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Japanese melon sells for more than $6,000

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- There's nothing better than a sweet, juicy watermelon on a hot summer's day, right?

A marine products dealer in Japan plunked down a record $6,125 for this melon.

But what if you had to pay six grand for it?

A marine products dealer in Japan plunked down a record $6,125 (¥650,000) Friday for a black Densuke watermelon -- grown only on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido .

Premium melons regularly go for eye-popping amounts there. Only three years ago, someone shelled out about $3,000 for one.

The one that sold Friday had dark green skin -- nearly black -- making it look more like a bowling ball than a fruit.

The nearly 18-pound (8 kg) watermelon, grown only on Hokkaido , was one of 68 sold as part of the season's initial harvest this year and is one of only a few thousand available each year.

As for the buyer, he said he wanted to support local agriculture, according to an official with a local cooperative.

Super-mom.com a celebration and support for Moms

 

My friend Taylor Wells of Prana Power Yoga was chosen to write an article for a popular magazine. Her article was called supper mom and the response and success of the article was so great an entire website has been built around this premise.

Coming Mother's Day, 2008!!

Super-mom.com
Launches this Mothersday

Taylor Wells' new website and blog.

Super-mom.com is a celebration of Moms. A place to find support, insight, inspiration, humor, advice, and connection. A place to remember who you are, and why you were chosen to be a parent, the most important job there is. Come home to Super-mom.com, where you're always welcome and you're always honored and respected-just as you are.

Raw Food In India

This is a clip from a blog of wayword travelers. This whole post is fantastic. You must read the whole thing1

"The close proximity to the utopian settlement of Auroville seems to have a significant impact on Pondicherry. There are many Auroville shops selling natural or hand-made products, as well as many Ayurvedic clinics - and even an ayurvedic hospital - massage centres and health food shops. There’s even a fantastic raw food restaurant which we ate at a number of times."

Origonal post at: http://www.lenbellemore.com/blog/2008/04/travel/south-india/

Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?

By Susan Casey, Photographs by Gregg Segal
                Feb 20, 2007 - 12:03:05 PM
               
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.

                Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem unusual that Captain Charles Moore found his life’s purpose in a nightmare. Unfortunately, he was awake at the time, and 800 miles north of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

It happened on August 3, 1997, a lovely day, at least in the beginning: Sunny. Little wind. Water the color of sapphires. Moore and the crew of Alguita, his 50-foot aluminum-hulled catamaran, sliced through the sea.

Returning to Southern California from Hawaii after a sailing race, Moore had altered Alguita’s course, veering slightly north. He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. This was an odd stretch of ocean, a place most boats purposely avoided. For one thing, it was becalmed. “The doldrums,” sailors called it, and they steered clear. So did the ocean’s top predators: the tuna, sharks, and other large fish that required livelier waters, flush with prey. The gyre was more like a desert—a slow, deep, clockwise-swirling vortex of air and water caused by a mountain of high-pressure air that lingered above it.

The area’s reputation didn’t deter Moore. He had grown up in Long Beach, 40 miles south of L.A., with the Pacific literally in his front yard, and he possessed an impressive aquatic résumé: deckhand, able seaman, sailor, scuba diver, surfer, and finally captain. Moore had spent countless hours in the ocean, fascinated by its vast trove of secrets and terrors. He’d seen a lot of things out there, things that were glorious and grand; things that were ferocious and humbling. But he had never seen anything nearly as chilling as what lay ahead of him in the gyre.

It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a landfill.

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Raw Food Hits The Main streem again

Check out the clip on Celebrity Fit Club
http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?id=1582798&vid=214191

Oh Chem trail Oh Chem trails what art thow?

Supplaments, Egoes and Dirty Money

This is a great post from my friend Kevin Gianni's blog http://renegadehealth.com
The original post con be found here http://renegadehealth.com/blog/a-call-to-natural-health-advocates/

His blog reads as follows:
My last post generated this comment by Patrick:

“A bit surprised, I’ll confess. I had you down as a bit different to most of those in the raw/health internet arena, but was wrong.

