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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Raw Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com . In this excerpt, Rhio educates us regarding mainstream media, the food industry and how it affects your health.

Raw Summit Excerpt with Rhio, author of Hooked on Raw, speaker, radio host, actress, singer raw chef and eco-farmer.

Kevin: You’re in the media which is very cool because I’d like to get your opinion on this next question from a media perspective. What is the media looking for when they are looking for health information? Are they just looking to repeat the same old news? I would think that theywould want to bring up new points.

Rhio: I had a little 90-second spot that was being syndicated, called “The Fruit and Veggie Lady.” I did a spot once on dairy and the station called my partner up and said that the dairy industry had called him because the station was funded by ads from dairy. They objected to what I was saying about dairy. In media, it depends, like I wouldn’t say I’m not a part of the mainstream media because I’m more a part of the underground media.

My partner and I own our own internet radio station. We’re trying to get this information out in an alternative way because it’s so few and far between the opportunities that we can get the information out. One time I was invited to go on a show a called “American Journal” and they had asked me to get people that had healed themselves of serious disease with the raw food diet, so I got them someone who had healed himself of bone cancer, 4th stage.

Kevin: Wow!

Rhio: They did a wonderful interview with him. He told his whole entire story. When it aired, the bone cancer part was left completely out!

Kevin: Are you serious?

Rhio: It was not even in there. What they did is…he had lost his bone cancer by fasting and also by going on a raw food diet. It took him about a year to be clear of the cancer. He told the whole story, but in the process of losing the cancer, he had lost over 100 pounds. Guess what they concentrated on?

Kevin: The weight loss.

Rhio: Right. The more serious, the life threatening issue was left completely out of the piece. Well, this is what mainstream media does to information.

Kevin: Who do you think has control over this medical information that most people would like to know about?

Rhio: Well, you see the way the media works today it depends on advertising. Who are the advertisers? If you look on TV and radio, who are one of the main advertisers, drug companies.

If we get the information out that people have it within their hands, within their ability to create health in their body, and they don’t have to rely on any kind of external medicine for that, if that becomes engrained in people, who’s going to lose? What business is going to go out?

Kevin: Yes, it’s obviously a matter of capitalism, right?

Rhio: It’s a matter of dollars unfortunately. I think the main thing should be people’s health, but that’s not the way it is. A lot of these drugs that get out on the market and they’re recalled later, after us human, not me, but human guinea pigs used them for couple of years, and all of a sudden they’re recalled.

Kevin: Yes. The food industry is doing a lot of things that some people would say are questionable and putting things out either hoping or suspecting that they will work. One of myths is irradiation of foods. What foods are being irradiated? Because I don’t even know if I know for sure. What is it doing?

Rhio: Well, the government has approved the irradiation for basically all foods. Now whether the foods are being irradiated or not, it’s hard to say. It supposed to carry a label on it. It’s supposed to clearly say that the food is irradiated and they have a little symbol which is –actually the symbol it’s very appealing and looks like a little flower, so it’s non-threatening.

Kevin: It’s not a nuclear reactor?

Rhio: No, you would think it was something good, if you looked at it. But the industry is moving to remove that symbol and they want to not let the public know. Food is being irradiated through radioactive gamma sources like Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137. What happens when the food goes through these sources? It creates radiolytic products. Radiolytic products are like formaldehyde and benzene. Benzene is a known carcinogen. Then there’s formic acid and quinone. All of these things are not desirable to be eating. Then by going through irradiation, there’s unique radiolytic products created. Now these haven’t even been named or studied. In other words, the process itself creates certain chemicals that are unknown.

Kevin: Wow!

Rhio: Also irradiation destroys vitamins and minerals. Between 20% and 80% of the vitamin and minerals are destroyed. The things that I know for sure that are being irradiated are spices and papayas from Hawaii. I just buy Mexican papayas at this point.

Kevin: Are they irradiating organic foods as well?

Rhio: No. If the food is organic, it cannot be irradiated.

Kevin: Good.

