This article is in answer to a reader’s about detoxification that can occur when starting to eat raw foods.

Many dynamics are involved in choosing a raw food life style and to what extent. When you decide that your own well being is the priority, you will find the right balance or percentage.

Aloe Vera is widely known as a healing substance, or the medicine plant. It is part of the lily family rather than a cactus, although nursery salespeople usually just refer to it as a succulent. Aloe is a very large species of plants, and not all Aloe are Aloe Vera.

My two top choices for substances to stop eating for slimming and general good health are processed or refined wheat and processed or refined sugar.

You can lost weight on a raw food eating plan if you’re currently overweight and eat cooked foods. Here’s an approach that puts you in charge of your eating.

When raw, nuts are dormant; after soaking, they’re living! These two different states of nuts is one of the best ways to understand the distinction between raw foods and living foods.

Those who are committed to eating a raw/living cuisine can do so regardless of their climate. Alive, fresh organic produce is more readily available everywhere because of demand.

We prepare some variation of the sprouted pea soup regularly because we love sprouted peas. When the children were little, we found that they loved to watch the peas quickly sprout a little tail. We learned lots of ways to use the peas they sprouted!

I love the taste of caramel. From Peru, comes a powder made from Lucuma, a delicious fruit that adds nutrition to any food combination, which tastes a little like caramel.
Lucuma Powder from Fruit
Quoting from David Wolf’s SunFood.com web site, "Lucuma is an excellent source of carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals — including remarkable [...]