Raw Food

20 Feb

Current Love List: Tea, Truffles & Tantra

Posted by ashley in Raw Food, Yoga, Personal Branding, Kitchen, Entrepreneur
Buying habits change when your diet shifts.
 
There's no question about it. We start getting more responsible with our money, we begin to care about the products and processes that are go into making our stuff, we realize we can make a different with our choices. I like to think of it as voting with our dollars.
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16 Feb

10 Commandments of Eating Well

Posted by ashley in Ayurveda, Healing, Raw Food, Beauty, Food As Medicine
Eating is just plain controversial. You put 100 people in a room and each person will have different advice, different information and a different viewpoint.

Sometimes people are in touch with what their bodies need, while others are sadly misinformed by the media and eat crap that's killing them.
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18 Jan

Why You Want to Avoid Agave

Posted by ashley in Raw Food, Kitchen, Food As Medicine
It's a question everyone who switches to a plant-based, vegan or raw food asks.

What's the best way to sweeten things up?

All the sugars and processed sweeteners I grew up using are out of the question....white sugar, splenda, brown sugar, refined honey. So now what do I use?
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21 Dec

Juicing vs. Blending

Posted by ashley in Ayurveda, Raw Food, Kitchen, Food As Medicine
Without a doubt, the best way to increase your body's alkalinity and detox those nasty toxins setting up camp in your bloodstream is to consume a diet full of liquid chlorophyll. Green juices and green smoothies are packed full of this powerful nutrient.
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16 Dec

How to Make the Perfect Green Juice

Posted by ashley in Raw Food, Cleansing, Kitchen, Food As Medicine
Are you noticing the green juice movement happening around you? 

People are catching on to the fact that juicing helps reverse aging, reduce inflammation in the body, boost energy levels, regulate the bowels and can even help you shed a couple of pounds.
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05 Dec

How to Make the Perfect Green Smoothie

Posted by ashley in Healing, Raw Food, Cleansing, Food As Medicine
Have you heard of green smoothies yet? 

If you're someone who wants to inject a bit of health into their day - my best advice is to have a green smoothie for breakfast.

They're 16 ounces of of the best veggies, fruits, seeds, superfoods and oils packed into one glass of miraculous goodness.
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30 Nov

Top Questions About Juicing

Posted by ashley in Healing, Raw Food, Cleansing, Food As Medicine
Q.  Do I leave the peel on my fruits and veggies when juicing?  And what about the seeds?
A. Here's the deal, if you buy organic produce you can leave the peel intact. It's best to peel non-organic foods so you forgo ingesting most of the pesticides. Citrus fruits should be peeled because the rind will make your juice taste bitter, but you can leave the white pith. Most seeds can be left in the fruit and put through
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09 Nov

Smuggle Health Into Your Holidays

Posted by ashley in Raw Food, Relationships, Seasonal Rituals, Food As Medicine, Recipes
Have you noticed that it's really tough to celebrate AND eat healthy during the holidays?
 
For example, if you were to suggest green juice for breakfast, your family would probably look at you like you're speaking a foreign language, right?
 
For Wellness Warriors this can be really stressful.
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30 Oct

What's Your MD telling you?

Posted by ashley in Ayurveda, Healing, Raw Food, Daily Practices, Insight, Food As Medicine

We all have an Inner MD.

A part of us that 'knows' exactly what we need when we need it.

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24 Oct

Waste Management - Colonics (Part 2)

Posted by ashley in Ayurveda, Healing, Raw Food, Cleansing, Seasonal Rituals
I'm going to give you in inside scoop on what goes on during a colonic.

I know, I know. Eww. Gross. That's weird.
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