Hello! My name is Dominique. I am the founder of Passionately Raw! raw food blog and an advocate of conscious living and wholesome, preferably raw, nutrition. I am not a nutritionist, but nutrition is my passion.
I spent more than three decades intensively studying and researching aging and disease, and believe that to a great degree we are responsible for our own condition. Our bodies have the most remarkable ability to heal themselves. We simply have to allow them to do just that.
The easiest way to improve health and well-being is through simple lifestyle changes. Changing the way we obtain vital nutrients is probably the most important thing we can do to reverse premature aging, restore health and balance, and prevent chronic disease.
I am passionately but not fanatically raw. I started early. My parents introduced me to raw food decades ago, when I was only a very young child and when raw food wasn't a fad diet. They gave me raw eggs, raw honey, raw milk cheese, and even raw meat - Beef Tartare - and plenty of seasonal raw fruits and vegetables. Naturally fermented foods such as sauerkraut, naturally fermented dill pickles, kefir and beet kvass were also part of our healthy diet. In the 1960s where I was growing up everything was organic so I never had any health issues. When I grew up, like many people around me, I also ate cooked food from time to time, but I always preferred food in its natural, vibrant, raw state. In the 1990s I enjoyed eating French raw milk cheeses, Korean yukhoe, Tuscan prosciutto crudo, raw oysters and raw fish. I fell in love with the Japanese cuisine and sashimi during my frequent visits to Japan. The Fukushima disaster in 2011 was a turning point. I no longer eat raw fish. Today, I consider myself to be a conscious nutrivore, always in search for the most nutritious ingredients. I cannot live without raw honey, and sometimes I also add raw eggs to my smoothies. So you see, I am not a strict vegan, not even a vegetarian, and I do not suggest you should become one, although, giving up animal protein may help you heal certain health conditions and chronic diseases.
Food is such a wonderful catalyst for a better physical health and well being. Choosing raw food may not always be easy, but it definitely is worth trying.
I encourage gradual transition into raw food lifestyle. Start adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet, and successively give up things that no longer nourish you. Once your body has adjusted itself to live, nutrient dense foods, you will notice changes that will absolutely astonish you.
Choose raw food whenever you can, but do not stress about it. Go 100% raw, raw vegan, high-raw, mostly raw, 80/20, fruitarian - whatever suits you, but do it with passion!
In radiant health, passionately raw - Dominique Allmon