Category Archives: health

Raw: Simpler is Better

I'm coming to the conclusion that the closer a food is to being alive, the better it is for us to eat it — no ground breaking realisations here of course — just important to realise these things for oneself. The antithesis of this being: the more processed, complexly combined & further from this natural …

14/Jul/2008 – 23:49 | By Si | Posted in health, raw | Comments (0)

Gall Bladder Cleanse — Don't Do What I Did

[If you're squeamish, don't read this] I'd been reading a bit about gall bladder cleanses on Give It To Me Raw, and thought "Hey, why not give that a go?" So I did. mMMmm nummy! No, mine doesn't look like this (I'd be in extreme pain if it did). I did a bunch of research, read about 20 different …

14/Jul/2008 – 11:51 | By Si | Posted in healing, health | Comments (10)

How to Make Spirulina Tasty

Ok, so everyone knows spirulina is good for you. But so many brands taste like ass (uhh, ok, not exactly like ass). What to do, what to do? Well, I've finally found a way (other than the obvious, masking it in smoothies, with tons of fruit, or, you know, buying all the brands out there till you …

11/Jul/2008 – 04:02 | By Si | Posted in health, raw | Comments (3)

The Dangers of Fasting

Having recently finished a 30 odd day juice feast/fast, followed by a 4 day water fast, there were a couple of things that deeply concerned me. To be clear, I don't think these are procedural issues — that water or juice fasting are inherently bad — but rather things that, perhaps due to my personality, …

04/Jul/2008 – 14:08 | By Si | Posted in health, raw | Comments (11)

Recovering from a Juice Feast

First of all — a disclaimer. I ain't a juice feastin' expert. I can only talk about my own experience. And so I shall! Ok, some background — why did I do a juice feast in the first place? Spiritual clarity, essentially. In the process of weeding my emotional garden, I knew that the lighter my …

01/Jul/2008 – 11:34 | By Si | Posted in healing, health, raw | Comments (0)

Food is not Love — but Love is food

Going on a 30 something day juice feast totally kicked my ass. I admit it. I was miserable pretty much the entire time. Worse though was afterwards. I decided to finish by going from juice onto a 4 day water fast (which was easier, oddly). That was ok. However, once the transition back to normal food …

30/Jun/2008 – 16:13 | By Si | Posted in healing, health, raw | Comments (2)

Cleaning House — Removing obvious food toxins

I've just come off a thirty something day juice feast, followed by a four day water fast (more on that lot later), and after all that cleansing, I started thinking about what I was now going to be putting into my body again. Why waste all that time by just putting more toxins in? So I …

30/Jun/2008 – 07:55 | By Si | Posted in health, home, raw | Comments (1)