Raw Food & Diet

Raw Food keeps you thin and you get to eat lots! Mind you if you do insist on eating kilo’s or pounds of yummy black cherries you WILL put weight on! But they are SOooo good. A healthy RAw diet needs lots of dark leafy greens. I love Kale & Avocado Salad. This is great in winter too as it is really hearty, now you know I originate from the North of England! I went up to 70KG , about 10 1/2 stone, and was too fat for my clothes, YUK! I am now down to a very healthy 62kg, or 9 1/4stone, and have had to take in most of my wardrobe. Slowly does it best.... There’s a very good reason this is promoted and that is: Lose it SLOW to keep it OFF! Simply replace 2 meals a day to start with if you can’t face going the whole hog or try Karens Go RAw for a Day! if you are feeling brave...Go on... I dare you
Raw Food and the hippy image
I am so far from being a hippy, it’s not funny! I am a hairdresser who loves her colour work, creating “Do’s” that glam up her clients. Here... have a look www.hairdressersonthemove.com Front page is Genna, I also help hairdressers set up businesses and am then corporate... I don’t do HIppy. I simply love beautiful food and I love being creative. Raw food encourages beauty and creativity.
Cheers
Sara Taylor

Raw Food V Protein!

Raw Food V Protein!

They’re still doing it! Now they’ve changed tack and are saying “ Oh but you don’t get the same quantity of protein if you don’t eat meat”

You have to careful responding to this one because, unless you are a scientist, PHD or the like they ain’t gonna believe you when you say “Protein changes when it is cooked and becomes disarrayed” with a smirk on your face... Okay? The shutters will come down and their eyes will glaze over. I can only use myself as a living example of a healthy raw food specimen. I am a 50 year old, well on the 10th April 2011 I will be, who uses an insulin pump. I have regular blood tests and my iron levels are fantastic.
How do you respond??

Cheers
Sara Taylor

Raw Food - where do you get your "PROTEIN"

If I hear “Where do you get your protein?” One more time, I’m gonna SCREAM!!!!!
Now I know that as a raw foodie I’m supposed to be able to stay calm.... and I do, so there! But really!
I reply “ From living foods such as sprouts, nuts, mushrooms, kale, chard, spinach etc etc”
Do you get that too??

Why Raw?

Now I’m a hairdresser so I took this explanation from Karen Knowler, www.therawfoodcoach.com okay?
Basically raw food is still technically “live” food – that is food whose enzymes are still intact and that, if planted, would grow new life. Cooked foods by comparison are not only enzymatically
dead through cooking but also cannot reproduce, and are usually way lower in vitamins, minerals, water, phytochemicals and other important nutrients – and that’s just for starters! We haven’t even started talking hydrogenated fats, disarrayed proteins and a complete lack of oxygen yet. So I’ll save that for another time.

Love the simplicity of her explanation.

Cheers
Sara