The Secrets to 'Raw Food Living' ... Plus Raw Food Diet Tips, Recipes & Ideas!

Are you wondering about the new raw food diet?

Raw food can be the next step in the trend toward vegetarianism and/or veganism, as well as organic concerns. This diet has been embraced by several celebrities, and there are restaurants catering to raw foodists these days. There are also many raw food recipe books available, as well as support groups and message boards galore for raw foodists, people who eat a raw food based diet.

Many find the raw food diet compelling due to dramatic weight loss stories, as well as a belief in a healthier lifestyle and body, but this is not just your average diet. It is a lifestyle change. Raw foodists point out that this is not necessarily a new diet, but that many cultures a long time ago ate most of their food raw, including paleolithic man, and eskimos. (No longer called eskimos, eskimo means eater of raw food).

The raw food diet is a diet consisting mostly of raw vegan food, which includes raw fruits, raw vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Many raw foodists think that the more their diet is made up if raw food, the healthier their diet is, and the healthier they will become. This can also be true for your pets - cats and dogs have been found to benefit from raw food diets, although cats and dogs have very different digestive systems than people, so obviously their diets should be very different from a diet meant for human consumption.

The raw food movement is in itself divided up into groups of people. Some will eat cooked food for a small percentage of their diet. Many of these people are combinations of the following groups:

Living foodists: these people follow a diet in which their food is made up of plant food in which the plant's enzymes are still active, such as sprouted seeds and nuts.

Juicarians: all of their food is in the form of home made juice

Some raw foodists will eat unpasteurized milk and some raw meats, but this can be a concern as cooking is often necessary to kill any unwanted bacteria. Temperatures need to be very high or very low to kill these bacteria, and eating food raw is an infection risk. Pasteurizing is a method of preserving milk, and unpasteurized milk needs to be very fresh to be safe.

A small group of raw foodists will not eat food that has been processed by a machine at all, including juicers, dehydrators, blenders, and/or food processors. They believe in eating food in the most natural state possible.

What are living foods?

By some definitions, raw foodist are also life foodists, but a more specific definition implies what in living foods, the enzymes are active, and are therefore considered living. It is the difference between sprouted and unsprouted seeds or nuts (sprouted seeds or nuts are living). Some people will only or mostly eat living foods, believing in the health benefits of greater enzyme activity.

"Discover The Secrets To Staying Raw, Reducing Cravings, Finding Motivation and Fighting Disease from 14 Raw and Living Food Experts--All From the Comfort of Your Living Room--for FREE!"

No travel needed for this amazing event...

I have something I think you'll be really excited about, I know I am...

Over the last month, co-creator of the Raw Summit has been busy putting together something that's never been done before.

For those who aren't familiar with the Raw Summit, it was an online teleseminar event that brought thousands of people together to learn more about raw and living foods.

What Kevin is up to now is even bigger and better...

He's spent the last month putting together an event called "The Rawkathon."

This is a collection of candid, one-on-one interviews with 15 of the top raw and living food experts on the planet and it will be broadcast for you to watch or listen to in a few short weeks.

The interviews--from what he's said--are like no stage presentation or "how-to" DVD you've seen before.

Not only do these interviews cover how to stay raw, how to stay motivated, and the best ways to do so--Kevin has also said that they capture the true essense of each expert. Almost like you were there in the room with them as the interview was being conducted.

So when you're a part of the event, you get to hear 15 amazing interviews that really have never been created before or likely never again.

As with all of Kevin's events, to get involved, it's 100% fr@e.

It costs nothing for you to watch or listen to these interviews.

All you have to do is register now and you'll be sent information on how you can be a part of raw food history...





Right now the project is set to release on October 19th and only is broadcast for one week, so I wanted to let you know early.

There is an opportunity to get all the interviews in a digital or hardcopy package at a special price with special bonuses, that won't be up after the event starts.

So please go ahead and register now...





Happy Health To YOU!

P.S. In just a few short weeks, this event will be over, so don't miss the opportunity now!

