I think it would be helpful for me to win this course because my son is a childhood cancer survivor. I have a website set up for him and I get emails and phone calls from people wanting to know how to change their diets to help themselves and their kids. This program would help me be able to help more people.
I feel that the raw food diet will help my family and me to stay healthy and make sure my son’s cancer never comes back!
Thanks!!!!!!

I am very excited about this opportunity!!! When I saw you preferred videos, my heart sank though. I have no idea how to do that. I am 60 and somewhat technologically retarded. So here goes, without visuals.

I have spent the last ten years of my life looking after a mother with Alzheimer’s disease and a daughter with Polymyocytis which also, means that I have been looking after her daughter (my granddaughter). My mother has passed, my granddaughter is now 10 and my daughter and she are managing a bit better now.

It is time for me!!! I have been exploring the raw food world for about 1 year now and am so excited to be learning what I can. I am very low income (due to my choice to be a family caregiver) and can not afford to purchase any of the courses that could help me learn more.

I would treasure the opportunity to win this course and would (because I can’t help myself) share it with those in my circle who might also choose to learn about a better way of nourishing this marvelous body of ours.

Thank you,
Lynda

i d really like to win because i m a young grandmother my health is so so i have problems but i began the raw food when a friend gave me a book of ann wigmore and i really believe her i began wheatgrass juice and sprouts and add salad etc but i m alone in quebec city on this way and i m not rich my grandson have problem with his health and i really think that program can to help us i m sure but i need more informations and thank you so much for all your informations i received by your website since 3 months. Mrs wigmore is like my spiritual mother and i want to continue with her excuse my english bye

I would love to win because I have recently become very interested in Raw Food. I have checked out numerous books from the library and searched various websites trying to obtain more information on raw food living. I have transformed my entire backyard into an organic vegetable garden. I would love to teach my husband and 4 kids about eating raw food. As well as inform church members about this new way of eating. Thanks for this wonderful opportunity. It is a Godsend.

I am very interested in becoming a holistic practitioner but unable to afford the costs of any educational program due to financial difficulties. I have a passion to help others understand what a true healthy lifestyle is, and what proper nutrition is all about and how the body can not only heal itself from disease but live disease free. Our world is so unhealthy, full of so many diseases. If I win this free program I will be able to fully bring myself into the Raw Foods lifestyle and bring this to others as a certified practitioner. It would be a dream come true.

I am a holistic practitioner who sees on a daily basis how many patients could completely reverse their condition and end ther suffering on all levels by changing what they eat and how they approach their food. I previously trained with a raw foods group in NYC, on a more prcatical level. Scientific study in my grad school was woefully limited to just a few courses over the whole program. This led me to do most of the research and exploration myself, but studying and preparing food and reversing my own unhealthy patterns, to start with. Chinese Medicine (TCM) is by far not raw food based, but I know there is a way to integrate raw foods and food energetics into a TCM practice, and it has been my goal for several years now. I would love to enhance the health of my patients by having the in-depth tools of the Wigmore method of rawfoods – in my experience, there is no better way to change your health for the better than change your ways with food!

I was a personal friend of Dr Ann’s for over a decade. At the time I told her noone could adopt the Living Foods Lifestyle, AND lead a normal life in terms of a job, travelling, eating out, etc. She’d often say, “the day will come, John, and I hope I’m around to teach you”. It has, and she is not.

Iam 105kgs and i have just started to go raw about two weeks and i can see the difference so i am a good candidate to win your free course as it would help me to stay healthy and be able to loose more weight (my target is to loose at least 20kgs) and i will be able to help many here who are struggling to loose weight and remain healthy

I am just beginning my journey on the living foods lifestyle road. I am very excited and and grateful to Jim and everyone who has contributed here. What a wonderful resource!

Hello Jim, My husband and I feel we need to win this because
I have been researching for the last few months on the raw food diet. Can’t remember how this all came about. But I was looking something up on line and somehow came acrossed raw foods. When I did look up the raw food diet the one thing that grabbed my attention was the wheatgrass kit site. When I went into the site Dr. Ann Wigmores site was there and that is how I began our (husband included) journey into raw food. We became very interested and like I said I have been researching and still am because there is soooo much information out there. We started purchasing books, like The Live Food Factor, which I love, and Rawsome and still have some arriving next week. We have bought most of our appliances but we still need our dehydrator.
We have started the morning smoothies and had our first raw dinner tonight made of zucchini spaghetti and tomato marinera sauce It was AWESOME we loved it.
We can’t wait to really get into making more raw food.
We are actually doing this for health reasons, not that we are suffering from any illness, but we want to be healthier as we get older and don’t want to incur what the world is suffering from. From all the testomonies we have seen and read really made us make a decision fast. There was really no thinking about it, we did it for the Health of it. Knowing that this will be very benefical in the long run.

Thank You,
Nancy and Phil Lanz

I want to gain health and energy. I believe that this course would help me do just that.

I can’t say I feel I should win the contest instead of someone else, but I can tell you why I feel my family would achieve greater health. The past decade my husband’s diet and stress has taken it’s toll. Left to the medical community, I shudder to think of the pharmaceuticals he would be on today! He is over 300 lbs, exercises at the gym every day, tries to watch his diet, but fails. He loses very little on any diet. About 5 years ago when we found his iron is dangerously high, I began to research for better answers. Dr. Mercola’s website and book were the first sign of hope we found. He has learned to control his sugar by diet. He is now off of all medication. Unfortunately, this has led to him being a big meat eater. He consumes way too much meat. He developed a staph infection in his leg about 2 years ago which keeps coming back. We found a clinic where lymphatic treatments, colonics, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and peroxide ivs help. We have been to a naturopathic doctor who has helped. My husband never sleeps much, he is miserable and only 44. I have been researching raw living foods for the past few weeks, and he is ready to get on board. Although his story is the longest, I have two children 10 and 13 who follow his diet a lot. There are very few vegetables they eat. I’m concerned for their future health. I also have a 19 year old who is convinced that we’re on the right track, but I know he is not doing it right. I concerned he is not getting balanced nutrition. I know it has to be a balanced, well planned process or I can make the entire family sick. I am also taking care of my mother who is battling beginning stages of Alheizmers. We are working with natural herbs for her too instead of pharmaceutical. I’m convinced from the testimonies that Ann Wigmore’s teaching is the ANSWER. All of my husbands treatments have set us back financially. As you know, insurance wouldn’t cover any of this. We’re trying to save to go the clinic in Atlanta, GA, but that isn’t going to happen soon with some of the hits we’ve taken lately with the economy. We’re eager to learn all we need to, and he is ready. As he said, start taking pictures. I’m a poster child of what this diet can do.

I feel that Raw food have found me instead of I have found Raw food. “when the student is ready the teacher appears”

Since I am experimenting this food the health of my being as a whole has greatly improved. And by health I mean not only physycal, but also emotional, mental and spiritual health.

For the last ten years I have been researching and teaching human self development tecnhiques and I truly believe that this information you are offering will be very useful to all those people I could reach here around Europe.

With Love,
Sofia

Why I feel that I should win the course:
I am a twenty year old girl from Iceland and i have been into the raw food lifestyle for almost a year now. I feel that i should win the course because i have a burning desire for everything regarding raw food and living nutrition. I have read dr Anns books and many others regarding raw living. Here in Iceland you cant buy many raw food books or programs and i would greatly benifit from the support and teachings of the home study program. Our currency is so weak since the financial crisis that i cant afford to purchase anymore books or support online.

Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health:
I have battled with drug addiction from an early age but i have been clean now for almost a year and i strongly believe that my succes is closely related to my change to a raw based diet. I think i would achieve greater health because i really do need to cleanse my body inside and out and i know that raw food can do that but i need a proper guide. There you come in to the picture:)

In the future i am planning to work in the field of living nutrition and i want to learn as much as i possibly can
love Bryndis

Hi Jim,
I would really like to be the winner of Dr. Wigmore’s Home Study Course. I have been reading a lot of books on living foods and I just bought Susan Schenck’s book the “The Live Food Factor and wow, it is such a detailed book. I am learning a lot about living food and the execellent effects it has on the body. And I think that winning Dr Wigmore’s Home Study Course would just seal the deal in my learning and applying the raw living food diet to my life. Please consider me for the winner of the home study course.
Thanks.
Sylvia

I would LOVE to win as this would definitely be a new adventure for our family of 5. We are adopting 3 children and they were impoverished and they are SO new to fresh fruits and veggies! We are slowly modifying their diet and would LOVE to have this information! I am also a Physician Assistant working in Pediatrics! I would LOVE to be able to have more knowledge to share with my little patients and their parents!

Thanks for the opportunity! God Bless! Melody

Thank you, one and all, for your submissions. It’s really going to be a challenge to pick the winners.

