the raw food solution

Constipation is usually a result of years of abusing your digestive system through poor food choices and not listening to your body. Chronic intake of foods that irritate your digestive and intestinal system eventually causes them to function at a sub-optimal level. For instance, non-foods like coffee, refined sugar, alcohol, and other processed foods stress your colon and digestive system and eventually hinder their function.

In this post I answer reader questions about traveling on the raw food lifestyle, blenders, dehydrators, baggage allowance, and eating 100 percent raw.

How to make a high antioxidant raw ice cream in the blender using bananas and acai berry.

One of the ways I like to keep motivated about the raw food lifestyle is to continue to explore through reading raw books and watching videos. I recently came across an inspiring video of Aris La Tham, who has been referred to as the father of gourmet raw food cuisine.

La Tham, [...]

You might not be aware that the majority of dried fruits available in stores are not truly raw. During the production of dried fruit it is generally heated to temperatures well above 108 degrees, which is the point where enzyme disruption begins to occur.

Luckily, making your own dried fruit is really easy. You can be [...]

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Since we’ve been in the Philippines I’ve been enjoying a whole lot of durian!

I first developed a taste for durian when I lived in Bali. This interesting fruit is common throughout South East Asia where it is referred to as the “king of fruits”.

Durians have a very pungent odor that [...]

Thanks everyone for the wonderful feedback regarding my last post! It seems that many of you are interested in meal plans and information about healing diets so I plan to focus on this direction in the near future.

Today I have a really simple recipe for you. I’m sure that many of my readers [...]

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If you are new to the concept of raw foods you might be wondering why would anyone want to make such a dramatic lifestyle change.

I’ve recently updated the site to include a list of the benefits of eating a raw food diet in this article:

Why Eat Raw?

The article comes [...]

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Pineapples can be a wonderful fruit to include in your diet on a regular basis as they have many beneficial healing properties. According to Jan Dries, in his book The Dries Cancer Diet: A Practical Guide to the Use of Fresh Fruit and Raw Vegetables in the Treatment of Cancer, [...]

The mangoes in the Philippines are fantastic and mango fruit shakes are very popular here. We enjoy eating the mangoes simply as they are and in smoothies. But I was also inspired to create a mango salad incorporating some wonderful fresh herbs from the local market.

I’ve previously posted a delicious recipe for a Thai Green [...]