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Did you know that it’s possible that some of the food you buy is Irradiated?

Food Irradiation is food that is exposed to Gamma Rays a form of radioactive materials. It’s somewhat like putting food
through an machine that penetrates the food using some kind of short wavelength.

Food irradiation was produced as a protective measure per the FDA to destroy harmful bacteria, delay ripening, inhibit
sprouting of certain vegetables, and more. Food irradiation has been around for over 40 years.

You may be wondering how healthy Food Irradiation is. Well we really don’t know, the longest study on humans was about 15
weeks long, not really long enough to know the long term effects on humans. It is believed that Irradiated foods can lose 2
to 85 percent of nutrients, it is also believed that the enzymes are killed during this process.

Irradiation is just a sad way to tell mainstream farmers it’s ok to continue with unsanitary methods used while producing
food because it will be irradiated. According to http://www.purefood.org/irrad/irradfact.cfm, Irradiation doesn’t kill all of the bacterial in food. Bacteria
like Botulism and viruses and prions that cause mad cow disease may still be in the food after it’s Irradiated. Also, if meats
and poultry are left out the bacteria that was not removed by Irradiation can multiply.

Here is a list of some of the foods that are irradiated:

• Meat
• Spices and seasonings
• Grains
• Fruits and vegetables

So far Organic food CANNOT be Irradiated so if you want to avoid Irradiated foods you might want to buy organic food if at
all possible.

Did you know that your Child’s school is more then likely serving your child Irradiated foods? Well yes, back in 2002 FDA
approved the use of irradiated food in national lunch school programs.

I personally don’t think Irradiating our food is the answer to protecting humans. I believe it is just another method used
that is taking away valuable nutrients that we need to survive. Just think about it, When we cook/microwave our foods we lose up to 85%
of the nutrients.

Now Imagine Your food is:

Pasteurized then Irradiated, then cooked and/or microwaved. Do you think there are enough nutrients left for you? I highly doubt it.

My personal Thoughts:

I believe that we are going to see more and more disease because we are so nutritionally bankrupt. We wonder why we can’t stop
eating and why we are sick. Well all of the methods we use to grow, transport and cook our foods are leaving us nutritional
deficiencies.

If at all possible investigate eating raw and organic foods, this way you are able to obtain more nutrients from your food
then you can using conventional and cooked foods.

I personally became very sick on the Standard American Diet and until I started eating raw I didn’t know how my food was
processed. I think a lot of us aren’t really concerned about what we put in our mouth until we become sick.

Please share this information with your friends and family, kids and so fourth, we need to build up a generation who will
start caring for themselves and start paying attention to how food and even the environment affects us. If we don’t start
caring then we might not survive very long on this earth.

Tanisha Marshall - Certified raw food Teacher, Coach, Chef and Speaker
http://www.tanishamarshall.com

Hello All!

I am finally getting caught up since losing my data. I will be back on track Monday and will have some good info to share.

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reading in between catching up on data that had been lost. I finally got around to reading Green For Life. This book is a must have for everyone eating a raw food diet, at least in my opinion. I am glad though that I have been drinking green smoothies since I started eating raw, but reading this book really validates the importance of green smoothies. If you haven’t read Green for Life, you might want to consider reading it.

Recently I went into a phase where I didn’t make a lot of green smoothies and I was making lots of green juices. I noticed that for me I didn’t feel bad but not as good as I did when I had the green smoothies. So now I try to have 2-3 green smoothies and 1 large glass of Green juice daily but it varies from day to day but I’ve discovered that for me I need the Green Smoothies. It’s so important to discover what works for you.

You know I have not gotten a camera yet, I need to get one bad, I’ve made some really tastey dishes lately and I have some I’d like to share but would love to have a picture of it. I believe in the next week or so I will take the plunge and buy one.

You know I find that I create my best raw food dishes while on lunch(I have a full time job). Just yesterday I created my own Raw Chili and it took only 10 mins to make, last week I made my very own Cream of Zucchini and I made that on lunch as well.

I think I need to write a book about my lunch creations. Anytime I try to create a recipe on the weekend it doesn’t work but if I just let my creative juices flow I come out with some of the most tastiest dishes. I guess we all have to find what works for us.

Well that’s all for now… Talk to you soon.
Tanisha
http://www.tanishamarshall.com

Hello My friends.As some of you may know I lost everything I had on my hard drive, the worst part was it was my backup hard drive. I was preparing to reformat my main drive and placed everything of importance on the backup drive. While reformating the computer the Backup drive failed. So everything I had is gone.

