Real N Raw

Real N’ Raw showcases a solution that offers everyone a chance to live a pain and disease free life.  So many of us still think that health is unaffordable, that organic fruit and vegetables and things that are marketed like health supplements are so expensive that it can really stop someone from thinking that health is not obtainable because of budget.  For centuries we have been indoctrinated with poverty, especially as the world population grows and the wealth/poverty gap grows bigger.  But ask yourself what is able to bridge that gap, what is it that is able to give that feeling of abundance, excellence and that feeling that comes through living our dreams.  So I want people to understand that no matter where you are on the financial ladder, health is obtainable for you.  Once you make your mind up and decide that change is going to happen in your life no matter what, then the solutions can appear.  It is when we say that oh no it is too expensive or I can’t afford to buy fruits that the mental poverty trap keeps us in our misery.  Me and my girls constantly not because we have too but because it is really a fun thing to do scour the neighbourhodd for locally grown back yard fruit.  We have a great time, jumping fences, loading up jumpers and pockets with fruit and not to mention the taste of the stuff.  Delectable.  Talk to your neighbors, share back yard fruit, it is a great way to get to know everyone.

Anyway back on to supplements such as vitamins and minerals.  I just want people to know that even though there are a lot of good extra additions to a healthy raw diet out out there, don’t think because you can’t afford them that you can’t reach optimum health for you.  Matty’s best healing was done eating watermelon and lemons alone for weeks on end.  Yes just watermelon and lemons, in fact that is what saved him from an early grave.  Sometimes he would only be spending $15 a week on food and that was when he was able to put in the hard yard to make Real N’ Raw possible.  He had so much energy that he was sleeping less, working out more and able to balance his new found health freedom.  So no we are not trying to put the supplements industry out of business but what we are offering is a solution that is obtainable on any budget.

Please remember that it takes time to heal after years of eating a processed and enzyme deficient diet we are finding that people want overnight miracles.  Even though when Matty went raw the initial boost of energy and pain relief was a highlight, it was just the beginning of a roller coaster ride towards health.  It is not all easy and there are some huge detox periods that people are mistaking for allergies and thinking that raw food is not for everyone.  Once you understand how the body works and heals itself you too can understand that the process takes time.  It is not a magic pill but more an ongoing choice to be healthy and is certainly worth the ride.  Who on earth wants to live in pain and disease, no not much fun at all.  We had our share of that and think that once you know the solution the long and short term benefits are well worth the self discipline to obtain.  You will be amazed at how the most annoying little things mental, emotional and physical can just disappear after a period on raw foods.

Gosh, how many people do you know have a health related issue.  Obesity, diabetes, aging (yes health related), Alzheimer’s, asthma, eczema, cancer, aids, leukemia, heart disease, blood pressure, mental illness, depression, aches, pains, anger problems, acne, period complaints oh the list goes on.  Yet a very small and I mean TINY portion of the people would want to associate this to the diet we are consuming.  Real N’ Raw has a great quote in it and that is “It is easier to change a man’s religion than it is to change his diet”.  Now well ain’t that the truth.  I think to start with we should look at the facts.  Don’t go changing anything just yet, put your ego aside, get out of your and everyone elses way and look at the facts.  Find the people who get results outside of pills, medication and the current mainstream health solutions.  People with any disease are starting to turn to alternatives such as naturopaths, osteopaths etc but out right refusal to look at the fundamental, because that would mean having to change what you eat.  It is ironic, I eat and comfort the disease I have with the very thing that has caused the disease in the first place.  Think about it, if you are sick to any degree, including aches and pains and you are eating and type of meat including fish, dairy, bread or any type of processed food then there you have your answer staring you in the face.  Well I may not be a medical dr but I hold a science degree and I know how to research, I also knew how to motivate my dying partner into changing his ways.

So if you are suffering from any form of disease, there is hope.  Turn to someone who understands raw foods and fasting, give me or Matty a call +64 9 5213039 and we will be happy to open ourselves to you.  We have lived through hideous disease, pain and suffering and we are only 35, luckily we now have our lives and sanity back, onwards and upwards!  Make friends with us on facebook also dana@animators-ink.co.nz or matt@animators-ink.co.nz  we are more than willing to help you on your journey.  Why?  Because we got the results we were after, we travelled far and wide to find people who had healed themselves of cancer and even people who had healed a severed spinal chord and is now walking again.  If anyone tells you there is no hope for your condition, tell them to have a nice day and never phone them back.  Turn your back and have the courage to find those who give you hope.