At first I was REALLY excited to tell you all about why I wanted to win it, and then I read all of these entries from people who are experiencing cancers and I thought that it is more important that one of them gets it then I. But then, I thought, well, wait a minute, what makes my issues less diserving then theirs? That theirs is a killer? So is mine. I suffer from depression. My Father and three of his four siblings commited suicide. My mother died of lung cancer at 57 after a lifetime of mental illness and depression. I have been approximately 85% raw for 4 years. I have lost 94 pounds. The first three months were 98% raw and I was estatic, I was flying, nothing could touch me, and then, I crashed. All the emotions that I had buried in food since I was 7 came to the surface and I have been struggling with them since. I have met a great many people who have been healed of their physical disease via a raw diet, but no one who has had the emotional struggle that I have had with the depression. I want to win because I think it will motivate me to go back to being estatic and to move through these emotions so I do not have to depress them. Thank you.

1. I should win the Course simply because I cannot afford to
pay for it right now.

2. Why you feel that the raw food diet will achieve greater
health?
Well, the raw food is not just about having great health.
It’s the food of the God. It raises our consciousness
to connect with the Spirit. I have begun my Spiritual
Sadhana by first shifting to Raw Food.

Happy Birthday! And wish you all the best.

I believe that we all deserve to win this course, I love my body and health as it is. I have recently tried to switch to a raw food diet, like a yo yo.

winning this courses will better my health and weight loss and give me lots of inspiration to make it a success.

it boost my confidence too, and what better way to share with others, and loved ones.

I acknowledge myself as a spiritual light and love being like my brothers and sisters in this world. the reason i feel that the raw food diet will help me achieve greater health because, raw food is live energy the same as yourself and myself but in a different form, and this is a spiritual truth and scientifically proven, and thats why it works too, everyone can benefit.

love & Light to all

xxxxx

Hello Jim,

I feel like I should win the course because I need to get better. I cannot afford to spend any money right now, we almost got evicted this year because we could not pay rent.

The raw food diet could help be acheive greater health because I am 40, fat (300+) and struggling with food addiction. I have seen raw food make a difference in the lives of others, and I know that I could benefit from it. We are trying to start a family, and I want to pass on good health to my children!

But I won’t say that I deserve it more than someone else. I’m sure there are lots of us that need this badly. You are generous for helping some of us.

Best Wishes for a Healthy Tomorrow,
Jenni Morrison-Smith

I have made comment No.37 above.

I am a pensioner living in India on a monthly pension of $250 per month which is sufficient for me to take care of myself here with no rent to pay as I have my own house. I have absolutely no health problems except a bit obese looking like Dr.Carey BEFORE.
I have begun my Spiritual Sadhana with the raw-food diet.
Now, when I look at all the comments of others I see so many needy people with chronic health issues and their inability to buy your course but so passionate about raw food diet as a means of overcoming their ailments. I think one of these people deserve your generous prize offer. So, I wish to withdraw from the contest. Thank you Dr. Carey for all the good work you are doing. I have taken a vow to become like you AFTER within a year!

As a Native American Elder I have been working within the Grass root of this Country for more than twenty years. Spreading the Words of Growth,Change,Spiritual uplifting,and General Health fullness….For the most part denying my own Health and Wellbeing…Due to being Emotionally ill, addicted and houseless!!!!I watched this movement grow for a very long time but was not able to take part due to finantial/emotional reasons. Now, sense being given a Week Free at the Tree of Life I have been reborn with the movement..The respect I recieved being called “Grandfather” by the likes of the “Tree Community” changed the un’healthy path of my life.
Now it is an uphill battle sometimes to keep on the Raw path but I have made many inroads…First it was more what I had to give up; mainly Corporate abused meat and dairy..Sugar was also a struggle to leave behind…Genetically Engineered products as well. Besides my primary addiction Corporate alcohol…
I have been Gleening bits and pieces from the internet and growing Rawfoodwise….But I still don’t own a raw cook book. This would provide this Elder with a Stronger Guide to a more comprehensive raw Diet…
Much love and respect,
Grandfather Jerry Strongheart

Thank you, Kat!

I would be absolutely thrilled out of my mind to win this. Ann Wigmore was an early influence on me and I have read all her books. I briefly met her in LA at a health expo with her wheatgrass trays

Unfortunately as a teen when I was doing raw foods I had such emotional issues that I overate and was bulimic. I managed to get help with addictions to a great extent through communities such as 12-step and yet with so much S.A.D. influence around me drifted away from raw and got into cooked gourmet vegetarian for years.

Nevertheless, fortunately I’ve done periodic fasting and liver flushes over the years. And now I’ve been back to almost 100% raw for the past year.

Long story short, I’m a holistic practitioner offering mainly body work and craniosacral therapies. BUT! I’m launching myself as a raw foods lifestyle coach right NOW and would absolutely be thrilled to have your training Jim! This would be such a blessing. I am operating on NO budget and can barely pay bills and eat right now. If I had this to offer I would offer it directly to my clients and community as a class and as a way to launch myself in this area. If I win this for free to myself I would educate myself further (and help my own aging symptoms he he I’m 49 and believe me it takes discipline to reverse some of the damage I’ve inadvertently created.) I’d share these with my children. My daughter is in the obesity range.

I would use the series as an opportunity to create community classes for free or sliding scale fees (absolutely) and it could really help me meet new clients and help people get healthy which is my total heart’s passion.

Thank you in advance for considering me as recipient of this generous prize. love and blessings, cindy
skylightmassage.com

Thank you, Carolyn, but please note that this giveaway is for the ONLINE version of the Home Study Program. I’m emailing you right now about your student needs.

I think it’s time for me to get on the path to Raw. I’ve been playing around with it for some time but haven’t quite been able to make the full commitment. I’ve just about eliminated my gouty foot entirely by stopping alcohol. I was not happy to find out that herring and lots of other fish are high in purine as well. Everything is pointing to Raw for my partner(who has celiac) and I. We are battling getting our kids to a vegetarian diet. Don’t know how we will get them to Raw.
I am starting an intensive gardening project in my backyard to grow as many of my own veggies as I possibly can. The plan is to sell our overabundance from our driveway and possibly to the local health food store for their juice bar.
The other part of my project would involve taking this to the next level. After transforming my family’s life and my own, I want to start a growing operation in waukegan, IL. This is more of an impoverished area where I believe this diet would make a great impact.
If I win, I promise to share this knowledge with the masses. If I don’t I vote for Jayanth, BV even though he withdrew from the contest and you did not ask for my vote.
Thanks for reading and have a great birthday.

Today’s the Day, right, Lucy?

I am a professional Holistic Health Scientist and could use the materials to TEACH A COURSE in YOGIC HYGEINE & RAW ORGANIC VEGAN FOODS.
I loved Ann very much!!!! She, personally, introduced me to wheatgrass & sprouts & Raw Foods in 1981(I was already a VEGAN at the time).
I & my family loved to visit her original Hippocrates Institute in Boston —-and we remember being very upset when it was taken from her by unscrupulous people.
Her premature death in the (suspicious)fire was a tragedy for us all.
We (I, my husband & child) lived for 2 years (1995-96)in Puerto Rico, near Aguada, and the staff & members of the Ann Wigmore Institute (along with our COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE group) were our local Spiritual Community.
THANKS FOR CONTINUING THE CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING!!!!!!!!
Love & Blessings!!!
Lynn Surgalla, Bioelectromagnetics Scientist & Holistic Medicine Teacher

Although I am not high-tech enough to offer a video, I would still be very happy to receive your program offer.
Several years ago, my home was devastated by the flooding following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. While I was evacuated, I updated my mammogram – which led to an immediate ultrasound, then a biopsy and cancer diagnosis. My mother was lost to this disease just a few years ago. I refused surgery and have worked with a naturopath and raw foods since that time. When I am practicing that lifestyle, my blood tests are Normal, otherwise my condition regresses. I do not wish to follow the medical model – as my mother did – because she only lasted 2 years in the hands of doctors. I would like to be compelled to remain on a raw food program and be in permanent remission. It is important for me to live a life committed to all that I put into my mouth and my mind. At this time, I am nearing completion of my home repairs. I would like to be cancer-free and feel that I will be used to spread the message of my own survival – and thriving life – once I am able to make it to that place and remain there. You may be part of my process and I am grateful for the opportunity to be included in your birthday present.

Actually, Arlean, this is the same course I’ve been working on, evolving and developing from Dr. Ann’s legacy for the past 7 years. Email Susan (susan@chidiet.com) and she’ll work out an upgrade for you, if you’re interested.

In January of 2009 I was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer. Even the “natural” doctor recommended I do the most aggressive treatment the oncologist would recommend. I did 6 months of chemo – went on the raw diet immediately -boring – plain vegetables and salads. Husband was unemployed for 8 months and can’t afford to spend extra money. Would love to win the course so I could learn more about eating raw and get some variety so I will be motivated to stay on this way of eating. By the way, my scans are coming back with no new activity and almost all the lessions on the spine are gone. Know if I want to be alive years from now, I must stay eating raw. Thank you for your informative emails.

Although I have not gone 100% raw personally, I have embraced the Raw Food Diet with many patients in my practice. I recommend it for anyone with a digestive disease, from Crohn’s Disease to Hemorrhoids. Multiple patients sent to me for surgical resection of recurrent diverticulitis have been cured and no longer face repeated attacks. It has worked miracles in patients with autoimmune disorders such as vasculitis, thyroiditis, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Perhaps I will be 100% raw by Jan.2010, and whether or not I win the free course, I will continue to use this in my practice. I am a 69 year old physician, working full time, and in better health now than 10 years ago by going raw.

