Most of us do not know the real impact of having Diabetes. Actually even before the full blown Diabetes sets in, a whole bucket of health problems could be well on their way.

4 Deadly Impacts of Diabetes:

1) Cardiovascular problems ie heart diseases, malfunctioning lungs
2) Erectile dysfunction in men & ovarian cysts/complications in women ie. Infertility
3) Kidney failure leading to swelling & possibly amputation of limbs
4) Thyroid malfunctioning & Lymphatic over toxicity

The other alarming thing about Diabetes is that it is hitting our younger generations. 17 year-old teenagers are being diagnosed with Diabetes. This is a huge wake up call to us, that we need to take some drastically different actions if we wish to thrive as a nation, and planet.

The top 5 steps to preventing & reversing Diabetes (yes it can be reversed! Go google for “Raw For 30” and see for yourself!) are:

1) Reduce waist fat by exercising & working out at least 3 times a week for 30 min per session. Even better still, go for a 30 min walk every day. Make sure you perspire & work up a good heart rate, be it slow jogging or walking or playing with your dog. For those people who suffered sports injuries, or are not used to strenuous exercise, Yoga is the perfect exercise for you. Transformational Yoga is gentle yet powerful. If you practice Transformational Yoga at our studio, your butt does not leave the mat but you perspire like you have just ran 5km.

2) Stop, I mean really eliminate completely the following items – white sugar & white flour. This means cutting out all soft drinks, soda pop, canned drinks & white breads/cakes/pastries. It is not really that difficult to stop eating these foods. It is more difficult & painful to have to go for kidney dialysis, or your family having to deal with your sickness.

3) Drink a glass of freshly pressed Green juice every day. A good combination for rapid cell repair:

Small Bunch Wheat Grass
2 Inch Ginger
1 Lemon
Small Bunch Cilantro
½ Apple

Drink this in the morning before you eat anything else, and feel the energy surging your body. This juice is great for anybody regardless of your health condition. It is safe, delicious & nutritious.

4) Eat high raw, nutrient dense, living meals as much as possible, with a high concentration of fresh uncooked greens, vegetables and whole grains.

5) Last but not least, ditch all the bad fats in your kitchen. This means throwing out hydrogenated fats like margarine, processed soy/corn/vegetable oils, and replacing with only cold pressed plant oils eg Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Flax & Sesame Oil. When you are diagnosed with Diabetes, you want to reduce the fat & sugar in your blood as much as possible. High fat & high sugar leads to Candida, which further complicates Diabetes.

And even when you do eat fats, make sure they are raw quality plant fats.

Actually these above steps can benefit anyone looking for a more energetic and better quality of life. For a person who has or is prone to Diabetes, they are priceless in ensuring a chance of recovery. If you rely on drugs alone and continues to eat processed foods, there is very little chance of recovery. At worst it develops into one of the 4 deadly impacts mentioned above; at best you would be straggling through the rest of your life with insulin shots, medication and living way below your full potential.

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Speaking from the experience of a Singaporean whom has done Yoga with large gyms, famous large Yoga centers, small niche Yoga studios, and then traditional Yoga from authentic ashrams in India itself, I would say there is a world of difference between a mediocre class and “the” class that makes a difference.

1) Headcount of the Class

The very first thing that determines the quality of a Yoga session is the size of the class. Are we looking at 10 people, 20 people or more? If there are 30 people in a class for example, how many instructors are there?

When the size of a Yoga class gets big, the attention of the instructor gets divided more. Each practioner gets little or no interaction from the instructor.

Interaction and touch from the instructor is important because these help to correct & refine postures, and also allow the students to move deeper into practice to heal faster.

Our Yoga Classes at Light Love Laughter are always kept to a maximum of 12 people; when the class gets bigger we arrange additional instructors to assist in conducting the class.

2) How is the Yoga Workout designed?

One of our earlier students reported to us that she felt sick after some Yoga classes that she did at other Yoga Centers. She asked why.

The thing to note is that even though Yoga is a powerful ancient art of healing, it can be done in wrong ways to bring more harm than good. This is also the number one reason that you want to learn from instructors who know their work.

To explain briefly, we Human beings have energy vortexes known as Chakras. These occur on unseen planes, spanning over our whole being. The main 7 Chakras occur on a vertical fashion – from the root of our spine to the crown of our head.

