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Don't Miss The Upcoming Afternoon Raw Talk by Grant a.k.a. Raw Aussie Athlete
Afternoon Raw Talk
– by Grant, Raw Aussie Athlete.
As an ultra marathon runner and being involved in other activities including swimming, running, rock climbing, canyoning and surf lifesaving, Grant lives life to the MAX. He has embraced the raw vegan lifestyle 100% and is now a shining example of how an 80/10/10 diet can literally change your life. The 80/10/10 diet is about ‘balancing your health, your weight and your life, one luscious bite at a time.’ - Dr. Douglas N. Graham.
Grant spent 3 months earlier this year studying as an intern with Dr. Doug in his fasting retreat. This was followed by bushwalking in Costa Rica and on his return from the walk, he began a supervised 29 day fast.
In June, Grant travelled to Thailand once again, to meet Harley for what has become an annual trip to feast on the tropical fruits especially the durian fruit. Harley is an elite endurance cyclist and is better known in the raw food circles as Durian Rider, a passionate and outspoken advocate for raw vegans.
September found Grant returning to America to tour with Dr. Doug at some of the raw food festivals and to participate in his Sports Camp.
The talk will cover 3 segments: raw health, increased athletic performance on raw and fasting. This will be followed by afternoon raw fruit delights and then question and answer time. Grant will also talk on his next raw retreat to be held at the end of November. Don’t miss out on this one, the last one filled up in a couple of weeks.
This is a huge opportunity to meet Grant and benefit from the wealth of raw knowledge he has amassed through personal experience.
Sunday 16th November 3pm at Sandy’s house in Marrickville.
There is $10 cover charge for those wishing to attend.
Books and T-shirts will be available for those wishing to increase their raw libraries and environmentally friendly vegan wardrobes.
Please go to http://rawfood.meetup.com/301/ to RSVP for this event.
Boys Will Be Boys! by Joy Mozzi
Steve had a bright idea, kinda like Grant’s idea. You know the 400kg apple one?
So boys being boys, Steve had to go one better and ordered 500kg of coconuts - wild, fresh, straight off the palm tree, Queensland still in the husk coconuts.
- L>R Steve, Denis & Grant @ Flemington Markets 7am in the pissing rain
Sounded like a great idea. The plan was to have them delivered to his place where everyone could go along and pick them up. The day before drop off day and the wholesaler decided No, they could not deliver. No problem-o.
- Steve doesn’t have a car
- Steve lives in a flat
- Steve had until 8am the next morning to pick up 500kg of genuine organic in the husk Queensland coconuts, yeeha!
- Steve, you’re a nut (coconut, that is..)
Lucky for Steve, he has raw buddies that happened to be in the right place at the right time. The coconut crusade started in Randwick at 6am with Gay & Denis following Grant using his amazing GPS and going where no man has ever gone before… finally arriving in Strathfield to pick up Steve.
The procession continued on to the opposite side of the main road to Flemington markets to find Joy who didn’t know the area that well. The 3 cars now proceeded over the road and enjoyed an early morning scenic drive through the hubbub that is Flemington Markets. Did I mention it was raining?
- Grant stripped to the waist to enjoy an early morning wash.
The coconuts were divided up into the 3 cars taking into account the suspension capacity of each vehicle. Grant took 50 nuts and headed back home to the Central Coast. Gay & Denis, Steve & Joy drove back to Steve’s flat in the Navy apartment complex. The best thing is, we drove in, pulled over by the kerb, got out, Steve got 2 shopping trolleys and we started loading bunches of coconuts into them. And the 2 security guards standing around did not even blink an eyelid!! Which makes me think - they are so used to seeing Steve pushing a cart loaded to the brim with fruit and taking a lift to the 5th floor, it has become the ‘norm’.
I mean we could have had anything hidden in those coconuts, could have been some fanatical, extremists smuggling natural fruits with no hidden preservatives or chemicals. If Steve has trained Navy security guards to accept these obvious excesses, think what we could do for the rest of the world. It’s only a matter of time. FRUIT & VEGGIES RULE!
- going up, 5th floor - raw foods
So guys, what’s the next challenge?
Whatever it is, don’t tell us.
You’re on your own.
- Steve and some of his 500kg of coconuts - Grant and his 400kg of apples
