What Your Dietician Probably Doesn’t Know about Cooked Food
By Susan Schenck, LAc
May 17, 2009
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Did you know that a species—living in the pristine wild and eating natural, uncooked food—typically lives to seven times its maturation rate? By these standards, you should live to be 140! So what went wrong? Why are humans getting sick, often at half our potential lifespan?
Most dieticians are trained in creating diets according to the person’s health issues. However, few of these diets stray far from the standard American diet (whose acronym is appropriately “SAD”, which is mostly cooked, pasteurized, or otherwise heated. This is because most dieticians haven’t a clue about some of the most important studies which reveal how toxic a cooked food diet is.
Meatless and heatless
Experimenting with a raw vegan diet
by Alyssa Julie in Health (Calgary, AB)
May 14, 2009
There’s a myriad of reasons why I stopped eating meat in the first place — foremost is the cruelty I believe animals face before they make it to our kitchen table, and ultimately our stomachs. If you peeked behind the closed doors of most slaughterhouses, you would find animals that have spent their entire lives in crowded feedlots, or filthy, small wire cages. Needless to say, I think about the food I eat, and in my ongoing (albeit sporadic) research into vegetarianism and nutrition, I’ve come across the raw vegan diet time and time again.
Recently I started to feel a little lethargic, somewhat bored with my regular meal plan and a bit bloated after eating. So, I decided to detox on a raw vegan diet for a month and see whether I noticed any changes in my mental and physical health.
THE RAW FACTS
Proponents say not cooking can do a body good
By Karen Feldman
May 13, 2009
DEMI MOORE, WHOSE TAUT body and flawless skin belie her 47 years, proudly goes raw. So do Alicia Silverstone and Beyonce, Angela Bassett and Donna Karan. Famed Chicago chef Charlie Trotter has devoted a whole book to the subject.
The raw food movement has become a hot — uh, make that cool — form of vegetarianism that champions uncooked vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, grains, beans and seaweed as the staples of a healthy diet.
In recent years, restaurants devoted to raw food have opened around the country. Vibe Cuisine (formerly Veggie Magic) in Sarasota is the closest one to Southwest Florida, but raw fare is cropping up around the area, appearing on restaurant menus, starring in (un)cooking classes and sparking the formation of groups in Fort Myers, Cape Coral and Naples through which members share meals, recipes and information about the raw life.
Bayfield Woman Launches Raw-Food Delivery Service
By Karla Sluis, The Durango Herald
May 2, 2009
BAYFIELD, Colo. (AP) — If you eat only raw foods, can you still call it cooking? Kirsten Baca says yes. She's the owner of a new raw-food delivery business called Raw Bloom. She thinks of her work as cooking, although none of her creations are heated. "'Uncooking' sounds funny to me," she said.
Raw Bloom will deliver a full day's worth of freshly prepared "living cuisine" to people for between $32-39.
Raw food is based on fresh fruits and vegetables, uncooked whole grains and nuts. In this type of cuisine, there's no meat, eggs, dairy, gluten, processed sugar or wheat. But Baca's food is less about what's absent and more about what's present -- including a more conscious way of eating.
Dietitian extolls virtues of an uncooked diet
By Sara Anne Corrigan (Contact)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
It is easy to eat raw (food)," says Evansville dietitian, Linda Ruff, "it's just not easy to give up cooked.
When you think about it, most people eat raw food all the time without really thinking about it: Leafy salad greens, fresh fruits, vegetables like carrots, cucumbers, peppers, celery, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower and tomatoes and even raw nuts and seeds count as familiar foods.
But giving up cooked food eliminates a lot more that most people are quite attached to: Meat, poultry and fish, for sure, but also our beloved breads, familiar hot cereals and grain products (sprouts are OK), dairy and eggs in addition to traditionally cooked-before-consuming root vegetables like potatoes.
Get a raw deal in Ubud and beyond
The living-food movement has found a natural home in Bali
Cynthia Rosenfeld, The Australian
April 25, 2009
BALI has always been the perfect place to rest and rejuvenate, a haven where one can recharge the batteries before heading back to the big smoke. So it's not surprising that the raw food movement, dedicated to eating ingredients fresh from the earth in a bid to maintain nutritional value and minimise environmental impact, is taking hold here.
I am in the kitchen at Como Shambhala Estate amid bucolic rice terraces near Ubud to learn the secrets of turning nuts, seeds, fruits and leafy greens into desirable raw dishes, courtesy of executive chef Chris Miller, a Sydneysider and a staunch advocate of raw food, also known as living food.
"Instinctively, raw food just makes sense,"
he pros and cons of a raw diet
By Julie Beun-Chown, For Canwest News Service
For someone who loves to cook, Natasha Kyssa's Ottawa kitchen is strangely bereft of appliances. What she cooks -- so to speak -- is raw.
Raw pasta with bright flavours, creamy raw "mashed potatoes," raw carrot cake with cashew "cream cheese" icing -- all made from vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds that are blended, soaked, pureed and fermented courtesy of a food processor.
Chef's Corner: Going Raw
Reported April 22, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It's being called the next big trend in dining … raw foodism. Celebrities like Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson have tried it and now raw food restaurants are popping up around the country. Meet one chef who doesn't cook anything.
Olive Mackey went raw seven years ago. She eats only uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains, believing that cooking kills needed enzymes.
Eating in the Raw club promotes a plant-based diet as the way to better health
By Caroline Klapper, Daily Sun
THE VILLAGES — When Shirley Snyder was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 20 years ago, doctors told her she probably didn’t have long to live.
Instead of giving up, Snyder decided to take her health into her own hands, and she soon discovered the concept of a diet based on eating raw foods.
A raw food diet focuses on plant-based (preferably organic) foods that are consumed in their fresh, nonprocessed state.
Today, Snyder is cancer-free, and she said she gives the credit for her good health to her raw food diet.
Can Kids Be Healthy Without Meat?
More Children Choose Vegetarian Diets
By Wendy Brundige
April 18, 2009
When Bill and Jessica Baccus sit down to dinner, there may be meat on the table, but their 11-year-old son Elijah never eats it.
That's because Elijah, like many other American kids, has decided to become a vegetarian. His mom says he made the choice at only 3 years old.
"I had a big, local, organic chicken ... and he saw me cutting it, and it looked like a chicken," Jessica Baccus said. "And his little face crumbled. And he said, 'I thought chickens were our friends! I don't want to eat my friends!'"
Sarah Harlow, 7, has made the same decision -- for the same reason.
"I ask my mom, 'What is this animal?' and she tells me, and then I don't really want to eat it," Harlow said.
Raw food movement heats up
Luke Simcoe, The StarPhoenix
Monday, April 13, 2009
Deanna Litz has come a long way from her roots as a Saskatchewan farm girl.
Growing up in rural Marysburg -- 15 kilometres north of Humboldt -- Litz said her four food groups were "meat, potatoes, bread and gravy." Now, years later, the former academic researcher has become a champion of the raw food movement here in Saskatoon.
Raw fooders, as Litz calls them, avoid eating food that has been cooked or processed. Advocates of the diet often favour organic foods and most, but not all, are vegetarian.
Eating raw food
By Iuliana Petre, Killeen Daily Herald
Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009
About eight years ago, a friend of Julie Rodwell's invited her to attend a raw foods retreat hosted by author and "raw fooder," Victoria Boutenko.
Not a practicing vegetarian or "raw fooder" at the time, Rodwell attended the retreat and was amazed by the great taste of the foods she tried.
A few days into the retreat, Rodwell halved her portions because the food was so filling. By the third day, she realized she'd lost some weight and felt more energized.
Determined to adapt the diet, Rodwell returned home, rid herself of all her canned goods, bought new appliances and accepted a raw food diet.
I Sweat Cherry Juice
By Tonya Kay
Friday, 03 April 2009
Signing autographs in a different time zone each week. Waking early to make small talk on morning radio. Snarling as a dirty, corset-wearing character in front of thousands of shrieking teenagers from a sold-out stage at Madison Square Garden. Sometimes even I think it's play. But it's my job.
I've been dancing professionally for 17 years. I was stretching splits at age seven. I was tapping time steps under my seat in kindergarten. I was counting crunches in the womb (or at least that's what mom said it felt like). And sometimes even I have to remind myself of the broken rib cartilage, torn hamstrings and transverse fasciae latae insertion tendonitis to remember that professional dance isn't all passion and play. It's a job. And it's a sport.
