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Dr. Oz suggests raw food

January 5, 2010 by hollie In The News

The Dr. Oz website has a whole section on raw foods, called The Raw Food Challenge, designed to help you transition to a raw foods diet. I’m floored. After the last few years of listening to mainstream news talk about how crazy those raw foodists are (It’s all an eating disorder! Enzymes aren’t necessary!), here’s [...]

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Milk elevates insulin levels

November 21, 2009 by hollie In The News

According to Loren Cordain’s blog:
Milk elevates insulin as much as white bread. Constantly elevating plasma insulin levels may lead to insulin resistance, which is at the root of several metabolic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes or hypertension.
Hmmmm. Does that seem odd to you? Being lactose intolerant myself and a vegan groupie, I don’t [...]

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Canned food contributes to breast cancer?

October 12, 2009 by hollie In The News

This was a new one for me. According to this article in The Daily Green:
In addition to being found in many plastic bottles, Bisphenol A is also found in the epoxy resin liner of most canned fruits and vegetables. The BPA from this lining has been shown to leach into the vegetables in the can. Studies [...]

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Aussies come up with a great food show

June 10, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

In Australia there’s a new show called Food Investigators. The episodes are free to watch online for 30 days after they air. I’m currently watching episode 4, which you can find on this Episode Guide. It talks about “functional  foods”, or foods that are enriched with various things to make them more nutritionally sound, like [...]

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Are running shoes useless?

May 28, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

On a bbs I’m on, a link was posted in response to a friend asking about shoes for starting the Couch to 5k program.
The link went to an article titled, “The painful truth about trainers: are running shoes a waste of money?”
What I like is that they come to the conclusion that we’re basically better [...]

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Great article on the benefits of fruits and veggies!

May 25, 2009 by hollie In The News

I just found a great article on the benefits of fruits and veggies, written by David H. Murdock, who is chairman and owner of the Dole Food Company. Here’s a link to the article, and here’s an excerpt: 
No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth — everything I need comes from my [...]

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What did Woody think of the foie gras?

May 4, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

Woody Harrelson is a raw foodist and environmental activist. He runs a website with his wife called Voice Yourself: Transforming the World Together. I was reading People the other day, and noticed that he attended Salma Hayek’s wedding, which featured foie gras and veal on the menu. I wondered how that went over. What does [...]

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Joaquin, Joaquin, why dost thou mess with me so?

February 12, 2009 by hollie In The News

So if I continue going vegan, will I end up with a bad beard and a burgeoning hip-hop career?
I can’t imagine this is real. It has to be a hoax. As most of you (okay, none of you) know, I’ve been in love with the Phoenix boys since I was a wee girl. And this [...]

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What do people look like when they’ve lived on raw foods for a few decades?

November 25, 2008 by hollie In The News

Joan Pick lives in England, is 67 years old, a former scientist and member of Mensa, and runs wherever she needs to go. She hasn’t been in a car in years. She’s been living on raw food for ages, which I’m guessing accounts for her energy and her glow. Look at those rosy cheeks, and [...]

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Sugar causes cancer?

November 18, 2008 by hollie In The News

From Natural News: Ten Studies Showing the Link Between Sugar and Increased Cancer Risk
So if sugar causes cancer…..then what’s the name of that creek I’m up? Excrement creek? Crap creek? Yeah.

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