Newsletter - February 27, 2024

My dear brothers and sisters,

Last week, Jonathan Chu MD, a board-certified specialist, told us in a video “Over the years, in general , the American people seem to be getting sicker….  Americans seem to be declining in vitality and energy even when compared to one or two decades prior…. The health and quality of life in America has clearly and steadily been worsening”.

In pondering Dr. Chu’s words, it appears to me, that it is  all the more incumbent upon us  to make ourselves vibrantly healthy and vividly alive. It is therefore with much pleasure that we bring you a celebration of dandelion, kale, Swiss chard and collard green juice. In our opinion, such a juice is alive with restorative and healing benefits.
As Dr. Chu observes, “Prevention is infinitely more valuable than treatments” .

Our Special this week is $4 off our Organic Nutritional Yeast! Regularly $15.99. Yours for $11.99.

The Ben with GrowVeg, our favorite gardener, shares the science and magic of growing magnificent strawberries. After all, no strawberry tastes as good as the one you’ve grown yourself. It could be in your garden, in a pot or a hanging basket.

Our Victory Garden Sale this month consists of Sunflower Butter, Hazelnut Chocolate Almond Butter and Bing cherries.
We’re delighted to offer 10% off. (Remember, if you buy 3 or more of any Living Tree manufactured product, you get an additional 10% off!)

Our New Products include:
Dark Chocolate Covered Ginger
Dark Chocolate Covered Expresso Beans
Medjool Date Pieces
Pistachios,In Shell, Natural Splits

We then invite you to enter our  Alive Organic Tahini Recipe Contest. It could be for a salad dressing, for humus or for baba ganouch. Go ahead, guide us in a video, step by step. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to include Mozart in the background.

Then Claire Robinson dares ask whether its the gluten in the wheat or the glyphosate that’s sprayed on that makes people sick? Could it be that glyphosate is a possible cause of the global rise in wheat intolerance?

Finally, Bob and Brad, our favorite physical therapists, tell us that if you are a glorious elder its likely that you’re getting a little shorter year by year. They give us some magnificent exercises to help keep us tall and upright.

Kindly accept our best  wishes for good health, prosperity and success to you and family,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

Brothers and sisters,

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a recipe using our Living Tree Alive Organic Tahini. It could be for a salad dressing, for humus or for baba ganouch.Go ahead, make it into a video guiding us step by step.Add sparkle and delight with Mozart, Bach, Beethoven or Chopin playing in the background.

We will award a gift certificate for $150 toward the purchase of our foods to each of the top three contenders.
Contest expires March 3rd.

Submit you videos here

By Claire Robinson

A scientific review identifies glyphosate as a possible cause of the global rise in wheat intolerance. This condition is increasingly reported by people who don’t have a diagnosis of celiac disease (a condition where your immune system attacks your own tissues when you eat the protein gluten).

The review authors, Jacqueline A. Barnett and Deanna L. Gibson from the University of British Columbia, note that wheat intolerance has grown in parallel with the spread of the Western diet, which includes high levels of refined carbohydrates.

Yet clinical trials have shown that gluten from wheat is not responsible for causing symptoms in healthy individuals, suggesting that something else is inducing symptoms. The authors hypothesize that the “something else” might be glyphosate.

While no genetically modified (GM) glyphosate-tolerant wheat is commercially planted in North America, glyphosate-based herbicides are often sprayed on non-GM wheat pre-harvest to desiccate it (“dry it down”).

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