Hi Jim! I would LOVE to win the latest version of your home study course. I have been studying and experimenting with a raw and living foods diet for the last couple of years and am happy that I finally found a way to overcome fatigue and improve my health in other ways. This is a lifestyle change for me that eventually I want to share with others by educating and being of service in some way. Ann Wigmore’s teachings are the foundation. I have an older version of the home study course that I bought within the last year. I want to donate that course to a friend or relative. One (in her 30s) who has debilitating Rheumatoid Arthritis and the other (in her early 50s) who has breast cancer. Both are dynamic young woman who are staying positive despite their circumstances. The newer version I would like to use and to master the techniques to improve my health (I’m having some issues and am in my mid-40s) and help others. THANKS so much for this opportunity and God Bless the work you do!

Wow, so many people…. and everyone’s response is so wonderful….

I am no exception either, I would really like to win too.

I soooo love Anne Wigmore’s work. Previously, way back in the late 1980’s after being involved in a serious accident, almost losing my leg, and numbers of operations and ingesting countless drugs into my body, I stumbled upon Dr. Anne Wigmore’s work. I had tried the sprouting and wheatgrass and got wonderful results from it. Eventually life got busier with kids, divorce, working too much, giving away my Anne Wigmore books in that whole shuffle, and began to take the easy way out and started eating the Standard American Diet. Ughhh. Now I am more than I have weighed since I was pregnant, and I really need to change. I love the transformation you have made Jim and would love that for myself.

I have been vegetarian (no meat, eggs or dairy products) since 2005 because of the cost of meat and for spiritual reasons. Thankfully I no longer crave meat or eggs, but still use cheese and dairy from time to time with my body not tolerating them that well.

Presently, I am in a real need of having to improve my health – my anemia was so bad I needed a blood transfusion in March of this year, I had a fall down some stairs a couple of weeks ago injuring my previously injured knee, and in the x-ray findings there were signs of osteopenia, and of course my ongoing problems with my digestive system, so I know there is something going in my body that I am not completely understanding.

In my search for improving my health, I am findings so many diets that promote meat eating, and not so many taking the vegetarian approach which leave me somewhat lost and confused. I had stumbled upon your websites a number of times and so much wanted to purchase the Raw Food Home Study Course as it made a lot of sense to me and it had the teaching of Anne Wigmore in it that I so much loved previously, but the money part is what is holding me back from buying it.

So much I have been looking around for something like this…and as the old saying goes, when the student is ready the teacher appears….??? Sooooo…pleeeeasssse…..

PS – My kudos go out to you Jim for the wonderful work you have done and continue to do in keeping the work of Dr. Anne Wigmore alive…and have a wonderful 59th birthday!

I didn’t answer you second question in my first reply, so here goes. I feel that the raw lifestyle will result in a healthier me, because I believe that everything my body needs to keep it functioning at optimal health is provided by mother nature. If I eat what she offers in its natural state, my body will have all the ingredients it needs to heal itself. I have always believed that whole foods are necessary for good health, it is only in the last year that I came to understand that the whole foods need to be in their natural state ie: raw. I need some help with the details of how to live a 100% raw lifestyle. It seems that something that is so natural should be easy and yet, years of indoctrination into the SAD diet, make the transition a little rougher than I thought it would be. I need the course to help me with the finer points of understanding. Thank you again for the opportunity and for the information I have already garnered from your website. Regards Lynda

Hi Jim
Would like to know more about the Home Study Course-free?
What do you have to do to enter ?
Thanks for all the help tips etc you keep sending.
Regards
Ann

Good Morning Jim,
I am blessed to be a very healthy 56yr old woman with a job I love and ample income. Honestly, I would LOVE to win this just because I LOVE to win things! Gifts bring joy into everyone’s lives, who dosen’t love a gift??? Especially one as wonderfull as THIS!!! I do work in the health care field, and have struggled with adapting to the raw food lifestyle as completely as I would like. I would love nothing more than to embrace a new and complete raw healthy eating program into my life as we approach a new year. Through my life change I can share and help many with lack of hope and direction who are being failed with Western Medicine alone! I applaud you Jim for the work you do and your passion for life and enabling others to live and feel life as never before! I hope our paths cross one day soon!
Blessings,
Kathy

ive been a loser all my life,and then last year i had a wake up call with my health.and it opened up all kinds of doors for me as far as things i didnt know about health like,i did’nt know that a bad atom(free radical)is the cause of all dieseases and cancer.and plus much more.to make along story short,everything boiled down to i was’nt eating right and i started going raw,but running into alot of problems and i think this program would be the turning point in my recovery.

First of all … Happy early Birthday wishes! For a little over a year I have been struggling with trying to be raw. I live in an area where we don’t have access to much support locally, so gaining information is quite time consuming. Also, not knowing if you’ve found the right information can be daunting. To have a program to follow would be a God-send. The times I have been successful maintaining a mostly raw lifestyle is when I feel my best. I know this is where I want to be in my life. I am also getting to an age where I want to prevent “aging diseases” from manifesting in my body. I want to live well and productively and I know a raw food diet is the ticket. Thank you for giving this opportunity! Good luck to everyone who enters!

hugs T

Dear Jim,

I actually find it difficult to enter after reading all the stories, really everyone deserves to win!

I live in Suriname (South America) and in my live I hope to help a lot of people suffering from illnesses and other things just with the basic things that live offers us, healthy food. I have always been interested in THE right way to eat/live and recently came accross Ann’s book and I just knew that this was it.
Even though I have not yet tried this lifestyle yet I feel that it is the solution to a lot of problems in the world today. But I also believe that before I recommend it to anyone I should have done it myself.

My idea is trying it out by doing the program and then I would like to incorporate it in my country with all the greens and veggie’s we have here. People here are more and more copying the standard American lifestyle while we live in this beautiful country with lots of healthy food. That will be the challenge.
The work you are doing is great and I hope to do in my country too some day.

A great gift.
I wish you a wonderful birthday and..
God bless,
Tamara

So many worthy contestants! I have several reasons for wanting to win this valuable prize. First, I began following the raw-foods diet a couple of months ago, but no one else I know eats this way and I would like more support/guidance. Second, I am a licensed foster mom and my husband and I have recently adopted adorable twin boys; since we are both well over 50, we want to make a commitment to this healthy way of eating so that we can be active, vital and disease-free for many more years…and we also want to provide our children with the means to do so as well. (We plan to adopt again in a few months!). Third, I have many friends/acquaintances who are recovering from addictions of various kinds and I think it would be incredible if I could share info on the raw-foods way of life with them, to help them achieve true healing.
Thank you for this opportunity.

Jim I have just bought Dr. Ann’s home study a few months ago. Is there more to it than what I have? I am a diabetic, I take 4 to 5 shots a day. I have tried many things to change this, but nothing worked. So am trying Dr. Ann’s now. It is going to take me a while to change my eating. But I feel that I can do it. If this program that you are giving away has more to offer than the one I got; then keep me in mind.

Thank You

I am a person who has been fighting for my health (and my families) for years. I have been struggling with an autoimmune disease that I have been able to keep at bay for the last five years. Within the last year I can tell that my body is in attack mode again and I am having a hard time getting it to stop. I have juiced, exercise, I eat raw (not always 100%)etc…It seems to me that it got worse when I started drinking wheatgrass juice daily. I have constant headaches (especially if I skip the wheatgrass), my chest grows in size and gets tight, my hands and arms get numb at night, my hair starts to grey,and if I exercise I feel like I’m having an asthma attack (which I’ve never had before), I gain weight but yet I will feel a bit better emotionally. This is what happens while I’m on wheatgrass and/or kombucha, the opposite of what should happen. Obviously I’m doing something wrong.
My son has had issues with his health since he was born. How could he not since living in my body? He is now 6 and is struggling to be healthy while so many kids are now eating or bringing in so many unhealthy foods to school.
I need to get myself back on track so I can be more attentive for my family and their health. They are the most important thing to me and I want for them to grow and realize the importance of health, and hopefully they will help others along the way.
I need the encouragement and help to keep on track and to better understand what is going on with my body and how to calm it and take control back again. I know that wheatgrass is good for you but wondering why it is doing what it is for such an extended period.

I believe I should win this course because through my business “CREATING BALANCE” it would ensure that the information is spread to many and put into practise.
I also live in Australia and miss out on being able to attend a lot of events due to the distance, cost and time to travel.
Love N Light to all
Denise x x

I want to win this course so I can help my wife end her 7 year battle with diabetes. From everything I have read so far, this would be the education we need to accomplish our goal. Thank you for your consideration.

