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Feb 25, 2010, Healthy Fruit Smoothie Recipe - Raspberry-Mango Smoothie

A healthy fruit smoothie recipe is the best way to start your day. I love having frozen fruit smoothies made with a mixture of frozen and fresh fruit as an easy and delicious raw food breakfast.

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Feb 24, 2010, Raw Vegetable Diet - Starting a Raw Food Diet the Right Way

A raw vegetable diet is the diet humans were designed to eat. Starting a raw food diet can be confusing, but if you use these tips you will be able to effortlessly stick to eating a raw vegetable diet

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Feb 21, 2010, Alkaline Foods List - Acid and Alkaline Foods

Using an alkaline foods list will allow the body to heal itself by getting rid of the acidic waste that causes poor health. A list of alkaline foods will help you choose the right foods

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Feb 21, 2010, Alkaline Foods Healing Power - Raw Food Diet

Alkaline foods will reverse disease and aging, give you energy, and completely change they way you look and feel. Eating alkaline food is the perfect way to be in complete control of your health.

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Feb 21, 2010, Raw Food Weight Loss -The Last Diet You Ever Try

Follow these tips for using raw food to rapidly burn fat without ever feeling hungry or having cravings again. Raw food weight loss keeps the pounds off for good!

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Feb 21, 2010, Good Sources of Protein - Vegetarian Protein Sources

What are good sources of protein? In order to know what the best sources of protein are, you have to know what the foods with protein are and how to determine the quailty of these sources.

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Feb 9, 2010, Fresh Juices Good or Bad?

Although drinking fresh juice is undoubtedly highly beneficial to someone eating a cooked diet, I have my suspicions about its place in a raw food diet.

The longer I eat a diet of raw foods, the more I realize our bodies need whole foods. Every vegetable and fruit is in the exact form that nature intended. These foods have all the fiber and nutrients that our bodies need in just the right amount.

So, why fool around with something so perfect? Why do we cook, dehydrate, extract, pasteurize, freeze, and homogenize foods? Of course, some of these methods make foods more interesting and if you can practice moderation and it helps you to eat healthy foods then so be it, but I have noticed that the longer I eat a raw food diet the more sensitive my body has become, which leads me to the topic of juice.

I LOVE orange juice. I ate very very little fruit on my previous cooked foods diet because I thought too much sugar was bad and would cause me to gain weight.

After learning that quite the opposite is true I was liberated and my OJ frenzy began. I was drinking up to a gallon a day of Whole Foods "fresh squeezed" OJ, which I recently learned has to have some degree of pasteurization or preservatives because truly unfooled-around-with OJ only lasts 3 days tops and this OJ keeps for over a week.

After this big let down I settled for making my own with a citrus press. However, my next big let down came when I was listening to an audio tape. You know the white stuff coating an orange after you peel it? Well you don't get that when you juice with a citrus press. You get all sugar, albeit with some pulp, but this is not good for blood sugar. This could be solved by using a juicer and adding back in the pulp or just blending the oranges.

This is crucial for anyone who suffers from hypoglycemia or similar symptoms. You absolutely need fiber to slow the absorption of sugar and prevent blood sugar issues. There has been a big difference in my mental clarity after giving up juices and eating foods in their whole state. I've now taken to eating the oranges as they are, as nature intended.