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Fondly, they called me 'rabbit' and I set out without precedence and without doubt that if there were a way to eat raw vegan on the road while performing the most physically strenuous show of my life, then I would find a way.
Converting to a raw food lifestyle
By Clare Becker
Monday, April 6, 2009
COLUMBIA — Columbia resident and raw foodist Jane Smith is not shy when it comes to espousing the benefits of a raw food diet.
"It was an expensive couple of years; I had to buy a whole new wardrobe," Smith said, after she lost 37 pounds. The change in diet also allowed her to get off of two blood pressure medicines and she noticed an immediate positive change in her energy level.
Smith is the founder of the Columbia Raw Food Meetup Group, a Meetup.com group that gathers once a month to eat, socialize and share tips and insights on raw food living. Smith’s online name is "Blazin’ Jane," a nickname from when her husband was in the Navy, stationed in Naples, Italy and she used to run marathons — she claims she was always coming in last. The name stuck thanks to her children, and she said a friend notes that it’s appropriate: she’s "blazin’" a trail here in Columbia in the raw food world.
Raw food enthusiasts believe that a raw food diet, which involves not cooking food so that it retains its natural benefits and flavor, is the healthiest way to eat. Smith “went raw” in 2006 after she was introduced to it by her granddaughter, Leah, partly out of interest but also to support Leah. Even though she was already vegetarian at the time, “I went raw for one day and didn’t die, so I thought I could do it again,” she said.
Here Now: Cancer survivor embraces holistic lifestyle
By Si Cantwell, Staff Writer
Published: Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 5:36 p.m.
On Easter Sunday last year, the Star-News ran a personal account written by former City Councilwoman Pat Delair about her struggle with Stage IV ovarian cancer and other issues. We illustrated the story with an extreme close-up of her, bald and without eyebrows.
“I do not believe the cancer is going to shorten my life,” she wrote. “I have further work to do, maybe not here politically, but perhaps speaking up for ovarian cancer awareness or some other cause. It will find me.”
It has found her.
Delair says she’s healthier today than when she wrote those words. Her hair is back, though more salt-and-pepper than blond these days.
She works with her doctors, but she put herself in charge of her own recovery.
She spent nine weeks in West Palm Beach, Fla., in the health educator program at the Hippocrates Health Institute, learning to teach people how a healthful diet and balancing the needs of mind, body and spirit can result in improved health.
The “living foods” lifestyle goes further than vegetarianism, urging people to eat their food raw. She says it takes three weeks to cleanse the body of toxins.
It seems to be working for her. She’s energetic, animated in conversation and just as opinionated as ever.
She says corporate and political forces combine to perpetuate the Standard American Diet, but that SAD diet is neither healthy nor nutritious.
Strange Brew
The mysterious healing properties of kombucha tea
BY Damian Rogers
March 18, 2009 21:03
The Fairy’s Tonic can be purchased at Noah’s Natural Foods and The Big Carrot, or from www.thefairystonic.com for direct delivery ($15 per 750ml, with a two-bottle minimum; $55 per gallon). Wellness appears in this space monthly.
Kombucha, a fermented tea with deep roots as a health tonic in Russia and China, is an acquired taste for some. Even Zoey Shamai, the owner of local kombucha company The Fairy’s Tonic (www.thefairystonic.com), says that she wasn’t a fan the first time she tried it. “I didn’t love the taste; it was odd,” she says. “But then the next day, I had this incredible elimination. It completely cleaned out my system. I had to find out more about it.”
The raw food diet: yum or glum?
The raw food diet isn't short of celebrity supporters, but how does it actually work?
by Andrea Wren on 23/10/2006
Raw sprouted beans and uncooked cauliflower don't sound like my idea of a good scran, but there must be something in the raw food movement if others are convinced? One famous follower is Woody Harrelson, who published a book related to the subject, and other stars like Demi Moore have also been known to 'indulge' in the raw diet regimen.
So what's it all about? The diet is based literally on raw foodstuffs, but that doesn't mean beef carpaccio or sushi, we're talking organically grown from Mother Earth; fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, spices, sprouted beans and natural sweeteners. And, according to nutritional advisor and wellbeing coach Barbara Louvrou (thewellworks.co.uk), eating like this is likely to be one of the most nutritious diets we can have.
'Food in its natural state is packed with all the nutrients which are often lost in the cooking process,' says Barbara. 'Heating also causes harmful changes in the chemical constituency of food, such as the production of acrylamide – a toxic carcinogenic substance, so people who prefer a raw food diet are avoiding these.'
The case for a vegetarian wedding reception
Genevieve Rice, Phoenix Vegetarian Examiner
March 5, 7:36 PM
Your wedding should be a reflection of who you and your future spouse are. If you love the outdoors, you’ll probably choose a beautiful, natural setting for your nuptials. If pink is your favorite color, you’ll probably have blush-colored bridesmaid dresses. And if Queen’s “Fat Bottom Girls” is your favorite song, well, you’re likely to dance to it at your reception simply to extol the virtues of a “heap big woman.” So, if you and/or your future spouse are both vegetarian, why would you serve the traditional chicken or fish? Except for complaints from the few meat-loving wedding guests who insist on helpings of animal flesh every few hours, there are several reasons to make your wedding reception meat-free.
Tasty food without nasty chemicals: Cafe Gratitude
Cafe makes diners feel energized and enjoy vegan food
By Caroline Mooser
2/26/09
Bland, boring, gas-inducing food may come to mind when thinking of a vegan diet. This assumption couldn't be further from the truth after experiencing a meal at Cafe Gratitude.
Each square inch of the "I Am Sensational" buckwheat crust pesto pizza with olive tapenade, cashew ricotta, chiffonade basil, cherry tomatoes and micro greens is saturated with flavor. The "I Am Elated" enchiladas, which combine the "I Am Bueno" spinach tortillas with a sun-dried tomato, chile and pumpkin-seed pate, are also a testament that vegan food is nothing but gourmet goodness.
Located in San Francisco, Cafe Gratitude's premise that food is medicine and medicine is food invites guests to enjoy a mindful, reflective and profound eating experience.
'Raw Spirit Celebration' is Saturday in Palm Desert
By Judith Salkin, The Desert Sun
February 24, 2009
Omnivore. Carnivore. Herbivore. Vegetarian. Vegan. Raw foodist.
Huh?
Yup. If you haven’t heard of it, there’s category of diners who prefer their foods uncooked.
Just because it’s raw doesn’t mean that it’s rabbit food or unappealing to look at.
According to Ren Yogamaya, organizer of this Saturday’s Raw Spirit Celebration in the Desert, and Chef Kelli Rose, raw foods have more to offer.
Going vegetarian saves animals, the environment, and your health
Carli Harris
2/18/09
It appears that most Americans have either ignored or didn't get the memo that fruits and veggies are a body's best friend, and meat, while quite tasty, just isn't that good for you.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, last year the average American ate approximately 84 pounds of chicken, 64 pounds of beef, 48 pounds of pork, and 17 pounds of turkey. That's a lot of meat, and as studies have shown, Americans' huge consumption of meat hurts more than just waistlines. It also supports animal cruelty and poses environmental hazards. This can be remedied by cutting back on one's meat intake, or being even more proactive and adopting a vegetarian diet.
Raw material
Proponents of uncooked edibles gain adherents, but health benefits haven't been documented
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:04 AM
By Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun
Some like it hot. Not "rawists."
Raw-diet proponents think food should be eaten as nature made it -- not baked, boiled, fried, broiled, braised, grilled, steamed or sauteed.
And definitely not processed -- which usually requires heat.
Anything that takes the temperature of food higher than 118 degrees, or just above the warmth of the tongue, is verboten for the raw, or living, "foodist."
VALENTINE'S FEATURE: Raw food can be romantic
February 13, 2009 9:00 AM
Some couples plan to spend time together in the kitchen this Valentine’s Day
Love comes in many shapes and sizes.
But for David and Katrina Rainoshek, it comes in the form of a papaya.
Papayas and leafy greens, Katrina adds.
The passion they found for one another sprouted in the tiny Arizona town of Patagonia two years ago. Both had left long-term relationships and each was on a journey to a new lifestyle, one which started on their dinner plate.
Daily Juice opens location in Hyde Park
Juice-bar-turned-raw-food eatery offers ‘bizarre’ culinary adventures to its customers
Amber Genuske, Daily Texan Staff
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Alex Seyer, cook for The Daily Juice, places dessert trays in a display for the Valentine’s Chocolate Party on Saturday. The newest Daily Juice is located on 45th and Duval streets in Hyde Park and is the third location for the local smoothie shop and cafe.
