the raw food solution

There are several types of detox diets. There are those in which you can only eat fruits and vegetables, those in which you can only eat “clean” foods, those in which you can only drink fruit and vegetable juice, and the most extreme type where you can only drink water. You can also do specialized [...]

As part of the six week deep tissue detox I have been increasing my intake of green juices. I created a delicious juice yesterday that I would like to share with you.

I don’t have a juicer so I make my juices in the vitamix by blending the greens and then straining the juice in a [...]

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It is almost the end of January and for many people the idea of new years resolutions might be fading. I’m not really big on making life changes on a schedule, such as at the start of a new year, since every day can be viewed as an opportunity to [...]

The low fat raw vegan diet is gaining a lot of popularity in recent years as people are becoming more conscious about what constitutes a true health promoting diet. A diet based on fruit and vegetables can be a wonderful way to start eating a raw food diet as well as to promote cleansing, detoxification [...]

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A wise man once said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.”

What a fit description of the seemingly endless battles that we fight to lose weight and to stay healthy and vital for as long as humanly possible!

Up and down, up and down, [...]

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To illustrate just how important the quality of the food you ingest on a daily basis is, just imagine your body as a perfect engine (Which it is!) food is the fuel you feed it to enable it to achieve peak performance. The cleaner and purer the fuel, [...]

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Having a period of detox is an attractive idea, particularly after Christmas. If you change your habits and eat raw organic food it will lead to an initial very satisfying experience where your body expels mucus whilst it cleans out your system.

If you suffer from bad breath or have poor [...]

Here is a three day detox diet complete with recipes and a menu plan. Follow this raw food detox diet plan for three days and then continue with a balanced raw food diet for ongoing health maintenance.

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So much of the way we relate to food and our chance of success in changing our diets is related to our psychology and how we respond to the challenges that are presented to us.

Even though intellectually we may think that we can eat a ‘perfect’ diet, in reality the concept of [...]