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Have you heard about the diet popular now: You eat once per day—all day long? Which is precisely what I did during my first year on a 100% raw food lifestyle. My consolation: I was eating raw. I used to think we can eat as much as we want as long as it is raw. This was true for me during my transitioning period. But no more! Nowadays I believe you should gradually strive for two meals per day—and the sooner the better. Your stomach needs rest. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve discovered in my reading someone whose life I want to share. He comes to us from Renaissance Italy, over 400 years ago. His works are a commentary on the ideas, insights, and experiences of a man who lived a then truly remarkable 102 years, though most doctors thought he would die by the time he was forty. Read the rest of this entry »

I lived for 45 years with the right leg shorter than the other. Then I had two artificial hips installed to correct my childhood infirmity. Three years ago I started to take Bikram yoga classes. I was fused like a badly sewn dress. Some muscles in my legs had atrophied from many years of inactivity. As yoga practice was bringing them to life, they were giving me all pangs of rebirth. The soreness persisted for many hours, even days, afterward, but it was a promising pain. At first I could only make one class per week. I knew that for real results my stubborn muscles needed more. My happiest moment was when my hips finally allowed me to do Bikram yoga every day. I attribute this remarkable healing to the raw food lifestyle I have been following for the last ten years. Read the rest of this entry »

Excited, one of my readers wrote me: You simply must read T. S. Wiley’s Lights Out. It seems that raw foodists pride themselves on less and less sleep. Fooling with the circadian rhythms of seasons and sun is only fooling ourselves…I’m an insatiable reader. I never turn my back on a book, especially one given such an enthusiastic recommendation. So I had to read this one. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned home-cooked meal…That friendly, familiar saying is as venerable as home itself as warm and welcoming as June Cleaver hefting a big ol’ pot-roast for Wally and Ward and the Beaver. And infinitely more deadly.

People are dying daily at the hand of a silent killer. That killer is acrylamide, a cancer-causing chemical found in heat-processed food. Yes, all of us good parents, prepping and serving those good old home-cooked meals…we could be putting ourselves and our families at risk without knowing it. Read the rest of this entry »