In This Issue:

• Editorial
• Alive, Organic Pumpkin Seed Oil
• Hunza Apricot Kernel Oil
• Freedom Butter
• Desiree Black Sesame Pesto
• Magnificent Macs!
• Victory Gardens and Food Co-ops
• Become a Living Tree Investor.

Celebrate Electronic Pasteurization Month!
by Jesse Schwartz, Ph.D.
Dear brothers and sisters,

We opened up the pages of our morning paper to discover that the FDA will allow food companies to irradiate spinach and lettuce. This is of course a prelude to the irradiation of all fruits and vegetables. We were reassured to learn that the vegetables will be labeled with a delightful image of a plant in a green circle and some such phrase as “treated with irradiation”. As this might put some folks off, the food industry has been pushing to drop the symbol and use instead terms like “electronic pasteurization”. How sweet! Electronic pasteurization! What a catchy phrase! Let’s have a national Electronic Pasteurization Month! After all we’re had a war on drugs and a war on poverty and now - a war on aliveness! A brilliant,new concept! Let’s rejoice! Maybe it’s the FDA’s way of paying homage to the raw food movement!

Now imagine what the newspapers would say if “terrorists” had subjected the nation’s fruits and vegetables to nuclear radiation. Or imagine the screaming headlines, had that those same nasty terrorists fumigated the nation’s almond crop. Not that we wish to imply that the bureaucrats who regulate the nation’s food supply are anything but zealously devoted to the health of the citizenry of this great land. We would be loathe to intimate that they are overly solicitous of the interests of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. They are all honorable men, serving the public.

May we suggest that you take another swig of that raw almond-cacao smoothy and smile in the certainty that you will have the last laugh. Go out and hug your neighbor, plant a Victory Garden and form a food co-op. Life, inevitably, will triumph.

Alive, Organic Pumpkin Seed Oil, 8.5 Fluid Ounces

Pumpkin seed oil is a nutritional powerhouse. It is an excellent source of essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins, and sterols. It contains Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, which are known to enhance energy, brain function, and aliveness. It also contains high levels of Vitamin E, as well as Vitamins A and C, zinc, and other trace minerals and vitamins.

Pumpkin seed oil has been used successfully in preventing and alleviating prostrate and bladder problems. It may also be helpful in lowering cholesterol levels. May be beneficial in alleviating depression and in treating learning disorders. Pumpkin seed oil has a delightful, buttery flavor. Use as an alternative for butter on sprouted bread and wild rice,

Combine with raw coconut vinegar and Himalayan pink crystal salt for an alive salad dressing.

Pumpkin seed oil is absorbed faster and better than from the seeds allowing your body to assimilate alive nutrients in just minutes! Pressed from alive, organic Austrian pumpkin seeds.

Hunza, Alive, Organic Apricot Oil from the Himalayas

Apricot oil is rich in essential fatty acids like oleic and linoleic acid, and is high in vitamin A. Since it easily penetrates the skin, it is good for prematurely aged, dry or irritated skin. Apricot kernel oil makes a wonderful massage oil for babies and adults and is great for use in creams, lotions, balms, and soaps.

It nourishes the skin, softening lines and bringing a healthy glow, and is a wonderful massage oil. In addition, it is rich in essential fatty acids, making it ideal as a treatment for soft, radiant hair.

Due to its moisturizing, nourishing and revitalizing properties, apricot kernel oil is widely used for massage therapy.

For nourished, soft and supple skin, rub apricot kernel oil on your body daily.

Made from apricot kernels grown in the Hunza region of the Himalayas.

This is Lina from Puerto Rico again! Both my daughter Daphne and I reaaaally love your almond butter. So much that when we finally finish the last teaspoon (I was trying to avoid the unavoidable) I asked my husband, (who is staying for awhile in California) to please look up your product. Unfortunately, he did not find it but sent me a "natural" almond butter from a supermarket... When I received it, oh my! ... natural????, it had oil, sugar cane, etc. I tried to give it to Daphne in her usual smoothie and.......NO! She wouldn't dare touch her glass. She emphatically told me there was something wrong and that she absolutely wants YOUR almond butter. I completely agree with her so, here is my order.

Lina Belardo
Puerto Rico

Desiree Black Sesame Pesto with Olive Oil

Here's a zesty pesto made from our organic, UNHULLED, black sesame seeds. We've added basil, thyme and our Alive Olive Oil and Royal Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt to make it satisfyingly good! Its a symphony of flavors. Use it on carrot and celery sticks and on flax seed crackers for hors d'oeuvres.