Rhio: It should not be also genetically engineered which is another problem that we have with the food, which is very, very serious, because they’re taking foods and genetically engineering them to contain bacteria and viruses and genetic material which is not of the product itself. For example, they are putting fish genes, let’s say, in tomatoes. That’s one of the things they did. This is something that nature would never do. Yet, they’re just doing this indiscriminately. Every genetically engineered food that’s out there contains cauliflower mosaic virus, it contains promoters and all kinds of substances that are not in regular foods, ungenetically engineered foods. But yet, the industry and our government itself say that those foods are substantially equivalent to regular foods. But all the private research that has been done shows that that is not the case.

Kevin: Yes, it’s pretty scary. Do we even know what some of the health affects in both of these actually are or are we unsure?

Rhio: Well, the health effects of irradiation are it destroys vitamins and minerals. Then you’re not getting the complete nutrition from the food. There’s been studies done where it shows that it creates pre- cancerous conditions in children. All of the studies that have been done have been suppressed. But yet, other countries are not irradiating food and they don’t want that food.

To read the rest of this transcript as well as access other Raw Summit experts just like Rhio, please click here! Kevin Gianni is an internationally recognized health advocate, author & film consultant. He has helped thousands of people take control of their own health naturally through teleseminars and programs. For more information visit raw food diets and holistic nutrition.

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Raw Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com . In this excerpt, Rhio shares information on her book, Hooked on Raw.

Raw Summit Excerpt with Rhio, author of Hooked on Raw, speaker, radio host, actress, singer raw chef and eco-farmer.

Kevin: You are pretty much an innovator when it comes to passing along message. I mean starting your own radio station, you’re also a raw food chef and you had raw food potluck meals. Tell us about those potlucks and your recipes.

Rhio: So then I told my partner…I said Lee, “I’m going on raw foods.” And he said, “Well I’m not.” Because he had become a vegetarian after he met me. Six months after he met me, he decided himself that he was going to become a vegetarian. So he figured he’d done his bit. That was it. He wasn’t going to do anymore. So I’m telling you this long story by way of telling you how I came to have a book in the first place. I don’t want to force anybody to my view. It doesn’t work. So I’ve started looking at the kind of foods that Lee liked to eat. And I went to my kitchen. I started experimenting and I came up with substitutes to have the same flavor or similar flavors that he could enjoy. And so, I kept doing this and then through situations like for example if he was working late, I made dinner. He would come home. Is he going to start cooking now or is he going to eat this raw food?

Kevin: Right. Well that’s extremely male.

Rhio: So you know he’d eat the raw food. So it went like that and after a period of let’s say 2 or 3 years, I ended up with all these recipes and they were fantastic and I would be serving them at my raw food potlucks and people would go crazy for them. And Lee and the people would say you got to do a book, you got to do a book. And that’s how I got my book. It wasn’t something that I planned. It was something that just happened. I ended up with the recipes. But, also my book has a beginning section that is nothing about the recipes and I included that section in because I thought I needed to put all the things in there as to why it would be so important for people to think about adopting a raw food diet or at least incorporating more raw foods into their diet. You know what - give them all the reasons why. And that beginning section of the book, and again, I’m talking about how it is out there when you’re trying to get a book published. Two publishers came to me. They wanted the book, but they didn’t want the beginning section.

Kevin: Yes.

Rhio: They just wanted the recipes. And I said no. I said no, this book has got to go with the reasons why.

Kevin: Yes.

Rhio: So that’s another way. Now, somebody else, one of the publishers published a book from a friend of mine. She gave them what they wanted. What happened was the beginning part of my book, I think; it’s about 130 pages if I’m not mistaken. And one time I was talking to the editor. They had already sent me the contract and everything. I was ready to sign. I was talking to the editor and he said to me, “Can you possibly cut the beginning part down to 20 pages?” And I started laughing. I mean, it was incredibly rude I know. But it just…something struck me funny. I mean I had spent so many nights researching and you know making meticulously sure that checking my facts and rechecking.I couldn’t. I couldn’t. Now, the other lady that they went with, she did, she did a good job. But I couldn’t do it.

