Spotlight on Health - Kristen's Raw

Every week Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living blog/site to help you on your journey to optimal health. Today the spotlight shines on Kristen Suzanne of Kristen's Raw.

Read her bio taken from her site -

Kristen Suzanne was a competitive natural bodybuilder in her early 20's and has been 100% vegan since 2002. At that time, she was approximately 50% Raw, with her cooked foods comprising mostly tofu, vegetables, and pasta. In 2005, Kristen migrated to being 75% Raw. Since 2006, she has been 95% Raw. In Raw Foodism parlance, this equates to somebody eating almost only Raw meals AND/OR attempting to always eat Raw meals that may contain very small amounts of an ingredient that isn't Raw (spices are a common example, as it's not always easy to ascertain how a spice was dried or prepared).

According to her about page,

Kristen's Raw was launched in January of 2007 to provide information, products, services, advice, and recommendations that make it easy for anybody to adopt the raw, vegan lifestyle.

There are many useful pages for those who are considering moving toward eating a higher degree of raw foods. Start with the How To Get Started section then you can move on to the Raw Foods FAQ.  From there you can browse around and get more questions answered.

Kristen has a whole line of recipe books to help in getting anyone started or for someone already eating high raw looking for ideas and recipes.  For those getting started she has the Easy Raw Vegan Transition Recipes.

Or The EASY Way to Get Started & SUCCEED with Raw Food

Then there's the EASY Raw Vegan Entrees

and EASY Raw Vegan Soups and much more.

She also has a special discount of over 40% on the package of 11 e-books.  Awesome!  When you visit her site and click on the recipes link you will see pictures of some of the recipes and more details on the books.  Her blog also features her food journal, reviews and other bits of information.  So get going and discover more for yourself at Kristen's Raw.

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Spotlight on Health - All You Need To Know To Get Started In Aromatherapy

Every week Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living blog/site to help you on your journey to optimal health. Today the spotlight shines on Johanna of All You Need To Know To Get Started In Aromatherapy.

Essential oils are an important part of living a healthy life.  They can replace many of the chemicals that are used around the home for so many things, from cleaning to treating different ailments, to helping achieve relaxation to pet care to caring for children.  I personally have stopped using the disinfectants sold in the stores and use essential oils for my cleaning and sometimes when I do laundry.  I use it as well instead of toothpaste.

Using essential oils can sometimes be confusing and if you don't know where to start but would like to, today's featured site will help you. She has a section called administration where you can find everything about how to use essential oils. You will find answers to questions like how to apply the oil topically, inhalation, how to diffuse the oil correctly, cooking with essential oils and more.

On the site you will find detailed information on single oils, their history, aroma, therapeutic uses etc. There is also a section called safety where she shares how to use essential oils safely.  If you need to know about specific conditions, check out the section called conditions where she shares information on how to use the oils for specific conditions.

Last but by no means least I want to highlight a section called oil of the month where she picks a specific oil and one follower of the blog gets to win a bottle of the oil of the month. YAY!!!

This site is a goldmine of information for anyone seeking knowledge on the use of essential oils.  What now?  Your next step is to visit  All You Need To Know To Get Started In Aromatherapy and get started using essential oils for greater health and healing.  All you need to know is right there and you can purchase the oils from her as well.

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Spotlight on Health - Food Facts

Every week Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living blog/site to help you on your journey to optimal health.  Today the spotlight shines on Foodfacts.com.

As written on their site, their mission is three-fold:

1. To make it easy to identify and use the ingredients you want, in the foods you want.
2. Eliminate all of the confusion - get the facts, be informed, and take action.
3. Educate about healthy eating - create healthy food recipes and meal plans - learn, track, compare and share information.

I have subscribed to their blog and share the links of many of their blog articles on twitter and the Fruitful Vine Facebook page.  Here are some examples of the type of information you can find on the foodfacts.com blog.

If you're interested in losing great but not feeling terrible check out Losing Weight And Feeling Great With Slow Carbs. I am not by any stretch of the imagination overweight as those who have seen me and know me in person can attest to but somehow my stomach is bigger than I want it to be. At this point my father would say "What stomach?"  He always seemed to think it's just my imagination. Regardless of what my father thinks, if you're like me and want a flatter stomach read Nutrition Secrets For a Flat, Fat-Free Stomach.

Did you know that the fruit of the coffee plant is nutritious? Those are just a few of the articles you can find on the foodfacts.com blog. Lower your sress with Stress Lowering Foods and enjoy all the other articles.

To your optimal health,


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Spotlight On Health - Suncooked Cuisine

Every week Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living blog/site to help you on your journey to optimal health.  Today the spotlight shines on Chantel Selman of Suncooked Cuisine formerly known as Natural Livin' On De Island of Barbados. Chantel is a living foods/raw chef, an iridologist and traditional healer in Barbados. She has experience in reflexology, live food nutrition, herbal medicine and more.  She owns a health store and live food bar called Organic Earth. If you're ever in Barbados look her up and taste her living cuisine.