This is a nice little recipe I re-vamped sometime ago when experimenting with heaps of different tastes and raw vegan desserts. It's a fully guilt free raw and healthy alternative to cooked pies, so you can eat as much as you like.

Here's how to make it . . . You'll need a few good handfuls of berries (whatever you like, I usually use blueberries & strawberries) for the Berry layer of the pie/pudding.

For the Cashew Candy layer: 1 cup cashews, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1-1.5 Tbsp of coconut oil, 1/2 - 1 Tbsp agave syrup, a pinch of sea salt.

Next blend ingredients together in a processor until smooth (you can add a little water if needed). The idea of this candy layer is to be thick and creamy like.

For the Chocolate Pudding Layer: 1 small avocadoes, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1.5 Tbs raw cacao powder, 1-2 Tbs agave syrup and 1/2 - 1 Tbs coconut oil.

Again blend ingredients together in a processor or vitamix until smooth and creamy. Test it, and add more of any of the ingredients if you want a more rich chocolate or sweeter flavor).

Next all you have to do is layer a cashew candy layer, followed by a chocolate pudding layer, then a berry layer and repeat. Then refrigerate for an hour or so (unless you can't help but dig in straight away that is) so the chocolate layer sets.

Enjoy!!!

*Note that this recipe and ingredients will only serve about 1-2 people, just double up on everything if you want to make a large pie (We only make small pies when we make this usually, or we'd eat way too much in one sitting ).

I usually send out a newsletter here and there, but I broke with tradition from my normal routine and decided to write this blurb straight onto my lens because something important came across my desk.

You see, I answer questions every day on the benefits of a healthier diet, but realized that I've not paid enough attention to...

THE COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS behind the raw food diet!

These misconceptions stop people dead-in-their-tracks from losing that 20lbs, having the energy to play with their kids after work, and the confidence to lead the life they've always dreamed of.

I've come to learn that a friend of mine, Jim Carey, a raw food expert, has already spent a lot of time *debunking* these misconceptions.

In fact, I just saw his video "Dispelling the Raw Food Myths" and I must say - it's shocking!

Check out the video here:

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Oh yea, it's completely free and you don't have to give your email address, but if you do, Jim promises to send you more free videos, success story interviews, and raw food recipes. (that's pretty nice of him)

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Healthy eating,
Rebecca

P.S. Before you click over, I'd like to leave you with some inspiring words from Dr. Martin Luther King...

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."

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The power of raw foods is not only one of the most well-known "rejuvenation" secrets of celebrities and Hollywood stars (such as Demi Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Sting, Edward Norton, Carol Alt, and many others) it is also a concept that has the potential of giving you what you're looking for: incredible health, increased energy, and a youthful and slim body.

In the Raw Secrets, you will discover:

> Diseases and conditions caused or aggravated by bread and grain consumption.

> The most overlooked and important causes for lack of energy.

> Why certain foods are poisons and drugs, and how to find out which ones are.

> An absolutely effective and low-cost way to give up bad habits.

> All about a healthy diet that doesn't require you to buy special products.

> Sure signs that the diet you're not (even if it's raw)is not working for you.

> The easiest (and best) way to transition to a raw food diet.

> Why you don't need to eat 100% raw to achieve excellent health, if you don't want to..

> This insider secret to eating a raw food diet in the north.

> Why most raw-food diets are unhealthy and what to do instead.

> The one key principle to achieving a higher level of health, no matter what diet you're on!

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It's as easy as turning off your stove!

Living on Live food teaches you what a raw and living food diet is and how to get started immediately!

600 pages of inspiring, practical and easy to follow information!

Living on Live Food contains a detailed 4 week plan, complete with menu, shopping list and meal preparation instructions.

15 compelling stories with before and after photos and a large question and answer section where you will find many of the most frequently asked questions and 290 recipes!

Here is an explanation of the book from a UK distributor:

About the "Living on Live Food" by Alissa Cohen, sometimes, though not nearly often enough, someone comes through and delivers something really special into the raw food scene. On this occasion, and not a moment too soon, it's Alissa Cohen (as featured in Get Fresh! issue 3) from the USA.