Julian

Hi Jim, I would LOVE to win this amazing course, as ive just started learning about the raw way of life and I feel it is an absolutly amazing way to live, I am a single mother of two beautiful young kids who both suffer with asthma and eczema and feel if won this course the money I would of saved from buying this course I could put towards a blender and dehydrator so my children and I could start our raw journey alot sooner!!
I feel a raw food lifestyle would not only help us to acheive greater health but actually save our lives and all of our ailements would dissapear and no longer be problems and I would use the knowledge and skills to not only benefit my children and my health but my goal in the future is to open up a raw food healing retreat to help other people with their health problems.
Thank you very much
Brooke Mohi

Hi Jim, I am not going to go into lengthy explaination of this reason and that reason. We all know that there is so much disease and suffering because of the medical community ,people who we have put our trust in and who thru the educational system has failed us. no where is this sadder and more appearant then with the Native American tribes who suffer from rates sometimes as high as 50%. We took everything away from them and gave them back an education that has left them with eating habits that we taught them, and now it is racking them in obesity and disease all at our hands. The killing goes on and on and they suffer in silence. if i am awarded one of the sets I would like to use the information to provide free nutritional counseling to the tribes and let this genocide of a great people begin to turn the tide to life. Do I have needs and kids with life threatening problems and myself wanting to know more about the raw foods way yes but even more then that I want to be an instrument of healing like Ann herself. She said it best and I could add nothing more:
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner. So I am not begging for this or that. telling you how poor i am and the financial needs this is the miserly way. i want you to be a part of a grander plan/ Lets begin to heal this land.
sincerly
Mark Miller,Kuna Idaho.

I hope to win the course as I will diligently apply the principles and info in my daily life with the support of my spouse and the raw community here in S.D., CA. to improve our body, mind and spirit and help others to do.

By staying on this RAW food diet I hope to end my overeating
addictions to sugar, wheat and flour products and all processed foods. I am constantly reading and searching for the right program. Hopefully, this is it as I have tried many in the past ie Macrobiotics, Natural Hygiene, Water Feasting to mention a few.

I feel that I need this course to learn more about going raw in the right way. I am 80lbs. over weight and my health is failing. I have lupus and fibermayalgia and chronic hives.
I have seen too much evidence that the raw food lifestyle really works not to believe in it. I have started having green smoothies for breakfest and salads with lunch and dinner. I can already feel the difference it makes in the way I feel physically and emotionally.

Hello Jim,
Being a mother of two young, healthy children, I realize how blessed I am. My children are perfect, as all children are, and they have the potential for great things. How do I, as a parent, help them fulfil their potential?
Children need truckloads of love and attention, and my children certainly get that. What I need help with is giving and teaching them about superior nutrition and health. Winning this program would help me do that.

Thank you for the opportuntity,

Rhonda Olson

Dr. Carey,

hi,My name is cora and I am from the Philippines.I want to win because I have a bedridden husband who had a stroke in August of 2006. Right now he is being fed through the nose. i Give him ensure which is prescribed by his doctor but he has a lot of phlegm. This is because of the ensure. I want to chnge it but it is difficult becauasse i don’t know where and how to start. I tried to give him vegetable juice as advised by some of my friends. That,when i started my research in the internet and came across your website. I also want to try it myself. I also like to get some of your offers but i have limited reourcces. I really hope i be given a chance to win. Thank you so much.

I think I deserve to win this because I’ve been battling with extremely severe ill-health for the last 9 years. I cannot underestimate how ill I have been. My condition still has no conventional treatment and scientists, although making a little progress into the cause of my particular disease, are still baffled, clueless and can offer myself (and others with the same illness) very little hope.

Unlike other diseases like cancer which are fully recognised, researched and treatable conventionally, those of us who suffer with my disease are left alone, unaided by GPs, social services, and in many cases benefit services because some still class my disease as psychiatric despite the overwhelming scientific and anecdotal evidence that it is biologically based. In the time I have been ill, two friends have had cancer, and one was severely injured in a car accident, they all recovered in 6 months – 1 year and are getting on with their lives. Even my friends with cancer could still continue their daily living. Meanwhile I’m still stuck with no life (merely existing), bedridden and in a lot of pain, isolated with only an ageing mum to take care of me. I have seen only my parents throughout this illness as I’m too ill to receive visitors, I see my sister very occasionally, and am to consider myself ‘lucky’ if my GP visits once a year! Friends gradually fell away in the first year of my ill-health and any contact I have with a couple of steadfast friends is by text only, I can’t even speak with them on the phone!

Symptoms of this illness are too numerous to list. I am severely affected with ME/CFS and have no help except my mum! I can’t afford to buy the Wigmore Home Study due to my only income being state disability benefit.

I am, and know I have to be, responsible for myself. I know after all this time that I can’t rely on conventional medicine or scientists to come up with a ‘cure’. Since there is NO treatment for my disease I have gradually learned more and more about nutrition, herbs, alternative medicines including meditation, spiritual healing etc but I only heard about ‘raw’ a couple of months ago. I have been experimenting for the last month but still know very little. Due to my ill-health being so extreme, I cannot afford to become deficient in nutrients so I want to learn how to follow the raw lifestyle efficiently and correctly.

This is why I want to win the Wigmore Home Study. There are so many people like me out there, receiving no help from anybody, suffering from a hugely misunderstood disease which receives poor publicity and ‘mocking’ from the psychiatric lobby. Diabetes and M.S. were also, until quite recently, mocked by psychiatrists as ‘fake’ illnesses until they were properly understood by science and then they became ‘real’ illnesses and treatments for the conditions were researched.

ME/CFS deserves the same, and due to this year’s reveal that XMRV (a retrovirus, like HIV) may play a part, perhaps finally the condition being taken seriously is on the horizon.

However, I can’t afford to wait. I became ill at 21 and am now 30 years old. I’ve missed a large part of my life and all the things you’re supposed to do in your 20s (love, marriage, children, career etc) because I’m confined to bed. I want the Wigmore Home Study Course because I want to help myself, give my body the best possible chance of recovery and get my life back!

Please, please Jim, consider my entry, as ME/CFS is so badly publicised and unfamiliar in many people’s eyes, unlike cancer etc which everybody’s heard of. No-one knows just how awful this disease is when it is at its most severe stage. It feels like you’re dying and I wished so much that I would just die because it’s so painful and horrendous. Many people don’t realise that it’s an illness that can be fatal, either through physiology or suicide.

Any knowledge I gain from your Home Study Course will be passed on to my fellow sufferers. I have my finger’s crossed that you’ll consider me to win. I haven’t won anything in my life, and I REALLY WANT THIS, it couldn’t come at a better time and you have no idea what it would mean to ‘ME’!

Kindest regards to you, Beth and the rest of your team.
Christina. <3

Hello,
Thank you so much for this offer to the community!!

In sharing why I see this course would benefit myself, I came to feel that it was really many others I was writing this request for.

To explain in more detail, currently my work focus is children and pregnancy. However, there are a group of people in the area where I live that are collaborating inside of potlucks, support groups, classes and counseling. We are in the process of writing a Not for Profit grant and opening a raw, vegan restaurant, community space and juice bar in our town, which has nothing like this to offer currently. This effort is so great that it’s reaching the entire capitol of Washington State! We have been sharing our breadth of knowledge in a co-operative type way, inside of lending material, information, and support. If this offer were to be extended to me, the whole community I am working within would also be sharing it! I see that then the growth will only grow and grow!!! In connecting in through the course, there will be more connections made to the CHI community, more lives changed, more lives saved!

Also, in going back to my work that was mentioned. I am teaching children and pregnant women the benefits of raw food so that from the beginning points of our existence, health can be leading us rather than dis-ease. This to me is information still lacking in the raw food world. I see that this course could propel my work, and continue its impact on all that come to it.

And in a ps. I am inside of a ‘low-income’ category, as a single mother. A full time student also, staying at home with her children and trying to find ways to support them that is does not compromise these values.

Thanks so much~ Jaydee

Hello, Dr. Carey~

Thank you for the opportunity to win a Home Study Program!

1. Why you feel that you should win the course.

Why not?

2. Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you
achieve greater health.

Well, ever since I started reading about the many testimonies and experimenting with some of the recipes (including juicing and green drink/smoothies), I have believed that the raw food diet is the best way to achieve and maintain true vibrant health. Your testimony along with so many others (my own experiences,too) are the proof needed for anyone to see that this is the most thorough way to “eat to live”! My belief and trust in God moves me to stay healthy by educating myself and my family on how to live the healthiest possible. As a wife, mother and homemaker, God has given me the privilege of being responsible for nourishing my family’s “temple” bodies. According to the Holy Bible, I am to do all to the glory of God, “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” (1Corinthians 10:31) The Raw Living Foods Lifestyle is the most complete program I have seen. By enabling my family to live long and healthy, they will have the energy needed to carry out God’s great commission of telling others about Jesus Christ, the Holy One. While we tell them about living in Heaven for all eternity, we can tell them about living a long, healthy life until they get there!

Thank you once again for this opportunity, your time and your commitment to sharing your blessings with others!

Happy 59th birthday, Dr. Carey!
May you be blessed with many healthy birthdays to come!

