The Vegan and Vegetarian Secrets Blog …

Here’s a shot of a great little vegan recipe we’ve been experimenting with. Vegan Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake topped with Raspberry Sauce and Soy cream.  

Now considering this is a fully vegan cheescake it’s much healthier than the usual dairy and animal filled cheesecakes, but saying that we are not in any way suggesting that this is a health food – it is delicious but such desserts in our opinion should be eaten in moderation of course.

Yes it’s another one of our secret recipes, but if you’re into fruit toppings the sauce is very quick and easy to make . . .

Just get a box of frozen raspberries (if you can’t get fresh ones) and mix them together with a couple tablespoons of agave nectar in a blender and there you have a yummy fruit topping which will taste devine over any kind of cheesecake, soy ice cream, fruit or whatever you fancy.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry “emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”  (Ref: PETA)

Also get this . . . Meat and dairy animals produce more greenhouse gases than all the world’s transport combined. FACT not fantasy (Viva!)

The statistics underlining Viva’s HOT campaign are drawn from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation 2006 report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, and Viva!’s own report, Diet of Disaster. They establish that livestock are the second biggest cause of greenhouse gases at 18 per cent – compared to 13.5 per cent from all the world’s different modes of transport combined. They are the major cause of both species extinctions and the felling of tropical forests – 70 per cent of the cleared Amazon is used for grazing and the other 30 per cent for growing animal fodder, with Europe as the biggest importer.

55 billion animals slaughtered worldwide last year

Here’s the cost – devastation of the global environment and a threat to our children’s future. But don’t take Viva!’s word for it.

 “Livestock’s contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency.” United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation 2006

Think of almost any environmental catastrophe and you’ll find livestock at the heart of it. Farmed animals are one of the main sources of gases that cause Global Warming. They top the list in making wildlife and plants extinct across the world – what’s called Loss of Biodiversity. And all because they are the main reason for Deforestation – chopping down rainforests – where most of the world’s species live. Pesticides, hormones, drugs and chemicals used for livestock are the main cause of Water Pollution. The massive use of antibiotics in factory farms has helped to create Superbugs. Their manure is a main source of Acid Rain. Feeding farmed animals takes up 70 per cent of all agricultural land.

Many times more people could be fed on a plant-based diet. They consume much of the world’s Dwindling Fresh Water. Their hooves and over-grazing are the main cause of Spreading Deserts. Agriculture is being intensified and animals are now 80 per cent Factory Farmed. And on top of this, the world’s oceans are being devastated by overfishing. In short, eating meat, fish and dairy amounts to a Diet of Disaster.

You can end your part in this destruction right now, today, with one simple decision.

Go vegan – and Viva! will help you make the change.

Change your diet – save the world. Send for your free pack today or find out more here.

Here at Vegan Secrets HQ’s we’ve been working on alot of new vegan and raw (plus almost raw) food recipes. So here’s a preview of our latest creation . . . Vegan Almost Raw Chocolate Cups!

Now this recipe is actually a raw chocolate food recipe, however because we didn’t have any fresh coconut to use at the time we changed it a little and added packaged coconut into the recipe instead, thus why we called it Almost Raw Chocolate Cups as it’s not really 100% raw.

At the moment this is one of our secretly guarded recipes (as there’s a good chance we may be coming out with a new recipe book in the future, so stay tuned in for any news on that front folks).

In the meantime you can view some of our other free recipes here: Vegan Recipes 

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AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (“TRY” IS THE KEY WORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from John Hopkins . . .

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains,seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including
bean sprouts)and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

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CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL , U S – PLEASE READ

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.

You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper.
The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.

Washington Irving said,

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”

Amongst all the reading and studying I do I come across a massive amount of thoughts and quotes about veganism and avoiding animal by-products and cruelty, and so I’d like to share a quote with you today from one of Doreen Virtue’s books which I read quite some time ago but it’s always stayed in my mind:

“You are eating the energy of pain every time you ingest animal flesh. The animals suffering creates chemicals that flow through its flesh, and when you eat that animal, you are ingesting pain. Pain lowers your frequency and prevents you from hearing messages from high planes of the spirit world. If you really want to be able to see and hear across the veil, stop eating meat. Dairy products are clogging your aura as well, and your ‘window screen’ into heaven will be clearer if you avoid diary.”

This topic would have to be very close to my heart, being a massive horse-lover from a very early age and having spent most of my life in and around  horses I have to say I’m totally disgusted that any form of cull or slaughter of such majestic creatures (or any animals for that fact) is totally appalling and just proves again and again to me that humans are possibly the most distructive beings on this planet!

So to bring others attention to what’s happening within Australia at the moment check out this news story about the *Secret Cull* and Cruelty on Australia’s Wild Brumbies, MORE than 10,000 brumbies will be slaughtered in Queensland in a massive cull the State Government has tried to hide.

>>  Click Here to Help Save The Brumbies 

And if that’s not enough Horses are being slaughtered and tortured every single day all over the world (just like many other species are). For details and to see some of the Undercover Footage of U.S. Horses Exported to Mexico for Slaughter click here. You can speak up for the horses today, please help if you feel impelled to do so.

This is a nice little recipe I re-vamped sometime ago when I was experimenting with alot of raw food vegan desserts.
It’s a fully guilt free raw and healthy alternative to cooked pies, so you can eat as much as you like.

Here’s how to make it . . .  You’ll need a few good handfuls of berries (whatever you like, I usually use blueberries & strawberries) for the Berry layer of the pie/pudding.

For the Cashew Candy layer: 1 cup cashews, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1-1.5 Tbsp of coconut oil, 1/2 – 1 Tbsp agave syrup, a pinch of sea salt.

  >> Blend ingredients together in a processor until smooth (you can add a little water if needed). The idea of this candy layer is to be thick and creamy like.

For the Chocolate Pudding Layer: 1 small avocadoes, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1.5 Tbs raw cacao powder, 1-2 Tbs agave syrup and 1/2 – 1 Tbs coconut oil.

  >> Again blend ingredients together in a processor or vitamix until smooth and creamy. Test it, and add more of any of the ingredients if you want a more rich chocolate or sweeter flavor). 

Next all you have to do is layer a cashew candy layer, followed by a chocolate pudding layer, then a berry layer and repeat.
Then refrigerate for an hour or so (unless you can’t help but dig in straight away that is) so the chocolate layer sets. 

Enjoy!!!

*Note that this recipe and ingredients will only serve about 1-2 people, just double up on everything if you want to make a large pie (We only make small pies when we make this usually, or we’d eat way too much in one sitting ).