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Spiced Root to Fruit: a Raw Food Salad

March 2, 2011

My taste tester and I were almost going to call this raw food recipe “so good we can’t think of a name.” Fortunately, a more descriptive title came forth: Spiced Root to Fruit. Since its ingredients span from roots to fruits, it too is an appropriate name. Simple raw food ingredients come together in this [...]

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Seriously Healthy Donut Holes: a Raw Food Recipe

February 25, 2011

Would you love me as a health coach if I told you to eat donut holes—for breakfast or any time of day—to improve your health and happiness? Well, I’m telling you to, regardless the fan letters I expect as a result. If you’ve been around raw for awhile you know recipes are always popping up for [...]

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Raw Waldorf Salad: Not Granny’s Recipe

July 31, 2010

Most of my friends freak out when they learn I’ve adopted a raw food diet. A lot of people–including, a few months ago, me–are confused about what foods a raw food diet includes. Understandably, I get a lot questions. Oh, my god … you can only eat salad? How do you get your protein? Are you always hungry? Or like [...]

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Raw Deal: a Raw Food Diet Isn’t for Everyone

July 1, 2010

We’ve been taught that our food isn’t safe, that we have to kill all the awful things in it by cooking it. We’ve been taught that raw is bad. In all likelihood, the FDA wrote their disclaimer about consuming raw or undercooked foods before they printed the smoking warning on packs of cigarettes. But the [...]

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Stop the Compulsion to Eat with Child-like Mentality

April 9, 2010

While nutritionists search for ways to staple the stomach of this country’s growing obesity epidemic, society continues to spoil our relationship with food. We eat for the wrong reasons and at the wrong times—shoveling our way through a banquet of impossible standards, and our subsequent guilt. But it hasn’t always been like this. Once upon a time, [...]

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