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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 »

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 »

Most people are entirely human. Not me. I’m special. I’m the Bionic Super-Raw Vegetarian. I’m 15 per cent weapons-grade titanium—the result of two artificial hips. And, come to think of it, I’m 15 per cent immortal. Walk through an airport scanner and I light up every machine for yards around. Bored security personnel rise from their semi-slumber. Homeland Security goes to DEFCON 4. While they’re busy frisking me, my husband Nick smuggles all our raw food through security. Read the rest of this entry »

We all get sleepy after a heavy meal. Sleeping and eating are intimately connected. After ten years on a 100 per cent raw foods regime and experimenting with different raw foods and quantities, I can say confidently that nothing influences your sleeping needs more than the amount and quality of food you eat. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though I’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response to the vanilla scent of my face cream, several people have asked me to make my cosmetic products in an unscented version as well. I’ve given it a good deal of thought. Great idea. But sadly, we are at the moment too small a company to make this economically feasible, for the next year or two.

My new masque has a distinct lavender scent. I add no “fragrance” because that would be adding an unnatural batch of chemicals to a product I’ve striven to make clean, pure, natural. I go instead with the natural scent that’s integral to a very beneficial herb. Read the rest of this entry »

My husband Nick had concerns that everything would be “hanging” after his weight loss. He used to joke about this possible fate whenever the TV displayed some grotesque, flabby creature ready for cosmetic surgery. Skin can take on this hanging appearance after big weight loss on crash diets because large amounts of supporting lean body mass are sacrificed.

On raw foods your body will not just lose mass, but will gradually change its composition. You won’t need surgical procedures to maintain an attractive appearance. Remember that your skin is not a passive layer of tissue that will remain stretched out like an empty balloon after you lose weight. Rather, it is a living organ, actively adapting to the body’s internal and external environments. Read the rest of this entry »

In my September newsletter I wrote about Ellen G. White’s twice-daily eating pattern. Here’s my article, for your convenience: http://www.aweber.com/z/article/?tz_newsletter

Most of you who commented were quite positive. But two email responses to this article warrant my own reply. One correspondent wrote: “Since you like research so much, why don’t you do some research about Ellen G. White? Ellen G. White was a plagiarist.” This writer referred me to the article Ellen G. White: Prophet or Profit? on the website: http://www.ellenwhiteexposed.com:80/egw25.htm

Another email said: “Please be careful when quoting Ellen White…[A]s a former SDA for 28 years, I, too, believed that her writings were her own and totally embraced and followed her writings…[H]owever, in the year 2000, I was directed to a web site called www.truthorfables.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Women often ask me about natural hormones. So-called bioidentical hormones were promoted by Suzanne Somers’ book The Sexy Years. I cannot say whether bioidentical hormones are helpful or not. I do not know; I have never taken them. I will only tell you why I never considered using them. Read the rest of this entry »