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    Our 12 raw food eBooks Bundle
    All 12 of our raw food eBooks, $39.95 USD.
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    Our 12 Raw Food eBooks
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    eBook 1 The Garden Diet
    Raw Food 101! What, Why, and How to Eat Raw! $10 USD. More Information
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    eBook 2 Raw Pregnancy, Ecstatic Birth
    The joys of the raw-vegan diet for healthy pregnancy..$10 USD. More
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    eBook 3 Raising Raw Vegan Children
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    eBook 4 Jinjee's Journal
    My battle to stay 100% raw vegan. $10 USD.. More
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    eBook 5 Storm's Story
    Storm's Story, an autobiography of a long-term raw-vegan. $10 USD... More
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    eBook 6 Forever Young, The Anti-Aging Guide
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    eBook 7 Raw Vegan Body Building Muscle Mass
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    eBook 8 Healing With Raw Food
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    eBook 9 The Orange Juice Diet
    A 2 week cleanse to jump-start your raw lifestyle. $10 USD... More.
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    eBook 10 Sergeant Boo-Yow's Online Boot Camp
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    eBook 11 The Raw Vegan Holiday Survival Guide
    This year, bring the light inside! $10 USD... More.
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    eBook 12 Seven Days Raw, with Shopping Lists and Menu Plans eBook
    Three different 7-day plans with recipes included. $10 USD... More.
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    DVDs

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    Breakthrough, A Documentary About A Raw Vegan Family! on DVD
    After 7 years in the making, our film is finally available on DVD! $18.95 USD. More.
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    The Garden Diet Recipes DVD
    Volume 1
    Storm and Jinjee demonstrate how to make Raw Tacos, Herb Salad, and Garbanzo Bean Pilaf! $16.95 USD. More.
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    The Natural Paradigms and Raw Vegan Channels - 1 Month Access
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    "Breakthrough" Download
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    The Circular Workout Download
    Storm's workout for raw vegans to build muscle without using weights. $5 USD.
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    Raw Vegan Kitchen Episode 1 - Raw Vegan Tacos
    Learn to prepare delicious Raw Vegan Tacos! $5
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    Raw Vegan Kitchen Episode 2 - Fast Food, Fruit
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    Raw Vegan Kitchen Episode 3 - Herb Salad
    A delicious, filling, and highly nutritious Herb Salad! AKA Storm's Famous Tabouli, $5 USD.
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    Mens Corner, Episode 1 - Raw Potency
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    Raw Vegans on a Boat, Episode 1
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    Our Online Magazine

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    Pear Magazine Online, 1 Year Subscription
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    The Raw Vegan Special: All Publications, Productions, and Downloads by Storm and Jinjee
    Order all the items on this page for only $139.95 USD. - They cost over $300 if ordered individually. Includes 12 eBooks, 2 DVDs, one year access to the Natural Paradigms Channel and the Raw Vegan Channel, 12 issues of Pear Magazine Online, and our music CD.
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    The Garden Diet Special!
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    The raw food diet is: ..the living food diet, a weight loss method, juicing vegetables for healing, a nutrition secret of celebs... the raw vegan vegetarian lifestyle is healthy, rejuventing, and is disease preventative. Here you'll find raw food diet eBooks, books, DVDs, motivation, inspiration, information, and more!

    You are listening to me, Jinjee on JINJ Radio from Utterli.com - To turn off the sound on this page click your mute button or, scroll almost to the bottom of this page and you'll see a black and orange banner/icon that says utterli with my photo beside it, and click the pause button! Alternately, you can leave this page open while you surf or work and you'll hear all my ramblings so far.....

    Newsflash 9/23/08: Angela Stokes interviewed on CNN about her 160 lb. weight loss with raw foods! Great interview: Watch on Youtube!

    A new film on DVD from Victoria Boutenko's daughter, film-maker Valya Boutenko. I don't often promote other people's films but Valya Boutenko's Reversing The Irreversible is such a simple yet powerful testimonial to the healing power of the raw food diet, that I feel everyone should see this DVD and give it to everyone they know! If you have family who are sick, or who you would like to help understand you and your dietary choices better, this is a good film for them to see.

    Click here to order Valya Boutenko's film Reversing The Irreversible for only $19.00 and I will pay for the shipping, wherever you are in the world....

