There are a lot of levels of health and the first one is staying without symptoms, not being symptomatic with disease. But the next one would be how much vitality, how much energy do you have, how much work can you do, how much can you accomplish and how happy are you and how connected are you to the world around you? So I said I'll take my chances. Let's do it and see. Because I've had enough experience, it's all anecdotal, it's all from the thousands of people who have come through our schools and the stories that I've heard from them about their healing journeys but I really believe that we can get everything we need and beyond -- can exceed our needs and heal in detox.
That's still all anecdotal, but that made her want to find that research and we did some lab studies of our own. We studied a green smoothie and a green drink and we were able to analyze. They have all the computer programs so they could analyze my recipes and put them together in menus to see exactly what we are getting. So we had to really work with all of that. So we worked with the normal what they say this amount of nutrients for kale, whether it's organic or not. If it's organic, I believe and I've read, that there's more nutrients in organic but there's not enough peer reviewed study for us to prove that.
We've got all kinds of support in there including how to set up your raw food kitchen and how to buy your produce and how to rotate your fruits and vegetables so they're always ripe and how to store them and all that kind of stuff that I mentioned that we can't possibly get into in a one-hour interview. So you can break it and it's chewy and you can spread yummies on it. [Laughter] Whatever you like to spread on your bread or make a sandwich out of it and it's quite delicious.
Causes pointed to were their high consumption of beer and fatty foods, decreasing levels of physical activity, and the lack of a Mediterranean diet, which is richer in vegetables, lean meat, and olive oil. Its American counterpart comes higher in calories, contains more fat and other fillers, and is loaded with chemicals and preservatives. Then they are served on a bun made with highly processed white flour. The health differences are staggering.