Alissa has brought to the table Living on Live Food, her first book, and quite literally a work of art inside and out, together with an accompanying DVD set of the same name.

Aimed especially at newbies, though of benefit to everyone, the book is huge! It's one of the largest books on raw food ever to come into print. Cover-wise it measures just one inch short of being A4 size, is exactly 1 inch thick and weighs in at 4.5lbs! Containing 32 chapters on just about every topic you can think of, such as: It's so easy!; What is raw and living food?; Shopping for raw and living foods; Your raw and living food kitchen; How to start raw%u2026today!; Four week shopping and preparation guide; Food combining; Detoxing; Learning to have fun; Testimonials, and much more, it really is essential reading and is worth every penny and more. Indeed, the testimonials flooding in to Alissa daily clearly illustrate how completely do-able a raw food diet has been made - even for people who have tried and given up before.

The second part of the book consists of recipes - 254 pages of them - covering all manner of dishes including appetizers, side dishes, dips and spreads, breads, "cheeses", chips, soups, sauces and condiments, entrees, salads, desserts and drinks. The great thing about these recipes is that they're not so simple as to be boring, but not so complicated that you won't be bothered to attempt them! Sitting perfectly balanced in between the two, these dishes are everyday good wholesome filling raw delights that anyone can do, including children.

Also sprinkled throughout the book are great photos of Alissa going about her everyday life (she looks a radiant picture of health), as well as inspiring food photos of some of her recipes and at the back is a useful resource guide and complete index.

I have to let you know about some REALLY exciting news. Many of you may have heard about the making of the raw food film "Raw for 30 Days" that has been in production for the last three years.

I'm excited to let you know that the film, now retitled "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days," has finally launched!

And the exciting news is...it's a GREAT film!

If you haven't seen the trailer yet click here:





The film features experts David Wolfe, Dr. Gabriel Cousins, Tony Robbins and many others. It is a MUST SEE, especially for anyone who is diabetic or pre-diabetic (or anyone who has a diabetic friend in their life!).

The film documents 6 diabetics going through a 30 day raw food cleanse. The results are amazing!

PS. Make sure to also check out some of the clips from the "Raw for Life" program on the site.

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This is the BIGGEST Raw Food Festival of the year, which you don't want to miss!!!! Last year there were over 2000 Health-Conscious-Loving individuals at this festival.

The Raw Spirit Fest is on Track to double the attendance this year. It's highly recommended attending this festival to connect with others, network, have fun, try new foods, seek out possible business opportunities and to learn a WEALTH of information.

To sign up or discover why you should consider going to the Raw Spirit Festival 2008, click the below image:

You can eaisly alter this recipe using ingredients you happen to have on hand: nuts, dried fruits, and seasonings such as vanilla and cinnamon. This makes a great health snack, or you can simply enjoy it at breakfast time with fresh almond milk on top!

Ingredients You'll Need::

2 cups sprouted buckwheat
1 cup sunflower seeds, chopped
1/2 - 1 cup coconut
1/2 cup sultanas
1/2 cup goji berry's
1/2 cup dried apricots (preferably soaked and diced)
1/4 cup macadamia nuts (almonds or both), chopped
1/4 cup pepetias
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
1 Tablespoon orange zest
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 Tablespoons agave nectar

Here's what to do with your raw granola ingredients:

1) Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
2) Spread thick on a teflex sheet on top of a mesh dehydrator screen.
3) Dehydrate at 105 for about 5-10 hours or until your desired crispness is reached.

Serve with almond milk or raw cashew cream and fresh fruit.

Enjoy!

Improve Your Health And Transform Your Life In Record Time With Raw And Living Foods. This New Course Features Many Digital Books And Audio Interviews With Health Gurus. It Focuses On Vegan And Vegetarian Diets Along With Exercise And Juice Fasting Info.

What is included in The Health Evolution Home Study Course?

You will receive...

