COMMITMENT As most of you know, I have been out of town for the past few days in […]
Finding Health On a Raw Food Diet: A Couple’s Testimonial
Our journey towards going raw began a few years ago with eating more organic fruits and vegetables. We appreciated the improved taste and nutritional value of these organic items. Before we knew it most of our diet was organic. Sadly, however, this was not enough to improve our health to where we wanted it to […]
Papaya Garden Salad with Tahini Ginger Dressing
Are you finding yourself bored with the regular ol’ salad? If so, then this papaya garden salad is for you! This salad had my taste buds just doing the happy dance. It has such a lovely mix of flavors goin on, there is nothing boring about it! The papaya has such a nice mild flavor, […]
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How to Make Delicious Salt & Oil Free Salad Dressings
One of the beauties about eating raw is that you really learn to enjoy the pure, raw, natural taste of food. The taste buds are cleared of all the toxic taste stimulators in processed foods, such as salt, thus the natural flavors of whole foods intensify. So I really like to keep my meals simple […]
Raw Creamy Acorn Squash Soup
One thing I love about squash is that it is so versatile and there are so many varieties to choose from. Now that colder weather is coming, for some of us already here 🙁 , some find it a challenge to maintain a raw diet because they gravitate to warmer, heated foods. What is one […]
Where is the Best Water Found?
Here is yet another reason why raw foods are superior to those cooked. Cooking causes most of the water in foods to evaporate, lowering the quality of the water that remains. This is important because water is necessary for so many vital functions such as diluting the wastes of the body for their elimination, transporting […]
Four Ways to Cook Healthier
For those of you slowly transitioning over to the raw food diet, here are four ways to help you get the most out of your cooked food: 1. Length of time cooking – lightly steam the vegetables to the point where they are still crunchy, instead of frying them. 2. Setting of the temperature – […]
Dangers of Heating Fats
All sorts of health problems arise when fats are heated. Heat breaks fat down chemically into fatty acids, which are not usable by the body and are carcinogenic. Heat interferes with cell respiration leading to cancer and heart disease. The average American diet consists of about 37% fat, most of it heated at high temperatures, […]
Cooking Denatures Proteins
The word denature is used often to describe the effects of high temperatures on our food. It is important to understand what that means to grasp the idea of why raw foods are far superior to cooked foods. When food is denatured, it’s natural qualities are changed, it’s usefulness is destroyed and it is unfit […]
