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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.
May 25, 2009, More Vegetable Juice Recipes - With Dandelion and Nettles
There are so many vegetables growing at the moment. And they're everywhere! Every day I go outside to pick some fresh wild edible plants for my vegetable juice. Tasty, healthy and free.
Here's the vegetable juice recipe I made today.
Ingredients
4 Tops of wild Nettles 1 large handful of wild grasses (or wheat grass) about 5 dandelion leafs 1 stalk of fresh mint Tiny bit of fresh parsly 1 apple 1 small lemon, peeled
Directions
Put all ingredients through your blender (I used Greenstar). Stir and drink.
Mine was absolutely delicious! I hope yours is too.
Here's an excellent vegan cheese recipe. It tastes just like young goat cheese. Perfect in salads, as a spread or dip. Made with pine nuts, garlic and fresh chives.
May 12, 2009, Why We Eat More Than We Actually Need
In the videos below Marion Nestle, professor at the NYU and author of the book What To Eat, discusses how the business of food companies has led to rampant obesity and other health issues. I like Marion's book (even thought not about raw food). She doesn't tell you what food is right or wrong but she does tell you what happens to the food before it arrives in the store. Quite interesting...
Is the swine flue a real threat or is it the latest hoax to help the pharmaceutical industry through the financial crisis?
Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida gives you his opinion as well as practical tips on how to protect yourself from the swine flu naturally.
Here's a very quick and easy recipe for a delicious raw food bar. Great for taking along when you're on the go.
Ingredients: 1 Handful of brazil nuts 1 Handful of pitted dates Dash of sea salt Few drops of lemon juice
Put all ingredients in a blender and mix at low speed. (The ingredients should be finely chopped so that you still see little chunks - like a pesto - and not too smooth.)
You can make the "dough" into balls, into "bars" (make your own larabar), or you can wrap them in a sheet of nori seaweed like a sushi roll.
Apr 14, 2009, Raw Food Diet - 16 Snacks For Raw Success
Living on a raw food diet in a not so raw and vegan world can be challenging. When you're in a hurry, traveling, or forgot to do groceries, you can't go to a fast food chain, deli or restaurant.
Spring is in the air. New plants are coming up. You, a raw foodist, can go out to eat fresh young wild plants! Free. Delicious, Nutitrious. Click the link below to find out what wild plants you can eat, where to find them and how to eat them.
Apr 1, 2009, Raw Food Diet Testimonial from Anna Maria Clement
Anna Maria Clement Ph.D. L.N.C., co-director of the famous Hippocrates Health Institute (raw food retreat in Florida) tells this really nice story of why she became a raw foodist and how she started the health institute over 30 years ago.
For more raw food testimonials, click the link below.
What causes cancer and what are the latest natural cancer cures? Leonard Coldwell (Kevin Trudeau's European doctor) cured over 35,000 people from terminal diseases. He unveals his secrets here.