For Immediate Release Contact: Caryl Levine
April 2012 510 525-3137 info@lotusfoods.com

Lotus Foods Forbidden Rice® to Be Featured in Vegan Iron Chef Competition

Lotus Foods is pleased to be a sponsor of the second annual Vegan Iron Chef II Competition being held by Kent State University Dining Services on Sunday, April 22, noon to 5pm, as part of their Earth Day celebrations. The competition will include both a student competition and a professional chef round. Chefs in both categories will be using Lotus Foods’ most popular rice, Forbidden Rice® in the dishes they prepare. The student chef competition at 2 p.m. will feature the dishes of six student teams from Kent State University and the University of Akron. Professional chefs will begin competing at 3 p.m. The competitions will take place on the second floor of the Kent Student Center. Admission is free, and the event is open to the public.

“We are delighted to contribute the Forbidden Rice®” says Lotus Foods co-founder and co-owner Caryl Levine. “Not only is it extremely healthy, but it has a delicious roasted nutty flavor and makes a dramatic plate presentation.” A spoonful of black rice bran, which is equivalent to 10 spoonfuls of cooked black rice, contains more anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E. Dr. Oz has promoted the benefits of black rice on Good Morning America and recently on his own show.

Cooking with Lotus Foods rice is a great way for vegans or anyone to support compassionate and sustainable innovation. Lotus Foods rices are non-GMO verified, gluten-free, organic and fairly traded. Adds Levine, “We have also partnered with Christine Waltermyer, Founder and Director of the Natural Kitchen Cooking School and author of the Natural Vegan Kitchen to create some exceptional vegan recipes for our delicious rices.”

Lotus Foods Forbidden Rice^® and Organic Forbidden Rice^® are distributed throughout the US in natural food stores, retail grocery stores and online. First-time black rice consumers should be sure to visit the Lotus Foods website for recipe ideas.” www.lotusfoods.com

Since 1995, Lotus Foods has been partnering in fair trade with small family farmers around the world who are growing rice sustainably and preserving heirloom and specialty rices. Our objective is not only to help rice farmers earn a living wage but to bring healthier rice choices to consumers.

The Vegan Iron Chef Competition is the opening event for the 4th annual “Who’s Your Mama?” Earth Day and Environmental Film Festival, a week-long Earth Day celebration. For additional information, contact Jeff info@standingrock.net 

Global Entertainment at the Kent State U. Vegan Iron
Chef Contest, April 2010!

Top photo: Jazz/classical violinist Humble G, Chrissy Hynde
from the Pretenders, LC Woods, MD, (African Drums), and
Mgr, Producer Mic Tate

Bottom Photo: Group photo with winning chef Scott
Jones Vegeterranean, Marchia Carnicelli Minor on  far
right kneeling,  Tom in backrow with green hat Chef for
Organic Energy Solon, OH,  Jeff, founder of event kneeling
front row black glasses (also co-worker Kent Natural Foods
Coop).   Third Photo: Tom Rindfleisch, Head Chef Organic
Energy Solon, OH

The Food in Heaven by author Will Tuttle

We all have our story of awakening. When I was about seven years old, I remember asking my mother, “The kind of food we eat—is that what everybody eats?” She answered, “Yes.” Then she added, “Well, there are vegetarians…” in a way that made me think they must live on another planet.

I have discovered that all of us raised in this culture have been ritually injected with an unrecognized mentality that renders our efforts for peace, freedom, justice, equality, and sustainability merely ironic. We want for ourselves what we refuse to give to others. Our massive and routine violence toward animals for food is our culture’s defining blind spot, and when we look deeply enough, we realize that this is the situation in a nutshell: We are all beings of light and awareness and love, bon into a culture of violence and exclusion.

We take on its darkness and fear, and the core ritual used by our culture to effect this is our daily meals, where we are forced to participate in routine killing by eating and buying the flesh and secretions of imprisoned, terrified animals.

Our path to freedom lies in freeing these animals. Veganism is the spiritual and practical key to happiness and peace. It is the stark and liberating solution to the omnivore’s dilemma, and to the unyielding conundrum bearing down on our culture as our relentless violence toward animals, people, and the Earth ripens before our eyes. As the lived expression of nonviolence, veganism is the path to heaven.

This beautiful Earth is a celebration of joy. As we understand and act in harmony with the universal teachings of compassion and nonviolence, we will discover that our Earth can be transformed into heaven. Each of us can be an angel in our heaven, here to love and serve the magnificent creation. Food is the key: our most essential, intimate, and significant connection with the larger order.

The food of heaven is available now, and together we can create a new dream every day on this Earth. I invite all of us to vividly imagine our culture’s vegan future in all its details, and to act to help create it. Sharing vegan recipes and spreading the word in our own unique ways, we are transforming our world. Imagining our culture as a vegan culture is imagining an utterly different culture, a beautiful world to which our future selves are ever beckoning us.

Bio: Dr. Will Tuttle, a best-selling author, pianist, and composer, has presented widely throughout America and Europe. Author of The World Peace Diet, he has also taught college courses in mythology, philosophy, humanities, comparative religion, and creativity. His Ph.D. dissertation in education from the University of California, Berkeley, focused on educating intuition in adults. A Dharma Master in the Zen tradition, he has done intensive training in Korea, and has practiced meditation and vegan living for 30 years.
www.worldpeacediet.org willtuttle@earthlink.net, 1083 Vine Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448. 800-697-6614 – voice mail; 508-367-2046 – direct

The Raw Trainer-The Top 5
Reasons to Eat Raw
My name is Marisa DiCenso-Pelser; I am a Raw Foods Chef, Personal Trainer, and Figure Competitor.  Along with  my husband Pieter we are spreading the word of raw food  and fitness throughout Northeast Ohio and the world.

