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Education and Inspiration For The Vegan Food Revolution
The Kitchen Sink or The One Thing You Must Do To Get Healthy
If you have a problem the only way to permanently solve that problem is to identify and remove the cause. This concept is fundamental for the process of finally healing and ridding oneself from chronic disease. This is why conventional medical treatments only manage your disease and don’t actually help you get better — they don’t
7 Vegan Recipes Every Beginner Should Know How To Make
Last week I shared 10 recipes that are the foundation of a raw food diet. Today I focus on how to do the same for a plant-based diet that includes cooked foods. Now you can build a flavorful and soulful diet, love your food and stay committed.
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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