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Goji, maca, noni, bee pollen - health has replaced hair dye as the cool thing to "do", but a quick walk through the market can leave the well-intentioned health enthusiast feeling nutritionally confused and downright inadequate. Where did all these superfoods come from? And what ever happened to regular food? It would be nice to know if all the energy and money we are spending on supplementation is actually buying us better health. An estimated 44 million Americans are threatened by osteoporosis (National Osteoporosis Foundation) and a whopping 67% of American adults are overweight (Dept of Health and Human Services). Health and nutrition statistics like these are motivating intelligent consumers into action. US organic food sales continue to skyrocket 20% or more annually (USDA) with superfoods specifically taking top consumer priority; essential-fatty-acid sales increased 50.2% in 2002 (Natural Foods Merchandiser). According to author Joanna Steven, "It all depends on where you are starting from. If you are drinking soda and eating fast food, you're likely deficient in one or more nutrients and yes, a daily tablespoon of hemp seed oil or a food-based multivitamin will have notable effects on your well-being. However, superfood supplementation is not necessary if you are already eating a healthy diet." So what is this healthy diet that needs no supplementation? A diet rich in raw vegan foods: fresh, organic, uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. In her most recent publication, the Raw Nutritional Analysis eBook http://kayosmarket.com, Joanna Steven goes where no nutritional scientist has gone. "There is plenty of nutritional research on the Standard American Diet, but when inquiring into alternative diets like vegetarian and vegan, I found much less information. When examining the raw vegan diet, it was even worse - I actually found misinformation based on idealism. I co-authored this eBook to find out the facts." Tonya Kay is the television personality and film actress http://tonyakay.com who posed as test subject for Joanna's Raw Nutritional Analysis study. "'Where do you get your protein from?' I can't turn a corner without being asked that question," shares Tonya Kay. "And because I'm a recognizable raw vegan, it bothers me to not know." After volunteering a month of her diet for scrutiny, Tonya Kay now knows exactly where she gets her protein ... as well as her calcium, iron, and Vitamin A - and plenty of them. "Heck, my average fiber intake is 271% of the RDA without even trying! Since seeing these stats, I eat superfoods as a treat - because cacao delicacies and coconut spreads are fun and taste good. But as long as I am eating a high percentage of produce in it's natural state, I don't need superfoods for nutrition. Eating should be simple." Eating should be simple. And often, the simpler the diet, the more healthful its benefits. But just because raw vegan, Tonya Kay, and thousands of others adopting one of the "7 Most Popular Diets In The World" (Medical News) have found nutrition naturally, doesn't mean you are off the hook. If cartoon characters decorate your food's packaging or if double cheese with pepperoni decorate your school's menu, maybe a shot of blue green algae is an excellent idea while you learn how to prepare kale salads. Sources: Raw Nutritional Analysis eBook http://kayosmarket.com Tonya Kay http://tonyakay.com National Osteoporosis Foundation: "Osteoporosis is a threat for an estimated 44 million Americans" http://www.nof.org/osteoporosis/diseasefacts.htm US Dept of Health and Human Services: "67% of American adults are overweight" http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf#069 USDA Economic Research Service: "US organic sales continued to grow at ... 20% or more per year" http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/vgs/may05/VGS30801/VGS30801.pdf Natural Food Merchandiser: "Essential fatty acids had a sales increase of 50.3 percent over 2002" http://www.naturalfoodsmerchandiser.com/ASP/articleDisplay.asp?strArticleId=1046&strSite=NFMSITE&Screen=CURRENTISSUE Medical News: (raw food is one of the) "7 Most Popular Diets in the World" http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/5847.php
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Thanks, guys! It was a hoot to shoot this video - only four days after breaking my toe, too! Oh, the pain my eyes are concealing in the final cut. They shoved me into cowgirl boots and as cool as it looked, my broken/dislocated toe didn't think it was that cool:-)