Chantel was here in Dominica last year presenting raw food recipes and techniques at Terri Henry's Health Expo. I missed seeing her presentation because it coincided with a ministry event were attending on the ship Logos Hope. Que lastima! (so sad). Anyway, to continue, Chantel shares links and videos to healthy living articles as well as some of her recipes on her blog.

Youtube is where you can quickly access her videos.  Take a look at one of the delicious live pizza recipes she's shared:




She also has this Wild Fermented Ginger Beer recipe on her site.

You can find more of Chantel Selman's recipe videos on Youtube.  Next week another blogger with a healthy living site/blog. Take care.

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Spotlight On Health - Non Toxic Kids

Every week Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living site/blog to help you on your journey to optimal health.  Today's featured site is about the children in our lives.  We are striving for optimal health and we want no less for our children.  So without any further ado, the big bright dazzling spotlight shines on Katy Farber of Non-Toxic Kids.

According their byline Non-Toxic Kids helps your kids stay safe, healthy and smart.  On her site you will find quite a bit of information on keeping your children healthy.  There is an entire section on Food Allergies dealing with peanut allergies, eczema, diaper creams etc.

I wish I could share all the information that's there but you'll have to go see for yourself.  I found the section on Genetically Modified Food to be interesting as well as mercury in food and the whole section on nut free foods.  Her recipe section has this delicious looking Pumpkin Bread and other recipes as well.

Pumpkin Bread

There is a vegetarian section and her experiences with whole foods.  Like I said so much to share.  Go check it out for yourself.

Non-Toxic Kids

Katy Farber has also authored a couple of books:  Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus and Change the World with Service Learning: How to Create, Lead, and Assess Service Learning Projects.  You can also find Non-Toxic Kids on Facebook and Twitter.

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Spotlight On Health - All Day Natural

Today the big bright dazzling spotlight shines on Miss Lycia of All Day Natural.

As written on her about page, Miss Lycia has a passion for wholistic natural health and has created a resource for people to learn and share information on wholistic health and natural beauty.   She is dedicated to spreading the word about natural hair and skin care, healthy eating, and alternative medicine, and shining the spotlight on others who are on the same journey.

Let me highlight some of the posts that can be found on All Day Natural.  The holiday season is in full swing and many are faced with the decision of abandoning their usual healthy eating and succumbing to all the different less than healthy choices that make up the holiday meal.  Help in that decision making process can be found in her Four Tips for Eating Healthy During the Holidays article.

Her Beginner's Guide to Eating Healthy Food has this awesome quote about grandma's food as well as some very useful information. Check it out. If you have a challenge getting your kids to eat healthy read her article - Eight Tips on Getting Kids to Eat Healthy.

You can also find some delicious looking recipes on her site.  Take a look at this delectable Raspberry Ganache Fudge Cake which is part of her post Delectable Desserts, From Mother Nature to You.  Can you believe it's raw?

There is much more to see and learn on the site itself.  Miss Lycia at All Day Natural is another blog that you can look to for information on natural wholistic health.  Next week another blogger with a healthy living site/blog. Take care.

Wait!  Here's a P.S. for you.  Just as I was clicking off her site her post on Sweeteners to Use Instead of Sugar caught my eye.  Check it out.  Again, next week another blogger with a healthy living site/blog.  Take care.

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Spotlight On Health - Raw Epicurean

Every week Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living blog/site to help you on your journey to optimal health  Today the big, bright dazzling spotlight shines on Raw Epicurean.

According to the byline on the site, Raw Epicurean shares raw, vegan, and vegetarian recipes made from natural, whole foods and ingredients.  In our healthy living journey, recipes are a must have in order for us to continue to enjoy healthy eating.  Check this out!  A Pomegranate Cheesecake!  Can you imagine!

 Here's another one for you.  Shredded Brussels Sprouts and Hazelnut Pesto with Fresh Tomatoes:

In addition to more of those delicious looking recipes there is also a herb of the month section and Health & Wellness article section.  There is so much more than that though.  Visit Raw Epicurean to get more of the great healthy living information that's on there.  Raw Epicurean is also on Twitter and Facebook.

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Spotlight On Health - Hallelujah Acres

Every Monday Our Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living site/blog to help you on the journey to optimal health.  Today the big, bright, dazzling spotlight shines on Hallelujah Acres.

The Hallelujah Acres latest slogan is "We Juice Up Your Life" and from the countless testimonies that can be found on the testimonies section it is definitely true that a lot of lives have been juiced up by them.

Let me give a little background on Hallelujah Acres as I learned it.  It was started by Rev. George Malkmus who at the time was a pastor.  He developed colon cancer and through divine providence found the way to healing through a mainly raw food diet.  That was 30 plus years ago.  He has been teaching a 85% raw and 15% cooked way of eating for optimal health.  Find out more of his story and how Hallelujah Acres began in the history section of the site.

So what exactly does Hallelujah Acres teach is the optimal way to eat for greater health and healing?  Check out the section on the Hallelujah Diet for all the information and reasoning behind it all.  I am really excited to share Hallelujah Acres with you because I know that you will find lots of resources to help you on the journey to optimal health.  That's what I've found and I'm sharing with you.

