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As a high raw vegan, you’re less likely to have high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease, or type 2 diabetes. That’s the good news. But did you know being a high raw vegan also has some serious health risks...
If you don’t eat the right, well balanced, high raw vegan diet, you could wind up with vitamin or mineral deficiencies. And that can lead to anemia, hypoglycemia, diabetes, dental problems, or osteoporosis.
Your vegan children could be at risk too.
And that’s not the only
- Nutrients like iron and Vitamin A are harder to absorb from plant foods.
- Phytates and oxalates in many plant foods bind to minerals like iron and calcium, making them hard to absorb.
- Most people who try going raw never make it. Worse, they wind up binging on unhealthy cooked foods and feeling guilty.
- Nuts, seeds, avocados, coconuts, and oil are very high in fat. Too much fat in your diet is unhealthy, even if it's raw.
- Many recipes are time-consuming, and call for strange, expensive, or obscure ingredients.
- Sticking to your diet while travelling can be harder than getting your macho relatives to try wheatgrass juice.
- The fresh vegetables you love spoil quickly, requiring frequent trips to the grocery store.
- You often get hungry soon after eating, and can get bored eating the same old things.
The Vegan Mastery Program means you can say goodbye to these challenges!
The Vegan Mastery Program
from the pitfalls and guesswork! It’s a series of 50 lessons that take you by the
hand, step-by-step, and transform you into a thriving high raw vegan.
You'll learn to balance raw foods with healthy cooked foods and avoid the "yo-yo" back and forth struggle of trying to be 100% raw.
You'll also be liberated from overeating fatty foods to feel "full". For example, lentils and quinoa are filling high protein foods, but are very low in fat.
Let me tell you about me and my team, and why we’re qualified to help you become the healthiest vegan you can be.
My name is Trevor Justice. My story is a little embarrassing. But I'm going to share it so you understand the price I paid for being overconfident.
After being a vegan for 15 years -- and "high raw" for four years -- I
was discovered that I was hypoglycemic. I also got way too skinny. Although being slender runs in my family, I was down to 112 pounds. (And I'm 5'7" tall.)
Worse, the lower halves of my teeth, once surrounded by bone, had become exposed. As a result, one of my teeth became loose and fell out. I felt really worried.
When I mentioned this to vegan friends, I found that two of them had dental problems too.
Each lesson includes
an assignment, so you
advance one step closer
to mastery each week.
There I was, an ethical vegan trying to inspire people to give up meat. But when omnivores looked at me, they weren't inspired. In fact, some were even scared into eating more meat! I felt embarrassed.
The good news for you is this. When I lost that tooth, I began flying to vegan
conferences, and learning from
nutrition experts like Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Michael Klaper, and Dr.
I discovered that my diet, like most vegans, was deficient in some key nutrients. And meals that appeared healthy were actually making my blood sugar problems worse!
Gradually, I discovered food prep techniques and food combinations that helped me absorb more nutrition from vegan foods. And I gained back the weight I lost. (Now I'm 126 pounds.) But I didn’t want anyone else to make the mistakes I did and risk the same ailments that plagued me.
So in October of 2009, I founded The Vegetarian Health Institute. I contracted Doctors, Registered Dietitians, and chefs I befriended during my journey...to help me show vegans and raw fooders around the world how to stay healthy... using the Internet. (That means you avoid the high cost of conference registration fees, travel, and lodging!)
I contracted these experts to develop our nutrition lessons because I’m not a Doctor or Dietitian. But our students say I have a gift for interviewing experts, translating scientific jargon into simple language, and organizing cutting edge research into lessons that are fun and easy to digest. (See testimonials below.)
There’s so much bad information on the Internet. I know your information is accurate and cutting edge, because I read a lot of high quality research. I bought a gift subscription for my personal trainer and she is as thrilled with the program as I am.”
- Mary Montanye, Bellvue, CO
A Foolproof Program For
Mastering The High Raw Vegan Diet
The Vegan Mastery Program will
teach you how to balance raw foods with healthy cooked foods, and say goodbye to all of the
usual risks, worries, and headaches.
As a student, you’ll get an email each week with a special link for that week’s lesson. Each lesson has a written component and a recorded Q&A call (which you can download).
You can read/listen online. Or you can print out the written lessons and download the Q&A calls. Each of the 50 lessons includes an assignment, so you’ll take one step closer to mastery each week.
The following experts have written or contributed to the lessons,
participated as guest experts on our Q&A calls...
Jill Nussinow, R.D.