In Christ,
Lisa

as i sit here, writing again, discouragement overwhelms me. i have been sick for so long it is starting to become the norm and i can remember what it was like to feel well and in fact not sure if i ever did…
eleven years ago, i had the choice to have surgery that altered my life forever…it poisioned my body literally and continues to do so today. an unknown fungus filled my body and started to shut my immune system down, causing a host of problems and symptoms…i have since reversed the surgery but the signs of the abuse that my body took are a daily reminder of my hopelessness and loss. over the years i have tried to find the answer to better health, relief…anything to try and improve my quality of life. i have read and been to ppl that have studied under ann wigmore and have always been curious about her program. her story is amazing…
last time when you gave away a free copy i just knew i would stick out and hope flooded me for i knew i found the answer. when i saw this again i dont know how to explain it, i wanted to have hope and then realized how many of us are hurting. what could possibly make me stick out? i can only say that i would put my soul into the chance of being able to turn my life around. willing and open to share my experience with anyone who will listen…pass something onto my children that would save and protect them throughout their lives. ensuring that they would live a life a fullfillment and not hopelessness…
i pray this reaches you and also that thru this mass of emails and videos that i have been able to convey to you in short the real need that exsists in my life for a program like this…

Hi Jim,

Years ago I picked up a secondhand copy of one of Dr Ann’s old books – it’s one of my guiding books and often I’ve looked at your study programs and wondered how I could make the stretch to financing these. Thanks to all I’ve learnt so far, I completed a nutrition diploma, and this has led me to colon hydrotherapy but I want more. I want to learn and be authentic in Dr Ann’s ways so I can help teach more and more folk they deserve better and that it is attainable.

Thank you for all the work that you do and for your passion! and Happy Birthday too!

Elliot – you can download a free copy of Dr. Ann’s “Why Suffer? How I Overcame Illness and Pain Naturally” here: http://rawlife.org/wigmore/why-suffer-how-i-overcame-illness-and-pain-naturally-ebook.htm

Thanks for your letter, and wishes!

Hello Jim and Happy Birthday!

I would love to win Dr. Ann Wigmore’s course – Why should I win? I know I should win because I am totally ready for a change – not only in my life, but also in the lives of the people that I love.

I am a 47 yr old, gorgeous Italian/Swiss/Irish/German American woman, bright, in-love with life, a gourmet cook that loves to share, but also loves to eat! Currently, I am 160lbs overweight, with all the health issues that come with a life-time of toxic eating and, since I am the “cook” of the house, you can imagine the health of my family.

AND …

I feel that the raw food diet will help me achieve greater health by – helping my body heal itself. A raw food diet will increase my energy levels. It will also make me look more youthful by improving my skin appearance, allowing me to release excess weight, and improve my digestion and that of my family.

Eating a raw food diet will decrease visits to the doctor by reducing and/or eliminating the risk of many diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, as well as many other health debilitating ailments.

Lastly, by eating a raw food diet, it will help the planet become healthier because it is a perfect solution for eco-friendly eating – it has less packaging and uses less of our energy sources for “cooking” (Example: juicers, dehydrators, blenders, and plain elbow grease).

Warmly,
Shawnie

I try to be raw since 2 years and 6 month but cant do it !
I realy need help to teach me .And i cant lose weight,
Thank you .
God bless ,
Marie Jocelyne

I would love the opprotunity to win the course in order to help me with a future pregnancy and maybe avoid another c-section!
My husband and I tried for 15 years to have a child, and finally with the blessings of God and a pretty decent weight loss, I conceived my son. My pregnancy was not without problems, though, and there were many times I was on bed rest and he was born 3 weeks early due to high blood pressure. I had to have an emergency c-section due to fetal distress.
I desperately want to have another child, as I am fast approaching 35 and the risks with pregnancy skyrocket at that age. I truly believe if I am in a healthy state, my next pregnancy will be amazing and I may be able to VBAC.

Thanks for even giving us the chance to win this amazing prize!!!

Having 3 disks degenerating and one replaced from a fall I have to feel good. Nucca and regular chiropractors help me and Dr. Kam Yuen for healing but I had to change my diet to feel the best. Everything goes hand in hand. eating from the treof life is the best way for me to feel great. We were not Put here to Suffer! I have writen a blogs book about healing, diet and music I have collected for the past 6 years. Even what I listen to an my thoughts. My htoughts are that I feel better eating whole foods raw!! we all do but getting in touch with our feelings is another thing. we can be different!! blesssings. Oh and Happy Birhtday. this is the day you picked to come into this world. And what a difference you are making. I love free stuff. got to enter to win! lol Namaste

I would like to win the Living Foods program. I have spent much of my life studying nutrition and know that if you are right with yourself then you are right with the world. I have been in a state of radiant health and want to be there again. I have noticed throughout my problems with depression that what I eat has a direct impact on my state of mind. If I were to have the right tools to make myself the healthiest I can be then I would develop the ability to use my energies for helping others and be less focused on my own issues. I would like to break free of old habits and be able to work for the world (personally, politically, and ecologically).

Currently, I am in school, am a mother, and have become deeply interested in the Slow Food Movement and food justice. I feel strongly that an awareness of the right principles of eating is one of the most important foundational tools to getting humanity on the road to a better world.

I know from past experience with raw foods that I can be in a state of health that most people aren’t even aware exists. I would be grateful to have a system to go by as it would get me (and my family) on the path to health in a world that surrounds us with dead end diets and confusing information.

Hi Jim– woot– I notice we were both born in November 1950, although I’m slightly more senior than you are. I know that is not a terrifically great reason (lol)– I believe that the Ann Wigmore information would be an amazing source of wisdom for me as I age gracefully. Thank you for all you do to promote such a great lifestyle.

I feel that I should win the course for many reasons. The first one would be that Im transitioning to a Raw food diet since a year back and already see the wonderful effects it has. This has made me start to do workshops here in Portugal where I live. There are not many people in Portugal speaking about the healing possibilities of eating a live food diet here and I feel that spreading this informaiton here is needed and very well welcomed. If I win this course I will participate all this knowledge with the people comming to my workshops and this way one course will start to help many people on the other side of the ocean! Portuguese people love meat, wine, cheese and coffee and there is alot of work to do here !
I would also be very happy as a mother of 2 beutiful princesses to deepen my knowledge and gain more inspiration to continue my efforts in raising them on a high raw diet. This course would aslo be a stepping stone for me to incorporate this knowledge in the homschooling project Im part of. We are now 6 families practising “community home schooling” and the menu is slowly getting more and more green. Imaginge, a school with a high raw diet! My vision is to serve green smoothies, sprouts, sallads, and deliscious raw sweets/deserts for them every day! This course will help me to educate all the parents to understand the power within raw food.

I am convicied that the raw food diet not only will help me achive greater health but all the people I meet and all the people I love. Simply put, the more life force and indirect sunlight I put into my body, the more vibrant I feel and the more energy I have to share with my community and my family. Raw Food should be a mantra for tired mothers !

Thank you for your light work and for sharing this opportunity with people!

With love and gratitude,
Shayna

Thanks for this opportunity Jim!

I would love to win the online Dr Ann Wigmore Home Study Course. I look at the information about what is offered all the time. I have some health issues and I know that the raw food lifestyle would benefit me and my immediate family, as well as people who will be coming to my raw retreats in the future. I am dreaming of the day that I can make that happen. Right now I am having tough times financially. Most everyone can relate to that. I am incorporating more and more raw foods into my diet and have felt how different it is afterwards. Much lighter and more energy. It is just common sense that raw foods help a person heal. Everyone just needs to be retrained and redirected to the best way to grow, prepare and incorporate these gifts that have been provided for us.
Would love to one day go to the Creative Health Institute and spend some time immersed in all they have to offer.
So many worthy people writing in to win. I’m happy for the opportunity.
I appreciate all the information you provide. Thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Birthday to you Jim!

I would love to win the course. I need it. Although I have books, I need something more somplified and comprehensive. I need to work with someone and have some accountability. I first heard about raw foods while reading about Ann Wigmore, and always felt she was the one who kept it all very simple and possible for everyone, including mere mortals like me, a sruggling single mother without child support. My total income last year for 2 people was $6000.

I really want to get moving on raw foods and helping and healing my youngest son of Graves Disease and me of my high blood pressure. I need to do so much more than I am, at about 40 -50% raw. I just can’t afford any courses right now, but have watched things given away on here before in the past and thought it was possible.

I am always trying, always hoping, always believing, and always working toward self and family improvement. I never, ever give up.

Thank you,

Valerie

I am so wanting to win the course because I have a passion to learn all I can about it, as I run into SOO many people with health issues that I want to help. After seeing & hearing your personal experience, and that of countless many, it should undoubtedly help me, so that I can help others. My job ends soon so I have the perfect opportunity to study & put into practice.
I’m thankful for your newsletter! Thanks for sharing with us.

I know that the raw food diet will help me achieve greater health because I managed to eat all raw for 2 months and it is the best that I have ever felt in my life but I was not able to continue it and feel rather lost at the moment, so that is why I would love to receive the course. Best wishes to all.

Hello and Happy 59th Birthday Jim. You look fantastic. Thanks for the opportunity of entering your contest to win you wonderful raw foods course. I can’t do a video, I haven’t learned how to yet and if this is the 2nd entry from me, it is because my computer skills are still in the learing stage. I live in a wonderful country, New Zealand and we have great produce here but people do not understand the concept of raw eating and a raw food lifestyle. I try to live the raw food lifestyle but with no back up it is very difficult and I am not doing too well at it. If I won one of your programmes I would have the knowledge to improve my health, get rid of my weight problem, oestoporosis, hypertension, arthritis etc and people would notice and would want to know how to achieve the same.Then I would be able to teach people about the raw food lifestyle in New Zealand. That would be so wonderful. Thanks.

