The Raw Food Solution

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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 [...]

You might agree on an intellectual level that eating raw foods is a good idea. But does the thought of abandoning your favorite foods seem like more than you can manage right now?

So don’t! That’s the surest way to guarantee you won’t succeed on the raw food diet [...]