Author: Ronnie Smith

Meet Michael Porter Jr., self-proclaimed ‘best player in the draft’ and raw vegan

by Ronnie Smith
May 23, 2018

Meet Michael Porter Jr., self-proclaimed ‘best player in the draft’ and raw vegan It is official! Dr Doug Graham, a 4 time speaker at Fruitfest, is working closely with top NBA draft prospect Michael Porter Jr. Reports suggest that Porter is heading towards a raw vegan diet. Dr Graham has helped other high level…

by Ronnie Smith
May 21, 2018

Most Controversial Raw Food Debate Of All Time This video was filmed at a Raw Food Culinary Showcase which took place in Jamaica around about the year 2000. It shows very clearly the different ideas that have been promoted in the raw food world over the last few decades. Some of the opinions given are…

by Ronnie Smith
May 18, 2018

A recent article on businessinsider.com has shown that Deutsche bank has stopped buying fresh fruit for staff. This could be a bad decision for a number of reasons. Firstly fruit helps to protect against illness and disease leading to fewer sick days. Also, fruit is a superior food to help boost performance than any other…

by Ronnie Smith
May 15, 2018

Review: Lecture and Seminar With Dr Doug Graham and the Dublin Vegan group Last year, we had a number of attendees from Ireland at UK Fruitfest. Greg Xavier was not only at Fruitfest but also ended up at Woodstock Fruit Festival. A while later he mentioned that he had given a talk to the Dublin…

by Ronnie Smith
May 9, 2018

Where Do You Get Your Protein On A Raw Vegan Diet? Check out this classic video from the Food N Sport youtube channel. In this video, Dr Doug Graham is asked whether you can get enough protein on a raw vegan diet. His answer is surpising, and in just less than 8 minutes you will…

by Ronnie Smith
May 7, 2018

RESPONSE: ‘I’d a raw vegan birthday cake and was miserable, now I’m taking on the clean-eating brigade This is a response to the following article: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/id-a-raw-vegan-birthday-cake-and-was-miserable-now-im-taking-on-the-cleaneating-brigade-36800559.html Dr John MacDougall said it best: “People love to hear GOOD THINGS about their BAD HABITS” In the diet industry, authors are handed large advances from publishers to…

by Ronnie Smith
May 6, 2018

Women Who Eat Very Little Fruit Find It Harder To Get Pregnant A new article has just been published on CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/health/pregnancy-fruits-fast-food-study/index.html It references a study from the journal of Human Reproduction and states: “Those who ate fruit less than three times a month took half a month longer to become pregnant than those who…

by Ronnie Smith
May 4, 2018

Fruit: The Most Misunderstood Food by Dr Doug Graham From the earliest of written history, fruit has played a key role in human health. It was the main food consumed in the proverbial Garden of Eden for an untold number of years. During the Golden Age of Man some 2500 years ago, fruit was the…

by Ronnie Smith
May 3, 2018

New juice range made from wonky fruit and veg aims to cut waste https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/01/new-juice-range-made-from-wonky-fruit-and-veg-aims-to-cut-waste A new story has just been published about a range of juice being made from “wonky fruit”: It states: One of the UK’s largest fresh produce growers has teamed up with a Spanish fruit supplier to create a new product, Waste…

by Ronnie Smith
May 2, 2018

Healing From Eating Disorders On A Raw Vegan Diet This video is an interview from a few years ago with Professor Rosalind Graham. It is about the subject of eating disorders and in particular how she believes people can heal from eating disorders with a raw vegan diet. Rosalind will be speaking at the UK…