#1) The Health Evolution: Getting Started with Raw and Living Foods digital book- an in-depth guide that shows you exactly how to get started with the raw foods diet today!

Bonus 1) The Art of Juice Fasting - How to improve your health in record time with fresh fruit and vegetable juices. This digital book and audio shows you exactly how to start a juice fast. Juice fasting is the quickest way to improve your health. It covers the types of juices you should drink, how much, how to get fresh juice at work, different tools you can use for elimination and toxification, and much more.

Bonus 2) Conversations with Dr. Flora- This awesome digital book contains Dr. Flora's years of wisdom. She worked with Dr. Ann Wigmore for decades and shares her inside secrets. Dr. Wigmore is known as the 'Mother' of the modern raw foods community.

Bonus 3) Life Foods - Digital book and audio rogram with raw foods expert Paul Nison. In this program Paul shares his teachings on health and healing. Paul is the author of numerous raw food books and tours internationally to give presentations on living foods.

Bonus 4) Introduction to Raw Foods and Natural Hygiene with Dave Klein - Dave eats a 100% raw vegan diet and lives the Natural Hygiene lifestyle. He healed himself of IBS / crohns / colitis by eating raw foods and fasting. He is the author of numerous books on health and nutrition and he publishes a raw foods magazine. You will receive two digital books and two audio programs containing interviews with Dave Klein. Natural Hygiene is the science and art of living in harmony with nature.

Bonus 5) Interview with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, along with an interview with Gabriel's personal assistant Michael Bader. In this audio program you will discover the basics of Spiritual Nutrition, secrets of living foods, Three supplements every raw vegan should be taking, plus an introduction into programs offered by the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center.

Bonus 6) Getting Started with the Dr. Ann Wigmore Live Foods program - Audio interview with Dr. Jim Carey, Executive Trustee of the Creative Health Institute (CHI). CHI is a vegan raw and living foods retreat center in Michigan, also called The Wheatgrass Place. CHI was founded by Dr. Ann Wigmore many years ago. CHI is a natural health learning center which provides a natural program of body purification, nutrition and rejuvenation through the use of fresh raw fruits, vegetables, juices, nuts, sprouted seeds, grains, beans, chlorophyll rich greens and wheatgrass juice.

Bonus 7) Introduction into The Master Cleanse Diet, aka. The Lemonade Diet. This audio program gives a detailed description of the benefits of the popular Master Cleanser detox and cleanse program, which was created by Stanley Burroughs. You will discover how to get started on the cleanse, what to expect during and after the cleanse, plus additional supplements and tools that will help improve your experience on the Master Cleanser.

Bonus 8) How to loose weight on the raw foods diet -This popular audio program was created with Carlene Jones.

Carlene lost 136 pounds in 9 months - that is as fast as bariatric surgery! All she did was eat raw vegan foods and exercise! In this program, she tells her story and talks about healing from obesity...giving you valuable tips on safe weight loss.

Bonus 9) The Art of Raw Gourmet Foods - How to make delicious and beautiful meals that everyone will love! These two audio programs with digital books contain interviews with raw gourmet chefs- including Matthew Kenney (author of Raw Food / Real World), Gabrielle Chavez (author of The Raw Food Gourmet), Brian Au (Author of Raw in Ten Minutes). Discover how to make vegan cheese, cakes, pies, vegan sushi, nut milks, pate, pasta, and much more!

Bonus 10) Natural Bodybuilding on a raw vegan diet - Discover the secrets to building big muscle... without supplements! Yes, it can be done! In this audio course we discuss specific exercises and foods that will build muscle and get you in shape fast. This audio course is good for both Men and Women.

Bonus 11) Raw Spirit with Matt Monarch - Matt has been eating a 100% living foods diet for a decade. He shares with you the missing link in most people's journey to optimal health. Most health seekers are missing out on this one important tool
that could be causing unnecessary pain!

Bonus 12) Free Updates! You will receive new audio programs and special reports as I add them.

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Thousands of people throughout the world are returning to the raw food diet intended as the diet for all creatures on planet earth.

