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Feb 8, 2010, Raw Food Interview with Former Truck Driver
One of my favorite raw food stories comes from former truck driver Jeramaya. You can listen to it below.
Welcome to the new world of partying. The Chocolate Club is for chocolate lovers. Motto: "it's hip to be healthy and cool to be conscious." Every first Saturday of the months. Info and pics below.
Dec 1, 2009, Nobel Prize Winner Reveals Mindblowing Truth about Vaccins, Drugs and Nutrition
Dr. Luc Montagnier, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine and co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, reveals the shocking truth about vaccins, drugs and nutrition.
With his powerful statements Montagnier is putting a bomb under Big Pharma's chair. Thank you Montagnier, for making a stand for honest and true healthcare.
Click here for nutrition, diet tips and recipes that boost your immune system.
Nov 26, 2009, Raw Food Breakfast Recipes
Here you'll find my top 10 raw food breakfast recipes. Free for you to download of course.
Nov 26, 2009, Dutch TV: Raw Food Diet Solution for Weight Loss
Dutch people are getting fatter and fatter. Especially in certain problem areas, people are growing out of their pants. The problem is most dramatic in the "Ondiep" neighborhood in the city of Utrecht (The Netherlands): one out of five people is obese.
Former trucker Jeramaya has a solution for this growing problem. He is a raw food specialist and proponent of healthy eating.
Watch this hilarious video where Jeramaya, cook of the Chocolate Club in Amsterdam, shows the people of Utrecht how to improve their diet... (in Dutch)
Nov 24, 2009, The importance of being grounded, living your desitiny and minerals
Nov 5, 2009, Raw Food Event with David Wolfe
The raw food event with David Wolfe in Amsterdam on November 1, 2009 was a huge success. Over 200 people from all over Europe: Germany, Belgium, Poland and of course the Netherlands. We now know the latest and greatest about the health benefit of spring water, medicinal mushrooms and super foods. Here's a link to pictures of the event.
Oct 13, 2009, David Wolfe on Goji Berries and Health
I like this video with David Wolfe where he tells about the amazing qualities of goji berries on a raw food diet (or any diet).
David Wolfe will be in Amsterdam Sunday, November 1 for another amazing afternoon. For info, go here
Sep 16, 2009, Raw Vegetable Diet in the Media
The debate about raw food is over: a raw vegetable diet works. You can see quite a lot about living foods in the media today. Go for here for heads up on the latest raw radio & TV shows.
This is the ultimate simple raw food recipes. Fantastic if you have no kitchen appliances available, when on the road, visiting friends or traveling. Ready in 1 minute.
Gabrielle Brick, a raw foodist from New York is on WE TV's new show, Secret Lives of Women Tuesday, August 25th at 10pm.
The episode is about Extreme Diets and follows Gabrielle during several days. It gives a good picture of the life of a raw foodist. I much enjoyed watching the preview and I highly recommend it.
Aug 14, 2009, How To Relate to Family and Friends When Eating Raw
If you've ever wondered how to improve your relationship with your (not raw) family and friends, watch this video from Ka Sundance (www.therawfoodfamily.com). Ka is honest, concrete and friendly when he talks about how he deals with non raw foodists.
For more on raw food in social situations click here.
Aug 11, 2009, Mango Smoothie Recipe
New in the smoothie series: a vegan mango smoothie recipe. (Also great as icecream.) All ingredients are fresh, organic and raw.
As of 2010 all food will be radiated, all meats & fish treated with antibiotics and hormones. Sign up for the EU Referendum to protect food safety and natural cures. (All nationalities can sign!)
Smoothies are essential on a raw food diet. Packed with fruits, vegetables, seeds and superfoods. Nutritious, full of fibers and ready in minutes. (And as a bonus: the blender is also cleaned in just minutes).
Here is a great article about how to make smoothies for starters.
For great and healthy fruit smoothie and green smoothie recipes click here.
Aug 3, 2009, Raw Food Weight Gain - Top 9
Selection of the best raw food weight gain tips. An overview, Recipes. Menu plan.
"A raw vegetable diet will be the diet of the future. It's just common sense" says Brian Clement in his reaction to the interview with a raw food mother who was ridiculed in the Dutch talk show DWDD.
Jul 20, 2009, How to Start a Raw Food Diet - and Stay Raw
Today I listend to a great radio talkshow for starters of a raw food diet. It's about a mother and daughter who are going to to a 30 day raw food challenge. They tried the diet a few years earlier, felt great on it, but couldnt persist. Allissa Cohen - a raw foodist for 22 years and author of Living on Raw Foods is on the show and gives the starters some great advise for raw food success. You can listen to the show here: raw food talkshow
More and more celebrities are going raw. Why did Mel Gibson follow Demi Moore and said goodbye to processed food, breads, and almost everything else in the grocery store?
Jul 14, 2009, Lemon Juice Diet Recipe: Fresh Lemonade
This is the best summer drink. You make your own fresh lemonade within minutes. It's sweet, all natural, healthy and has zero calories. Ideal when on a raw food diet, lemon juice diet or for kids. Per
Juicing vegetables, blending fruit, sprouting seeds, germinating nuts, dehydrating and fermentation are all ways to prepare raw food. What are they and when and why will you use them?
What are the benefits of elderberry? Where can you find it and how do you recognize the plant? Why should you know about this weed and what are great elderberry recipes?
Do you wonder, whether you need milk products? Do you think, that by drinking milk, you don't harm animals and the planet? Watch this video by Gabriel Cousens.
This simple and quick, yet delicious tomato soup is especially nice on a warm spring or summer night:
Serves 4
Ingredients
2 pounds tomatoes 2 medium carrots 1 medium onion 3 dried tomatoes 4 dates 1 cup spring water salt, pepper, cayenne pepper
Directions
1. Cut the tomatoes in quarts. 2. Put all ingredients in a high speed blender. 3. Blend for about 2 min. 4. For garnishing you may add some fresh black pepper, cayenne pepper, avocado, pesto, basil leafs, pine nuts, tiny cubes of cut tomato and/or scallions.
I absolutely love this soup, especially when it's warm outside. And you make it in just a few minutes. Enjoy!
What is the best cold medicine? Susun Weed, author of Herbal Medicine the Wise Women's Way knows the answer. It's one of these books that you keep reaching out for when you want to know something about herbs.
Susan is a very special women with increadible knowledge of (wild) herbs. This video is about cold colds and hot colds and what herbs are your best medicine.