Thursday, August 20, 2009

Update August 20 -2009 Pro Or Con "Raw Food Diet For Weight Loss" By Health Experts

The raw food diet is defined as diet with 75% of unprocessed and uncooked plant foods including all types fresh fruit,vegetables nuts and seeds in order to avoid heating (above 116 degrees F is believed to destroy enzymes in food), thereby, preventing the loss of vitamins and minerals and increasing the absorption of vital nutrients of the digestive system.Unfortunately, it is not for people with digestive disorder, since it increases the risks of diarrhoea and other symptoms of digestive system. People first time in the diet may find to have diarrhoea or loose stool and other digestive problem, but they will go aways in a few days.

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Raw Food - A Diet For the Lazy Man
By Swayze Foster Platinum Quality Author

Here is a comment that was recently left on a former post about mono-fruit meals.

I am lazy and started doing fruit meals from the beginning! I have never been into cooking recipes. So I got into raw foods and eating mostly fruit instinctively. ~ Annalise

I can certainly relate to this. When I ate a cooked vegan diet, I always HATED spending hours in the kitchen preparing meals. Or making a second trip to the supermarket because I forgot some essential ingredient for a dish the first time around. Or having to plan my "healthy" meals days in advance. Or...the list goes on and on.

That's why I was so excited about the raw food diet. "Eating foods in their raw states," I thought. "What could be more simple than that?"

Little did I know that the world of "gourmet raw" wasn't any better than cooked vegan! I still spent hours in the kitchen, only now I was just chopping vegetables. I still had to make numerous trips to various health food stores in the hopes of finding "necessary" special ingredients. And I still had to plan everything well in advance, so as not to waste anything or end up without enough food.

And at least my cooked meals actually tasted good! Raw meatloaf and "sun" burgers...no thanks.

A Diet for the Lazy Man

Luckily, I quickly came across a raw food diet that truly satisfies the couch potato inside of me. And as crazy as it sounds, this is the absolute *healthiest* and most *nutritious* diet you can find!

And which diet is this? Why, the low fat raw vegan diet, of course! That means all the sweet fruit you can eat, moderate greens and non-sweet fruits, and limited fats. That's it!

When I found out that I could literally grab a bunch of bananas and chow down, I couldn't believe it. And what if I wanted something a little more fancy? No problem! A simple yet satisfying fruit salad, green smoothie, savory salsa or raw pasta could be prepared in just minutes!

This meant no more extra time in the kitchen and no more desperate searches at the supermarket! While I still plan my meals, and recommend that you do the same, it's extremely simple. Since I know how much food I need in a given day and the ripening times of the various foods that I eat, all that is required is to make sure that I buy enough when I go shopping. That's all there is to it!

And best of all? I have more energy on this super simple lazy man's raw diet than on any other program I've ever tried! And because I'm not slaving away in front of a hot stove (or tepid dehydrator, for that matter), I can use that new-found energy for things that I truly enjoy.

What's That, You Say?

A raw diet of mostly fruit is just *too* simple, right? There is just *no way* a person can survive long term on such a diet, huh?

WRONG! Not only are people surviving on a high fruit, low fat raw vegan diet, they are thriving (myself included)! If you don't believe me, take a gander at 30 Bananas a Day. It's a forum specifically for low fat raw vegans and boasts over 1000 members!

If you are *still* skeptical, try it out for yourself! You have nothing to lose from giving a healthy raw vegan diet a go. Cooked foods will still be there if you wish to return to them.

So what's stopping you? Grab some bananas and give the low fat fruity raw way a try! :D

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How Does the Raw Food Diet Work? Nurse's Guide
By Helen Hecker Platinum Quality Author

If you've been hearing more and more lately about raw foods and the raw food diet and are wondering how it works, this article will give you a basic idea of how it works.

I first became familiar with raw food diets after I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. I was also suffering from a lot of ailments including fibromyalgia, arthritis, sinus infections, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome and much more. I had been hospitalized with pneumonia, had strep throat and on and on. So my immune system was not in good shape.

Turning down conventional therapy, that is - no chemo, radiation or surgery or any drugs or medications, I turned to raw foods. I developed my own diet based on reading what many others were doing who were eating a raw food diet.

