Dr. Greger has scoured the world's scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this brand-new talk of the latest in cutting-edge research.  Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific nutrition journals, here’s practical advice on how best to feed ourselves to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic disease in an engaging, interactive quiz show format.

Speaker: Dr. Michael Greger

A founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues.  He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the International Bird Flu Summit, the National Institutes of Health, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in the defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous "meat defamation" trial. Graduate: Cornell University School of Agriculture, Tufts University School of Medicine. Currently Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. He is currently on a limited speaking schedule to promote his latest book Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching. More info at http://www.drgreger.org/

Topic: Planet’s Most Successful Diet
When you eat is just as important as what you eat. It can determine your total health and wellness. Paul will share information no one else is talking about: · Ideal times to eat for best digestion · Best times to be awake and go to sleep · How to overcome late-night binging  · How to balance weight & gain energy · How to build immunity to fight disease · How to grow your own food · Composting to make great soil

Speaker: Paul Nison, Author and Raw Food Chef 

Paul has eaten a raw food diet since being diagnosed with Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.) With no other choice but drugs or surgery offered by the medical profession, Paul decided to ‘Go Raw.’ Today he is 100% cured of this so-called "incurable disease." He has been featured on The Food Network and in magazines and newspapers. Paul’s non-profit ministry Torah Life Ministries teaches about health according to the Bible. Paul has authored six books. More info at http://www.paulnison.com

Hakin Hill, owner of Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin, does not just practice tolerance for all peoples, he embraces and welcomes everyone as part of his family. His intention to change the world to be more compassionate and physically healthier requires seven days of service in and through the confines of this vegan restaurant, which more closely resembles a meeting place or home for people of all ages and all colors. Saturday evenings are reserved for events or films to raise consciousness in the community and to share friendships and healthy vegan food. And yet it seems that the 70 or so hours of "work" that he puts in each week is actually the source of his peace and tranquility. He’s the first to say "it’s not really work … I mean, yes, sometimes it’s tiring, but I am so blessed, truly blessed." Personally, Hakin is a role model for me. Whenever I stop in for the Entrée special or a soup and spinach patty, I enjoy witnessing his attentiveness to detail and his uncanny ability to take his time, speaking sincerely with the patrons, making sure that the meals are enjoyed by all. In this time of economic crisis, Hakin goes out of his way to serve those most in need, either by feeding them, by educating them, or by putting them to work in the restaurant.

Born in the Bronx and later raised by his progressive grandparents in Antigua, Hakin attributes a great deal of his nature to a good start in life. His grandfather, Joseph Tittle, born in 1925, has been very influential, surrounding Hakin with a healthy lifestyle, religious values, and a great deal of love for each other and for service to humanity. On one of my visits I met Johnny, close friends with Hakin since childhood. He spoke candidly about Hakin’s positive influence on his life and the life of mutual friends even as a young child. A very special soul on a mission, Hakin humbly refers to himself, his friends, his workers as equal members of a family united in bringing kindness, compassion, love and awareness to everyone they serve.

Tasty, economical, healthy and accommodating, the strictly vegan menu offers something for everyone, including: breakfast and lunch entrees, vegan desserts, soups, veggie patties, fruit, salads, natural beverages, smoothies and veggie burgers.

Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin

73 NE 167 Street

North Miami, FL 33162

Tel. (305) 405-6346

www.vegetarianrestaurantbyhakin.com 

Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm

Friday 9am-3pm

Saturday-Events at approx. 8pm

Sunday-7:30-5pm

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Jan 15  6:30pm  Movie Night  Eating 3^rd. Edition  88 min  Over 20 million viewers.  Dr. Crowe and Dr. Esselstyn are from the world-famous Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  If you know someone with heart disease - who doesn't?- this will probably be the most valuable film they will ever watch and The Rave Diet is being promoted in wellness clinics throughout the world.  Donations Accepted.  Presented by Risen-Sun and Marcus Thomson.  Earth-n-Us, 7630 NE 1 Ave, 33138  RSVP 954-856-3775

