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Green Juice or Green Smoothie: It’s Easy Being Green
O.K. Let’s talk green! Green is beautiful! It’s both beautiful to look at and beautiful for the body. None of us, even the ‘raw foodies’, take in enough greens on a daily basis. Most tend to overdose on healthy fats (olives, avocados, coconuts, nuts) and sweets (raw chocolate). Green is the gateway to a vibrant, happy, healthy life and it is EASY to incorporate into your daily eating routine, without asking yourself to give up anything. All it takes is to add one green juice or green smoothie a day to your daily diet. That’s it. If you want to take in more juices and smoothies per day, I say…
It’s Okay to Drink Tea When You’re Raw
When I started on this journey, like so many others, I worried about what I would have to give up. Some things I was more willing to chuck out of my diet than others. I really don’t miss a lot of things as I explore new ways to literally have my cake and eat it too. But I worried about my crazy and expensive tea habit. Every single person in our pod are heavy tea drinkers. We drink it iced in the summer, hot in winter and make special toddies when we aren’t feeling well. So the thought of not being able to have my tea was depressing. Luckily for…
Intermittent Fasting: Fewer Hours Eating = Better Health
For me it all started at the onset of COVID. I had never really given much thought to intermittent fasting. Yes, I’ve done plenty a three day juice fast and felt all the better for it every time. But anyone will vouch for the fact that I like to eat. I like to eat a lot! So anything that involves not eating for prolonged periods of time will not be a big blip on my radar. In March, however, I lost my job in retail when it became one of the hardest hit businesses in the pandemic path. And suddenly I found myself at home all the time, as did…
Going Vegan with Baby Steps
I know from experience that going vegan – let alone raw vegan – is not always the easiest road. Whatever our motivation, we are often up against a lifetime of mind and body conditioning that certainly hampers the path. And it’s never made easier by the fact that many of our friends… and even, in some cases, our families put up obstacles to our forward movement just by being so incredulous. “When are you going to start eating real food again?”, they’re asking us. We thought we were. This is obviously some gaslighting technique to convince us we’re insane. And don’t you just love those folks who magically spew all…
Boosting Immunity: 7 Steps to Superwoman
Ever since the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, many people have become hyperconscious about their health. It’s hard not to be when everyone’s walking around in masks and maintaining a 6 foot distance from everyone else. The whole world’s starting to look like some sci-fi movie. So what does boosting immunity look like in corona virus times? Not much different than any other time, honestly. Except you get to look like a bandit, if you’re into it, and nobody will bat an eye. Because boosting immunity isn’t just something we should be doing because a pandemic comes knocking on our collective door, but something we’re actively doing all the time.…
The Vagina and the Pineapple: A Fairytale
Girl talk! I know that just about every one of us has heard some poppycock story about how vaginas smell like fish naturally. And we’ve all seen the ads that boast some chemical douche that’ll make your vagina smell like roses and taste like a jellybean. Here’s the thing: our yonis are very delicate. They absolutely must maintain a moderately acidic pH level between 3.8 and 4.5. This is to ward off infection, keep away itchiness, and just keep your vagina healthy and happy. It’s a fun fact that what we eat has a huge effect on our vaginas: how they smell, how they taste, and how they feel. For…
Soaking and Sprouting: Patience is a Virtue
It’s hard to imagine that raw seeds, nuts, grains and beans warrant anything so involved as soaking and sprouting. They’re raw, after all! Isn’t that enough to make them wonderful? Unfortunately for us, however, they’re so highly evolved that they’ve got their own protective outerwear built in. They’re covered in enzyme inhibitors that prevent them from germinating prematurely and help keep all the essential nutrients they need to grow, all locked up and safe till the right moment. Essentially it’s like the plant equivalent of wearing a chastity belt. Those chemicals don’t help us at all, though. Instead they prevent us from being able to absorb minerals and proteins from…
Great Sex Through Great Food
Great sex is something we all long for and consistently look to someone else to ‘give it to us’. I mean, let’s not deny it: most often all we hear from each other are the complaints about our lovers and what they’re not doing and all the stuff that could make them better. But what can we do to make it all better for ourselves? How Can We Gift Ourselves With Great Sex? Now, I love sex. And not really for any of the obvious reasons: the aspect of release, the intimacy… any of those things. I just think it’s fun! I’ve had many friends bitch about how their significant…
Raw Till 4: Taking The High Road to More Raw
In the beginning, for a few short weeks, I dabbled with a Raw Till 4 kind of scenario. But, the dope that I was, Raw Till 4 just wasn’t good enough for me. I should have stayed there, where it was relatively easy and comfortable. But I had this idea to go whole hog: all day, all raw. It was like a shock to my system. I was hungry. Like some ravenous predator on the Discovery channel. I was bordering on dangerous. Honestly, I could have eaten my own arm. For sure, I did it all wrong. For people who are genuinely ill with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. drastic measures…
In The Raw Kitchen: Gadgets and Knives
Embracing any kind of a raw food diet poses some new questions in the kitchen: is there anything special required to truly reap all the benefits that the raw food diet has to bestow? What does a raw kitchen need? This subject is near and dear to my heart because the ‘Raw Food Equipment’ class was the first I ever taught with my first Partner in Raw, Alisa. It was baptism by fire. My whole kitchen had been transformed into what I then dubbed ‘Alisa’s Chamber of Torture’. Everything looked impressive and imposing but mostly it just looked like ALOT! In this version of the Raw Kitchen there was not…