Jill authored the
award-winning cookbook, The Veggie Queen: Vegetables Get the Royal
Treatment. She's a Registered Dietitian who writes and edits for
Natural Food Network magazine and Vegan Culinary Experience magazine,
She’s also been a nutritionist and cooking teacher at the
McDougall program for the past 7 years.
Vesanto Melina, RD
Vesanto Melina, RD, has presented workshops on vegetarian nutrition to over 2,200 dietitians throughout North America and received the Clintec Award for leadership in dietetics. She is co-author of 10 books on vegetarian and vegan nutrition including "Becoming Vegetarian", "Becoming Vegan" and "Becoming Raw." Her books have sold over 2/3 million copies and are printed in 8 languages. She wrote or contributed to our lessons on Protein, Best Oils, Juicing, Fasting, and Healthy Substitutions.
Brenda Davis, RD
Brenda Davis, RD, has authored or co-authored 9 books on nutrition including "Becoming Vegan", "Becoming Vegetarian", and "Becoming Raw". Her books have sold over 2/3 million copies and are printed in 8 languages. She's a member of the Vegetarian Hall of Fame. She's also a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association.
Jo Stepaniak, MSEd
Jo is the author and
co-author of sixteen books on compassionate living and vegetarian
cuisine, including Vegan Vittles: Down-Home Cooking for Everyone.
She was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame at the 2008 NAVS
Vegetarian Summerfest. Her award-winning column Ask Jo! appears on her
Web site, “Grassroots Veganism”.
Robert is a champion
bodybuilder hailed as “one of the 15 most influential vegan
athletes” by VegNews Magazine. He’s been featured worldwide
in magazines, TV news shows, PETA commercials, radio interviews, and
over 300 websites and Internet videos. In 2009, he authored Vegan
Bodybuilding & Fitness - The Complete Guide to Building Your Body
on a Plant-Based Diet.
Virginia Messina, MPH, R.D.
Virginia Messina, MPH, RD, has been a nutrition instructor at Central Michigan University, a public health nutritionist in Michigan and Washington, DC, and a dietitian for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. She has authored (or co-authored) The Convenient Vegetarian, Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat, and Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-based Diet. She's also written a vegetarian textbook for health professionals.
Nomi's best selling book, The
Raw Gourmet, has sold over 150,000 copies. In 2008, she received
three awards for Best Educator, Favorite Chef, and Favorite Recipe
Book. She’s been featured in Alive magazine, Get Fresh, San Diego North
County Times, and Galveston News. Nomi is not only a certified
Hippocrates Health Educator. She actually ran The Hippocrates Health
Institute’s Certification Course!
Steve Meyerowitz, the
“Sproutman”, is author of Sprouts: the Miracle Food, Sproutman’s
Kitchen Garden Cookbook, and Wheatgrass: Nature’s Finest
Medicine. He’s been featured on PBS, the Home Shopping
Network, TV Food Network, and in Prevention, Better Nutrition, and
Organic Gardening magazines.
Dr. Loscalzo has been an integrative health care practitioner for over two decades. She's a Doctor of Chiropractic with Certifications in Acupuncture, Clinical Nutrition and Herbal Medicine. She's the author of Power Breakfast Ideas, Deliciously Quick Lunch and Dinner, Healthy Halloween Treats, Dessert: Making it Rich Without Oil and Dried and Gone to Heaven.
Michael Klaper, M.D.
Since releasing his 1987 book, Vegan Nutrition,
Dr. Klaper has been regarded as a foremost authority on the topic. His book
is now out of print, but you’ll find his recent
research on vitamins and minerals in our Mastery Program.
“I’ve been a vegan/macrobiotic cookbook author, food coach and speaker for 37 years. Yet I continue refining my understanding of nutrition, thanks to the broad range of experts Trevor brings to the Q&A calls. My interest in sprouting and juicing has been renewed, and the insights shared on bone health and Vitamins D and B12 have been revelatory.”
– Meredith McCarty, Mill Valley, CA
Below are the first 25 lessons you’ll receive.
38 of the 50 lessons are relevant for even the strictest raw fooders. The other 12 will show you how to eat healthy versions of the comfort foods you miss.
For example, you'll learn how to avoid acrylamindes in cooked foods, how to bake bread from sprouted whole grains (not flour), and which carbs are low glycemic.
When you graduate from the Vegan Mastery Program...
