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WELCOME
The Science of Raw Food
A raw food diet is not just good for you - it’s also good science! You don’t have to take our word for it, have ‘faith’ or trust the latest nutrition guru.
Science proves that cooking not only destroys nutrition and enzymes, but chemically changes foods from the substances needed for health into free-radicals and poisons that destroy our health!
On this website you’ll find out what happens when you eat raw, whole foods rather than cooked or prepared foods! You’ll see numerous references from scientific literature you can check out for yourself, as well as other useful perspectives about the concept I call "Whole Food, Whole Being, Whole Planet!TM”
Don’t give away responsibility for your health to the government, medical industry or food industry. Don't even take my word for it! Discover the facts for yourself -- start here today!
Good Health in a Bad  Economy
Opinion by Robert Ross
In economics, a bailout is when a bankrupt or nearly bankrupt company is helped by another party (like the U.S. government) giving them assets that can be easily converted to cash so that the troubled party can meet it's financial obligations.
What our country really needs during the current crisis is a raw food bailout -- when a sick body is helped by a healthier lifestyle giving it assets (nutritionally dense organic live food) that can easily assimilated so that the body can meet all its nutritional requirements.
Of course, a bad economy is more difficult to deal with when you are also struggling with bad health! Poor nutrition can exacerbate negative emotions and make it more difficult to think clearly. Many diseases start with a cocktail of toxins created by cooking combined with the immune-suppressing effects of anger, stress, fear and hopelessness. Eating raw food is a great way to face a crisis. It will help you be healthier - saving on medical bills and insurance. It will help you act more responsibly and proactively to find solutions. And it will even help you save on your grocery bills. You see, organic, raw food is as much as 200-300% more nutritionally dense, making it more economical in the long run than less expensive and less nutritious conventional produce that may also be laced with pesticides or genetically modified organisms with unknown health hazards!
Raw basics
Starting a raw, live food diet
 A Raw food diet is based on eating whole, live, nutritionally-dense organic uncooked and un-processed foods as a large percentage of your diet. When 75-100% of your total food consumption is raw food, you are a raw foodist. At that rate it is believed that your body's own elimination system can eliminate all or most of the toxins in the cooked portion of your diet. When you eat more cooked food you are eating toxins faster than your body canget rid of them so they back up causing dis-ease. Heating food above 118 degrees F. is believed to destroy valuable enzymes in food that can assist in digestion and health.
Cooking is also known to diminish the nutritional value of food, but where did the nutrients go? They don't diappear (see Dr. Jeckyl & Mr Hyde (below) -- instead, the heat actually causes chemical changes in your food creating many of the carcinogens, mutagens, free-radicals and other toxins that are associated with many of today's diseases, from diabetes and arthritis to heart disease and cancer.
Two common myths are that eating raw is expensive and that it takes a lot of time to prepare. Nothing could be further from the truth! I am one of busiest people I know (mostly answering emails from my readers)! But when you do it correctly, a raw food diet is actually one of the easiest, most convenient and most economical ways you can eat. Remember, raw foodists eat mostly organic food, which is usually 80% to 300% more nutritionally dense (click for article on Organic Food)! As your body learns to absorb this additional nutrition, you be less hungry and actually eat much less, reducing your food costs well below what is was when you were eating empty calories filled with toxins that increase your health care costs. Click here to read the full article ...
RAW SCIENCE
The Science of Broccoli
More Definitive Proof that Cooking Destroys Your Natural Cancer Protection!
It has been known for some time that eating cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage, can help prevent some forms of cancer, such as breast cancer, but the mechanism was unknown until now. According to ScienceDaily.com (Dec. 29, 2008), U.C. Santa Barbara scientists have shown how the healing power of these vegetables actually works. Their research is published in this month's journal Carcinogenesis. Other studies have shown that cooking can significantly decrease the bioavailability of the cancer-fighting compounds in these veggies!
Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables contain compounds called glucosinolates, the compounds found in cruciferous vegetables that give them their unique taste. Isothiocyanates are some of the biologically active hydrolysis (breakdown) products of glucosinolates, which according to many studies have cancer-preventive and anti-carcinogenic activities. Broccoli and broccoli sprouts have the highest amount of the isothiocyanates. One of these compounds, called sulforaphane (SFN), inhibits the proliferation of human tumor cells by a mechanism similar to the way that some anticancer drugs work - by inhibiting cell division during mitosis (cell division) and is much less toxic than drugs.
