Further Education Options??

[SedonaSun]

Hi everyone,

I hope I can say this clearly :D I'm wanting to find Raw Food Higher Eduction Options and not quite sure what to look for. I can get a BS in Nutrition from our local university, but I don't want my entire education to be structured around SAD food pyramids and the like. I need to delve into their course curriculum to see what exactly they teach, but I'm looking for other options, too--preferably local or distance learning since we can't up and move anywhere.

I want to learn what all the different foods do to our bodies--about flavonoids, antioxidants, which foods prevent certain cancers, which foods help detox different organs and why. I want to know why onions help detox and why blueberries are a good antioxidant. I'm looking for deeper knowledge of why--not just that blueberries ARE an antioxidant, but WHY, what happens at the cellular level. I want to be a walking raw food knowledge base--and then be working somewhere (or for myself) sharing that with others.

All suggestions welcome for 1) education (traditional or non-traditional) 2) books that would help 3) employment and self-employment career options to help turn the world raw :)

I know I don't need to know how antioxidants work to help others with a raw life, but that's the kind of stuff I'm wanting to learn AND I want to be working somewhere, somehow to help others AND help support my own raw lifestyle.

Thanks!

[RawTruth]

What a great career to have!

I don't know myself, but here are my suggestions for where you can ask:


Write Victoria Boutenko at info@rawfamily.com -- ask her. She's 11 years raw and has traveled the country seeking raw info and has worked at at least one raw institute.

Also, try writing Dr. Doug Graham at www.doctorgraham.cc -- 20 years raw and working in the raw health field.

They should have solid facts and also give you leads to follow.

Good luck. How wonderful that you know exactly what you want to do.

[Ireland]

Raw minds think alike eh? What you want to do is pretty much to the T what I was discussing with my Mom last night.

I'd LOVE to share this lifestyle with others but also with the knowledge of the why's and how's. Packs a bigger punch than ..."i don't know why but it just works".

I wonder if Alissa would be able to help point us in the right direction?

[sweetgoddess]

They now offer a Vegan Live Food Masters Program..you can actually get an MA in Live Foods..Gabriel Cousens and David Wolfe are 2 of the teachers here'
http://www.treeoflife.nu/cla.html
Also you can take T.C.Fry's course from home..Natural Hygeine?
Just some thoughts..best wishes to you~ :)

[heather]

$7,500!!!

wow. my hubby would NEVER go for that. but if you have access to that kind of money, the program looks interesting.