It is really very simple. The diet consists of fruits, vegetable, nuts and seeds - that's it. And none of it cooked. It may sound sparse but it is nothing but. I can make dozens of recipes using nuts and seeds along with various fruits and veggies and all sorts of combinations of these. The rewards are great. For me, no more breast cancer and all my other ailments went away and I'm still in perfect health today, enjoy tremendous energy and just feel good all the time. I only need five hours sleep a night and take no medications. I am physically active too and thin.

If you're thinking about the raw food diet for weight loss, it's the best way to lose weight. You won't be starving yourself because you can eat as much as you want to eat of those four food groups. Weight drops off fast and I virtually lost weight almost overnight of about ten pounds. It stays off too because you really adopt the raw food diet as a lifestyle once you start. Although I eat 100% raw, of course you can choose to eat 75% to 80% raw and still benefit. Or eating any amount of fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds is going to help boost your immune system, fight off colds, the flu, ailments and diseases.

And you don't have to sign up for any expensive weight loss programs. Once you get going and start learning the ropes you'll find you enjoy eating more simply and will still be able to putter in the kitchen and make fabulous recipes. And your guests won't have any idea that the food they're eating is healthy.

So give the raw food diet a try. You can design your own by studying what others are eating and there are lots of raw ebooks and books available on the subject. Like me you'll be glad you did.

For my raw food diet cure and secrets - how I used it to help cure my breast cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, acid reflux-digestive, sleep issues, headaches, pain, weight loss, etc. see a nurse/raw food expert's http://www.RawFoodDietCure.com and my easy raw food recipes http://www.RecipesRaw.com

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Update August 6-2009

The raw food diet is defined as diet with 75% of unprocessed and uncooked plant foods including all types fresh fruit,vegetables nuts and seeds in order to avoid heating (above 116 degrees F is believed to destroy enzymes in food), thereby, preventing the loss of vitamins and minerals and increasing the absorption of vital nutrients of the digestive system.Unfortunately, it is not for people with digestive disorder, since it increases the risks of diarrhoea and other symptoms of digestive system. People first time in the diet may find to have diarrhoea or loose stool and other digestive problem, but they will go aways in a few days.

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Raw Food Diet - Pros

By Teodor Lazar

After completing the Raw Food Diet Experiment, I made a list of the pros I experienced during the raw food diet. If you are still on the fence about starting your own 30 day raw food diet experiment, this list may just be the nudge you need. I've sent it to a few of my friends and two have decided to go raw for 30 Days. If the list is helpful to you, please let me know by making a donation. It is appreciated and will ensure that I will be able to continue doing more experiments in the future - all of which I will post for your benefit. And now, the Raw Food Diet Pros:

Weight Loss

Just about everyone I've met, who has gone on this diet, has lost weight. If you are trying to lose weight in a healthy way, then there is no healthier way than eating raw natural foods. I personally lost 15.8 lbs while on this diet and I wasn't even trying. In fact, I was trying to eat more than I needed in order not to lose weight. If you are trying to lose a few pounds, then try the raw food diet. Not only will you lose the weight but you will feel great while doing it. There's no need for pills, powders, fancy meal plans, set portions, or fees. That, plus zero cooking time! Just go to your local Whole Foods or Farmers' Market and buy the produce. Then come home, wash it, peal it, and eat it. I lost an average of 3.687 lbs in a week. If you eat a lot of processed food, as well as fast food you will probably lose more weight than me. Just keep in mind that if you eat processed food along with fast food on a daily basis, your detox period may also be more intense. With that in mind, you may not want to jump into 100% raw food all at once. If you do decide on eating 100% raw, then I recommend reading 10 Ways to Become a Raw Foodist.

Less Need for Sleep

On my Standard American Diet (SAD), I usually slept 6-7 hours a night, sometimes only managing 5. On 6-7 hours of sleep, I functioned at a normal capacity. My cognitive abilities were average and I preformed tasks within reasonable periods of time. If I slept 5 hours, I slowed down. I felt sluggish and my productivity suffered as a result.

On the raw food diet, I averaged around 5 hours of sleep a night. Even so, I still felt more alert on 5 hours of sleep while eating raw than I normally did sleeping 6-7 hours eating the Standard American Diet. Thus on a raw food diet, not only did I need less sleep, but I was also more alert on less sleep when compared to the Standard American Diet.

If you are a person that needs to accomplish many things and those things cut into your sleeping time, which in turn decreases your cognitive capacity the next day, then I would strongly consider the raw food diet.

