Article: Raw food diet

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Raw food diet

 

By Marge C. Enriquez

Philippine Daily Inquirer

07/28/2008

 

MANILA, Philippines—Culinary artist Cherie Lou Ignacio was a walking

drugstore for most of her life. She suffered from hypertension at 21

years old, had a baby who died in her womb at 23, suffered from

arthritis in her 30s, not to mention high cholesterol, and had lived

on heavy medication until her 40s. Meanwhile, she established a

successful but stressful Quickmelt Ensaymada business, went through a

rocky relationship and survived it. As if the travails weren’t enough,

she was diagnosed with kidney stones.

 

Not wanting to have them blasted, Ignacio decided to take the natural

route by chucking in the white flour and refined sugar for a healthy

diet of brown bread and green leafy vegetables. Eventually she met a

naturopath who put her on a raw food diet. In three days, she was

liberated from all her medications. Then she went on a detoxification

program for another 10 days, eating salads, fresh fruits, coconut

juice, tuber leaves, bitter gourd and radish. She lost three pounds on

the first day. Then at the end of her program, she lost 16 pounds. “I

lost weight without looking haggard,” she says.

 

Then she decided to reinvent herself at midlife as a raw food chef.

She sold her ensaymada business and decided to pursue an alternative

lifestyle. “I was managing 200 employees. I was just too glad to let

go,” says Ignacio.

 

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