The importance of natural digestive enzymes in a raw food diet

Dina Khader speaks about the importance of natural digestive enzymes in the raw food diet. Natural digestive enzymes in our food are essential for good health. If we cook our food, we kill the enzymes and it becomes much harder to digest. By cooking our food, we stress the pancreas, which has to produce the enzymes to digest cooked foods. If we eat a raw food diet, we get plenty of enzymes with our food. This makes the food easier to digest and even builds a buffer of enzymes in our pancreas. Most people don't eat enough raw food. Sometimes a supplement of digestive enzymes can be helpful for a while, while you transition to a raw food diet.

Dr. Barbara Hendel: Himalayan crystal salt, sole as natural cosmetic

Dr. Barbara Hendel, the author of "Water and Salt: the essence of life" tells how you can use Himalayan salt as a natural cosmetic. When you take a normal bath, your skin dries out. If you add 1% Himalayan salt to your bath, called a sole bath, your skin becomes very soft and smooth. It is moistened in a very natural way and even wrinkles disappear.

You make a sole bath by dissolving 1 kilo (2 pounds) of Himalayan salt in water at 98,6 degree Fahrenheit (body temperature). At this temperature minerals can enter your body easily and toxins can come out easily. Stay in this water for 20 minutes. Don’t rub or take a shower afterwards. The salt must remain on your skin. You will be surprised by the natural softness of your skin.

This bath also gives you energy through the minerals in the salt. During the full moon the sole bath is more energizing, during the new moon it is more detoxifying.

Raw food recipe for a healthy summer drink from water-lemon-mint

This wonderful summer drink is made from good quality water (Spa water), lemon and peppermint.
It is easy to make and very healthy and delicious. A great drink for weight loss.

Raw food video fun: creative raw food of the future

Edible? I'm vegan .... ;-)

Dr. Robert Young on the importance of alkaline foods for weight loss

In these video’s dr. Robert Young speaks about the importance of alkaline foods for weight loss and health. One of the reasons why a raw food diet works so well, is because it is a very alkaline diet.

By keeping your body alkaline you can prevent many diseases. The main problem nowadays is that our bodies become too acidic by the food we eat, our environment and our emotions.
Learn how to change your condition to a more alkaline condition and you have the key to great health, weight loss, a lot of energy and a happy life.

For more info on an alkaline diet, go to www.phmiracleliving.com.

Free Raw Food Recipes - Raw Food Freebies

Are you looking for free raw food recipes or raw food freebies?

Fill out your name and email address at upper the right side of the blog.
We will send you free raw food recipes every week.
Just fill out your name and email address.

It is absolutely free without any obligation.
We respect your privacy and won't share or distribute your email address.

For free raw food recipes, sign up at the upper right side of the blog.
You will get an email to confirm your subscription.
After confirming your first recipe arrives in your mailbox within a few minutes.

Free e-book by Ann Wigmore - Why Suffer?

Free e-book by Ann Wigmore, one of the founders of our modern raw food movement.

Jim Carey at chidiet.com just released a free ebook by Ann Wigmore called "Why Suffer?" He's limiting the number he gives away, so if you are interested, you need to get over there right now.

You can reserve your copy at: http://www.chidiet.com/freebook.htm

Tanisha Marshall's raw food diet success story

Tanisha Marshel tells about her amazing raw food diet success story. Tanisha felt so bad that she stopped eating all together. Within a few days she felt better than ever before in her life. After realizing the effect of diet on her health, she switched to a vegan raw food diet. By doing this she overcame obesity, sleep deprival, and instantly regained her energy levels literally overnight. Listen to this great story.

Largest root vegetable on the fruit and vegetable show

Did you ever see vegetables like this?

Oedipus: the story of Oedipus performed by vegetables

The story of OEDIPUS in 8 minutes performed by vegetables in the tradition of Ben-Hur.
Featuring a Potato, a Tomato, Broccoli, Garlic, and Billy Dee Williams as the Bartender.

