Free talk by Vesanto Melina, R.D.-“Raw Food Diets: What’s True, What’s Not?” December 18, 2010

Do our bodies need enzymes from plant foods? Are cooked foods toxic? Is food combining important for optimal digestion and health? Are inorganic minerals useful or useless, nutritionally? Should we be eating buckwheat greens, sprouted legumes, raw mushrooms, and sea vegetables? For maximum benefit, must our diet be 100% raw? What do we learn from the major scientific studies about creating an optimal raw food or high-raw diet?

Vesanto Melina is a Registered Dietician and co-author of “Becoming Raw” (with Brenda Davis), and “The Raw Food Revolution Diet” (with Cherie Soria and Brenda Davis), as well as the best-selling nutrition classics “Becoming Vegan,” “Becoming Vegetarian,” “The New Becoming Vegetarian,” “Raising Vegetarian Children,” and “The Food Allergy Survival Guide.” Vesanto taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and at the University of Seattle’s Bastyr University. She also co-authored the joint position paper on vegetarian diets of the American Dietetic Association and Dieticians of Canada. Her website is nutrispeak.com.

FREE Admission and Refreshments

The Vegetarian Society of Hawaii is a not-for-profit volunteer organization founded in 1990 to promote human health, animal rights, and protection of the environment by means of vegetarian education. It’s among the largest vegetarian societies in the nation.

For more info, please contact the Vegetarian Society of Hawai'i: www.vsh.org 944-8344 or [email protected]