“I love how you explore the science of foods, teaching your students how to pay attention to their diets, and get all the nutrients they need. Putting the lessons into practice is easy because you give people yummy recipes that combine foods correctly, leading to improved absorption of vitamins and minerals from meals.
There's plenty of raw, but without the dogma of '100%'. It gives those of us who are high raw, but not 100%, an understanding of how to prepare balanced, energizing cooked meals.
Almost all of the recipes are made from whole foods, not processed vegan meat substitutes. Many are high raw, and all are easy to prepare. I think it's an awesome investment.”
“All your experts have been tremendous. Each one has provided unique insight and extremely helpful information. Dr. Klaper embodies the best of both the medical and practical vegan nutrition worlds. He helps us understand the reasons specific nutrients are required and provides a 'whole person' approach with authority medically as well as experientially.
Program has been well worth the price, and has provided a tremendous
boost to my health, as attested by lab results; it’s helped me lose the
descriptor ’diabetic’. Being vegan is now much easier than the daunting
task I thought it would be; your lessons help make it an enjoyable
Get results you
won’t get from reading books and articles
Here’s why this program will
benefit you more than books and articles.
“I'm a raw vegan who eats 5% or less cooked food. However, my ultimate goal is to learn the whole truth. The Vegan Mastery Program is loaded with valuable info that's useful to vegans and raw fooders alike. For example, sources of Vitamin D, calcium, B12, etc are important for all of us to understand.
When following your food combining guidelines, I don't get indigestion, which has been a problem for me for the past six years.
I'm now more confident about my health decisions. And it's easier to explain the health benefits of my diet to others
“As a cookbook author and 30-year teacher of macrobiotics, vegan and live foods preparation classes, I found the Vegan Mastery Program to be very comprehensive. The expert Q&A calls were particularly useful. And Dr. Klaper is exceptionally knowledgeable and easy to listen to. Considering how much I've gotten, you definitely undercharge.
I put the hard copy of the lessons into notebooks which I can easily refer to when a future need arises. Good scientific sources and research are cited which validated the material in the lessons and Q&A.
- Lenore Y. Baum, M.A., author of Sublime Soups and Lenore’s Natural Cuisine, Weaverville NC
|We’re here to support you
But because we provide individualized support to Gold and Certificate students, we can only accept a few more Gold and Certificate students at this time.
Don't decide now. Instead, review the first five lessons risk-free (one per week). If you don't find yourself thrilled, you can cancel within 30 days for a prompt 100% refund of what you’ve paid. No questions. No hassles.
SILVER: $19.97/month for 11 months. Every week, you'll get a written lesson and recorded Q&A call that you can download.
GOLD: $49.97/month for 11 months. Includes all Silver benefits. Plus, you can post unlimited questions about our lessons for an entire year, and get personalized answers from our expert staff within two business days.
CERTIFICATE: $59.97/month for 11 months. Includes all Gold benefits. Plus, you can earn a Vegan Nutrition Certificate – and 6 Continuing Professional Education units – by taking an open book exam after each lesson and scoring 80%. How does it work?
Exams are multiple choice. You can retake each exam until you get wrong answers right. Also includes a free 1-year listing in our searchable Educator Directory (a $119.64 value). You can upload your photo, video, bio, contact info, and a list of your upcoming classes. (Your listing is $9.97/month after the first year)
Note that you can cancel at ANY
time to stop future monthly charges (even after the 30 day trial ends). No
questions. No hassles.
Do You Need The Certificate?
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has accredited our Institute as a Continuing Professional Education provider. The Academy has over 75,000+ members, mostly Registered Dietitians and Registered Dietitian Nutritionists.Academy members who earn our Vegan Nutrition Certificate, and submit it to the Academy, receive 6 continuing education units.
Having a Vegan Nutrition Certificate will boost your credibility when lecturing, teaching, or applying for a job in the health and nutrition world. You’ll command more respect and higher fees from coaching clients. These Certificates are not given out to just anyone. They must be earned, and that's what makes them valuable.
If you don’t need a Certificate, or don’t want to take exams, guess what? You'll get the exact same education our Certificate students pay for... but without the big investment.
“In May 2008 I decided to become a vegetarian. My skin and nails did great but I gained about 20 pounds… and taking in more carbs, I was tired all the time. Then in October 2009 I ran across your web site. Getting your emails and listening to past Q&A calls, I was able to see what I was doing wrong. I went vegan and signed up for the Gold membership.
