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High-Water Content Fruits & Veggies For Weightloss

Have you ever heard that water can help you loose a few extra pounds? It can if you eat foods that contain a lot of water, like fruits and veggies.

In a University of Tokyo study, women who ate high-water-content foods had lower body mass indexes and smaller waistlines. Researchers speculate that the water in these foods may fill you up so you eat less.

There are so many reasons to eat high-water-content fruits and veggies from weightloss, to nutrition (assimilation), live enzymes...lets not get caught up in the whys, lets just add more of these in season fruits and veggies to your families meals!

Here are a few to start with: broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, oranges, grapefruit, lettuce, radishes, spinach

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We are what we eat! Eat well...live well!

We are what we eat. Literally. What we consume becomes our cells, our tissues, our energy, even our thoughts and moods. Are you ready to make food and lifestyle choices that create health and vitality? When you choose your food consciously, the improvements are reflected in your whole life. With care and attention, the body can heal itself.

Eat well and live well!

Visit www.raw-food-for-families.com for free recipes to help you include more raw and living foods into your families diet!

Have a healthy and happy holiday!

More reasons to eat naturally sweet recipes!

Dates are common sweeteners in natural and raw desserts. But did you know that...

Dates are rich in the element fluorine -- a component of fluoride, that enamel-friendly compound that can actually help reverse early tooth decay. Dates also provide your body with fiber and important nutrients like vitamins, amino acids, and minerals. Know any other sweet treats that boast such big nutritional benefits?

Eat them plain or toss them into no-bake cookies, raw desserts, or any other natural sweet!

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Healthy Holidays 2008

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People are so surprized that healthy desserts can taste so good! Please visit www.raw-food-for-families.com regularly for updates, health tips, healthy family meals, and delicious desserts!

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Living Enzymes

Living enzymes help the body in a variety of ways. Eating raw and living foods is one of the best ways to incorporate live enzymes into your diet. Visit www.raw-food-for-families.com

Enzymes and Dr. Howell

Enzymes are what Dr. Howell spent much of his life researching. Dr Howell is a food enzyme researcher and is credited with the relationship they play with human health. www.raw-food-for-families.com

Add more fruits and vegetables to your families diet.

Fruits and vegetables are the staple to a raw diet. Even if your family isn't raw every family needs to keep fruits and vegetables as the main part of their diets and meal times.

Chocolate shakes are packed with nutrients if you use raw cacao

Chocolate shakes are among my family's favorite raw desserts. Raw cacao is a powerful antioxidant. Packed with magnesium, iron, potassium and zinc. It helps your blood pressure and boosts your mood.

Foods That Fight Flu !

Avoid the flu this November!

Once November hits, the rest of the year flies by! Here’s a tip for keeping healthy through it.

Stop by your local juice bar for a wheat grass shot, then chase it down with some fresh apple juice.

Afterwards, buy yourself a bag of apples and munch away. The quercetin in apples may help bolster your immune system during vulnerable times.

Apples (and red onions, broccoli, and tea) are great sources of quercetin -- a flavonoid that may stave off the influenza virus when the body is under stress. In a recent animal study, quercetin did just that: The normal dip in immunity that comes with physical fatigue was pretty much cancelled out by the flavonoid. If it works as well in humans, quercetin could help power the body through both physical and psychological stress.

Since apples are in season...juice one or eat one today!

Creamy Green Smoothie "Healthy Fruit Smoothies"

Creamy green smoothie recipe plus more healthy fruit smoothie recipes at raw-food-for-families.com

Yeast infections and diaper rash can be cleared up with coconut oil.

Yeast infections and diaper rash can be cleared up with coconut oil. It can be used topically as a moisturizer or medicinally to treat a variety of skin irritations including eczema.

Kids eating healthy food

Kids eating healthy food...a thing of the past? Nope! We have tips & tricks for families as well as recipes for healthy food for kids!

Healthy Fruit Smoothies -Chocolate green smoothie recipe

Healthy fruit smoothies are delicious and nutritions. Our chocolate green smoothie recipe surprises tough critics. Visit raw-food-for-families.com for free smoothie recipes!

Kale is an excellent source of vitamin K, A, C and manganese

Kale is a very good source for fiber, calcium, potassium. Good source of protein, iron, magnesium, folate, vitamins B1 and B2. Raw-food-for-families.com has great ideas to add dark leafy greens to...

Green smoothies

Green smoothies are some of the easiest raw food recipes. And the simplest way to get your family to eat their spinach! Green smoothies and green drinks give your family a nutritious start to your day

Spinach apple juice is surprisingly delicious!

Spinach apple juice is one of my favorite green drinks. Spinach is sweeter than many other greens and when combined with apples tastes delicious. Vist raw-food-for-families.com for free juice recipes!

Articles about raw food and families.

Articles to help your family learn about nutrients and get free recipes.

How to make fruit smoothies and free fruit smoothie recipes

How to make fruit smoothies you ask? Easy load the high water content fruit to the bottom...just come get our free fruit smoothie recipes

Tropical fruit smoothies are nutritious and delicious.

Tropical fruit smoothies are nutritious and yummy! Learn to make healthy fruit smoothies... we have tons of recipes for fruit smoothies at raw-food-for-families.com! Learn how to make fruit smoothies!

Raw salsa is delicious and a really simple raw food recipe

Raw salsa is packed with vitamins, minerals, and living enzymes. It is so yummy you won't care how healthy it is and it is so easy to make you'll make it all the time! Homemade salsa is simple & yum!