I have been trying to go raw on my own since the first of September and it’s extremely difficult especially as I’ve recently become a caregiver to my 82 year old dad and his 93 year old father in law. They are very resistant to changes in their diet and, presently, it is all that I can do to maintain my vegan diet. HELP!!

many people would really need it because they have serious health conditions or cannot afford to buy it. I just wanted to thank you for all the wonderful recipes that you post on your web site. Thank you!

Hi Jim,

I would love to win as I have been interested in healthy ways of eating for a very long time. I eat well already, but I’d like to take it up to another level. I am also contemplating teaching others how to be well. I am convinced if everyone in this country would grow a garden, eat more raw foods and eliminate as many processed foods as they possibly could, then the bulk of our health care issues would dissolve. It really alarms me at how hard it is for people to change and how they have to hit a wall before they are willing to do so. I think I could be a catalyst to help teach people how to be well. I do not have any major health challenges that I am aware of, but I do have a thirst for learning how to create scrumptious meals without cooking. Eating raw, organic food is a perfect way to reduce my carbon footprint and that is huge to me. One of my life goals is to continue to spread the truth about wellness as opposed to sickness. Our system is totally broken and we are a bankrupt nation and I would like to find a way to try and help people learn that just a few dollars in seeds and sprouts and a little sweat equity and stepping outside of their comfort zone can pay back in spades.

Thank you for sharing that, Susie.

1.Why you feel that you should win the course

Hello Jim
My name is Jasmine. I am living in Adelaide Australia with my family. I am almost 29 years old. Thankyou for the opportunity to study Raw Foods as an online course. I am aware that my responsibility in this lifetime is to become my ‘full potential’. I beleive that a diet of living foods and a support program is the key that can unlock this potential.
Feelings of frustration about how i am living each moment remind me that I can grow still more in love.
Deep dissolusionment about to continue and succeed on a raw food diet also reminds me to seek support for this.
I feel encouraged by this opportunity you present us, in order for me to move beyond unhelpful feelings to reach my full potential.
I feel surely this course is a key!

2.Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health

My body remembers! It remembers love and it remembers how to feel alive and healthy! Greens, fresh fruit, and living foods made from the earth’s love messages to us. My body remembers and it feels the love that we all deserve to feel.
Thankyou!

Hi I would love to win, I am just beginning to embrace raw food.In the past two years I have battled lung cancer,pneumonia and multi-organ failure, indeed my husband and young daughters were told that I was going to die. I am a 49 year old nurse and would love to win to get back to being fully well again. Best Wishes Lin

Hello Jim,

I am writing you from Romania, being so happy on how internet can connect people all over the world, sharing the same ideals and beliefs.
I would be thrilled if I could win the course of two reasons:
- I am a vegetarian for 5 years and a 100% vegan diet has cured me for a chronical fistula (doctors’ recommendation was surgery). In the last few months something happened to my body after eating cooked (vegetarian or vegan) food. I felt like craving for something fresh. As I have learnt to listen to my body, I realized that RAW is the solution. I have started eating more and more raw wholefoods but still feel that are lots and lots of information I need
- The second reason is that I am preparing for my Advance Diploma in Nutritional Therapy and plan to start a career in this area. I know your course will help get further with my knowledge and beliefs. I want to help others in chosing a natural healthy lifestyle (raw )!

I not only feel, I know that raw food diet will help me achieve greater help. It’s the food that God gave us with love, food that we destroy each and every day. I’m not much of a Bible reader, but I know that before Noah people used to leave 700-900 years. May it be or not, but raw was what they ate. I know that industialization has brought us so many diseases and death. Why not use what nature has to ofer?

Thank you so much for this opportunity and have a great Happy Birthday to you!

All my best wishes,
Cristina

Hello:
I was introduced to the Raw food lifestyle in August 2009. I began my new lifestyle in eating raw October 1, 2009. My pantries, cupboards, freezer and refrigerator were all cleaned out and replenished with living foods. I haven’t studied or researched about raw foods and would seriously like to learn more as I continue in this new lifestyle. I began this new lifestyle because I had a stroke in September 2008 and continued with rehabilitation for over 6 months. I am not fully recovered, as of this date, and unsure if I ever will be but I have realized from the what I’ve learned and personally can testify that living foods feed and nourish your cells. Since I’ve had the stroke, I began an organic community garden, with the help of volunteers, on over an acre plot. Fresh produce was distributed to the individuals in the community. I began the gardens as therapy to not only push myself to recover from the stroke but to also promote fresh living foods to those unable to afford fresh produce. It’s a shame that fresh broccoli costs more than a loaf of bread in my local area.
Anyway, through the gardens I have also offered monthly educational classes, FREE, to anyone who would like to learn. I would love to win the course, so I can teach others about the benefits of living, raw foods and offer recipes to those wishing to learn about the benefits.

In the past 57 days, that I have been strictly eating a raw food diet, I have noticed my ph change from a 2.5 to 6.5. My energy has immensely increased. I slimmed down 3 sizes. I no longer have acid reflux, digestive difficulties nor bowel problems. I sleep through the night with no more night sweats or hot flashes. My complexion is brighter and clearer. As I continue the raw food lifestyle, I am believing to see more changes in my upcoming ultrasounds and ct scans and clarity of mind. I really don’t know what I am suppose to be doing on the raw food lifestyle, but by me living off of fresh salads, raw nuts and seeds and an occasional fruit, I have definitely seen a difference. I am a walking testimony to those around me, as they say “You look great, what are you doing?” I would like to offer some background knowledge and tools to others to help them understand the benefits of raw food living.

Please consider me for the Free Online course, and I can grow and learn about raw foods and teach other through not only the gardens but through my own testimony of living the lifestyle.

Dear Jim I am at a point in my life (62 years old) where I know my life is going to change drastically. I have been preparing to start a detox centre under the supervision of a naturopathic doctor. My preparation has been my own search for health after heavy metal toxicity affected my whole system. I have been growing wheatgrass and juicing it, as well as making rejuvelac, sauerkraut, keifer, etc. for a long time I grow my own vegies especially leafy vegetables like kale which I also juice. The sad thing is that in spite of all of this I could not get my health back until I had my poisonous teeth removed and started Dietrich Klinghard’s chelation protocol to remove the metals from my body. I see so many people with dreaded diseases who have no idea that they can and should take responsibility for their own health, I would like to help them to wake up to that fact.
I have a lot of knowledge and practical know-how to give. I have, however, no certificate or diploma to show for it.
I am not in a financial situation at the moment to afford the course, I have often looked at the description of the contents with longing. There is so much I could do with it when we start the detox centre, so much, it would be a dream come true. Please let it come true for me.
Warm regards

Rachel Retief

Wow! I am in the process of getting ready to write a business plan ( for a healing foods type cafe/store)and the cafe would be raw and I need to know waaay more than I currently do. I was consdering going to Hippocrates, but with two young kids it’s hard to get away. This would be perfect! I have great visions of wellness for the world. This business is the vehicle for helping to bring it to my community.

Hello Jim,
I hesitated to submit this because my story is similar to many others who need a program like this, but can’t afford it.
I have been very sick so I lost my job, have used up savings etc. and am at the end of my resources. My husband is retired – with no pension. He can work -a very little- but has a herniated disk in his lower back. All our resources have been lost due to injuries, illness, death of our daughter, a house fire, and later a flood and now this recent financial crash which wiped out his pension. We live in a rented basement apartment with absolutely no assets left. Nothing to show for a lifetime of diligence. Sounds like we have a curse, doesn’t it? I want to believe not.
I have several serious conditions to deal with: obesity/osteoarthritis in the knees so I can’t exercise/back/chronic bronchitis. The most urgent is a rare type of ovarian cancer. I had surgery, but there is no other treatment for it offered by the medical profession. They say that all they can do is cut it out when it recurs. WHEN-not IF. This kind recurs-always. Tests have shown that a new tumor is growing, as are several other cysts.
I went to my specialist yesterday thinking he was going to discuss a date for surgery to get it out. He actually told me that if they operate, they will kill me. I was so shocked that he would actually say that to me. Now if they HAVE to do surgery at some point, I will be more terrified than ever.
Maybe that is for the best as I have now no other choice than to commit to an alternative method. The only problem with that is: While medical here in Ontario (Canada) is free, alternative methods all cost huge amounts of money, what with the consultations and the supplements, etc.
I understand that people do need to make a living and this is a wide-open field. I am so glad that they are choosing to do it with products and procedures that really benefit people and that are safer and more natural-without the bad side effects. But that shuts out a lot of people – many who are not “rich baby boomers” with assets, pensions and savings. If we were young we would still have hope to recover financially.
I am so frustrated because I am well aware of these wonderful natural methods, but can’t try them. Besides, it’s hard to know on my own what to do, even (or especially) with all that information out there. It gets confusing because there is so much conflicting information. I tried the Budwig plan for a long time because it was financially possible, but the cottage cheese freaked me out and I honestly believe it has done me harm, especially after reading The China Study, and hearing what Hippocrates has said about dairy. I am convinced that the vegan diet/lifestyle is the best but with active cancer, do I eat fruit or not?
I need a real plan – a method to follow whereby I can start to improve my overall health to withstand a surgery if/when it might be necessary. But most of all, I want to try to eliminate this tumor so the question of another surgery may not even arise. I believe that the methods developed by Ann Wigmore make the most sense.
I just wish I had someone I could even ask for help to buy it, but my husband and I are totally alone. I was hoping I could somehow go to a Hippocrates place, but since I no longer have an income, that is out. My next hope is the course.
I would consider it a huge break and be forever grateful if I were to win this course.
Thank you.
Teri

I am reading Ann’s book “Why Suffer”? What an inspiration this lady was. I have been on a roller coaster with emotions, Ann was so courageous and humble.
I would like to Study Raw Foods and how they heal…and to make a difference to people, for this I would be eternally grateful.
In Gratitude
Maree

In short words, I should win this course because I lost my job 4 months ago and winning will be very great, specially now.
I did the juice diet 10 years ago when I lived in Brazil and it worked very well, thats why I’m sure the raw diet will do the same.
I am 52 years old but I feel that I am like 70 years old and
the raw diet, according to your photos, will rejuvenate me.
( I gain 74 pounds in the last 10 years and I feel miserable.)