Kevin: Yes. It was similar to the theme of the media.

Rhio: Yes it is.

Kevin: That we discussed before. There are people who are sensing the information. And they may not be the health experts.

Rhio: Right. And then I had, when I was trying to get my book out to these publishers, there was like an agent, a literary agent that I had talked to. And I sent her the manuscript and she told me “Take all that personal stuff out of the book.” And I said, “This shows my experience and it will help people to understand.” And she said, “If you want to write a book about a memoir or something, you know, write a different book.” But she just didn’t understand. And I know that she didn’t understand because even though my book is self-published, I have had tremendous success with it and I have, you know thousands, of letters that people had sent me telling me how much that book has meant to them.

Kevin: It’s incredible.

Rhio: It was like a baby coming, you know. It had become, even my partner, Lee, and I love him, you know, but he was like putting the pressure on me to accept that deal from that one publisher.

Kevin: Right.

Rhio: Because you can write another book. And I said, “Look, this is like a baby coming. It’s going to come the way it’s going to come.”

Kevin: What advice do you have to people out there who would listen to this, who have a book in them?

Rhio: Oh, I think they should write it. Because anything that you written from the heart, you know sometimes people tell me well you know all of these raw food books that are coming out now, isn’t it impinging on your sales? I said “That doesn’t matter.” What matters is that this information gets out whether they pick it up from my book or from somebody else’s book. I don’t care. Just write it from the heart. Get a good editor. And then, you know, shop it around. I mean some books are being published now from publishing companies who are publishing raw food books. Try to get them not to meddle in what you what to say too much.

Kevin: Yeah. What are some of the issues that we’re going to be facing in 5 to 10 years with our health, the media, and food industry? What are some of the main things that you think are coming?

Rhio: Well, I think it’s already starting to happen now. Number one, on a positive side, there are numerous raw food, living food outlets, teachers, potlucks, restaurants, all kinds of information is coming forth. I just find that so, you know, empowering and this is what I see in the future. That cooked food restaurants are going to start incorporating some of these stuff. Just like in the past vegetarian offerings had been made available in regular restaurants. Now they are going to make raw food offerings available. So that’s on the positive end. I just see the whole community growing by leaps and bounds.

The negative part that I see happening and starting to happen is that since the regular mainstream community doesn’t understand what raw foods are about and doesn’t understand how healthy they are, they look at it with some kind of trepidation. And so what happens is if a parent tries to raise their children on raw food some of these parents are losing their children to child services or because those organizations don’t understand what the raw food diet is about and so they think that the parents are like depriving or abusing their children in some way when they really are not. So this is a major problem that’s happening. I know a lot of families who have lost their children and other families that could come to their aide aren’t coming to their aide because they are afraid of losing their children.

So because of this problem, myself and another lady called Karen Ramsey who is writing a book now called Creating Healthy Children, and she is very involved with children and she raised her children on the raw food diet, her and I are trying to form an organization that will have two major goals. The first goal is like long term. It’s really big. It’s like we need to have in this country a constitutional amendment that guarantees us freedom of choice in health matters - freedom of choice in choosing how, if we have a disease, how we want to proceed with it? Not something that is forced on us like for example in California and many other states, there is only certain sanction like if you have cancer, there are only certain methods that are sanctioned. And if you go like a naturopathic doctor or any kind of alternative doctor and he gives you a different method that does not encompass like radiation, drugs and chemotherapy and surgery If you go try to do a natural system, it’s not sanctioned and it’s not legal.

Kevin: Yes.

Rhio: So, the doctor can get in trouble. Even the patient can get in trouble. So, I see that as a problem because as I said originally in the earlier of part of this tape is that we have to create within our community an understanding of what really constitutes and creates health. And once that idea is out there, and then more doctors, more even allopathic doctors are going to come over and understand that that creates health and there is nothing weird about it. And then they’re not going to report parents that are feeding their children like what they consider strange, you know.

