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This is John Kohler with okraw.com today with another exciting episode for you,
this episode is going to be a quick one at that.
As you saw in the title, don't eat raw - eat fresh!
Yes that's right I don't want to encourage you guys to be raw foodists.
Raw foodists can have their share of issues. You could be a raw foodist and eat nothing
but dates and almond butter all day. You could be a raw foodist and eat kale chips
at the store all day. You could be a raw foodist and have a head
of lettuce and oil vinegar dressing and call yourself a raw foodist.
I don't want you guys to be a raw foodist, definitely eating raw foods a lot you're going
to get results, but I want you guys to have even better results
than raw foodists have. Now what can you do? Whether you eat all fruits
and vegetables or a diet rich in fruit and vegetables or a standard American diet
which I don't recommend, the one thing I want to encourage everyone to do out there is to
eat fresh foods. I'm sitting here in front of my garden and
I have peppers, tomatoes and egg plants and okra and
a whole bunch of different leafy greens and herbs and parsley and asotoba and all sweet
potatoes growing up all kind of different things growing.
The number 1 thing of raw foods that most people miss is you want to eat fresh.
As fresh as possible. Freshest is bestest is what I like to say.
If you go down to your local whole paid check or whole foods whatever you want to call it,
and you just buy the produce that they're selling you and you're not living in California
it's probably been put on a truck, shipped from California to the destination that they're
selling it. Most of the produce sold in whole foods is
coming from California, it's the largest state that produces the most agricultural
commodities. Once again it is a commodity and that whole
system of produce distribution is setup for one reason.
One reason only, it's not to feed your stomach. It's for the profits so the companies,
the farms, the corporations that own the farms can make money, can make moolah.
Because money makes the world go around, or, so many people think.
So many things happen wrong because of money, I was just watching a documentary the other
night on Pfizer and how they came up with a drug,
they knew the drug was bad but they just pushed their sales people to sell it and sell
it and all this kind of stuff. Telling doctors to use it for off-label uses
so they could write more prescription meds and make more money, then they got fined like
$2 billion, it was like the biggest fine of any company
even more than Enron, but in all reality that many dollars of fines is only 2 days of business
of them selling their drugs.
They got the rest of the year to make even more money.
I don't take any drugs, I don't think that's the answer.
I think the answer is eating right and eating the fresh foods. Fresh high quality foods.
I always encourage you guys to step up, make whatever you're doing 1 step better.
Take the next step to increase and better your health and diet.
So how can you do that? Well, definitely from going, if you're buying conventional food
now getting organic foods is a step in the right
direction, it's proven it contains less pesticides and sprays on it.
Even better yet it also probably contains higher levels of nutrition, especially the
antioxidants and the nutrients, but may not be at the same
time. But even better than organic is going to your
local farmers market where it's fresh picked and
hopefully also organic, you have local farmers growing the food for you.
There's even better than that because I thought I was doing pretty good when I ate at a bunch
of farmers markets and stuff. But you could do even better than farmers
market and what's that? It's growing your own food, you can grow higher
quality food than money can buy. I've proven this time and time again when
I eat something out of my garden then I go to the store and buy it and the farmers market
and buy it. Let me tell you, I maybe prejudice to my garden
but the stuff I grow is the *** man, that's what I'm saying, it's the bomb - it
tastes so much better than the stuff you can buy.
I grow feijoas on my feijoa tree and feijoas they're used as a landscape ornamental plant
in Northern California, they're also known as pineapple guavas.
Most people just don't take care of their pineapple guavas and when you don't you'll
get small fruits that don't necessarily taste so great
but when you add good rich soil, compost, rock dust minerals man.
You get such an amazing quality fruit, I've only been to 1 place that had fruit that almost
rivaled mine. The other thing is that you don't just simply
know how good fruits and vegetables can taste unless you've grown your own high quality
*** man. I really want to encourage you guys to take
your diet to next level, whatever you're doing increase the quality of the fresh fruits and
vegetables you're eating and eat more of them. That's my whole message to raw foodists, it's
not all this complicated recipes and such it's about eating fresher higher quality food
and hopefully you're growing yourself. Hopefully after this video you're going to
take some initiative to grow some of your own foods.
If you saw John I live in an apartment man I can't have a garden like you've got.
Well you could find a community garden plot, many places in the area will have a community
garden plot where you can basically rent a piece of land to grow your food.
If you can't do that you could grow in containers in your balcony.
If you can't do that you guys could always grow micro-greens and sprouts in your kitchen.
Even without having any land and once again increasing the quality of what you're eating
in your diet. That's my whole message to you, to eat fresh
not raw because fresh foods are also raw foods but not all raw foods are fresh foods so hopefully
you guys enjoyed this quick episode once again my name is John Kohler with okraw.com
we'll see you next time and remember, keep eating your fresh fruits and vegetables,
they're the best.