Raw and Living Food Diet
and Lifestyle Success Stories
Shazzie... learn how she went from sick and broke to a healthy and million dollars... by following her passion for raw food!
Shazzie's Why I Went Raw -- a "Journey to Raw Success" Story A blow by blow description of Shazzie's very personal journey to becoming raw. Very enlightening and encouraging. Highly recommend!
Shazzie's Raw Transformation Journal "... I decided to document my raw food transition to help me stick to it through the bad times and good, and I hope it will help others going through the same experience. However, although my journal finished at the end of February 2001, my raw experience will continue for life... "
I would like to thank you for sharing your heart and soul through your raw transformation journal. I have been trying to make the transition to a living foods diet for three years now but it has been a struggle. Then I stumbled upon your website through Nature's First Law's website. Through reading your journal and seeing your transformation pictures it has helped me to stay on the path. Every time I am tempted to eat cooked food I just read from your journal and it helps me to stay on the path. Your honesty and sense of humor and truly gifts, although obviously not the only gifts you possess.
I would just like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me to stay on this path, which I new I wanted to take ever since I read, Nature's First Law: The Raw Food Diet, and for getting my daughter's attention. After she saw your transformation photos and Nora's all she could say was, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. I'm going raw this summer." She wants to help me try new recipes so there are more that she enjoys. As she told me, "Mom I can't just live on guacamole and hummus."
Everyone keeps telling me that my skin is glowing and how great I look. Thanks, and don't stop sharing.
Doreen, USA
Alissa Cohen'sTeam of 'Losers' Appears on Tyra Banks' Diet Wars with Life-Altering Results
Two friends who are professional gourmet chefs have been dealt the "Alissa Cohen Raw Food Diet Hand". Despite the constant temptation by being exposed to delicious cooked food, one of the two chefs has a triumphant life-altering experience, emerging many pounds thinner and a whole lot healthier and full of energy.
Shelley Borsits aka "The Raw Artist" has written a book, Dying to Get Well about how raw food and natural hygiene helped reverse her so-called incurable disease/illness: "...the true story of one woman who cured herself from a mysterious, debilitating illness that for five years controlled, and almost ended, her life. Having received an 'incurable' sentence from her doctors, Shelly Keck-Borsits reports on not only her own miraculous reversal of disease, but on the secret cause and cure to all disease! ..."
One of the ways that Shelley is sharing her story and information on how to heal is with her Raw and Juicy website... which features, among other thing, success stories from other persons who've had some amazing healing via the raw and living food diet.
Here are some of those stories which Shelley is sharing with her visitors:
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Annette Larkins Learn the raw food secrets of this gorgeous 64 year old woman... and how she manages to look like she's 35!
Boutenko Family (RawFamily.com) The following wonderful success story was found on the Yoga Wellness Center of North San Mateo's website... Today, the family lives a simple lifestyle. Victoria manages the Wellsprings Garden Café, a living food restaurant in Ashland, Oregon. Igor heals others using invigorating therapeutic massage. (He is the personal masseur for Bernard Jensen, a pioneer in alternative medicine). They attribute their wonderful new lifestyle, and their lighthearted and joyous being, to their raw food diet. Being in their presence, one is profoundly aware of their intense love and respect for one another. Valya and Sergei, now 13 and 14, adore each other. Never a negative word is spoken...."
Diet and Nutrition: Raw Recruits by Heidi Knapp Rinella Las Vegas Review-Journal
Some Southern Nevadans finding health benefits after switching to uncooked vegetarian foods "Bob Saladino remembers well what prompted him to switch to a raw-food diet. It was about 4 1/2 years ago, and Saladino just wasn't feeling well. A visit to the doctor revealed high cholesterol and high blood pressure. There was some suspicion that he had chronic fatigue syndrome...." Click here to read the rest of the story.
