Hello everyone! Hope you’re having a wonderful summer! Are you spending time in the sun? I know I am. Last weekend, I sat in the sun with my dad for an hour! It felt so nice just sitting there in my backyard soaking up the goodness from the sun… without sunscreen! I definitely got my vitamin D for the day! I was sweating as if I had exercised in the sun. Now that I’m a raw vegan, I don’t wear any sunscreen because I believe that the sun does NOT cause skin cancer! It’s a myth when people say, “the sun causes skin cancer”. NO, it’s the ingredients IN your sunscreen that’s causes skin cancer, not the sun! The sun wasn’t put here on earth to cause cancer. Think about it. The sun can actually protect you against skin cancer! But if you did want to use ‘sunscreen’, then you can use coconut oil.
I remember when I was a carnivore, I used to sit out in the sun and I used to want to go back inside quickly (i couldn’t last sitting out there in the heat IN the sun for an hour like i did!) because I believed back then in my carnivore days, that the ‘sun’ would give me skin cancer. I used to complain about how hot it was outside and all. Now that I’m a healthy raw vegan, I no longer get or think that way anymore. I sat in the sun for an hour and I did not complain, not even once! I actually appreciated the heat. Then I felt the nice breeze. Ahh! So nice.
Anyways, moving on to the next subject. Next month is August(!) which means, the Woodstock Fruit Festival month!! Some of you may already know about this cool fruit festival that I’m talking about, but for those who don’t – allow me to explain. The Woodstock Fruit Festival is just like it sounds – a fruit festival that’s New York! This is the festival’s second year (they started in 2012!) Basically, this is a festival for raw vegans and vegans. So far this year, there are 514 fruit lovers who are going already! And guess what?! I’M GOING TO THE WOODSTOCK FRUIT FESTIVAL OF 2013!! 🙂 WOOT WOOT!! 😀 This is VERY exciting for me! I get to meet all the epic, rad raw and vegans! I’ll talk more about me going to the Woodstock in another post – in August.
The Woodstock Fruit Festival is a judgement free zone; you are surrounded with beautiful individuals who share, like and believe in the same lifestyle as you do! You can eat liberally without getting weird stares. Fruit lovers agree that the Woodstock is the number one raw food event in the world! You don’t have to be a raw vegan or vegan to attend the festival though. You could be a carnivore who wants to eventually adapt a plant-based diet, or one who digs the lifestyle in general. They won’t kick you out if you’re a meat-eater. Everyone is so loving, as we should ALL be. =) BUT – the majority of the people are vegans and raw vegans.
Since the Woodstock Fruit Festival is next month, I wanted to do a mini series on the top 11+ {more} raw vegans and vegans who inspired me along my vegan and raw journey; this post is per request. Every week on Mondays and Fridays (until the Woodstock), I’ll be writing about vegans and raw vegans who are inspirational; I think you should know about them, too! Here are the people I will be spotlighting in the upcoming posts, and you may already know some/all:
To find more epic raw vegans and vegans, check out my “resources” tab for even more!
While on my fast, I’ll be blogging everyday about my juice fast experience. I’ll also be sharing with you my daily juice recipes. You guys are more than welcome to join in with me on this juice fast if you like. This is actually my first time going on a juice fast, but my second time fasting. My first fast was a water {only} fast. I did that for 4 days. It was intense as a first timer (I did it with my dad), but I survived. 🙂 But after the water fast, I felt great! I had gained more mental clarity, more focus, loved food even MORE, got more spiritual, lost weight, felt lighter, and had better digestion, too! The health benefits of water fasting is just amazing!
wow Miliany, sounds like you are having an amazing summer planned!
I think my first raw vegan cookbook was by Any Phyo, but I transitioned to raw mostly under the influence of several blogs I read (choosing raw, some like it raw etc)
Well, you now all about my juice fasting experience. I wish you the best of luck !!
haha, yes fun indeed! =D Thank you!!
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Hi Miliany. I have been reading your emails that I subscribe to and the idea of introducing other raw vegans who inspired you was a great idea. You too should do videos on you-tube.
Hi Tracey!
I’m so happy you are enjoying and finding my mini series on inspiring vegans! Thank you! I have a YouTube channel with 2 videos already. I will soon get on the grind with my videos. Stay tuned! I know and feel my videos will benefit so many! 🙂
Hugs!
Dara dubinet is vegetarian. On the video she made with her daughter, she mentioned that she uses raw butter.
Oh, thank you for letting me know about this. I didn’t know that she uses raw dairy butter until I saw the video. I would never expect that from her, because she promotes a lot of raw foodism. I don’t think she uses it often. Very interesting, though… now my readers now! Thanks for the info!
She has still inspired me along my journey and I love her! I think raw dairy butter is the only animal ingredient that she uses (besides honey). She’s more into raw foods than vegetarianism, though.