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Does Coffee Make You Live Longer?
I’ve recently cut coffee once more from my diet, after finding that, while maintaining an otherwise raw diet, coffee seems to make me gain weight. While keeping purely raw, I lose weight virtually every day; but when I add copious … Continue reading
Organic Product Review: Go Raw Banana Bread Flax Bar
I should start this review by admitting that, right now, I’m in the tank for Go Raw products. I’m not involved in the company, don’t even know who started it, and have taken zero time or effort to learn anything … Continue reading
Posted in Health Concerns, Organic Product Reviews
Tagged Diet (nutrition), Food, Health, Raw foodism, Weight loss
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The Raw Food Diet: Is Coffee So Bad?
Now, we all know coffee is out, on the raw food diet. At least, in theory. It’s cooked. I don’t know the exact temperature we heat the water to when we make a pot of coffee, but it certainly feels … Continue reading
Organic Product Review: Go Raw Chocolate Super Cookies
Since going raw a few weeks ago, I’ve found myself looking out for new products that I can use to add variety to my diet. The diet is very restrictive: Meat, eggs and dairy are essentially out (unless you can … Continue reading
Posted in Growing the Organic Industry, Health Concerns, Organic Product Reviews
Tagged diet, Food, Health, Raw foodism, Vegetarian, Weight loss
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Questioning the Raw Food Diet – Does Cooking Actually Destroy Vitamins?
Since going raw vegan a couple weeks ago (I was already vegan–though admittedly often lapsed), I’ve been doing as much research as possible into the pros and cons of this diet. I initially looked into the possible benefits, but now … Continue reading
Organic Food and the Raw Food Diet
Raw foodists are hardly a unified bunch. They differ on whether we should eat primarily fruit (thereby getting our calories primarily from sugar) or fattier foods like avocados (which, admittedly are fruits themselves), nuts and seeds (thereby getting our calories … Continue reading
Posted in Growing the Organic Industry, Health Concerns
Tagged Food, Raw foodism, Veganism, Vegetarianism
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Challenges on the Raw Food Diet
I’ve been doing the raw food diet for nine days now, and I’m hitting what may be my first big challenge: hunger. What I’ve loved about this diet, to start, is that it’s helped me to lose weight quickly (6.2 … Continue reading
Sleep Less on the Raw Food Diet?
I’m now six days into the raw food diet, and I’ve lost 5.4 pounds and 2.3% body fat. These numbers are in line with the remarkably low body fat and BMI numbers I cited yesterday for strict long-term raw food … Continue reading
I Lost Weight on the Raw Food Diet
I’d heard before that raw fruits and vegetables have more nutrients than cooked ones. And I’d considered before the possibility that eating more nutrient-dense foods could potentially be healthier and help you lose weight. But early experiments adding raw foods … Continue reading
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Tagged Atkins Diet, Health, Paleolithic diet, Raw foodism, Weight loss
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The Well-Dressed Nut
I’ve been writing lately about my experience participating in the 92nd Street Y CSA’s pre-season marketplace. I’d like to mention one more product I came across during my time there: The Well Dressed Nut. The nuts aren’t among the very … Continue reading
