From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Transform Your Refrigerator

You do not have to give up all the foods you are used to eating to become healthier and to start eating raw, organic and live foods. You know the best place to start changing your life and your diet. It is at the grocery store, of course. Even if you are at a good [...]

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Like Fruits?

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the value of a raw foods diet. A raw food diet consists primarily of uncooked, unprocessed fruits, vegetables, sprouts, seaweed, nuts and juices. It’s a vegetarian diet, but one that rejects any animal products. Its central tenet is that cooking and processing take out the majority of essential [...]

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How Much Raw Diet You Take?

A diet is considered a raw food diet if it consists of at least 75% raw, uncooked fruits, vegetables, sprouts, etc. Raw and living foods are believed to contain essential food enzymes (living foods contain higher enzyme content than cooked foods). The cooking process (i.e., heating foods above 116°F) is thought to destroy food enzymes. [...]

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Water Requirements While on Raw Food Diet

When you start eating more raw foods, you may find you are not as thirsty or does not need as much water or other beverages as you normally do. There are several reasons for this. First, raw foods, such as raw fruits and vegetables have a higher volume of water in them, so your body [...]

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Processed Food?..Say No!

Have you ever seen a picture of your blood plasma after you have eaten a meal from McDonald’s or Burger King? It is not a pretty picture. It looks thick and cloudy. Fast foods are loaded with fat and sodium. They use white bread and rolls, which means they have used white processed flour, with [...]

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Vegan Vs Raw Food Diets

Is there a difference between vegetarian and raw food diets? A raw foodist is a vegetarian, but one who generally is not going to cook his vegetables or fruits. A vegetarian is someone who simply doesn’t eat meat, fish or poultry, but only consumes vegetables, pasta, and rice. A vegetarian might eat meatless spaghetti sauce [...]

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