The Beauty of Fiber

Friendly fauna in our gut, like lactobacillus acidophilus, will break down some of this fiber thereby making vitamin B12 which we absorb. The same lactobacteria are abundant on every blade of grass, that’s why there’s B12 in the raw milk of cows who eat grass.

• Fiber has no calories since it’s not absorbed into our body;

 
• Fiber helps to control weight by providing bulk – it fills our stomach and satisfies hunger;

 
• Soluble fiber in fruit, seaweed, oats, sprouted beans, peas and lentils, delays emptying of the stomach and increases our feeling of fullness;

 
• Insoluble fiber in green leaves, whole grains (with their bran), legumes, seeds and carrots helps to prevent and treat constipation;

 
• Fiber helps to dilute, bind and remove many of the carcinogens and toxins found in our food and water;

 
• Fiber speeds the passage of food through the intestine, preventing toxins from sticking to our bowel wall and thus preventing colon cancer;

 
• Fiber lowers cholesterol levels, it binds cholesterol and bile acids – diets high in fiber are linked to lower rates of heart attacks and gallstones;

 
• Fiber slows down the rapid absorption of fruit’s simple sugars, so it helps to prevent and control diabetes and hypoglycemia – I blend watermelon with green leaves so I don't get a blood-sugar reaction from the melon, and it tastes just as sweet;

 
• Fiber helps us to absorb glucose.

Greens are the best source of protein. Every animal except the predatory Dairy Board knows that.

Compassion is life-long. No one can alter our heart of love. Love is immutable (constant, deathless and enduring, we know from our experience of Divine Love). We'll stay vegan so long as we visualize and feel the suffering inside the neat cellophane packages.

We need to see the pain we are inflicting on the fish, birds and animals. Fish and chicken are not vegetables. Did you know that in June 2005 World Wildlife Fund reported:

“Almost 1,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die every day in nets and fishing gear. That's one every two minutes,” said Dr Susan Lieberman, director of WWF's Global Species Program.

• Fiber helps to heal ulcers;

 
• High-fiber foods stop diarrhea because the fiber absorbs extra fluids;

 
• Fiber produces more frequent and softer stools, it will end constipation (my note: I guarantee this of greens!);

 
• Fiber helps to prevent varicose veins and hemorrhoids – straining with hard stools from a fiber-deficient flesh diet increases blood pressure in the veins, dilating them and damaging blood vessels in the rectum and legs;

 
• This same straining can push the stomach up into the chest, leading to hiatal hernia, indigestion and belching;

 
• Slow-moving fiber-deficient stool can block the opening to the appendix, leading to appendicitis;

 
• A fiber-deficient diet leads to diverticulosis (disease of the large intestine) – the small hard stools of such a diet blows out pouches, called diverticuli, in the colon walls.

“In raw spinach, Nature has furnished us with the finest organic material for the cleansing and healing of the intestinal tract.”

You get all of the calcium in spinach when you eat it raw. When you cook it, the calcium binds with phytic acid making it indigestible. Most of the calcium is excreted with the acid. I avoid cooked spinach.

When I came to raw foods, I had unbearable toothache that kept me awake at nights. I could not eat fresh or dried fruit, the sugar seeping into my teeth was too painful. During my lunch-breaks, I'd force myself to chew on green leaves, it was so painful, but slowly the living green juices, dripping into my teeth and gums daily, performed a healing so magical that today I can eat anything. One of my favorite foods is sticky sweet fresh raw dates.

Why did my dentist never once tell me about green juices and smoothies? Five teeth were extracted or root-canaled, five teeth lost forever. That's the problem with the medical world, they perform surgery first, when all I needed was GREENS.

If you experience a blood sugar reaction, EAT SLOWER. Chew your Smoothie.

Actually, we want to damage the fiber. The only difference between a human cell and a plant cell is that the plant has a cell wall outside its cell membrane – a wall made of cellulose. Cellulose is a rigid mesh of glucose molecules weaved together, like strong wire mesh. It's the principal stiffener in the stems of plants, in wood and cotton, and of course in green leaves, holding them up so they'll face the sun.

The more fibrous the greens – e.g. winter greens like kale and collard – the more cellulose they have, but also the more calcium. We know that calcium is the mineral used for rigidity, in our bones and teeth enamel (which is harder than bones).

Problem is, cellulose is one of the strongest molecular structures on the planet, we can not digest it – and locked inside the cellulose are the nutrients we need like calcium.

By blending our greens, we break up this cellulose into small glucose chains and release the nutrients. It's like cutting up the mesh. And the creamier the blend, the more nutrients we release.

We need the nutrients in blended and juiced greens. It's impossible to chew on enough greens to provide all the nutrition we need – to keep us going at our best in today's toxic high-stress world.

Our earth is green and smiling, we see it in the dancing naked trees of winter, in the full moon twinkling on the ocean.

Eat the green of Mother Earth and you will discover your own inner smile.