Living Raw Foods
Spring Cleaning Your Body
Vibrant health and natural beauty are matters of keeping your energy channels clean and clear. This spring is the perfect time to take yourself on a special journey and begin the detoxification process.You spring clean your house—so why not do the same for your body? We d...
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What Is A Healthy Oil?
What is a healthy oil? It is important to realize that all oils are NOT whole foods. Oils are very concentrated and harder to digest than the whole food they are derived from.It is best to use oils occasionally, I recommend at maximum two times a week. Oils such as ...
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Juice Fasting
For those new to juice fasting, it is a potentially really lovely time. That is why many of us can do them again and again! Below are some common questions that people have before they start their first juice fast. Can I fast while Im working?Many people have j...
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Spring Cleansing Your Body
Vibrant health and natural beauty is a simple matter of keeping your energy channels clean and clear. This spring is the perfect time to take yourself on a special journey and begin the detoxification process.You spring clean your house—so why not do the same for yo...
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Spring Detox Plan
Spring is the perfect time for a detox. The changing seasons and the signs of new life sprouting all around us inspire better eating, getting organized (“spring cleaning”) and serve as a reminder that summer is just around the corner. Whether your reason to detoxify is t...
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Adaptogens: Natural Remedies For Anxiety
Adaptogen is a term that you may have heard recently or are likely to hear very soon. Well, what exactly is an “adaptogen”? Technically speaking, adaptogens are medicinal plants, unaltered from nature which are well known in the world of herbalists and back in times when we r...
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Embody Health And Beauty Over The Holidays
The holidays are a beautiful time to exhale, relax and indulge a little. I believe that Marie Lloyd’s words still ring true: “A little of what you fancy does you good.” However, there is nothing worse than having January roll around and suddenly being an extra 10 pounds ...
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Fasting to Detox Your Body
What is fasting and can it be beneficial? Many of us know it as a protocol the doctor prescribes before blood testing. For others, it may mean giving up a favorite food for a period of time or not eating food at certain times of the day or year out of respect for various...
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Spirulina: King of Raw Protein
In the raw food movement, the subject of adequate protein consumption is always up for debate. What is not up for debate though, is the current state of livestock raised for food consumption. The majority of livestock are inhumanely slaughtered, and their bodies are r...
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Hemp: The Raw Super Food
Hemp seed is the number one overall seed and food for the three essential fats and all necessary protein—its no wonder its been called a super food.From the achene family of one seed indehiscent fruits that is small and dry and usually contains an oily germ, (sunflower se...
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Raw Living Food While Traveling
I often get asked how can one can not only eat healthfully but how one can eat ‘raw’ foods when traveling. The truth is, I have been eating raw so long I don’t often think about it as it just so part of my everyday life. Whether I am going out for an hour or more I always take...
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Coping with a Healing Crisis During a Cleanse
Eating a poor diet, overeating, drinking excess alcohol, taking drugs, medications, pollution, cigarette smoke, using commercial body care products such as body lotions, make up, hair spray, and even toothpastes, and many more things we put on or in our bodies all contribute to o...
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Raw Foods Will Help You Keep Those Pounds Off
Some people use a raw diet to shed extra pounds, but it's not just good for losing weight—it will help you maintain a healthy weight forever. Healthy weight is vital to good health. Obesity is linked to a shorter lifespan, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and a host of o...
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Supplements Are No Match for Whole Foods
I ask people all the time, would you eat a synthetic apple? Not one person has answered yes. So why would anyone consume unnatural, laboratory created, synthetic vitamins? Most vitamin supplements are synthetic, created in a laboratory. Yet the longest-lived people and cultures ...
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Eating for Health & Happiness
Our Universe is one of abundance, beauty, goodness, and expansion. Inner peace is a key contributor to our health and beauty, which play a role in our sense of security and happiness. Inner peace comes from “within” and is impacted by the “intake” of thoughts in our minds and fo...
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The Skinny on Raw Fats
When it comes to fat, most people know they eat too much. But what most people don't realize is they aren't eating enough raw, or uncooked, fats. Raw fats have plenty of natural abundant enzymes. The main fat enzyme only available in raw fats is called lipase. When cook...
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Let Spring's Energy Propel You Toward a Raw Diet
Bears, squirrels and raccoons aren’t the only animals that hibernate in the winter—humans do it too.For many people, winter tends to be a contractive time of the year. We stay indoors more than usual, we socialize a little less and we eat more hearty, comforting foods. It...
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Raw Foods Help Control Weight
Have you ever seen an overweight wild animal? Of all living things on Earth, only humans and domesticated animals can be overweight, and the number one factor for a shortened lifespan is carrying excess weight. Wild animals do not become overweight because they eat the diet natur...
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For The Love Of Cacao
February is the month of love, and this year it couldnt possibly come at a better time. With everyone worried about the economy and just looking forward to the end of snow drifts, cold snaps and the winter blahs, we could all use a little extra love.And where theres love,...
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Staying Warm On Raw Foods
It's one thing to be a raw foodist in the warm south, but eating raw food in a cold climate is a seasonal challenge that can be overcome. Why Do You Feel Cold? As your body gets healthier, it will automatically start to stay warmer! As toxins are released in transition to ...