Each lesson has provided me with so much information such as proper food combing, when to eat certain foods, signs of B-12 deficiency, cooking with less oil, great recipes, how to get more iron, and how acid in food can effect your body. Most of all I can whip up a bean recipe in minutes. I spend less money at the grocery store because I know what is healthy and what is not. I was doing so many things wrong. I have learned so much. Thank you Trevor.”
– Anita Robinson, Parkville MD
Restaurant Survival Guide For Vegans (ebook)
Stop letting restaurants sneak animal fat, stock, and gelatin into your meals. Besides the usual culprits - chicken stock, lard, and oyster sauce - discover the 39 other restaurant foods often made with animal byproducts.
Vegetarian and Vegan Menu Items At 21 Chain Restaurants (ebook)
Discover which menu items are cruelty-free, and which restaurants top the list for veg friendly meals.
How Vegans Get Calcium, Iron, Protein, and Vitamins A, B12, and D (ebook)
In plant foods, these nutrients are harder to find, or harder to absorb. So it's crucial to know which vegan foods are the best sources. And if you want to cut down on soy or tofu, this booklet will introduce you to several other complete proteins!
Vegan Holiday Recipe Collection (ebook)
Ten mouth-watering recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover – including tofu turkey, vegan matzo balls, vegan “egg nog”, and pumpkin pie with tofu “whipped cream”.
Supercharge Your Health With Raw Foods (ebook)
Many health conscious people eat whole grain bread and pasta, organic corn chips, fruit juice, Coconut Bliss, and salad dressings made from olive oil or flax oil. But guess what?
These health foods aren't optimal for your health. In this paradigm-shifting booklet, you'll find out why so-called "health foods" are aging you, and which foods are the real nutrient powerhouses.
No More Kitchen Clutter (ebook)
Is your kitchen cramped or cluttered? Do you need more cabinet or shelf space? Or more counter top space? If so, this ebook will be a Godsend. In it, you'll learn six strategies to maximize the space you do have. (It was written by a New York chef with a very small kitchen.)
Your Triple Risk-Free Guarantee
Don't decide now. Take 30 days to review our first five lessons risk-free (one per week). When you implement what you learn, we guarantee the following, or we’ll refund 100% of what you’ve paid:
Today: Lesson #1: Healthy Substitutions for Comfort Foods
Even after your risk-free 30 day trial,
you can cancel at any time to stop future monthly charges. No
questions. No hassles.
Why remain vulnerable to vitamin or mineral deficiencies when you can find out exactly how to eat and absorb enough calcium, iron, Omega 3s, and Vitamins A, B12, and D?
Why keep worrying that animal stock, fat, gelatin, and other slaughterhouse byproducts are hiding in your restaurant meals when our “Restaurant Survival Guide” can put your concerns to rest?
Why live on lara bars, and soggy iceberg lettuce while you’re traveling? Wouldn’t you rather enjoy healthy whole foods, and get enough vegan protein at hotels, airports, and during road trips?
Why keep getting stumped by recipes that use strange, expensive, or obscure ingredients, when you can learn quick, delicious recipes that use ingredients available in the “Natural Section” of most large grocery stores?
If you don’t become a Vegan Mastery student, how WILL you overcome the struggles you face, and learn to thrive on a high raw vegan diet?
What will change between now and next year?
When you're a beacon of great health, your friends and co-workers will want to know your secret. You'll inspire them to eat a high raw vegan diet.. to lead more compassionate, sustainable lives. But if your health declines, you might scare people into eating more meat!
If money is holding you back, let me remind you about Lesson 18,
“How to Save Money On Health Food And Organic Produce”.
Without the secrets in this eye-opening lesson, you’re bound to
waste hundreds of dollars each year.
In your first year alone, this ONE lesson will save you more than the cost of the entire Mastery Program! And beyond that, every dollar you save goes directly into your pocket. Remember, your dues will end in 11 months. But your financial savings will continue for the rest of your life!
Finally, your investment in this program is pennies compared to the cost of ill health. Just one oversight or deficiency -- if ignored for too long -- can leave you vulnerable to disease, and potentially thousands in doctor or dental bills. Why take that gamble when you can thrive on a vegan diet now and for the rest of your life?
Don’t miss this chance to grab the bonus ebooks. Start your risk-free 30 day trial now.
If you still have questions, or you don't have a credit card, you can click here for our FAQ.
P.S. You have nothing to lose. At best, you spend the rest of your life flourishing on a high raw vegan diet. At worst, you cancel within 30 days, and KEEP the Super Bonus Reports and Mastery secrets from the first five lessons. So what are you waiting for?
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