As to why this is the case, I have a theory. If you remember my post on enzymes, you'll remember than on a raw food diet your body doesn't have to use as many resources to aid in digestion. Thus there are more resources left over for repair (this not only means repairing the body, but the mind as well). And when does repairing of the body and mind occur? At night - when you are sleeping.

On the SAD, you're causing damage to your body every day by ingesting harmful toxins from cooked and processed foods. Your body has less resources and more damage to deal with, so in order to fix the damage your body keeps you sleeping for longer periods of time. If you try to wake up before the body has had a chance to repair itself, you wake up feeling tired. This is your body's way of telling you, it has not finished repairing itself yet.

When you eat strictly raw foods, you dramatically reduce the toxins you ingest. Your body also uses less of its own resources to aid in digestion, thus you have more resources available and less damage to repair. Over time your body uses those resources to repair the damage cooked/processed foods have caused. Without new toxins coming in, your body gradually repairs all the major areas. As time passes you need to spend less time sleeping because there's less and less damage for your body to repair.

Increased Endurance

Normally when I'm at the gym, I need about 30 sec to 1 min of rest in-between my sets. The workout is not high intensity...yet. Still I lift weights and do many sets which do require rest. On my normal diet, I fatigue faster and run out of energy quicker so I need more time in between sets to recoup. On the raw food diet, I noticed I either had a faster recovery time or I didn't get too tired in the first place. In some cases I was literally walking from machine to machine. This didn't happen right away; the results came on Day 7 and continued onward.

My theory is that fruits and vegetables are easily broken down. The molecular properties of fruits and vegetables are less complex than SAD foods. Fruits and vegetables are just glucose, vitamins, minerals, and water. Less complexity means less use of vital enzymes and energy. The energy conserved during digestion is surplus energy that's available for other activities like working out. One example to ponder is meat and bananas, which one do you think you can chew, swallow, and digest faster?

Increased Strength

While on the raw food diet I experienced strength gains at a rapid pace. This is all while losing weight. When I experienced strength gains in the past it was accompanied by an increase in my body weight as well. The strength boost first became apparent on Day 7 (link), when I went up in each of my exercises by a total of 5 lbs. By the end of Day 30, I was up a total of 20 lbs in each exercise. Up until this diet, I had reached a plateau in terms of strength. If you are an athlete and strength is a factor you might want to give this diet a try. After eating raw foods for 30 days, I went back to eating cooked foods of all kinds again. Shortly after, I lost the gains I had made up until that point. The loss in strength came fast and I was at my previous capacity within a week. As a side note, my endurance went down dramatically as well.

Increased Energy

If you feel like you never have enough energy to get everything you need to accomplished, then you may want to consider eating raw foods. After the 7th Day, I noticed a substantial increase in energy. I'd compare it to drinking coffee, but this is a cleaner energy without a crash or jitters. The energy is like a constant stream of power. There are no short circuits and the system is always powered on. While on raw foods, if you feel yourself slowly gliding to a lower energy level you just eat a piece of fruit and you jump back up to your previous levels.

Increased Libido

This particular pro gets a little graphic, so please skip it if you are the type that gets queasy. I started having more frequent erections after Day 8, but I didn't post about it in my journal because I didn't think anyone would want to read about it. Still I decided to include it here because there are men out there with erectile dysfunctions and over half of them could probably be cured if they didn't ingest so much processed cooked food. Instead of making poor food choices and then taking pills to force a change in their bodies, they could just as easily take up a raw food diet and see their vitality improve. I noticed that while on the raw food diet, I was more responsive and in tune with members of the opposite sex. I also noticed dramatic improvements in arousal and stamina, so if you're love life needs a boost, the raw food diet can definitely turbo-charge it.