You know I could look at this and get down and think well life is over, but I choose to think positive and get right back on track and re-write everything for my classes and other services. I lost my drive but I still have me and my knowledge so I’ll survive.

You know so many times things can happen to us in life and we’ll revert to doing something bad to ourselves, that could be indulging in bad food, drinking liquor and more, but as I’ve been discussing the last few days it’s important that we start loving ourselves and for me, thank God, I didn’t revert to my old habits. Before Raw I would have went out and ate all that I could and more until I was stuffed. Afterwards I would feel bad. Not this time.

I am keeping a positive outlook on things and I hope that you do the same. Don’t let things like this get in they way of you loving yourself and treating yourself with respect.

I probably won’t be posting anything for a couple of days but hopefully you can understand why.

Talk to you soon, hopefullly by Monday
Tanisha Marshall
http://www.tanishamarshall.com

I’d like to apologize for this article not coming out yesterday, July 12 as promised. I lost my entire hard drive yesterday and I found out that there might be a small chance to have it recovered but it would cost $800.00 to $2000.00 dollars. I am not sure yet how I’ll proceed so just know I lost everything. The worst part was it was my backup drive that failed. I had two drives and the hard drive that was newest failed, I still can’t believe what happened.

Here is the orginal Post that you should have recieved yesterday.

Hopefully you read my post from yesterday about loving yourself. If not, please jump over to this thread and read that first then come back here.

You know I was thinking, It just doesn’t make since that I tell talk to you about loving yourself but I don’t talk about how, right?

Well here are some tips on how to start loving yourself

1. When you reach out an item, that you plan to consume or even put on your body, ask yourself, is this good for me? Does this promote a healthy body, does this bring value to my health?
2. When you are having thoughts about something, or constantly going over and over in your mind about something you got upset about last week, stop and ask yourself, is this benefiting me, am I getting anywhere with this thought, how is this thought bringing joy or happiness in my life, is this thought providing value or stress?
3. When you are in a heated conversation with a friend or family member or whoever, if at all possible, try to start thinking if this argument or disagreement will solve anything or if it will negatively contribute to your health. Ask yourself is this building your relationship or if this is harming your relationship with that person.

See when we care about ourselves we put more thoughts into are actions, we think before we act and we think about the outcome of an action. We when start to care we will take out the time to do this.

Don’t beat yourself up if you do something that is not showing love to yourself, but try to make a goal to love yourself more and more each day. Sometimes throughout life we make good deposits into ourselves and sometimes we make withdrawals.

Try to make more loving deposits and less withdrawals on a daily basis and over time I believe you will learn to make more loving deposits and less withdrawals.

Make a goal today to do one loving thing to yourself. For example, you may be out eating with a friend and you see a super delicious food item on the menu and oh you want it so so bad, try to take some time to think first how will this delicious looking food benefit you, take some time to think about you. Maybe you decide I want to have this, but maybe instead of eating the entire dish you decide to eat half. Some might say you don’t love yourself but if you take the step to eat only half and get rid of the rest I believe you are working towards loving yourself, you are taking actions to cause less harm to your body.

Just take baby steps, don’t make this out to be more then what it is. I think everyday we have to constantly keep depositing into the love bank and the more we do it the easier it get and the more we start to love ourselves.

Please please don’t get mad at yourself if you take more withdrawals then deposits. Try again, there is always another opportunity. The lesson here is to start thinking about your actions and the affects of your actions before you take them, but there is no reason to get mad if you act out of turn. This will take time.

Tanisha Marshall
http://www.tanishamarshall.com

Well this is not my weekly post, just a random post sharing some of the thoughts that have been going through my mind. (Part 2 Coming tomorrow, Tips on How to love yourself, so please subscribe or add me to your RSS feed so that you know when the next post is out)

A lot of people deal with addictions to food, drugs, alcohol and more. There seems to be one common reason why we fall prey to these things. No Self Love. We simply don’t love ourselves so instead we find something to pour our self into and don’t care whether it’s hurting us or not.

How many times have you eaten something you didn’t even want but it looked good? Me personally, to many times to count. How did I feel after I’ve eaten that meal that I didn’t want. Not very good. Most times I would be hurting or I would feel bad emotionally, it didn’t really make me feel better, it didn’t really give me joy, it just helped to push down the things I had been dealing with at the time but it never resolved anything.

I never realized until recently that I just didn’t love myself and because I didn’t love myself, I neglected my body and my health.

What does not loving yourself lead to? Stress, cancer, diabetes, Arthritis, and more. When we don’t love ourselves we simply don’t care about taking care of our body, our thoughts or how we treat others. So in turn we’ll eat something that would harm us and not care?

