Mayan Superfood Raw Chocolate

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Raw chocolate has become increasingly popular recently. There are so many different varieties available to us now compared to even just a few years ago.

Unfortunately, delicious as they are, raw chocolates can be very expensive. Making your own is a much more economical alternative and it really is pretty easy!

It [...]


The 9 Little Tweaks That Could Make All The Difference

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So, you’re new to raw food and not sure if you doing it “right”? Or maybe have been dabbling for a while but aren’t feeling quite as good as you think you should? Or how about a long termer who is in need of a few fine-tuning tips?

Whatever your situation, this [...]


Life, Beauty and Appreciation

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Greetings everyone. It’s been a long time since I said a personal hello to my readers and I hope that your year is off to a fantastic start.

Life has been interesting for me for the last few months as I have been in four different countries since November last year! Things [...]


Lujan Matus Talks About Conscious Eating

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Be within your heart. See and feel with your heart. Recognize your heart within another. Speak words from the heart. Receive the words of another within those precious chambers.

Lujan Matus

As the adage goes, you are what you eat. In respect to the quote above, consumption obviously occurs on many different levels. [...]


Living and Eating Healthy in Jamaica

After six months living in Costa Rica my husband and I have traveled to Jamaica for our very-much belated honeymoon. This is our first opportunity for many years to truly enjoy a vacation together and we both always wanted to visit Jamaica. So since we are closer than we have ever been to this part [...]


Superfood Beauty Elixirs

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Greetings from Costa Rica! I’ve been living here for the last six months, enjoying a raw food lifestyle, working on my forthcoming book about the raw food diet, doing some cleansing and detoxing and incorporating more superfoods into my diet.

During the last year I have done some experimentation with the Health [...]


Is Raw Cacao Toxic?

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Hi Mizpah,
Thanks for your emails – they are very informative and I enjoy receiving them! I recently had a friend send me an article about raw cacao being toxic and wondered what your view is? It is hard to know what to believe when one doesn’t have in depth knowledge [...]


Raw Food Protein Sources – Where Do I Get My Protein on a Raw Food Diet?

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When I started on my raw foods journey in 2005 one of the most frequently asked questions from family and friends was “where do you get your protein?” Now I hardly ever get this question; however, recently my sister expressed that she still has concern about my protein needs. It [...]


Cleanse and Detox with Juice Fasting, Green Smoothies and Superfoods

While there are many different methods we can use to detoxify our bodies, superfood juice cleansing is associated with a variety of benefits, and will result in much better outcomes than generally occurs with other detox programs. In particular water fasting has a number of drawbacks that can potentially limit the effectiveness of a cleanse.


Green Superfood Smoothies with Genki Sudo

My husband and I are fortunate to have been blessed with a visit from Genki Sudo this week. For those of you who don’t know Genki he is a famous martial artist in Japan who has now retired and is concentrating on starting his career in the music business. He took time out from his [...]