Constipated? Feel like you never completely get everything out, or that it takes too long?

Suffering with colitis, I was constipated from my late childhood onward, and it was only after I started paying attention to what I was eating that I found my solution.

There are a number of foods that directly lead to constipation, and in this article I tell you what they are and how to avoid them.

I also recently answered Yasmin’s question about the edibility of raw potatoes and beans.

What are you doing to create an abundant raw food future for our world?

One example of someone who is really shaking things up is my friend Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram, who has created a organic co-op focused on raw food that’s saved members tons of money on locally-grown produce while introducing thousands to the benefits of raw food.

Read more about her inspiring efforts here.

Yes, we all know high fructose corn syrup is isn’t a good thing, but does that mean the natural fructose found in whole ripe fruit should be avoided too?

If you listen to a lot of nutritional advisers you’ll get the impression natural fructose is the spawn of some minor demon, but that’s not a scientifically well-supported idea.

In fact, the fast majority of science shows we should be eating lots of natural fructose in the form of fruits and vegetables.

Get the lowdown on this controversial sugar here.