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Live Organic Food Bar - Toronto Raw Presence

Toronto has a hip new raw spot in town that's quickly gathering attention. The endeavor is by Jennifer Italiano and it is her "30-seat upscale sequel to her wildly original – but tiny – Annex café"

Via NOW Magazine.com

Live Organic Food Bar
264 Dupont, at Spadina
416-515-2002

"Complete meals for $35 per person ($20 at brunch), including all taxes, tip and a squeezed-to-order juice. Average main $10. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 10 pm. Brunch Sunday 11 am to 4 pm. Closed Monday and holidays. Reservations recommended."

More on Jennifer Italiano

• Eat it Raw at Live - NOW Magazine Review

Reversing Prostate Cancer

A team from the University of California in San Francisco recently conducted a study where they placed on group of men with prostate cancer in a control group and changed their lifestyle by having them adopt a vegan diet (mostly cooked) and do some yoga.

The results? Via foodnavigator.com

"After one year, PSA levels (a protein marker for prostate cancer) decreased in the group who had changed their lifestyle...."

"Further, they found that serum from the participants inhibited prostate tumour growth in vitro by 70 per cent...."

"Again, there was a direct correlation between the degree of lifestyle change and the inhibition of prostate tumour growth."

Question: Why isn't this all over the news? If Merk developed a drug that did this, our nation's media would be all over this!

So, our dear blog reader, it is up to us to spread the news. I don't normally give out homework assignments on here, but make a point to mention this to 5 people today and ask them to share the news with anyone they know that could benefit from the information as well.

Free David Wolfe Lecture in Georgia

David Wolfe will be giving a free lecture on Monday 8/15 at Natural Market Place located in Marietta, Georgia. Dinner starts at 6:30, and presentation by David Wolfe at 7 or 7:30.

This even is being hosted by Gideon Graff and Sprout Raw Food.

More on Sprout Raw Food

• Subscribe to the Sprout Raw Food Newsletter
• Other events by Sprout Raw Food
• Raw & Living Foods FAQ

Good Nutrition Is All About Balance, Or Not

Being a rawfoodie, I get asked this question all the time, "But what about balance?"

To have balance you must have a scale of reference. For most people that nutritional scale is anything that some company or government says is "safe" to put in one's mouth. So on one end of the scale they have Iceberg lettuce and on the other end they have Skittles. This naturally makes the middle ground, aka the area of balance, look like the Standard America Diet of meat & potatoes.

Rawfooies have balance too. Just a different type of balance based on a different scale. However, instead of coming to that scale accidentally, (eating what others eat because some company told them it was okay), we've arrived to it purposefully, via education.

This isn't a raw-food rules, cook food drools rant. The raw-food scale is no better or worse than any other scale, it's just more sustainable, both individually and universally!

What's Not Cooking Good Looking?

Looks like author Alissa Cohen was on the TODAY SHOW yesterday. We missed it, but if you watched it, post your comments.

Via Yahoo News

"Alissa Cohen is the food guru who has been eating and teaching a raw food diet for more than 18 years and, at 38, she is ready to take you down the yellow brick road to the fountain of youth -- food as God made it, naked and pure.

Alissa shows us the way in her groundbreaking new book "Living on Live Food," and will be introducing audiences to her magical cuisine when she appears on the TODAY SHOW on Tuesday August 9th 2005. The segment covered by Katie Couric will unveil the "10 Secrets for Staying Young" and becoming RAW."

More on Alissa Cohen

• Interview with Alissa Cohen by RawGuru
• Before & After Photos of Allissa's Friends