Hi everyone, I'm a young journo writing an article about raw foodism - was wondering if anyone could tell me what inspired them to take on a raw food diet? what are the benefits you've seen?
Thanks!
In short though, I had been a junk food vegetarian caffiene addict for too long and become obese as a result. I was not a serial dieter, and did not want to go on a "diet" - I wanted a lifestyle. When I found out about Raw Foods it was the answer, as there is nothing more simple than just cutting out all processed products and eating only natural and pure foods. Since going raw I have lost 30kgs, out of 80kgs in total to get to my goal weight range.
Feel free to email me if you want more information. I also teach classes in raw food preparation and actively involved in the Perth raw food community.
Welcome! I suffered from debilitating health condition's, specifically painful eczema however also just way too frequent colds and flus. I found raw foods in my search to heal myself naturally. After quite a journey (to say the least!) I am now fully healed and no longer need to use the steroid medication I had to use every day of my life from childhood.
Embracing the raw lifestyle has also given me incredible mental clarity, more energy, more passion and a real sense of spiritual awareness and connectedness.
It has also now become my career and I am totally passionate about helping others to walk their own path and really get the benefits from this lifestyle!
I'm more than happy to chat to you in more depth about any or all of the above if that would help.
Wikipedia says there are over 7,500 different apple varieties...
http://www.allaboutapples.com/varieties/
Some recent good ones I had are:
Ambrosia, Honeycrisp, Orin...
and the Pink Lady has been one of my favs for some time now.
A lot of em ...
Isn't the panda gorgeous? And yes it really is eating an apple.
I can't take credit for the picture though. It comes from Flickr and was taken by Swamibu.
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C. B. Alien Worshipper I have an impersonator following me around pretending to be me. hope he won't give me a bad rap.
I love apples too! I made a "killer-Raw-Apple-Pie" last week, with different kind of apples in it. It was so good I can't stop thinking about it. The panda-bear in the pic is soooo cute! Did you take the picture yourself?