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.

After more than a year traveling around Asia, including some poor areas in Indonesia, Thailand, Combodia, and Laos where hygiene is not up to first world standards, I’ve yet to get a case of travelers’ diarrhea or food poisoning, or so much as a head cold, for that matter. This streak of no sickness has been going since 2005.

Entrepreneurial and personal growth writer Tim Ferriss loves to travel the world, but his track record isn’t so great, and he recently reported serious diarrhea and near delirium brought on by a 101 degree fever after eating some bad food in India.

So what’s the magic difference? Our food.

Read what you need to do to escape travelers’ diarrhea and food poisoning, and what Ferriss is doing wrong here.

Kombucha Tea is a beverage with a lot of hype floating around it, and raw foodists are taking the bait.

Because kombucha brewed at home doesn’t have to be pasteurized, raw foodists applying the standby, “if it’s raw it must be healthy,” solution have sometimes seen is as something great.

But what does the science actually tell us about this food? Is there merit behind the health claims? Any dangers? In this article I examine Kombucha in depth.

Reader Questions:

I’ve also answered questions from a few readers:

Kathy wanted to know how to prevent weight loss on a raw food diet and learn to eat enough food. I give her my best advice.

Tammy wants to know if I suggest new raw foodists should eat only bananas for 30 days. I explain my stance here.

Should David be worried about oxalic acid? I tell him.