Dear Jim,

I am living in Brazil, with my wife (a DDS) and kid treating sleep apnea and snoring (we own a dental clinic and lab that builds anti-snoring devices) and now, together with Dr. Carlos Guimarães, MD we are about to modify his natural medicine clinic which uses acupuncture (Dr. Guimarães has been responsible for assembling the Bras. Med. Association’s acupuncture specialization board exams for many many years), ayurvedic & chinese medicine, and bee & herbal terapeutics to include, as the mainstay, Dr. Wigmore’s and Dr. Gerson’s therapies to heal people thru nutrition which has been the path Dr. Guimarães has chosen after many years of practice as the primary route to health and healing. We want to teach and treat people and patients both from Brazil and from afar, thru preventive measures and for those who already have acute and chronic diseases such as: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, artritis, etc., give them a real fighting chance.

We could use any information for the benefit of our patients and client network and plan to come to you for a visit probably at the end of next semester after Dr. Guimarães’ 2 mo. trip to India in January 2010.

I would like you to know that my father-in-law and I have had a ecological wheatgrass production facility in Belo Horizonte, Capital City of the State of Minas Gerais and have been working with many cancer patients (unfortunately only with frozen wheatgrass juice) to eliminate or reduce chemotherapy adverse reactions (it’s hard to work preventively here).

Also, a few of my family members have stayed at the Optimum Health Center in the San Diego area and also at the Gerson Hospital in Tijuana.

Best Regards,

J. Edward Johnson

Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you….

Happy Birthday Dear Jim…
Happy Birthday to you.

P.S. Thank you for all your wonderful work and sharing your knowledge and the works of Ann Wigmore with all of us.

Just Barb

1. Why I should win?

I’m a beginner, I need suggestions,
I want a course to answer my questions.

Sprouting and soaking and growing wheat grass,
When are they ready? I do need a class.

Away from the kitchen, what should I eat?
An apple, an orange, or should I just cheat?

Detox sounds good, but how and with what?
And are fruit teas banned because they’re too hot?

All those ingredients, it seems such a lot!
Whoops! Almonds need soaking, umm, I forgot.

Variety, balance, where to begin?
I hope you can see, it’s vital I win.

2. What living raw food will do for my health

So, raw living food will provide for me,
A new start by eating just healthily.

Keeping the doctor away from the door,
How could I ask for anything more?

With energy to spare, I’ll break new ground,
Plant veg in the lawn; from my joints no sound.

Eating alone will soon be in the past,
With partner and family, meals will be vast.

And as I progress, I’ll get much stronger,
Look younger, feel fresh, and maybe live longer.

And when I dream of the great things to come,
I will know that it’s all because I won.

Happy birthday Jim

Thank you for doing this very fun and a very good way to get the word out about Dr. Ann!

I feel that I should win the course because for the last 10 years I have had full body, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ie CRPS/RSD. This is one of the most painful condition’s recorded in the medical books. I would like to study this course and research it for a cure for CRPS/RSD. This dis-ease was first discovered in 1872 and since then millions of people all over the world, have had it with no cure in site. I think Dr. Ann is on target with healing disease’s like this.

Through the research I have done, the only remissions of CRPS/RSD I have found is through raw foods. I would like more education as to what is the best way to grow raw foods, prepare raw foods, and combine raw foods etc.

Thx again for having this contest, and “Happy Birthday”!

I would love to win the class because I have Cystic Fibrosis and have recently become a mother. Since having my daughter I have adopted a high raw diet and have noticed an amazing difference! My Pulmonary Function Tests have gone up 7% and my energy levels are so much higher. I am currently 30 years old, and feel with the help of raw foods, my Higher Power, and exercise, I can live to see my grandchildren! Thank you for this opportunity! Be well!!

I want to win because I know the healing power of Ann Wigmor’s Living Food Program from my 20-year’s experience. Many of those so-called “technical things” (how to sprout and prepare food, etc) I practiced myself. Now I want to take it one step futher and become a trainer in Living Food Program so that more people will get support and succeed with this change. Here in Finland we have a Living Food Society and Ann Wigmore herself came to Finland to inspire and train enthusiasts in her program. The books were published and training courses organized. Some 10 years ago the initial enthusiasm went done and now we experience a new wave of interest and enthisuasm. Initially the program was rather strict as it aimed at people who were seriosly sick and could not afford to slip from the diet. This segment is important for us. However, there are many young and healthy people who tackle the food diet from ethical and ecological points of view. So, a beginner in living foods faces a mix of approaches and training programs. Our Living Food Society needs an update of our message and the training offer. We have now only a couple of trainers already retired who had graduated from original training program. With the the new Online Raw Food Course we can update our materials and improve our support for all those who are interested in Ann Wigmor’s Program

Like many others here, it looks like we all deserve to win this contest! Also, like some others, I don’t own a web cam, don’t know anything about you tube, and am totally blind on top of that, so sorry, Jim, no video here, either. Maybe I can add videography to my list of budding talents, though! I would like to win this contest because I have been trying to incorporate raw foods into my lifestyle for around two years now, and have been high raw. I’d like to be a hundred percent raw because I belive it’s healthier and I think the way Ann Wigmore did it was healthiest and I can’t take the time to ship myself down to Florida to learn how. I myself happen to be a person who lives with insulin dependent diabetes. I am 43 now and have had this disease since age 8. My husband is also an insulin dependent diabetic and he is 49 and has been diabetic since he was 11. He also now has lymphoma. As a result of his diabetes, he has a kidney transplant, which he could lose as a result of the cancer treatments. Raw foods could help all of this. In our community, I am often already approached by others and asked questions about health and nutrition. The more I learn, the more I can pass on to thers. Thanks for having this Thanksgiving contest, and whoever wins it will benefit along with those in their life!

Hello Dr. Carey,

Obviously you have inspired many people to look further into the RAW FOOD lifestyle. I’m doing my little victory dance for you!! You must feel amazing when you wake up to know part of your mission in life has been attained. AT SUCH AN EARLY AGE I MUST SAY.

I have a story similar to many here. I was diagnosed with Lupus at the age of 15 but I do not like even saying that because to me that is just a word. I’m 31 now and on a daily basis I search for new healthy things to incorporate into my/my family/my clients daily lives. Whether it be food or natural products I’m always on the lookout. In January 2010 I will celebrate my 10th year of helping others. Massage Therapy, Aromatherapy. I recently lost a best friend to cancer. I gathered soooo much information on raw food and healthy choices for him. I think it was too overwhelming though. He needed it simplified and I am no expert yet. With this course though I think I’ll be taking a huge leap forward into this lifestyle. I want to be able to help sooo many more people in my lifetime. As I’m positive you do too.

From one healer to another,

Love and Light to all!
MPrice

I have been suffering with chronic candida for 9 years. I have tried everything and am interested in wheatgrass and raw foods to try to rid myself of this chronic condition. I study holistic healthcare now and realize how and why we have become an obese and sickly society. If people would just learn to eat properly and eat sustainable and seasonal food, they could be healthier and more active. This course would help me in the future with my nutrition counseling practice that I hope to open in about a year. Thanks.

Hello Jim,

I am commenting on this blog not for the opportunity to “win” the Ann Wigmore Home Study Course and your personal consultation but to “win the opportunity” to use the program and your consultation for my situation. Let me introduce myself. My name is George. I have an auto-immune muscle wasting disease (ALS), considered to be incurable. One reason I would like to have the opportunity to use the “Ann Wigmore Home Study Course” is to use your research and expertise in raw/living foods to determine the best way to reverse and stop a disease that kills motor neurons, leads to muscle wasting, and eventually paralysis. I am still physically functional, but muscle wasting has led to overall weakness, with pain now developing in my extremities. My goal would be to regenerate nerve connections, rebuild muscle, gain strength-both physically and spiritually, thus improving the quality of my life.