Kevin: Yes.

Rhio: And so, that’s one part of this organization that we want to develop. We want to have this constitutional amendment. We should have been there originally, but it wasn’t. But, you know many of the amendments were added later anyway. We want to create a coalition of people, doctors, nurses, social workers, scientists, and researchers that will come to be aid of these families in trouble - these families that have lost their children. So, when a family is struggling, they will be a coalition of people that will come to their aid whether it’s in court, whether it’s in filing papers, whether it’s in backing up what they’re doing, you know to extract these families from this problem.

Kevin: Wow! It’s a pretty powerful mission.

Rhio: It is. It is, probably more than I can chew but I always seem to do that anyway.

To read the rest of this transcript as well as access other Raw Summit experts just like Rhio, please click here! Kevin Gianni is an internationally recognized health advocate, author & film consultant. He has helped thousands of people take control of their own health naturally through teleseminars and programs. For more information visit raw food diets and holistic nutrition.

In this market that is flooded with both foreclosures and short sales, how do you know what is the best deal?

Both of these types of bargain real estate have their pluses and minuses when you compare them to each other. They are both fantastic ways of getting low prices, sometimes 20-40 or even 50% of market value so which one should you be looking at?

Foreclosures can be a pain in the butt to buy because in most cases, the property is in disrepair because:

A. The property has been empty for several months

B. The prior owner was not able to or decided not to do regular maintenance or repairs since he was about to be pushed out of his home for non payment of the mortgage. Be prepared to do maintenance or repairs to items such as appliances, ac, carpet, windows, screens, landscaping etc.

C. They usually are in rougher neighborhoods that are usually older and in lower income neighborhoods.

This used to be more the case than now because so many more people are in foreclosure due to a lot of reasons other than not being abe to meet there mortgage obligations.

I have seen several foreclosures in multi million dollar neighborhoods but usually these are not the price range for most investors. If looking for a home to live in these level of homes can be the way to go.

D. Some foreclosed owners decide to take out their anger over losing their home on the property by punching holes in the walls and doors, destroying appliances, breaking windows and even pouring concrete mix into the toilets etc.

Short sales on the other hand seem to be just as well priced as foreclosures but:

1. 60% of the time the owner is still living in the property until sold therefore takes better care of the property

2. Even though they are losing the property they have more time to get it back up umtil an offer is accepted in case their financial situation changes.

3. these properties are usually listed 20-30% below the last comparable sale in the neighborhood, regardless of whether it was also a short sale or foreclosure.

Now don’t get me wrong because not all short sales are in great condition but the majority are better maintained than foreclosures.

Foreclosures are great IF you don’t mind a property that will most likely need some work as this can be worthwhile because the price will reflect that since a property in worse conditions takes longer to sell.

The banks are aware of this so the bank may be more willing to discount it even more than a short sale property

I just had a client that wanted to buy a foreclosure so we looked at dozens until she realized that she was not going to get a bargain basement price on a perfect house that did not need work.

The bottom line is that as long as your expectations are realistic one or both of these types of discounted properties could be for you depending on what is of most importance to you, price or condition.

DOn’t let greed overtake you and get in over your head. Know your limits.

Keith Junor is a Licensed Realtor and Mortgage Broker in Florida with 17 years experience. He authors a Blog at www.The expertsinrealestate.com that gives timely advice on buying and selling, credit repair, mortgages and foreclosure. He can be reached at kj1010@bellsouth.net

Antique cars have been used for several purposes. The term was used to identify an era in the history of automobile. It was a collective name used for the horseless carriage in the period 1880-1916. Today, however, the term is popularly used to refer to cars that are at least twenty-five years old. Although it is sometimes referred to as classic or vintage cars, they are not the same. Classic is a term for state of the art cars covering the period 1925-1948. Vintage cars on the other hand usually refer to the built of the car in the years 1919-1930.