Bouts of Euphoria

Do you like being extremely happy for no reason? I do too and during the raw food diet I experienced these intense feelings of joy. These short bursts of euphoria usually lasted anywhere from 1-3 hours, with a few cases lasting as long as 4 hours at a time. During these periods of euphoria I felt joyous. Every cell in my body was full of good feelings. Like the feelings you get when you are about to go on a much wanted vacation, or have a crush on someone, or like being a kid on Christmas morning. Remember those feelings? If you want to experience those same feelings, start eating raw foods. You will have powerful feelings of excitement, joy, and peacefulness all mixed into one. I haven't figured out the food combination to bring them about as frequently as I'd like (they are addictive feelings after all), but from my experiences they came about after I ate fruit or drank green smoothies. I didn't notice the same euphoria when I ate non-green vegetables or fats. I must attach a disclaimer here because your body won't necessarily work the same as mine, so I encourage you to try what works for you. Trying fruit or green-smoothies is a good place to start. If the feelings don't come right away, hang in there. I didn't feel extreme joy until the 19th Day of this trial, this was a full 9 days later than on my December 08 trial.

Positive Emotions and Tranquility

After week 1, I noticed I felt positive emotions a majority of the time. I first noticed that I had become more confident. Those voices in my head that said, "You can't do this" or "You lack X and Y" or "You're not Z enough" slowly became whispers and gradually disappeared. After that, I became less agitated at things that would normally irk me. An example - being cut off in traffic - I didn't care. I entered a Zen-like state where I was calm and contemplative. I felt more connected to the world and the people in it. More intuitive about people's emotional states when I was talking to them. I could pick out their emotional states even if they were trying to put on a front. Then I started to feel like sharing those good feelings, I really wanted others to feel good. I became more generous, I would try to brighten people's day by doing little things for them. One co-worker was sick, so I went out and got her some fresh chicken soup (up until that point I didn't even know her that well). A friend's car stopped working so I offered him my own and I didn't even charge him for gas. Gasp!

Clear Thinking/Consciousness/Increased Intuition

The shift in brain capacity when you adapt a raw food diet is amazing! It's like coming out of a fog that you were not even aware that you were in. You feel as though you just got an upgrade. When you're on the raw food diet everything is sharper, cleaner, and faster. Ideas are flowing like a river as opposed to your mind being like a lake on cooked food.

I have a computer game that I play from time to time. It has different brain games that challenge you to use your mind. Everything is timed and the problems are not too difficult. I've had the game on my computer for close to a year and I play it about once a week for around an hour. Well after being at the same mental level for a while, I dramatically improved my scores on memory, intuition, and analysis.

The reason why I noticed an increased brain capacity could be that I was no longer poisoning my system with the toxins that are present in cooked and processed food. When I ate raw organic foods I ingested few to no toxins which meant less repetitive damage to my body and mind. Over time my body had repaired the major troubled spots. Since my body had more resources available left over to repair my brain, it concentrated on that. After the repairs took place my mind was able to process things in a fraction of the time it took it on the SAD. Hard to believe? Try the raw food diet out for yourself and you'll see massive improvements in your cognitive capacity.

Clearer Sinuses

By the end of the diet I hardly every needed to blow my nose. Most of the time my sinuses were clear and I felt I could breathe quite easily. I don't have allergies, so I'm not stuffed up normally, but what I noticed is that on a SAD diet my mucus was green and atrocious.

It felt like I had little green trolls living in my nose up all this time and for the first time in years they had taken a vacation. I usually have some thick boogies that are dark green and I blow them out in my sink in the morning (fun fact). In any case, I rarely had any green mucus in my nose after the end of the 2nd week and after 30 days of raw foods, I noticed even less of it.

Cleaner Mouth/Breath

If you place a premium on fresh breath (and who doesn't?), then that's just another plus of the raw food diet. When eating cooked food my mouth usually had a gritty feeling unless I brushed right away. After switching to raw foods I would have a fresh feeling in my mouth. The exception being green smoothies. Green smoothies were usually think and creamy and would tend to leave a film. Still if I swished some fresh water through my mouth, it would clean off any residue. I cannot say the same for my standard diet. If I ate cooked meat, I had to brush and floss, otherwise in a couple of hours I could feel the bacteria starting to fester.

No Sleepiness After Meals

If you adopt the raw food diet, you will not want to sit on the couch and take a nap after meals. After you eat raw foods, you'll feel energized and ready to take on the world. You might even let out a few roars and beat your chest. If you are eating mainly fruit and greens on your diet, much like I am, your meals will be processed in a fraction of the time it normally takes for your body to process cooked food or meat. This means less down time and more time available for you to accomplish your goals.

