About Raw Sarasota

RAW...It's the REAL thing! For people in the Sarasota area who want to learn more about the power of raw/living foods. See www.RawVillage.com for more info.

Our group holds a fabulous monthly "potluck" where everyone brings a favorite dish to share. It can be something simple, like some chopped veggies or fruit or a bowl of raw nuts. Or it can be gourmet raw. Whatever you bring, please be prepared to share your recipe.

Raw food includes fruit, vegetables, olives, raw nuts & seeds, sea vegetables, nut milks, wheatgrass juice, fruit juices and vegetable juices. I just discovered that Whole Foods has a raw fig cake that's imported from Spain. It's delicious & you'll find it near the olive bar. Ideally, raw foodists prefer organic foods. Also, it's important to balance your food intake...not too much of any one thing. Be sure to regularly eat something from each group: fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. And like Mom said, "Eat your greens!"

Malnutrition is the basis of all disease: "Man's body is a living organism, made of living cells, which require living food in order to be properly nourished and function well. When we put cooked food into our body, loaded with contaminants, the body starts to break down. It begins in the very young with colic, rashes, colds, earaches, upset stomachs, swollen glands and tonsils. As the child grows older, their may be tooth decay, pimples, the need for eye glasses, etc. Then as we enter adult life there is arthritis, hypoglycemia, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and cancers. All this and a multitude of other diseases are unnecessary and are nothing but the result of improper diet and lifestyle! Today, most people accept cooked food as the normal means of supplying the body with nutrients, not realizing that the living cells of our bodies do not take nourishment from the dead and artificial ingredients found in cooked food. And so, after a typical meal of cooked meat, cooked potatoes, a cooked vegetable and a piece of cooked bread, followed by a cooked sugar dessert, their stomach is full and they think they have satisfied the nutritional needs of their body. In reality, they have given their body practically no nourishment. And thus with a full stomach, they are slowly starving their body's cells." Raw Food by Rev. George H. Malkmus

Yours in Rawness!
Jenna