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Challenges on the Raw Food Diet
I’ve been doing the raw food diet for nine days now, and I’m hitting what may be my first big challenge: hunger. What I’ve loved about this diet, to start, is that it’s helped me to lose weight quickly...
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Organic Food and the Raw Food Diet
Raw foodists are hardly a unified bunch. They differ on whether we should eat primarily fruit (thereby getting our calories primarily from sugar) or fattier foods like avocados (which, admittedly are...
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Questioning the Raw Food Diet – Does Cooking Actually Destroy Vitamins?
Since going raw vegan a couple weeks ago (I was already vegan–though admittedly often lapsed), I’ve been doing as much research as possible into the pros and cons of this diet. I initially looked into...
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Organic Product Review: Go Raw Chocolate Super Cookies
Since going raw a few weeks ago, I’ve found myself looking out for new products that I can use to add variety to my diet. The diet is very restrictive: Meat, eggs and dairy are essentially out (unless...
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The Raw Food Diet: Is Coffee So Bad?
Now, we all know coffee is out, on the raw food diet. At least, in theory. It’s cooked. I don’t know the exact temperature we heat the water to when we make a pot of coffee, but it certainly feels...
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Organic Product Review: Go Raw Banana Bread Flax Bar
I should start this review by admitting that, right now, I’m in the tank for Go Raw products. I’m not involved in the company, don’t even know who started it, and have taken zero time or effort to...
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Eating Cooked Food After Starting the Raw Diet
If you read enough about the raw food diet on the Internet, you’re bound to come across some horror stories. Some are written by raw food skeptics about what happens to your body on the raw food diet....
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Do Whole Grains Make You Gain Weight?
I’d like to update a post I wrote last September, musing on whether whole grains cause weight gain. I was writing at the time in response to a study that showed that cutting grains from your diet...
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My First Chipotle Experience Since Going Raw
Since going raw over a month ago, I’ve been pretty good about avoiding cooked food. Adding a wider variety of fruits and vegetables to my diet (most recently, lychee and kale) and relying on...
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Variety: The Trouble with the Raw Food Diet
I recently “went raw,” cutting cooked foods almost entirely from my diet. In part, this change was driven by the possibility that raw foods are healthier for our bodies. After all, we haven’t been...
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