Aris LaTham, PhD. Sunfired Food Scientist, Linguist & Educator The 2004 Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America acclaims: ‘…the raw food movement owes much to Aris LaTham, a native of Panama, he is considered to be the father of gourmet ethical raw foods cuisine in America. He debut his raw food creations in 1979, when he started Sunfired Foods, a live food company in Harlem, New York.

In the years since he has trained thousands of raw food chefs and added innumerable recipes to his repertoire…’ Aris LaTham spent his early higher education years at the University of Legon in Ghana, as well as New York University, and graduated from the College of Staten Island (CUNY) with a B.A. in Education and Spanish. He also completed graduate studies at California State University Fullerton, with majors in Linguistics and Bilingual Education, where he was a polyglot scholar of Kiswahili, Sanskrit, Italian, Arabic, and Ebonics.

As an educator, professor LaTham taught Spanish, Kiswahili and English as a Second Language (ESL) at the secondary school level in New York City and the State of New Jersey. He was on the faculty of California’s College of San Mateo, Fullerton Community College, and Sullivan Language Institute. He also taught at Cornell University in New York and Brown University in Rhode Island. Mr. LaTham was an administrator at the Tanganyika International School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He also served as a Bilingual Curriculum Writer and Second Language Specialist for the San Francisco and San Bernardino Unified School Districts in California. Mr. LaTham was honored as a keynote presenter to the 36th World Vegetarian Congress in Florianopolis, Brazil and in 2005 at the European Vegetarian Congress in Riccione, Italy Aris was born in Gatun, Panama Canal Zone.

Aris is a direct descendant of an African-Caribbean family of Culinary Griots who has become a world renowned crusader in the area of wholesome foods. His linguistic and culinary interest has been shared with many diverse people throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, the Caribbean and Europe Aris, who is self-learned in the Culinary Arts and Sciences through his private ten thousand volume library collection, is the originator of SUNFIRE CUISINE and PARADISE PIES. SUNFIRED FOODS have been featured by Black Entertainment Television (BET), the Food Network, Temple University Medical School Forum, Organic Food Producers Association of North America, Family Channel’s ‘Body by Jake’, CNBC: Alive and Wellness, ABC: Eye Witness News, CBS News, Jamaica’s CVM TV, and TVJ’s Frontline with Ian Boyne, as well as numerous Worldwide Radio Magazines. Aris was the Master Chef at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. Aris LaTham, ‘The Sunfired Gourmet’, has been a vegetarian for 38 years and a living-‘raw’ foodist for the past 32 years.

Aris was voted one of the top vegetarian chefs in the USA by Vegetarian Times Magazine. He has been featured in Essence, Jamaican Eats, Vegetarian Gourmet, Health Quest, Upscale, UK’s Balance, and Japan’s Tarzan Fitness Magazines. Newspapers, including the Washington Post, Harlem’s Amsterdam News, Jamaica’s Gleaner and Observer, have reviewed the Sunfired Cuisine… Aris was the featured chef at the Raw Food Masters Culinary Showcase at Swept Away Resort, Negril. He has served as an Executive Food Service Consultant to the Island Outpost Strawberry Hill Resort in Irish Town, and catered to the Kingston Hilton Hotel in Jamaica.

Aris is currently engaged in the training of vegetarian and raw food chefs for other major international resorts and hotels. ‘Sunfired Edible Arts’, education, nutrition, detox, catering, and consulting services are available through the SUNFIRE CULINARY INSTITUTE and SUNCUISINE ORGANIC RETREAT & SPA @ Coyaba Springs, River Gardens and Falls in Shaw Park Ridge Estate, Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Aris currently host CTV’s cable show “Healthy Lifestyles” on line at www.brokencurve.com

On today’s show, we are proud to present an exclusive interview deep into the mind of health pioneer Viktoras Kulvinskas.

Viktoras Kulvinskas, this cutting-edge researcher, raw food pioneer, author of the health classic Survival Into The 21st Century, among several other bestsellers (more than a million Viktoras books have sold worldwide!), an illuminating authority on raw foods for forty years, founder of Hippocrates Health Institute with Ann Wigmore in the late 1960’s…

Viktoras will delight us with his intriguing research into the value of living foods and plant enzymes. Viktoras is the director of the Survival Foundation. His articles feature in magazines and journals including “Vegetarian Voice,” “Vegetarian Times,” “Vegetarian World,” “Health Street Journal,” and “Alternatives.”