The most valuable antique cars are seldom used as a regular mode of transportation because it is too expensive to operate. These cars are usually showcased in special events such as parades and car shows. If you are a car enthusiast, antique car collection will be a very exciting hobby. This will allow you to meet car aficionados all over the world and take pride with your collection. You can also get to see other car shows and pamper your eyes with the elegant display of different kinds of cars.

But there are those who do not buy antique car for the sole purpose of collection. Many consider purchasing an antique car as an investment. Many spend thousands of dollars to acquire one antique car. An antique car purchased today will possibly generate huge profit in the future. But this is not a guaranteed deal because there were periods such as in the early 1990s where the value of these cars declined. If you consider buying one as an investment, you have to be prepared with the changes in the market. Desired styles may change among others.

You can have an antique car even if you are running a budget, it can be really expensive but there are some tips you can follow to save a few bucks. Antique cars that collectors will usually go for are very expensive. In contrast, those that do not get much attention are cheaper. You can also look for twenty year old cars that need minor repairs. Cars that are not old enough to be considered antique are generally cheaper. You can also bargain for these cars and get the best price. You have to be patient though, because you will seldom find cars this old in good condition.

The value of any antique craft is unpredictable, as for cars, it is greatly influenced by the demand and supply relationship. Another aspect of valuing these cars is its condition. Value also depends on how well it was maintained. That is why most collectors have the technical knowledge of restoring a car. The quality of its restoration has also a great impact on its value.

The value of antique cars varies. If it is rare and in good condition, it will definitely cost much. On the other hand, those that do not fit the collectible category are relatively cheaper. Since it is not definite that these cars will generate good profit in the future, find something that you can enjoy. It will be more worthwhile that way.

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If someone handed you a million dollars of tax-free money right now, how would you spend the next few years of your life? The answer to this question is more important than you might realize.

After the obligatory vacation, new house, and new car that you might purchase with your new fortune, how might you spend the rest of your time? In other words, if time and money were not a concern, what would your daily life look like?

Most of us would spend more time with our families and loved ones. But after this consideration I believe a million people would spend their time a million different ways.

With no need to spend time generating a paycheck, and no deadlines and shifts to worry about, the majority of us would spend our days doing the things that bring us real happiness.

Some people would spend hours on end playing music or singing.

Others would lose themselves in one book after another, or even return to college for the sheer joy of learning new things.

Still others might devote the bulk of their waking time to restoring old automobiles.

What would you spend your days and months doing if you never had to worry about time or money again? Don’t hold back with your answer; think about what activity or activities would bring you the most happiness if you could commit unlimited time to them.

Not only is this a fun and healthy mental exercise, it offers some pretty serious insight about your professional potential. Do you realize the world’s most successful and productive people are those individuals who do what they truly love for a living?

Think about this for a moment.

Most people don’t like their job. In fact many people actually hate what they do for a living.

I understand what this is like, because I spent years of my life doing menial labor. But I found, much to my delight, that work does not have to be a miserable process.

We really can earn a living doing the things we are passionate about if we are willing to think big and put forth some creativity and effort.

This article is not about finding the perfect job, however. It’s about getting you to think.

No matter who you are or what your responsibilities might be, you absolutely can go to work doing something you care deeply about. And the first step is being honest with yourself about what activities make you really happy.

Once you know this, step two is to resist the urge to make excuses about why you can’t stop working at a job. Don’t even take the time to say things like “I need a secure paycheck” or “I have a family to feed”.

As important as such statements sound they are really nothing more than active self-defeat. The truth is you can find or create a position that allows you to enjoy your work.

I did it. My mother did it. Many of my friends have done it. In fact millions of people worldwide have either found their dream jobs or built businesses around their passions.

So now that you have answered the million-dollar question and been honest about what you really want to spend your time doing, take the next step and start looking for your dream job or – better yet – plan how you will create your own business. The only thing that can stop you are your own limiting beliefs.

Tim Whiston is a professional writer and entrepreneur living in the southeastern U.S. He enjoys marketing and helping others achieve their dreams of success. For more great content on Entrepreneurship and Positive Thinking be sure to check out his blog.