Ulcerative Colitis

The doctor said that stress and diet had nothing to do with his condition, but every time he made a change in those departments he felt better and better until he decided to let his experience guide him.

Experience first led him to eat a diet devoid of meat or dairy, and to reduce stress by moving from the city to West Palm Beach.

In Florida he came across the Hippocrates Health Institute where he learned about the raw foods diet.

A raw diet is based on the principle that cooking food at temperatures more than 108 degrees Fahrenheit destroys nutrients and enzymes.

Enzymes help break down and unlock nutrients.

Not getting enough nutrients is what leads to overeating, one of the two biggest problems with health in our society, according to Nison.

"We overeat because we eat low quality food.

Eighty percent of our diet should be raw, fresh and organic.

The other 20 percent should have two of those things." Some ways to adhere to this diet are to juice fruits and vegetables, to make soups or smoothies with a blender, to dehydrate, and to simply eat combinations of uncooked ingredients.

Nison's third book is a compilation of recipes from raw foods proponents interviewed for book number two.

There are many other raw resources: "un"cookbooks and even restaurants.

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