Living The Raw Live Vegan Lifestyle - Finally Eat More and Lose Weight With Optimal Nutrition

Susan Eugenie Rubarth

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Return from the abyss! Navigate your way from the depths of uncertainty in health – through the maze of crazed food labels, fad diets, and fake food products – towards living vibrantly, full of energy and eating real food.

Today's busy people have turned to ready-made, processed, chemically laden "healthy" alternatives in the name of convenience and succumb to a litany of conditions: weight gain, lethargy, hormonal imbalance, arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. These devastating conditions are commonly excused as "part of the normal passage of aging"

Learn the truth in Living The Raw Live Vegan Lifestyle, a medically proven system committed to creating true health from the inside out. Supported by extensive research, this simplistic process for achieving optimal health provides you with the knowledge to be your own health advocate.  You become a well-informed participant regarding your future health.  The goal of this book is to educate healthy-minded persons of a proven path to achieving your own goals.  The success of myself and my husband has been astounding and far surpasses what we thought achievable. Discover it for yourself!

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• Santé du quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Healing
• diététique

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780981835389
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Living the
RAW LIVE VEGAN
Lifestyle
Finally, eat more and lose weight with optimal nutrition!
Susan Eugenie Rubarth
RawLiveVegan.com
 



INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PUBLISHING
Carrollton, Texas, USA
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PUBLISHING February 22, 2008 Publishing Group Affirming Truth & Innate Wisdom
Copyright © 2012 by Susan Eugenie Rubarth Image copyright © 2012 by Susan Eugenie Rubarth
First International Health Publishing trade paperback edition April 2012
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Living The Raw Live Vegan Lifestyle Finally, eat more and lose weight with optimal nutrition!
Susan Eugenie Rubarth www.RawLiveVegan.com
ISBN-13 978-0-9818353-7-2 ISBN-10 00-9818353-7-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011945591 SAN 856-6925
E-Pub ISBN-13 978-0-9818353-8-9 E-Pub ISBN-10 0-9818353-8-4
Manufactured in the United States of America, and printed on the finest 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to my husband Phil, the love and joy that is my life. Thank you for believing in me, you inspire me to move beyond my comfort level, you are living proof of our chosen lifestyle. You are a willing partner in all things healthy.
 
Foreword
Serendipity occurs when one accidentally stumbles upon something wonderful, when searching for something else. This serendipitous moment, for us, occurred during the pursuit of optimum health. After searching for solutions to my and my husband’s health problems, I found Dr. William LaValley.
 


Acknowledgements
First of all I want to thank my son Bryan for his masterful photography in getting the right shot of the finished product for our recipes and for his time devoted to www.rawlivevegan.com .
Regarding nutrition, the Universe continues to feed me information through the people and books I come in contact with. My happenstance meeting of the following powerful women has not only touched but has been integral in my life, making me who I am today.
Andrea Hines imparted her knowledge on the topic of nutrition that transformed my life in such a profound way — thank you!
Glenna Jenkins saw the importance of my work and encouraged me to move beyond the raw live vegan site and write this book; her edits and critiques combined with the design-work of Liz Hardy are the polish on the raw material — pardon the pun — thank you!
Dena Churchill, not allowing me to quit when I was discouraged, saw the importance of this book and so kindly recommended International Health Publishing, where Dr. Elizabeth Pilicy reviewed and agreed to publish Living The Raw Live Vegan Lifestyle . I am so very grateful!
Lastly, my Mother and my family, thank you for always believing there was more to me than met the eye.
The universe does deliver when we are open to receiving it. While sometimes it is just a whisper, we must be silent to hear it — for this I am forever grateful!
Author’s Journey Into Wellness
Sometimes we feel as if no one is listening. And even though we try our best to be our own health advocates when seeking answers to what ails us, we feel very much alone, particularly when we have limited time with our physician.

