This really depends upon your current dietary choices. If consuming large quantities of meat, dairy, and wheat, and hardly any life food i.e. salads and fruit, you will need to take things more slowly than someone who is already vegetarian.

Begin by introducing lots more salad to your lunch and evening meal, and increase your fruit consumption if you aren’t eating any fruit. Additionally, begin adding soaked nuts to your salads and experiment eating one raw meal each day. Perhaps begin with only breakfast, or lunch ,or dinner. Most people find that opting for a large green salad with a good serve of raw nut pate or plenty of soaked nuts for lunch is a great way to start introducing more life food into the day. Make your salad interesting and vary it daily. Try adding grated carrot, chopped celery, shaved fennel, and plenty of different sprouts, which are readily available in most supermarkets now. If you find you are missing dressings on your salad, check out the recipes section of the website for some healthy dressing suggestions, or consider purchasing a copy of ‘A Delicious Life’ Raw Cuisine Recipe book.

Yes and no. Every one of us is unique and different. Whilst my theoretical research and study shows the countless reasons why it is beneficial to eat a life food diet, it is vital that individuals monitor their own responses and reactions both physically and emotionally to what they eat. This allows their individual bodies to show them where to position themselves in the life food intake percentage. Not everyone enjoys life food, and not everyone likes life food. We have had generations of cooked food consumption and it takes a while to adjust, both physically, mentally and emotionally, to more life food.

A. In a word YES. It is possible to obtain sufficient protein from a totally plant based diet. Full stop. Such a plant based diet needs to be varied and constantly rotated. It is important not to slip into a pattern of eating the same foods week in and week out. In my personal opinion, (and from personal experience) this is where many vegetarians, vegans and sometimes even life foodists falter. Instead of eating a wide variety of different plant based foods – favourites are discovered and consumed over and over. Variety is the spice of life – a necessity for health. The seasons change and offer us a huge variety of different fruits and vegetables. I discovered that my body naturally guided me to the fruits and vegetables which were in season during my life food transition. I found myself not wanting certain foods and then discovered that they were imported, and not in season where I was living. The body knows so much if we will just stop and listen to it’s gentle guidance!

I am aware from feedback over several years that many people are still relying upon archaic nutritional information to base their ‘safe food choices’. Questions such as, ‘Will I get sick if I stop eating meat’? and, ‘is it safe to not eat meat’? crop up frequently.

We are able to easily obtain sufficient protein from a non-flesh food dietary intake. I.e. no meat, no fish, no eggs, no tofu. I have met so many extremely healthy individuals both in the US and here in Australia who don’t eat any flesh foods or soy products such as tofu or tempeh. My research has shown that long-term high protein consumption has a negative health impact. However, again I believe that we must each make our own choices and follow what our bodies are telling us.