Jan 16  4-3am  12^th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert at Tobacco Road 626 So. Miami Ave, Brick ell 305-374-1198  $10 Advance.  Music, Spoken Word, Dance and Movement, Live Painting, Community Speakers (Patients Out of Time, NORML), Vendors events@ploppypalace.com 

Jan 16  8pm  Movie Night  It's A Wonderful Life  130 min/1947/B&W Classic Jimmy Stewart.  A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasn't his fault. In Christmas Carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give him a tour of the world without his presence, and it isn't a pretty place.  Presented by Risen-Sun.  Sugg. movie donation $5.00.  6:30 3 course organic raw/vegan meal $15.99.  Galerie Gourmet, 138 NW 37 St, 33127  (305) 640-8383  http://galeriegourmet.shutterfly.com/63

Jan 23 10-5pm Mother Earth Fest  Unitarian Universalist Cong, 7701 SW 76^th Ave.  Eco-Art Show, vegetarian food, Grant Livingston sings, family fun. 

Carol Reiter 305-661-0023  EarthSave Singers will perform and free literature at EarthSave’s table.

Jan 25 7 pm P.A.T.H. Meeting EarthSave’s table distributes samples of healthy vegan food and educational materials. Museum of Science www.pathusa.org

Jan 26  7pm  Free FIU Lecture Food Connections to social issues  Mr. Gary Yourofsky, www.ADAPTT.org Host: Students for Environmental Action  "We recognize that throughout this nation's history, other individuals, acting from conscience have similarly violated certain laws and ordinances. In our own time, these same principles of nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws have been applied by such individuals as the Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom were—as was Michigan's Gary Yourofsky—sentenced to jail for their actions."  FIU TamCampus  Rm WC130  786-683-1905

Jan 30  6:15pm Vegan PotluckSouth  The Latest in Human Nutrition  Dr. Greger has scoured the world's scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this brand-new talk of the latest in cutting-edge research.  Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific nutrition journals, here’s practical advice on how best to feed ourselves to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic disease in an engaging, interactive quiz show format.

Speaker: Dr. Michael Greger is a founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, physician, author, internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues... http://miami.earthsave.org 305-228-1116

Feb 13  8-2am Valentine’s Eve Gala  Hosted by Brook Katz  Vegan appetizers and desserts  Dance and romance the night away at Island Bar and Grill 7111 W. Commercial Blvd., Tamarac  (5 minutes from the turnpike, just east of University Dr.)  Door prizes at midnight!  $15 adv, $20 door (Admission, Food, 1 free drink, Door prize entry)  RSVP vegangirlie@gmail.com or 954-971-4432 Brook

SUNDAY BRUNCHES  11:30, 1:30 seatings for healthy, mouth-watering raw/cooked vegan Feast from $12.00  RSVP @ 305-640-8383

VEGAN CANTINAS  Home delivery Lunch Plans: soup or salad, main entrée, raw/cooked dessert.  Special $8.99/day + Deliv.  

Menu/info> http://galeriegourmet.shutterfly.com/lunchmenu  Galerie Gourmet 138 NW 37 St, 33127 -one blk from Midtown Mall 

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C’ M O N, T A K E   A C T I O N:

Join EarthSaveMiami’s Facebook and Meetup groups

Sign Petition Asking President Obama to Give Up Eating Meat  JVNA advisor Arthur Poletti set up this petition http://Obama No Meat

March 20 Great American Meatout Caring people in all 50 U.S. states and two dozen countries will publicize the benefits of plant-based eating. Observed annually since 1985, this year marks Meatout's 25th anniversary. Activities include leafleting, information tables, exhibits, feed-ins, video screenings, walks, festivals, and more.  This year's theme is "Eat for Life - Live Vegan!"

