My letter re: Utah Newspaper's Excellent Raw Foods Article

See my letter to a Utah newspaper about their reporter's excellent article about a geophysicist who became a raw restaurateur.

Eating Fruit May Prevent Colon Cancer

Here's an article that came out the other day touting the cancer preventing qualities in fruits.

I haven't posted in days because my computer kept crashing, dozens of times a day, like every few minutes! So far today it hasn't crashed in several hours!

Help Spread the Word: Stop Global Warming; GO VEGAN

I'm a raw vegan and I believe it's a great way to eat, for so many reasons:

• It's nutrient dense and free from toxic and harmful ingredients, so it boosts our health;
• It keeps us lean and energized;
• When made by talented professional and amateur chefs, the food tastes fabulous.

Most people in the world are carnivores and omnivores. When those people become vegetarians and vegans, they're moving closer to raw vegan. A United Nations report reveals scientists found that when people switch to a vegan diet, it does more to prevent global warming than even switching to a hybrid car. I've created bumper stickers, t-shirts and other items that say:

Stop Global Warming

GO VEGAN!

Help save the earth! Buy t-shirts and bumper stickers, put them on your vehicles, wear them, send some to politicians and journalists and spread the word!

Raw Recipe Book Author to Give Demo at March 25 Washington State VegFest

Jenny Cornbleet, the author of Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2, will give a recipe demo on Sunday, March 25 at 1:50 p.m. at the Washington State VegFest.

If you go, please let us know how it was!

OK Magazine's Feature on Raw Foods

The celebrity news magazine OK has an article in its current issue on raw foods. I haven't seen it yet, but here's how they promote it on their website: CELEBS’ HOT NEW DIET: RAW FOOD!

Inspiring Raw Weight Loss Article

A Denver Post article relates how a one-time obese guy lost more than 100 pounds in six months by switching to a raw vegan diet. Inspiring!

Happy Green St. Pat's Day to All

I'd like to take a moment here to say that we at RawFoodGrrl and RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com are green 365 days of the year, not just today! Ecologically and dietarily green! Join us!

Raw Version of Vietnamese Roasted Banana Dessert

Here's an online video demo of raw chef Vanessa Sherwood's adaptation of a Vietmanese Roasted Banana dish. It looks delish!

The Fruit with the Most Protein

Did you know that avocado has more protein than any other fruit?

Tennessee Raw Chef Signs with Local Whole Foods Market

According to this article, a (beer-drinking !) raw vegan chef has signed a contract to make prepared raw foods for her local Tennessee Whole Foods Market. She also sells her food products at other local venues. I hope her entrepreneurial efforts will inspire raw vegan chefs everywhere to do the same. The more raw takeout-food there is for consumers to buy, the better!

Ben Vereen to Appear at Raw Film Festival

The Broadway and Hollywood dancer, singer, actor Ben Vereen will be making an appearance at the first Raw Film Festival, on Saturday for the screening of "Supercharge Me," which he appears in.

Preview of Film "Interview with Sergei"

The film Interview with Sergei, featuring Sergei Boutenko, of the raw foods Boutenko family, will be shown at the upcoming First Annual Raw Food Film Festival in Los Angeles. Here's an excerpt.

First Annual Raw Foods Film Fest in LA March 16-18

The First Annual Raw Lifestyle Film Festival featuring films about the raw vegan diet, organics, healthy lifestyles, and natural living aims to catapult the information gathered and experienced in the Raw, Vegan, Living Foods Communities into mainstream culture. This event caters to raw vegans as well as all people interested in healthy eating and living.

The event will take place at the MOA Japanese Healing Arts Center, phone: (310) 657-7200, at 8564 Melrose Ave. (between La Cienega & San Vicente), in West Hollywood, CA 90069, diagonally across from the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, from Friday March 16 to Sunday March 18. The Festival is being organized by Serenity Spaces.

Oklahoma Library Held Raw Foods Talk and Buffet Meal

It's great to see raw food events in small towns in the middle of the country!

