Category — Fruit-phobia

So you’ve been on a raw food diet for a while now and you feel stuck. You have cravings all the time, you have low energy, you haven’t experienced the health and vitality that everyone talks about, and you definitely don’t have “the glow”. You aren’t alone. There’s a reason you and so many like [...]

Ready to bust some more raw food myths? In case you missed it, you can check out the first fallacy from last week here: Raw Food Fallacy #1: If It’s Raw It’s Healthy Now without further ado, here’s fallacy numero dos: Sugar is Sugar There is a giant misconception within the raw food movement today [...]

As promised, here’s Part II of my experience at my very first raw food restaurant. For Part I, click here. As grand as it was being in Ventura with my family, it’s so great to be back at home and back to eating low fat raw vegan fare.  I actually gained almost 5 pounds from [...]

If you pay any attention to mainstream medicine and media, I’m sure you know that all sugar is created EVIL! Anything sugary that you put into your body – whether it’s a slice of pound cake or a slice of a peach – is bad for you.  It spikes your blood sugar, causes Diabetes, makes [...]

One of the biggest complaints I hear about a high fruit raw vegan diet is that many fruits are high-glycemic foods.  This means that the sugars in these foods enter the bloodstream far too quickly, leading to a raise in blood sugar levels. The individuals who believe this are simply not examining the whole picture [...]