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“Desperate”…that’s the word that comes up again and again in emails from my readers on the topic of hair:
“…I know you get thousands of letters but PLEASE, PLEASE help me stop losing my hair. I am menopausal and my hair is thinning terribly. What can the raw food diet do for me? “ Read the rest of this entry »

Food allergies are the result of the body’s immune system having an adverse reaction to normal foods. . . . This is very individualistic. Some people who are allergic to nuts are allergic only to specific ones, and many outgrow their allergies. Genetics can be responsible for allergies, since a weakness in the immune system can be inherited. Read the rest of this entry »

Keeping the eye moist is essential for good eye health. Tears bathe the eye, washing out dust and debris. They also contain enzymes that neutralize the microorganisms that populate the eye. In dry eye syndrome, the eye either doesn’t produce enough tears, or the tears it produces have a chemical composition that causes them to evaporate too quickly. Read the rest of this entry »

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The popular argument against facial exercises uses Botox as an example. Who would have thought it? Injected directly into the muscles of the forehead and facial lines, Botox smoothes the face precisely because it prevents the muscles from moving—by paralyzing them! Botox targets facial wrinkles caused by facial expressions, by the contraction of small, voluntary muscles used in laughing, smiling, frowning, or lifting the eyebrows. When these small muscles are relaxed, the wrinkles they cause around the forehead and the eyes diminish. Read the rest of this entry »

Nose jobs, implants, facelifts, and nips and tucks are not now, nor will they ever be, an option for me. Surgery, any surgery, is aging for everyone, but it can be deadly for raw food people. Health is our priority. We are not going to compromise it for anything. Surgery is also detrimental to beauty in the long run. Read the rest of this entry »

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After eating 100 % raw foods for more than 10 years now, I believe I have a perfectly working digestive system. Here I’m going to tell you about the ideal bowel movement. I am calling it an “ideal” movement since in my research, I found that there is simply no consensus about what is “normal.” There are levels of normal, and every person is going to have different level. Read the rest of this entry »

At the Optimum Health Institute in San Diego, I saw a lady with the loveliest hair I’d seen outside the world of fantasy. Her ivory hair flowed almost to the small of her back. I couldn’t pass her without turning for one more glimpse. I ached to learn her secret. She appeared to be about 45—an age most women’s hair grows fine and lifeless. But hers was full and lustrous. After hearing my expressions of admiration, she let me in on the secret to her lavish hair. She eats seaweed every day. Read the rest of this entry »

When it first became robustly apparent that there is a direct link between food and our health, innumerable books appeared bearing titles such as Healthy Cooking for Two, Healthy Homestyle Cooking, The Best-Kept Secrets of Healthy Cooking, Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking, Healthy Cooking For Healthy Heart, Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing, The Beat High Blood Pressure Cookbook, The Cooking Light Way to Lose Weight.

When we use our imagination to develop new ideas, those ideas are heavily structured in predictable ways, aligning with existing concepts, categories and stereotypes. Do you see how typical instances of a food concept (cooking) springs to mind first, and we naturally tend to seize on them as starting points in developing new ideas. These authors couldn’t get beyond the concept of “cooking.” Certainly, some ways of preparing food are less harmful than others. So these books are helpful in that respect. This is a glaring example of structured imagination. Read the rest of this entry »