Good things are happening…You feel so much better as you move ever farther into the raw food lifestyle, learning more every day about how food choices and eating practices affect the body you’re building. You breathe better. Carry yourself differently. The scale says you’ve lost most of that weight you wanted to, and your friends are telling you the same thing. Every visit to the yoga class or the tai chi studio or the weight room tells you good things are happening. Your skin clears. People accuse you of having an almost mysterious “glow.” You can actually smile at yourself in the mirror. And then…a setback. Read the rest of this entry »

People do things for their own reasons—not yours, not mine. And so with raw food diet—people adopt the lifestyle for a hundred different reasons, each personal. The most common, perhaps the most fundamental, is simply to ensure we are getting all the nutrients we need for superior health.

We soon learn that by not cooking the nutrients out of our food, we can consume it knowing that everything beneficial and useful to our bodies is still intact. Eating your food raw gives you the most nutrition from every bite. Current recommendations are that we eat 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. But what happens when the food is nutritionally compromised in the first place? Read the rest of this entry »

03/29/09
I totally agree with you. Because now I am trying to keep a good habit on eating raw veggies, and also whole grain food. My body has never felt so healthy before this. I used to have constipatoin and period stomach ache and car sickness, but now I do not experience these problems anymore. Thanx to raw veggies . Praise to God.-L. Read the rest of this entry »

April is upon us. Do you feel yourself stretching, awakening and coming to life again just like this month’s offerings? The month of April embodies colors, tastes and aromas in herbs and foods such as chives, garlic, scallions, cilantro and horseradish. early leaf and head lettuces, dandelion, watercress, oranges and papayas. You have probably heard that the raw food lifestyle is not about deprivation, it is about abundance, and that becomes evident when April rolls around. Read the rest of this entry »