Emily's Blog (7)

Hey, it's a step in the right direction, especially here in the meat-loving Midwest!! http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-going-vegetarian-09-jan09,0,92202.story?obref=outbrain Continue

This isn't so much a blog post as me just posting a very interesting and thought-provoking article from my Northwestern alumni newsletter that I feel is very relevant considering we are only a few weeks away from the biggest election many of us have ever seen: September 23, 2008 What’s the Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal? EVANSTON, Ill. --- Political conservatives operate out of a fear of chaos and absence of order while political liberals operate out of a fear of empti… Continue

I was on a conference call with David Wolfe and Kevin Gianni the other night and there is a brand new 100% raw organic superfoods network marketing company!!! The company is called Elements for Life and I really think this could be an awesome way of spreading the word about raw food across the planet. I know network marketing is usually cheesy, but this company is doing it right. Pure, beautiful products like cacao, goji berries, marine phytoplankton, Sacred Chocolate, cordecyps, and colloidal… Continue

So in the interest of being totally transparent, here are my lovely before and after pics! Here is me in college, hating my body as compared to my skinny sorority sister, Lisa:)

Me the day before I went raw, September, 2007:

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Of course, I'm being facetious with that title, but there is actually a kernel of truth there. I just opened my monthly insurance statement and read the most beautiful sentence ever..."You have zero medical claims and zero prescription claims for this quarter." Less than a year ago, if I had received such a statement, I shudder to think how many claims would have been included. Due to ulcerative colitis, fibromyalgia, sinusitis, allergies, etc., I was on about 25 pills a day, plus a wicked liqui… Continue

This weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the Young Jains of America Convention in Chicago. My man Dhru invited me to speak to some of the attendees about my healing journey with raw foods. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Jains (as I was not before attending the conference), Jainism is a religion of Indian origin that has as one of its main tenets the idea of ahisma, or non-violence towards all living things. Therefore, pretty much everyone there was a vegetarian (in other word… Continue

This is also posted as part of Women's Week on We Like It Raw:

Last summer was the absolute low point in my life. I had just separated from my husband, the only man I have ever loved, after telling him that I could not be a mother because of my fibromyalgia. For those of you who haven’t heard of fibromyalgia, it is a chronic pain disease whi

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