As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it.  Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components.  For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically [...]

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Sheetali pranayama is a breathing technique to reduce heat in the body.  It is often referred to as the “Cooling Breath”.  Using the cooling tendencies of the tongue, sheetali pranayama only allows cool, relaxed breaths to enter the body.  These breaths have the effect of lowering the temperature of the body, as well as cooling [...]

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Its getting to be that time of year again.  The time when family comes together, smiles are exchanged, and food is shared (my favorite part).  I have to admit, though, that Thanksgiving food is in my list of Top 10 meals of the year, and its the day I’m most likely to have non-raw food.  [...]

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It occurred to me this weekend that even though I’ve been making Indian dishes for the last few recipes, I haven’t made the one thing that Indian food is known for: curry.  Actually, I haven’t made a curry since my very first post (curried vegetable wrap), so I figured this week should definitely be a [...]

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Well, its finally June, and that means only one thing for me. SUMMER VACATION! After working all last summer at a large software corporation, I decided to do things just a bit differently this year. On June 14th, I’ll be heading on over to India, where I’ll be starting a 3 month [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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