How many of us have known about the effects of food on our health, but never think once to change how we eat? Many many of us know how bad food is for us but we continue because we feel ok or we think we are inevitable and won’t ever become sick. This is not very smart. I had someone tell me a long long time ago, that our food was not good for us, they explained why and that I should try changing how I ate. Did I listen to that? No I kept going and guess what happened, I got sick.

Like most when I got sick, I would go to the doctor, but for some odd reason they would never find anything wrong. Well after all of this time I realized that if your not sick enough they can’t find anything so they send you home with nothing or with some experimental pills to see if they would fix the problem and there you go, on to finish ruining your life.

We have to start loving ourselves. This is so very important. You will know when you have started to do this because before you reach out for that item that will most likely harm you, you will think twice. You will think about how unhealthy it is and how it would hurt you. When we start to love ourselves we don’t put things in our body that would harm us or we don’t over indulge in things that would hurt us.

I am loving me. I don’t claim to be perfect but it is a working progress, everyday I try to do my best to love me and I notice now that loving me is more important then eating a hamburger from McDonalds, loving me is more important then trying to please people by eating what they eat. Loving me is more important then trying blend in with the crowd of people eating barbequed foods, it’s ok if I don’t eat what they eat, it’s my body why should I try to fit in. Loving me is taking care of myself.

I hope that you can find this love for yourself. Sometimes we think we love ourselves but we really don’t.

I’ll give you an example:
There have been a time during my raw journey where I would eat something that I know would cause me pain, but because I didn’t love myself I ate it. I didn’t care about the affects that it would have on me, I didn’t care at the time whether it would kill me or not, all I cared about was eating something that taste so so good whether I really wanted it or not.

How many of us do this? Many.

If we trutly loved ourselves, I believe we could really make the changes we need to and not look back. Sometimes learning to love ourselves will take a while and that is ok, as long as we know that we are missing this piece in the puzzle and are trying to change, that is all that matters.

Peace and love,
Tanisha Marshall
http://www.tanishamarshall.com

Since going raw I’ve really grown and have changed in so many areas of my life. I am much more concerned now about the earth about myself, my family, the health of people in this world. After reading 12 Steps to Raw Foods, by Victoria Boutenko, I found out about Cold Showers, I had no idea that people actually took Cold showers or even what the benefit was. I thought I’d share with you what I found and I’ll also share below, what I think about Cold Showers.

In the midst of my findings, I found out that hot showers depress the physiological systems of the body.

What Is a Cold Water therapy?
Cold water therapy involves taking cold showers. So instead of taking a warm shower you would incorporate cold showers for some really great benefits. Check it out below.

Benefits of taking a Cold Shower
Some of the great benefits of taking a cold shower is:

1. Improvement of Circulation
2. Eliminating Toxins
3. Reduces blood pressure
4. Cleans the circulatory system
5. Has even been know to fight some non-Lymph node cancers
6. Helps with depression and so much more
7. Helps to reduce pain (Headaches etc…)

When not to take a Cold Shower

Now you might think, why would I not want to take one, after all it’s just cold water. Well there a are a few reasons why might not want to take a cold shower:

1. Women who are menstruating, should not take cold showers so ladies during this time of the month, take some time off.
2. Anyone with High Blood pressure, if you have mildly blood pressure (150/100 and below) then it might be ok
3. Acute Illness
4. Hardening of the arteries
5. Severe Back pain

My thoughts and Experience with Cold Showers

The first day I took a cold shower, was the first of many. I feel in love with it from day 1. When I first get in I start with a warm shower and then switch to cool/cold water and continually adjust the water to the highest temp I can tolerate. After a minute or less my body starts to warm up, it feels so so good. I felt like I was at a spa, really I did. To be totally honest when I was done I felt much cleaner then I do with a warm/hot shower. It is rejuvenating and it brought about a feeling of feeling so good and fresh, my thought process felt sharper, all from a cold shower that lasted about 5 -15 mins.

I can’t say enough about taking a cold shower, it has been one of the most liberating experiences I’ve had in the shower. I honestly believe that hot showers are not good for us just based on how great I feel after a cold shower. To be honest it took me a very long time to try out these cold showers and I am sad that I didn’t try it sooner. So please try a cold shower for yourself and leave a comment on how you felt after taking a cold shower.

How to properly take a cold shower

My suggestion and my suggestion only. I would suggest that you start off with a warm shower, after you get use to that (Which doesn’t take long) Start changing the temp to cool water, slowly add your hands and/or feet and then your entire body, wait a couple seconds until you are use to it and try to make the shower a bit colder. If cool is to cold then just stay at a cool temp and keep uping your temp day by day.