Viktoras Kulvinskas on the importance of enzymes for our health

Viktoras Kulvinskas is one founders of our modern raw food movement. He founded the
Hippocreates Health Institute, together with Ann Wigmore and wrote the health classic
"Survival into the 21st Century".

In this video he speaks about the importance of enzymes. In the near future the influence of enzymes will far exceed the total influence of physics en chemistry in the previous century.
Viktoras was a visionary 50 years ago and I think he still is.

Markus Rothkranz: reverse aging, the advantages of a raw food diet

Raw food contains the all nutrients we need.
Eating raw food is easier than cooking.

Watch this great video with many testimonials.

The advantages of a raw food diet:
- never get sick again
- lose weight
- regain your youth
- become sexier than you have ever been before
- get incredible energy
- look beautiful
- feel light and happy
- sleep well
- live natural
- become incredibly strong

Hippocrates: Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.
Try raw food!

David Wolfe: to detox, build up minerals like calcium and magnesium

David Wolfe speaks about the role of minerals for detoxification. You need to have enough minerals in our body to be able to detoxify. The main role of for instance calcium, magnesium or oxygen in our body is to detoxify. Many people are so low in minerals, that they can’t detoxify, although they are very toxic. Your first need to build up your minerals and create a buffer. Superfoods like spirulina, powdered grasses, goji berries and raw chocolate are great for this purpose. Once you have a buffer of minerals, you can start your detox.

Europe is waking up! And time for stinging nettle juice ...

Today has been as busy day for Raw Food Netherlands (our Dutch raw food department).
The main Dutch newspaper “de Telegraaf” interviewed me last Friday.
The article was published today. Almost a whole page on raw food!
This meant thousands of readers on my Dutch blog today, lots of email and the phone ringing all day.
Today the main newspaper from Belgium “Het Nieuwsblad” interviewed me as well.
This interview will be published tomorrow.
And for a change, tonight I was interviewed again about raw food.
Europe is waking up. People become interested in raw food.

I had hardly any time to eat my raw food, talking about it all the time.
But … I made a fantastic raw chocolate smoothie, great under these circumstances.
It is easy and fast to make and very nourishing. Enough food for hours.

And tonight, not having had much time for shopping, I made the best stinging nettle combination
so far: half stinging nettle, half cucumber.
Try it! You’ll be surprised. It tastes good.
If you think, that it’s too strong, use more cucumber and less stinging nettle.
This smoothie is very alkaline, nourishing and gives instant energy, exactly what I needed.
And ... it is almost free, as are the best things in life ;-)

Enjoy!

What is the best raw food diet? What percentage should be raw?

Kevin Gianni posted a great video on RenegadeHealth.com.
What percentage of your diet should be raw to call yourself a raw foodie?

My question: Why call yourself a raw foodie?
What is this whole discussion about?
Everybody is different. For one person it is healthy to eat 100% raw, for another not.

And what is a raw food diet anyway? Is there a definition?
Even if you do eat 100% raw, there can be such a big difference between one person and the other. Do you eat raw fish, dairy or eggs? Do you eat superfoods? Do you eat edible weeds? Do you eat seaweed? And what is best? Is there an answer? Do you want to be categorized according to the food you eat?

I love the video that I put on the blog yesterday with Yogiraj Siddhanath.
People are so involved in diet, that they forget the main goal: samadhi or enlighterment.
This is the main goal, not the diet.
http://rawfoodsuccess.blogspot.com/2008/04/yogiraj-siddhanath-do-you-create-bad.html

It is not important how much raw food we eat.
It is important, that we feel great and that you are happy.
A raw food diet will certainly help you is this, don't understand me wrong, but is not your ultimate goal.
For one person 100% raw is best, for another 75% raw.

Raw food is not the goal, it is a means to an end ….. and Kevin understands ;-)

I would love to hear what you think about this subject.
Please leave your comment below.