Hi,

The promise of a brand new year brings with it the promise of new goals, new dreams and new ways of living a more fulfilling life. I like to plan goals for the New Year instead of making resolutions because goals tend to look towards the positive and resolutions usually tend to be about trying to kick some sort of bad habit. Isn't it much better to have a goal to go to an 80% or 90% raw diet by June instead of resolving to stop eating junk food?

One of the things we've planned within our group of friends for this year is to start having monthly raw dinners where we can actually demonstrate how to put together raw food recipes and answer question for invited guests. This gives us the opportunity to show our friends and family, if they choose to participate, that healthy food is number one, simply delicious and number two, not all that difficult to prepare. We also get to share exciting recipes with each other and maybe a testimony or two about how the raw food lifestyle has benefited someone.

You can do the same in your circle of friends too. If you are new to raw food or the vegetarian lifestyle, ask around your church, or local organic market, or have a look at the community bulletin board at your local family owned vitamin and supplements store or other health food store to see if something like this is going on in your neighborhood. If it isn't, then try starting a raw or healthy plant-based food get-together of your own. It's a great way to meet new healthy dieters and can provide you with support on those more difficult days when you may be tempted by junk food. There's nothing better than sharing a meal and the good news of good nutrition with friends.

A New Years Cleaning

If you were a little bad (Yes, we even succumbed to a little of this and a little of that during the last month) over the holidays between Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, then now is the time to clean out your system. I'm talking about your elimination system, known as your colon. You can listen to our latest Healthy Diet Podcast about colon cleansing and learn what we use to flush out the toxins and get a healthy start for the new year.

I also wanted to let you know about a neat little herb garden grower I found out about the other day. If you are in the middle of a cold winter in the north or live in an apartment or just want to have a nice small crop of herbs around all the time, then the AeroGarden is perfect for you. It fits right on your counter top, is smaller than a microwave and it lets you grow perfect organic herbs year round. And best of all, it's computer controlled so your herbs get the right amount of nutrients and water at the right time.

All you have to do is add water and an organic nutrient tablet when the AeroGarden alerts you and you can leave it completely unattended for up to 2 weeks. It couldn't get any simpler than that. Check out an expanded review of the AeroGarden here.

As always we want to thank you for subscribing to Healthy Diet News. Until next time...

Eat Healthy, Be Healthy,

Alan LeStourgeon
www.ezHealthyDiet.com

PS - We now offer a free sample download of The Mostly Raw Vegan Meal Planner on our web site. The free sample download contains the Table Of Contents, the Introduction and the Table Of Recipes so you can see exactly what you are getting in the meal planner.

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