Meet Pure Jeevan!
Wendi  |  Jim  |  KDcat

Wendi's Story...

Yes, that’s really what I looked like when I was eating cooked foods (90 pounds heavier). I’ve been health conscious since I was very young, always trying to find the best ways to live for optimum health and happiness. I’ve been a vegetarian since birth, although I was forced to consume meat until I was about twelve years old (by a loving and concerned mother). As an adult, it was frustrating when even a vegan diet (which I always considered to be the ultimate in healthy eating) didn’t allow me to live a vibrant life. I was overweight (and getting heavier every year), quietly depressed, lived with frequent debilitating migraines, dealt with arrhythmia, suffered from polycystic ovarian syndrome since I was a teenager, constantly had fluid retention, my skin was scaly and red most of the time, and I suffered from many other ailments; I wasn’t exactly a picture of perfect health, even though my diet was almost always healthier than those of my friends and family. Can you imagine eating healthier than those around you, yet looking like I did? (Click here to read more about Wendi, her raw/life food journey, and to see more raw transformation pictures.)

Jim's Story...

My story's easy: I was raised on barbecued ribs, roast beef, and gravy. I'd be lying through my teeth if I stated here that I did not still like (and crave) barbecued ribs, chicken wings, Big Macs, and other such things sometimes. But age catches up with a guy, I guess.  Fortunately, so does knowledge. (I was going to say wisdom there, but thought it a little too over-the-top.)  One can only eat tasty dead foods for so long before disease rears its ugly head. All I can tell you is that I ate what I always thought of as generally healthy (as healthy as the next guy, anyway), yet weighed around 225 pounds from the ages of around 25 to 35. It all finally caught up with me, though. (You can read the entire story here if you like -- two years on powerful blood pressure medication that regulated my heartbeat.) During my mid-30s, in an attempt to regain some measure of health, I began running 3-4 days/week (3 miles or so -- and for years!), yet still saw no real weight loss until Wendi went raw and I started eating the things she made. Without ever going hungry at all, my weight magically dropped from an all-time high of 230+ pounds down to the mid 180s (currently). I was in a 40-inch waist in those days and now wear a 34 (which still seems to be getting looser). Since then I read up on the science of living foods -- enzymes, amino acids, acid vs. alkaline, etc. In a nutshell, raw foods make rational sense!

KDcat somewhere in Manhattan

KDcat's Story...

I prefer to be called KDcat. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was in my mother’s womb. When I was very little, I never even ate dairy (I was vegan). When I was about nine years old, I was given a choice about what I want to eat. At that time I started eating some dairy, sugar, and a lot of white flour foods. I’ve never eaten flesh from an animal, but I have eaten dairy and eggs when they are in cooked foods (like cake). At home we eat 100% raw, but when I’m out, sometimes I eat cooked food. Sometimes I even cook foods at home, if I feel like it. I have a really hard time resisting wheat, even though it makes me feel a bit sick after I eat it. In the past I’ve gone without white flour for many months, but then when I eat it again I get very sick. I think raw foods are great and most of them even taste better than cooked foods!

Even though I love food, it's not my main focus in life. I love art, especially acrylic paints and charcoal/chalk pastels. I have a very difficult time drawing line drawings—I prefer sketching and then perfecting what I’m working on. I also love cats and singing. I’ve written a couple of songs of my own, although I don’t think they’re all that good. I need more practice. Most of my time I like to spend outside in nature.