Healthy Glow

After being on the diet for 15 days, co-workers started saying that something was different about me. I had told a couple of them that I was on the raw food diet, so obviously they suspected it could be due to the diet, but there were others who didn't know what was different about me. Their subconscious must have picked up on something. It was kind of funny to listen to some comments like, "Something's different about you. Did you get a hair-cut?" or "You seem to be radiating, like your glowing or something." I don't know if it was just the glow, or a combination of the glow and some weight loss, but I thought I'd mention the glow phenomenon here.

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These are the pros of eating a raw food diet. If you have tried the 30-Day Raw Food Diet Experiment and found some other pros, I'll be happy to add them as well. You can let me know by going to http://outsidetheboxexperiment.com/contact.php

About The Author

Teodor Lazar is an individual who is committed to helping people fulfill their goals in life. He writes authentic, detailed, and value filled articles which focus on health, wealth, and relationships. You can read his other articles here: http://outsidetheboxexperiment.com/blog/archives/

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Update August 1st - 2009 Pro Or Con "Raw Food Diet For Weight Loss" By Health Experts

The raw food diet is defined as diet with 75% of unprocessed and uncooked plant foods including all types fresh fruit,vegetables nuts and seeds in order to avoid heating (above 116 degrees F is believed to destroy enzymes in food), thereby, preventing the loss of vitamins and minerals and increasing the absorption of vital nutrients of the digestive system.Unfortunately, it is not for people with digestive disorder, since it increases the risks of diarrhoea and other symptoms of digestive system. People first time in the diet may find to have diarrhoea or loose stool and other digestive problem, but they will go aways in a few days.

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Is a Raw Food Diet Radical?
By Swayze Foster Platinum Quality Author

There are so many doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, and health hobbyists and lobbyists out there that bash the raw food diet and its promoters. They say that a raw food diet isn't balanced, is lacking nutrients, results in fanaticism...

Ultimately, they conclude that a raw diet is a radical approach to health.

Since I know you're just *dying* to know, here is what I think. :)

Everyone knows the health benefits of fruits and veggies

We have all been told since childhood the importance of fruits and vegetables in a balanced diet. Our parents did everything they could to get us to eat our fruits and veggies.

Chips were replaced with apples and PB in our lunch boxes. Broccoli was smothered in yellow cheese sauce. Berries were stuck between layers of graham cracker and whipped cream.

If you asked a random person off the street what the healthiest foods are, 90% of them would say fruits and vegetables.

Try this: go to Google and search "healthy food." Click the image tab. Almost *every* picture on the first page showcases fruits and vegetables!

And what about commercials? There's the "5-a-day" ads. The Ocean Spray cranberry juice ads. All the different foods promoting their "one serving of fruit/vegetables." And we can't forget the ever-popular "should have had a V8" ads.

So what's the big deal?

If the vast majority agrees that fruits and vegetables are the healthiest foods for us humans, is the idea of eating them exclusively such a leap? I don't think so.

But then again, I'm biased.

Think of it this way: if you knew the absolute *best* way to clean your carpet, would you give any other method the time of day? Of course not!

If you have the best, forget the rest!

Do you want to know what IS radical about a raw food diet?

The results! The amazing benefits you can experience from going raw are just that...amazing! Here are a few that I can attest to...

  • Improved digestion
  • Weight loss
  • Better mental focus
  • No more muscle cramps!
  • Loss of joint pain
  • Much more energy
  • Deeper, restful sleep
  • Reduction in daily hair loss
  • Softer, smoother skin
  • Less chance of burning from sun exposure
  • No more stinky sweat!

I could go on and on, but I won't bore you any longer.

My point is that the results speak for themselves. If you doubt the validity of a raw vegan diet or think that it is *too radical*, just give it a try! Make the effort for a good 30 days and see what raw foods can do for you.

I guarantee you will see results quicker than you could have ever imagined.

For more information on the best raw vegan diet, be sure to visit http://www.fitonraw.com and subscribe to Swayze's newsletter Peachy Keen Ezine. By subscribing, you will also receive the free report The 4 Principles of a Healthy Raw Diet as well as the 5-week mini-course The Fool Proof Transition to Raw.

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15 Amazing Raw Food Diet Benefits
By Joe Waters

First, What Is A Raw Food Diet?

A raw food diet typically consists of nearly all uncooked food. A standard ratio is usually 75% raw food to 25% or less cooked food. Many people will even aim to achieve 90 to 100% raw foods in their diet.

By following these guidelines, many wonderful benefits of a raw food diet are realized.