Spinach is a nutritional power food.

Spinach is a staple of the raw food diet. It is packed with calcium, iron, and a great source of fiber. Learn how to get more greens into your family's raw diet.

pineapple-green-smoothies are packed with nutrition.

pineapple-green-smoothies are a nutritious way to start your families day. green-smoothies are loaded with vitamins and enzymes.

Healthy Meals For The Family

Healthy meals for the family is a section of raw-food-for-families.com a site offering healthy recipes tips tricks to help your family eat more raw & living foods Eat a healthy family meal tonight !

Raw protein salad recipe is loaded with protein from living sprouts

Raw protein salad is a delicious raw recipe. Sprouts have the highest concentration of nutrition per calorie of any food. They are rich sources of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, & protein.

Inspirational Health Quotes -Quotes about raw food, natural health, and health

Health Quotes-Inspirational quotes about raw food and natural health. Read at raw-food-for-families.com

Mango nutrition at raw-food-for-families.com

Mango nutrition is simple -mangos are loaded with vitamins, mineral, and enzymes... and mangoes are delicious Mango fruit smoothies Try a free fruit smoothie recipe on raw-food-for-families.com today!

Mango-green-smoothies are delicious and loaded with ntrition.

Mango-green-smoothies are a tasty way to sneak greens into your family's diet. Free green smoothie recipes and mango smoothie recipes visit raw-food-for-families for delicious smoothie recipes

Raw juice recipes are nutritious and delicious!

Raw juice recipes help families get extra fruits and vegetables into their families quickly. Our free recipes are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and living enzymes. Raw-food-for-families.com

coconut nutrition

Coconut nutrition (inside and out) of your body that is. Coconut water is delicious to drink and coconut oil is an amazing moisturizer, it can even help yeast infections!

Raw-Food-Recipes

Raw food recipes for familes. Look at our raw recipes and search for more! Visit raw food for families.com

Share a raw recipe, tip or idea with us!

Share a raw recipe, tip, or idea with us!

Ask Raw Food Questions

Ask raw food questions and we will do our best to answer! Send us questions about living foods, recipes, sprouting, protein...any buring question and we'll do our best to answer!

Tomatoes are loaded with nutrients beyond lycopene and antioxidants.

Tomatoes are a deliciously healthy part of summer. Loaded with nutrients besides lycopene. Excellent source of vitamins C, A, and K. Very good source of potassium, manganese, dietary fiber and B1

Raw Vegan Recipe -Sweet Corn Lettuce Wraps

Raw vegan recipe Sweet corn lettuce wraps A healthy family meal that vegans and non vegans will love! Visit raw-food-for-families.com for more healthy family recipes

Carolyn Pennington -A note from the raw food for families site creator

Carolyn Pennington created Raw Food for Families to help families learn about raw and living foods. There are an abundance of raw recipes and health tips. All our living recipes are quick and simple!

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Earn money online -its true. This site was built to share high quality information with families interested in raw food, but it is also a business. Learn how to build your own site online today!

Asparagus is a nutritious vegetable-it is loaded with folic acid.

Asparagus is a vegetable high in folic acid and is a good source of potassium, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamins A and C, and thiamin. If you've never eatten it, check out our raw food recipes on this page.

Fruits are a nutritious and delicious part of a families raw food diet.

Fruits are sweet, delicious and loaded with health benefits. They are the easiest part of the raw food diet for most families!

Leafy greens like Kale, Spinach, and Romain provide raw nutrients

Leafy greens (kale, spinach, romain)provide fiber in the diet as well as protein, omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, iron, folate, manganese, potassium, magnesium, copper, vitamins K, A, C, E, B1, B2, B6,

Raw Food for Families -raw recipes the entire family will enjoy!

Raw food for families offers recipes for the whole family. Creative ways to sneak nutrient rich, living foods into your family's diet.

Dehydrating raw and living foods -a great way to preserve enzymes and nutrients

Dehydrating produce is an ideal way to preserve favorite fruits and vegetables to enjoy year round. Dehydration should be done below 105 degrees to maintain highest nutritional content. Eat raw foods.

Flaxseeds are surprisingly nutritious, especially when sprouted.

Sprouted flaxseeds are loaded with living enzymes and protein. They are also a great way to get your family their omega-3 fatty acids.

Eat chocolate and look younger- it is all in the type of chocolate

Eat chocolate and look younger, it is true! You just have to choose the right kind of chocolate. Raw cacao is

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Raw Food Diet Questions and Answers

Raw food diet questions and answers. Common questions about the raw food diet and the answer on raw-food-for-families.com.

Olive oil is a healthy oil and an important part of the raw food diet.

Olive oil (organic, extra-virgin) is loaed with antioxidents. It is important to consume the first-pressed oil and make sure it is cold-pressed. It also must be properly stored to prevent spoiling.

Raw food recipe ezine

Raw food recipe ezine is for families that are eating a 100% raw vegan diet and those who are simply trying to include more fresh living foods into their family diet

Soda Pop & Sports Drinks

Soda and sports drinks are negatively associated with obesity, tooth decay,

Vegetables are the bulk of the raw food diet.

Vegetables are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and living enzymes. Uncooked many vegetables have a high water content and are loaded with healthy fiber.

Halloween -How can we enjoy Halloween with less refined sugar?

What are you doing this Halloween to reduce your kids sugar? Let us know if you have any ideas of how to help your little ones enjoy Halloween and not over dose on refined sugar.

Please send ideas to carolyn@raw-food-for-families.com