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You may have heard about so-called “negative calorie foods”. However, the reality is that all foods contain calories so it really is impossible for a food to be negative in calories.

What Are Negative Calorie Foods?

Negative calorie foods have been defined as those that require more calories to digest than they contain. [...]

Kim Caldwell’s publication, How Green Smoothies Saved My Life: A Guide for Using Green Smoothies, Uplifted Thinking, and Live Food to Enhance Your Life outlines her own personal story of improved health when she started drinking green smoothies.

By John Parks

A raw food diet is simple. It consists of eating food in their natural state. The food is neither cooked nor adulterated in any way. By eating the bulk of your food in its natural state, you will enjoy a huge improvement in your health and vitality.

The Raw Food [...]

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A short-term raw food cleanse (or raw food detox diet) is one of the more popular approaches to the whole raw food concept.

It appeals to those who believe they will benefit from eating more raw food, but can’t face the thought of nothing but raw food forever more.

A typical raw [...]

At one point in time, it was said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. With no disregard to the apple, the world has now discovered various other super foods that are great for the body and can help it stay health and fit in more ways than one. One of [...]

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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 [...]

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When you are trying to lose weight there are so many options out there in terms of diets and weight loss nutrition plans and one that is gaining more popularity is switching to a vegetarian based diet. There may also be quite a few benefits to switching to a completely raw [...]

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Isn’t it funny how you can have one apparently random thought that then transpires into meaning something really quite profound?

Take the phrase If You Eat an “Average” Diet, You’ll Have an “Average” Body for example. This is what came to me just a few weeks ago. I can’t remember exactly how [...]

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, [...]