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Eat more vegan protein. It’s much healthier than dairy and meat. Largest study reveals shocking results. Try these non dairy and other raw food and vegan recipes.

I eat lots of non dairy cheese. If you make them from raw seeds, they’re a great source of vegan protein. It’s delicious on cucumber slices or mixed with salads (i.e. as a wrap). A great dip for kids, yummy on (sprouted) bread or as sauce in a raw vegetable lasagna. And I have to say, my non dairy cheese is quite good.

A few month ago, I had a friend over for dinner. She’s a perfumer (makes perfumes) and has excellent smell and taste. She actually thought she was eating goat cheese.

The recipe is very quick and easy:

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Seaweed health benefits are enormous. Watch this raw food video interview with David Wolfe and discover which seaweeds are the best.

I do my best not to ask for much from the readers of this blog. In fact I’ve only reached out for support when I’ve deemed something to be a worthy cause, (like the CreVax issue). Well today my friends, I have a worthy cause that I’m requesting some assistance on.

VegNews Magazine, the most popular vegetarian print magazine, is currently hosting their annual Veggie Awards. And this year there are over 6 raw and raw friendly businesses, authors and website that are up for an award in their category, including We Like It Raw.

Honestly, we could care less if you vote for us specifically, but we are requesting that you help put raw food on the map by voting for both the raw nominees officially listed and writing in your favorite raw nominee where appropriate.

Winners get prizes, but here’s the deal… We’ll give away any prize we get from this contest to one of our readers. Maybe setup some sort of fun little contest of our own.

You can vote online today by clicking here (voting ends August 31st)

Let’s bring some thunder to the world of Vegetarian and Vegan living! Vote for any raw food author, business, website or crew that you feel is really doing there thing big.

Here are some of the categories where raw food nominees are present:

Favorite Veg Blog
* welikeitraw.com

Favorite Cookbook Author
* Ani Phyo

Favorite Athlete
* Tim VanOrden

Favorite Vegetarian Restaurant
* Java Green (Washington, DC) (raw friendly)
* Candle 79 (NYC) (raw friendly)
* Chicago Diner (Chicago) (raw friendly)
* Or you can write in Pure Food and Wine

Here are some of the categories where writing in a raw food nominee might be appropriate:

Favorite Vegan Chocolate
* Gnosis

Favorite Vegan Cookie
* Write in Kookie Karma

Favorite Non-Dairy Ice Cream
* Write in Organic Nectars Raw Ice Cream

Favorite Supplement
* Write in Vitamineral Green or Sun Is Shinning or Pure Synergy

Favorite Musician
* Write in Jason Muraz

Favorite Forum
* Write in goneraw.com

The above write ins are just suggestions. Feel free to vote for anything raw worthy!

Let’s put raw food on the map!

Give it to me Raw (GI2MR) is out community site. It’s a place for people to have intimate discussions about raw foods and the raw food life style.

Today I want to highlight two very interesting conversations taking place in the forums section.

Firstly: What do your beliefs have to do with anything?
A conversation about the nature of beliefs and how they tend to limit the growth of discussions. I started this conversation last night after seeing the word “believe” thrown around on the comments section of WLIR and in a few discussions at GI2MR.

I always smile when I see people on health forums throw the word “believe” around.

“I don’t believe in supplements. I don’t believe in eating meat. I
don’t believe in cacao. I don’t believe in juicing. I don’t believe in
taking B12. I don’t believe kids should be raw. I don’t believe in this
or that…”

What the hell do your beliefs have to do with anything?

First off: The nature of a belief is that it is inherently limited. Beliefs are based on individual experiences, yet people use them in an attempt to blanketly define the experiences of others.

Let’s take the following statement: “I don’t believe in taking supplements.”

Read the full post here

Secondly: What do your briefs have to do with anything?
A funny conversation created in the Raw Humor group by GI2MR Member Pete Vincent about deciding what briefs to wear when you first wake up in the morning. Pete has a great sense of humor and it’s post like this that make sure we don’t get too serious at GI2MR. I’m not saying I’m deserving of some credit for inspiring this discussion, but briefs does sound a lot like beliefs. : )

Every morning we are all faced with the same kind of problems. Waking up, getting out of bed, finding the bathroom, and then comes the biggest decision of all. What briefs do you wear. Briefs dictate the kind of mood that we are in for the rest of the day. Do you choose the daring kinky red silky ones that kind of guarantee that you are going to get yourself into some kind of trouble during the day. Do you wear the tight G string that persistently draws your attention to your base shakra area causing you to continually redress yourself like Michael Jackson dancing on stage.

Read the full post here

Much love to all the members of GI2MR. They’ve created such a support structure for one another that I just can’t but to smile.

If you aren’t a member yet, have no fear. Membership is 100% free. Just go to giveittomeraw.com and click “sign up”.

What is one of the secret to health success? Knowing what to measure and why. Because when you know what’s off, you know where attention is needed. And when you know what’s on, you know what to keep doing.