The all-vegetable and fruit sushi smothered with pesto is an “exceptionally delicious” Daily Juice item.
The raw food revolution of the late ‘90s is making a comeback in Austin at a local juice bar that also serves as a smoothie shop and cafe. Daily Juice opened its third location on 45th and Duval streets in Hyde Park.
The store offers customers both more than the recommended amount of liquid fruits and vegetables, and provides regular restaurant options. The juice bar has expanded past fruit-derived delights and delved into the raw, gluten-free, organic and vegan realm.
Restaurant review: Cafe 118
A delicious initiation for anyone ready to go raw
Heather McPherson | FOOD
February 8, 2009
When most people think of raw food, they think steak tartare, sushi or oysters on the half shell.
But with a vegan approach and innovative culinary techniques, the raw-foods movement is turning nuts into lavish cheese, butters and creams. Fruits and vegetables are slowly transformed into elegant pastas. And dessert is shedding its guilt.
Cafe 118 in Winter Park is a showcase of how good raw food can be. And it's just not for vegans anymore.
How I Finally Freed the Thin Woman Within...after 40 years
Submitted by: Suz Evasdaughter
Thursday, 05 February 2009
It is never too late to get the figure you always dreamed of and I am living proof that it’s possible not just to lose weight even in the midst of the menopause but also to rejuvenate oneself.
People say that once you are middle aged it is much harder to shift the pounds. I shifted stones, effortlessly. I also made dramatic improvements in my resting heart rate and peak flow (lung capacity). My body fat/lean ratio, blood pressure and cholesterol levels are also spot on! I’ve lost weight before, when I’ve starved myself, but never achieved my ideal weight and never managed to keep weight off for more than a few months. This way I dropped four dress sizes, almost without noticing, in a matter of months and whilst still eating as much as I wanted. I lost three and a half stone and metamorphosed from a size 18 into to a size 10. I sleep like a baby, have no ailments and I am always happy. The world is my friend and the Universe conspires in my favour. I live in joy. I achieved all this by changing to a raw food diet.
Is eating raw a spiritual event?
Vanessa Johnson
2/4/09
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Eating healthy is a priority in today's society. Dieting and eating well can be as essential to being happy with yourself as exercise or sleeping.
There are many different types of diets out there. Those who choose to diet have their own reasons for doing so. There are low carbohydrates diets, the South Beach Diet, or even all-meat diets.
Junior nutrition major Jenice Bartee said she thinks many college students take nutrition to an entirely different level during their college years.
"Most college students eat cheap fast food and don't really think about how unhealthy it really is," Bartee said.
These diets all entail the idealism of eating right and healthy for the betterment of your body. What about your mind and soul?
Keeping it Real
by Derek Shaw
2/2/09
Raw foodists argue that humans have been developing an evolutionary addiction to cooked foods for thousands of years. Our internal processing, indeed programming, tells us that we need processed foods to survive. Vegans and vegetarians, however, defy that myth, especially those who pursue the raw food diet.
“Raw is war,” Alfred declares. “Cooking food changes its chemical composition…as soon you ingest toxins, your body starts detoxifying; therefore, if you’re not consuming those toxins, your body won’t be forced to go through that constant repair process.”
The 2005 Journal of Nutrition found that raw food consumption lowers total cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations. A raw diet is generally low in sodium and high in potassium, magnesium and fiber. Raw foodists tout everything from increased energy to mental clarity and even gray hairs restored to their original shade.
Raw food movement catching on locally
Donna Gray, For Neighbours
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tonya Dahl was at one of life's lowest points three years ago after watching Ray, her love of seven years, die of lung cancer.
A two-pack-a-day smoker herself, her diet and lifestyle were less than desired. The wake-up call and the personal loss was harsh, but strangely liberating.
"His death inspired me," she says. "I immediately stopped smoking. Quit cold turkey. Then I started researching how to prevent cancer. That's when I stumbled on the raw food movement."
Cafe 118
Paul Hiebing, Metromix Orlando
January 22, 2009
The Down Low: It’s easy to scoff at raw food. I mean, really easy. The whole reason fire was invented was to get food hot, and camping’s not nearly as much fun with uncooked hotdogs. Yet there is a mystique to the claims that raw food retains vital nutrients and promotes good health. And you’ve gotta be curious how a place like Café 118 at 153 East Morse Blvd. in Winter Park can make a lasagna without animal products or heating the ingredients past 118 degreest (the magic number which gives the place its name).
Raw energy: Low-temperature food cited for health benefits
By Will Broaddus, Staff Writer
January 23, 2009
Raw food, by definition, is never cooked, but it may be fermented, pickled, dehydrated, blanched or juiced. Those who prefer their food as nature grew it have a variety of techniques for blending and accenting the flavors and textures of fruits and vegetables.
Where raw foodists draw the line, in preparing a meal, is at 118 degrees. Exposing food to that temperature or higher will, they believe, destroy enzymes that make digestion efficient and healthy.
That doesn't mean raw foodists are limited to eating bean sprouts.
Eating raw to good health
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 6:18 PM
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A lot of people use the new year to get healthy and get their bodies back on track. One option is a diet of just raw food.
And that doesn't mean you can only select food in the fruit and vegetable section of your market. In fact, those who eat raw get really creative. And we met with two who are so passionate about the raw lifestyle, they're spreading the word.
The Organic Avenue Kitchen is a little different than most. There is no oven, no stovetop, and no microwave, because nothing there gets cooked.
That means everything made there starts raw and ends up raw, and that's the way Doug Evans has been eating for 10 years.
Superfoods, raw food and yoga
by Maya Henderson, Chicago Mind Body Examiner
January 20, 1:48 AM
Raw food coach Lenette Nakauchi and me at Lululemon.
After sweating it out in an intense yoga class or finding your powerhouse in Pilates, what do you grab to eat? I find that the best foods for sustaining energy, ideal weight and a positive attitude are vegan, raw and superfoods.
It's been less than a year since I began regularly incorporating these amazing, delicious and nutritious foods into my diet, and not only do I feel a difference (I have more energy and never feel bloated or tired after a meal), but this new found joy and admiration for food has changed my outlook on life in a profoundly positive way (and I was no "debbie downer" before)!
Raw foodists tout benefits for health, environment
Hunter Riley
1/21/09
Good news, raw foodists: the group Your Radical Health Albuquerque meets once or twice a month at ever-changing locations.
You can keep up with their meeting places at Meetup.com/abqraw to share raw food recipes and eat raw food dishes together.
Raw foods are classified as uncooked and unprocessed foods. Nothing can be heated above 120 degrees.
Organizer and UNM student Kaylee Tejeda said eating raw food takes more time and planning than school sometimes. Anyone is welcome to attend and is encouraged to bring a raw food dish, or a $5 donation.
Tejeda said reducing his carbon footprint was his motivation to try eating raw. Tejeda said eating raw food cut costs on many levels such as energy used to cook, prepare and keep food fresh.
"It's interesting to think that our No. 1 use of energy consumption, even more than transportation, is cooking our food," he said. "The No. 1 thing we put in our landfills is food packaging. So if you're eating raw food, such as bananas on a bunch, you've eliminated both of those."
Chef shows how to make a decadent, uncooked torte
Cooking 101
By Jill Rosen
January 21, 2009
Some like it hot. Not rawists.
Raw-diet proponents believe food is best eaten as nature made it. That's not boiled, not sauteed, not baked or broiled or braised or steamed or grilled. Sadly, it's not even fried.
Anything that takes the temperature of food beyond 118 degrees, or just a few degrees warmer than the warmth of your tongue, is verboten for the raw, or living, foodist.
Though science tends to suppose otherwise, raw-ists, typically more extreme vegetarians, believe fire saps food of its vital nutrients, the vitamins and minerals that make it worth eating in the first place.
Taking a raw look at food
By Noel Mathews, Tribune Staff Writer
January 18. 2009
When most people think of raw food, most likely they picture themselves eating a meal that most likely would be found on Bugs Bunny’s table.
But that, South Bend chef Michele Dahms says, isn’t the case at all.
Raw food goes beyond just carrots and celery stalks. Comfort foods can be created using only fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains. Dishes such as burgers, enchiladas, milk shakes, and even cinnamon rolls can exist within a raw foods diet, all without the familiar ingredients of meat, dairy, white sugar, white flour, and even heat.