3-day old broccoli sprouts are concentrated sources of glucoraphanin, which contain 10-100 times more glucoraphanin by weight than mature broccoli plants. Broccoli sprouts that contain 73 mg of glucoraphanin (also called sulforaphane glucosinolate) per 1-oz serving are available in some health food and grocery stores. Remember, glucosin-olates are water-soluble so cooking just a few minutes can decrease the glucosinolate content of cruciferous vegetables as much as a 59%. Cooking can also inactivate myrosinase, the enzyme that catalyzes glucosinolate hydrolosis into isothiocyanates, which has been shown to substantially decrease the bioavailability of isothiocyanates.
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NUTRITION'S
Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde
 Everyone knows that when you cook food you lose a lot of nutrition. But did you ever wonder where it goes? What happens to those beautiful vitamins, minerals, fats, carbs and proteins? Do they just disappear?
Unfortunately, they do not. Like Dr. Jekyl, they are horribly transformed by chemical reactions created by heat into monsters like Mr. Hyde -- only we call them Carcinogens, Mutagens, and Free Radicals!
Learn scientifically how heat actually causes molecules to break down and recombine, turning nutrients that were once life-givers into killers:
How Cooking Chemically Creates Toxins in Food
The Sciece of Raw vs. Cooked Food
More Articles & Research...
ARTICLE
what TO do IF YOU HATE VEGETABLES
 In today’s fast-food society, it’s not uncommon for many people to have an aversion to vegetables, making becoming a vegetarian, vegan, or even worse, a raw foodist a little daunting. When I became a vegetarian over 40 years ago, people thought I was very strange. Now, after 40 years, a vegetarian diet is at least considered healthy, though still a little unusual. It took most of my 4 decades of gastronomic experience just to get to this point, where people at least accept vegetarianism as an reasonable idea. Now we are asking people to accept not just eating mostly vegetables as a way of life, but actually eating them raw! For some people that’s much more than just hard to accept - some people actually hate vegetables!
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 75% of Americans don't eat the recommended five to nine servings of fresh fruits and vegetables per day. That's alarming, considering how important vegetables are to maintaining a healthy and productive lifestyle--but not surprising, given that some people think that ketchup counts as one serving of vegetables!
So when you get to a buffet do you choose the chocolate cake over the carrot sticks even though you know carrot sticks are healthier? Do you skip the salad at the restaurant? Does the idea of eating something green make you gag? Well, many people new to raw food are confronting just such a challenge! They didn’t get interested in the raw food lifestyle merely because they thought is delicious – they were overweight or they got sick. Usually that is how they got here – raw food may have been their last resort. They studied raw nutrition, they’ve read stories about people who’ve overcome the very dis-ease they are struggling with using a raw food diet – but it didn’t help. Veggies still make them gag.
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Cool summer recipes
Cabbage Roll-Ups
1 large cabbage leaf,
1/2 avocado, cut in chunks,
2 olives, chopped Lentil, pea and/or
fenugreek sprouts,
Lemon juice,
Liquid Aminos,
Dulse flakes,
Slivered red pepper,
Sprouts
A cabbage leaf makes a great sandwich for any filling. Softening the cabbage makes it easier to roll the filling up in it. Any guacamole, pate or salad recipe would be delicious stuffed in a cabbage or lettuce roll.
Soften the cabbage leaf by putting it in a dehydrator for 10 minutes or dipping the whole leaf in hot water until soft; set aside. In a small bowl, mash the avocado with a fork and add the olives, sprouts, lemon juice, Liquid Aminos and dulse to taste.
Place the mixture on the cabbage leaf. Top with red peppers, sprouts and any other vegetables you have on hand; roll up and enjoy.
Click here for more cool summer recipes
welcome to MY NEW
RAW FOOD MARKETPLACE
 Recently, for the first time in all these years, I decided to redesign my site and add a few, hand-picked raw products - things I use myself, have tried and tested and can offer at a fair price. I am very choosy, so I created a unique 10-point checklist to evaluate products for this site and guarantee you only get best and most exclusive selection! Some items you’ll only find right here!
