A Grass Roots Movement for Raw and Living Food: Things We Can Do

10 things we can all do
(Start out by selecting two options from the list below to help make yourself healthier and the world a better place)

  1. Eat some greens everyday
  2. Eat less meat, or none at all
  3. Eat no refined sugar or products containing refined sugar
  4. Jump on a rebounder 20 minutes a day or practice yoga daily
  5. Fast once or twice a year from food or media
  6. Look up the pH level of the 10 most common foods you eat and eliminate anything with a pH level less than 6
  7. Drink only bottled water from artesian wells (like Fiji)
  8. Eliminate dairy or only use raw dairy products
  9. Meditate 20 minutes a week
  10. Pick one super supplement to add to your daily regimen: bee pollen, blue-green algae, chlorella or spirulina as one of your daily supplements

11 things schools can do

  1. Provide organic lunches
  2. Serve lunches made with produce grown locally
  3. Educate students about the importance of pH balance
  4. Educate students about the food industry
  5. Train teachers on the relationship between nutrition and health
  6. Raise awareness about the relationship between nutrition and health
  7. Join up with socially conscious private industry
  8. Invite speakers like John Robbins and other pioneers to give presentations
  9. Use healthy sweeteners like stevia and agave instead of sugar and artificial sweeteners in cafeteria food.
  10. Teach an elective course on meditation (Harlem public schools teach mediation to their students)
  11. Teach yoga during gym class — for boys and girls

10 things private industry can do

  1. Require all employees to participate in a company-sponsored nutritional training program.
  2. Feed employees fresh, natural, organic, and/or raw food in the cafeteria
  3. Serve blueberries and almonds at company meetings instead of coffee and donuts
  4. Provide incentives to employees to eat well (e.g. contests or recognition programs)
  5. Require all employees to take company-sponsored mind-body stress reduction training
  6. Stock the company cafeteria with healthy sweeteners like stevia and agave instead of sugar and artificial sweeteners
  7. Offer regular yoga classes first thing in the morning or during lunch breaks
  8. Keep rebounders in common areas
  9. Invite John Robbins and others to speak
  10. Provide quality herbal tea alternatives with agave or stevia at the coffee machine

10 things the government can do

  1. Add pH content to food labels
  2. Require teaching nutrition (and its role in health) to grade school and high school students (state governments)
  3. Pass legislation to certify Naturopathic Doctors to practice in the 36 states that do not currently allow NDs to practice
  4. Post health warnings on refined sugar and refined sugar products
  5. Pass green legislation since more oxygen means less acidity
  6. Highly regulate and eventually phase out the non-organic farming industry
  7. Require schools to serve organic options for lunch
  8. Provide more resources and training on the food pyramid (mypyramid.com)
  9. Update the food pyramid annually with input from all segments of the population, not just industry. This would include input from private nutritionists, physicians, alternative medicine practitioners.
  10. Pilot all of these suggestions at one (or more) schools in each school district. After a year measure improvements in health, grades, and physical fitness.

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