Most dishes at new Northville café served, eaten raw
By Sylvia Rector • Free Press Restaurant Critic • January 14, 2009
The Red Pepper Deli's walls and floor are done in vibrant shades of red, orange, green and yellow. Artful photos of fruits and vegetables decorate the dining room walls. And the air is filled with wonderful food aromas.
What's cooking in this inviting new café?
Almost nothing.
Anti Aging Skin Care: How The Raw Diet Can Help Your Skin Look Younger
Submitted by marcus
January 5, 2009 - 11:40pm
Aging may be natural but that doesn't mean you have to give in to it. You can still look good as you grow older. A big part of that is having skin which looks younger. How do you do that? Well, you can start by checking out the raw diet and how that can help your anti-aging efforts.
Health food market morphs into raw foods diner
By Maggie O'Neill
January 7, 2009
The granite countertop is lined by six tall chairs at Rawjuvenation on Liberty Street. They are all empty, but that's because the busy hours don't start until well after 1 p.m., when groups of people start to come in, said Schall Adams, culinary consultant for the raw foods and vegan restaurant.
There is one woman at the end of the counter, Diana Benson of Sparks, who already has eaten a lasagne and salad lunch and is at the restaurant for a second time, her first visit being last week.
She's going back on a diet, she said. And raw food is her way.
"The food here is healthy," she said. "It's vegan food that's tasty."
Get fresh and eat in the raw
Devotees say uncooked food paves the way to better health
By Dai Huynh
Jan. 5, 2009, 2:33PM
Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram likes it raw.
For the 21-year-old, what’s cooking isn’t ingredients but the philosophy of raw food. It’s been four years since the Houston artist switched off her stove for good. Now the only tools she needs to prepare dinner are a sharp knife, a food processor, a high-speed blender and a spiral slicer.
She’s among a growing number of “raw foodists.” What they call “living food” is unprocessed, often organic fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts, seeds and herbs, which cannot be heated above 116 degrees. (Purists such as Carillo-Bucaram even forgo the use of a dehydrator, which dries food with currents of warmed air.)
Running is not just as simple as you thought
Saturday, January 3, 2009
ATHLETICS: Ultimately, correct running style takes practice, and lots of it. Once it's achieved there is no turning back, but it may mean getting out there every day, writes Ian O'Riordan
ACCORDING TO a poll just carried out by the San Juan Daily News, the three most fashionable New Year's resolutions for 2009 were to lose weight; to stop smoking; and to spend less. These, I suspect, are the same New Year's resolutions least likely to survive past the first couple of weeks of 2009.
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Cerutty grew up in extreme poverty and in 1942, at age 47, his health had failed so dramatically he decided to do something dramatic about it. He adopted a raw-food diet and embarked on a violent exercise regime. Five years later, at 52, he ran a marathon in exactly three hours.
OK! Exclusive: Alanis Morissette's Slim-Down Secrets!
January 02, 2009
Less than a year ago, Alanis Morissette found herself in a heavy situation: the once-svelte rock star had packed on weight, and the processed food she’d been eating left her feeling unhealthy.
Determined to get back on track, Alanis turned to Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book Eat to Live, a plan that recommends consuming fruit, vegetables, beans and nuts, and avoiding meat and dairy products.
Alanis’ vegan diet — one of the more popular in Hollywood these days — has helped her shed 20 pounds since she began the new regime in September.
Federal judge uses special diet in his fight against cancer
Dec 25, 2008 04:23 AM
By Donna Britt
LAFAYETTE, LA (WAFB) - A federal judge must have secrets, like case negotiations and sealed testimony. However, Federal Judge Tucker Melancon of Lafayette has decided to make something personal very public.
"I didn't realize it was possible for a man to get breast cancer," Judge Melancon says. "And I had noticed that on my left breast, the nipple had kind of gotten somewhat inverted."
He had been working as a negotiator in what would be the end of the East Baton Rouge school desegregation case when he was diagnosed. As Judge James Brady signed the settlement agreement in 2003, Tucker Melancon was fighting for his life. He had stage 3 breast cancer, a mastectomy, radiation, and chemo therapy. Treatment was aggressive and painful. His wife, Diana Moore, did not know how long he would live.
Weight gain after Thanksgiving? Go Vegan!
by Tania Rogers
12/01/09
WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- "We have carrots and celery which we don't usually see in tacos". Tacos without meat? It's one of the recipes whipped up in a Vegan class at Nutrition Smart Health Food Store in Palm Beach Gardens every week. Vegans avoid dairy, eggs and any meat products. Rene Oswald is the author of Transitioning To Living Cuisine. She started her vegan path 15 years ago, eventually becoming a raw vegan. "I had a rare incurable digestive disorder and I was a nurse and worked in the medical field and when they told me there was nothing they could do for me but give me 23 medications to relieve my symptoms I said wow. I need to look at what I can do, alternative wise". Oswald turned to eating foods in their natural state and avoided processed foods.
What's the deal with juicing?
December 4, 4:23 PM
by Jazmine Green, L.A. Raw Food Examiner
You’ve heard the talk. Yes, everyone’s juicing but you.
So, what’s the deal? Well, here it is: juicing takes all the fiber out of your favorite fruits and veggies so all that’s left is the good stuff.
The Raw Truth about Vegetarianism
Vanessa Loy
December 06, 2008
(BLACK PR WIRE) It’s been said that variety is the spice of life. More black Americans are discovering a variety that will actually add years to life in switching to a vegetarian diet. Instead of pork, ribs, fried foods, fast food and milkshakes, black consumers are choosing meat-flavored soy and tofu substitutes, uncooked vegetables and soy shakes with fruit. They realize that many of the health risks that disproportionately affect blacks, including hypertension, cancer, diabetes and heart disease, are strongly correlated with eating foods high in cholesterol, fat, salt and sugar. But they also realize that healthy eating doesn’t mean boring eating, or giving up the tastes of traditional “soul food”.
An overdue taste of life in the raw
Live Organic Food Bar
Joanne Kates
December 6, 2008
64 Dupont St., Toronto. 416-515-2002. Dinner for two with wine, tax and tip, $80.
Eating at Live Organic Food Bar would have been a terrible shock, except that I had just come back from a holiday in the American Southwest. Both vegan and raw food have been around for a while, but I have been fighting both tooth and nail. As an unrepentant Francophile, I say: Why would the goddess have given us stoves (and copper pots and cast-iron skillets) if she didn't want us to cook our food?
Some Like It Raw—Diners Follow a Healthy Trend
By Devin Briski
December 04, 2008
First came vegetarian, then vegan, then organic, then local—now raw.
The parameters for healthy eating continue to change as health experts report new findings about diets that will change your life, giving you a healthy glow and a burst of energy. With every movement come a few trendy and purist restaurants, touting the benefits of the latest restriction. Proponents of raw foods, or “living” foods, eat little to no cooked food. Instead, they eat various combinations of raw vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts—all completely unprocessed. This way of life, as many refer to it, is associated with numerous health benefits including increased energy and longevity.
The future of healthy snacks for children?
Daniel Palmer
December 4, 2008
As food manufacturers around the world step up their focus on producing new products that can cater toward a growing demand for healthy products, an Australian company has become the first to create a fruit snack bar without using puree, juice or additives.
Cheeky Chewz has devised a method to produce 100% dried fruit bars that, unlike most bars, are not made from fruit juice or fruit puree. Only the stones/cores of the fruit are removed, with the whole fruit, skin and all, naturally preserved as a raw food. They also ensure products have no added sugar, sulphur or preservatives.
Greener Than Thou
Boston’s eco-zealots pick up where the Puritans left off
November-December 2008
by Joe Keohane, from Boston magazine
The kid at the Italian market across the street scoffed when we told him we were going to Grezzo, Boston’s first full-on, vegan raw-food restaurant. The eatery specializes in fare that can only be described using quotation marks. Everything is made from organic, non-animal-derived ingredients, none of which are ever heated above 112 degrees because to do so destroys their “life force,” also known as “enzymes”—a word repeated so often in Grezzo that it starts to recall “precious bodily fluids” in Dr. Strangelove.
Instant Parma
It's gonna get you: What started as a Central Point husband's favorite condiment has blossomed into his wife's business, with 30,000 containers sold over the past year
Shannon Schnibbe scoops walnuts in her home-based commercial kitchen in Central Point to make her vegan parmesan seasoning, called Parma.
By Buffy Pollock for the Mail Tribune
December 02, 2008
CENTRAL POINT — What started as a small entrepreneurship to keep Shannon Schnibbe home with her family and earning a few extra bucks has grown to a nationally marketed product, vegan Parmesan, and sales of some 30,000 containers over the past year.
