Raw Food Blog

It’s very common for me to hear from people who have lost too much weight on the raw food diet and cannot gain it back. Desperate emails reach me, begging for help to put on a few pounds.
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Loss of muscle is the most pitiful of all the signs of aging. A condition affecting many people as they age is sarcopenia—essentially a slow deterioration and loss of muscle tissue. Sarcopenia affects close to half the population! Read the rest of this entry »

The Farmer’s Markets are overflowing with color and bounty, and this month you will find plenty of ripe, raw fruits and veggies to play with in your raw food recipes. You should find in season now such delights as nectarines, grapes, melons, celery, tomatoes and cucumbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Those of us who’ve gone 100 percent raw eventually start to look at others in disbelief: How can these people, we wonder, consume steak, pizza and ice cream, and still live? We know we’d be miserable if we partook of even a morsel of those foods. The same thing will eventually happen with the amount of food you eat. Read the rest of this entry »

7/31/2010

Dear Tonya,
I work at the Wellness Education Center with Jeanette Cheney and attended your Lecture on July 29, 2010. I really enjoyed your presentation and bought your first two books and your Rawsome Flex, and just so you know – I am one of the ‘one in a hundred’ and am not reading ahead. I am on day 1. I also just started a 7 day juice fast today and have started using your Read the rest of this entry »

The food we eat on the raw food diet has been appropriately called by many different names: living food, sunfood, plant-based nutrition, raw vegan, and similar terms. Recently, one reader commented on how much she enjoyed the ‘waterful’ raw diet. What a delightful and refreshing image it brings to mind! It makes it an excellent synonym for “whole.”
Find a definition for whole food. It should state that the water is intact. Read the rest of this entry »

The fact is, almost all of us, are addicted to something. If nothing else, most of us are addicted to cooked food. So pervasive is the pattern that few even think of this as an addiction at all. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s funny though not surprising anymore…those of us who use the raw food regime and internal cleansing often are branded “extreme.” Yet asking to be injected with bovine toxin is “normal.” There are even Botox parties, as innocent, we’re to suppose, as Tupperware parties. And there are, now, Botox addicts. Read the rest of this entry »

02/27/10

Dear Tonya,
This afternoon I walked into the Hall Center in Santa Monica just out of curiosity and discovered your book Your Right to Be Beautiful. I started reading it and next thing I knew the whole hour has gone by! I couldn’t stop reading. I got home and researched your website and ended up ordering the cream special. Wow, what an amazing day it has been, I am so grateful for this discovery. Thank you so much for your incredible books and your work. Can’t wait to try my cream. –N.W. Read the rest of this entry »

01/22/10

Happy Birthday Tonya!!!
You’ve been quite the inspiration!!! Florida was awesome. I was able to do 18 visits to Bikram and wow! What a change in my body!!!! We’re also doing well with our teeth! Your book is VERY helpful!!! -S.
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