When you shop here you get more than what you paid for! You also get my personal customer service and support. I am accessible - you can reach out to me personally and get the answers you need. THAT is what makes buying here the best real value on the Internet - because value is more than just price, it is also quality and service!
As a teacher for many years at a major raw food health institute, I taught thousands of ordinary people struggling with the same issues you are facing right now. That kind of experience just isn’t accessible outside of expensive raw food health institutes, let alone on a web site. So if you are looking for something more than just a purchase, you’ve come to the right place - let me help you!
"Transitional" Treats for Raw Kids!
Tootsie-Rawls
1 cup raw cacao powder
1/2 cup mesquite powder
1/2 cup almond butter
3/4 cup honey or agave (or a little of both)
2 T. fo-ti
2 lg. T. lucuma powder
1 T. Vanilla
1 pinch sea salt
Mix in food processor till well blended (very stiff). Stir down as needed. Put in bowl & knead in more lucuma (several T.) till no longer sticky. Roll in logs, wrap in paper, store in freezer. Special thanks to GlimR at Raw Food Talk. More Recipes..
Join Me at the Raw spirit festival
Aug. 29-30th in Washington, DC
 I had a terrific time at the Raw Spirit Festival in Santa Barbara in June and enjoyed meeting many of my readers. It was so much fun that I am going to do it again in August. I gave a talk on the Doctor's Stage on the Physiology of Consciouness and everyone seemed to appreciate it, with several people hanging about asking questions well after the talk was officially over. For those of you on the East Coast I'll give a similar talk again - or as I prefer to call it, a conversation. Come discover the Science behind the raw revolution, as well as lots of other wisdom from many of the greatest minds in healthy living. Features include lots of Speakers, Health Seminars, great Music, Vendor Booths, Children's Program, Largest Raw Food Court, Raw Demos & Tasting Parties, Fantastic Foods and Fabulous Friends!
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EASY WEIGHT LOSS
A “Side Effect” of Raw Food?
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75 lbs. FAST
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By Robert Ross
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Here’s the bottom line: with a healthy digestive system, it is virtually impossible to gain weight on raw, live foods! Imagine that! You can eat almost anything you want, as much as you want, as long as it is raw. In fact, many people will lose weight without even trying. They just want to eat healthier food! Losing weight is a side affect, a fringe benefit - almost an after-thought!
You see, weight is really just a “symptom” of what is going on with your whole body - digestive system, elimination system, immune system, glandular system, emotions, sleep patterns, stress levels, liver, colon, skin, lungs, blood, spirit and “chi” or energy levels and more. When all that is in balance and harmony, so its your weight - naturally!
Live enzymes are one of the factors in a raw diet that can lead to easy weight loss. Though the body can make enzymes then transport them to the stomach, why waste all those resources and energy if you don’t have to. In addition, that can produce stress on organs like the pancreas that begin to have problems of their own, and though some enzymes are destroyed in the stomach, plenty get through. Lipase, for example, is an enzyme that helps your body break down fat. Protease helps break down proteins and eliminate toxins, essential when you are burning fat.
Also, when you don’t get adequate nutrition from your food, your body goes into starvation mode- story as much fat as it can while continuing to send signals that you are hungry. Emotionally, It can lead to eating disorders, depression and anxiety.
Stress can also damage enzymes. Food additives can kill them. Frequent air travel, work outs, coffee breaks, air pollution, food irradiation and poor sleep - all kill enzymes. No wonder we are enzyme deficient! So eating raw, live, enzyme-rich foods is more than just a weight loss or digestion issue - it affects your whole life, your whole being. In fact, you’ll even be happier! Read more...
THE RAW TRUTH
What the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
 Twenty years ago I read a study about the analysis of cholesterol in the arteries of people who died of coronary artery disease. It turned out that much of the gunk lining these arteries wasn’t cholesterol at all - it was Crisco - hydrogenated vegetable oil. Since then I have been warning people not to eat anything with vegetable shortening that is chemically more like plastics than food. Today we call these substances trans fats. The industry has known about this for at least that long! Only now, after even more publicity than they could squelch, they’ve started to do something about it.
