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is the offspring of Living Nutrition magazine, which we published from 1996 - 2008 (all 20 back issues are available).

teaches and inspires health enthusiasts in how to succeed at eating our natural diet of vibrantly alive raw foods, how to self-heal using our God-given powers within, and how to build everlasting vibrant health the natural way via the principles of the world’s most successful health system: Natural Hygiene. When you align with the natural laws of life, incredible health transformation is the happy result! These teachings have uplifted and saved millions of lives!

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	Eat a natural diet of alive raw fruits and vegetables
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	Become your own self-health care guide
	Create glowing health and superb fitness
	Feel youthful and assure extraordinary longevity
	Design a most healthful lifestyle, so that you can experience the joyous living you have always longed for, but thought was only possible in your dreams.

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Thoughts from the Orchard
by David Klein, Ph.D., Executive Editor

It’s a brave new age of digital publishing! In our continuing efforts to carry the torch of truthful health education, Vibrance has seen the light and gone “eZine green.” Doesn’t that make sense?

Discontinuing paper editions was a must; with prohibitive cost increases for printing, mailing and distribution, coupled with decreased newsstand sales due to our economic downturn (or meltdown, if you prefer), the entire printed media industry, from magazines to books, is making a major shift to digital. With my goals of keeping Vibrance alive, saving a few groves of living trees and continuing my commitment to making Vibrance the most widely-read healthful lifestyle magazine in the world (with www.vibrancemagazine.com as the most popular health education destination on the Web), the time was ripe to forge ahead with this new eZine format.

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Pam Boteler:
Making Waves for Gender Equality in Women’s Paddle Sports & Spreading the Raw Health Message With Grace
Interview by David Klein, Ph.D.

Several years ago Pam began a vegetarian diet, then transitioned in 2006, to veganism. Lately, with the guidance of renowned high-performance coach, rawfood sports nutritionist and Vibrance staff writer Dr. Douglas Graham, she has progressed onto Dr. Graham's "80/10/10" raw vegan diet plan. At age 40, Pam is competing against women half her age. As well, she still occasionally competes against men and is the winner at least half the time! Her enthusiasm and commitment to athletic excellence and gender equality for her beloved sport has impacted people in many spheres.

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The Art of Living:
A Portrait of Organic Fruit Farmer & Artist Barry Koral
by Loren Lewisohn

The day is winding down in the back hills of Vista, California, about one hundred miles south of Los Angeles. In the gathering twilight, I survey the silhouetted view from the hilltop home of Barry Koral, an entrepreneur who has created a spacious retreat on the site of his nearly two-acre subtropical orchard. Soon, a flurry of guests arrive, and a party complete with reggae music unfolds in full swing.

Later, all are treated to a sumptuous live raw food buffet. The fresh dishes are quite imaginative: organic garden salads galore and tasty dips, nicely complemented by exotic fruit entrees. Among the sumptuous offerings are white and chocolate sapotes, three varieties of cherimoyas, plus Mexican and Brazilian guavas, all recently gathered from Barry's orchard. Thai coconut milk and raw food desserts garnished with nasturtium flowers round out the repast.

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Fignatics Unite!
by Ken Love

The term "fignatic" is appropriate for us fig addicts although I'm not sure of its origin.

When I first set out to find the best fig varieties for Hawaiian growers, I had little idea of how far this would take me. I knew there were more types of figs than we currently had in Hawaii (Brown Turkey and White Kadota), but the varieties far exceed my expectations. A year and a half into this projected three-year exploration, I'm still planting different types obtained from other fignatics around the world.

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Fasting for Health: A Personal Odyssey
My triumphant story of Fasting at Dr. Douglas Graham’s Costa Rica Retreat
by Ellen Livingston

I discovered the raw food diet in 2002 after suffering more than 20 years of chronic pain and disease. A skiing accident tore apart my left knee at age 18, seemingly leading to a constellation of debilitating symptoms, including chronic back pain, migraine headaches, TMJ, depression, profound insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome and severe acid reflux. I was given drugs for all of these conditions and tried alternative therapies, remedies and different diet approaches. My symptoms would shift, change, sometimes improve, and sometimes worsen—but I did not heal.

The very day I found out about the all-raw diet, I made the decision that this was the way to go. I was sick and tired of suffering so much and had tried just about everything else. Amazingly, or so it seemed, all of my symptoms disappeared or greatly improved within weeks with this approach.

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Soil Remineralization
Extracted from writings of John Hamaker, Don Weaver, Larry Ephron and Joanna Campe

Our planetary soils have become severely eroded and thus demineralized over thousands of years. Plants require a continuous intake of minerals, just as we do; they need calcium to build structural support, iron to carry oxygen, zinc for reproductive health etc. Plants growing on mineral-depleted soil do not get enough nourishment and, thus, are to some degree devitalized and more vulnerable to their insect, worm and fungi predators.

Remineralization encourages greatly increased growth of soil microorganisms and the assimilation of nutrients, leading to high quality, flavorful crops. It also counteracts acidity and erosion, increasing the storage capacity of the soil, contributing to the building of humus complexes and, when sprayed on plants, repels both fungi and insects. As well, plants and trees become highly resistant to frost, drought and all devitalizing influences.

Adding rock dust to your compost pile also enhances composting benefits and is another excellent way to remineralize soils.

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Vibrant Rawfood Recipes
From Around the World

Curried Kale Salad
by Christina Chadney

This intense-flavored side dish is good with a smooth coconut curry soup or raw vegan samosas. This salad is even better the next day after the kale has somewhat softened.

