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• It took several years to ferment, so I guess it should last at least a few months in your refrigerator. You can always order it online, I did.

  in How Long will Nama Shoyu Keep... Comment by alpdesigns
• I like my Oster Fusion blender. I bought it online from JC Penny for around $45.00. I can’t remember what the shipping was. They’re $99.00 if you buy it from the TV commercial.

  in mid-priced blenders Comment by alpdesigns
• Omshanti, it isn’t natural to lose armpit hair or eyebrow growth. It might be a good idea to check for low thyroid. I had eyebrow loss for several years from the center towards the end. I took an analysis quiz on the Internet and whether or not I ha…

  in raw foodists don't smell! Comment by alpdesigns
• I’m here more often than I visit the group that I started! More people, more diversity, more great recipes. Just MORE of everything!

  in love this site Comment by alpdesigns
• Have you ever heard of Euell Gibbons? He was an advocate of wild foods in the 60’s. He wrote several books on foraging. One was “Did You Ever Eat a Pine Tree?” and another was “Stalking the Healthful Herbs”. I met him in the 70’s and had no idea tha…

  in Edible Weeds. Comment by alpdesigns
• I eat melon for breakfast. Green smoothies, fruit smoothies for lunch. Salads, lettuce wraps, soups with chopped veggies for dinner. Dinner is the only meal that I eat with fats, generally. It’s always easy! I save the complicated recipes for specia…

  in easy dinner ideas Comment by alpdesigns
• It’s difficult to be around family and friends who want to entice you with foods that you loved in the past. It’s difficult to maintain a social life with non-raw fooders if they want to go out to eat or out drinking all the time. You get tired of a…

  in Downsides to being RAW? Comment by alpdesigns
• I’ve noticed something entirely different while detoxing/cleansing. Stool is very soft, very greenish and it happens very frequently, sometimes without much warning. I suppose it all depends on what you need to eliminate. On other days, it makes tha…

  in gross but necessary facts of life Comment by alpdesigns
• I use a giant strainer and a big bowl to rinse and then sprout the buckwheat. I put a plate over the top to sprout.

  in slimy buckwheat Comment by alpdesigns
• Maca is also supposed to be good for thyroid hormone imbalance. I use maca in my smoothies and I think it has helped my autoimmune thyroid problems. I also eat EVCO, but I originally ate it for the anti-bacterial, anti-fungal properties in treating …

  in Hypothyroidism...help! Comment by alpdesigns
• I recently read that coconut oil is good for thyroid issues. It’s controversial but worth looking into.

  in Hypothyroidism...help! Comment by alpdesigns
• odalys. I think that I wasn’t eating enough greens. I’m only speculating, but once I added green smoothies back into my diet on a regular basis, things started getting better. I use a variety of greens, one type each day. Sometimes I use spinach, ot…

  in Hypothyroidism...help! Comment by alpdesigns
• Hi odalys. I eat brown seaweed (kombu, wakame) for the iodine. I started taking a raw seaweed supplement (Modifilan) for the detox properties and the iodine in the seaweed helped me with thyroid. Brazil nuts have the highest source of selenium than …

  in Hypothyroidism...help! Comment by alpdesigns
• You might be having an allergic reaction to the gluten in wheat. You could be eating an unbalanced diet without sufficient nutrients. You could be going through detox. You could be having a reaction to cooked food. How could anyone here properly dia…

  in Help! Is this detox? Comment by alpdesigns
• Hi Rawdoll. My family recently sold our stores. I didn’t go grocery shopping while we were waiting for the new people to arrive and the date kept changing. I ran out of produce. I ate some cooked food during this time because that was all I had. I’m…

  in help! Comment by alpdesigns
• I used to eat them because they are a convenient snack to take to work, besides tasting so good.

  in larabar addiction! Comment by alpdesigns
• http://bunnyfoot.blogspot.com/2006/02/homemade-... I love Larabars. I get them at www.fitfuel.com for less than health food stores, even with shipping. I have a box of cinnamon roll and a box of cherry pie bars on my kitchen shelf. The first time I …

  in larabar addiction! Comment by alpdesigns
• I did a watermelon fast recently that lasted for three days (as long as the watermelons did). It was amazing how much it cleansed me. I ate the seeds. Watermelon is good for the liver and kidneys. I had edema and the watermelon flushes out the uric …

  in Feeling strange Comment by alpdesigns
• Here’s a link to get your sprouts started: http://www.jasonunbound.com/sprouts.html Nuts are hard to digest for many people. Do you soak them? Soaking and rinsing removes some of the phytates, acids that hinder digestion. Acidic food causes mucus an…

  in Help! Family of 6 having a hard time with raw Comment by alpdesigns
• Get an electric razor and you won’t need lather to shave.

  in Questions for dancharming Comment by alpdesigns
• Here’s a site that will tell you how to make it. http://www.recipenet.org/health/recipes/recipki...

  in Almond Butter?? Comment by alpdesigns
• I’ve never had the bottled, pasteurized kind. I make my own and it tastes good, smells good. The benefits are the B vitamins, interferon, glutathion and it’s diuretic properties among a long list of vitamins. It is full of living probiotics, too. I …

  in Kombucha Comment by alpdesigns
• It’s better to eat some raw than none, but you will see greater benefits when you go completely raw. Cooked food has lost it’s nutritive value. It’s more difficult to digest and takes longer to get through the track. One rule of some raw foodists is…

  in Mixing cooked/raw foods and aslo spices Comment by alpdesigns
• There is a big misconception about fats in general. You have saturated, unsaturated, mono-unsaturated, medium chain… Avocados have been found to support the liver, it’s a healthy fat. Coconut is anti-viral, anti-bacterial and is a medium chain fat. …

  in DanCharming Comment by alpdesigns
• om, I think green smoothies fit into the Graham diet. I also find Victoria Boutenkos research to be well done. I’m drinking a green smoothie as I type.

  in Raw Food World Summit Comment by alpdesigns
• I listened to Doug Graham today. Thanks for the heads up SocaL. He inspired me to try the 80/10/10 diet. I’ve been eating waaay too much fat lately. The recipes posted to the group are very good, but most are very concentrated and poorly combined fo…

  in Raw Food World Summit Comment by alpdesigns
• Hi Blujett8. I like the way Mike Adams said to check out his research, so I did. He is right to make the claim about B vitamins in spirulina, including B-12, according to the studies I found. I also looked up phycocyanin, an element of spirulina tha…

  in Raw Food World Summit Comment by alpdesigns
• Victoria was great today. She reminded me, in a very inspirational way, why I drink green smoothies. .I started drinking them because of her without knowing much about her research. It was enlightening to hear her be so excited about her discovery. …

  in Raw Food World Summit Comment by alpdesigns
• Some of the Superfoods that Shazzie eats are actually powders. Doesn’t that seem overly processed? Some examples are lucuma powder, maca root powder, hemp leaf powder, cacao powder. Wouldn’t they seem more “Super” if they were in their natural state…

  in Raw Food World Summit Comment by alpdesigns
• I question that moon landing too. I’m sort of a conspiracy theorist (factualist). I question some of those so-called superfoods too. I don’t really think that cacao can be a superfood because of the caffeine and theobromine it contains. Both are rep…

  in Raw Food World Summit Comment by alpdesigns