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Raw Food

First, What Is A Raw Food Diet ? A raw food diet typically consists of nearly all uncooked food. A standard ratio is usually 75% raw food to 25% or less cooked food. Many people will even aim to achieve 90 to 100% raw foods in their diet. Many wonderful benefits of this type of [...]

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Nick Ortner, EFT, and the Raw Food Diet

by Tamara on June 22, 2010

in Raw Food

I had the wonderful experience this past weekend of meeting EFT Master Nick Ortner!  EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, and it is a wonderful, valuable clearing tool that many people have used to clear the limiting beliefs that are holding them back in their lives. If you don’t know who Nick Ortner is, well [...]

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When it relates to athletes, there a lot of common misconceptions out there about the roles of sugars in grains. Common sense and a lot of advertising copy might tell you that sugars are great for short burst vitality, and grains help you load up on carbohydrates for exercise. But there is a conflict between [...]

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Day 7 of the Raw Food Challenge

by Tamara on May 15, 2010

in Raw Food

We are coming to the end of our challenge now.  I am getting pretty good at throwing a bunch of stuff in a smoothie every morning.  I just added the strawberry, mango, papaya frozen fruit mix, as well as all the other healthy ingredients like fiber and Chlorella. By today, I was feeling pretty good.  [...]

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Day 6 of the Raw Food Challenge

by Tamara on May 11, 2010

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This morning I tried to recreate my tasty chocolate/strawberry smoothie from a few days ago, but something didn’t taste quite right.  I guess it could be because it was missing the bananas, I’m not sure. I was missing the creamy texture that bananas bring to a smoothie.  Unfortunately, I had to ban bananas from my [...]

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