Jan 30 World Day for the Abolition of Meat  Worldwide six million sentient beings are killed for their meat every hour! That figure doesn't even count the fish and other sea animals, which of course are included in the demand for the abolition of meat. Meat consumption causes more suffering and death than any other human activity and is completely unnecessary www.nomoremeat.org

The National School Lunch program meals are an important part of 31 million children's overall nutrition, yet are often high-fat, high-cholesterol and high-calorie foods.  Request non-dairy food and beverage options http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AFtcr/zkCf/Bf48

‘Do Something... and Soon’ about Climate Change.  Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has called government indolence on the issue “treason.” NRDC attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has called it “a crime against nature.” Environmental journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert has described “a technologically advanced society choosing to destroy itself,” while James Hansen and Rajendra Pachauri, perhaps the world’s leading climate scientists, have said inaction in the next several years will doom the planet

Vote for EarthSave Canada (currently in second place) to receive charitable funds from Matt and Nat’s sam-sara.ca campaign.  Thank you, Nancy Callan.

Do a bit of web research on composting then easily convert your old plastic Garbage pail to a back yard  Composter- recycles kitchen plant food scraps and yard clippings into healthy soii

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

‘Global Dimming’, an extreme process related to Global Warming, is a new factor in the climate equation > http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/757.html

Al Gore: “I'm not a vegetarian but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat”  http://www.youtube...AL GORE

You ‘herd’ Noel Cleland’s rendition of ‘Cows With Guns’ at the Nov 28^th Turkey Free MegaPotluck.  The charming video Animation (Animation by Bjorn-Magne Stuestol, music by Dana Lyons) has been seen by millions on myspace.com, youtube.com and other servers http://www.cowswithguns...animation 

We Are All One  Environmental Message video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCnWZncHH2Y&feature=related

Meet Your Meat video  Paul McCartney, narrator “If Slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian”  www.meat.org

Dr. John McDougall's 1 hour+ video from the 2005 Healthy Lifestyle Expo shows why dairy products are probably the most unhealthy aspect of the standardWestern diet > http://vegsource.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/news/508058358648/

Do pharmaceuticals make you healthy? The Health Ranger, Mike Adams, offers Big Pharma $10,000 health challenge, explaining that pharmaceuticals don't make you healthy; they make you sick!  http://www.naturalnews.com/023475_health_Big_Pharma_fitness.html

EarthSave Radio: Its All About Food  Wednesdays 3-4pm http://earthsave.org/radio.html

Co O O L  S T U F F:

EarthSave's message echos far and wide.  London's prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, recently came out with a series on health and climate change showing that actions to mitigate global warming can actually benefit human health, recommending a 30% decrease in livestock production! 

Top 5 advantages of Eating Raw, fresh, whole fruits, vegetables, and nuts:
1. Raw foods are better quality; therefore you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes which benefit digestion.  As your percentage of raw foods increases you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body's needs.
2. Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestion system or over-stimulate other organs.
3. Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen.
4. When you are eating raw there's little chance of burns. No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires!
5. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap www.chiDiet.com

NY Coalition for Healthy School Food’s pilot program entering 15-30 additional schools in NYC >Project Cool School Food  Cool School Food is healthy, delicious, and it helps to keep our planet "Cool". Plant-based main dishes contain no cholesterol, are low in saturated fat, and are high in fiber and phyto-nutrients

An extensive list of cruelty-free food items which contain EVERY vitamin, nutrient and mineral that the human body requires.  A majority of plant foods are a meal in and of themselves; açaí, alfalfa sprouts, apricots, asparagus, avocados, broccoli, cacao/chocolate (a bean), chlorella, garlic, green leafy vegetables, nutritional yeast, pears, spirulina, strawberries and wheatgrass appear in several categories.  www.adaptt.org (click ALL ABOUT VEGANISM then click VITAMINS, MINERALS & OTHER NUTRIENTS)

