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Many of you maybe familiar with rawfood already.

For those of you, that are not, I'll give a short explanation.

Eating rawfood means eating raw fruits, raw vegetables (especially greens), raw nuts and seeds.
This is a diet that, if done right, can bring spectacular health results.

I know many stories of people with diabetes, high cholesterol, cancer, arthritis, allergies and other diseases who completely cured on rawfood. Also for weight loss it turns out to be an excellent way of eating.

Of course changing from a standard diet to rawfoods is not always easy. The body starts to detox, which can be hard sometimes, especially if you don't understand what is going on. It's best to have someone support you, who is experienced in this.

If you live on rawfood already: is your diet balanced? Do you eat enough greens? De you crave unhealthy foods? Do you sometimes overeat? Do you have any health issues?

If not, great, you are doing fine. If you don't feel totally balanced, take a closer look at your diet and your life (including your emotions). It's absolutely possible to live on a 100% raw diet and feel great.

I was impressed by a rawfood talk last week by Bendan Brazier. He lives on a 100% vegan rawfood diet and is a professional Ironman tri-athlete. Brendan won the 2003 and 2006 Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon. He explains how rawfood helps him to be a top-performing athlete. As he tells, training creates acidity in his body. By eating fresh rawfood immediately after a training session, he alkalizes faster than his competitors. Because of this he is able to recover faster than the others and can start training again sooner. This has made him better than his competitors, who eat and standard diet and often stuff themselves up with junkfood after a training or competition. He tells us, that especially after vigorous exercise, it is the most important time not to eat bad food, but to help your body recover and restore energy with fresh living food.

For me it was very inspiring to hear Brendan tell about this. If a tri-athlete can live on a 100% rawfood diet and even become a winner, it's clear we all can do it! His explanation of creating acidity in the body by exercising and then alkalizing it with a lot of raw fresh food is so simple and ' so true.