To learn more about the amazing ancient healing powers of aligning Chakras, join us in our next Yoga Teachers Training Course 2012! Email to registration@rawfoodlifestyles.com to enjoy Early Bird offers & find out more.

A Yoga session is safe and powerful only when a Yoga workout is designed according to the ascending order of Chakras, especially for beginners. When the sequence gets disrupted, blind energy is released, and can be very harmful.

3) More than Yoga

Health and wellness is a holistic cycle with 3 spokes – Lifestyle (Yoga) + Diet (Living Foods) + Spiritual Development (Yoga)

When a person practices Yoga, and immediately after the session, goes out and eats French Fries, then the person does not know the why behind her Yoga.

Its like stepping on the accelerator and brake pedals together at the same time. Where do you want to move your vehicle? Where do you really want to move in terms of health – for the better or the worse?

Yoga is just one part; the other big part is Diet. You can do 10 hours of Yoga per week, but if you eat buckets of processed nutrient carcinogenic food, then it defeats the purpose.

At Light Love Laughter, our Yoga Smoothie Package is a one-of-its-kind program that gives you results. The first in Singapore and Asia (we suspect in the rest of the world too maybe), our Yoga practices comes complete with a Living Organic Smoothie – made with our in house recipe that proves to work. When you practice Transformational Yoga after drinking a glass of smoothie, your body has clean energy to perform the workout, detox faster, dumps all those toxins through perspiration. What’s more, you are actually injecting loads of first class nutrients into the most important asset of your life – your body.

Our intention of writing this article is to make you present to how to choose a class that best suits you, to identify a Yoga class that works for you. The 1 hour you spend in Yoga class comes from your precious life span, so spend it wisely.

(Email registration@rawfoodlifestyles.com with your name and contact no to experience a Trial Session with us now.)

We have students telling us that their years of “knots” and “aches” become better in just one session. Some tell us that even their physiotherapists cannot give them this kind of relief that they got in a practice with us.

So we urge you to select wisely the Yoga sessions you go to; investing in your body is the best investment you can do right now.

Besides, you are not monkeys, so don’t pay peanuts and receive peanut service.

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Light Love Laughter

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Somehow the Demo Table looks different from the audience seats. It feels weirdly pleasant to even sit in the audience seats to face the Demo Table; my Demo Table – the same one that I had used to train hundreds of Singaporeans over the past 4 years, from young students, athletes, working adults, to grandparents to foreign raw food wannabes.

While one of the Trainee Teachers was explaining her demo, I was present to a scene when I just started sharing about raw foods to my friends, and they called me “crazy”. Another scene came where I offered my plumber a Green Smoothie, and when I told him I am going to be a Green Smoothie teacher he laughed and asked me to grow up.

After coming back from the States, I burnt a huge hole in my pocket ☺ I dug out all my savings for buying books, DVDs, the best raw food equipments. I imported every raw exotic ingredient that I came across to experiment.

It was already alarming enough to see a steadily depreciating net worth statement; coupled with people calling me mad, it was not exactly the most empowering situation.

My biggest strength is that I have the ability to create empowering contexts for myself in the face of any situation. I’m never intimidated by external circumstances; all I’m afraid of is myself. Because I know that the biggest enemy I have is myself, to master my world, my life, I need only to master myself, that is why I am a Yoga Teacher.

What happened between then and now, I suppose we can piece together with what we can read on the blog. The “what’s so” now is that people are queuing up for our workshops, press and media are coming, corporates calling us, advertising engines are approaching us; we have increasing students but not enough teachers.

And so Jolyn and I created the Ultimate Living Chef (ULC) Training Program – an integration of the previous Ultimate Living Weekend and a brand new intensive Chef training segment. The objective of each ULC is to train raw food Teachers that are better, more creative and more powerful than us.

These ULC Graduates will have a chance to join our Light Love Laughter Academy family as a new breed of bold, effective & powerful trainers. Together we will impact Singapore & Asia’s health in a way no other organization has ever come close to.

One of the questions that came up from a ULC participant is this “Are your ULC Certification backed by a local University or any Authority?”

In my conversation with her, this is what I said:

“All the established raw food authorities in the West, were set up by people with proven track record in living a raw food lifestyle. These people are usually the pioneers in their field; they were the ones who caused a change by being the change, in the face of no precedence.

