The Earth Diet

The Earth Diet is a lifestyle designed by actress and former beauty queen Liana Werner-Gray. Although the original purpose of the lifestyle is to focus on the abundance of what the earth provides naturally, word of the diet spread and quickly gained popularity as a means to lose weight and reduce exposure to unwanted chemicals.
The term "The Earth Diet" is a trademark of The Earth Diet Trademark Limited Partnership.
History and theory
Liana Werner-Gray’s idea of eating only foods naturally provided by the earth began in Australia, following her Miss Earth Australia 2009 People’s Choice win. She pursued the idea of eating only foods that the earth naturally provided for 365 days. Werner-Gray started a daily online blog to share her journey with the world. She began the diet on Saturday, October 24, 2009
Main Principles
The Earth Diet is relatively simple in principle. It is an entire lifestyle that focuses on the abundance of what the earth provides naturally.
The principal claims of the The Earth Diet are:
*The Earth Diet is a lifestyle that focuses on the abundance of what the earth naturally provides.
*The Earth Diet replaces processed foods with foods that the earth naturally provides.
*The Earth Diet reduces the chemical burden on the body.
*The Earth Diet encompasses all foods that the earth provides naturally: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, spices and meats.
*The Earth Diet is for everyone, children and adults, vegetarians, vegans, meat eaters, sweet lovers, rawists and fruitarians.
*The Earth Diet is nourishment for the body.
*The Earth Diet designs challenges and cleanses for weight loss, weight gain, weight maintaining, detoxification and more.
*The Earth Diet is sugar free, soy free, preservative free, MSG free, GMO free, hormone free, artificial anything free.
*The Earth Diet is cooked foods AND raw foods.
*The Earth Diet provides suggestions for the most natural and authentically healthy foods and products available on the market.
*The Earth Diet is health for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
*The Earth Diet provides an opportunity to increase metabolism.
*The Earth Diet cleanses and detoxifies.
*The Earth Diet appreciates what the earth has to offer and is grateful for every meal.
*The Earth Diet is organic when ever possible.
*The Earth Diet is raw whenever possible.
*The Earth Diet is eating seasonally whenever possible.
Popularity
While the concept of eating healthy is not new, The Earth Diet is the only one of its kind combining foods that are naturally provided by the earth, organic food, raw foodism, Alkaline diet, juicing, eating seasonal foods, and is easy accessible to people to follow all over the world. The Earth Diet’s success coincides with the emerging popularity of the locavore movement and farmer's markets, Kevin Trudeau , Food, Inc, and Jenny McCarthy book Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds.
Television
Liana Werner-Gray will host a new Australian Television Series as the nutritional advisory for the host and golf trainees. To air on Australian Television in 2012.
Criticism
* CNN claims that Fruits and Vegetables Are No Miracles In Cancer Prevention
* Because there is no legal criteria for natural foods, food manufacturers will often place a "natural" label on foods which contain heavily processed ingredients such as evaporated cane juice crystals (a fancy name for white sugar), vegetable glycerin, soy lecitin, monocalcium phosphate, and mixed tocopherols.
* Food processing: a century of change, R. W. Welch and P. C. Mitchell (2000) British Medical Bulletin, 56 (No 1) 1-17,
*IS THERE A DEFINITION FOR NATURAL FOODS?, Institute of Food Technologists,

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