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    | Storm, 58 | Raven, 14 | Jome, 11 | Shale, 7 | Adagio, 3 | Yarrow, 1 day old | Jinjee, 40 |

    Welcome to The Garden Diet, home of Storm and Jinjee and family! Storm has been eating a raw-vegan diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds in their natural unheated state for over 30 years and is known for his body builder's physique. At 58 he looks far younger. Jinjee started eating a raw diet 15 years ago. Her before and afters show her weight loss transformation. Our family is 100% raw-vegan and thriving! On this site we share our photos and stories, photos of the kids growing up raw, videos of raw vegan cuisine being prepared. We offer our 14 raw vegan ebooks with simple, nutritious recipes and raw lifestyle tips, and a DVD about our family and the raw food diet! You'll find lots more here, so you might like to bookmark or tag us and come back. You can also join over 16,000 others who have signed up for our free Daily Raw Inspiration email! Thank you for visiting us online. We hope you enjoy the site!

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    The Garden Diet Recipes DVD, Volume 1 - Nothing helps me stay on this path of eating living foods like having a repertoire of dinner recipes that are nutritious, delicious, grounding, and filling! This DVD features three Raw Vegan Dinners to Satisfy and Nourish a Family. Storm's Famous Herb Salad - 37 min. demonstration. Jinjee's Chick Pea Pilaf - 6 minutes. Savory Soft Tacos - 29 minutes. Price: $16.95 - Free Shipping! Get more info or Order Now!

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    Blogdate 8/31/08

    20 Ways to tell if you are addicted to raw cacao:

    1. You have raw cacao every day, sometimes more than once.

    2. You blog and twitter about raw cacao daily.

    3. You think you aren't addicted but you can't stop eating it because it gives you energy.

    4. On days when you don't have raw cacao, you feel tired and lethargic.

    5. On days when you don't have raw cacao, you feel foggy-brained.

    6. You eat more and more raw cacao all the time.

    7. After eating raw cacao you experience heart palpitations, increased heart rate or a pounding heart, and continue to eat it.

    8. You can't sleep at night when you've eaten raw cacao that day.

    9. You stay awake on raw cacao all night more than once a week.

    10. You stay awake on raw cacao two or more nights in a row.

    11. You feel dizzy after eating raw cacao, but continue to eat it.

    12. You get migraine headaches from raw cacao, but continue to eat it.

    13. You will leave your house just to buy raw cacao.

    14. You eat raw cacao regularly and are gaining weight in tummy region for no good reason.

    15. You eat raw cacao regularly and have lost interest in greens.

    16. You kick raw cacao and then feel like its OK to eat it again.

    17. You eat more than two tablespoons of raw cacao at one sitting.

    18. You look depleted after eating raw cacao, and continue to eat it.

    19. Your emotions become topsy turvy when you eat raw cacao, but you don't stop.

    20. You realize raw cacao is bad for your body, but feel that you should be allowed one addiction, if its raw.

    To understand addiction, check out this awesome HBO special website including excellent and inspiring videos by scientists....... Addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease.

    Storm's Web Log - Raw Vegan Forever

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    I had an amazing epiphany. I think that I'm just coming to a real awareness of what the Raw Vegan Diet is. It really did not matter that much to me in my twenties. I felt fine but everyone around me felt pretty good also for the most part. I kind of coasted through my thirties with no real awareness or connection between the Raw Vegan Diet and my over all health. My forties were pretty much the same I just felt really good, but for the most part I was focused on my art career. It wasn't until I hit my middle fifties that I began to realize that something really strange was happening. I became a Raw Vegan in 1972 and after my initial excitement the novelty wore off and because I was catching so much heat from everyone around me I just stopped not only talking about it but even thinking about it. I just mainly did it out of habit.

    Now that I'm in my 57th year I'm really starting to think that maybe this Raw Vegan Diet might be the fountain of youth. Scientists will tell you that there is no scientific basis regarding any of the claims made by Raw Vegans and in a way they may be right. But in order for them to do long term testing if the Raw Vegan Diet is valid or not it would take anywhere from 50 to 100 years of testing groups of people and animals. In short all of us would be dead before the verdict was in.........click here to read on (photo of Storm, age 57, taken 7/11/06)


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    Jinjee's Blog - with New family photos, birth story, and photos of new baby Yarrow

    My new Daily Raw Blog, with an expanded version of the daily raw inspiration, at dailyraw.blogspot.com seems to be becoming my current place to blog!