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New Year's Raw-Solutions!
I love New Year’s resolutions. In fact, it was on the first day of January many years ago that I decided to embark on my own raw food journey. Resolutions can be made on any day, during any season and at any time of the year, but there is something hopeful and fresh ...
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Going Green On The Inside
I’ve got a secret to share with you. No matter what point you may be at in your pursuit of good health, this is something you’ll want to hear. But brace yourself, because not only is this secret easy, it won’t cost you much either. Trust me. It’s called the gree...
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Raw Food: Healthy Symptoms
Great health means.... no undesirable symptoms! Symptoms are like a mirror… they reflect the state of your health. Doctors know this, and so can you. Noticing undesirable symptoms early can help you avoid chronic long term health problems, and may even prevent a serious conditi...
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Peace, Love, Joy, pH ??
The holidays are upon us, and that means it’s time to get festive, gather the family and be thankful for the year that was. A warm buzz permeates this chilling season and we feel a collective glow and gratitude towards those around us like at no other time of the yea...
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Raw Food Lifestyle 101
The buzz surrounding the raw food movement is growing from a hum to a roar. Although millions of people are opting to “go raw” the movement remains a bit of an enigma for some. So let’s take this opportunity to clear up a few things about just what it means to eat ra...
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Raw, Sprouted Foods for Optimal Health
Our streets are crammed with coffee, donut, and fast food establishments due to our insatiable desire for quick, convenient energy-on-the-go. They solve the convenience problem and provide a short term energy solution through stimulation. Unfortunately, consumption of stimulatin...
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Benefits Of A Raw Food Diet
A Raw Foodist is an individual who consumes primarily unprocessed, preferably organic, whole foods such as: fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted beans and grains, dried fruit, seaweeds, freshly juiced fruits and vegetables, purified water (by reverse osmosis), and ...
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Eating is a Spiritual Discipline
The amazing thing about eating is that we all do it, several times a day, week after month after decade. Yet, a profound truth has escaped many of us: consistency is the key. By definition, any activity in which we engage repeatedly is a practice or a discipline. This rit...
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What Is a Raw Food Diet?
It’s not “rabbit food.” It’s raw food. I’m always getting asked about this latest and greatest health trend. As a mom and wife who has converted her entire family to a high-raw diet, it is an incredible way to eat. Even my Italian-born, construction worker husba...
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Making the Switch to a Raw Diet
Switching to a raw food diet is not as hard as you might think. There are two stages in switching to a raw food diet: the transition stage which is 80% raw, and the raw diet which is 95%-100% raw. Transition to Raw Food Most people can switch to the transition diet quite easily ...
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Sunshine Is Good!
We need Sun for our Health. While consuming 80% or more raw foods in our diets makes a significant difference in our health, daily sunshine is also very important to maximizing our health. Whether you live in a state with sunshine all year, have seasonal summer sun, or take trip...
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Life Extension: How to Live Beyond 125! Part 2
Less food, healthy quality food = less toxins, longer life!In nature, most wild animals live five to six times their age of maturity. As humans, we peak around the age of 25 in hormone output. This is the age when we are fully developed and our spines stop growing. If we take 25...
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Life Extension: How to Live to Beyond 125! Part 1
When I was 15 years old when my interest in health began. Since then, I have been fascinated by how other cultures not only live longer and healthier, but with few of the illnesses of most wealthy and industrialized countries. I have found eight cultures with envious records of ...
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Living Raw: Eating Like Nature Intended
Hi. I'm Wayne Gendel and I am a Living Raw Foodist! I am thrilled to have joined the Naturally Savvy team to tell you what it means to eat a raw / living foods diet. For over thirty years now, more than 80% of my diet consists of fresh, living, raw foods. In fact, the seven...
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Regenerative Sleep
Normally we are in 1 of 2 functioning states, active or regenerative. Our bodies repair, rebuild and regenerate when we are sleeping. Degenerative diseases, such as premature or rapid aging, may be caused by insufficient deep sleep. Proper sleep is an anti-aging, life extending ...
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Worry Free From Cholesterol
A study of 12-year olds showed a build-up of plaque in their arteries. We already know high levels of cholesterol and triglycerides are associated with many health problems. Maybe now is the time to look at some important information to protect your health and quality of life! C...
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Sea Salt Part 2
Most "sea salt" is essentially the same as regular table salt - it is a refined salt. The term "sea salt" means the salt was derived from sea water. In almost all cases, it is totally refined. Furthermore most sea salts are: Mechanically harvested from dirt o...
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Salt: Is It Good or Bad for Us? Part 1
Background on SaltThe Bible contains nearly 50 references to salt, for example: the requirement of adding salt to a grain offering (Leviticus 2:13). Historically, salt was highly valued and esteemed by society, so it was used as barter. Animals, no matter how much mineral conten...
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Don't Panic, Eat Organic!
I have some interesting facts on the mineral content of organic versus non-organic food. Organic is defined as a natural plant grown without pesticides, herbicides and man made chemical concoctions. However, I'd like to provide a reminder that, in addition to studies, we ne...
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