1. Imagine jumping out of bed in the morning feeling totally awake with less sleep, healthy, vibrant and ready to tackle anything your day has to offer with pure positivity.

2. Many people feel relief from ailments, illness and disease due to an increase in nutrients and an elimination of toxins. Try starting off by replacing processed foods with more raw options. Instead of a granola bar, try some almonds and carrots.

3. Imagine excess weight melting off effortlessly without counting calories, fat grams or carbohydrates, and that's just a side effect!

4. Enzymes, enzymes, enzymes! We are helping our body tremendously by consuming foods jam packed with these miracle workers! They are the catalysts for every process in our body, without them we could not function. We are born with a limited supply so the more we bring into our body without drawing upon its own reserves, the better. Enzymes are sensitive and are destroyed with heat/cooking over 112 degrees F.

5. Depleted enzymes, lack of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants contribute to aging and decreased immunity. Eating raw slows down the aging process significantly; giving your skin a glorious glow like no other skin cream or elixir could ever hope to achieve. They say a raw foodie is easy to spot!

6. Most of the water content in food is lost through cooking. Fruit and vegetables are filled with the most purified water you can ever consume; manufactured and filtered by none other than the earth! Struggling to consume 8 glasses per day? Fruit and vegetables count!

7. Cooking destroys 50% of the protein in our food. Raw vegetables, seeds, nuts and sprouts are rich in protein which are 100% bioavailable to us, meaning they are very easily absorbed.

8. Heated fats are linked to most major diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Raw fats from avocados, nuts, seeds, olives and coconut are extremely healthy for us. They protect our brain, our organs and lubricate our joints, nerves and bones. These tasty fats contain the enzyme lipase which actually burns excess body fat!

9. By eating a plant-based, vegan diet you will not only be supporting friendly farmers but you will be an active environmentalist by reducing your ecological footprint. Animals raised for our consumption take up a significant, ever-expanding portion of our land, contributing to deforestation (less vegetation = less oxygen) and animal waste running into and polluting our water.

10. Elevated moods, focus, clarity, gratitude and a true appreciation for life are commonly felt by raw foodists.

11. Even with weight loss, the face remains full and youthful, never gaunt. The body repairs itself, depositing curves in all the right places as a beautiful, new body emerges.

12. Results can be seen and felt within days as your body thanks you and works like crazy to become healthy once again.

13. A raw food diet will ensure that your body will maintain the proper pH balance and will never became too acidic (an acidic body is where disease and illness happily flourish). Raw foods are alkalinizing.

14. "Living foods create living bodies, dead foods create dead bodies." (Dr. Ann Wigmore) Need I say more!

15. Taking care and loving yourself is the most important thing you will ever do. It will produce a domino effect and can become contagious! So spread the love.

All truth passes through three stages
First it is ridiculed
Then it is violently opposed
Finally, it is accepted as self- evident

-Arthur Schopenhouer ( 1788-1860)
A German philosopher

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There are only three kinds of people
1- Those who make things happen
2- Those who watch things happen and
3- Those who have no idea what is happening

Nicholas Butler

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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering (Hitler's second in command) at the Nuremberg trials

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"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."

--David Rockefeller, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, June 1991

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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."

--Edward Bernays, 'the Father of Public Relations'

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt businesses and corrupt politics, is the first task of statesmanship today.

--Theodore Roosevelt

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"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

David Rockefeller's Memoirs (Random House, New York, 2002) Chapter 27, page 404