You might have heard me talk about low fat diets before. Perhaps you’ve seen my high-carb, fruit-packed 500-calorie green smoothies that I used to lose 40 pounds and effortlessly maintain my ideal weight. My approach to both weight loss and long term diet is to keep my fat intake low and to not restrict my [...]
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Spinach-Arugula Green Salad Recipe with Creamy Peach Dressing
Who ever said salads were boring? Well, when you make a green salad with a fruity dressing, you get anything but boring! This green spinach-arugula salad is an explosion of flavor with its creamy peach dressing and tart strawberry accents. It makes my mouth water just sharing the recipe with you! This salad makes a [...]
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Eating Raw In Mexico’s Yucatan – Cancun and Playa del Carmen
We just wrapped up a month living in sunny, beautiful Puerto Morelos, Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula between Cancun and Playa del Carmen. As you may know, this is our first stop on a long-term travel throughout Central America. This past month has presented some interesting challenges and discoveries as far as our diets are [...]
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My 80/10/10 Low Fat Raw Vegan Diet Update
I have been doing the low fat, raw vegan 80/10/10 diet (promoted by long-term raw fooder Dr. Douglas Graham in his book, The 80/10/10 Diet) for six months now. It has become second nature to me and not at all difficult to follow. I wrote about why I chose a fruit-based, low fat diet and [...]
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Is Your Raw Food Diet SAD?
You’ve probably heard about the “SAD” diet, aka the Standard American Diet full of processed foods, fat and refined sugar. But did you know that there is a SAD version of the raw food diet that many raw foodists unknowingly follow and promote? When I started eating raw, I bought into the whole “eat anything [...]
Tropical Baby Greens Salad Recipe
Salads are important on a raw food diet. But forget about those boring green salads. This salad recipe features fresh baby greens accented with sweet grapes and a fruity, low fat tropical dressing! So many raw salad dressings contain oils, blended nuts/seeds and avocados. This sneaks a lot of fat into the diet. While you [...]
Our Raw Food Diet Grocery Shopping List
We get asked frequently about what we eat in a week. Well, here is our typical raw food diet grocery shopping list from the week of June 6, 2010. This is for a weeks worth of food for both Tracy and I on the 80/10/10 diet. Fruit 16 or so bunches organic bananas – 35.68 [...]
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The 80/10/10 Diet – My Experience on a Low Fat, Raw Vegan Lifestyle
The 80-10-10 diet is a low fat, raw vegan diet promoted by Dr. Douglas Graham, a long-term raw foodist and athlete. Basically, this version of the raw food diet recommends obtaining at least 80% of your total calories from carbohydrates from sweet fruit while restricting both fat and protein to less than 10% of total [...]
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Why I Chose a High Fruit vs. a High Fat Raw Food Diet
The biggest debate in the raw food world is whether or not we should be getting the majority of our calories from sweet fruit or from fats like avocados, coconuts, nuts and seeds. When it comes to raw veganism, there simply isn’t enough calories in greens and vegetables. There is research on both sides in [...]
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