is even more information about General Mills, including a continuation of the atrocious list of so-called foods already mentioned:

General Mills on Wikipedia

Don't let General Mills' efforts to buy up better products and market them color your vision. Buying a Lara Bar, in terms of food and health, will be nearly identical to buying something wholesome from a subsidiary of Philip Morris, the infamous tobacco company. It still benefits a company that is harming our nation, and we know this is true. Did you see the latest data out on diabetes? Here it is from an article in the June 25, 2008 New York Times:

The number of Americans with diabetes increased by 15 percent in two years to 24 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 8 percent of the population now has the disease, mainly Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity and sedentary living, the agency said in a report using data from 2007. A quarter of people ages 60 and older had diabetes, the agency said. The number of people worldwide with diabetes will double to 366 million by 2030, according to the World Health Organization, which calls the disease an epidemic [read: pandemic]. The C.D.C. report was its first update of the prevalence of diabetes since 2005, when it reported that about 21 million Americans had the disease.

We in the Raw Foods Movement have all worked too damn hard:

- on ourselves
- helping others transcend this nonsense,
- and in putting together books, websites, blogs, and even businesses that move beyond such empty and harmful baggage such as that created by General Mills.

Updates on this commentary will come, if appropriate and/or necessary. Let's see what our visionary community thinks...


In mourning for Lara Bar, and in hopes that this is a good lesson in what we in the RFM don't want at any price,


David Rainoshek, MA in The Green Room
www.JuiceFeasting.com

Hello Juice Feasting Community!

We are entering the last 3 weeks of the 2008 Global Juice Feast!

Last week Dorit of www.iamhealthyradio.com and the Director of the Raw Lifestyle Film Festival interviewed us on her international radio program about the Juice Feasting and the 2008 GJF. During the conversation, Dorit said:

"This is a complete return to health and wholeness. During my Juice Feast, I saw my cells being bathed in a way they never had before. I love the program you have put together because it is a complete package. Of all the things that I have seen so far for healing on a physical level, Juice Feasting is the most complete program I have ever seen." - Dorit

If you have heard other interviews with us on Juice Feasting, you will really enjoy this one because we got into some more detail as we were on Day 61 of the Juice Feast. This was an excellent conversation that got into:

• How David and Katrina Rainoshek got into live foods and Juice Feasting
• Scientific research on why to move Beyond Dairy (from the largest study ever done on the link between diet and health)
• Scientific data on why to move Beyond Soy (from a decades-long vegetarian MD!)
• The importance of Vitamin B-12 and where to get bioavailable sources supplementally.
• Juice fasting to Juice Feasting: What does this upgrade mean?
• Conscious birth: New films on birth you won't want to miss
• Juice Feasting while traveling
• Protein on a Juice Feast
• Can a person go straight from a McDiet to Juice Feasting and Plant-Based Foods? Why we can - and recent developments that have made that a possibility that has not existed before.
• Nutritional and Life Abundance: Switching on and Never Being Bored Again
• Juice Feasting as a boon for the community of Health Practitioners, Juice Bars, and Organic Farmers
• Feasting on Juices for children
• Juice Feasting and what you need to know if you are on pharmaceuticals, including a recent Juice Feaster's results!
• A NEW POSSIBILITY for getting your Juices cheap(er) and more easily on a Juice Feast.

As you can see that the show is packed and it is free for you to download. We deeply appreciate Dorit having us her show, which can be found at the following links:

Dorit on I Am Healthy Radio

Juice Feasting Interview with David and Katrina Rainoshek (Direct Link)

 

With peaceful steps,

May 8, 2008

Dear Juice Feasting Community!

We have an exciting update to the Juice Feasting Program to share with you today that is going to add a new depth to your experience, and help in a significant way in working with the mental, emotional, and spiritual transformation and growth encouraged by Juice Feasting.

Today you are going to learn about a technology that we began using during the 2008 Global Juice Feast and continue with incredible results in improved memory, emotional poise, deep sleep, creativity, and even physical health (this technology causes a release of crucial youthening hormones such as DHEA). I (David) have been meditating and praying for years, practicing speed reading and other mental development techniques, and have found this to be a significant addition to Juice Feasting and our whole Integral Life Practice matrix. If you want to more deeply shift your life during this Juice Feast, you will find that Holosync will integrate seamlessly into your Program.

As you are well aware, the 92-Day Juice Feasting Program we have designed for you, and continually update, is not limited to physical transformation. We recognize that for a dietary and physical health shift to stick, it needs to be joined by healing, abundance, and depth of experience in the other lines of personal developement. To put it another way, we eat at the level at which we want to achieve, and the level at which we achieve depends on other avenues of personal development that simultaneously include and transcend our food.