When I trained with my teacher Alissa Cohen, she has a track record of training Hollywood celebrities. I wanted to join her team of teachers, but she told me she is not interested in Singapore and Asia, and she told me to come back and set up my own thing, she will back me up with referrals and testimonials should I require. So that’s what I did.

There is currently no universal certification authority on raw food certification, only more established and well recognized, highly sought after ones. Of course you can spend tens of thousands and travel to States to learn; another alternative is to train with us. In Singapore and Asia, I can boldly say we are totally qualified to start this certification. Why?

We have done it, we live our talk, we have successfully trained people onto the lifestyle, our students report better quality of life after implementing our content; we even have students doing new thriving businesses using what we taught them. Most importantly, we are committed to bring out the master in you; our aim is to make you better than us.

This track record is more valuable than anything because we are looking at facts.

For anybody new to raw foods, I suggest you choose wisely the people you train with. You want to train with the original people, the pioneers, go for the real deal; not the imitations.

Having said that, one of our objectives is to build a commercially viable entity that is spiritually conscious. We are building a new industry, a new market, and a new world, where passionate raw food teachers & yoga teachers make a more-than-decent living. So we only want to train with people who are serious, people who like us and see the value in us.”

Raw foods Teachers, as we always say in class, are very powerful people. It is much more than just going up to stage & whipping a yummy dish together. The impact stretches to the extent of saving lives; when you make a yummy raw vegan dessert free from harmful preservatives, processed sugars & starch, the person who eats your dessert has one less chance of eating unhealthy snacks. One less cancer-causing snack a day works out to 365 a year. You are actually quietly preventing somebody from getting cancer.

Now if you teach in a class of 30 people, and each of them has an average family of 3, you do the Math on the impact that you have on their lives☺

So, my purpose of writing this long article is to enroll you in our mission and our dream on contributing to humanity.

Have you experienced amazing benefits on Living Foods and would like to share it with others?
Are you passionate about making a difference to your loved ones’ health?
Have you been thinking about a career in Living Foods?
If you said yes to all that above, join us for our next upcoming Ultimate Living Chef Teachers Training! You will get to learn from all our experiences, our mistakes in an intense 3 days accelerated course; come and be amazed by how easy, fun and yummy it all can be.

To register, email your name, contact no and DOB to registration@rawfoodlifestyles.com now. The Feb batch is filling up fast, so hurry!

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Well, I wouldn’t really call a ‘downside’; but I would say it is more an observation that is good to be aware of. After eating mainly raw vegan for years, I noticed that my body has become more and more sensitive to everything in general – energies, radiation & irritants in the environment.

For eg. 1 sip of red wine makes me red from neck to ears, I spoonful of soup containing MSG gives me tight jaws and migraine, and a little bit of processed sugar turns me into a clockwork monkey.

As for static EMF radiation, my body’s threshold is lower than ever. Furthermore, our whole entire Light Love Laughter Team and me are Apple fans – Mac Books, Iphones, Ipads etc. (BTW in case you don’t know, Apple products have some of the highest EMF radiation!)

Before I knew about Grounding Cables, I had to run downstairs for fresh air every half hour in between working on my Mac. If I don’t do that, I’ll end up feeling sick & nauseous. Sometimes I even bring my Mac to the park, sit on the bench and plant my bare feet on the grasses in front. The challenge is that under the bright sunlight, it is not easy to see the computer screen.

We bought our first Grounding Cable from England, paying about S$80 in total after shipping. During our workshops we continue to share about the importance of Grounding. And eventually our students wanted to know where they could get cheaper alternatives.

Besides walking bare-feet on Earth/Sand/Grasses/Stone, we can also place our bare hands on trees. Some crystals like Black Tomlin also help to reduce the EMF accumulation. Lifestyle practices like Yoga Pranayams, Mantra, Tai Chi & Qigong can also give instant relief for EMF poisoning (a condition when EMF builds up to the point of making the person sick.)

And then into my life came this wonderful person: she is a multi-talented Yoga Teacher, Marine Diver, Engineer, Photographer, Logistics Expert and Website Manager. She has a heart of Gold, and hands that can Mold magic!