Additional tips and information

Water should be about 60F, but to be honest I never check the temp, not saying you shouldnt but I just Stop at a temp that is tolerable for me.

You probably won’t believe that Cold Water Therapy has been around for more then 100 years.

There have been several studies done on the use of Cold water therapy,check them out below:

Cold Water Therapy research

My Website is finally up. Please check it out. I will be making some changes to it over the next couple of months but for now it’s good to go. In the future I will be offering raw food coaching and possibly some other raw food tools you can use.

http://www.tanishamarshall.com

You will also find links to where you can find me on Myspace, Blogcatalog, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and I have a couple more I plan to add so you’ll be able to find me anywhere.

More great post to come..

Tanisha

Over the last couple of weeks I have been thinking of how important it is for me to get more sun so I decided to do some research on why I need more and I thought this information might be useful for you.

The reason why you want to get more Sun is because it is our best source of Vitamin D. If you didn’t know Vitamin D is known for it’s ability to help with the absorption of Calcium. If you are not getting enough vitamin D there is a possibility that you are not properly absorbing Calcium.

I have also come to learn that disorders of the kidney and liver may cause an undesirable conversion of Vitamin D in the body. With knowing this I think it’s important that we try to cleanse and eat foods that are good for our Kidney’s and Liver as well as consider taking supplements like enzymes which help to produce Vitamin D in these organs.

If you are suffering from:

• Obesity
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Colon Cancer
• Liver disease
• Kidney disease
• Most likely any other disease

there is a chance that you are Vitamin D Deficient. Some signs of Vitamin D Deficiency are impaired bone mineralization and softening of the bones. I think the best way to know if you have a vitamin D Deficiency is to take a test, there are several places online where you can order your own Vitamin D test, it is a little expensive so if you can’t afford the test I would highly suggest eating raw foods, possibly taking enzymes and getting enough sun.

How much Sun do you need:
All you need to do is get out in the sun about 2 to 3 days a week. 10-15 Mins of Sun for those who have a lighter skin tone and about 20 mins or more for those of us who have dark skin.

How can I supplement Vitamin D?
Well this can be tricky, from what I know the best way to supplement Vitamin D is to use Fish oils or by eating fish and for some Raw Foodist eating fish is not an option so your best bet is the Sun.

How do Fish get Vitamin D?
I found out that they get Vitamin D by the algae’s that they consume in the water as well as other methods. I have read that sock eye Salmon are higher in Vitamin D because they eat zooplankton which is a microscopic animal(such as protozoans), found in lakes and reservoirs.

Did you Know that:
Most foods are fortified with Vitamin D2 or D3 to help prevent Vitamin D Deficiency? Foods like Milk, Margarine, and Cereals. From what I hear eating food with vitamins added are not always good for you but they are put there because during the processing of the food the nutrients that were there were processed out of the food so they had to put it back in somehow.

I don’t know about you but I plan to get outside more and enjoy the sun as 2-3 days isn’t to much to ask for. Most times we go out of the house everyday to work, why can’t we spend a little time getting the proper nutrients we need. I know for a fact that I plan to work on Cleansing my Kidneys and Liver in the next couple of months, to try and help with the absorption of Vitamin D.

As for Enzymes I currently take the Premium Enzymes and have found them to be helpful in digesting food and cleansing my body.

Here is a place where you can order the Vitamin D Lab Test
Lab Safe

Talk to you soon,
Tanisha Marshall - Certified Raw Food Teacher, Chef, Coach and Speaker

I thought I’d drop in and say hello and let you know what is going on in my life.

I actually miss writing everyday but I want to provide more detailed and in depth information and I can do that better when writing once a week, it will give me some time to actually give you something you can use on your journey to raw.

Lately I have been doing a lot of planning and finishing up my website tanishamarshall.com, I can’t wait until it is complete so that you can check out my story and some up-to-date pictures.

Yesterday I took some photos for my website and I felt so good and could see how my body has changed from what it was last year. I still have more weight to lose but I am almost certain I’ll be close to my goal by the end of this year.

I thought I’d share what I had to eat today:

Breakfast: Larabar (Most times I eat fruit but I need to go shopping)

Lunch: Salad and Green Juice(Collards, Bok Choy, Grapefruit, and Apple)

Dinner: Not sure yet possibly raw veg Sushi

If there are any any topics you would like to me to cover please post a comment or send me an email.

Talk to you soon,
Tanisha