Category — Sweet Fruit

Spirulina, bee pollen, and hemp protein powder are just some of the “superfoods” heavily marketed to raw foodists and other health conscious folk. These foods are promoted for their superior nutritional content, being good sources of various vitamins and minerals, as well as antioxidant and protein-rich. But as I show here, these products are not [...]

Yep, that’s right. Some so-called “superfoods” marketed to raw foodists are not so super at all. In fact, MOST raw superfoods are a complete waste of your money! For today, let’s stick with a few of the more popular products: spirulina, hemp protein powder, and goji berries. Hopefully you haven’t been sucked into buying these superfoods [...]

You may or may not know that ataulfo mangoes are one of my very favorite fruits, right up there with the locally-grown peaches I pick each summer. And you may or may not know that these little delicacies are in season right now! Unfortunately, like most fruits, most people have no idea how to enjoy [...]

I recently criticized Mark Sisson’s primal diet, the low carb, high fat diet that he defended during Kevin Gianni’s Great Health Debate. I thought that was everything I had to say, but it seems there’s one more point that I really want to address. And it actually has to do with a similarity between the [...]

One of the most common reasons I hear against adopting a raw vegan diet that is low in fat and high in fruit is that the sugar from the fruit leads to elevated blood sugar levels. If this is true, it is very serious. Sustained elevated blood sugar levels, meaning blood sugar levels that remain [...]