Trans fats are used mostly for commercial cooking and food preparation, and is one of the main sources of dis-ease in the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.). Hydrogenation adds hydrogen gas to vegetable oil, helping to solidify it into a molecule that more closely resembles plastic than food. The process, used for margarine or shortening, makes them more unhealthy than real butter, since hydrogenated fats act like cholesterol in your body.
Now a law in California holds manufacturers liable for their products if they are known by manufacturers to be unsafe, though not by consumers. In other words, they may be liable for hiding the truth! So finally, after years of knowingly making product bad for your heart, someone is doing something about!
Let’s hold all food manufacturers responsible for their products! By the way - the company which owns Oreos also owns major cigarette brands. Think about it!
Spinach Scare
or Scam?
by Robert Ross
 You are far less likely to get sick from e coli than getting hit by lightning (Dept. of Justice). Anyone getting sick is a tragedy of course. But the Standard American Diet (SAD) makes people sick every day! Periodic e coli scares come from poor agribusiness practices. e coli is a natural bacteria in all mammals. The one dangerous form usually only comes from cows kept in large feed lots which do NOT control waste properly
Organic farms do not use manure from non-organic sources, especially feed lots, and are prohibited from applying manure directly. When manure is used, it must be composted first, which kills any bad bacteria and turns the waste into topsoil. So if you are eating raw, organic spinach, or anything else, you have nothing to worry about. More people are harmed by cigarettes and falling down than e coli. Don't let agribusiness scare you away from enjoying healthy, raw, organic foods. Remember, you are a direct threat to the profits of corporations that make the processed and genetically engineered foods they are trying to stuff down the throats of America -- as well as the drugs they make for the diseases you get by eating that stuff.
Don't buy their propoganda, or their products!
Join my Raw Food Meetup at the Organic Music Cafe in Lake Worth
Meet fellow Raw Foodists at the new Organic Music Cafe in Lake Worth, Florida, featuring an all organic vegan and raw menu and great World Music. My Meetups will focus on the Science of Raw Food - understanding the Raw Truth empowers us in our raw lifestyle. At these Meetups I will answer questions about raw food that you've probably been afraid to ask, and you'll learn to understand the physiology of consciousness and well being.
WHO IS
Robert Ross?
Robert (right) & David Wolfe at Raw Spirit Festival
I've been a vegetarian for 40 years. I studied nutrition in the 1980s at UC Berkeley and was a nutritional writer for the Shaklee Corporation. I discovered raw food in 1995 at the Optimum Health Institute of San Diego, co-founded by Anne Wigmore and Rachel Solomon more than thirty years ago. I originally was a guest for several weeks, due to a chronic illness. After feeling better than I had for years, I decided to stay on as a volunteer. I ended working there for several years, teaching many raw food classes. In 2001 I moved to Florida where I taught raw food classes at the New Life Expo and Wild Oats stores for 2-3 years. I created the first version of this web site in 1996.
Still Struggling with Weight
Even Though You Eat Raw?
I lost 75 lbs. being 100% raw! I never gained it all back, but I've been up and down many times. I always know that when I eat raw I lose weight and keep it off. Yet for some people raw food isn't enough when it comes to their weight. They need a specialist not in raw food, but in the science of weight loss. One of my good friends, Steven Present (also a raw food proponent), has helped tens of thousands lose weight and keep it off. I consider him the best. Steven swears that, “if you can lie down and close your eyes for 13 minutes and 47 seconds every other day, you will lose weight and keep it off -- forever!" Steven offers a unique CD program that he guarantees unconditionally for a full 13 months - more than a year! Check him out at: http://www.WeightlossHypnosisGuaranteed.com
FYI
My definition of a raw foodist is someone who eats at least 75% raw, live food. At this level, your body can eliminate the toxins in cooked food as fast as you eat them. Eating more cooked food can result in the toxins backing up in your system, creating dis-ease. Remember, you are not a label! Honor who you are now, then get as much information as you can from all over the web on raw food is all about so you can make informed choices for your needs. |
