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Basic Recipes For Taking The Mystery Out Of The Raw Food Diet

A plant-based diet can mean one of several things. For some it includes cooked food. For others it means eating foods as minimally processed as possible. This generally means raw, or living foods. Cooking food is processing food. Cooking changes your food and the way your body reacts to it. Many people choose raw or

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How To Know When To Break Your Juice Fast

Last time I discussed many of the reasons people break their juice fast too soon and the goals of a fast. This time I’ll share how you can tell when the time is right for ending your juice fast Signs you are ready to start eating again are: Hunger. I’m talking about true body hunger

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How Long Should I Fast?

This is a repost of an article by Dr. Opare. It’s also an excerpt from our Optimum Fast E-Book. One of the most common questions people we supervise fasting have is; how long am I going to be fasting? When Do I break the fast? It is relatively easy to stop eating for a while

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Three Keys For A Successful Detox Or Cleanse

Are you planning to do a cleanse or detox to start the new year? When we’re ready to do a cleanse we choose juice fasting as our way because the juice provides the nutrients we need and allows us to continue with our daily routine. The first week is the hardest. Some people give up

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Ok, I’ve Had Enough!

I’m ready to end my slide into less healthy choices. The holiday season and traveling to visit my family does it to me every time! I eat poorly, exercise less, and in general get off my healthy lifestyle game. You may find that to be the case as well. For me, this means I eat

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I’m excited! Check it out!

I’m excited to debut our new t-shirt that proudly proclaims that we vegans eat good and love our food. Thank you to all of you who helped by taking out What Vegans Eat survey in October. Check it out!

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Your Vegan Holiday Survival Guide

Whether you celebrate all the “usual” holidays or reject them all together and create your own, or something in-between chances are you will be celebrating something with someone in the next month or so. If you are lucky the celebrations will at least be vegan friendly by default. More likely, you (or you and your

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12 Vegan and Raw Vegan Recipes For The Holidays

The holiday season is typically filled with dinner tables heaped with food. But for vegans and raw foodists, finding anything on those tables to eat can be a challenge. Here are 12 recipes that are holiday worthy for either all vegan feasts or to supplement the more “traditional” holiday fare. These dishes will please both

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What Do You EAT!?!?!?!

I’ll bet that most of us who have chosen a vegan or plant-based lifestyle will hear this question at one point or another. When someone hears that you don’t eat ANY animal products, that being vegan means NO, you don’t even eat fish, and NO, you don’t eat cheese—they can’t imagine what you could possibly eat

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How (And Why) To Press Tofu

Tofu is probably one of the most well know meat substitutes. There are different textures (firmness) of tofu and different types of soybeans that are used in making the tofu. Tofu doesn’t have a lot of flavor on its own. This is one of its good features because it can take on the flavor of

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Black Vegan Afya Ibomu

  Afya Ibomu B.S., CHHC is a Holistic Nutritionist, Author, Entrepreneur, Yogi, Vice President of YOJO CULTURE LLC, and has been plant based since 1990. Her third book the Vegan Soul Food Guide to the Galaxy, was nominated for an African American Literary Award for cookbook of the year. Afya is certified in Holistic Health and

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