Blog 22 - Food For The Soul

Is The “American Dream” Blocking Your Healthy Lifestyle?

6 Comments / Blog, YoYo Struggle / By Ama Opare

I started to think about our so-called American Dream lifestyle that is really more of a Global Nightmare. I thought about those whose commitment to eating vegan or raw is not as intrenched or is nonexistent who make much less healthy choices then we do. For too many of us the fast food, restaurant, frozen food, eat mindlessly while driving or watching TV method of feeding ourselves is the norm. This Nightmare is impacting the health of people of Afrikan descent especially. It is leading us down the path of chronic disease, obesity, disability and early death.

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What Is Living or Raw Foods?

2 Comments / Blog, New Vegetarian / By Ama Opare

You probably have heard people (like me here on this site) talking about raw food or living foods or live food. You may have wondered what that is and why it matters. Let me explain. First of all people call it a variety of things. Some say raw food, some say living or live food.

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Living Foods for Busy People

5 Comments / Blog, YoYo Struggle / By Ama Opare

I often hear people say they are too busy for a living foods or raw food diet. There is a common belief that raw foods take more time to prepare. I believe there is some truth to that notion but it is also true that eating a living food diet can be easier than a

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Summer BBQ? What’s A Vegan To Do?

Leave a Comment / Blog, Real World Navigation Skills / By Ama Opare

Are you invited to a BBQ this summer? Or does your family have a tradition of a BBQ like mine? Do you just have to skip it? Or is there a way to enjoy a vegan BBQ? Yes, indeed there is a way you can still attend AND stay true to your healthy diet commitments.

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If A Tree Falls…Creating An Active Community

5 Comments / Blog / By Ama Opare

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? If a member posts a comment in the forums and no one is around to read it does community exist? I often hear that black folks who are living the vegetarian lifestyle feel isolated. They

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Help! I’ve Fallen (Off the wagon) And I Can’t Get Up!

4 Comments / Blog, YoYo Struggle / By Ama Opare

So you HAD been doing great with your diet and healthy lifestyle but NOW you have gone back to some of your old ways. You don’t feel as good and you KNOW you should get back on track. But somehow you just can’t or don’t do it. Sound familiar? You are not alone. I think

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Black Vegan: Charlotte O’Neal

8 Comments / Black Vegans, Blog, Member Story / By Ama Opare

This edition of our showcase of Black Vegetarians brings us Charlotte O’Neal. A long time vegetarian, she lives in Arusha, Tanzania in East Afrika. She is cofounder, along with her husband Pete, of the United African Alliance Community Center. We interviewed Charlotte during our stay there during our visit to Arusha in April 2014. Ama:

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Our Afrikan Home Away From Home

6 Comments / Blog / By Ama Opare

Nana Kwaku and I stayed at a number of wonderful places on our recent trip to Ghana and Tanzania. Three in particular stand out as highlight of our trip. Each are owned by US born Afrikans. Each is more than just a place to sleep, they are destinations in and of themselves and create a

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