Elaine Love"Little did I know the amazing transformation I was to undergo. My life completely turned around. I found myself with boundless energy, and felt happier than I ever had in my life. All the little things I didn't even know were problems disappeared. I found myself in the kitchen a lot and began creating new recipes. Because of all my newfound energy, I started a local catering business. After that I put together a recipe book and began teaching classes. My business has grown since then, and I now have a web site, teach classes, conduct and cater for large retreats and events, and sell raw food products on my web site. I also teach and am a chef at The Living Light Culinary Arts Institute with Cherie Soria, Matt Samuelson and an amazing group of people."
Health Freedom Resources Success Stories"... these folks have benefited greatly from a live food diet and now they're ready to share their experience and inspire you... "
Loren Lockman, director of Tanglewood Wellness Center tells his own story of recovery from several chronic and debilitating illnesses. ".... Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Candidiasis, Sinusitis, and after developing almost 60 allergies. In 1987, after 3 years and no success, he gave up on traditional medicine and sought to find his own answers. At that point, he went back to, and ultimately, beyond traditional nutrition theory, seeking to discover what was natural to the human body. After making "radical" changes to his diet, he was perfectly fine six months later, with all of his conditions "miraculously" and "spontaneously" disappearing. In almost 15 years since then, he hasn't been sick a single day.... " Lockman's article in Washington Woman comments on several major improvements in health, including conditions like blindness, glaucoma and gout, due to fasting.
Living Foods Institute "Brenda Cobb, our Founder and Director, overcame the early stages of breast and cervical cancer without the use of drugs or surgery by following the simple principles of the Living Foods Lifestyle. She also got rid of allergies, acid reflux, indigestion, arthritis, obesity, age or liver spots, and gray hair. Her eyesight even improved! she looks and feels 10 years younger than she did 10 years ago."
IBeatObesity.com shows Carlene's truly remarkable transformation from being morbidly obese to a stunningly trim 127 beauty! Her "after" pictures don't even look like it's the same woman. Carlene has since founded Raw Food Boot Camp to help others achieve what she has! If you are obese, we recommend that you pay particular attention to the dietary "no-no's" that person's who aren't morbidly obese can ignore as well as avoiding fruits high in sugar content..
When I arrived in California from New York in 1973, I had just given up meat except fish along with a diet which I had thought was healthy: the standard "healthfood" assortment of bread, muffins and various items like fertile eggs, cheese, pasta, etc. I ate in this manner thinking that I was eating superior to most (and I was), but even though my health had improved from my meat eating days, I spent 24 years suffering from constant stomach and digestive problems, and worse, I went through a cycle of brutal migraine headaches two or three times each year, which would render me incapacitated for as long as one week. It was the most relentless pain which nothing could relieve.
I met David Klein at the Berkeley and Marin farmers markets in 1997. We chatted and became friends. I revealed that I suffered from migraines and David said he was into the raw food style of eating, which seemed very strange to me. I thought to myself, "How boring, and why so radical?" David then related his personal story of triumph over illness and said to me in a very off hand way one day, "You know, Malcolm, if you stopped drinking coffee and eating fish, you would probably get rid of your migraines."
I guess the timing was right, since I had just had another headache and was so depressed by the years of pain that I though, "Hell, I can give up coffee, pasta, bread and fish if it could rid me of this awful pain." So, in January of 1998 I "transitioned" towards a totally raw diet by eliminating all of the cooked foods in my diet except steamed vegetables, brown rice and some vegetable soup. I ate this way for three months and took a trip to Maui during the first week in March thinking, "Oh boy, I can't wait to eat all that exotic fish in Maui." You see, after three months without fish I thought it would be a treat to have it again. I had fish my first night and it tasted so very un-special...so downright "pedestrian", so unexciting, that I never had it again on that trip. Click here for the rest of the story.
