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Posts from — September 2011

Should You Soak Your Nuts?

No funny jokes about the headline, please. Nut soaking is serious stuff and I won’t tolerate any funny business. *smirk* Alright, alright. Let’s get down to business. Nut Soaking and Digestion Like grains and legumes, nuts and seeds contain anti-nutrients such as lectins and phytates that can impair digestion. One way to reduce the amount [...]

September 11, 2011   7 Comments

Raw Rewind: 3 Ways to Waste Money on a Raw Food Diet

The following is a Fit On Raw article I originally published in 2009. It’s a bit of an oldie, but definitely still a goodie! Are you finding a raw diet too expensive to manage?  Are you depressed because you have been raw for only a short time, but have seen your food bill increase twofold? [...]

September 8, 2011   8 Comments

How Important is Food Combining on a Raw Food Diet?

Raw reader Heidi asks: How important, imperative is food combining???? For example, I love love love taste of bananans and strawberries and bananas and oranges and bananas and pineapples and melon and banananas combined and made into smoothies, but was told that it will be a digestive disaster???? True or false? Let’s have a look [...]

September 5, 2011   15 Comments