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Volume 7 Issue 3 ISSN# 1708-3265

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 		Life in the Raw
with Nicola Watt

"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no results."
Mahatma Gandhi Indian philosopher 1869-1948.

I am never sick or fatigued and I no longer fight with my weight on a daily basis. I hope to die peacefully in my bed disease free at a ripe old age.

Initially I started eating a raw food diet because I was always searching for that diet that would not leave me feeling hungry and stop me from overeating. I needed to be free from yo yo dieting and triggers that would start an all day binge. A diet that would stop me feeling tired all the time, and would protect me from disease. Pretty tall order isn't it!

I looked into the raw food diet 10 years before I actually brought it into my life. I probably found every reason for not trying it, rather than finding reasons to try it even though it seemed to be the answer for my dieting issues.

Every single part of the raw food pyramid I liked, yet although I controlled everything in my life food had always controlled me.

I don't see the raw food lifestyle as a diet because at no time do I feel hungry or deprived, exhausted or confused after eating. I can graze if I choose to and my body digests my food quickly.

Whenever somebody questions me about my raw food lifestyle, I return it with a question. "How often are you exhausted or sick?" "When did you last take a pain killer or have a day off work because of a headache or sniffle?"

I haven't been sick or needed to see a doctor in five years. Why? Because I take action for my own health. By simply feeding my body with pure life force energy I closed the doors on all the problems relating to the SUK (Standard UK Diet).

What keeps me eating raw is the feeling I have daily, the feeling of wellness. I know that I am protecting myself from disease because I am feeding my body the finest fuel.

For the drive and strength I have on this journey I have my mum to thank, I watched the most powerful female figure in my life fight for hers. She was at war with the most aggressive thing I had ever seen, cancer!

When she died, I was not yet raw. I was slim but that was due to an extreme calorie restriction, I had great interest in the raw lifestyle it just seemed too complicated. How I laugh at such a statement now.

I watched with repulsion how my own father filled my mother with dead food; he thought he was saving her life. He believed she was starving to death. Even then I knew eating this way was not right, but it was not my place or time to challenge their way of eating.

I so wish I knew then what I know now. ((Hugs Mum))

From what I saw my mother and my grandmother go through - I learned the importance of taking action in my own life. When I lost my mum it gave me a passion, a drive to research and find answers for prevention and cures from disease. It kept bringing me back to the raw food diet and the power of juicing.

Juicing has been around for centuries. It has been used by some of the most renowned leaders in nutritional therapy and is slowly becoming recognised in the medical profession as a safe, natural way to supply the body with the right elements required for the prevention and treatment of disease.

Unlike conventional medicine, juice is 100% natural, works with the body and has no adverse side effects. Juicing relies on the natural healing harmony between nature and the body's natural desire to get well and prevent disease. Within the fibre of all fruits and vegetables there are unique health elements that cannot be recreated in a laboratory.

There have been many scientific studies showing the powerful healing properties of juicing. Pomegranate juice for prostate cancer, apple juice for asthma, cherry juice for the natural recovery after exercise and in the treatment of gout. Purple grape juice for heart disease, broccoli/cauliflower/carrot juice for some types of cancer, beetroot juice for reducing blood pressure and even wheatgrass juice for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.

This doesn't mean that juicing will cure all disease nor does it mean I am against conventional medicine. I now see juicing as a much needed addition to what is already available. Used in the right professional context, it can be a safe natural alternative to conventional medicine in some areas or as a compliment to conventional medical treatment in others.

Before my children became raw my oldest child was diagnosed with asthma. It was dreadful. Some nights I would fear for his life. It did not take many nights like this before I took action; the more he used a steroid inhaler the more he seemed to need it. So I started getting out of bed and juiced up some apples and lay him next to me all night giving him Reiki. When he would use the inhaler he'd be sick for days wheezing and not eating. But when I restricted processed food, made raw live apple juice and Reiki he would recover over night and was totally fine by morning.

At times I felt like he was living on bananas alone. I worried he would lose weight, not get enough calories, or cause him to be deficient in something. But then he would go to a party - eat pizza and bang he would be wheezing again. I learned his triggers. Slowly I became brave enough to take these things away and deal with everybody else's response to eliminating these types of foods from my children's diets. The foods that most people see as good food and not ingredients of dead diseased waste matter as I now know it to be.

I have had a lot of confrontation from my children's school. Not directly, just little comments asking where are their white bread sandwiches, packet of crisps and chocolate biscuit bar are. In their eyes, a packed lunch full of life force energy like bananas and hard fruits, smoothies and some dehydrated fruit and nut bars is not considered a proper lunch. Hopefully one day I will change these beliefs through educating the educators.

The winter is here now. The flu and sickness bug is rife, but my children are healthy and doing well. Before my children went raw - they were constantly getting ill. Since being raw my son has not wheezed (seven months now to date.)

Whatever they are eating right or wrong in other people's eyes is keeping them well and illness-free.

"Be the change you want in the world".
Mahatma Gandhi.




Nicola Watt is a Raw Food Coach and a Natural Juice Therapist. Born in England in the United Kingdom in 1974 she is also a Certified Personal Training Instructor, Reiki Master, Indian Head Massage Therapist and Tarot Card Reader.

As well as writing for Timeless Spirit as a columnist she writes raw e-books on weight-loss for health and allergy prevention and she facilitates Raw Spiritual workshops and re-treats.

She is currently studying to become a Master Juicer which is officially recognized by the CMA (complementary Medical Association). She is a Tarot Card Reader and is about to qualify as a Reiki Master.

Mummy to her four young children and supporting wife of a British Soldier. Nicola enjoys the great outdoors, hiking, cycling running and walking her three active dogs along with caring for her children's small pets.

A practicing Christian with some Buddhism beliefs she likes the simple things in life and has a dream to live in a warm climate off the grid.

If you would like to learn more about Nicola and her raw family you can visit her blog.

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