Gabriel Cousens M.D. - Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine

To our brothers and sisters throughout the world who have made a commitment to themselves to live and eat in a way that creates the highest physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual expression and helps to heal the planetary ecology and Earths inhabitants.

Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine has been a joyful collective effort. We wish to acknowledge and thank the many people who are a part of the Tree of Life, who participated and shared recipes as they were taught on site and tested at the Tree of Life Caf. These people include: Shanti, Karen, Philip, Chad, Sita, Heather, Ren, Rebecca, Rose Lee, Aaron, Lucas, Alison, Isaiah, and Tsiona.

Deep thanks to Ivri who served as the Tree of Lifes Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine project manager and in-house editor. She also compiled the recipes, as well as wrote the section Raising Rainbow Babies.

Much appreciation to Philip, the Tree of Life Caf Manager and Chef, who took the photographs of the cuisine, edited the recipes, and wrote The Secrets to Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine Preparation and the Resources Directory.

Thanks to Shanti who contributed all the recipes for the Essential Oil Delicacies and the Caf staff who wrote the Traveling in the Raw section.

Thanks to Susan, Tree of Life Administrative Assistant, who generated some of the charts and helped with the details in a few pinches.

Gratitude to Kaliji for the wisdom of Kali Ray TriYoga and for writing about airplane Yoga for the section Preventing Jet Stress.

We also thank Richard Harvey for the excellent phase-contrast and dark-field slides he contributed to this book, and his partner Mary Houston, who helped Richard prepare the slides and inspired me to probe more deeply into Dr. Robert Youngs research.

Special thanks to David Wolfe and Eliot Rosen who gave their support, energy, and their gift of words in writing the Foreword and Preface, respectively.

We also are very grateful for the enduring support of the folks at North Atlantic Books, especially Kathy Glass, who served as editor, and Sarah Serafimidis, the Project Manager.

T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

SECTION 1
R AINBOW G REEN L IVE -F OOD C UISINE
IS THE W AY TO L IVE

C HAPTER 1: T O C OMPOST OR N OT: T HE T HEORY B EHIND
THE R AINBOW G REEN L IVE -F OOD C UISINE

C HAPTER 2: P REVENTING THE C OMPOSTING OF W ESTERN
C IVILIZATION

The teachings of the Greek physician Galen ( 129199 A.D .) held such indomitable sway over Western medicine that until the European Renaissance a full 1,400 years later, those who challenged Galens pre-scientific legacy faced professional ridicule, public banishment, and even death.

Refusing to blindly believe unproven doctrine, Leonardo Da Vinci, Dr. William Harvey, and others autopsied human corpses so they might see empirically, with their own eyes, the poetic architecture of human anatomy.

In like manner, Dr. Gabriel Cousens relies on his own eyes and not upon unsubstantiated dietary theories or idealistic ideologies of how things should be.

Having treated thousands of patients during his thirty-plus years as a holistic physician, Dr. Cousens time and again saw intriguing patterns emerge in positive response to his therapeutic interventions. As his patient data grew, the logical next step was to conduct clinical studies. This book represents the results of Dr. Cousens latest clinical exploration.

Dr. Cousens enlisted the aid of his residential staff at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, who initially adopted a low-glycemic (low-sweet) therapeutic diet for three months, and then voluntarily continued on the maintenance phase to this day. Dr. Cousens monitored clinical progress by way of dark-field microscopic blood samples and other diagnostic measures.

Before this dietary experiment, the residents had already been eating a 100% live-food diet but with no restrictions on fruit intake. On this no- to low-fruit live-food program, they felt better and better with each passing day. Blood samples revealed dramatically fewer pathogenic microorganisms, directly corroborating glowing subjective reports of their increased physical energy and mental clarity. Clearly something wonderful was occurring. Based on this successful experience, Dr. Cousens began offering the program to his clients.

Dr. Cousens believes that in todays world, most of us are laboring under a toxic load of pathogenic microorganisms, heavy metal deposits, and pesticide residues. These substances enter the body mostly from what we eat. Paradoxically, even wholesome foodsgrains, fruits, and high-glycemic vegetablescan be literally feeding the problem.

High-glycemic foods are not the only problem, however. A typical modern-day meal featuring a main course of beef, poultry, or fish may contain up to 750 million pathogenic microorganisms per serving, compared to a typical vegan meal containing only 500 pathogenic microorganisms per meal.

These same foods were not as troublesome for past generations as they are for us today. Our ancestors had stronger genetic inheritance and constitutional strength because they werent exposed to excessive antibiotic intake, foodless foods stripped of their essential nutrients, or poisonous pesticides, hormones, and food additives.