The Tahlequah, Oklahoma library featured a talk recently about raw foods and many raw dishes, as part of its monthly "Books Sandwiched In" series. Here's an excerpt from what the Tahlequah Daily Press reported about the event, quoting the organizer, George Kilmer:

People also should encourage the produce managers in their grocery stores to stock more organic fruits and vegetables, he said. “It’s not only the health of our bodies, but the health of the planet that’s at stake,” he said. Among the benefits of raw foods is that they contain their natural enzymes. Cooking destroys these enzymes. “They’re little proteins, and proteins are heat sensitive,” he said.

Kilmer plans to organize a local farmer's market next.

Utah's First Raw Foods Restaurant

Kudos to Salt Lake Tribune writer Kathy Stephenson, on a beautiful, inspiring story (Raw Foods: Earth to mouth, March 7, 2007).

I'm delighted to hear that 27-year-old Omar Abou-Ismail left an intense career as a geophysical engineer to become a raw restaurateur! How awesome is that! And to think he started his business with a minuscule $3,000 loan!

Restaurants are known for being very risky businesses, even for experienced restaurateurs, so a big "Bravo!" to Omar!

Here's an excerpt from the article:

John Sroka, of South Jordan, is one of the many regulars at Living Cuisine. He was diagnosed with m yasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness, often in the muscles that control eye and eyelid movement, facial expression, chewing, talking and swallowing. "Eating raw foods is the only thing that I've found that helps me with that," said Sroka, as he dined on a falafel salad recently. Sroka said for several months he ate an entirely raw diet. "It seems like a strange thing," he said. "But it's cleansing, energizing and a great way to lose weight because you can eat as much as you want."

We're with Peta That Gore Should Go Vegan for the Environment

PETA's written a letter to Al Gore offering to have a chef teach him how to go vegan, for the environment. This is a fine idea! Peta's timing is right-on! What better a way could there be to draw attention to this topic?

In February 2006, my magazine, www.RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com published an article by a Ph.D. about why switching to a vegan diet does more to prevent global warming than switching to a hybrid car.

Last year I created an online store with t-shirts, totes, caps, bumper stickers, magnets and more saying:

STOP GLOBAL WARMING,

GO VEGAN

(And once Gore goes vegan, he can then discover how wonderful raw vegan is.)

Dean Ornish Explains Why JAMA Dietary Study is Flawed

In a Newsweek online column, M.D. Dean Ornish explains why he disagrees with a new study that compared four diets, including his. Hear, hear!

Here are two excerpts:

1. March 6, 2007 - A study came out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) claiming that you can lose more weight on an Atkins diet than an Ornish, Zone, or LEARN (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships and Nutrition) diet and—ta dah!—(drum roll, maestro), it’s even better for your heart! I imagine that a lot of people are going to be saying, “You mean I’ve been eating fruits and vegetables for all these years for nothing when I could have been eating bacon and eggs? What was I thinking!”

2. [In the study of the Ornish diet] There was a direct correlation between how well people adhered to the diet and how much blockage there was in their coronary arteries. There were 2.5 times fewer cardiac events such as heart attacks, and 99 percent of these patients stopped or reversed the progression of their heart disease. These are actual measures of heart disease, not just risk factors such as changes in cholesterol levels. So, for the study that came out today in JAMA to say that the Atkins diet is just as good for your heart as an Ornish diet makes me a little crazy, since they didn’t measure heart disease, only risk factors.

Darryl Hannah's Raw Foods Video

Darryl Hannah has a cool video on her blog about raw foods.

A List of Raw Restaurants

A list of raw restaurants in the US

A Raw Foods Way to Use Gumball Machines

Blanc writes the following:

Thought I'd share this with you all:

For several years I've had a gum-ball container (the kind they sell at those candy stores where they also provide all those many-colored round candies) that I didn't know what to do with, since I don't consume anything which would work well for dispensing through that little opening. I tried nuts, but they don't work so well, either. I finally found something I could use it for: goji berries!

I had bought a large bag and had been snacking on them like crazy. It occurred to me that I could put them in the gumball container and pour a small handfull as I walked by. Kind of amusing to me, but I'm glad I kept the container and could put it to good use.