Black sesame seed is said to be effective in mitigating premature gray hair. An excellent source of calcium for those avoiding cow's milk. Used in traditional Chinese medicine to nourish and fortify the liver and kidney yin. Said to help blurred vision, tinnitus, and dizziness. Used traditionally to help patients recover from severe illness. Will nourish blood deficiency in the body, lubricates the intestines and deep internal organs. Helps move the bowel.

Magnificent Macs!
Recent studies are finding that a diet rich in macadamia nuts reduces total cholesterol, including LDL-cholesterol, and favorably modulates risk factors for coronary disease in patients with high cholesterol levels.

A dietary trial in Hawaii demonstrated that macadamia nut consumption lowered risk indicators for heart disease. And a study in at the University of Newcastle, involving subjects with elevated cholesterol levels, found that participants who ate macadamia nuts showed significant reduction in blood serum cholesterol, total blood triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, and blood clots.

A study in Japan involving young women as subjects found that after only three weeks on a diet high in macadamia nuts, the subjects revealed a significant reduction in both serum and LDL cholesterol levels. These benefits were produced with as little as a 20 gram consumption of macadamia nuts per day.

Macadamia nuts also contain a significant level of protein, comprising essential and non-essential amino acids. They are a good source of minerals so essential to a healthy diet, and so needed to maintain ideal weight. These include per 100 grams: 410 mg potassium, 200 mg phosphorus, 120 mg magnesium, and 64 mg calcium. Selenium, iron, manganese, copper and zinc are present in small amounts. Macadamias contain significant amounts of a broad range of vitamins including Vitamin E as tocopherols and tocotrienols, B1 (thiamine), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6, B2 (riboflavin), niacin and folate. They also contain phytosterols.

Macadamias improve the balance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. They also have a high dietary fiber content of approximately 7%. Dietary fiber is the term for carbohydrates that are resistant to enzyme digestion in the stomach. These consist of complex soluble carbohydrates and soluble fiber such as, hemicellulose, amylopectins, mucilage, gums and insoluble cellulose. Dietary fiber promotes the feeling of dietary satisfaction, slows digestion, promotes desirable intestinal bacteria, and keeps bowels healthy. It plays a role in reduction of cancer and diabetes risk.
Macadamias also contain the phytonutrient classes of phenolic compounds: flavonoids, phytoestrogens, phytic acid, tannins which convert to ellagic acid in the body, saponins, and lignans.

Our macadamias  are  grown  with devotion  by  a family farmers in Hawaii. They are crisp, fresh and alive!

Plant a Victory Garden Now!

We suggest that you  plant a Victory Garden, a garden that will symbolize the living forces at the roots of this nation.  Now is the time to plant your spinach,kale,parsley, celery,broccoli and cabbage.  Plant now and you’ll have living greens throughout the winter.This is a way to turn the tragedy of global warming around and make it work for you. There’s so much you can do! For years we’ve been urging you to form food co-ops and buying clubs.  Combine your purchasing power! Buy in bulk! You'll save considerably, both on the cost of goods and on shipping. We'd be delighted to offer you wholesale prices. Contact us to request that we email to you our Coop and Buying Club literature. What wonderful discoveries you'll make! That stay-at-home mom would make an excellent manager. That retired gentleman, across the way, a former accountant, would be a great bookkeeper! Put up a sign in the laundromat and see what sort of response you get!

Maybe this will lead you to a further discovery- that the true “superfoods”, ”miracle foods” and “magic foods” are the parsley, lettuce, celery, spinach and chard, that you grow with neighbors and friends. Corporate Almond wants you to remain a “consumer” whose existence is defined solely by your purchasing power. We suggest that you hug your neighbor instead.

Become A Living Tree Investor!
We are seeking investors to provide the long term, stable capital we need to help our enterprise become the leading manufacturer of alive, organic and kosher certified nut butters. We offer the prospect of asset appreciation in the organic food industry; it's been growing at the rate of 20% for over a decade. We plan to engage more team workers and purchase more productive equipment. If you would like to make investing into an adventure of learning and understanding, please click here.

Alive food is saying yes to life! So let's express our thanks for the gift of alive food by affirming life in everything we do.