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Vegan. Superfoods Raw Cacao Powder. There is hope for chocoholics everywhere!

Superfoods Raw Cacao Powder

You can turn guilt, addictions and misconceptions into super-nutrition! Ever wished you could live forever on desserts? The key to chocolate's super qualities seems to be eating it in it's raw, natural state. When cacao beans are excessively heated, melted, processed, chemicalised, and added to dairy products, they lose key nutrient qualities, psychoactive properties, brain nutrition and more. After all this no wonder people want the real thing! Magnesium Magnesium is the primarily mineral missing when heart problems occur. Antioxidants According to research cited in The New York Times, fresh cacao beans are super-rich in antioxidant flavonols.

Anti-Depressant Properties Cacao is a great source of serotonin, dopamine, and phenylethylamine, three well-studied neurotransmitters, which help alleviate depression and are associated with feelings of well being. Lose weight, eat chocolate! How can we raise kids' awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices?

Challenge Brief Jamie Oliver won the TED Prize wish last year.

How can we raise kids' awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices?

His wish was to create a Food Revolution in America, to change the way kids eat by teaching them how to cook and what fresh food can do for them. This is all in the effort to help fight to obesity, one of the largest health issues in the United States. FREE 3-Day Green Smoothie Challenge. The "Fountain of Youth" is closer than you think!

FREE 3-Day Green Smoothie Challenge

"Green Smoothies May Look Weird and Smell a Bit Like Lawnmower Pulp, but They Taste Amazing and Work Like a Charm! " Hey there, Health-Seeking Superstar, Pack a Lunch With Punch! Adapted from a peta2 feature. 1.

Pack a Lunch With Punch!

Build a Pizza. » Beat the Sugar Habit: 3 Steps to Cut Sweets (Mostly) Out of Your Life. Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Mike O’Donnell of the IF Life.

» Beat the Sugar Habit: 3 Steps to Cut Sweets (Mostly) Out of Your Life

Sugar, sugar, sugar. It’s everywhere. It’s in our drinks, it’s in our foods, and it’s hidden in places we never would think of. Many would call sugar their friend in time of need, but in fact their so-called “good friend” could turn out to be their worst enemy in disguise. Sugar for many is something they may have been battling with for a long time, but the past is the past. First Step – Awareness of what Sugar Really Does to Your Body. Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery. FREE 3-Day Challenge. 3 Easy Ways to Get Kids Involved with Raw Foods. Getting Your Kids Involved with Raw Foods: Monkey Mike and The Merry Berry Milkshake - by Rachelle Fordyce If you’re a raw parent, perhaps your goal is to feed your child the healthiest diet possible.

3 Easy Ways to Get Kids Involved with Raw Foods

But if raw foods are new to your son or daughter, it might sometimes seem like a never-ending battle to get them to eat healthier. What’s the best way to get kids to eat more vegetables, fruits, and other healthy foods without having an argument, tears, or temper-tantrum come about? Help Your Kids Learn About Raw Foods Although there are a number of effective strategies that may help, the best approach might be to involve your kids as much as possible with the acquisition, preparation, and even education of raw foods. 1. 2. 3. Monkey Mike. When Tera was knee-high to a grasshopper, she would assemble her younger cousins in the basement of her Grandparents' house, get them all seated in rows and then lecture to them at a little white board on a variety of topics she felt were important.

Monkey Mike

When Tera was 12 she collected pictures of people in underprivileged living conditions in Africa and decided that when she grew up, she was going to "do something about that situation over there. " At 17, Tera left home to go live in South Africa for a year where she witnessed the end of apartheid and realized "fixing the situation Africa" was a much bigger job than she anticipated. So she set off to get her degree and explore the world a little. Tera's university studies were in primatology, anthropology and English.

Her professional experience is in teaching. Margaret's Top 4 Tips for Raw Kitchen Efficiency. Margaret’s Top 4 Tips for Raw Kitchen Efficiency - by Margaret Marean We all know that little things here and there, accumulated over time, can add up to whole lot in the long run!

Margaret's Top 4 Tips for Raw Kitchen Efficiency

So when it comes to organizing your kitchen for optimum efficiency, don’t be surprised how these 4 simple but helpful kitchen organization tips can easily end up saving you a whole lot of time – and money, too! 1. Label Your Fridge Shelves I have really found this to be the #1 way to stop wasting produce, which saves money! Label your shelves so you know what is on hand. Leave a couple of shelves unlabelled for overflow, such as greens and prepared foods.

Some of our family members are completely raw while others eat some cooked food, so it also helps for the cooked food eaters to be able to find the leftovers easily. 2. Have extra measuring cups and spoons on hand, and leave the appropriate ones in containers where you almost always use that specific amount. 3. 4. Share. Beating Colds and Flu’s. Garden Diet - grow younger and attain your ideal weight with all natural food. The Garden Diet eBook by Storm and Jinjee Talifero This whole e-book is on this one page, so you can easily print it out or scroll through and read it online.

Garden Diet - grow younger and attain your ideal weight with all natural food

Simply bookmark or add this page to your favorites to return at any time. Hello, my name is Storm Talifero and I am the founder of the Ekaya Institute. The purpose of this publication is to introduce you to raw living food. The purpose of this publication is also to give you an overview of what the raw food movement is all about. We also have a section below devoted to cravings. You can take two people and they're both 60 years old. The main purpose of the work at Ekaya Institute is to explore natural food. We include recipes below that give you a basic transition diet and we also include all of our favorite raw recipes. This publication is broken up into three main parts.