It seems like I’m always writing about sugar…
The granulated sugar supply in the U.S. comes from two agricultural sources: half from sugar cane and the other half from sugar beets. Recently, American Crystal, a large Wyoming-based sugar company, along with several other leading sugar manufacturers announced that they will be sourcing their sugar from genetically [...]

[Read more →]

My point: Consume less sugar, flour, starch, and alcohol to prevent hair loss and baldness.
This is another example of big pharmaceutical and food industries lying and cheating to consumers, and victimizing the public. The traditional theory dealing with baldness was that it is caused by the male hormone, testosterone. Testosterone is converted to another hormone [...]

[Read more →]

My point: I think that TV advertising is the single greatest factor contributing to obesity. People, especially children, tend to purchase and consume foods that are more widely advertised. The problem is that advertised foods are the most highly processed and packaged foods. This is leading to the obesity epidemic.

Food is supposed to nourish, replenish, [...]

[Read more →]

In Short: Everything we eat is basically corn. That’s unnatural and its screwing up everything.
For those of you haven’t heard of Michael Pollan, he’s a professor of journalism here at Berkeley. I’ve been reading some of his books and articles. One of his best works, in my opinon, is The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Pollan introduces [...]

[Read more →]

There’s been a lot of new lately about the global food shortage, with one of the main causes of the shortage cited as the severe drought that is many regions of the globe are undergoing.  Here are a few articles discussing the subject: http://www.alternet.org/water/83796/, http://www.theledger.com/article/20080430/NEWS/804300403/1023, and http://current.com/items/88825320_feeling_the_squeeze.

This issue has really alarmed me, so I’ve [...]

[Read more →]

Since becoming a raw foodist, I’ve learned to read the ingredient labels of the food I eat very carefully.  Still, there’s only limited information you can get from these food labels, and I’ve always been a bit uneasy about FDA regulations.  One of the main problems I’ve seen is the regulation which states that any [...]

[Read more →]

Chocolate Pudding

I have to credit Rishi for coming up with the concept for this recipe, but I do it big. This is one of the most simple and easy to make raw desserts out there- Raw Chocolate Pudding. It’s awesome because I can literally make this stuff by the gallon–and I practically eat it by [...]

[Read more →]