Karyn Calabrese |59|Chicago, Illinois
Restaurateur
"When I was growing up, I ate the standard American diet - meat, dairy, potato chips. I always knew hot to make great food - in the 'old days', I made the best fried chicken! And I loved to cook for friends and family. But because my mother and grandmother both died at a young age - 48 and 50 - and I had every allergy known to man, I knew I needed to eat a different way.
"I changed my diet in my twenties and then became a vegetarian. By 40, I was doing nutrition counseling. Over the years, people heard that I knew a lot about vitamins and herbs and food, so they started calling me. I was spending half my time giving advice.
Today I eat a perfect diet of raw organic food and I still cleanse 4 times a year.
Americans think being healthy is the absence of sickness. It is not. Being healthy is looking great and feeling wonderful.
5 comments:
She looks amazing..... there must be something to this raw organic diet. Though I can't see myself being deprived of good cooked wholesome food. One of the joys of life is eating good food.. I can't imagine having to eat raw food for the rest of my life.
the misnomer (especilly if you have never tried it) is that raw food is neither more tasty or wholesome than cooked food.
a tiny bit of research would reveal that cook food is always less wholesome than raw, as cooking anything bleeds the nutrients right out of it.
even your most healthy vegetarian meal is washed out if you heat it above a certain temperature.
Sista Jasai makes an excellent point.
My wife has been making raw food for a number of years and it is a major part of the kids diet.
I was a bit leery at first, but she quickly became rather skilled at the art. Soon the food became so good it makes it difficult to eat what I ate in the past.
She makes this taco with a Kale leaf instead of a shell. The sauce has these spices in it that provides heat, there's some other stuff that I don't recall but it's damn good and makes it impossible to ever eat Baja Fresh again.
I did a raw food diet as part of a 6 week detox in the past. I was told that the hardest thing for people to get to was that everything is cold. That was extremely hard for me during the 6 weeks. It wasnt about taste.
We have very little food preservation industries in Ghana, so most of our food is bought in the market fresh...... our staple foods here are plantain, yam, cocoyam, cassawa, various green leaves, different kinds of chilli peppers, lots of fish, free range poultry, beef, mutton etc. lots of tropical fruits and vegetables.
It would be interesting to experiment with some typically ghanaian raw food recipes.
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