Organic Empowerment 2010: Ten Strategic Local Campaigns  #1: Locally Grown Organic Food  Making affordable, locally and regionally-grown organic food available to all, rich, middle-income and poor, must become a top priority for city and county governments across the nation. Making the transition to organic food and farming stimulates the local economy, improves public health, sequesters enormous amount of climate destabilizing greenhouse gases, and protects the environment. As global warming intensifies, scientists warn that a continuation of current "business as usual" practices will lead to a catastrophic seven degree Fahrenheit temperature rise by 2100. Our only hope is to make energy-efficient and climate-stabilizing organic food and farming the norm rather than just the green alternative > www.organicconsumers.org/

Religious leaders of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and other faiths have formed a growing movement to transform society from their pulpits by emphasizing the connection between ecology and religion.  Their sermons inspire, educate and mobilize people with topics including climate change, renewable energy technologies and public policy to cut greenhouse gases.  This doesn't mean environmentalism is turning into a religion, Browning explains, but that religion harnesses the power of love and faith, both of which bind us to nature, other humans and the health of our planet and inspire us to take action when these are in danger > takeaction@edf.org  

If your body temperature or blood sugar changed by 10 percent you'd be in big trouble. This condition of equilibrium and resistance to change is called homeostasis. It characterizes all self-regulating systems and applies to psychological states and behavior as well as to physical functioning.  Homeostasis doesn't distinguish between change for the better or change for the worse. It resists all change. So... how do you deal with homeostasis? www.chiDiet.com
1) Be aware of the way homeostasis works.
2) Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change.
3) Develop a support system.
4) Follow a regular practice.
5) Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning

Canines Rocky and Sugar really want this string bean because they love veggies.  Rocky raided Giulio DiBenedetto’s (Miami organic gardening guru) garden, eating a whole cabbage and a broccoli- who knew?  

http://tinyurl.com/yb666b9  Scientist Wendy Brown has found that dogs can thrive on a meat-free diet.  As part of the team of scientists who monitored the health and performance of Siberian huskies over a 10-week sled-racing season they concluded that hard-working dogs can perform just as well on a meat-free diet as they do on a meat-rich diet.  However, preparing an adequate vegetarian diet for a dog is more difficult and time-consuming...  As dogs belong to the order Carnivora, it's often assumed that they are exclusively carnivorous, but in fact they are omnivores, belonging to the same superfamily within the Carnivora as the bamboo-eating giant panda and the omnivorous bear

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:

Each day you’ll consume approx. enough calories so... prioritize carb calorie contribution to minimize protein and fat for long term health benefits

EarthSaveMiami  S I N G E R S:

Current Repertoire- Jay Mankita (Junk Food Man)  Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton (Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye (As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons (Cows With Guns, The Tree)  Suggest your favorite lyrics/join us with instrument or voice (Contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu)

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

Brainwashing doesn't have to be complicated.  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/770.html       

A powerful exposition by Mary O’Brien on so-called "Risk Assessment" ...what is "acceptable" is a political judgment.  What is deemed "acceptable" is a matter of raw political power. Thus risk assessment is not a "scientific" exercise -- it is a highly political mixture of prejudices, biases, guesses, estimates, some scientific facts, and many ethical judgments -- all masquerading as "objective" science. Risk assessment always asks the wrong question: it asks how much damage is safe instead of asking how little damage is possible.  Furthermore, risk assessment conveniently never asks, "Is the proposed activity needed?" It never asks, "Is the proposed activity ethical?"  "All potentially environmentally degrading activities, public or private, should be subject to public scrutiny of alternatives. The public deserves to know that those who pollute, extract, consume, emit, incinerate, or abandon are aware of their technological options for minimizing disturbance of the environment." > riskassessment critique

Free materials to GO VEG    www.vegpledge.com   

http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/ 

http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   

http://www.vegkit.org   

mercyforanimals starter-kit

http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/   

http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html    

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