Being out on the cold waves for hours at a time can take a lot out of you, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking you have to power your surfing with grains, oils, animal products, and other unhealthy foods.

Marc, a Raw-Food-Health.net reader, wanted to know if his active surfing lifestyle would fit in with raw foods. He thinks his health is declining because of bad food choices, but he can’t get his head around thinking raw foods will be enough to power his surfing schedule.

I’m not a surfer myself, so I recruited Taylor Snipes, a raw foodist and surfer who spends a lot of time on the water to give Marc some hints about how to properly fuel yourself while eating raw.

Read about his raw eating strategy here.

I often rely on science to justify my positions on food at Raw-Food-Health.net, but at the end of the day, we really don’t need science.

Here’s the scoop: the bodies of healthy people react violently to unhealthy foods. What does that mean? It means the body is trying really hard to expel what you put in it, and does so with a number of techniques that we recognize as the symptoms of sickness.

But getting to that point isn’t an overnight jaunt. In this article I tell you how to adopt a raw food elimination diet so you can figure out what foods are healthy and harmful for yourself.

I’ve been feasting on some amazing red bananas recently.

Check them out.