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There is a demo video on Kevin Gianni's Renegade Health site:
http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/07/22/how-to-make-coconut-kefir/
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I have an ancient Osterizer and make my green smoothies as follows:
add a banana and an orange or a mango to blender. Add 16 oz water. Blend. Add two big handfuls of baby spinach. Blend. Add 1...

Love, love, love sprouted beans. My favorite is the San Francisco mix sold by the sproutpeople (www.sproutpeople.com). I always have a container sprouting and another already sprouted in the...

I have to admit, that since I started a raw diet, I almost never conciously drink a glass of water. I add water to my green smoothies to get them to blend, or to raw soups, and I will have a cup of...

All oats are seamed before rolling - unless you but oats specifically labelled raw. Homemade almond milk is the common 'milk' of raw fooders. You can also use whole oats (called oat groats), soak...

I take dried stinging nettle capsules for a whole range of allergies (including mold). They are very effective for my allergies, but take a couple of weeks before they kick in. Also, I get out the...

Please don't feel shame about food. Life is hard enough as it is! Your goal is to eat the best food that you can - depending on the circumstances. Usually that's 100% raw food - but when life puts...

Yesterday AnneMarie Gianni made raw pumpkin bars on the Renegade Health Show. Looked yummy. Bars used both pumpkin seeds and the pumpkin meat.
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It's cold as heck outside and I'm having a real craving for some veggie chili right now. Preferrably over a baked potato and topped with Tofutti Better-Than-Sour-Cream. I know I can make something...

I have a favorite kale salad that's chock full of calcium. You mix 2 TBS of raw tahini with a tsp of sweet white miso, 1/4 tsp chopped garlic, the juice from half a lemon and about a 1/4 cup of...

How about a blender full of gazpacho? I just blend regular and sun-dried tomatoes, onion, garlic, sweet red pepper and cucumbers with some water and a little apple cider or red wine vinegar. You...

I'm not a big fan of juicing myself, so I can give you some cons. You're removing the fiber from whatever fruits and greens you are juicing. Fiber slows down digestion so that you don't get blood...

While its true that most people will be able to eat as much fruit as they like, there may be issues with people who are very obese and are diabetic or pre-diabetic. Many of the raw food 'gurus' who...

The buckwheat I sprout for buckies usually only takes two days. But you really need to rinse and drain buckwheat a lot when sprouting to get rid of the thick mucilaginous gel that forms around the...

I agree that a simple menu makes shopping and food prep easy. I'll have a green smoothie, a fruit plate, or chia pudding for breakfast, a collard or lettuce wrap and apple for lunch, and a big...

Sprouted and dehydrated buckwheat (buckies!) is great for breakfast along with some raisins and a splash of almond milk. Chia pudding also makes a great breakfast. Alissa sells raw rolled oats to...

I use a 20 year old Osterizer blender for green smoothies, so a Vita-Mix, while nice, is hardly a necessity. My basic smoothie is a banana, something orange (could be a mango, cantaloupe melon, or...

So I ran a little experiment last week. I tracked my food on my ipod and made an effort to keep my daily fat level to 25% or less. That may seem like a lot of fat, but in actuality it equaled 2 TBS...

There's a list of foods according to their ORAC values (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) at http://oracvalues.com/sort/orac-value. ORAC is a way of measuring the effectiveness of an antioxidant. ...

I'm not sure where this information comes from either. I know doctors like John McDougall, Neal Barnard and Joel Fuhrman have thriving practices and clinics where they treat many, many diseases with...

Your post reminded me of myself about 10 years back. I was over 300 pounds, severely asthmatic and addicted to antihistamines to try and control my allergies. When I got on a plane to fly for...

I don't know that cooked food per se is addictive, but plenty of SAD foods are. There is a very interesting book by Dr. Neal Barnard called "Breaking the Food Seduction" that goes into the various...

Kevin Gianni has a video on his website www.renegadehealth.com on making raw coconut yogurt and kiefer. Look under recipes.
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I'm like Revvell, I never get tired of salads. But the question is... how do you define a salad. There's the basic lettuce, tomato, cucumber, avocado, but there's so much more. Until I started...

I think this is way too harsh. I believe that most doctors, and a good many of the researchers in the pharmaceutical companies, are dedicated professionals trying their best to help the sick. ...