Health in High Heels

This is definitely holiday season!

Halloween decorations have just barely left the shelves and already they’re being stuffed with stockings and all that is green and glittery in preparation for Christmas! But, before we get to the Ho! Ho! Ho!, we’ve got Thanksgiving, which is just around the corner!

While hundreds of thousands of turkeys prepare for their last gobble around the farmyard, there will be a lucky few whose lives are spared thanks to the creative genius of our friends, Heidi and Justin Ohlander of Raw Food Right Now who have put together a spectacular Thanksgiving Day Recipe collection!

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While we’re all for simplicity when it comes to eating, family feasts during the holidays are not the time to be pulling our your green smoothies trying to impress Uncle Bob and Auntie Shirley!

When you put Heidi’s Deviled-egg Egg-less Spread, Raw Waldorf Salad and Pumpkin Pie on the Thanksgiving Day buffet table, why… who knows! Maybe you’ll turn old Uncle Festor twice removed on your Mom’s side into the next raw vegan hero!

At the very least you’ll have freed one more turkey for another tour around the sun!

As for other Diva News this week, there's so much going on, we needed to add another section to the newsletter, just to fit it all in!

This month we’re giving Oprah a run for her money!

Check out November’s Sisterhood Guests! We've got Sproutman, Steve Meyerowitz, Heidi and Justin Ohlander of Raw Food Right Now, and Melissa Gilbert of Love Raw Life all joining us for exclusive Raw Diva interviews in the Sisterhood!!

It's not too late to get access to these juicy teleseminars and get the chance to ask these experts your most burining questions about health and the raw food diet!

We’re inviting entrepreneur Karen Adler, founder of Vitality Products Inc. and creator of the now internationally renowned Toothsoap™ to come and speak to us about the fact that what you don’t know about your dental products and practices can hurt you!

She’ll reveal some of the shocking dangers of common dental practices and what to do to avoid expensive dental disasters before they happen! (Including an extensive look at her own research and experience into the kinds of dietary mistakes that cause thousands in dental bills and what to do to avoid them!

We feel this information is SO vital, we're extending an invitation to all Raw Divas for FREE!!

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Feature Article: The Crimes We Commit Against Our Stomachs & How Hunger Can Help
by Tera Warner

I’m always surprised when I do private consultations with clients, how few people actually know how to identify real hunger. We have become accustomed, and admittedly indoctrinated, to think of rumblings in the stomach, irritability, dizziness and impatience as being indications of “hunger.”

Unfortunately, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

These symptoms that are mistaken for hunger are actually indications that the body is detoxing or in a state of imbalance. Rumbling in the tummy indicates that things are NOT being digested well or easily, and that’s one of the worst times you could possibly be eating more food.

Headaches, irritability, and dizziness are signs of a body out of balance. Hunger is as natural as the urge for sex, and it can be a very pleasant, persistent and pulling sensation. Far from the torturous affair it can sometimes have the reputation to be.

It’s true that eating will often stop the headaches and irritability, but that is because it is halting the effects of detox! The body can no longer invest the energy in cleaning out the toxins, because it must be redirected to processing the foods that are coming in. That’s the cycle that most people undergo every day—keeping them in a chronic state of toxicity.

What Hunger Should Really Feel Like

Personally, I love feeling hungry. My senses are heightened, my stomach “pulls,” my mouth salivates and I feel like ANYTHING tastes good.

I can recall clearly in my early days of being a raw foodist having gone to a restaurant with some friends. I’d decided not to eat that night—not even a salad—and preferred to wait until I got home. But I knew I was getting hungry.

At a certain point I looked up and noticed the decorative plants in the restaurant and felt an overwhelming urge to go and snack on the leaves! I was amazed and excited to have recognized, maybe for the first time, a natural and innate drive to feed my body the kind of food I would find in nature. It was a moment of triumph for me! I’d wanted to nibble on plant leaves instead of pile my plate with assorted cooked classics.

It is as important to know when to eat as to know what to eat!

An alarming majority of people mistake thirst for hunger! Just try it sometime. Next time you feel the urge to go to the fridge or pop another banana down the pipes, grab a big glass of water instead and see how you feel. It’s true that those of us on the raw food diet don’t consume the same dehydrating foods as most people, but I think many of us still underestimate our needs for water.

If you’re consuming salts, spices or concentrated foods, you’re going to need water to help your body process and eliminate these toxins. Ensuring you are well hydrated is preventative medicine for over-eating and eating without hunger.

It sounds simple enough, but before you eat, just ask yourself if you’re really hungry. If you’re not sure, wait! True hunger persists. Grab a glass of water. You’ll not have hurt yourself by holding off a bit longer.

How to Reset Your Body’s Hunger Button

One of the most empowering things you can possibly do for yourself is a 24 hour fast where you really allow yourself to re-experience the genuine sensations of hunger. In our 30 Day Body Enlightenment System, participants start off their journey this way and it makes all the difference in their ability to start off on the right foot and carry through with the program! It’s like hitting the reset button on the body.

If it may not be easy or comfortable for you to do a fast, you can at least make sure that you allow your body a good 12-15 hour break from foods during the night! Eating late at night can do significant damage to your body’s natural hunger cycles and general energy.

This one has been my last great hurdle to overcome, and I still have to work quite a bit at it. (Anyone who has those purple bags under the eyes may want to consider this factor as a potential culprit, although there are a few others.)

Your body needs TIME to process the events of the day. It’s not just what you eat, it’s all the environmental “toxins” and experiences that stress the body, too. If you’ve got a belly full of food before you hit the hay, your body isn’t given the chance it needs to rest your internal organs and do some deeper cleaning.

Allowing yourself at least 3 hours between your last meal and the time you tuck yourself into the sheets will make a big difference on your energy when you wake up in the morning.

If you start the next day with water until you experience that tugging, but pleasant, natural hunger you will be well, well on your way to a successful way of eating and making huge improvements in your overall relationship with food.

The more you implement these habits, the easier and more natural they become. Soon you’ll get to a place where you really know and recognize your body’s natural signals and will have confidence in your ability to decipher its needs and respond accordingly.

We include a lot more tools, tricks and tips like these in our soon to be released program: A Diva's Guide to Cravings and Emotional Eating!

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Imagine their “ooooh”s and “ahhhh”s as you grace the Thanksgiving Day buffet table with Raw Pumpkin Pie that's good enough to fool Grandma!

Will this be the year your Uncle Festor (twice removed on your mother's side) breaks out of his shell and becomes the next raw vegan renegade?

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(Because even Uncle Festor could use a bit of spice in his life!)

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