| Raw-foodist celebrities include Demi Moore, Uma | | | | States. Sound easy enough to find? It is. |
| Thurman, Natalie Portman, Woody Harrelson, | | | | Not only that, there are thousands of raw |
| James Brolin, Frankie Laine, Elijah Joy, Jason Mraz, | | | | cookbooks on the shelves. While some of the |
| and Laura Dern have been bragging about how | | | | gourmet dishes take a considerable amount of |
| raw vegan food has changed their life. What is | | | | time to prepare, there are easy enough dishes to |
| the big deal about this diet? | | | | make. E-mail me and I could recommend my |
| Proponents rave about the benefits which include | | | | favorite simple raw cookbooks. You may ask, |
| reversing disease, losing weight, having more | | | | what is wrong with cooked foods? Heat changes |
| energy, needing less sleep, improving mood and | | | | the molecular makeup of food. Foods that have |
| higher brain function. You won't believe the | | | | been heated have lost all of their life force, and |
| affects you will experience when you transition to | | | | their beneficial enzymes are destroyed. The |
| eating a high amount of raw foods each day. | | | | digestive system has to work harder and longer |
| Do I eat all raw? No, but when I do I feel my | | | | to process cooked foods to obtain nutrition & |
| best. Raw living food diets include raw vegetables, | | | | energy from it. Once cooked, a food can lose up |
| fruits, nuts, and seeds. You might think you would | | | | to 85 percent of its nutritional value. We can |
| have to give up taste for health? Absolutely NOT | | | | consider cooked food "dead food." |
| the case. Raw food restaurants are popping up all | | | | Remember the phrase "you are what you eat" |
| over the country. Wait until you try some | | | | repeated throughout your childhood? There is |
| gourmet raw food, it will blow your mind! Not only | | | | truth to that face. Since we are essentially what |
| that, pre-made raw food items are now available | | | | we eat, consuming the dead energy of dead |
| in health food stores throughout the United | | | | foods make our bodies feel heavy and stagnant. |