I download the free shows via iTunes and put them on the ipod for the car, I also burn them onto CD for my mum. iTunes can do all that kind of stuff and it's a free program.

I did pay for the premium at the start of the year but I didn't get anything more than the free shows so I discontinued and am happy with the free ones.

hope this helps! 

thanks for that info, I'm all signed up!

you can make a list of things to do while you're alive

I think you'd have to look at the monkeys which are carriers of AIDS vs the ones who actually get sick from it, and same for any other virus. It's like we all have cancer cells in our bodies but it depends on our immune response as to whether it goes any further. It may be that very few apes and monkeys (on their proper diet) actually get sick even though they've been exposed. I guess you'd have to look deeper into the research.

i love the guy, he's so cool-nerdy

my favourite is the glow sticks, although seeing cubic zirconias blended into dust made me want to go out and buy a Blendtec straight away!

I saw this on the TV a few weeks ago and only just came across the website www.willitblend.com

it seems we might be a bit limited in just thinking about green smoothies 

I think they can also treat some of the fruit with sprays when they come from overseas and other states - this might be part of your problem too.

Not that I was doing it for the strength training, but the 5 Tibetans have made my once bony girl arms much more muscular!

For those in *ahem* sunny melbourne, there is a raw food meetup on 23 august. Here is the link for more info: http://rawfood.meetup.com/365/

I haven't managed to get to one yet, but they look great.

it is a fantastic medicinal herb. It also makes me very flatulent, so bad in fact, that I had to stop eating it! Onion does the same.

I sometimes use it as a medicine, or if I'm eating out, but not as an everyday food. I would have no friends left.

I don't know about any raw restaurants beyond the rumours but there is a list of vegetarian restaurants at VNV: http://www.vnv.org.au/site//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=86 it might be a good start.

Hi KittyK

I guess since going high raw I have a better sense of what my body is telling me. When I feel my B12 is low I start feeling a little bit lethargic and down, it's a particular feeling in my body. And it seems to be the B12 because taking supplements for a couple of days picks me up again. It's not really scientific, but it works for me! (And this coming from a nutritional medicine student!!!)

As a rule I'm not a fan of supplements - many are synthesised from petrochemicals and the body may or may not recognise them as nutrients. My friend who is a chinese herbalist says that the body can actually start attacking the molecules in sythesised vitamins as foreign invaders! But B12 is a bacteria grown in a lab so I'm not so worried about that. For a multivitamin I take good quality spirulina because a) it's vegan b) it's a whole food and c) if you buy the right brand it's raw. I do have to build up slowly because it upsets my digestion if I take big doses right from the start. But it does pass.

Zalan, a raw foodie in Hepburn Springs, has an article about how he cured his B12 deficiency. It's actually an interesting read because it shows that you can raise B12 levels without supplements (although another time he did use supplements).

Anyway his website is www.vegadeva.com.au/ and then you go to Books/Articles > My B12

I have noticed that if I'm under stress (such as when my father died, and when I had exams) I feel low in B12. I can't explain it, I just do! Then I take a (vegan) supplement and I feel better.

I know this doesn't really answer your question either but thought I would put it in the mix!

hi rawphoenix, these guys do potlucks every month, it sounds really good: http://rawfood.meetup.com/365/

I've taped it but haven't watched it yet, I'll wait until after exams I think...

My cousin owns a broiler chicken farm in Hastings, he absolutely refuses to eat any factory farmed chicken even though he grows them.