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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/part-one/">Living Raw: Part One</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 13, 2007 at 03:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">From the grapefruit diet to the Atkins craze, fad eating plans have long been an American obsession, each claiming to alleviate health problems and promote weight loss in a country where obesity has become increasingly common. While you may think you’ve heard of every approach to healthy eating, one lifestyle - which has stayed under the radar despite thousands of followers and celebrities touting its benefits - has stood the test of time: the raw food movement. Though it might sound ridiculous at first, the raw approach to eating, in which at least 75% of food is eaten uncooked (not heated above anywhere from 92 to 118 degrees, depending on who you ask), raw foodism has had followers since the early 1900’s. The lifestyle took off in 1984, after Leslie Kenton released The…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/part-one/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/part-one/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/part-one/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/part-one/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/vegetarianism/">vegetarianism</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/weight-control/">weight-control</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/special-features/">special-features</a><br /><br /> </P>