Friday, March 5, 2010

Raw Food Diet = The Anti-Aging Diet

At lunch today, I decided to stop by my salon, Bella,  for some TLC.  When I was there, I saw that they were opening up a cafe on the side.  It officially doesn't open until Tuesday but they were serving a couple of items to passersby.  It turns out that they only serve raw, vegan, gluten free food and they were serving pizza today.  I have been gluten free for several months now but have never tried "raw" foods aside from the obvious.  To make a food "raw" it can't be heated above 118 degrees, has to be unprocessed and organic.  I had never heard of raw pizza, so I thought I would give it a try.  While they were making my pizza, the owner started showing me before & after pictures off of some website of people that switched to a raw food diet of at least 75% or more.  Not only was there weightloss but what caught my eye was the fact that these people looked remarkably younger than they did when they were eating cooked, processed foods.  I decided that this was something I needed to research more.  I know myself and there is no way that I could stick to a 100% raw diet but I believe 75% is doable.  I am really interested to learn more about this way of eating.  Especially if I can learn how to make the food like I had at lunch.  The pizza was really amazing.  The first bite was a little offputting because the crust was a foreign taste to me but everything tasted so fresh that I wanted another slice by the time I was done with it.  I also purchased an avocado key lime pie that I WILL learn how to make.  The crust was made up of macadamia nuts and coconut.  I need to find out how they fuse it all together.  Project!!!!!!!!!!

3 comments:

  1. My Aunt switched to a raw diet about a year ago because of health issues, she looks amazing. there are a few restaurants here in Austin that are raw only, she is always raving about them. I would be open to trying one with you :)

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  2. I ate at the Daily Juice Cafe the past two days. Love that place. Beets on 5th Street is super yummy, too!

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  3. Ashley - are you going to do the All Raw diet?
    I know nothing about it. It intrigues me.

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