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February 2008
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Dear Elaine,

Greetings from a sunny frosty garden, where the rich honey scent of the mahonia greets every visitor to the back door, and the daphne scents the front garden path.

My apologies for not sending a longer newsletter last month.

I think everyone else is really busy too, so perhaps that wasn't a bad thing!

There's a new section this time, "Comment", a sort of mini blog, which I'll write when I find something interesting, useful, entertaining or exasperating. Your own comments always welcome.

Are the recent Raw Food Television programmes already fading from memory? The one I saw was well balanced I thought. The producer, who came to lunch with one of our groups here last year at the start of her research, went for the safer ground of "eating raw" rather than tackling the amazing healing power of the full Living Foods Programme (maybe another decade?). I was pleasantly surprised by the balanced and objective tone of the programme, though the trailers were another matter!!


And in another TV series, the current golden boy of healthy fresh food, (long may he continue his forthright comments) is using fresh stuff from his garden, and showed a winter coleslaw. I've mercifully forgotten whatever dead creature he served it with, but you can't have everything. Our version is this month's recipe.

And a note of exasperation;

The claim of the genetic wizards to explain practically everything is getting predictable. Why so many obese people suddenly if genes are mostly responsible?

Every sensible GP and community nurse has observed over time that if you overfeed an infant it will more than likely be a plump toddler, a chubby youngster, and have to fight the flab as an adult. It is said that if the teenager is overweight, the adult will have to work at not defaulting to that weight later on.

If you feed babies sensibly, the fat cells don't form in the same way, and it's much more likely that they will not be troubled by overweight problems later. Take heart. I am sure it is possible to outwit your genetic inheritance in this area of life. Remember the saying "25% genes and 75% lifestyle"? You start from a strong position of control.
jane
Jane came here on a course some years ago, and has been incorporating the theory and practice of raw living into her extensive scientific studies and her health practice ever since. She advocates, as we do, using them for minerals, and shares her personal recipe with you.
Winter pruning and shredding

We were going to finish the mulching this week, but the ground needs warming up after the frost. So a glorious sunny but nippy morning was spent pruning the autumn fruiting raspberry canes, and shredding them.


Later the shreddings went into the big compost bins, which were turned and thoroughly soaked, to encourage faster breakdown as soon as the air temperature rises.
It is my great pleasure to welcome back Nicky Jevon, my good friend and Chinese Astrology adviser, among other roles. You may remember her introduction to the Year of the Boar, this time last year. If you missed her article on Reverse Therapy, you can look that up too on the articles page.
Garden fresh cabbage carrot and fennel, with Granny Smith apples.
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March 8-14th

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Thank you
Elaine Bruce
Director

The UK Centre for Living Foods
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