Pear Magazine Celebrates The Great Outdoors

In today's The Daily Raw Inspiration from TheGardenDiet.com, there's an overview about the latest issue of Pear Magazine......It's an adventure-packed issue that celebrates The Great Outdoors, so if you haven't done so already, I encourage you to sign-up for your online copy at www.pearmagazine.com.

Today's The Daily Raw Inspiration:

The July 2007 issue of Pear Magazine is ready for your reading pleasure. It's packed with articles about adventurous activities to do in the great outdoors -- topped with an in-depth, must-read interview between Pear Writer Melissa Gilbert and Richard Blackman, creator of FruitarianFitness.com.

Says Richard to Melissa: "I believe that getting active is way more important than what you eat......Many people get caught up in overeating, addictive raw 'gourmet placebos' and forget about getting active. In other words, they're living the raw food lifestyle by cooked food standards and then wonder why they are still having health issues. Plus, there’s too much misinformation and food obsessions going around these raw food forums..."

In response to Melissa's question, "What is your daily menu like? Summer vs. Winter?" Richard answers: "Well, I have learned that from birth we all eat to suppress our emotions, anxieties and stress. For instance, when babies cry, we feed them and it carries on from there. Letting go of the emotional addiction can sometimes be harder than the actual cooked food addiction. For that reason, I’m committed to not using food as a security blanket and for that reason I only eat when I am truly hungry. So, I usually have one small meal a day and that could be anything I am needing to replace at the time depending on the weather or the activity that I am doing."

Also in this month's Pear, you can follow Editor Penny Powell along on her first rock-climbing excursion with her son and their friends in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia. Penny also has written an article about an outfitter she's thrilled to have recently learned about, Wild Women Workshops -- an organization that provides outdoor adventures for women that include hiking, yoga, rock climbing, creative writing in the wilderness and more.

Allow your imagination to take you on a camping trip in Colorado's mountains with Melissa Gilbert and her family. Need help visualizing? Read "Visualizing Summer Vacation" by Daijiro Hayashida. We also have a tent expert from the UK with us this month, David Sprake, who can guide you to just the right tent for your camping trip.

White Water Rafting in Costa Rica and/or Mountain Biking in Peru, anyone? Check out those articles, too.

After your adventure-filled summer days, perhaps you might want to use Tejvan Pettinger's "Simple Meditation Exercise" to unwind or to help you transition to raw foods if that is your intention. If so, Sonja Watt's "Transitioning to Raw Foods" article may be helpful to you.

We hope that "The Great Outdoors" theme of this month's issue will inspire you to invite more adventure into your life, as well as to take a fruit break. Why not let nature's perfect fruit fuel you for your memorable adventures?

In Adventure and Health,

Penny, Jinjee and The Pear Magazine Team

http://www.PearMagazine.com - Where you can sign up and receive immediate access to "The Great Outdoors" issue as well as all the Pear Magazine archives!

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