Susan Rubarth
My personal interest has always been health. I have a library full of books to prove it, many of which have stood the test of time. They cover such topics as nutrition, pH balance, hormones and aging. They formed the bases of my own research and continuing quest to age healthfully. They provided the link to optimal health that my husband, Phil, and I enjoy today. And they are part of the building blocks of the Raw Live Vegan program that I developed over the past three years and am now sharing with you.
In my thirties, I taught weight management classes as I wanted to help people understand the basics of good nutrition, lose weight and regain their health. I soon found that the program I taught was only effective for the general population below age forty. For women, especially, losing those last few pounds and achieving their goal weight was almost impossible. Despite keeping meticulous journals and reporting in every week, some lost little or no weight, others gained. Frustrated, they turned to their general practitioners for guidance in selecting a realistic goal weight that would receive the blessing of the weight management organization I worked for. The new goals, for age and height, set by their doctors were much higher than the targets set by my organization. I was later to find that other critical measures of health had also been raised. These included hormone levels, blood pressure and blood sugars, to name a few. These new targets accommodated the majority of our present North American population that could not achieve the previous lower ones due to a diet based on foods available in today’s marketplace.
In my endeavors to help these women, I studied journals provided to me by my employer. I wanted to gain some insight as to why they were having difficulties losing weight and why some continued to gain weight despite strict adherence to the program in both diet and exercise. These women had become frustrated with their low caloric, high-energy output, which are actually a paradox when you think about it and a fast track to illness. In hindsight, I realize that my lack of knowledge was the missing piece to the puzzle. It wasn’t until I reached my forties and was no longer teaching the program when I found myself facing the same dilemma. Despite a healthy diet and regular exercise, the weight crept on. By age 50 I hit the top of the weight chart for my age and height. So there I was, far removed from my role as a weight loss coach, finding that I WAS THAT 50 YEAR OLD WOMAN sitting in my weight management class, with a carefully written journal, filled out right down to the last glass of water. Now I was gaining the weight. I was that woman begging for insight into weight control. It was then that I began my quest for optimal health.
In my nursing program, which I embarked on when my children were grown, I studied a variety of topics. Among them were the two states of acidosis and alkalosis, which cause our electrolytes to go out of balance and compromise kidney and heart function. I wondered what caused these imbalances and found that it was poor nutrition. I researched further and started putting the pieces together on my own by using what I had learned in my nursing program as a foundation and reading beyond the recommended curriculum to fill in the gaps.
I learned that our internal systems work like a finely tuned engine when properly nourished. But when we burden them with chemically-laden, processed convenience foods that are high in calories, fat, sodium and preservatives they begin to malfunction. The delicate balance of pH, which is maintained through proper nutrition, becomes compromised. Good health requires that our systems are alkaline.
My own state of health and my work as a health care professional led me to realize that our health care system is overburdened from treating the ill effects of bad nutrition. At 50 I found myself unacceptably overweight. I was also entering peri-menopause (now there’s a time bomb), and didn’t know when I would be going from peri- to flat out menopause. One day I found myself standing in front of a mirror, in the privacy of my bathroom, nude. I didn’t like what I saw. Gone was the lithe, girlish figure of my former youth. Over it laid the results of ten years of aging. My body had changed in a negative way, despite my hard efforts at diet and exercise. I was miserable. At the same time, menopause was fast approaching, with it, a variety of symptoms, some physical, some emotional. I lacked energy; had low libido; and had gained weight. I also had dry itchy skin; psoriasis on my elbows; cracked skin on my heels, despite regular pedicures; and cracked fingernails. I had brain fog during the day, and caught myself falling asleep. Oddly enough, I had trouble sleeping at night. I had muscle and joint pain. I lacked motivation to exercise. And when I did exercise, I no longer had that euphoric feeling I once knew after a good workout. And often times, I was such an emotional wreck that I would cry or fly off the handle over nothing.
My husband, Phil, on the other hand, had always appeared to be healthy. He had put on some weight over the years and, lucky for him, that it was evenly distributed. But it was his family’s history of high cholesterol and diabetes that caused me concern. Phil’s cholesterol had elevated. I also suspected that his healthy outward appearance masked a number of other ailments due to his twenty-eight years working in the construction industry. At middle age, Phil and I both found our selves in less than optimal health despite our best efforts in good nutrition and plenty of exercise.
As a family, we ate healthfully. Our diet was mainly Mediterranean. We ate plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole natural grains, fish and lean meats. Lunches and dinners included a salad. Dressings were made with olive oil, which was also used for cooking. Any baked goods I made myself, again from whole grains. When grocery shopping I stayed away from soda pop, chips and pre-packaged foods. We did not consume processed foods of any kind. But we did partake of