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    Today I came across a beautiful film exploring the positive life choices that underlie a raw Vegan lifestyle. Watching this family really reminds us what can be achieved in any life if we have the vision and the compassion to make it real.

    You can watch the film Breakthrough online.

    You can also buy the film on DVD from their website at www.breakthroughthedocumentary.com.

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    Testimonials

    Thank you for providing such tasty recipes in the ebooks. I have had other raw books and even if they inspire me to try the recipes - which they all don't - the actual recipes don't turn out tasty. Yours always are wonderful - how do you do it? (Jinjee: We use recipes that we eat and enjoy ourselves!)

    My family and I enjoyed the Breakthrough movie. We are enjoying better health since going raw. We have effortlessly lost 70 pounds altogether. 20 pounds of it coming from my 15 year old daughter!

    Thank you for publishing information of such great benefit to us. Looking forward to learning more.

    Joyfully raw,
    Johanna

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    FAQs

    As we ofter don't get to answer all the questions and comments we receive via email every day, we'll feature questions here on the website, updated from time to time...

    Question of the week

    Q: Dear Jinjee, first off i love your website! i am writing you because i am desparate. i am a 460 pound african american female. i am permanently disabled because i am considered morbidly morbidly obese. i tried every diet and even tried to do gastric bypass. they couldn't go through with it because i didn't have enough intestense to use so they are recomending for me to admit myself in a braitric treatment center or get the lap band done, another bypass surgery. i have high blood pressure, diabetes type 2, asthma, severe sleep apnea, high cholestoral, i get headaches every day, i can't remember things well and my brain feels like it doesn't want to think. my skin is so dry and my hair has fallen out and is very brittle. i feel very lost because i can't afford to eat organic or exspensive diet stuff. i started doing research on the internet and came across alot of sites talking about raw food. i am very careful about eating alot of fruit because of my diabetes. i want to try this way of eating. i experience feeling hungry all the time. never feeling satisfied. anyway, i know i'm talking so much but i have been battling my wieght for 44 years. my body always feels tired. now i can't walk much a few steps and i have to sit down . please help me! i'm so depressed i don't leave my bedroom except to go to the doctors and food shopping. i want to live life again. i want to try this diet but i think i will feel so hungry all the time and the fruit would make my blood sugar rise. it rises so easily. i would love some advice or a mentor. i hope you and your wife can help me. thank you for reading my e-mail. i just wanted to talk to someone.

    A: Hi! I will be happy to try to mentor you, but please realize I'm not doctor - just a friend who has had some success with losing weight on a raw vegan diet. However your situation is pretty serious. So I would only do this under a doctor's supervision. But if you can get a doctor to support you in this, go for it! Here's what I would do, - with a doctor supervising - I would do any one of the following things:

    1. do a green juice fast.. It sounds hard but once you start, it might be easy for you. Be open to that possibility. Give it a try! Order a Green Star Juicer (its $400+ but think about how expensive your medical bills and medications are, or will be over the years, and you'll see its a very little amount to spend!). Do buy organic.. It is the only way to safely do any kind of raw vegan diet or juicing regimen, and once again, the difference in price is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the money saved on medical bills and medications. The things you can juice are:

    - carrots and spinach (just a handful of spinach to start with, working up to one bunch after a few weeks)
    - cucumbers, kale, celery (10 cucumbers, one bunch kale, one bunch celery) - this'll last you half a day! It will change you instantly. You will become a different person after drinking this just once, I promise you!

    Other vegetables you can juice up in any mixture:
    (mix any of the below):
    - carrots
    - cucumbers
    - beets (start slowly!)
    - kale
    - chard
    - spinach (start slowly!)
    - dandelion greens
    - celery
    - broccoli
    - cauliflower
    - bell peppers
    - parsley
    - etc..

    2. If this all sounds like too much for you, just stop eating meat! You'll be amazed at the difference in your life within just a few days!!!!!

    3. If you can, also stop eating any dairy (milk, cheese, eggs, yogurt, cream, sour cream, butter, baked goods that contain any of the above, bread made with any dairy in it) - You will feel about 300 times better for sure!

    4. If you really want to go raw, but don't want to juice, then you can just eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds plain! Make sure the nuts are raw!!! Not roasted!!! For instance, you can eat a bunch of parsley, plain! My 7 year old loves it, and does it all the time! You can eat like that all day, and you'll feel amazing the first day already!

    Best of luck!!!! Feel free to email me any time!!!
    Jinjee


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