Parma, made of yeast, Celtic sea salt and organic walnuts — which Schnibbe orders 100 pounds at a time — was born in her Central Point kitchen four years ago.
Jarrod Harelik, guest column: Feasting in the raw
Feasting in the raw
Jarrod Harelik
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I’ve been missing out on a tradition the past half-dozen years: the Thanksgiving feast.
No, I’ve not been protesting the Pilgrims, though I do question their hats. My diet is the culprit.
I’ve been a vegetarian since 2002, a vegan since 2006, and a raw vegan since 2007.
A raw vegan diet consists of no meat or dairy products, only raw fruits and vegetables.
So, it’s yet another year without turkey and stuffing for me. But I’m starting to get the hang of it. In fact, I’ve never felt healthier. For one thing, stomach problems that plagued me since high school have diminished almost completely.
The Raw Deal
As raw food goes commercial, purists cry foul
By Lessley Anderson
November 25, 2008
On a recent weeknight, two San Francisco omnivores went on what they proudly referred to as a “healthy date” to Café Gratitude. A raw vegan restaurant, Café Gratitude serves, with a few exceptions, nothing that has been heated to over 118 degrees Fahrenheit, to keep the food’s vitamins, minerals, and enzymes intact.
The man had “nacho cheese” made of cashews, and the woman had “pizza,” also with nut cheese, and raw vegetables, piled on top of what looked like a big Wasa cracker. For dessert they had a slice of banana cream pie, whose creaminess was the result of coconut milk and coconut butter, sweetened with agave nectar, with a crust made of coconut and dates. There was no doubt in their minds that they were giving their bodies the temple treatment. Imagine their surprise if they were to have learned that, in the eyes of some raw foodists, they were nearly eating the equivalent of McDonald’s.
Vegans claim diet helps illnesses and weight loss
by Tania Rogers
11/24/08
WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- "We have carrots and celery which we don't usually see in tacos". Tacos without meat? It's one of the recipes whipped up in a Vegan class at Nutrition Smart Health Food Store in Palm Beach Gardens every week. Vegans avoid dairy, eggs and any meat products. Rene Oswald is the author of Transitioning To Living Cuisine. She started her vegan path 15 years ago, eventually becoming a raw vegan. "I had a rare incurable digestive disorder and I was a nurse and worked in the medical field and when they told me there was nothing they could do for me but give me 23 medications to relieve my symptoms I said wow. I need to look at what I can do, alternative wise". Oswald turned to eating foods in their natural state and avoided processed foods.
Live to Chop: How to make raw food taste good
by Sanjida O'Connell
Monday, 24 November 2008
Saf restaurant has branded itself as ‘botanical cuisine’, which is an up-market way of saying it sells raw vegan food. Last week I went on a raw food course for the Independent run by executive chef, Chad Sarno. Handsome, boyish, enthusiastic and a tad obsessive, has been a raw foodist for 13 years, only eating raw food, without anything as hot as a cup of tea, for six. The restaurant itself is an eco-haven complete with fine wines and decadent cocktails: I’m looking forward to trying The Guilty Husband, a concoction of flowers and champagne. Raw foodists believe that heating food past 48 degrees destroys the enzymes and makes food less nutritious. Detractors say that cooking kills toxins in some vegetables, like aubergines, and makes simple carbohydrates more easy to digest.
Vegetarian vs Vegan vs Raw: Which is Best?
by Ali Hale
11/24/2008
When we talk about a "diet", we often mean a weight-loss regime. Many people who are perfectly happy with their weight are on "diets", though, which aren't intended to limit total food intake but to exclude certain types of food.
I'm going to give you the run-down on a few popular diets that involve eliminating certain foods, the reasons why people may adopt each, and some tips for catering for guests on each of these diets:
* Vegetarian (no meat)
* Vegan (no meat and no products from animals, e.g. eggs, milk)
* Raw food (no cooked food at all, often combined with veganism
Embracing a diet in the raw
By Susan Chaityn Lebovits
November 23, 2008
Fred Bellows is in the aviation business. He's a pilot for a construction company and works as a broker, buying and selling small airplanes. Beth Fishman runs her third-generation family real estate company, managing properties in Brookline, Cambridge, and Allston.
A couple for the last 16 years, Bellows and Fishman recently have been spreading the word about the raw food movement, which they say has given them a new lease on life.
(US - Texas) Not so much an article as a collection of recipes...
Raw Food Recipes
Monday, November 10, 2008
The recipes include the following:
Raw Pesto Pasta
Apple Sauce
Avocado Boats
Watermelon Gazpacho
Avocado and Herb Salad Dressing
Spicy Chips
Noasted Turkey
Apple Berry Fruit Leather
Ann Wigmore’s Banana Cream Pie
Raw Mudslide
Cold Buster
Lettuce drink to health
Bronwyn McNulty
November 20, 2008
Forget salads. Leafy greens as beverages are the health-kick du jour.
It sounds like something superheroes might drink but the "green smoothie" is gathering a growing - and, if the hype is to be believed, glowing - following.
Fans of this home-blended fruit and vegetable drink say a regular dose will do everything from improve your sleep to amp up energy levels, eradicate skin conditions and basically make you feel great.
The founder of raw food education company Raw Power, Anand Wells, has been a fan of the green smoothie for more than two years.
"I think it's the greatest invention of the century," he says. "It's like we have found a magic bullet."
The Raw Food Movement: One Road to a Healthier Life
By: Lara Endreszl
Sunday, 16 November 2008
While talking to a pastry chef friend of mine recently about the upcoming plans for Thanksgiving dinner, she mentioned that she was going to whip up a dessert for her mother using only raw foods. When I raised my eyebrows over the words “raw foods” she explained that a few years ago her mother found her stomach distended so far she could barely stand and ended up spending a year in and out of the hospital having multiple tests to figure out what the problem was. A diagnosis was never made but knowing that something must have triggered her gastrointestinal problems, she turned to the one thing she could change: her diet. After trying the raw food regimen, she hasn’t had another health problem.
More than just salad: Couple demos vegan, raw food in Tualatin
For four weeks in October, the Asches demonstrated recipes and talked about nutrition at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tualatin on Monday nights
By Kristen Forbes, The Times
Nov 13, 2008
Rick and Gayle Asche eat raw foods about 85 percent of the time to ensure that nutrients and enzymes aren't killing in the cooking process. They recently shared their culinary knowledge at a series of vegan cooking seminars in Tualatin.
“Some people call it vegan. We call it plant-based. We’re trying to remove the stigma of veganism,” Rick Asche says of the lifestyle he and his wife Gayle have been following for the last three years.
Rick, who has a family history of heart disease, found himself struggling with his health and went from traditional doctors to naturopaths looking for a solution. Gayle says she had ongoing issues with weight gain, upset stomach and arthritis. Rick’s sister told the couple about the Hallelujah Diet, a plant-based and mainly raw diet based on Genesis 1:29. When Rick read an e-mail from Hallelujah Acres correlating longevity and eating habits, something clicked.
The woman with a tiny carbon footprint
Forget planes, trains or automobiles - if Joan Pick wants to go anywhere, she runs. And she eats nothing but raw food. Is her lifestyle extreme or the future we must all face up to? Emine Saner meets her
Emine Saner, The Guardian
Thursday November 13 2008
Joan Pick at her flat in Croydon. Photograph: Frank Baron
We all know we are meant to be reducing our carbon footprint, but I suspect that many people wouldn't be prepared to go as far as Joan Pick. She hasn't driven a car since 1973 and has only been in a petrol-guzzling vehicle twice since then (once in the hearse at her mother's funeral, the other time when an ambulance came to pick her up after she dislocated her shoulder). Her gas supply was cut off sometime when the last Labour government was in power, and her electricity usage is minimal. She eats only raw food and the only items she ever buys are new trainers - because she gets around by running everywhere. Pick is 67 and claims her lifestyle keeps her healthy. "I've been living on nothing for the past 35 years," she says.
Rawsome and rauseous in LA, part 2
November 10, 2008
by Vicki Godal, Los Angeles Green Life Examiner
If anyone happened to read "Rawsome in LA," this is an ongoing series of blogs following my rocky transition to eating only whole, life, raw food. To recap, I decided as a part of my sustainable examination of LA, to start with myself as the first place I could go 100% green. Just like when the natural foods movement was in its infancy, the live or raw food movement is one that conjures up visions of unappealing, uncooked dishes created to mimic our home cooked favorites. Sometimes that happens to be true, for instance when I went to a raw restaurant and ordered "rawsagna." Not only did it not look like lasagna, the only thing about it that resembled the real thing was the name. At that point I decided to go on line and look at the raw cookbooks, perhaps a better term is uncooked books. Being a bit impulsive when Amazon shows me used books that are like new for pennies on the dollar, I ordered several. I figure if I make it myself then I can tweak ingredients and modify recipes to my own tastes.