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Excerpt from Tonya Kay's Online Journal ... I went raw because ... everything in my life was leading up to that moment and always still is. But really. In retrospect, I went raw more than anything because as I was deciding to come off medications for Manic Depression for the third and in my intentions; final time. I wanted to become healthy. Whatever that meant. I had no idea. The only thing I knew then was what healthy wasn't. I had myself as an example. Raw foods make me feel good. Emotionally/intellectually. I eat raw food not because someday in the future I might not die the same way a burger-chomper might, but because eating raw food makes me feel good right now. And if I knew I only had one year to live, I would still eat raw food every day that year because it gives me that much joy every day right now it's a great way to live. Yet, I'm about to talk to you about something else that makes me feel as good - or better even - than eating raw food. After two years raw a lot of 401-fooders find that they are indeed more energetic, more resilient, have shed pasta puff, are better spiritual magickians and are running consistently at a higher vibration whateverthatmeans. Vibrating totally high like sunshine. The sunshine we eat. So full on sunshine, now what? We got here because we wondered to ourselves, "how good can it get?" and that intrinsic inborn instinct in us does not go away once we're raw. It amplifies. HOW GOOD CAN IT GET?!? Serotonin is released during exercise. I paid high costs for seven years of toxic medication to "treat" Manic Depression when ... every time I exercised I felt better than the anti-epileptics ever did. I felt that natural seratonin release. If you want to take your health to the next level, an exertive and consistent physical play program is good for your now visible raw muscles. They shape. They work. The communicate with you. An exercise program is good for your Lover. They run clean. They look sexy. They love getting to know your body running clean and looking sexy when you both work out together. Dancing, hiking, roller skating, surfing, building, biking and a rotating combination of all of the above are good for your body, your Lover's body, your father's body and your daughter's body. No more obese teenagers. They learn how by watching YOU before you thought they were old enough to comprehend. Do situps while you talk to your family. Get them used to it. Stretch in the grass at the public park. Show others how. Give people you don't even know permission to do what their bodies, too, are calling for. Isn't your world is better when everyone in it stretches and feels good, too? No more bad mood bosses. Then you don't feel so highschool wondering if you "have the right" to use your body in public. You don't need a gym pass for permission, but if that is the trick, then for goodness sake do it. I use my body not because I am trying to prevent some future ailment, or to lose weight (although all of the above are beneficial side effects to exercise as medicine) - I use my body because it literally makes me happy. Right now. And if I knew I had one more year to live, I'd do sits up several times every week until I died because ... it feels god to be in a body that does sit ups. It's as simple as that. I don't like to work out. I don't like anything with the word work in it in fact. I don't like to hurt and I don't like to force routines upon my flow. So I find endless games to play that involve my body. And I don't have to take my pulse rate or watch the timer or measure anything when I am exercising. Because it IS the moment in my day that time ceases and I feel all my rhythms coming together. Life makes sense when I play physically. I get high and then I rest. And I can't wait to do it again. I feels good. My lungs are large and capable and my heart is powerful and responsive and my brain produces skyrocket serotonin. I am high when I exercise. I get higher when I exercise than after a three day wheatgrass cleanse. Who needs anti-depressant and mood stabilizing "medications" when our brain works perfectly fine - if we use our food and our bodies to assist it in what it does naturally. http://tonyakay.com/Blog/uploaded_images/JungleStalkingTonyaKay-786908.jpg Using my body keeps my brain happy. And my emotions flowing. And my sweat pure fruit water. How good can it get? It's time to go to the next level.
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Hey, all, thanks for the warm re-welcome. Robert, it is wonderful to hear from you again. I got the postal mailing safe and sound after my return from Kauai this morning! I've been healing a broken/dislocated toe and have been forced into three weeks of inactivity - I mean, meditation:-) And it is amazing how badly you really do need all ten toes to do what I do in dance, but also how slowing down, even for moment, really opens you up to the messages in between the words, the signals in between the breaths. Now might be the perfect time to actually lazer tune my fiery skills towards my acting career, since I'm not dancing at all. Missed Burning Man and some rad gigs in respect of the body's processes, too. I feel cenetered in that. I'll be in the "Veloctiy" episode of NUMB3RS scheduled to air October 12th. Of course that is a schedule. Keep checking their website to make sure it holds. Also, I'll be in the trailer promoting "next week's episode" the week prior to scehdule air, so ... keep your eyes open. I'm super featured! In fact, I am going in tomorrow to recording sound bites in a studio for the show. Just making sure we got exactly what the director, Fred Keller, is looking for to bring his vision to life. Yes, the comic pre-release is cool, cool, cool! And it's called a pre-release package because it is the package BEFORE the full length comic's official release this autumn. Does that make sense? I'll see you on the boards!
