I will use pure truth to develop and shape my future know­ing that the power of my body will only be acti­vated by the true power of my spir­i­tual sense. Paul C. Bragg

Bragg brings healthy mes­sage to Redding

By David Benda

Don’t ask Patri­cia Bragg how old she is.

She won’t tell you.

“I am age­less; I don’t believe in cal­en­dar years,“
Bragg said Thurs­day morn­ing by phone as she jogged in place.

Bragg — whose father, Paul, launched the family’s sto­ried healthy liv­ing legacy 100 years ago — is in Red­ding this week to give two free talks.

This after­noon, Bragg will be at Hol­i­day Qual­ity Foods on Placer Street. She will speak at the Red­ding Library on Saturday.

Bragg will sign books from noon to 1:30 p.m. before her 5:30 p.m. talk at Holiday.

“She is a force. She is the right per­son for the job,“
said Khristo­pher Bal­azich, Holiday’s nat­ural food specialist.

Bragg Live Food Prod­ucts have been stock­ing health food shelves for generations.

The fam­ily busi­ness actu­ally started when Paul Bragg, as a teenager, was stricken with tuberculosis.

Bragg said her father devel­oped his own eat­ing, breath­ing and exer­cis­ing pro­gram to com­bat the dis­ease. This in a time when peo­ple lived out of a fry­ing pan.

“They said, ‘Bragg is crazy. He eats like a rab­bit,’” Bragg said. “They wanted steak, fried pota­toes, sausages, ham and bacon. But no, Dad said sal­ads, beau­ti­ful sal­ads. He started organic farming.”

In 1912, her father opened a small health food store in Los Ange­les. Paul Bragg died in 1976. Today, Patri­cia Bragg lives on a 120-acre organic farm in Santa Bar­bara but spends much of her time on the road tout­ing the virtues of healthy living.

“Your health is your wealth,” Bragg said. “Why are the two biggest sell­ers in drug­stores aspirin and lax­a­tives? Because peo­ple haven’t been liv­ing a healthy lifestyle.”

Stars like Clint East­wood, Cloris Leach­man, the Beach Boys and singer
Katy Perry are Bragg advo­cates, she said.

Bal­azich has been try­ing to get Bragg to speak in Red­ding for years and has known her for some 25 years. He worked for a while on Bragg’s Santa Bar­bara farm.

“It’s like a dream come true for me to have her come to the store,” Bal­azich said. “She is a big deal, a world leader” in health.

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Santa Bar­bara Women’s Club Rose Tour

Women’s Club poses before tour­ing Patricia’s garden

Enjoy­ing the shade and a beau­ti­ful spot

Club tours gar­dens sur­round­ing cottage

Enjoy­ing the view

Healthy veg­etable gardens

They loved the dollhouses

Beau­ti­ful Roses

more beau­ti­ful roses

I will use pure truth to develop my ideals and cher­ish them. Paul C. Bragg

CABBAGE AND SPROUTING BEANS

3 Tbsps sesame oil

2 cloves gar­lic, sliver

1 cab­bage, slice

5 oz sprout­ing beans

3 green onions, slice

1 inch fresh gin­ger, grate

1 car­rot, cut thin strips

½ cup unsalted cashews or almonds

SAUCE:

3 tsps Bragg Liq­uid Aminos

1 Tbsp sesame oil

shake of Bragg Sprinkle

⅔ cup cold dis­tilled water

2 tsps raw honey

shake of Bragg Sea Kelp

Heat oil in large wok and sauté green onion, gar­lic, gin­ger and car­rot for 2 min­utes. Add sprout­ing beans and sauté for another 2 min­utes, stir and toss together. Add cab­bage and nuts. Stir-fry until cab­bage leaves begin to wilt. Quickly mix sauce ingre­di­ents together and pour into wok; stir imme­di­ately, coat­ing the veg­eta­bles with this deli­cious sauce and serve. Serves 2–4.

TROPICAL HAWAIIAN DELIGHT

Any mix of trop­i­cal fresh fruit: papaya, mango, kiwi, guava, etc

1 large fresh pineapple

1 Tbsp raw macadamia nuts, chop

1 pint fresh strawberries

soy yogurt (optional)

Quar­ter pineap­ple length­wise. Do not peel. Cut away hard core. Scoop out inside. Chop finely. Mix sliced kiwi, guava, mango or any trop­i­cal fruit in sea­son and refill shells. Hull straw­ber­ries and slice. Lay on top of pineap­ple to cover top. Gar­nish with raw chopped nuts and soy yogurt. Serves 4.

I will shun all false­hood, know­ing that truth is pure and can bring pure light to my spir­i­tual under­stand­ing. Paul C. Bragg

I will shun all nega­tion, know­ing that spir­i­tu­al­ity is not a mere absence of recog­ni­tion, but that it is a state of pos­i­tive­ness. Paul C. Bragg

I will shun all self­ish­ness, with the knowl­edge that my com­plete self­less­ness will increase my true rela­tion­ship with the Divine Power. Paul C. Bragg

Patri­cia Lec­tures to Santa Bar­bara Women’s Club — Video