Matty’s biggest hurdle was letting go of disease, after so long living with it, it becomes your identity.  When you start to heal it is almost like you are so wide awake for the first time it can be quite a emotional ride.  But well worth the effort.  There is no food that tastes as good as being healthy feels.  Nor any drug recreational or medical that will provide the high that fasting and raw food provides.

Changing our diet has played a huge part in our physical health, but what about the emotional aspect of ourselves.  I have found personally on my journey of health and wellness that as I changed my diet to eating raw foods that all the stored emotions from my childhood have now slowly come to the surface.  You know the ones you don’t even know you have but your current behaviours that are expressed through relationships, kind of like software to the computer are seeming quite dysfunctional and you all of a sudden see how you are sabotaging your own life!  We have our own personal emotional programming that I have found I am now able to deal with as I am eating loving raw foods that enable the strength to be able to deal with the emotional pain.  It can be quite a journey releasing those and I absolutely recommend reachign out for help.  Don’t hold it in, it is ok to find an outlet for dealing with past traumas.  No matter how little or big.  With our youth suicide rate here in NZ way out of control I think the huge impact all the chemicals in our foods and drinks and drugs both pharmaceutical and recreational play a huge effect on our youth suicide rate.  How on earth can a blue drink or one filled with caffeine and aspartame do any good for anyones chemical make up.  Our amazing brains are being poisoned and IMO causing a huge amount of unrecognised depression in our society.  So for all the youth out there who are feeling frustrated, anguished, unheard don’t be scared to speak your truth.  Consider what you are eating and the role that has on our physical well being but also our emotional/mental self.

Sometimes it is hard to find someone to help, just know and understand that you have to ask and upon asking someone or something will always appear for you.  You are special, the universe does care.  I have found at times that it maybe you just need to sit on a beach or in a forest and just let it go.  But there are many alternative practices surfacing again, perhaps a massage, naturapoth, homeopath or even a dam good colonic can help.  Start to listen to your guidance of intution and trust that you know what is right for you.

Have a blessed day

Love

Dana

PS.  The word emotion = energy of motion and all we have because we can move and interact!

By DLS

Meet the director Matthew Wilson on his journey to ital health.  Eating from the Rastaraunt of life.  Matty’s s personal journey and the stories of many others too are heard in the film and hope to inspire you into the journey of self health.  Matty is now happy and healthy and getting on with this life, pain free and looking forward to a bright future.  Cancer smancer!

We thank everyone who helped us through this little miracle.  I now have a loving, happy, kind, adorable fiance and we will live happily ever after.  So to all those who deny the rights of others to live a natural lifestyle we wish you love, cause obviously somewhere there you are lacking in your ego mind to find the humility to seek beyond all that you have ever known.  Jump into the unknown, life is such an extraordinary journey don’t waste it on doing things that you will regret, rather build a legacy that is one proud of remembering for generations to come.

By Dana Louise Stewart

Matthew “The Kid” Wilson

I lived with someone who was so terribly ill for many years.  We lived through each day with some hope that one day it would be OK.  That one day, there would be no more pain, suffering and all the emotional and physical burden that goes with that.  That person was the Director of Real N’ Raw.

Real N’ Raw is our story.  Real N’ Raw saved Matthew Wilson’s life.  Real N’ Raw saved my life.  Real N’ Raw if you choose to watch it can give you the information that can empower you to live your life to the fullest too.

I had no idea when I met him, that he was so sick.  Honestly I do not think most people realise how sick they actually are until it stares them in the face.  But Matthew did, he knew that if he did not change he would be dead soon.  It was the most frustrating thing I have ever come across.  Someone with an answer who struggled to get out of his own way and turn their life around.

I have my own opinion about why that is and it happens to be that these bodies are so resilient and continually finding homeostasis that how toxic and poisonous they really are is not seen as the body is built to strive to stay alive.  But Matthew knew.  I knew.  We all knew that the answer lied in actually having the motivation to do it.

I have listened and watch by as people die, waiting for miracles to happen to them as they wish cancer or whatever other disease it is they have away.  While the answer is staring us right in the face.  It is the strength and courage to stand up in face of what we have always been told and walk in the opposite direction.  The journey to do this is the most empowering you can do.  The journey that overrides culture, heritage, mums, dads and everything you have ever known.

I say why walk a path you know when the excitiment of jumping in the deep end and finding you can swim is the most exhilirating of them all.

