the raw food solution

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I’ve been awaiting Victoria Boutenko’s new book for many months now so I was excited when it finally arrived on my Kindle last week. I was expecting something new from the hints in the title - Raw and Beyond: How Omega-3 Nutrition Is Transforming the Raw Food Paradigm- but I [...]

If you’ve been thinking about becoming a vegan but you still aren’t sure whether it’s the right choice for you, then chances are that you have at least read up on the subject a time or two. In fact, most people start their journey on a vegan diet due to searching for information about specific ailments they might be having, or because they’ve come across information about factory farming that they just can’t live with. No matter the reason, each person must look inside themselves to find the reasoning for becoming a vegan.

The top 10 reasons to go vegan will usually involve two thoughts. One of the main reasons for choosing a vegan diet is that a meat diet involves killing over 27 billion live animals annually in the United States with no legal protection. The other reasons involve how unhealthy humanity has become because of the over indulgence in meat and meat products, not even counting the drug regimes, neglect and genetic manipulations toward the development of products for mankind.

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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 [...]