Caribbean Veggie Fest|Vegetarian|Healthy Lifestyle|veggie

Positive Tourism Network in association with the Caribbean Health Tourism & Spa Conference demonstrates its commitment to health and wellness through its philosophy of lifestyle transformation through conscious use of thoughts, words and food. Our vision of healing our minds, body and spirit through thoughts, words, and food has led to the creation of a vegetarian-only event for health conscious people of the Caribbean, thus the formation and launch of the Caribbean Veggie Fest 2008.

 Veggie Fest 2008 will be held Saturday and Sunday March 1 and 2, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.at the fabulous Rhodes Hall Plantation located in Green Island, Hanover. Entrance to the event is FREE.

Sunfired Food is an astounding cuisine prepared by the greatest chef of all, the sun. “The growing period is the cooking process…we do not cook the sun out of the food,” shares the originator and guiding force behind Sunfired Food, Dr. Aris LaTham, who unfolds his cuisine with magical artistry. They are living natural plant foods that have been prepared retaining all the elements of life, including the natural vitamins, minerals and enzymes, which are destroyed in the cooking process.

Utilizing a special holistic technique to preserve their health giving integrity, fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, sea vegetation, herbs and spices from around the world are vibrated to create an infinite array of exotic dishes to nurture your ‘original’ taste buds.

For as long as most of us can remember, the traditional modern diet has been filled with large quantities of cooked meats and starchy vegetables. This eating system demands the essentially continuous fabrication of digestive enzymes. Giving the opportunity, the natural enzymes that are retained in raw foods assist our digestive process.

Perhaps, they even enhance it. “Living” foods literally digest themselves and support all the other organs to process their nutrients efficiently. Eating cooked foods diminishes the body’s capacity to generate enzymes for other vital functions, including the maintenance of our immune system. In these times that we’re living in, the more we can do to protect our immune system, the better.

Even before her quintuplets were conceived, Florida's Gayle Nelson Folkersen knew she didn't want her kids eating meat, fish, eggs or dairy products.

A committed vegan since age 16, Nelson Folkersen said she values the nutritional benefits of the strict vegetarian diet and its lessons in compassion and kindness toward animals.

But in an unusual custody battle, the father of the 10-year-old quintuplets is seeking primary residential custody, charging that Nelson Folkersen has "serious psychological control issues" and won't let her children eat animal products.

The real issue isn't what they eat, as long as they're not malnourished. The courts will decide the case this month based on which parent can provide a stable and healthy environment.