Life has begun abound for us again.  Just as many systems are collapsing and the governments have decided to continue to tax us silly while supporting the industries that are like bullets to a gun.  Changing your diet to raw and having the strength to stand up and make a change in your own world defies everything I have ever known.

By Dana Louise Stewart

OMG!  Has anyone ever experienced hemorrhoids, well I unfortunately have.  What a pain that I could describe as harder to bare than child birth, why, because I have been there too, naturally of course and at home.  Anyway so when I got my first and only hemorrhoid what did I do.  Apart from wishing that I never needed to poo again.  I had heard at this stage also of breathanarianism and well, no not quite there yet either. So… read on…

I remember it being before I discovered raw food.  It was the most horrible thing and aparantely around 80% of the world population suffer from them, even worse I thought to myself.  What are we all doing that is causing this excruciating, painful condition.  I decided to research it on the internet, I knew it had to have something to do with what I was eating, but sometimes despite knowing the truth, we dont actually want to believe it.  That might mean having to change.  Anyway this tiny thing put my entire body into a state of unrelenting panic.

So what did I do.  I went on a juice fast and bought myself an at home enema kit.  If there was anything in there to come out, it was gonna come out without strain, do you agree?  There is nothing worse than having to push!  At the time I was still eating bread, pasta and a lot of cooked foods, as you do when that is how you are raised.  As much as I loved eating cooked food including copious amounts of bread as do a lot of vegetarians, there is nothing better than not having the problem that floors you like no other – hemorrhoids.

It is well over a year on and with a constantly moving bowel, yes folks, thats right, generally 3 times a day, I am happy to say that on a diet of high fruit, green smoothies and the very occasional cooked food delight, I am hemorrhoid free and pain free.  Disease to me is not a mystery.

By Dana Louise Stewart

Well I had the opportunity to attend a “Climate Change” seminar last night at Auckland University.  To some it up in one word it would have to be “DEPRESSING”.  However it reminded me of why I set up Fruit For Our Children.  I cant stand people who sit and talk about a problem and don’t do anything about it.  Actions speak louder than words.

So FFOC is a charitable trust committed to planting 17 million not for profit fruit trees in New Zealand.  Please visit the website and help support by purchasing Real N’ Raw, it is a great movie and has a fantastic soundtrack and is a showcase of solutions from people who are very real and share some great wisdom to inspire you into healthy living.  Disease is NOT a mystery.

So the climate change seminar went on about how things like Copenhagen will make a difference.  Well I say the thing that will make a difference is supporting charities like FFOC so fruit tree orchards can be planted throughout the entire country and world for that matter so that no matter what happens we have access to nourishing fruit.  Planting fruit trees helps in so many aspects to current problems that we face including soil erosion, starvation, malnutrition, disease, obesity, heart problems, cancer, arthritis, builds communities, gives people something to do and the list goes on!  I propose that instead of spending money on Copenhagen, how about everyone buy fruit trees with the cash and plant them instead.  That way we might see some change and not just bums on seats.

I think the problems we are facing are easily rectified, only we have become so complicated in our thinking that we cant see straight.  Changing our diet and the way we farm are two huge ways that will have immediate impact for life on earth.  Most people know that when you change your diet to raw, that so many beautiful things start to happen.

So check out Fruit For Our Children website and purchase one of the songs from the Real N’ Raw soundtrack or all of them!  Make it a blessed day.

By Dana Louise Stewart

Well we made a film about it but are we totally completely adamant ourselves about the 100% Raw Food Diet.  I myself am not.  There are periods in my life when as my lifestyle suits it is possible for me to be raw and those times are completely blissful.  The way it makes me feel is like no other.  I eat a balanced IMO diet during these times, with a lot of fruit but also a variety of nuts, vegetables and green leaves.  I like to juice my lawn and my two young daughters love our green grass and fresh apple juices.  There is certainly sense however in the absolute advocation of eating only whole foods, ones that are not processed.  Sure there is the temptation to eat bread and other processed foods at times and I am level headed enough to share food when offered by others (although i will not eat animals) as I think it a lovely thing to do.  Share a meal prepared by another.  How cool is that.

But there is no mistaking the ability of the raw food diet to make one feel good again.  I have seen it time and time again help so many people in so many different aspects of their lives.