1-Raw food is more nutritious  Cooking food, whether you steam or fry it, removes much  of the water from the food. Just look at the difference before  and after a pound of spinach is cooked! This water is necesary for both hydration of the body and assimilation of many important nutrients by the body. The more nutrients you absorb the more energy you will have for your daily activities and workouts. Also, the more nutrient absorption you  have the better your body will recover from daily physical and emotional stress.  2-Raw food is not altered-Cooking food completely changes the chemical makeup of the food. For example, heating proteins fuses the basic amino acid chains together in a process called denaturing. The human body cannot dissolve these un- natural bonds and so the food becomes useless to the body, not to mention toxic. Also, cooking  carbohydrates results in carmelization of the sugars and heated fats quickly become rancid.

3-Raw food contains fewer calories per bite-A pound of bananas contains only 400 calories with 3% fat. Compare that to the same amount of broiled steak and you get a whopping 1251 calories, 64% of which is fat! And that’s with the excess fat trimmed off.

4-Raw food is much more satisfying-Because raw foods retain their water and fiber, they are higher in volume. On a healthy raw vegan diet, you can eat a very large amount of food and you will still lose weight! Okay, so raw foods are inarguably better for us. But what about the effects of eating this way? What benefits can you expect from a raw food diet?

5-Benefits of Raw Here are just some of the awesome results you can experience  on a healthy raw vegan diet: Improved digestion, Permanent weight loss, Improved muscle Tone, improved athletic performance, Increased energy, better  sleep, shiny hair, Smooth, soft skin, Healthy teeth and gums, Mental clarity, And so much
more!

We are graduates of Cleveland  State University with a B.A.  in Exercise Science as well as Certified Living on Live Foods  Chef/Instructors. To learn more about our weekly raw food delivery, educational classes, and personal training, please visit: www.rawtrainer.com or email
marisa@rawtrainer.com

The Raw Trainer  Marisa DiCenso-Pelser  Certified Personal Trainer and  Raw Food Chef-B.A. Exercise  Science-Certified Living on  Live Food Chef/Instructor

Why Raw?-The raw food diet,  while often billed as a recent diet fad, has actually been  around for centuries. Eating raw is truly as simple as it sounds: the diet consists of eating only uncooked food.  Raw and living foods are simply uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds
and sprouted grains. There are also some other foods that fall within this category such as seaweeds, raw carob powder, cold pressed olive oil and certain spices and seasonings.  By combining the various food groups you can create an endless variety of salads, appetizers, entrees and desserts that will satisfy even the biggest critic.

Amazing
Rejuvenation Properties
The Moringa oleifera tree?
•    Leaves: relieve headaches, expel parasites, relieve swelling, heal skin diseases, inflammation of the eyes and ears, bronchitis and inflammation of mucous membranes
•    Flowers: are a good tonic, expel parasites, treat tumors and enlarged spleen, relieve sore throat, and treat anxiety
•    Pods & Seeds: purify water, treat tooth ache and help to prevent tooth decay, expel worms and relieve joint pain
•    Roots: used as a laxative and to treat spasms of the colon, treat circulation problems, high blood pressure, kidney dysfunctions and low back pain; also beneficial for gout and asthma
•    In laboratory tests the leaf extract of Moringa lowers blood sugar within three hours, heals stomach ulcers, is a powerful muscle relaxant, reduces blood pressure and facilitates sleep. Also in laboratory tests, juice extract from leaves and bark have shown antibacterial and antiviral properties, and show strong activity against the tuberculosis bacterium.

Leaves of Moringa can substitute for meat, soy bean products or dairy products as the leaves have a complete compliment of essential amino acids – a complete source of the protein that is required for good health. Ounce per ounce, leaves of Moringa oleifera:

 Contain more Vitamin A than carrots for good eyesight and to prevent blindness
 More calcium than milk for strong bones and teeth
 More iron than spinach for healthy blood cells
 The full balanced compliment of B vitamins, such as thiamin, riboflavin and niacin for brain, muscle and neurological development
 High levels of Vitamin C, which make it excellent for preventing scurvy

The Moringa leaf powder is also an excellent source of Vitamin E, an effective antioxidant that assists with DNA repair mechanisms.

All these statistics look good in scientific papers and research reports, but on the ground, in real life in impoverished nations, you can see Moringa, the Miracle Tree of Life, doing the real work of saving lives.  Until I discovered the many uses of Moringa, I did not believe that there was much hope for the millions of people on this planet who are dying of starvation and suffering from the horrible socioeconomic conditions they live in. I have now adopted a much more hopeful and optimistic view for the future as I now have every reason to believe that we can save, feed, heal and empower the inhabitants of the planet.

We have developed a very effective Moringa juice concentrate, a Moringa leaf powder and capsules that can help to take people from ill health to good health, and those who are fortunate enough to already be enjoying good health can experience supreme health.

The purpose of this letter is to make you aware of the fact that we are asking everyone to purchase a Moringa tree seedling from World’s Choice Products so that we can work with the private groups that are funding much needed Moringa tree plantings in poverty stricken countries. The tree does grow naturally in many of the countries where it is needed in the tropical regions of the world, but what must be launched now is a concerted effort to plant more trees and educate the people about the value of the tree so that they will be empowered to take advantage of this wonderful agricultural resource.

When you help to fund our efforts by buying seedlings, you are enabling us to make the Moringa products available at no cost to poor people who are suffering with degenerative diseases. Please join hands with us in our campaign to Save, Feed, Heal and Empower the Planet. Thank you for your caring and cooperation.
Sincerely,  Albert Sanchez, Ed.S., Ph.D.
www.healthyreferral.worldschoiceproducts.com
866-99-grand info@healthyreferral.com