Newsletter - January 30, 2024

My dear brothers and sisters,

We burst out of the doldrums of winter with a no bake carrot cake, alive and organic of course! We are much indebted to Kristina with Fully Raw but have made some basic changes to her brilliant and inviting recipe.

Here are the ingredients:-

The Cake Filling:
Carrots 4 to 6 cups grated in a food processor
Living Tree Flame Raisins 1/2 to 1cup
Living Tree Medjool Dates pitted 1-2 cups
Living Tree Ginger Powder 1 tsp
Living Tree Cinnamon Powder 1 tbsp
Living Tree Vanilla Powder 1/2 tsp

The Icing:
Almond Milk 1cup -1tbsp Living Tree Almond Butter blended with 1 cup water
Juice of one orange
Living Tree Cashew Butter- 4cups
Living Tree Cinnamon Powder 1tbsp
Living Tree Vanilla Powder 1/2 tsp

The Topping:
Living Tree Coconut Flakes
Living Tree Sliced Almonds
Living Tree Persimmons
Living Tree Mango Cheeks

Now that you’ve got the ingredients put it all together  as we guide you, step by step, in the video.

Our Special this week is  our Turmeric & Honey Butter! Created from alive, sesame seeds, turmeric and honey. Alive and organic. Regularly $14.99. Yours for $11.99.

Brothers and sisters, as the days get noticeably longer it's time to think about germinating seeds. Ben, our favorite gardener, gives us some knowing tips on getting those seedlings going for a vibrant Spring planting. Note how he classifies vegetables into their need for warmth to facilitate germination with lettuce and kale needing the least and tomatoes and peppers needing considerably more.

Our Victory Garden sale this month features Sunflower Butter, Hazelnut Chocolate Almond Butter and Bing Cherries. We offer 10% off. (Remember, if you buy 3 or more of any Living Tree manufactured product, you get an additional 10% off!)

Our Black Sesame Tahini is now available in a 16oz jar. It is nutrient dense and satisfyingly good. Now tahini made from white sesame seeds is the prime ingredient in making hummus and baba ganoush. Image substituting black sesame tahini. Your friends will be in awe!

We follow with a video by AL Madinah Nourishment on the health benefits of black sesame seeds.

We invite you to enter our contest for recipes featuring our tahini.

Then there is a critique by Kristina Marusic of the attitude that we should no longer worry about preventing cancer because the treatment has gotten so much better. The author shows that this is the height of folly.

We  conclude with a video on how to improve circulation in one’s legs.  Bob and Brad, the most popular physical therapists on the web, guide us in some simple exercises.

With best wishes for vibrant good health to you and family,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

Brothers and sisters,

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a recipe using our Living Tree Alive Organic Tahini. It could be for a salad dressing, for humus or for baba ganouch.Go ahead, make it into a video guiding us step by step.Add sparkle and delight with Mozart, Bach, Beethoven or Chopin playing in the background.

We will award a gift certificate for $150 toward the purchase of our foods to each of the top three contenders.
Contest expires March 3rd.

Submit you videos here

By Kristina Marusic

I was shocked to see a blatant attempt to normalize cancer as an inevitability in a recent Washington Post op-ed by former environmental reporter David Ropeik.

While Ropeik reasonably notes that some cancers (prostate) are overtreated, the rest of his argument is absurd. Of course, Americans have reason to fear the second leading cause of death in the U.S. — particularly when 90 to 95% of cancer is preventable.

Any cancer survivor will tell you they’d have preferred prevention over a cure. Treatment is painful and many survivors experience side effects and additional health problems related to the disease or its treatment that linger for a lifetime.

This outlook posits that survival is all that matters and is the best we should dare hope for, denying the universal human desire for a healthy, comfortable quality of life for ourselves and the people we love.

Suggesting that we should no longer worry about preventing cancer because treatments have gotten better is like saying cars have gotten much safer, so none of us should bother wearing seatbelts anymore.

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