the raw food solution

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Just in time for Thanksgiving, here is a recipe for a raw vegan version of a favorite holiday tradition; pumpkin pie. This is based on a recipe by Matthew Kenney from his book, Everyday Raw Desserts.

Surprisingly this pie doesn’t contain any pumpkin but the flavor and texture mimics that of traditional pumpkin [...]

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Banana ice cream is often one of the first desserts discovered by those who are new to the raw food diet, and it quickly becomes a favorite healthy indulgence! It can come as a revelation that you can blend frozen bananas to create a dessert that not only tastes good but is [...]

The picture left is of the raw food pizza I used to make on all my classes, it’s also the same pizza recipe that was once seen by six million viewers live on TV being sampled by Lorraine Kelly (in 2002), and it’s also the same meal that I have been known to eat as [...]

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We all eat a certain amount of raw food - the occasional piece of lettuce on our turkey sandwich, perhaps an apple or some grapes with our lunch or a banana on our breakfast cereal. But did you know that there is an entire subculture dedicated to gourmet raw foods [...]

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In this article, I am going to discuss a very essential mineral, which also happens to be an electrolyte: Potassium. This essential mineral was used in an experiment to keep a live chicken heart alive and beating for 30 years! (The janitor bumped it, and thus ended the experiment.) Imagine, [...]

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As human beings, each one of us has complete control over the way we treat our bodies, what we feed them, and how we feel about them. Every day we make decisions about these things, whether we realize it or not.

This means that we have direct control over our weight [...]

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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 [...]

Many people are aware that eating plant based foods adds much needed fiber, vitamins and minerals to the diet but what is less well known is the many benefits of the phytochemicals that these plants contain.

Phytochemicals come in a variety of forms and different vegetables have higher concentrations of a particular phytochemical than others. Some [...]

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Since going raw I have experienced some incredible health benefits however recently I feel like I have reached a plateau. Not all of this has to do with simply my diet however, as I have been recovering from a broken foot so have not been able to keep up with my regular [...]

I’ve been experimenting with raw foods and detox diets for almost twenty years but I continue to be amazed at the transformational power of dietary adjustment.

The first time I really experienced the power of a raw food diet was when I undertook an apple diet at the age of twenty one. For three days I [...]