Hallelujah Acres has many resources to help in our journey to optimal health.  There are recipes, videos, courses and seminars, one of them being the Women's Retreat coming next October.

I've been so impressed with Hallelujah Acres that my dream is to be one of their certified Health Ministers.  I've already received part of the home study section of the training and I'm believing God for the finances to fly to the US to complete the rest of the certification.


Hallelujah Acres also has newsletters that you can sign up for and Rev. George Malkmus has a blog where he shares health tips regularly.

So click on the links mentioned in this post and discover a world of healthy information through Hallelujah Acres.  They can also be found on Twitter and Facebook.

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Spotlight On Health - The Soft Landing

Today the spotlight shines on Alicia Voorhies of The Soft Landing.

Alicia and the team at The Soft Landing are passionate about educating parents and the general public about the toxicity found in plastics and other materials including the inherent toxicity of PVC seeing that it often contains many more toxic chemicals than just phthalates. There are so many eye-opening posts on their site. Here are a few:

Testing Reveals Vinyl (PVC) in Flooring and Wallpaper Contains Toxic Chemicals
Is PVC Really Toxic?
CHEJ Pulls Back the Curtain on PVC

They also offer different free resources as well such as this Guide to Avoiding Toxic Plastic

and a mini course on 5 Steps to Doing Your Own Plastics Research.

In addition to educating about the toxicity present in different materials, The Soft Landing also offers for sale products that are safe to use as alternatives to using toxic ridden plastics.  As a special gift to Fruitful Vine readers they are offering a discount on their products.  Isn't that wonderful?  The code to use is "FRUITFUL15OFF".  This discount code is valid from today till the end of November 2010. 


Visit The Soft Landing Shop and take advantage of this special discount.  It's a great way to get some great gifts at a discount for the holidays.  Here are a coupleof products you can find:

Adult BPA Free Lunch Kit

Thermos SS 18oz Straw Bottle - Purple Flower

Click on any of the images below to be taken to the different sections of their shop and remember to use the code "FRUITFUL15OFF" to get your discount.

For even more on The Soft Landing visit and like The Soft Landing Facebook Page and follow Alicia on Twitter.

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Spotlight On Health - Carolyn Akens

Every Monday we bring to you blogs/sites that can help you in your healthy living journey.  Today the spotlight shines on Carolyn Akens of Carolyn Akens.com.

Carolyn Akens is a health coach and raw food educator whose focus is women who struggle with losing weight and keeping the pounds off.  She is passionate about health and wants to help women who are overweight or obese.  As her tagline from her site says she is "Bringing Women Back To Health: One Bite At A Time!". 

Carolyn's Home page gives you 3 steps to overcome whatever health issue you are facing.  Start there as you explore her site and then move on to the About Me page where she shares her moving testimony.

Carolyn can also be found sharing on health issues on Facebook and Twitter.  Visit and like her Facebook Page and follow her on Twitter if you tweet.

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Spotlight On Health - Become A Healthier You

Every week Fruitful Vine brings to you a healthy living site/blog to help you as you strive to live a healthier life.  Today the spotlight shines on Evelyn Parham of Become A Healthier You. 

Evelyn Parham is originally from Tennessee but lives in Georgia with her husband and daughter.  She has a passion to help others achieve optimal health.  Her primary forums for pursuing that passion are her blog: Become A Healthier You, her internet radio show: Control The Fork, Facebook and her You Tube Channel.

Evelyn and I have been online buddies for quite a while now.  She has been a guest poster here on Fruitful Vine before writing on the topic - Do Raw Fooders Get Enough Protein.  It has really been a blessing to see her grow as she builds her blog.  She covers Healthy Lifestyles, Recipes, Blogging and more on her site.

Here is a sample of one of the recipes she's posted, a delicious looking recipe for The Best Dairy-Free Cheese Cake.

 

You will find many interesting and informative healthy living posts like the one on how to Eliminate the Symptoms of Fibroid Tumors Naturally. Visit Evelyn at Become A Healthier You and if you're on Twitter you can follow Evelyn there as well.

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Spotlight On Health - Jo's Health Corner

Today the spotlight shines on Johanna Pedranti of Jo's Health Corner.

Johanna is Swedish and lives with her husband in the US. She is an Aromatherapist and a distributor of Young Living Essential Oils. She uses essential oils daily and also wrote about what she uses and how she uses them.

Johanna uses her blog to encourage others to a more healthy way of living. She writes on natural cleaning, making your own products, health building, how to make your own spa, immunity, oils for stressful times and more.

Johanna and her husband run a consultation business together and operate the Naturally Sports site. Our relationship has grown in different ways, she joined me as co-moderator of the Natural Homeschool Mommas group on The Homeschool Lounge, wrote one of the forewords on my first e-book and regularly encourages and supports me in my online endeavors. One of my desires is that we would meet in person one day.

Her beautiful children play a part in making healthy foods and drinks as well.  She wrote a post about getting the kids involved where she features her children in the kitchen juicing.

Visit Jo's Health Corner and take your health to another level with essential oils and all the other information she has there.  You can also follow Jo's Health Corner on Twitter and visit and like the Jo's Health Corner Facebook page.

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