Raw foods are simply the best foods in the world. I grew up like most kids, drinking cow's milk and getting colds every winter. My mother used to have to weedle me to finish my milk by using a glass with a picture on the bottom. I didn't really want it. People who are raising raw kids speak of how much their kids just naturally take to the foods. The kids are healthy beyond the dreams of anyone in this society.
I discovered this kind of eating when I was around 28 and had just recovered from pneumonia. Someone gave me Become Younger, by Norman Walker. This same person introduced me to colonic irrigations. I began trying the change in diet and the colonics and experienced a sense of well-being I couldn't believe. I remained 100% raw for the whole next year. Unfortunately, I eventually succumbed to temptation to eat cooked food again and I was soon back on a SAD (standard American diet) again.
Last February (2003), I returned to raw foods and I have been 100% raw ever since. Again, it is working beautifully for me.
"To adopt a raw-food diet requires an enormous degree of self-love and honor for the temple of one's body."— Lya Ta'Shia Asanti, Voodoo Priestess on Mad Mad House
- Point/Counterpoint
- May I be Frank?, by Be Love Productions, is "Supersize Me" in reverse. A man who is already in poor health eats a raw, vegan diet at Cafe Gratitude for 42 days and transforms into a beautiful, healthy person.
- Raw For 30 Days. Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with 'incurable' diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.
- DANGER!
Although I preferred to put positive subjects foremost, an urgent situation now confronts us. With all the best intentions and knowledge in the world, we could still be prevented from eating a healthy diet. There is a (dare I say — conspiracy?) to inflict an abomination called CODEX on the world. CODEX is the brainchild of a convicted Nazi war criminal who, in league with the large pharmaceutical companies, wants to force a standard on the consumer that is unnatural and not organic. You have heard, no doubt, about the efforts to pasteurize almonds. And many growers (even "organic" ones) are rinsing fresh vegetables in Clorox! See the video that gives all the information about the danger facing us and sign the citizen's petition. Support local organic farmers.STOP CODEX - Turkey Liberation Day. NEW!
- Beyond Vegetarianism. This is a debunking site, critical of raw foodist dogmas.
- Tom Billings: dietary failure. A critique and rebuttal of the material on the Beyond Vegetarianism site.
- The Meatrix. A clever and informative satire.
- Got Mucus? We never outgrow our need for truth.
- The Not Milk Homepage
- Nuke It, Boil It, Bake It, or Eat It Raw?
- My Favorite Raw Recipes.
- Animal Kindness
- Animal Place, a sanctuary for farm animals who have been abused.
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Raw Restaurants
- A personalized account of some of the raw restaurants I have enjoyed.
- Roxanne's To Go An all-raw restaurant in Marin County has been replaced by a take-out deli.
- The Inside Scoop. Roxanne's a victim of its own success Raw-food pioneerlost patrons to the to-go outlet added last year
- Lydia's Organics in Marin
- Alive! Restaurant, organic vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco that features 80% living foods
- Cafe Gratitude, now a chain of raw, vegan restaurants with locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and Marin (415) 824-4652
- Stellar Gourmet. A raw catering service in the Bay Area.
- Good Mood Food, catered, raw feasts in Huntington Beach, California.
- La Vie, a new raw, vegan restaurant in Santa Cruz
- Juliano's Raw Gourmet Living Cuisine in Los Angeles
- Dining in Paradise. Review of Juliano's Raw Restaurant
- Juliano's Raw, now called Planet Raw. Seems Juliano has a partner now named Ariel.
- Planet Raw, New Walnut Creek location coming soon! Great! Keep those raw restaurants coming!
- Arnold's Way. A raw food restaurant in Pennsylvania.
- karyn's Fresh Corner in Chicago.
- Quintessence in New York
- Raw Experience Restaurants
- Raw Restaurants. Nation-wide guide
- Great Raw Chefs
- Raw Food Chef, Certification Courses
- Shopping
- It's a sun-fired life
- Organic Groceries
- Eat Raw
- Wilderness Family Natural. They have the most chocolately raw chocolate I have yet to encounter.
- Natural Raw Meal and Raw Food Diet — Juvo
- Rawfood Equipment Super Store.
- Nature's First Law
- CALL4RAW
- Fiji Water
- Himalayan Crystal Salt
- Raw Journey
- Valentine's Day Potluck. Pictures
- Raw Reality>. Raw food guru, David Wolfe, appears weekly on a reality show Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. on the SciFi channel, called Mad, Mad House. After seeing the first episode, I must say that I really enjoy this show. Also included will be a modern primitive, a voodoo priestess, a "vampire" and a witch.
- Fiona Horne, the Wiccan on Mad, Mad House, has just announced her decision to eat 100% raw after the example shown her by David "Avocado" Wolfe.
- Ta'Shia on the raw-diet. Some beautiful, inspirational words from the Voodoo Priestess in Mad Mad House.
- Raw Veg Janie's Home Page.
- All Raw Times
- Raw Food News
- Raw Gurus
- Raw Life. Website of Paul Nison who wrote The Raw Life: becoming natural in an unnatural world
- Loving Foods. Jeremy Safron's site.
- Jodi Mardesicch. A woman's journal of her experiences at the Ann Wigmore Institute.
- Living Food Institute, an educational training center devoted to teaching "The Living Foods Lifestyle" as originally developed by Ann Wigmore
- Norman Walker, my mentor, the man whose writing got me into raw foods
- Frederic Patenaudez, a Natural Hygienist and author of Raw Food Secrets.
- Living Lights Culinary Arts Institute
- Rhio's Raw Energy
- Healing
- Shirley's Wellness Clinic, Holistic Health Care for People and Animals.
- Raw and Juicy. Curing disease naturally with raw food.
- Dying to Get Well
- Colitis and Crohn's Health Recovery Services with Dave Klein
- Dennis' Journey. A man healing himself from Hepatitis C.
- Weight Loss
- RawReform. The natural way to weight loss.
- Alissa Cohen: Raw in Progress
- Raw Transformation
- Before and After Pictures
- Jinjee's Before and After
- Vacations
- Raw Food Vacations
- Snow Pine Mountain Retreat. Storm Talifero's first grandchild, who has the incredible good fortune to be born to a raw family. See her picture and find out about the raw retreat Storm's son, Snow, is offering.
- Articles
- We Like It Raw, Common Ground Magazine
- Conversations with David Wolf, Common Ground Magazine
- The Skinny on the Raw Food Diet, Common Ground Magazine
- Body Temple. Raw Raves in New York City.
- Sprout Raw Food
- From SAD to RAW
- Raw Community and Potlucks
- Raw Friends
- San Francisco LiFE. A support group for raw food eaters. Pot lucks, lectures.
- The East Bay Living Foods Community
- Live-Food.com. Raw life in the Big Apple.
- Demi Goes Full Throttle for Raw Rejuvenation
- Raw Families
- Garden Diet. A raw family shares tips and pictures of their lives.
- Snow's Pine Mountain Retreat. Storm Talifero's first grandchild, who has the incredible good fortune to be born to a raw family. See her picture and find out about the raw retreat Storm's son, Snow, is offering.
- The Raw Family. This family has been raws since 1994.
- Colonic Irrigations. While this topic isn't, strictly speaking, about raw food, I believe it is highly relevant. A raw diet is highly cleansing to the colon and the purpose of colonics, is, of course, cleansing the colon. Many raw foodists practice colonics along side their diet and/or fasts to hasten the cleansing process. Norman Walker was a staunch believer in them.