She is Light Love Laughter’s Founding Partner Jolyn Tan, my sister, best friend as well as soul mate. (I’m straight; soul mate means she understands me to the root of my imperfections and still loves me as a sister.)

One day after hearing me talk about Grounding in my workshops, she came up to me with a stack of scientific papers – all were documents and research of Grounding and its healing powers. I got so touched by that. Wow, somebody takes me so seriously that she actually went to all that trouble? Awesome!

That was more than a year ago. 4 months after we had our first conversation on Grounding, we did the first batch of LLL Grounding Cables that tested to be even more effective than the imported ones. And we got the packaging from the financially poor Hmong womenfolk in rural Chiangmai.

We developed the Grounding Cables with a few key objectives:

1) To make efficient Cables while lowering the cost so that our friends and students can buy at cheaper price than imported ones.

2) To give employment to those economically less developed or handicapped people.

3) To make Singapore & Singaporeans proud in that we are capable of being thriving entrepreneurs with spiritual purposes.

Since then, I became so much more efficient in my work because all I had to do is just strap my ankles with a Grounding Cable, and I could go on and on in front of my Mac, without nausea. Now I have 2 Cables – 1 in office which I REFUSE to share with anybody, the other next to my mat where I sleep at home.

The ways, in which this Grounding Cable can be used for our optimal health, as I’m now slowly discovering, are many. Let’s just look at a few:

1) Strapping it when we are charging our computer is a MUST because this is the time when EMF radiation bombards us left right center. When we strap ourselves onto the Cable, all the EMF is sucked right through the Cable into Mother Earth, and in return shooting up loads of negative ions, which balances our natural rhythm.

2) Strapping it when we are talking on a cell phone for more than 5 min. The moment I talk on my Iphone for more than 3 min, I feel my brain burning. It was as if the side of the brain that I’m putting the phone to had been put through ice cold electric shock.

3) Strapping ourselves when we are in the centre of a room filled with Plasma TV, Sound Systems, Printers, Projectors etc

4) Strapping ourselves at night when we sleep, and observe how sound and sweet the sleep becomes. We had student report that she could feel tingling pleasant energy travel from her arm (where the strap is attached) up to her forehead, giving a feel-good sensation. The next day she came back and bought 4 more as gifts for her friends.

I personally bought 6 from LLL as Christmas gifts to my various mentors; given the fact that I paid double for my first one, it would be insane not to buy at the current price!

5) Strapping during Yoga Nidra - a Yoga Practice where the body sleeps consciously and deep healing occurs. This is the time where Mother Earth’s electromagnetic frequency comes in and enhances the Nidra, making deep tissues recover faster, detoxifying old toxins back into Earth. The last time we strap on the Cables to the Yoga students during Nidra, we heard snoring almost instantly!

6) Grounding is also the fastest, cheapest way to relieve pain & depression. The next time somebody has a headache or any other pain, before reaching for painkillers or aspirins, strap on the Cable first. Most of the time, the pain goes away and then maybe there won’t be a need to poison yourself ☺

© Copyright Light Love Laughter Linda Loo

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Amidst distributing soft toys & candies to these people, we put together an impromptu performance with a guitar and live singing. While I sang and my friends strummed the guitar, many of the Home residents came up and danced along. Some even started to sing along, albeit to their own musical tones.

After teaching more than 10 workshops over 25 days, Christmas Day was a precious rest day, and I almost wanted to sleep in and back out of the visit. But was I glad to have gone for it; because the lessons I got were priceless.

1) These mentally undeveloped people have no Ego

They are not bothered by how people looked at them or think of them. They display their moods on their faces, and we know how they are feeling at first glance. They danced madly when we sang their favorite ballads. All they care about is having fun, connecting with their fellow resident friends and us.

2) They bear no grudges

One moment they are squabbling over a candy bar like little kids, the next moment they lock arms and dance wildly together like best friends. They are so much better than us on this because many a time we find it hard to forgive a loved one that had hurt us unintentionally with words.

I especially love the way they make up with each other after each disagreement. No punishing the other person, no bearing grudges, no ivory towers or ego, just plain forgiveness and once again being in the moment to enjoy each other’s company. If we all could be a little like them, how loving our lives can get!

2) They are always in the Present

There is no Past or Future for them. Whatever they are doing, they are extremely present. I was going to the restroom and passed by a middle aged resident, he stared at my water bottle with so much intensity that I thought my bottle would explode.