Out of thousands of species on earth, only one species eats cooked food! We are actually in the minority. Which species has the most health problems?

I'll confess the idea of 100% raw food can be quite a change. It was for me a couple of years ago. But listen to your heart - doesn't it make sense?

Here's a secret. There are some sacrifices. But over time the benefits get greater and greater, and the sacrifices grow smaller and smaller. Your tastes literally awaken - living food tastes so good!

To get the benefits, you must have faith and hope to begin. To begin, you need the knowledge and skills to fully embrace and understand this Raw Food Diet.

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This raw chocolate recipe is so easy and delish that you wouldn't believe it's a raw foodies chocolate recipe unless someone actually pointed it out to you.

Here's the recipe . . .

**Raw Chocolate Bars

This recipe came from a raw food recipe I picked up recently and adapted a little with what I had in the cupboard at the time.

It's truly a delicious raw chocolate recipe and makes a good number of bars for a couple people to share, if you plan on taking this to a gathering I'd suggest you double the recipe to share with even more friends and family (if you can resist eating them all your self that is).

Ingredients:

1 cup almond butter (or one jar)
1 cup cacao powder
3/4 - 1 cup cacao butter, melted
1 Tablespoons vanilla extract or 1 vanilla pod
1/2 - 3/4 cup agave nectar
1 cup shredded coconut
1/4 teaspoon sea salt (optional)

Directions:

1. Grate the cacao butter in a bowl and place that bowl on top of another bowl of hot water to melt the butter.

2. In a food processor mix the almond butter and cacao powder thoroughly.

3. Transfer this mixture to another bowl and add the vanilla and agave. Mix in well with a wooden spoon.

4. When cacao butter has liquidised, pour into chocolate mixture and mix through. Then add the coconut and sea salt.

5. Use a spoon to spread chocolate into a glass dish 20 x 20 cm approx, then add some extra shredded coconut on top if desired.

6. Put in freezer until chocolate has set. This could also be done in the fridge if you're not in a hurry.

7. Cut into squares and eat without holding back. This recipe may turn you into a chocoholic if you are not one already - So Beware my friends.

Great Raw Food Motivational e-books to dive into that will help you understand the live food lifestyle easily.

With 'The Raw Food Lifestyle For Weight Loss'. The author Lost Over 160lbs By Going Raw.

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Here's some practical organic gardening principles to start you off harvesting your very own raw foods in your own backyard garden in just 2 weeks. Have a look at what you can learn ...

>The secrets to successfully growing an organic vegetable garden from scratch.

>How to set up a garden that runs itself and provides your food with minimal time and effort from you.

>Choosing the right seed varieties which are strong and resist disease

>What to do with the surplus produce you will have on hand.

>How you can save up to $100 PER WEEK from your food bill.

>How to grow more than you thought possible in less space you ever though possible.

>Never accept tasteless and lifeless food that is grown for supermarket appearance and shelf life.

>How to control pests organically using no chemicals in your garden or home. These formulas are all easy to make and use at home.

>The secrets to companion planting to increase yields and improve garden health.

>Tips to attract more disease killing insects in your backyard.

>50+ ways to improve your soil the organic way.

>How to plan right, how to plant more fruit trees and how things can grow together.

>Find out how many varieties are available and how beneficial it is to develop your local knowledge and different plants can actually be used for.

>Start your "seed bank" and realize saving seeds for the future is not that hard. These methods will be revealed to you.

>Not only save money, but discover ways to actually make money with your garden. I share my best ideas on this.

>Watch your kids willingly eat more fruit and vegetables than you could ever force them to eat. They will also enjoy growing it with you!

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This would have to be one of my all time favorite raw food vegan pie recipes, unfortunately I can't take credit for the recipe but I can take credit for making it and taking it along to any party's I go to - everyone is always very surprised at the multi-layer style and taste of this pie. Here are just some of the words used by others to describe this taste sensation: 'devine, creamy, gorgeous, I love it, teach me how to make it' and with rave's like that it should be one of those raw pies you should keep on file to send people to heaven every once and a while at any kind of gathering or dinner party you go to.