The trick is learning what to measure and understanding what those
measurements mean. It’s also key to learn what measurements really deserve
your attention and what measurements aren’t as valuable.

Let’s take the standard indicators for health. Here are the two things the most people look for when determining whether or not they are “healthy”:

• Absence of an alignments or disease
• Absence of obesity/excess weight

There is a challenge with the above indicators though. They are
indicators that show up way too late in the game. It’s like being on a
basketball team and having to wait for the final score to see how your
game is going. Or selling a product via a business but having no way to account for money in and out until the end of the year.

That sounds ridiculous, but it happens all the time. How many people do
you know that think they are healthy because there is an absence of cancer or heart
disease or diabetes or obesity.

The raw food life style at its best will present you with an entire new
set of indicators to measure. It will help you keep score earlier in
the game so you understand where attention is needed. It will also help
you become more sensitive to indicators that you previously didn’t even know
existed.

When you start eating live foods, foods that are less taxing on your
system and provide you with levels of nutrients that your body hasn’t
experienced, you’ll be able to measure indicators that previously didn’t
register. When your system starts to cleanse your internal sensitivity
to the daily subtleties that take or add to your health becomes much
stronger.

As an example, when you move towards a diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables all of a
sudden the word “energy” has an entirely new meaning. The side effects of drinking that occasional cup of coffee or glass of wine
register much earlier. Foods and habits that never seemed like they
were contributing to your internal turmoil start to show their true
colors much earlier in the game.

A cleaner system = a greater sensitivity to what works and what doesn’t.

If health success is about measuring then the key to transformation is knowing what’s deserving of your attention. And just because you’ve “gone raw” doesn’t mean that you automatically know what to pay attention to.

An example of an indicator that many people new to raw foods tend to overlook is gas.

When you eat a standard processed diet gas is quite normal, expected even. So
even though many folks new to raw foods notice that they regularly have gas,
they don’t do much about it because they are quite use to it. They also
tend to feel so much better on raw foods, compared to what they were
previously eating, that they just accept gas as part of the digestion
process. I’ve seen many people who eat a high amount of raw food live
with gas as status quo for years.

The gas comes from eating complex-gourmet-raw-foods daily. The foods that make up the meal are technically “raw” and very nutritious individually, but they are so complex that the body has a hard time digesting them properly. Now, as the digestive fire and
stomach acids strengthen over time, you maybe able to combine foods
with more complexity, but eating complex meals daily is not a sustainable practice. Gas will continue to be a by-product of that lifestyle.

So if gas is one indication worth measuring, what does it mean? And what should you do if you notice you have gas regularly?

First, before you take action on any indicator, it’s important to
understand why it matters. Why is this indicator
worth your attention?

Most gas is the by-product of fermentation. When complex foods that
remain undigested enter the intestine they attract undesirable bacteria
and fungus. The bacteria thrive on these foods, especially
carbohydrates, and create gas as a by-product. The longer the bacteria
sit with the un-digested food in the intestine, the more the gas builds up. Along
with the gas, acid is also created as a by-product. The way the body
deals with this accumulation of bacteria and waste is through the
vehicle known as mucus. As Natalia Rose puts it, the mucus and the
fermented foods, “build up in the intestines and push their way into
the body through the tissues of the intestinal walls.”

The side effects of all this bacteria, fermentation, gas are:

• Excess mucus, even for seasoned raw foodies

• A heavy burden on the intestinal tract: the harder your organs are forced to work the sooner they’ll burn out
• Energy deficits: even if you’ve been eating raw for some time you
  could notice a similar feeling to old days of “food comas” after heavy
  gourmet meals

You may want to look at your current food regimen and ask your self if
you are experiencing any of these issues. If you are, gas might be one
indicator that you start measuring. How often do you get gas? What
meals or food combining cause it to take place? Natalia Rose has some
great pointers on how to reduce gas.

Mucus is obviously a good indicator too look for as well, but it’s
often a tertiary indicator because it takes significant time to build up and release.

The point of this post isn’t to have you all worked up about gas. It’s
to bring the idea of measuring to the fore front. Because after all,
raw food isn’t about “believing” in a particular way of eating. It’s
about getting real results. And since everybody reacts different to
different foods, measuring is the only way to get a true understanding
for how foods effect you.

A few other common examples of indicators that a lot of raw foodies never measure are:

• B12 levels
• and Teeth sensitivity / teeth health
• PH levels

I’m sure there are a bunch more and we’ll certainly expand on this topic in future posts.

Questions

• What are some examples of indicators you measure for?

• Why do you measure for these indicators and what do you do with the information?

Philip has a great Juice Feasting Wrap-Up video that includes a few pointers that everyone will appreciate.

In the video Philip covers…

• his total weight loss and gain (and re-gain)
• surprise experiences related to energy
• some challenges he experienced transitioning out of the Juice Feast
• and who he does and doesn’t recommend a juice feast for

You can check it out Philip’s video here at the Loving Raw blog

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