Another one who came up and shake my hand, kept shaking my hand for a good 5 min, all the while looking into my eyes, beaming and repeating “Hello! Hello! Hello!” – and he makes me feel like I’m the star of his universe, as if nothing else matters. It is such a precious gift to give our loved ones – the gift of being present, and being completely into whatever the person is saying or doing.

4) They are the happiest

Contrary to what society thinks, I have a feeling that they are the happiest people on the planet; contrary to the fact that they are mentally inferior. We ‘normal’ ones are probably the ones plagued with mental stress, because we have definitions of good vs bad, right vs wrong in life.

5) They allow us to be happy

By not having ego and fully expressing their happiness, they give us permission to also have fun and be ourselves too. It is difficult not to dance wildly when we have a roomful of child-like people singing and dancing like rock stars!

6) They are good enough; so is everybody else

While we were singing one of the songs, a few of them ran up to the stage and stand beside me, put their arms over us and sang along into the microphone. To them, they feel that the world loves to hear them sing, and when we sing, they clap their hands and swish around the stage like ballad dancers. In their world, they never question the value of their self worth, or the worthiness of others. Everybody is good; everyone deserves appreciation.

7) They are not afraid to show their affection

I was singing the song “I only care about you” by Theresa Teng, and this forty something lady rushed up stage and flung her arms around me, drew my left cheek in and start kissing me! I almost choked on the song because it was so hilarious. After she ran off, I could feel my entire left cheek wet from the kiss.

And 10 seconds later, she ran up again and kissed me again, this time she offered me her soft toy. I said no politely, and she offered me a candy bar! If only we can take a leaf from their books and learn to show affection to our loved ones too, regardless of whether we are going to face rejection; or continue to show our affection regardless of how the other person reacts to us. That perhaps is unconditional love.

They always look on the bright side of things

Some of the residents with a slightly higher mental development works as cleaners in the Home. One lady who cleans the toilet, came up to me and repeated 5 times to me – that she cleans all the toilets in the Home, and Christmas Day is her off day. She says the next morning she will start work again, and she is very happy to clean the toilet.

How many of us reading this now have a better job than cleaning toilets, and yet complain ceaselessly about our jobs, our boss, our colleagues?

9) Regardless how our bodies look, we can be happy

Some of them limp with one leg, because the other leg is half the normal size; some has underdeveloped arms; others wade about with uncontrollable actions. They are not a group easily ignored on the street. But they all have one thing in common – nothing stops them from being happy. They smile at you, put their arms (normal or deformed) around you and hug you, sing at you and dance around you.

The next time I have a pimple or sunburn, may I continue to remember that I can be happy regardless of how I look.

© Copyright Linda Loo

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When I was 5 years old, my mother’s sister (my aunt) died from throat cancer – shortly after she took up chemotherapy. My earliest memory of cancer is something “formidable”. Fast forward to my teens, adulthood and to the present, I met countless friends who have lost loved ones to cancer; most of them also shortly after chemotherapy.

While I may not be qualified to opine that chemotherapy could be a catalyst for death, I do have a disturbing feeling that it is not the real cure.

Some facts to know about cancer:

1. Everybody, including you and me, has cancerous cells in the body. They are only detectable when they grow to billions in numbers. So when the doctors say the test is negative, it means the cancer cells are small in number and so undetectable.

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2. When our immune system is strong, our body can destroy these cancer cells automatically. It is like maintaining a balance – ensuring that we have strong immune system through nutrient dense, clean foods, proper lifestyle increases our likelihood to triumph over cancer cells. However when a person is diagnosed with cancer it means that immune system is weak, usually from nutritional deficiencies.
3. Chemotherapy is like taking a machine gun and fire at all our cells, in attempt to kill off the cancer cells. The cells are destroyed – both cancerous cells, our good warrior cells, our growing infant cells which will become warriors tomorrow, everything dies. The overall immune system is lowered, with possible organ damage to kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas & bone marrow.
4. After chemo, the person is vulnerable to infections, inflammations & complications because the overall immune system is impaired. Bacteria balance is upset, digestion compromised, absorption weakens etc.
5. Those cancer cells that are not killed off by the chemo, actually mutates. Like a rebel terrorist gone off his head, this cell mutates and becomes even more destructive, and more resistant to future chemo.
6. There is no such thing as cure cancer; there is only restoration of our health to maintain balance & strong immunity. Surgery to remove cancerous cells usually is not sustainable because the cancer reappears in other body parts after surgery. Why? The body’s state of health was not reversed in the first place.
7. Ditching white sugar, processed foods, and artificial sweeteners (Equal, Aspartarme etc) is essential to make sure the cancer cells do not feed and grow. Eat numerous meals of nutrient dense fresh greens & vegetables, add in quality whole food supplements to improve cell strength. Engage in lifestyle practices like Yoga; these are some of the sustainable means to reverse cancerous states.
© Copyright Linda Loo