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Hey, vegan athletes! Some of you might already knwo me from the Vegan Fitness: Build Naturally DVD. If not, hello! I'm a raw fooder and professional athlete who is active in the television and film community as a performer (in fact, I'm playing a co-star role in an upcoming CBS "NUMB3RS" episode as well as filming the lead role in a Trace Adkins music video tomorrow!). I just wanted to keep you all up on a project I just complete and am very excited. I'll post the flyer below, but to make it short, I appeared on SCIFI's "Who Wants To Be A Superhero" with Stan Lee last year and am releasing a full-lenght comic this autumn. In anticipation of that, I just returned from San Diego Comic Con where I announced my Comic Pre-Release Package with artwork by the Spiderman, Transformers and Incredible Hulk U.K. crew! If you wanna check out a real raw vegan superhero, visit http://kayosmarket.com for all the good stuff - even free comic give aways! Tonya Kay http://tonyakay.com I hope this flyer displays correctly:-) http://tonyakay.com/phpbb/GardenImages/2007/FREEComicTonyaKay.jpg "You've seen her as Creature in SCIFI's "Who Wants To Be A Superhero", spinning fire on NBC's "America's Got Talent", touring with the hit band Panic At The Disco as well as making music in the Off-Broadway STOMP... Now you can follow the rise to stardom of a superhero who really is changing the world with this limited edition fire spinning comic pin up. Promoting the release of this autmn's full-length comic with Blam Ventures, only 150 copies of the Tonya Kay Comic Pre-Release Package will ever be printed, numbered and autographed - making it a true collector's item. Printed on 100% recycled paper, this fire spinning comic centerfold is breath takingly drawn by the comic industry's top artists (Spiderman, Transformers, Hulk). The package also includes a free character rendering of Tonya Kay as REALITI in this autumn's full-length comic release, a free CREATURE postcard (as seen on the SCIFI channel) and two FREE 16 page Creature Fan Comics. No kidding. This is your way to follow Tonya Kay's superhero career from the very beginning. Celebrate the heroism that has been inspired in you. Available exclusively at http://kayosmarket.com
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Hey, vegan athletes! As you might know I'm a raw fooder and professional athlete who is active in the television and film community as a performer (in fact, I'm playing a co-star role in an upcoming CBS "NUMB3RS" episode as well as filming the lead role in a Trace Adkins music video tomorrow!). I just wanted to keep you all up on a project I just complete and am very excited. I'll post the flyer below, but to make it short, I appeared on SCIFI's "Who Wants To Be A Superhero" with Stan Lee last year and am releasing a full-length comic this autumn. In anticipation of that, I just returned from San Diego Comic Con where I announced my Comic Pre-Release Package with artwork by the Spiderman, Transformers and Incredible Hulk U.K. crew! If you wanna check out a real raw vegan superhero, visit http://kayosmarket.com for all the good stuff - even free comic give aways! Tonya Kay http://tonyakay.com I hope this flyer displays correctly:-) http://tonyakay.com/phpbb/GardenImages/2007/FREEComicTonyaKay.jpg
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Hey, vegan athletes! Thanks for all the support. I thought you might enjoy a pic of us female superheros that appeared in June's TV Guide (I'm bottom right). Keep up to date with showtimes on my itinerary http://tonyakay.com/V2/itinerary.html. http://tonyakay.com/phpbb/GardenImages/TVGuideSuperGirls.jpg
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Fire spinning is not just an exotic art form that will amaze your friends and horrify your parents, it is also the new Pilates of core training for dancers and other athletes. Find out why the Maori Warriors spun poi made of rocks tied to rope around their bodies before battle. The stabilization of the core and the defining of the upper body are beneficial side effects to this exercise, because you won't even realize you are "working out". Such an art form, almost a dance, is spinning fire. The newly released dvd, How To Spin Poi With Tonya Kay is taught by professional dancer, raw foodist and Vegan Fitness Team Member, tonya kay. Support an all-raw production and your healthy mind and body. Be inspired. Inspire... Available at Kayos Market http://tonyakay.com/V2/images/HTSPpostcard.jpg