Nora Lenz, who went on to found RawSchool.com, provides us with an excellent pictorial documentation of her transformation from overweight and in poor health to a stunningly healthy and trim (5'5" and 110 lbs) example of what following the right kind of raw food eating regimen can do. "... Now, after 3½ years of being 100% raw, I have experienced such radical changes in my physical and emotional health that I'm beginning to understand what it must be like to have the level of health that all beings on earth are supposed to enjoy, but that few humans can even conceive of. What I'm experiencing right now is not perfect health. It is almost as far from perfection as it is from "normal" health. But I've seen enough to know what perfection IS, and to know that it is worth striving for, no matter how much I have to segregate myself from a culture that seeks comfort and entertainment from eating. I have to smile when someone tells me that the sacrifices I'm making for my health are too great. It's true that being raw and vegan is socially challenging, and I'd be lying if I said there's nothing about the cooked life that I'll miss. But when I think about that, and compare it to what I'd have to give up if I went back to my old way of life, it only deepens my resolve to stay raw forever...."
"... diagnosed with "multiple sclerosis" and "spinal cord degeneration," was unable to stand or move his legs. Gripped by severe numbness and fatigue he was crippled and given little hope for any recovery and no chance to walk again. Grace is now back on his feet. For years he has been sharing his extraordinary recovery experience with riveted audiences. Refusing ALL conventional treatments and workig "from the inside out," this man, doomed by modern medicine, found his way back to health. His story is a remarkable tale of self discovery and physical transformation.
A former standout amateur boxer and current fitness expert and author, his services and expertise have been sought out by many, including some of our top celebrities. The President and Founder of the Coalition for Health Re-Education, Grace has helped hundreds of people diagnosed with incurable disease, re-gain their health.
Matthew Grace speaks on a number of topics including the "AIDS" Hoax, Natural Hygiene, Overcoming Dis-ease, Raw Food and Living According to the Laws of Nature to name a few.
Perfect Body: Beyond the Illusion by Roe Gallo To look at Roe's stunning photos, you wouldn't believe she was once "sentenced to death"! She writes "I had asthma. I had allergies to animals, dust, pollen—almost everything. I spent most of my younger years in bed or visiting the doctor. I couldn’t run and play with the "normal" kids because my asthma was so bad my chest would constrict with pain and I would wheeze and gasp for breath. After 25 years of trying to cure me, the doctors gave up and admitted that the drugs that were keeping me alive were also killing me...."
Angela Stoke's RawReform.com:story of the successful journey of a morbidly-obese woman of almost 300 pounds to a healthy 138 pounds over a 4 year timespan. Read her story on her website and watch her in person on the video below.
Raw Times has a page devoted to links to Success Stories.
Rynn BerryDuring an interview with Raw Times, long time vegetarian and live foodist and author of three books including Food for the Gods Rynn Berry speaks of how much more energy he had after going raw. "Well my energy level increased immensely, as did my stamina. I became an indefatigable hiker and swimmer. I don't tire easily. I also spent less time preparing food, which liberated me and enabled me to invest my time elsewhere."
RawFoodSupport.com has a "Success Stories" forum... great for finding or sharing success stories relating to a wide variety of challenges.
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Before and After Photos of Persons Who've Been Transformed as the Result of Eating Raw and Living Foods.
There was a time, the Golden Age we call it, happy in fruits and herbs, when no men tainted their lips with blood, and birds went flying safely through the air, and in the fields rabbits wandered unfrightened, and no fish was ever hooked by its own credulity. All things were free from treachery and fear and cunning, and all was peaceful. But some innovative good for nothing, whoever he was, decided, in envy, that what lions ate was better, stuffed meat into his belly like a furnace, and paved the way for crime... Pythagoras ... from Ovid's Metamorphosis.
Learn how Angela Stokes went from being a 300 pound morbidly obese woman to a vibrantly healthy and joyous 138 pound woman over a 4 year journey of 'going raw'.
Free Chart which helps you choose the best alkaline foods for your raw diet. One of the main reasons the raw food diet is so healthy... and produces such excellent weight loss results... is that it is a highly alkaline diet which helps flush out all those unhealthy acidic wastes in our body. This chart is a great starting point for helping you choose the foods you eat. Great for food choices in "transitional" diets as well.
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Shazzie... learn how she went from sick and broke to a healthy and million dollars... by following her passion for raw food! 
is a MUST read! 