I have many books on the topics of (1) raw/living foods (Victor Kulvinskas, Brenda Cobb, Steve Meyerowitz, Victoria Boutenko, etc.) (2) self help methods (EFT, Qigong, etc) and (3) spiritual growth material (meditation, Silva Method). I have explored these options to help change my physical and emotional self while developing my spiritual well being for the first time in my life-hopefully healing myself in the process. All of these programs/methods have great concepts and ideas. I continue to use many of them, but I have not found the right formula for raw/living foods living that I feel confident in and will be consistent with in my situation. Questions I have such as, “Where do I start?”, “What foods should I have/avoid?” How do I eat to survive, as opposed to the habitual/emotional eating that most likely contributed to my ill-health. I believe understanding the concepts of a raw/living foods diet will help me establish the focus and routines necessary for success, thereby achieving greater health. I believe the Ann Wigmore Home Study Program will offer me this opportunity. In the download I received from your site, The Teachings and Programs of Dr. Ann Wigmore, the statement “the happiest people I know have been those who have accepted the primary responsibility for their own spiritual and physical well-being— those who have inner strength, courage, determination, common sense, and faith in the process of creating more balanced and satisfying lives for themselves”, is how I want to proceed with my life, a living foods life, every day, one day at a time, for as long as I shall live.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read my story,
George

Hello Jim,
I would like to start off by saying Happy Birthday.
Then I would like to fill you in briefly of the journey I’ve been on since my son Bayden was 18 months old. He developed food sensitivities which showed itself in the form of eczema so bad that he looked like he had been burnt, waking with the sheets stuck to his skin in the morning.
With many frustrating visit’s to many differant GP’s leading us nowhere as they merely suggested for us to apply cortisone cream, I went home and researched the cream they suggested I apply and decided then and there that I needed to start reading and finding different ways to help him.
After visiting many naturopaths we were able to determine that he was sensitive to all foods but chicken, rice and eggs needless to say he won’t eat these things today.
Around that time was when the realities of heated plastic was begining to be more well known, I blame myself for him not having the ability to process these foods as I ate frozen dinners heated in a microwave (not knowing any better) for lunch and diner pretty much everyday of my entire pregnancy with him.
He now has a texture problem, when foods enter his mouth he gags and then has to spit it out.
He is still breaking out in the face today for certain things he eat’s.
I would love to win this contest so that i could better educate myself to help him get healthy as I know his body is starving and I’m not sure what else I can do.
I am so inspired and motivated by what you do and am greatly interested in the Hippocrates Institute I read Anne Wigmore books as well as Elaine Hollingsworth’s book, love, love, love them and there is not one day that goes by that I don’t pass the information that I read to others that I think are in need.
In closing would like you to know that I would not only be helping my son and my family to become healthy but it is a goal of mine to help and motivate others on my journey as well.
Thank you,
Nancy

Hi Jim! Some of the stories shared here by your friends are so touching…so, I’m grateful to be here and to “know” all this special people.
Love your emails and everything you do to spread your enthusiasm for the healing power of raw food…I don’t need to win this course, ’cause I’ve already been blessed by meeting all of you. Blessings.
Sara from Italy.

Aloha Jim,
First I want to thank you for being so generous to give us all an opportunity to win.

I have been the caregiver for most of my family. I took care of everyone when they took ill. Both sets of grandparents, aunts, uncle, cousin, both parents. I lost 9 close family members in 4 years to CANCER, including my parents. I was so busy taking care of all my family that I forgot to take care of myself. I eventually changed to a vegan diet and tried raw but it did not work so I went back to eating vegan. I needed help to go and stay raw. I knew I could not stay on the same path as my parents.
Finally my husband and I adopted 2 children from an orphanage, they were very sick, malnurished, borderline autistic. Our daughter was so bad they told us she might not make the trip back to the U.S. By Feeding them a vegan diet was incredible and now trying a raw food diet has been even more incredible! They are pretty healthy and beautiful!
Just when I thought my life was good again I found out I have the start of cancer in my ovaries, I said WHAT, after all I have done for my family now it is my turn, I said NO there has to be something or someone who can help me so I asked the universe please provide me with the knowledge to heal myself by eating raw I know it is Gods diet, he intended for us to eat this way, the raw food diet will help achieve greater health for me and everyone, but I have failed and need guidence. Then the next day I read about this opportunity!
Not only do I have the early stages of cancer I also suffer from very painful osteoarthritis, my hips are bone on bone, signs of lupus, infertility, migranes, many other health problems, I just can’t list them all.
I feel like I am dying just like my parents, grandparents and my other family members did with cancer.
I want to make sure my children don’t follow in my families footsteps, I don’t want them to experience watching their mom and dad dying just like I had to with my mom and dad.
I am a retired school teacher and love to teach, I could really make a difference in peoples lives by having the tools and knowledge to teach the raw food lifestyle. I would love to continue Dr. Ann’s teachings. She was an amazing women!
I would be more than grateful if I won, not only would it save my LIFE, my husbands and childrens life, I would be able to help my friends and the few people left in my family!
I Would change the world!!

Mahalo and warmest aloha’s,

Cynthia
P.S.
Have a FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY!

I believe that I should win because I love learning about new things, especially in regards to natural health and living. I am currently earning my Bachelors from Clayton College of Natural Health and I believe that this would be a great supplementation not only for me but others I could possibly help.
I have always been interested in learning more about raw foods/raw diet and I believe this would be the perfect way to go about it.
I have numerous health issues I believe would be helped by learning this way of life. By winning this and doing the program I believe I would achieve much improved health and I would pass the learning and wealth of knowledge about this superior topic on to others!

HI, I am a RN, yoga teacher, and nutritional counselor. I frimly believe that the raw food life style and juicing could dramatically help and heal most disease process in our country today. Wouldnt it be nice to spend our money on education and preventitive nutrition instead of on pharmacuetical companies and drugs. I wish I had known about the contest, I would love to be more educated or come take courses by you to futher my understanding of your methods. I know I could help alot of people and be of service! Keep me posted of any other opportunities that could futher my education so I can help others…thanks betsy….
“Let the Beauty you love be what you do”

Thanks for pointing that out, Jean. I added #161 to the list, and recorded your vote.

Hi Jim,

I would first like to start off by saying that people like yourself and Dr. Ann Wigmore are truly God-sent leaders that have changed the lives of many. I would personally like to thank you for changing mine.

The reason why I would like to win this course is so that I too can become an inspirational leader, taking everything I learn and sharing it with thousands. I am unfortunately unable to receive government funding for any schooling, so as my hobby, I borrow books from the library and spend countless hours on the internet, educating myself on absolutely anything I can regarding live raw food nutrition and everything that goes along with it. My goal is to one day open a wellness centre that will educate people on reversing illness through diet…the sooner I can obtain the proper education, the sooner I can help many. Health and nutrition are my die-hard passion, I simply just cannot get enough, so I can assure you that your materials would not be wasted if given to me. The information would not stop with me, it would be the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you very much for your consideration. Anastasia.

My votes for #24

#24 deserves this more than anyone I know!

Hi Jodi,
You have my vote. I am an aunt of Jessica’s (Kyle’s girlfriend) and my heart goes out to you. Good luck, I hope you win and God Bless.

My vote goes to #155. She’s worked real hard to recover from the stroke and jumped into the Raw Food lifestyle not knowing much about the lifestyle and preparing raw foods. She’s totally committed to eating raw and she’s an inspiration to others. She has the time to study the course and to give back to others through her networking. She’s a Social Worker that wears her heart on her sleeves and has taught others that “Yes they can do it!” My vote goes to 155#

I hope you win

Hi Everyone:
Thank you everyone for voting for 155#. It’s just awesome that many of you have read the post and have read between the lines to sense my passion, heart and need. I have tried to live a healthy lifestyle most of my life but swayed from the SAD diet to a healthy one on and off until I had the stroke last year. Having the stroke was an eyeopener for me and my family/friends. A disease attacking your body is no respecter of ones age. I am passionate in living a 100% Raw lifestyle and have seen miraculous results in the past 2 months. I want to share with those around me that are sick and tired, but I do not have the finances for the course. I lack knowledge and certification to be taken seriously. I have the time, energy and passion to learn as much as I can and then to share and inspire others. If your new to the website and have not voted as of yet, please take time to vote and I would appreciate your support (#155)so I can take the knowledge, apply it to my own life, my family members and children, and with the practitioner certification become a Raw Food Coach and give back to the community-from the young to the baby boomers to the older adults. Life is filled with so many pressures and to be able to touch someones life by sharing and inspiring them to sprout, eat greens and live a healthy lifestyle through eating raw foods would be a gift in itself. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. May God Richly Bless you all!

praying for you!

Thanks, Helen! Why am I not surprised? Everything in life is tied together, isn’t it? LOL

To Rick Luckow #44:

You have brought me to tears… thank you for loving your wife so beautifully… I pray the Lord hears our prayers to bring her complete healing… He IS The Great Physician… At the Name of Jesus, EVERY knee shall bow… including infirmaty and disease… Jesus went about doing good and healing ALL who were diseased… He is STILL healing those who call upon His Name… Peace, Love and Healing Virtues… from The One who loves her more than You do… The Lord of All Creation..
Your fellow Sojourner, Susan

Best your knowledge is with someone capable and able to help others

Well done, Jim.

Hi Jim – Happy belated birthday! Congrats to the winners too!