A raw deal
By Cary Aspinwall, World Scene Writer
11/12/2008
No meat, no heat? No problem on this diet
Pam Girouard prays as people take a bite of her avocado puddings, nut-sauced zucchini noodles and carob coconut fudge:
"Lord, please let them love raw food as much as I do."
Proponents claim raw foods diet increases energy, mental clarity
By Clara Tuma, KVUE News
11/10/2008
It’s the oldest diet in the world – eating a vegan menu of raw food and nothing else.
That means no burgers, no barbecue, no beer – a tough sell to many Texans.
"It’s really not as hard as it seems," said Robin Treptow, who has been on the diet for years. She now owns Refreshingly Raw, an Austin-based raw foods business, and teaches classes to others.
"People notice huge amounts of increased energy and mental clarity (on the diet),’" she said. "There are super brain power benefits on the diet. Also, emotionally you’re a lot clearer.”
Going raw sparks life change -- and a movie
By Belinda Goldsmith Belinda Goldsmith
Mon Nov 10, 2008
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) – Inspired by a documentary about eating only McDonald's for 30 days, Jenna Norwood decided to go for the opposite and only eat raw, organic food for a month with the result sparking major lifestyle changes -- and a movie.
A Coconut Grove Cornucopia
by Rosalie E. Leposky, Miami Food and Drink Examiner
November 7, 2008
Each Saturday, as if sprouting from the earth, a raw and organic foods market springs to life at the corner of Grand Avenue and Margaret Street in Miami’s Coconut Grove section. It’s the Coconut Grove Farmers’ Market at 3300 Grand Ave., a weekly tradition for seekers of prepared raw vegan and certified organic food.
Some of the market’s patrons walk there, but most come greater distances – from as far away as the Florida Keys, the Palm Beaches, and even the Tampa Bay area. Many regulars are cancer survivors who credit a “natural” diet for their survival.
Raw food diet helps woman lose weight
Nov 6, 2008
By Brian White
A change in diet could mean a change in your health. The best part is--you don't even have to cook.
A backyard garden contains almost everything Angela Stokes needs to put together her daily diet.
Everything she eats is raw.
It's simple and natural, eating food straight from the earth, there's no rocket science, no mystery. The mainstay of it is nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits in an unheated, unprocessed condition.
Angela says she used to eat junk food and weighed 300 pounds. Six years ago she made a drastic change in her diet, stopped consuming meat and other animal products and starting eating only raw food.
Raw foods: Teaching a healthier way to eat
By Kara Newcomer, Evening Sun Reporter
11/01/2008
Allen began making raw food ten years ago when her husband, Joey, became passionate about living a healthier life.
Raw food is just what it sounds like. Nothing is cooked above 115 degrees and no processed foods are used, everything is all natural. If 60 percent of a person's diet is made up of raw foods they are considered a raw foodist or as Allen and her husband prefer - a living foodist.
Raw Food Hemp Sun Burgers, Chocolate Mylk Shakes, and RAWzagna
Ani Phyo
October 28, 2008
Three of the six raw food recipes I made for Andrew Zimmern on his Los Angeles episode of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel were raw food Hemp Sun Burgers, Chocolate Mylk Shakes, and Rawzagna.
Yes, these were indeed vegan, vegetarian, uncooked, raw foods made using vegetables, nuts and seeds. Andrew was convinced. Now, let me show you that healthy can taste delicious!
My Hemp Sun Burger is made by processing together fresh garden vegetables like celery and bell peppers with hemp, flax, and sunflower seeds. A super healthy and good-for-us burger, this recipe provides tons of omegas, protein, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes to keep us looking and feeling great. Omegas are known to make us feel happier. So, eat up and bliss out.
Food Without Fire: Raw Food at Whole Foods
Fri Oct 24, 2008
Bathed in a homemade sauce, I scarf down my “raw fajita”. The vegetables are crunchy and fresh, the collard green in place of a tortilla holds the succulent flavor of the red peppers, avocado and portobellos. To think just minutes ago this was a few vegetables sitting on the table, now the are sloshing around in my belly, while my mouth waters for more.
Raw foods are considered a “new age” diet that most would roll their eyes at. Being an open minded aspiring "foodie," I jumped at the chance to learn how this interesting phenomena manifests its self inside the organic filled doors of my neighborhood Whole Foods
Restaurant serves up a lifestyle in action
Kayla Smith, Central Florida Future
10/24/08
What do you get when you mix pineapple with celery and mint? How about when you pair mango and shiitake mushrooms?
What may seem like odd combinations to most people are the foundations of an innovative new menu featured at Cafe 118°, which is slated to open in downtown Winter Park by the end of this month.
The cafe, so named because 118° is the temperature at which most nutrients and enzymes are destroyed, will be home to foods that are entirely raw; no animal products used.
Heidi Van Pelt hopes to improve on soul food
Heidi Van Pelt is betting Cowtown has an appetite for vegan soul food.
Hearne Christopher Jr.
October 18, 2008
Imagine a fried chicken dinner without the chicken …
Now lose the fantasy, because it’s about to go down. Heidi Van Pelt, the young woman who made a man out of then-17-year-old Taran Noah Smith (of “Home Improvement” fame), is poised to open a new biz in the Uptown Shoppes at 37th and Broadway.
“It will be vegan with raw food and cooked food — all organic,” Van Pelt says. “It’s going to be diner and gourmet, and we’ll have a juice bar.”
She's raw and loving it
Kitchener native spreads message of how raw foods improved her life
Valerie Hill, Record Staff
October 18, 2008
people: rose vasile
Rose Vasile's life has taken some interesting twists in the past decade, from intense insurance executive and pack-a-day smoker to laid back advocate for the raw food movement. It's a life path that has earned the affable 57-year-old the nickname RawRose.
Born and raised in Kitchener, Vasile now lives on Vancouver Island and is the author of the self-published Uncooking with RawRose: Your Guide to Raw Foods (www.rawrose.com). She was in Waterloo Region recently as part of an Ontario and B.C. book tour.
Pretenders - Hynde Opens Vegan Restaurant In Hometown
10/10/2008
THE PRETENDERS rocker CHRISSIE HYNDE has opened a vegan restaurant in her native Akron, Ohio.
The Back On The Chain Gang singer recently returned to her hometown, where she has launched VegiTerranean.
Raw success: 200 pounds lost
A Medford man goes on a raw-foods diet, and now 170 local people have signed up to follow his lead
Clent Manich shows off the pants he used to wear when he weighed over 400 pounds. The Costco employee lost over 200 pounds by going on a raw food diet.
By Sarah Lemon, Mail Tribune
October 07, 2008
Clent Manich's new diet likely sounds familiar to anyone who's tried to lose weight: Eat mostly fruits and vegetables and replace one or more meal with a shake or smoothie.
The regimen seems sensible enough until Manich gets to the part about not cooking, as in consuming everything entirely raw.
"I'm never going to eat cooked food again," says the 39-year-old Medford resident.
New wave vegetarian dining offers sophisticated choices
By Ellen Kanner
Thursday, 10.09.08
October is Vegetarian Awareness Month, a fact that might have escaped you here in South Florida, where the score is steakhouses, 66, vegetarian eateries, 17.
When you're the few, the proud, the meat-free, ''it helps to have a mission,'' says John Schott, chef-owner of Lifefood Gourmet, where the menu is vegan, raw and sustainable -- the kind of food Schott believes can heal, individually and globally.
Vegan Diet Good For Type 2 Diabetes
Vegan Diet Beats ADA-Recommended Diet In Lowering Heart Disease Risk
Oct. 2, 2008
(WebMD) A vegan diet may do a better job of reducing cardiovascular disease in diabetic patients than a diet recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), according to a new study.
Sal Anthony’s, The City Gardener
Raw, organic food and juice bar to life and good health
By Nadia Ghattas, Epoch Times Staff
Oct 2, 2008
Customers are served up delicious and nutritious, organic, raw food at Sal Anthony’s City Gardener.