Viktoras discusses the power of our belief system, his insight into the year 2012, the possibility of immortality, the upcoming Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona, Arizona, comparing fruitarian, sproutarian, vegetarian, vegan and raw vegan diets, and much more. For more information on Viktoras, please visit his website at http://www.viktoras.org

This episode is sponsored by the Raw Spirit Festival taking place on October 12th- October 14th in beautiful Sedona, Arizona.

Raw Vegan Radio is an official media sponsor of the Third Annual Raw Spirit Festival. Don’t miss your chance to join David Wolfe, Viktorus Kulvinskas, Victoria Boutenko, Dennis Kucinich and many, many raw food superheros! We hope to see you there!

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Jay Kordich is an advocate of health through the consumption of raw foods. He is the creator of the Juiceman and responsible for bringing juicing to America through television, based on sixty years of dedication, and is the direct protege of Dr. Norman W. Walker and Dr. Max Gerson, the doctors who brought the concept of juicing to the world.

In 1948, Jay “The Juiceman” Kordich contracted bladder cancer at twenty-five. A world class athlete and football star at USC, Jay travelled across the United States to New York City to get well by world-renowned medical doctor, Dr. Max Gerson, who helped Jay cure himself of bladder cancer through an all-juice diet . As a result, Jay’s life took a drastic turn for the better within only three months.

In 1989, Jay started his national television career, making appearances with his juicer, and by the end of 1990, Jay Kordich and juicing were widely known. His award winning infomercials aired for over thirteen years.

Jay Kordich placed the “Juiceman” name onto his own Juicers, which included the Juiceman, Juiceman II, and Juiceman Jr., which were priced competitively, and made available to consumers through infomericals, catalogs, and retail in the 1980s and 90’s.

His book, The Juiceman’s Power of Juicing reached #1 on the New York Time’s Best Seller List, selling over two million copies.

The Juiceman line of juicers are now being distributed by Salton, Inc. and are no longer endorsed by Kordich.

His second book, this time, co-written with his wife, Linda Kordich is entitled: Live Foods Live Bodies (complete raw food preparation book).

Thank you to our sponsor, (877) My Juicer.com. For a special Raw Vegan Radio listener discount, click on the link in the sponsor area. Remember, they offer 100% money-back guarantee on all their juicers and raw food kitchen supplies. Not sure if you want that particular juicer? Try it..if you don’t like it, they will return your money, no questions asked.

T. Colin Campbell is a Cornell University professor and an outspoken vegan. He also authored The China Project, a series of academic papers intended to prove that the Chinese (particularly those who dont eat meat, or rather cant afford it) have a healthier diet than Americans.

Raised on a dairy farm, Campbell is now an anti-milk activist as well, arguing — despite a lack of scientific consensus on the subject and a paucity of evidence — that milk causes early-onset puberty in young girls.

Our exclusive interview with Dr. T. Colin Campbell includes topics such as the nutritional findings of the “China Study”, the need for vitamin B-12 in vegan and raw vegan diets, the health benefits of the raw vegan diet as compared to the vegan diet, and if our diet choices can reduce risk of disease.

Paul C. Bragg, Father of the Health Movement in America, had vision and dedication. This dynamic Crusader for worldwide health and fitness is responsible for more firsts in the history of the Health Movement than any other individual.

Crippled by TB as a teenager, Bragg developed his own eating, breathing and exercising program to rebuild his body into an ageless, tireless, pain-free citadel of glowing, super health. He excelled in running, swimming, biking, progressive weight training and mountain climbing. He made an early pledge to God, in return for his renewed health, to spend the rest of his life showing others the road to super health. He honored his pledge! Paul Bragg

A legend and beloved health crusader to millions, Bragg was the inspiration and personal health and fitness advisor to top Olympic Stars from 4-time swimming Gold Medalist Murray Rose to 3-time track Gold Medalist Betty Cuthbert of Australia, his relative (pole-vaulting Gold Medalist), Don Bragg and countless others. Jack LaLanne, the original TV Fitness King says, Paul Bragg saved my life at age 15 when I attended the Bragg Crusade in Oakland, California.  From the earliest days, Bragg advised the greatest Hollywood Stars and giants of American Business. J C Penney, Del E. Webb, Dr. Scholl and Conrad Hilton are just a few who he inspired to long, successful, healthy, active lives!

Dr. Bragg changed the lives of millions worldwide in all walks of life with the Bragg Health Crusades, The Bragg Health Books, his Radio and TV appearances. (See and hear him on the web.)

In addition, NPR news joins us for a review of the new San Francisco restaurant “Cafe Gratitude”. www.cafegratitude.com We close with our lecture series, Part Two of Paul Nison recorded live at the Living Temple, February 13th, 2006.