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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 »