Can a Raw Vegan Lifestyle Affect the Health of One’s Blood?
September 4, 2012
By Guest Blogger
My raw foods journey began with a fractured elbow. After receiving an operation to pin, screw and plate my arm back together, my surgeon told me that I needed a transfusion of magnesium, because my mineral level was lower than he desired. I thought to myself, “How could this be? I eat turkey on whole wheat, fish with lemon, cottage cheese and cantaloupe. I never drink soda. I live by the ‘healthy diet’ rules.” I… Read More >
The Final Stretch of My Magical Pregnancy
August 3, 2010
By Kristen Suzanne
Update! Congratulations to Kristen Suzanne and her newly expanded family. Crazy Sexy Life welcomes baby Kamea into the world! Here are Kristen’s reflections during the last month of her pregnancy… I’m full-term in my pregnancy now, so I can go into labor anytime over the next 2-3 weeks. Talk about exciting! The past month was spent preparing by doing things like interviewing pediatricians; setting up our home for a homebirth; touring the hospital where I… Read More >
Rating the LifeForce Energy in Our Food
May 25, 2010
By Dr. Brian Clement
Over the past few decades, we at Hippocrates Health Institute have conducted research into the electrical frequency of our food and the effect that electrical charge has on the frequency of healthy cells. In conjunction with the photographic research conducted at UCLA in the mid-seventies, which measured the relative energy level in different foods, we have created a list of foods from highest to lowest in energy content. Why are wheatgrass, edible weeds, and tropical… Read More >
Minimizing Metabolism to Maximize Health
March 31, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Julieanna Hever, M.S., R.D., C.P.T. We are constantly told that we need to rev up our metabolisms in order to burn calories, stay lean, and maintain health. This is completely misleading. Throughout history, scientific experiments have confirmed that animals live longer when kept on a calorie-restricted diet. We have also seen in the literature that slimmer people tend to be healthier overall. What we can extrapolate from this data is the fact that the… Read More >
Overcoming Chronic Pain
November 24, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Hello, Happy Healers! My name is Maria Mooney, and I am a proud, mostly raw, vegan graduate student munching and working my way toward a clinical M.S.W. in mental health therapy. Did I mention I also have a rare, progressive neurological disease, which has no known current cause or cure? It’s true! I have been blessed and cursed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a progressive neurological disease… Read More >
Quitting the Smokes
November 6, 2009
By Guest Blogger
By Gena Hamshaw Tell me if this sounds familiar: you’re the designated “health nut” in your circle of friends. Perhaps you’re the resident vegan; you might also be the runner who’s training for her next marathon. When you go out to dinner with friends and family, you’re the one explaining what tempeh is, or extolling the joys of raw nut cheese, or giving your companions a quick tutorial in sea vegetables. But something’s amiss. You’ve… Read More >
A Salad in Motion Remains in Motion
October 14, 2009
By Natalia Rose
When you launch into a diet high in living foods, you will discover that these foods contain a force that creates motion. Non-living foods—such as cooked proteins, cooked starches, nuts, and all manner of processed substances—do not have this effect on the body. Given the physical laws of motion, if you eat foods with no life force, your intestines will be mostly stagnant. When living foods suddenly enter your stagnant, acid-waste-impacted intestine, you may feel… Read More >
Net Gain: Increased energy through conservation, not consumption
May 25, 2009
By Brendan Brazier
The nutritional value of food as stated by the “label claim” is of course pertaining to what is in the food, not what the body actually gets from it. A more sensible way to assess the energy providing attributes of food is to consider its net gain. The net gain of food is the term I give to what we are left with once the food has been processed for energy by the body. We… Read More >
Creating Harmony Around the Dinner Table
April 2, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Feeding people, especially one’s family, is a sacred task. This is why I have embraced the Living Foods lifestyle. Everything about it brings harmony. It has been so exciting, yet not without its challenges. My husband comes from a well-meaning Italian family; meat, pasta, bread and cheese dominate every celebration. Being RAW is tricky- you learn to plan ahead. I fill us up with Green Smoothies; bring the salads, fruit platters and raw desserts. Then… Read More >
Life with Crohns
March 31, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Crohns disease? What’s that? I had never heard of Crohns until I was diagnosed with it 2005. An inflammatory bowel disease, Crohns can be debilitating, embarrassing, and painful all at once. It is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Here I was a perfectly healthy 21 year old girl, just moved in with my fiancé, my whole life ahead of me, nothing to slow me down; man was I wrong!… Read More >
Tales of a Colon Therapist
February 5, 2009
By Donna Perrone
My name is Donna Perrone and I have a holistic health office in NYC called Gravity East Village. Yes, you guessed it, I clean colons for a living! Maybe I should start at the beginning. In 1989 I had a nasty little health problem called Candida, also known as a chronic yeast infection. There were other problems too, such as constipation, gas, acne (serious), PMS (bad cramps, ouch!), and I was noticeably underweight (blink and… Read More >
