By Nana Kwaku Opare MD, MPH, CA and Ama Opare BS, MA, MA A vegan diet is the only diet consistent with long-term health and vitality. The scientific and public health evidence has been overwhelmingly clear for decades. Consumption of all forms of animal products are the primary causative factor of fifteen out of sixteen […]
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A key to being successful when you are transitioning to a new healthier diet is to build a collection of recipes you enjoy making and eating. This is especially true when adopting a live or raw food diet. Here are my top five picks for living food recipe books. These are the ones I used
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This post is adapted from a post that originally appeared on our other site, www.opare.net. A key to being able to keep true to your healthy eating commitment is having the skills you need to keep your meals enticing and satisfying. If you are bored with what you are preparing you are much more likely
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I had the pleasure of interviewing master raw chef, Dr. Aris LaTham of Sunfired Foods while he was here in Atlanta teaching about preparing living foods at Tassili’s Raw Reality. I have also included an excerpt from a video Nana Kwaku took during the interview. Ama: Tell me how you came to be a raw
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When I first became a vegan I was living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I didn’t really know too many other Black/Afrikan vegetarians or vegans. I didn’t think there were that many of us. I was wrong. The Vegetarian Resource Group conducted a nationally representative telephone poll of 2,030 adults aged 18 and over. Their statistics
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I have been feeling a bit under the weather the past few days. I believe it is what is called a “healing crisis” and is part of the detox process. After a few months of eating too much cooked food and too much food altogether I am back to eating all or mostly raw. The
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Recently there have been news reports about the importance of keeping a food journal for weight loss. Here is a link to a report from ABC news. Keeping a Food Journal has been a part of my work with my coaching clients for many years. It is an important part of discovering what causes you
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This morning I decided I wanted to make some raw vegan fig newtons. I had a few more fresh figs on hand that I need to use up. I spent time on-line looking for recipes. There were a number of interesting ones but they all called for dried figs. So I decided to try to
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