If you’re on the raw food diet and looking for some special holiday foods, then you’ll love this post. If not, you may even still decide to try out a few recipes using raw foods. Advocates of the raw food diet believe it helps increase your energy, while also helping you lose weight and maintain healthier-looking skin.
Susan Schenck, author of The Live Food Factor, The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Jan. 09), has shared some raw food recipes! Visit LiveFoodFactor.com for more info.

All recipes courtesy The Live Food Factor.
Holiday Salad

5-6 cups spinach …read more

Today’s the day we announce the winner for the Live Food Factor book by Susan Schenck. You ready? It’s: Veronica Garrett! Veronica thought the book sounded great, and I must admit, I think the same thing.

I was so intrigued by our interview with Susan Schenck that I did some research and discovered that Carol Alt has been on a raw food diet for about 15 years. And if you’ve seen Carol Alt lately, she looks great! No way does she look close to 50 years old.
In reading an interview with Carol, I was surprised to …read more

We’ve come to the final installment of our three-part interview with Susan Schenck, author of The Live Food Factor. (Please read Parts 1 and 2, and don’t forget to enter our giveaway of Susan’s book.)

Have people really been healed from disease from a raw food diet? Could you share an example from someone you’ve met?
Studies at various clinics have shown that by eating 80-85% of your calories raw, most people can avoid degenerative diseases. People using a 100% raw food diet have even been able to reverse disease. Entire books have been written by people sharing their stories …read more

We are continuing our interview with Susan Schenck, author of The Live Food Factor. Don’t forget to read Part 1 of our interview and enter our giveaway for Susan’s book.

What’s the number one thing people are surprised about when they learn more about a raw food diet?
People find it incomprehensible that cooked food is toxic. Not just processed food. (Most people know that is bad.) But even your standard baked potato has been found to have 400 toxic byproducts that result from cooking.
Research by Dr. Paul Kouchakoff (and later Dr. Howard Loomis) has proven that when you eat cooked …read more

Susan Schenck is the author of the award-winning book, The Live Food Factor. The book has gained the reputation as the raw foods bible, and we are giving away a copy of her book here at Blisstree. We also talked recently via email with Susan about how she became involved with the raw foods movement, and what it means for people. Following is Part 1 of our 3-part interview.

Tell me how you first became interested in the raw food movement?
I had been a health seeker since the age of 16 when I developed asthma and an …read more

Eating raw foods can deliver amazing improvements in the quality of your life. Live Food Factor is dedicated to providing valuable information for individuals who are interested in learning how to become much healthier, to lose weight, and to live the kind of life for which they have always dreamed of!

How would you like to….

Have more energy than you know what to do with?
Restore the slender figure you had in your youth?
Glow with radiant skin, full hair, and a charismatic, energetic personality?
Have the competitive edge at work with tons of energy and creative ideas?
Eating a …read more