Raw Foods: Can You Go 24 Hours With NO Cooked Foods?
Apple Salad
The best diet on earth is the Raw Living Food diet which was created for humans. As usual, man’s god complex instructed him to improve upon the divine order of nature and add some fire to the process. For the record I’m a guilty participant. From the womb I’ve been eating cooked and processed foods. I love a Ruth Chris steak or a sugar loaded McD’s Apple Pie like everyone else. However, with more wisdom I’ve seen the error of my ways and of our modern ancestors. The cooked food diet, consisting of blood and starch is the single most destructive diet.
We all know the remedy but it’s very difficult to change the rules in the 9th inning. Adopting a Raw Living Food Diet is difficult because psychological attachments to cooked foods run so deep. Often unsubstantiated beliefs promote myths as facts which advocates to a path high speed to dis-ease. For example, NO animal allows other animals to feed their young, so why do humans feed our children Cow’s milk? The majority of the animals humans eat are vegetarians (cows, chicken, lamb, turkey), natural flesh eaters eat raw meat (Lions, Tigers). As a matter of fact, most of our illnesses are 100% preventable if we had a righteous diet.
I have no desire to live forever but I do want quality time on earth to enjoy my family and friends. It’s become more common to witness young men in there 30’s on Viagara/Cialis , an unprecedented increase in children’s diabetes or adults unable to run a mile.
Recently, on a few social sites, I had an open challenge to anyone to go 24 hours eating Raw Living Food only. This would consist of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, water and fresh squeezed juices. I honestly wasn’t prepared for the overwhelming response from individuals worldwide ready to challenge me. The prize was only a free 1 year subscription to Facebook 
. For the change of season I propose you clear all old energy and allow your body to detox. I suggest you sweat on this challenge over the weekend, preferably Sunday, so your mood swings don’t cause you to have a meltdown at work.
Here are a few menu recipes:
Walnut Munch – bananas, walnuts and agave nectar. Slice bananas and chop walnuts. Toss the walnuts on top of bananas. Next, drizzle Agave on top and enjoy.
Apple Salad – apple, baby leaves, balsamico, olive oil, sea salt, lemon, pepper, basil, oregano
Note: Add the lemon juice immediately after you have sliced the apple – avoids changing apple color Mix the greens with olive oil first – when you put the salt first the veggies get soggy
Fruit Smoothie - banana, strawberries, pineapples and ½ cup of pressed apple cider. Put the ingredients in a blender and enjoy.
For anyone who participates, please share recipes and your menu schedule, in order to assist myself and others who are neophytes.
I wish everyone success and if you stumble and sneak a chicken wing – repeat after me… ”It is my mission not to be perfect but to give my best effort.”
I accept the challenge. But I’m going to tell you, I will have one cheat over the weekend. I’m going to through in some whey protein even though this originates from cow’s milk as well. But baby steps. Baby steps.
Applauds on the new look of your blog. It takes on a Live approach.
Talani, you are so funny — do you know why???
As you know, I have experimented with a raw diet for about a year and a half with your help. It has shown me that cooked foods are addictive and unnatural. Also, I recognize the benefits of a longer life span.
It really is a lifestyle change and the transition is hard to make. But, I am on a healthy mission and will take you on beginning Sunday.
Tee,
As you know i have tried the live food life, however i have not been consistent. As Jaime Fox would say blame it on the Al co hol. No, that is definitely a joke as you know i am not a drinker, but i blame it on my mother southern cuisine. I am vegan, until i enter my mothers kitchen. The raw food diet is not really a diet, but a way of life. You definitely, have to condition your self to eat that way, it is mind over matter. I would love to take you on the challenge of the raw diet and i will begin on tuesday April 6. And, also the new site looks
great.
Live Well,
Sharone
There’s a great book called Fit For Life by Dr. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond that substantiates a lot of the things you mention and goes into greater detail even. It changed my life.
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RAWSOME TAA. 5 or more servings of raw meals is a good baseline. If you contine on the raw path there are many health benefits incl. slowing of the aging process however you may not be biologically suitable for this extreme diet on a contining basis.
WOW! I am going to try the no cooked food and I will get back to you and let you know how it went.
I know I could eat raw food for 24 hours, because I’m kinda doing it now. But the question I always ask myself, is do I only wanna eat raw foods for the rest of life? But after reading your article, I might rabbit, I might, lol… Great work Talani.
Hello Guru, what entice you to post an article. This article was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Thursday.
following the blog, good stuff!