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Raw Food Road Trip 2012
Jan 23rd
Join Judy Fleming, Director of Hallelujah Acres Canada as she continues her travels in Canada to show you what to do on The Hallelujah Diet, and how to do it! You will learn about juicing, raw foods, the importance of cleansing and more! Judy will explain The Hallelujah Diet in detail and answer your questions while you enjoy juice and living food samples to help your body start its self-healing journey!
Continuing on the Road again – these free lectures are weekday evenings at 6:30 pm
March trip #1
March 26th – Brantford, ON at the Bellview Community Hall 55 Tom Street, N3S 2T6
March 27th – Woodstock, ON at the Microtel Inn/Suites 811 Athlone Avenue, N4V 0B6
March 28th – Mount Forest, ON at the Firehall 381 Main Street North, N0G 2L1
March 30th – Waterloo, ON at the Knights of Columbus 145 Dearborn Place, N2J 4N5
Disease Prevention: Osteoporosis
Dec 8th
Disease Prevention has been a topic of discussion for many as we watch others in our circle of family and friends suffer from some of the major diseases of this modern world. Today we are continuing our series on Disease Prevention with Osteoporosis. So far this year we have discussed Mental Health, Arthritis, Cancer, and Heart & Stroke and still have Fibromyalgia, Diabetes and Kidney & Liver Diseases to look at.
Osteoporosis is a disease that affects your bones, weakening them, making them more likely to break. Low bone mass is a main characteristic of osteoporosis. This bone loss does not occur overnight but over the course of several years. Sometimes the first sign anything is wrong is a broken bone.
While you may feel alone with a diagnosis of osteoporosis, the truth is that 1 in 4 women over the age of 50 have osteoporosis and 1 in 8 men. Almost 2 million Canadians suffer from this disease. The cost of treating osteoporosis and the fractures it causes is estimated to be $1.9 billion each year in Canada alone.
The statistics related to hip fractures are particularly disturbing. There were approximately 25,000 hip fractures in Canada in 1993. Eighty percent of hip fractures are osteoporosis-related. Hip fractures result in death in up to 20 percent of cases, and disability in 50 percent of those who survive.
Regular physical exercise along with adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D are important to building bone strength and balance. The best way to get your Vitamin D is by getting out in the sun. As the saying goes “you are what you eat.” Vitamin D and calcium are very important and help promote healthy bones.
Eating foods that are rich in these nutrients can be very helpful in maintaining and/or improving your bone health. Calcium helps bones and teeth stay strong. Bones require calcium to maintain their strength. Maintaining an adequate calcium intake is an important step towards good bone health throughout life. The main goal of good calcium nutrition is to maintain an adequate supply so that our body does not have to dip into the reserve of calcium in our bones.
Foods high in Calcium: the best source is from our raw whole foods and vegetable juices; Seeds (such as flax, poppy, sesame, and chai), almond
butter, almonds, mung beans; Vegetables juices, barley and alfalfa grass juices; Vegetables: radishes, horse radish, broccoli, chestnuts, most dark
green leafy vegetables (such as kale, spinach and dandelion), hazelnuts, sea vegetables (kelp), turnip greens, garlic, squash, bok choy, celery, olives, parsley, fennel, parsnip, watercress and onion; Fruits: dried fruits (such as figs, mangos, apricots, raisins and prunes) black currants, berries, kiwi, papaya, dragon fruit.
Here is a great recipe for you to try for an easy breakfast or snack!
Dried Fruit Granola: soak the nuts and seeds for 3-6 hours then drain them before using in a recipe.
Put in a large bowl the following ingredients:
1 cup of each: sunflower & pumpkin seeds ½ cup organic oatmeal
½ cup raisins ½ cup organic unsweetened coconut
¼ cup of each: poppy & sesame seeds (these need not be soaked for more than 1 hour)
½ cup of each organic dried fruit: apricots, figs, prunes (chop into small pieces)
Toss well with 3 tbsp maple syrup then spread over a Paraflex line dehydrating tray and dehydrate for 4-8 hours
Granola – is always a quick and tasty snack and it can be sprinkled on top of most pudding desserts and creamed pies for added taste and great fiber!
WHAT A GREAT GIFT IDEA: This is just one of the 65 recipes in Judy’s new book “FULL DAY MENUS”. Just mention you read this week’s update and you will get 10% off on this great book until Christmas!
Raw Food Road Trip 2011
Nov 26th
This week marks the end of my 2011 RAW FOOD ROAD TRIP and it has been a great success!
Over the last 18 months I have been out on the road 12 of them and have visited 71 places in Canada, visiting 9 of our provinces. I travelled over 19,901 km by car and over 16,349 km by air for a combined distance of 36,250 km in this vast beautiful country of Canada. What a wonderfully amazing country we live in! During this time I have met over 2000 people and 59 of our Canadian Health Ministers.
The RAW FOOD ROAD TRIP has consisted of two parts, in my first time around I discussed the value of Raw Food and Juicing over the Standard American Diet (SAD) which generally consist of mostly cooked and processed foods.
Then as I continued these last three months and into 2012 I have included a discussion about Cleansing. During this time I have also introduced my full day Get Healthy Workshop in 3 locations with over 65 people coming to learn more in depth what the Hallelujah Diet is all about. This workshop has been so successful I will continue to offer it next year 9 times as I again travel to over 31 places.
So until I start out on my travels, next March 2012, I want to thank everyone who has come to these classes and ask that you spread the word that my planned agenda for next year will be to the following cities and towns:
In Ontario – Simcoe, Cambridge, Mount Forest, Waterloo, Whitby, Sutton, Peterborough, Orillia, Lindsay, London, Sarnia, Leamington, Chatham, Cornwall, Ottawa, Owen Sound and Shallow Lake
In our western provinces of – BC Coquitlam, Vancouver, Burnaby, Victoria, Kelowna, AB Lethbridge, SK Saskatoon, in MB Brandon and Winnipeg
In our Maritime provinces of – NB St. John, PEI Charlottetown, NS Cape Breton, NB Moncton and finally in Montreal Quebec.
So for now I will take a well deserved rest over the winter months and hope to see many more new faces as well as revisit with those from the past in 2012!
Watch for the dates, times and locations on our website www.hacres.ca for the 2012 schedule.
In the Kitchen with Judy as she Talks About Disease Prevention
Oct 12th
Every time I ask a class if they wish to be healthy they all answer yes! But for many it is not that easy. I have spent the last thirteen years teaching people how to eat healthier so they can prevent the diseases of the modern world today from becoming part of their lives.
In a series of classes on “Disease Prevention” I have shown how we can avoid the common diseases of today by doing a few simple things. Include in your diet raw food and juices, get enough exercise and rest, manage your stress and emotions and trust in God and you will have better health. Why would we wait until a disease hits us before we do something about it?
Once we understand what good nutrition means, what foods we should eat and why, then it will be easier to adapt healthier habits that will eventually make us healthier and prevent those diseases we dread from being part of our lives.
As I have said there are just a few easy steps to better health, so in my new book, Full Day Menus, there are easy menus and healthy tips to help you with implementing the habits you need to be healthier and prevent disease from turning your lives into hardship. This book is available at HA Canada.
FULL DAY MENUS: A collection of Vegan Recipes from “In the Kitchen with Judy as she Talks About Disease Prevention”.
BREAKFAST / LUNCH / SUPPER / and …. DESSERT! by Judy Fleming