Nearly everyone seems motivated by making as many bucks as they can, using all the clever psychological tricks to get people to buy … ‘buy now, price goes up next week’ … then doing the affiliate linking to products, after writing up an ‘impartial’ report on supplements.

Supplements are totally unneccessary and in fact can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb the very thing they’re meant to provide. Yet virtually all raw/health ‘gurus’ talk them up and purely by chance happen to sell them. Check out someone like Tim on runningraw.com who demonstrates just what a load of snake oil supplements are!”

I took some time this Sunday morning to gather my thoughts about what Patrick said, please let me know yours, once you’re done reading this…

Hey Patrick,

I’m sorry you’re disappointed. I work extremely hard to provide the best information possible. I also work very hard to allow people to make their own decisions on what they can do to take control of their health. Many people love what I do, some people don’t.

I am different.

First off, most people would have deleted your post to brush it under the rug. I choose to talk about it, because there are some important issues that you bring up. Both of us are right here and let me say that up front.

I never claim to be a guru. Maybe you’ve assumed that I was, but that’s hardly the truth. I am not out for recognition for what I do. I rarely make public appearances and I’m committed to providing people answers to their health questions.

I’ve spent years now studying nutrition and fitness and working with people directly to find out what works and what doesn’t, (just in last year I’ve interviewed over 100 experts to find out what they’ve done for their clients and students that has worked as well)… I’ve taken the “no supplement” road before and found for most people they can’t fit everything into their diet, so for most people supplements are in fact helpful–which I think even for the most healthful… they can help as well.

But regardless of all that… here’s the real heart of the issue.

I need you and everyone else who reads this blog–and everyone else in the natural health movement–to be a team player.

We can’t fight over this sophomoric “which health guru is right” stuff anymore.  That’s psychological posturing at it’s worst.

I think you and I and many other people have a similar goal.

If we want everyone to eat more healthy and live longer lives, we as natural health advocates, have to be on the same page at many levels. We can’t attack our own ranks like you’ve done here. It’s a waste of precious time and energy.

We have to remove our egos.  The entire body natural health information is more important than your or my beliefs.

We have to stop being defensive.

We have to work as a team.

Your post hardly echoes a team approach.

We’re all here to help spread the word of great health. Some of us have some different approaches. Some of us like supplements, some of us clearly don’t. That’s fine with me. I think there’s truth in many different approaches. The reality of it, is that if you and I were to sit down together and talk, we’d agree on about 90-99% of what each other believes.

SIDE EFFECTS OF BEING A RAW VEGAN

  1)    INTENSELY HEIGHTENED SENSES (EVEN COLORS GET BRIGHTER)
  2)    VASTLY INCREASED ENERGY
  3)    DECREASED ANXIETY
  4)    INCREASED CREATIVITY, MENTAL CLARITY AND ATTENTION SPAN
  5)    DIMINISHED UNHEALTHY CRAVINGS
  6)    DECREASED NEED FOR SLEEP AND BETTER SLEEP
  7)    INCREASED PATIENCE AND SENSE OF CALM
  8)    GLOWING SKIN, HEALTHIER HAIR AND NAILS AND CLEARER EYES
  9)    A FAR MORE DELICIOUS, YET LESS COMPULSIVE SEXUALITY
10)    A STRONGER FASTER, LEANER, MORE BEAUTIFUL BODY
11)    A MORE DELICIOUS NATURAL BODY SMELL/TASTE
12)    INCREASED PURE AND/OR GOD- CONSCIOUSNESS AND INFINITE INTELLIGENCE
13)    INCREASED INNER/OUTER BEAUTY
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There Is A Cure for Diabetes.

Gabriel is speaking in NY January 15 for the launch of his new book?  "There Is A Cure for Diabetes." 
Please spread the word, people can sign up at www.21daycure.com.