Creamy Curry Dressing
3/4 cup chopped Gala apple
2 TBSP tahini
1 TSP curry
1/2 TSP cumin
1/4 TSP coriander
1/4 cup red bell pepper
1/4 cup Napa cabbage
2 sun-dried tomatoes, rehydrated and chopped
optional: 1 clove garlic
optional: ginger

Place all ingredients in a high powered blender. Blend until smooth, using a celery stick or tamper to keep mixture moving.

Salad
fresh basil and/or cilantro
red bell pepper, julienned
mushrooms, thinly sliced
dinosaur kale (also known as black and Lacinato kale), washed and de-stemmed
fresh cilantro
Napa cabbage, thinly sliced
optional: fresh Roma tomatoes
optional: mango slices

Toss all ingredients together and mix well with the creamy curry dressing.

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Acid or Alkaline Body?
The Great Marker of Health
by David Klein, Ph.D., H.D.

Acid waste poisoning shows up in our bodily secretions as a prime marker of health destruction. This must be avoided!

The average pH of our bodily fluids must be maintained in the 7.0+ pH (alkaline) range in order to maintain good health; an acidifying lifestyle spells stress and dis-ease.

Our diet has the most significant influence on the pH of our body fluids. A diet of predominantly alkalizing foods goes a long way in assuring healthy internal pH in the 7.0+ range. Eating a diet with excessive acidifying foods undermines our health in every way, causing varying degrees of discomfort and shortened life spans.

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Who is the Dictator of Your Health?
by Dr. Vivian V. Vetrano, M.D., Dr. Sc.

Who is the dictator of your state of your health? Is it your mentor? Your health books? Your doctor? Your alternative health care practitioner? It is none of the above ... it's not even you!

Nature and her laws are the dictator! Nature strives for perfection, and requires your dedication to the pursuit of health perfection. Unless you meet your physical and mental needs, some part of yourself will suffer and Nature will alert you. Pain, both physical and mental, is Nature's way of telling you something is wrong. Pain is both a warning and our benefactor. It is meant to jar us into thinking and questioning: "What's wrong?... Why is this happening?... Why can't I get well?"

When your doctor/teacher is well-versed in Natural Hygiene and advises you to do something or avoid doing something, it is because he or she has learned the Laws of Life, and knows what Nature is demanding. This doctor/teacher is telling you what Nature demands, not what he or she feels you should do; he or she is trying to help you understand and correct your errors so you get in harmony with the Natural Laws that govern your being. If you listen and heed the instructions, you should recover your health. Nature is not asking you to try—trying is not the same as doing; trying won't satisfy Nature. Do what is required for the recovery of health.

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Evolving with Raw Food and Fasting
Notes from a “Raw Flutist”
by Sharrhan Williamson

I remember exactly how I discovered the raw food diet. It was the mid-1970s, I was 27 years old, and I was trying to get a handle on right living and eating. Nothing really clicked for me until one day a friend gave me a copy of one of Arnold Ehret’s books. Before I was even halfway through the book, I saw clearly that this was my path to well-being, and I immediately began my transition to raw food.

Today, it's somewhat amazing to me how quickly I accepted the live food paradigm with almost no reservations; back then it was not really popular or well-known at all. This was when the Macrobiotic movement was in full swing here in the Boston area. I’d tried Macrobiotics and found it extremely difficult (it actually worsened my health issues and I gained weight), but I was instantly drawn to the concept of live food and somehow knew that it was what I needed.

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Ayurveda and Natural Hygiene
by Dr. Douglas Graham

The branch of science concerned with the principles and practice of the ways of healthful living is known as Ayurveda. It is thought that it developed between 4000 to 5000 years ago. The science of human health is known as Natural Hygiene. Natural Hygiene has roots that go back 150 years, but in its modern concise form, it has only been known for perhaps 80 years.

Here it seems we have two completely different philosophies that claim to offer the same thing. Is Natural Hygiene, the obvious newcomer on the block, presuming to usurp the ancient science of Ayurveda? Or, is Ayurveda no more than a respected but outdated system of treatments and cures? Is either of these sciences truly congruent, or are they riddled with contradictions? Let's examine both in a bit more detail and see if we can pinpoint the differences. The question of which approach is best will be left to you, the reader.

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A Younger Me Without Acid Reflux
by Carol Giambri

I have finally experienced for myself the benefits of eating a plant-based vegan diet about 30 years after my husband recovered from epilepsy through this approach. In my transition to raw eating, I kept adding more live food, and sometimes stayed 100% raw for a whole day, a week, a month or more. I always loved raw plant based vegan foods and enjoyed expanding into what to me was "foreign" food territory, such as avocados, broccoli or cauliflower, which I had never eaten growing up. However, missing the old unhealthful treats, I resorted to daily vegan ice cream bars sometimes two or three daily. I also developed a love affair with whole grain breads. Both of these caused havoc in my body.

At night while sleeping, I began experiencing sudden attacks of acid reflux that caused me to jump up out of bed. This was diagnosed by the chiropractor who tried some adjustments, without success. I had a burning feeling in my chest or my mouth. I had some early evening attacks as well, where I would suddenly have to run to the bathroom and heave nonstop violently for a minute. This was such a strain to my vocal cords that my voice became very hoarse for about 12 hours before it returned. I also experienced trouble breathing. I finally discovered the culprits: the ingredients in the vegan ice cream and the yeasted bread. I had to make a choice: continue the detrimental foods and get sicker, or toss those culprits out on my path to health.

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