One thing that makes me sad is when the raw food diet is seen as something fanatical.  One could look at the fact that we are even prescribing under 5’s anit depressents and think that is ok, then we really need to look at our thoughts and what on earth is going on.  There is a great article that can be found at the beyond veg website that describes for me perfectly some truths about idealism and being fanatical with raw food.  There are many aspects to health and emotional happiness is one of them.  You cant just eat raw food and be a grumpy git and think it is healthy for you!  Stress plays a huge part on our ability to be healthy.

Finishing off today though something has been plaguing my mind and that is young women aged from around 9 to 18.  It is such an important time in ones life (I know I have been there) and I can only now in hindsight say with truth that if I had been more nourished with whole foods such as fruit, vegetables and nuts then I would have felt so much better about myself.  In search for so long of an answer to acne, dandruff and painful periods was simply an apple away.  I personally do not think we can eat enough fruit.  I eat now days when in season up to 7 apples a day.  When I see such young girls and boys with acne, I also see that they probably are not putting two and two together and looking at the cause of this being fried, dead foods.

I actively encourage people to find out the simple truth about eating raw vegan foods and fasting for themselves.  Try it for a month and see what all the fuss is about.

Real Food!

What is raw food?

Raw food is food which has never been heated nor treated with chemicals so it retains the enzymes and nutrients of its natural state. As soon as a food is cooked or has added chemicals, the vitamins, nutrients, enzymes, and other healthy compounds start to change or become destroyed and the food no longer has the life and health-giving properties it should.

What benefits come from eating a raw food diet?

There are so many benefits, we can’t even list them all. But for starters: people feel more energetic, more awake and healthier on raw. Most people lose excess weight, look and feel younger and more vibrant. Digestive problems like ulcers and acid reflux decrease and disappear. Skin conditions like acne tend to clear up. Body odor decreases. People get far fewer illnesses. People with diseases see relief and many eventually heal when their bodies are not burdened with toxins or an overload of work and can clean out and repair themselves.

What do raw foodists eat?

In a nutshell, raw foodists eat: fresh, raw fruits and vegetables as well as seeds, nuts and some soaked or sprouted grains. There are unlimited recipes and dishes which are made from these ingredients, including: pates, loafs, “noodles”, cakes, cookies, crackers, soups, salads and marinades. Raw Foodists do not have to eat only salads!

Does a raw diet include raw meat?

Not usually. Some raw foodists in a transition period will choose to eat things like mahi tuna or steak tartar, but after awhile they usually stop. It isn’t necessary, you won’t gain any thing by eating it. Raw meat is still hard for the body to process, so it can’t assimilate the nutrients in meat as well as from vegetables, fruits and soaked nuts and sprouted seeds. Raw meat often contains parasites which also reduce the amount of nutrition available. Many raw foodists are also against eating meat for humane and ecological reasons.

What about protein, how do I get enough of it?

This is the #1 question people have when they are considering a raw food diet. People think that protein comes only from meat, dairy or at least soy, and that without eating at least some of those foods, they won’t get enough.. As a matter of fact every living cell contains protein: every plant cell has protein as a basic constituent in its cytoplasm. Vegetables contain protein! Seeds and nuts obviously contain proteins. Seaweeds and algae are very rich sources also. Factually, your body doesn’t use whole proteins – it must break these down into amino acids. Plant proteins generally break down for assimilation more quickly than animal proteins and are often found already in the form of amino acids.

The horse, cow, deer, elephant, and gorilla are naturally vegetarians -where does all their muscle and body mass come from? Grass, leafy greens, and in the case of the gorilla, fruit! The meat and dairy industries have spent millions on advertising to convince people the only way to get protein is from meat and dairy products, and they have been very successful. In fact, the protein in meat is coagulated and in a form that the body cannot assimilate easily, and cannot use effectively. The consumption of meat and dairy (and the fat within it) has been linked to all kinds of fatal illnesses, including heart failure..

The fact is, your body needs 22 amino acids in order to build protein molecules and muscles. Of these 22 amino acids, there are 8 which the body cannot make and must get from outside sources. All 8 are available in raw plant foods. And in raw plant foods they are in a form which is easily assimilated and used by the body. All the protein your body needs can be gotten from raw nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits.

If you are still worried about protein, we recommend you get started on a raw food diet, but eat very small amounts of meat (3 to 5 oz) only a few times a week. And try to get the cleanest, organic meat, with no hormones, that you can. After some time of doing this people generally find that they no longer feel they need the meat, and end up not eating it anymore. In this way you can find out for yourself that you are getting the protein you need.