Today we want to share with you a mental, emotional, and spiritual development tool we have discovered that is certain to add a great depth to your life experience for the rest of your life. How would you like to:

• Sleep more deeply
• Be more mindful
• Find the underlying issues behind your eating of less than the best foods a thing of the past
• Lower your stress levels dramatically
• Handle stress with the equanimity of an enlightened sage
• Create remarkable improvements in your mental and emotional health, even in areas that have stubbornly resisted change with other approaches
• Dramatically increase your production of vital (and very pleasurable) brain chemicals related to your longevity, well-being, and quality of life.

Welcome to a huge development in the science of brain and mind development called Holosync, designed by Bill Harris and his team at Centerpointe Research Institute.

 

Experiencing deep meditative states each day provides a super-enriched environment for your nervous system, causing enormous (and very beneficial) changes in the brain.

Benefits

 

• Profoundly deep meditation
• Dramatic increases in the production of a whole variety of beneficial brain chemicals, including pleasure-causing endorphins, as well as a number of others proven to slow aging and increase longevity and well-being
• The release and falling away of dysfunctional mental and emotional patterns (such as anger, fear, anxiety, depression, sadness, substance abuse, self limitations, etc.), even those that have stubbornly resisted other methods
• Increased learning ability, enhanced creativity, greater intuition, improved focus and concentration, and (even more amazing) greatly increased personal self- awareness (scientists call this combination "whole brain functioning")
• Dramatically lower stress levels, and an increased ability to deal with whatever comes at you from the world, calmly and clearly. You become more relaxed, less anxious, more centered, more peaceful, and more connected to others
• Achievement becomes easier, and without the same feelings of anxiety and stress. Taking the risks necessary for success doesn't seem so scary anymore. Good things begin to just "happen" in such a way they almost seem to fall right into your lap
• The need for sleep decreases, yet aliveness, vitality and energy increase.

Excited? Intrigued? For more, we have created a whole page on Holosync on JuiceFeasting.com available to everyone (or find it in the Juice Feasting Intro Under "Life Practices") so that you can learn much more about it.

What you now have available to you is an addition to Juice Feasting that will serve as another incredible Life Practice for you long after you have completed your Feast, and will, like Juice Feasting, benefit you immensely for the rest of your life.

Holosync on JuiceFeasting.com

We are so pleased to bring you this significant update to the Program, and  look forward to hearing how you benefit from it.

 

With peaceful steps,

May 1, 2008

Hellooooo Juice Feasters and Global Juice Feasters!

Katrina and I wish you a happy Day 62! on the 2008 Global Juice Feast. A new feature we are going to offer on JuiceFeasting.com is periodic emails updating you on the latest that is coming to us, what is happening in the Juice Feasting world, and new deveopments in the 92-Day Program. We are constantly reading (about 1 book a day between us), talking with colleagues, experimenting with new additions to the program, granting interviews, receiving letters about Juice Feasting experiences, and writing for upcoming books.

We have been getting feedback that the Juice Feasting community would like to be in more intimately on these developments, and that is exciting. Some of our letters will go out to everyone who is registered on JuiceFeasting.com, and others will be written specifically for current members of the 92-Day Program, geared to the content within. To stay up-to-date, your best bet will be to sign in for a full year and you will receive everything.

2008 is going to prove to be an exciting year going forward. The Global Juice Feast will see prune eaters worldwide on June 1st! We will be completing 20-50 minute videos for each day of the 92-Day Program, we will be publishing several books, including The Four Means to Get Your Greens and Juice Feasting: A Modern Hero's Guide (and some other nice collections are in the works). Raw Spirit Festival 2008 is coming up where David is speaking on the main stage indoors for a 1-hour talk on Juice Feasting: A Modern's Hero's Journey. Katrina and I are speaking at Cherie Soria's Living Light Expo in Ft. Bragg later this year on three separate topics which will be filmed and for sale, so we will make that information available as it comes in, as well.

Today we wanted to let you know about a recent interview you can download free.

On April 29, 2008 - Day 60 of the Global Juice Feast, David did a 30 minute interview with Tina Marie on her radio program Holistic Living. This conversation is now available to you here (right-click the link to save):

Tina Marie Interview with David Rainoshek, MA

Please feel free to send this on, and enjoy! In the coming days we will alert you to some other exciting updates to Juice Feasting!

With peaceful steps,