Apples and the Alaskan Adeventurer

Hello!

Earlier this week David and I were lucky enough to go for a Fall Day Sail with the family over to an island where there is an ancient old apple orchard. I am in heaven! I am a huge apple fan, and to have access to wild grown apples is a dream come true, a moment in Eden! Nothing compares to fruit fresh off of the tree, and we all filled as many bags as we could with the glorious juicy globes!
Picnic by the ocean. Wild plum fruit leather, flax crackers with sprouted chick pea hummus, fresh tomatoes from the garden, nori sticks, grapes, and APPLES!! Oh, and raw chocolate treats from Cafe Bliss.
Happy picnic people, even Heather had a day off from Cafe Bliss!
Apple Tree and an apple fairy, no, wait, it is Heather!
Apple Orchard nap for Constanze.

One of my favorite tidbits from Raw Spirit Festival was from a David Wolfe lecture in which he was discussing the amazing levitational elements of the universe, and that when Newton wondered to himself that day when an apple fell on his head "why did the apple fall down?" he should have in fact asked the question "how did the apple get up there in the first place?"

Love it! Apples are full of levitational elements, I can feel it! And when you really think about it, it is like magic that such thing as an apple, full of fresh organic water, minerals from the soil below, enzymes, sweetness, crunch, and sunlight, could arrive suspended up in the air, just calling to be picked and enjoyed!

So, there we were in an orchard full of apples, having a picnic with an Alaskan Adventurer, who was on his way via KAYAK from Alaska to Seattle! An amazing feat of physical and mental determination, and of course the subject of food, and raw food came up as we were all sitting there adventuring in the trip of eating raw food.

He mentioned that it had been difficult to include many fresh foods in his diet during his 3 months out kayaking, and he also commented how good it felt to be eating so much fresh food! He also told us that his goal with food while on this adventure was simply to eat as many calories as possible, and that as a result he was beginning to feel the effects and had symptoms of acid reflux.

When you are burning so many calories as the Alaskan Adventurer, eating as many calories as you possibly can does not show up as weight gain, but it still does take its toll on all of your organs if you are eating foods that your body was not built to use (processed starch and sugars and animal products in particular.)

Following is a entry written by David:

One of the things I talked with our Alaskan Adventurer about was his health, post-adventure. In 1999, I walked the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, and in the process of doing that seven-month adventure (the equivalent of climbing Mt. Everest seventeen times), I pushed my acid reflux / toxicity issue to its max. I was eating 36 eggs in a day on some days, anything to get enough calories into me! After being sick for three years, I finally discovered plant-based raw food nutrition, and things cleared up in weeks.

I shared this story with the Alaskan Adventurer, and he said that he too was developing acid reflux during the trip. We talked about the difficulties in bringing enough fresh food to supply the 5,000-8,000 calories a day you burn on such a trip, and I passed along some of my post trip tips to him:

Make Green Smoothies
Use Spirulina-Chlorella-E3Live
Blend/Juice Celery for Organic Sodium (lines the stomach, alkalinizes)
Regain Weight using Greens, Nuts and Seeds, and if suitable, quinoa, buckwheat and rice - NOT Meat and Dairy, Soy and Processed Sugar
Move Your Center of Gravity up the Spectrum of Diet towards Raw/Live Foods
Get 1 Quart of Water with MSM (anti-inflammatory) in Each Morning, post-trip. Continue to drink enough water throughout the day.

He also knows about Juice Feasting, so if he needs a supportive cleanse post-adventure, he can do it. Needless to say, after suffering so much after my Appalachian Trail adventure, it was a pleasure to pass along the info that would have saved me three years of hell - but at least it did help me resolve my health challenges before more years passed. So, if you are on an adventure, and the foods you have access to are a little down on the Spectrum of Diet, remember these points above, or pass them along to other heroic adventurers out there! - David Rainoshek, MA

Eat your greens!

C'est tout, mon ami!

Until next time,

Katrina

Quiet Green Suday (19 Days till GJF!!)

Katrina eating her greens.
David eating his greens.

Hello,

We are having a very quiet Sunday, and hope that you are too. I decided early this morning that I needed a day off from the computer (as much as possible...as you can tell the power button on this baby still got pushed) so David and I have spent the day meditating, working in the yard, washing windows, hanging laundry to dry, drinking green juice, eating fruit, going for a long walk, and giving each other hair cuts (a hair cut for him, a trim for me.) A perfectly dreamy day.

This morning I was about to make our regular breakfast of a giant green smoothie, and I felt all of a sudden that it was just too much. I wanted green juice! And so that's what we had. I said to David "What is going on?!! I don't want green smoothie, I always want green smoothie!!" But this morning, even a nice, light green smoothie felt too heavy. So I made a juice out of kale, baby greens, 1 apple, 5 little carrots, and 1 orange and it was SO good and I have felt SO good all day!

I have already begun Juice Feasting in my mind....my body is moving towards the juice!! We see it happen all the time, people will plan to begin a Juice Feast on a certain date and then they just can't WAIT so they have to start early, like RIGHT NOW!!!!

An excellent thing that you can do in preparation for your Juice Feast is to begin adding in as many greens to your diet as possible - Drink green juice, have a green smoothie for breakfast, eat salad and green soups. This will do two very important things: it will begin to increase your love for greens (which are very, very important on a Juice Feast) and you will find your taste buds loving them more and more. And, it will begin to lighten your digestive load which will help your body to move with more ease into your Juice Feast. Adding more greens into your day is so important that I am going to address it again in my next post, but I just wanted to plant that seen today - green is the color of love, and you are truly loving your body when you feed it green.

Sowing the seed,

my hand is one with the earth.

Wanting the seed to grow,

my mind is one with the light.

Hoeing the crop,

my hands are one with the rain.

Having cared for the plants,

my mind is one with the air.

Hungry and trusting,

my mind is one wiht the earth.

Eating the fruit,

my body is one with the earth.

~Wendell Berry

What's for dinner honey? GREENS!!!

We are off to Tucson tomorrow, so we will talk to you again on Tuesday. Looking for a BIKE for me among other things. I hope I find one that wants to come home with us. I really miss having a bike....haven't ever been bike-less this long (a year!) so it is about time a two wheeled wonder came into my life.

Have a beautiful Sunday evening,

Love Katrina and David