Much like how Central Park is a breath of fresh air and nature in the middle of the concrete jungle that is New York; Sal Anthony’s City Gardener on 17th Street near Irving Place gives off a similar feeling of refreshment on a smaller, more exotic scale. It is a feeling of being outdoors in a garden somewhere near the Mediterranean, surrounded by trees with open doors and little benches welcoming you as you pass by. The aroma of fresh fruits emanates from the juice bar as they are smoothed and mixed to wet your thirst and satisfy your hunger.
This place used to be “The City Gardener” and Anthony decided to keep the ambiance with the addition of a nice menu of healthy, organic raw food prepared by the famous Italian Chef, Anthony of Sal Anthony’s, Lanza, and S.P.Q.R.
Yes, Anthony decided to go Raw. After 41 years of cooking Italian and owning and managing three famous restaurants
Eat Fruits And Veggies, Raw Food Diet Makes You Hot
Posted by The South 09/26/2008
College isn’t exactly easy on the waistline. Thanks to beer binges and pizza chowdowns, the pounds pile on seemingly effortlessly.
For an extreme, but effective way to shed the weight try a raw food diet.
Are you happy?
Russell James, raw food chef
9/27/08
The biggest change that comes with eating raw is how you feel physically. There are times of the day when I feel euphoria. A wash of happiness comes over me. I feel very clean, knowing I'm not digesting a lot of additives. If you eat raw food, you're putting pure fuel into your body. I used to feel stuffed. Now I can be satisfied without overloading my system.
Woman goes raw, loses more than half herself
* Story Highlights
* Angela Stokes, 30, was miserable, unhealthy, weighed 300 pounds
* She began a raw vegan diet after reading a book about its health benefits
* Stokes lost 160 pounds in two years, improving her emotional, physical health
* Now weighing 138 pounds, she's authored several books on "raw foodism"
By Jackie Adams, CNN
Fri September 26, 2008
(CNN) -- Angela Stokes had never been overweight as a child.
Angela Stokes
Angela Stokes, 30, lost 160 pounds in two years after she adopted a raw-vegan diet. She now weighs 138 pounds.
The real raw deal
Ashland Food Co-op class dispels myths about the raw-food diet
By Sarah Lemon, Mail Tribune
September 24, 2008
Fed up with a chronic sore throat, Maria DiMaggio traded hot, steaming liquids for cool fruit juice, smoothies and salads. More than a year later, DiMaggio's throat is no longer raw — but her diet is.
"To me, raw foods was the answer," says the Ashland resident.
Paul McCartney’s ex, Heather Mills, donating $1M in vegan food to Bronx
By Associated Press
Saturday, September 20, 2008
NEW YORK - Paul McCartney’s ex-wife is donating $1 million worth of soy hamburgers, soy hot dogs and soy chicken cutlets to one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Bronx.
Do your bit for the planet by eating plant foods
Suthentira Govender
Sep 21, 2008
The consumption of plant-based foods, rather than animal products, does not only have positive health benefits, but could also save the planet.
This is according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO), which has found that reducing the amount of meat, eggs and dairy products in the diet is one of the most effective ways of capping greenhouse gas emissions.
Research has shown that global animal agriculture contributes more emissions — a shocking 18% — than all forms of transportation (12%).
Café stays in the raw
Restaurant provides a fresh mix of organic dishes for all diet types
By Hannah Agatston - Contributing Writer
September 11th, 2008
Imagine indulging in the delicacy of sushi without breaking the bank, counting carbs or fidgeting with chopsticks. Inside a small dim-lit vegan café just off The Commons, diners can order rice-less sushi, a naturally blended Green Smoothie or a taco salad for a delightful afternoon pick-me-up.
Everything Wellness, located at 118 South Cayuga Street, is a hidden treasure that makes it evident the raw food fad is not just for starving celebrities. This cozy vegan restaurant — meaning no meat, no dairy — uses entirely organic ingredients from local farmers through GreenStar Cooperative and the Farmer’s Market.
Everything Wellness ensures that each ingredient is fresh and everything on the menu is made on the premises, with the exception of the tortillas. Smoothies are made with almond milk, which is soaked, blended and strained by the restaurant’s employees. Unlike the restaurant’s neighboring pizza places, Everything Wellness offers diners an ample amount of fruits and veggies — and more breathing room.
THE CULTURAL KITCHEN
Spreading the word about eating raw
Thu, Sep. 11, 2008
By Nancy Ancrum
A crisp apple, a green salad or, if we're really being fancy, a bowl of gazpacho is what most of us consider food in the raw. For SaBoora Yusef, however, eating raw has been a life-changing commitment, one that she approaches each day with dedication and creativity.
Is David Duchovny eating veggie burgers in rehab?
by Elizabeth Snead
Seems like everyone famous has been to rehab. Even Amy Winehouse, but what's a couple of weeks when she needs to be locked in for a few years.
Definitely, Lindsay Lohan. Briefly, Britney Spears. Recently, Eva Mendes, but for eating, honest. A depressed Kirsten Dunst. Probably Mary-Kate Olsen, but perhaps just for nutritional education.' Heather Locklear recently checked into an Arizona treatment center for "depression," which is publicist code for you-know-what.
…
Hardly a week goes by without another celebrity checking into a rehab center. But now there’s a twist. These days stars can check in as addicts and come out as vegans, thanks to the delish veggie meals being served.
Ending Summer on a Healthy Note
September 2, 2008
Maya Henderson - Chicago Mind Body Examiner
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Around this time of year, I usually spend my free time sipping on cocktails at BBQs, reveling in every minute that the warm weather is still here and complaining about how December is right around the corner. But I decided to bring this summer to a close on a healthier note: more yoga classes, private pilates sessions and a rekindled interest in nutrition. I owe my new attitude to a weekend full of spa treatments, yoga classes, gourmet raw food, raw cooking classes and much more and by this time next year, Chicagoans will be able to do the same.
Life in the raw
September 2, 2008
Melbourne caterer Paul Mattei insists he is thriving personally on a stringent, uncooked diet that would make standard vegetarianism seem indulgent, writes Ann Pilmer.
AT A recent function, caterer Paul Mattei served marinated daikon with Warrigal greens and goji berries, lukewarm cauliflower soup with aged balsamic, red onions and wilted lettuce, and a main course of marinated brocco flowers, finely-cut carrot and grapes marinated in lavender and aniseed myrtle, with curry oil.
Dessert was blood-orange sorbet and rockmelon soup topped with river mint.
They might not be everyone's plats du jour, but he used the meal to push his passionate belief that we should all eat more fresh food and less processed or what he calls "empty" foods.
Shan’t cook, won’t cook
Aug 31, 2008
Hilary Biller gets a taste of life on fruit and veg as nature intended — on a raw foodism course.
Capetonians Peter and Beryn Daniels are UK-trained chefs who run the Raw- Foods, Living-Foods Elements of Health Programme. They travel the country spouting raw- food principles and demonstrating how to prepare raw meals.
Bake To The Future
Written by: Ruth Marsh
Friday, August 29, 2008
Cake and guilt traditionally go hand-in-hand, but two pioneering Edinburgh cafes are making a move towards sweet treats that’ll keep your conscience smelling of roses.
Raw Food, as a movement, is normally associated with the blue skies and bright lights of California. Luminaries of 90s Hollywood like Demi Moore and Alicia Silverstone are devotees of the diet, which claims innumerable physical and mental benefits of consuming unprocessed, undiluted,’living’ foodstuffs- over 400 raw outlets can be found across the US.
It is, in fairness, the last food concept you’d expect to find launching in Scotland, even if it is in Edinburgh’s mellow, shabby-chic Stockbridge. To enter Red Sugar, you have to battle through the snaking queue waiting to buy bridies and yum yums from the Greggs next door, as owner Steve Montgomery wryly notes
Raw Food for Health and Beauty
August 27, 2008
You may have heard of raw foods, and might be wondering what it is. It's food made using only whole fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, and ideally organic. Might sound boring, but I assure you the recipes are delicious, nutritious, easy and fast to make, and keep us looking and feeling out best.
Raw, whole foods are tasty in summer
Raw and whole foods are alternatives to cooking on high heat
Adam Wilcox
August 20, 2008
Cooking soup in August never made much sense to me. Most of us want to avoid hot cooking in the summer heat — but we still want great food.
Meanwhile, some people have turned away from cooked food for deeper reasons. Some have moved toward raw and whole foods to fight cancer, high blood pressure or obesity. For others, it's a philosophical extension of an attitude about diet and environment. Can the summer gourmet learn from the approach? Of course.