I usually change the ingredients to what fruit is in season at the time, sometimes add fresh mint or essence into the chocolate candy layer and use my own almond, coconut and date basic pie base crust (as I am somewhat addicted to almonds) but other than that I base it on the recipe I found here on the Raw Inspiration Blog.

If you want to wow your friends and family with a healthy, guilt free dessert then why not give this raw pie a try - you will honestly feel like you've died and gone to heaven with the first bite!

PS> To see an extra special picture of this multi-layer pie: Click Here.

Yes - there is great need for raw foodie magazines out there in this world!

... And that's wonderful news for anyone who may be looking to discover and learn more about the benefits of living on a raw food diet.

That's were Purely Delicious comes in, it is made with masses of love by the sublime Anna Tipps in Texas. This magazine is wonderful for anyone either looking into going raw, already raw or jsut wanted to add extra raw foods into their diet.

The magazine is BEAUTIFULLY presented and subscriptions are a quite cheap at only $25 for a year.

For more details or to visit their website click the below image now:

Watch this Free Video Dispelling the Raw Food Myths and learn the REAL Truth about raw food living today ... Click Here to Learn the TRUTH!

AMAZING Raw Desserts to Die For!

Raw desserts are so FUN to make! They're simply amazing, and so healthy that they're virtually guilt-free! You won't believe what can be made with Raw plant-based foods - cakes, cookies, candy, brownies, chocolate mousse, even ice cream! Better still, your family, friends, and guests will not believe it either! It's great fun to make them guess what your fabulous desserts are made of, and they'll almost never get it right. They'll be amazed when they hear. And they'll ask for more, especially when you tell them how healthy the food is!

Here are the recipes you'll find in this brilliant raw foods book . . .

- Simple Banana Smash Pudding
- Cranberry Candy
- Cinnamon Banana Candy
- Isle of Capri Chocolate Mousse
- Peppermint Chocolate Mousse
- Sweet Dragon Puff Mousse
- Sexed Up Spicy Chocolate Mousse
- Fresh Lemon Pudding
- Key Lime Pudding
- Key Lime Perfect Parfait
- Fruit - Gourmet Style
- Honey-Nut Pineapple
- Peach Caramel Pie
- Richly Rewarding Caramel Apple Pie
- Bananas Foster
- Carnival Caramel Apple
- Fun Chocolate Applesauce
- Gourmet Raw Georgia Stuffed Peaches
- Sexy Cherry English Trifle
- Chocolate Mint Chip Parfait
- Simple Cheesecake Crust
- Oh My! It's Vanilla Cheesecake
- Raspberry Vanilla Cheesecake
- Decadent Chocolate Cheesecake with Hazelnut Crust
- Out of this Galaxy Chocolate Brownies
- Frozen Grapes
- Orange Blossom Sweet Stuffing
- Sweetly Southern Vanilla Peaches
- Sesame Seed Candy
- Orange Raspberry Cake
- Layered Raw Fruit Cake
- University of Michigan Blueberry Banana Pie
- Swanky Seed-n-Nut Balls
- Date Nut Thing-a-Ma-Jigs
- The Crazy Good Bar

Plus . . . Raw Ice Creams

- Raw Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
- Vanilla Rose Ice Cream
- Awesomely Rich Chocolate Almond Ice Cream
- Southern Cinnamon Peach Ice Cream
- Summer Strawberry Ice Cream
- Chocolate Hazelnut Ice Cream
- Coconut Pineapple Ice Cream
- Sexed Up Spicy Frozen Fudge Bites

And Raw Food Sauces, Coulis & Glazes ...

- Carob Glaze
- Delectable Apricot Sauce
- Black Forest Sauce
- Peppermint Chocolate Sauce
- Super Star Vanilla Sauce
- Sweet Cashew Cream Cheese Frosting
- Sassy Lemon Curd Sauce
- Sweet Rose Sauce
- Vibrant Berry Coulis

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