Some of the most common types of raw foods are...fresh and dried fruits, fresh fruit juices, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts.

Let's look at some of the most noticeable benefits of a raw food diet people typically experience once they make this shift in their dietary habits.

Powerful Raw Food Diet Benefits

Some of the most common benefits of a raw food diet include...

  • Increased energy level.
  • Clear, soft skin.
  • Establish and maintain your ideal body weight.
  • You do not feel deprived of eating.
  • Eat as much as you want and not gain weight.
  • Enjoy a deep, sound sleep at night.
  • Have regular bowel movements and rarely suffer from constipation or indigestion.
  • Look younger and healthier.
  • Your health and fitness levels increase.
  • Your eyes will be more clear and bright.
  • Feel happy throughout the day - with no signs of depression.
  • Your level of concentration and focus will improve greatly.
  • Your instincts and intuitiveness will be sharper.
  • Less degenerative disease.
  • Less frequent or less intense colds and flus.

Based on the raw food diet benefits listed above, it's plain to see that raw foods are a simple, effective and natural way to improve your overall health and experience life at an optimal level!

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Free Raw Food Recipe - Best Blueberry Or Blackberry Pie Raw Recipe
By Helen Hecker Platinum Quality Author

If you're looking for a healthy alternative to cooked berry pies or even cooked desserts that are laden with unhealthy fats and sugars, why not try my live-food, free, easy, raw berry pie recipe. Many people are gradually making the switch from cooked desserts and cooked foods which are causing so many of our health problems today. It doesn't matter if you're a raw fooder or eat the standard American diet; you'll love this raw berry pie recipe and know that you're doing your body good in the process.

In fact making a raw berry pie does not require turning on the oven and can be made in virtually minutes. I have often timed myself and can make this pie in ten minutes or less if the ingredients are assembled. Equipment: food processor.

This is my own creation, one of many vegetarian, vegan and raw food recipes that I have developed and created over the past few years as a raw fooder - eating raw foods, having cured myself of breast cancer, fibromyalgia, arthritis and sinus infections along with many other ailments.

You can use the pie crust for dozens of other types of raw food recipes or live pies including raw or live apple pie. I've experimented with dozens of variations and tried various ingredients but I've found this raw blackberry or blueberry pie recipe is the best, fastest and easiest recipe to make. In fact if you're going to have company coming over you can whip this free raw food diet recipe up in no time.

Helen's Best Raw Berry Pie - the ingredients: 12 organic medjool dates, 1 cup raw pecans, 4 cups fresh or frozen blueberries, blackberries or boysenberries and 2 bananas.

For the crust put 1 cup of raw pecans in a food processor and grind until fine. Add 8 pitted organic medjool dates and process until mixed fairly well. Place into a 9-inch pie plate.

For the binder mix two bananas, 8 berries or so for color and 4 medjool dates in a food processor - use the same food processor - don't need to wash it. Remove to large bowl and carefully fold in 4 cups of fresh or frozen or partially frozen blueberries, boysenberries or blackberries. Spread berry-binder mixture on top of the crust. Decorate with boysenberries or blackberries around the edge of the pie. Refrigerate.

This live or raw berry pie is a family favorite and one I have served on many occasions to company who are not aware they are eating something healthy containing all the vibrant nutrients - nothing cooked out.

This pie is really good with boysenberries too. You can also slice some fresh kiwi on the top or other fruits that won't turn color.

One nice thing to know about fixing any raw food recipe is that you can eliminate, substitute or add ingredients easily and it will still taste delicious! In this vegan or raw food diet recipe - you may only have one banana on hand for example or you can make half the recipe. You can substitute the pecans for a mixture of one half cup pecans and one half cup walnuts, or all walnuts.

If you live in an area where you have tons of wild blackberries you can make this pie for pennies. Pick blueberries cheaply in the summer and freeze them for year-round use, although fresh berries are always the best. You can make raw berry pies with this free raw food recipe year-round and you'll feel good too knowing you have served your friends and family something that will help them better their health and help them lose weight if they need to too.

For my raw food diet cure and secrets - how I used it to help cure my breast cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, acid reflux-digestive, sleep issues, headaches, pain, weight loss, etc. see a nurse/raw food expert's http://www.RawFoodDietCure.com and my easy raw food recipes http://www.RecipesRaw.com