Group's input behind restaurant concepts
Jane Black, Washington Post
August 20, 2008
WASHINGTON – When Sharon Greenspan went on a cross-country trip last year, she made sure to take photos of the restaurants she liked and to keep the menus.
It was the easiest way to remember that “lasagna” of zucchini, spinach and pine nuts she ate in Asheville, N.C., and the creamy coconut shake she tasted in Sedona, Ariz. Greenspan thinks both would be great for Elements, a new restaurant she is helping to open here.
Greenspan, 44, from Bethesda, Md., desperately wants a restaurant that caters to the raw food diet, which prescribes only fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts, none of which have been heated above 112 degrees.
Sandra Oh - Oh Plots To Turn Castmates Vegan
08/20/2008
Actress SANDRA OH is winning her battle to convert her GREY'S ANATOMY co-stars to veganism, after treating them to a lunch at her favourite animal-friendly restaurant.
Trend: Raw food
By Cate Trotter
Monday, August 11, 2008
Healthy, eco-friendly and innovative, raw food is offering a new way to excite and engage customers.
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Interest in raw food diets is growing, as cooked food gets slated in the media. Raw food proponents believe that cooking food destroys nutrients and enzymes as well as altering chemicals, so that food no longer benefits the consumer, introducing free-radicals and poisons instead. A raw food diet, which is vegan by nature, offers a supposedly healthier alternative, as well as offering sustainability benefits. The diet has a smaller carbon impact than a conventional one, due to its avoidance of animal products, lack of energy used for cooking, and inclusion of organic ingredients wherever possible.
As garden grows, so does area gardener
By Tara Bowie
8/6/08
When she moved into the house she rents on Gunn’s Hill Road, Susan Ladner told her landlord to remove the stove because she wouldn’t be needing it.
“That came with a quizzical look,” Ladner said while walking through her two gardens recently. “I eat 100 per cent raw food, so I just don’t need one.”
Raw food diet
By Marge C. Enriquez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
07/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines-Culinary artist Cherie Lou Ignacio was a walking drugstore for most of her life. She suffered from hypertension at 21 years old, had a baby who died in her womb at 23, suffered from arthritis in her 30s, not to mention high cholesterol, and had lived on heavy medication until her 40s. Meanwhile, she established a successful but stressful Quickmelt Ensaymada business, went through a rocky relationship and survived it. As if the travails weren’t enough, she was diagnosed with kidney stones.
Not wanting to have them blasted, Ignacio decided to take the natural route by chucking in the white flour and refined sugar for a healthy diet of brown bread and green leafy vegetables. Eventually she met a naturopath who put her on a raw food diet. In three days, she was liberated from all her medications. Then she went on a detoxification program for another 10 days, eating salads, fresh fruits, coconut juice, tuber leaves, bitter gourd and radish. She lost three pounds on the first day. Then at the end of her program, she lost 16 pounds. “I lost weight without looking haggard,” she says.
Then she decided to reinvent herself at midlife as a raw food chef. She sold her ensaymada business and decided to pursue an alternative lifestyle. “I was managing 200 employees. I was just too glad to let go,” says Ignacio.
Online, a Community Gathers to Concoct A Neighborhood Eatery
By Jane Black, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 27, 2008
When Sharon Greenspan went on a cross-country trip last year, she made sure to take photos of the restaurants she liked and to keep the menus. It was the easiest way to remember that "lasagna" of zucchini, spinach and pine nuts she ate in Asheville and the creamy coconut shake she tasted in Sedona. Greenspan thinks both would be great for Elements, a new restaurant she is helping to open in Washington.
The 44-year-old North Bethesda resident desperately wants a restaurant here that caters to the raw food diet, which prescribes only fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts, none of which have been heated above 112 degrees Fahrenheit. Over the past year, she has dedicated as many as 10 hours each month to attending meetings, sharing her ideas on a community Web site and creating raw food treats such as oat-hemp balls to persuade others of the virtues of raw food.
Meal made for a vegan
Diners shunning animal products have more choices
By Kimberly Chou, P-I Reporter
Monday, July 21, 2008
At Sidecar for Pigs Peace, motivation for the all-vegan grocery is clear.
An "Oink Drive" basket near the front of the store holds customer contributions for Pigs Peace Sanctuary, a nonprofit in Stanwood that cares for unwanted and abused pigs. On the request list: sanctuary-approved vegan hot dogs, pasta, tofu. Pigs' taste in comfort food, it seems, is close to that of their human counterparts.
The University District grocery bills itself as the only "100 percent vegan store" in the state. ("The vegan world is small enough that we would know," said manager Doh Driver.)
But the grocery is part of a movement that's making eating and buying vegan increasingly easier in the health-conscious Northwest and elsewhere. Vegetarians do not eat meat, though some (called lacto-ovo vegetarians) eat dairy and eggs; vegans abstain from all animal products.
Local hubs of good vegan eating include bakeries such as Fremont's Flying Apron Organic Bakery (which is also gluten-free) and restaurants such as Squid & Ink in Georgetown and Chaco Canyon (which is also 95 percent organic and offers a raw food menu) in the University District.
No raw deal at Junction’s vegan diner
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
By Liz Campbell
I didn’t know what to expect from a restaurant without a stove. Rawlicious has dehydrators, choppers, blenders and other paraphernalia, but no oven.
This new restaurant has grown out of personal commitment. When Tracey Mulvihill was diagnosed with cancer last fall, she and her partner, Angus Crawford, began to search for a healthy solution. They tried raw food and discovered not only was it helping her but Crawford also felt stronger and healthier. So they decided to share their new passion.
According to Mulvihill, raw food can provide energy and vitality. Because nothing is heated above 118 ?F enzymes are not denatured and the vitamins and minerals remain in their natural state. But here’s the kicker: it actually tastes good.
Vegetarian or vegan diet takes "wise meal planning"
Vegetarians (who don't eat meat) and vegans (who don't eat meat, dairy, eggs and other animal products) on average enjoy reduced risks of...
By Karen Gaudette
Seattle Times staff reporter
Vegetarians (who don't eat meat) and vegans (who don't eat meat, dairy, eggs and other animal products) on average enjoy reduced risks of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer and other ailments, according to the American Dietetic Association.
One reason is a conscious effort to obtain vital nutrients, like fiber, calcium and iron, said Dani Little, a registered dietitian with University of Washington Medical Center.
Cook? Don't do it!
Raw eats seen as a better way
By Jan Norris, Cox News Service
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Juliano, a star in the raw food world, came to "cook" dinner recently in Palm Beach, Fla. He is a chef of a cuisine that requires no stove or oven – and definitely no microwave.
All five of the courses he prepared were made from "living" or raw foods, using a cutting board, a blender and a dehydrator.
For Hail Merry's Susan O'Brien (and scores of celebs) raw food is the way to health
Friday, June 20, 2008
by Jackie Bolin, Special to the Dallas Morning News
Madonna does it. Demi swears by it. And fashion designer Donna Karan says it was the only thing that helped her drop the extra 20 pounds she'd been trying to shed for decades.
It's the raw-food diet, an increasingly trendy eating regimen that emphasizes raw fruits, nuts and vegetables whose enzymes, essential oils and fatty acids have not been depleted by heating above 120 degrees. Enthusiasts say raw foods aid in digestion, help the body absorb nutrients and can improve everything from the health of your heart to your complexion.
CRUDESSENCE is striking a chord with consumers hungry for organic food and drinks
Paul Delean, The Gazette
Monday, June 16
They may be Montreal's most unlikely entrepreneurs, a pair of backpacking, wheatgrass-nibbling nomads with strong hippie leanings and a shared aversion to meat.
Mathieu Gallant, 30, of Beloeil, and David Côté, 25, of Kamouraska, knew each other vaguely before crossing paths in Hawaii two years ago.
That's when they realized their personalities meshed and they had a lot in common, including a passion for unprocessed food.
The seed was planted then for a joint business venture, which came to fruition last year with the opening of Crudessence, a catering company specializing in raw food.
Vegan diet and yoga fight cancer
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
06/16/2008
A vegan low fat diet combined with yoga and exercise can help fight prostate cancer, new findings show.
Researchers found that combining a diet low in fat and rich in fruit and vegetables with regular moderate exercise seems to switch on genes that fight disease, while effectively turning off others that can promote cancer.
Plant Foods For Preserving Muscle Mass
ScienceDaily (May 31, 2008) — Fruits and vegetables contain essential vitamins, minerals and fiber that are key to good health. Now, a newly released study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists suggests plant foods also may help preserve muscle mass in older men and women.