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A humble fruit that most Asians know, the Papaya is a juicy refreshing delight that is undervalued for its powers:

1. The pinkish orange color means this fruit contains abundant amounts of carotenoids, beta carotene and lycopene – all which are super effective in retarding cancer formation.

2. According to the International Journal of Food Science & Nutrition, a study in Mexico confirmed that the Papaya fruit is the only food that is effective in stopping cancer.

3. In Cancer studies, the Papaya fruit is found kill off cancerous cells in the body – confirming its efficiency in halting cancer.

4. In an Australian study of prostate cancer, Scientists discovered that men who eat lycopene rich fruits (like Papaya) were 82% less likely to have prostate cancer.

5. According to the Journal of Oncology Oct 2008, compounds (isothiocyanates) in Papaya fruit can restore cellular health to battle cancerous activity. These compounds prevent cancers of the lungs, pancreas, colon & breast; this is not all – they even improve the ability of the good cells to win their battle against surrounding cancerous cells.

6. Papayas contain an enzyme called chymopapain – which breaks down complex proteins surrounding tumors. Undigested proteins are the main culprits of poor absorption & bad bacteria growth. And so Chymopapain is a type of proteolytic enzyme that prevents inflammation as well as help wounds/scar tissues heal faster.

7. Fibrin, another rare compound of plants, reduces blood clots, improves blood circulation throughout the body and helps prevents strokes.

© Copyright Linda Loo

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Think coconut trees, and images of the beach, windy sea breeze and bikini babes come to mind.

But do you know that coconuts were known as a life-sustaining crop since ancient times? If you are health nuts like us, you will like to know the following health boosting properties of coconuts:

1. It is the number one emergency aid – healing, hydrating, stabilizing (our blood sugar) and has a DNA similar to human blood plasma.
2. In ancient India, (and we suspect many more native tribes) coconuts were revered for their anti-viral, anti-bacterial & anti-biotic properties. It even has a Sanskrit name of kalpa vriksha ie. “Tree that supplies all that is needed to live”.
3. In World War II, coconut water was used as emergency blood plasma for transfusions to treat injured soldiers. And because the DNA is similar to human blood, coconut water is suitable for all blood types!

4. Contrary to malicious reports/research on the coconut, this fruit actually has the ability to increase metabolism & helps us to lose weight. The coconut contains something called Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFPs), which are essential to our liver for fat metabolization. But our livers cannot make these MCFPs, and so using cold pressed coconut oil in our diet can keep us in shape!
5. Cold pressed coconut oil is more superior to olive oil for cooking because it is the most stable oil. Although the best way to consume coconut oil is to use them in raw recipes – like our brownies and cookies (check out our workshops now: Use Coconut Oil in Yummy Raw Recipes), if you must cook, cook lightly, and opt for coconut oil because it does not turn into harmful trans-fats, which clog our arteries.
6. We are also beauty fanatics, besides being health nuts! And coconut oil is a gal’s best friend due to its amazing anti-aging, youth restoring & hydrating qualities. We use them in our Living Skin Cream (for sale at our Light Love Laughter Academy only!). Spread coconut oil on your face for moisture, or come learn with us how to make edible skin care at The Ultimate Living Workshop
7. Exercise fitness buffs listen up – coconut water contain more electrolytes than any sports drink. And what’s more, they are perfectly filtered by Mother Nature, fit for the most demanding training regimes of an Olympic Champion.

So, be smart like us, ditch that can of sports drink, opt for a fresh green young coconut instead, cheers!

© Copyright Linda Loo

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