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I want to express my heartfelt thanks to those that I have the pleasure of assisting in their personal journey toward optimal health. I see all interaction as a joyous exchange and feel truly blessed to be able to help others while they too help me grow in that capacity. The raw diet has been such a vortex of positive change in my life that I truly cannot imagine doing anything other than sharing its benefits by helping and guiding others through the pitfalls, misinformation, improved habits, and application of the low fat raw vegan lifestyle.

I remain and offer myself humbly… at your service

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I pay tribute to Chris Kendall for being the spark that ignited my now devoted and loving relationship with the raw food lifestyle. Chris came to visit me in Nelson BC in the early summer of 2009. What was intended to be a short and casual visit with an old friend soon turned into an inspiring and guided introduction on the healing and energizing benefits of raw foods. I was not anticipating this visit to be life changing, but Chris’s presence and energy was just so astounding that I wanted to absorb and learn everything I could from this high vibrational man! Chris worked with me over the period of five days in my home, preparing raw food delights from morning to night. This was my first introduction to being 100 % raw and have been following this path ever since (with some gentle learning curves along the way of course). He showed me how to prepare so many delicious and easy raw food meals that helped to make the transition so flawless and delectable for me. Having been so inspired with what Chris has shared with me, I now am on my own raw food journey preparing to take a Raw Food Chef Certification course in June 2010. Chris’s passion for raw food living has breathed so much life into my own personal quest for health and happiness. His passion continues to infiltrate not only my own life but also the lives of those around me because he has shown me the greatness that can come from sharing your passion with others. Chris has continued to provide me with so much enthusiasm, support, guidance, and knowledge as I myself continue to walk the path of raw food living. A source of great inspiration and gentle guidance, Chris Kendall has been a leader for me in my own raw food revolution and I extend eternal gratitude for the internal transformations he so gracefully and joyfully guided me through.

Bree Prosser

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A little bit about my past.

I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in April 2006. I struggled for about a year after diagnosis. I changed my diet, rested, slept, and did anything I could to help better my situation. I payed attention to which foods worsened my symptoms and eliminated those foods from my diet. I managed to have all my symptoms come to an end and I was free of all meds except for a probiotic. This lasted for about 2 years. I then fell ill to a bad case of strep throat and needed to take antibiotics. Needless to say the antibiotics did well for the strep throat but reversed almost all of my progress of healing colitis, returning me back to the struggles of a flare up. I then researched the raw foods diet through “self healing crohn’s and colitis” a book by Dr. David Klein. I purchased the book and studied it. Most of the information was very helpful. I just didn’t really know how to implement this diet properly. That’s when Chris Kendall showed up in my life. Upon first meeting Chris I could tell he was a very positive influence to be around. After a very informative consultation I knew that raw foods was the way for me to be eating. After only about a week of eating raw with instruction from Chris, I was feeling more physical energy as well as mental energy. Eating raw changed my outlook on foods as well as my outlook on life. I began to feel a normal digestion again and my symptoms were vanishing quite quickly. I managed to reduce my dosage of prednisone and asacol very quickly and after about 6 month’s I was completely off of both prednisone and asacol. I definitely recommend for anyone struggling with Crohn’s or Colitis to get in contact with Chris. Even if you are unsure of making changes to your diet I would still contact Chris. He is a very positive influence in every aspect whether it be foods or life itself.

Thank you Chris for all you have done for me!

Sincerely

Danny Downing

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I have for a large part of my 24 years been overweight. The exception was a brief period in my second year of high-school when I had done a lot of running during the summer (which I couldn’t keep up in the winter and rebounded). The situation has been the same, sometimes better, sometimes worse, but never hitting my correct weight.

After I returned from a visit to my sister in NY during june 2010 I started reading a book called “the tao of health, sex and longevity”. It, together with positive influences I got during my visit got me to want to try out to improve my diet. I started with eliminating red meat and incorporating a light, RAW lunch into my diet. Looking back it was very, just some nuts, plums and dates, but what was written about raw in the tao-book sparked my interest and I wanted to learn more about it. I read some other books trying out some big smoothies while eliminating animal products (one of the books scared me off fish forever by telling me that cooking it releases carcinogens).

The thing that made me want to do raw the most however was one of the books (12 steps to raw food by VIctoria Boutenko) talking about “cooked food addiction” and I placed 100% on that checklist. Well, I don’t know about you, but when somebody tells me I can’t do something – I want to do it. But even though the desire was there I didn’t have the tools. The smoothies didn’t taste good, had to force myself to drink them and the nuts and dried fruit didn’t fill me up entirely. It worked to spark my interest, but if I had continued like this over an extended period of time I would have run into problems.

It was in this state of mind that I ran into Chris Kendall’s ebook “101 Frickn’ Rawsome Recipes”. Clearly explaining guidelines, objective measurement of calories and easy and (most importantly) delicious recipes that I could make quickly, with little effort or or pain to my wallet. This allowed me to take the notion of trying out raw seriously and so I went from practically 0% to 100% raw overnight.

Starting out at 100-105 kg at 189 cm (very overweight) to quickly dropping 5-10 kg without doing anything consciously. After 6-9 months on the diet I was down at 85 kg (ideal weight according to BMI) and feeling amazing. A weight I hadn’t had since high school, a shirt size I haven’t had since puberty and an energy and well-being I haven’t ever had.

I had originally only planned to take raw as an experiment, maybe incorporate a bit into my diet, but never did I think that I could be munching up 3000-5000 calories/day in bananas and dates. And SALADS. I who never in my life had liked salads, in any form!!! Sure I munched on a lot of apples, but didn’t like bananas much (probably at least in part due to never eating a ripe one before going raw) or many vegetables really cooked or raw – it wasn’t for me. But he had recipes for everything, a good berry-orange dressing sorted out my salad phobia just fine. As I said, I never though I would go to 100%, but the recipes were just so amazingly easy and delicious that it wasn’t a conscious choice really, I mean maybe I had some roasted nuts, but in general not a choice I had to think about.

Almost a year later I feel invigorated with energy. I, who suffered from having so few friends in Uppsala have now a gigantic community spread over the world. The subject of health has interested me so I have read up a lot on the subject so I am now an authority to many people in forums and em giving THEM health advise and helping (and convincing) them to transition to a plant-based diet, some raw some not. Going raw has had effects on so many levels I cannot put it into words, thank you Chris for existing and being one of the greatest influence upon my life and getting me to health and friendships.

Eternal love and gratitude,

Johan Agstam

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We are blessed and eternally grateful that our journey led us to Chris. Finally someone who could make sense of the whole raw food thing and make it simple. If we had found Chris 10 years ago we would have saved thousands of dollars. We bought the juicers, slicers, dicer’s, dehydrators, super foods, vitamins and supplements and everything else you can think of that was required to “go raw.” Meal preparation was time consuming, expensive, labor intense and sometimes didn’t even taste good! After all this my husband, Brian, and I were not able to maintain raw for long periods of time. It just did not fit in with our lifestyle.

Chris with his passion and experience has guided us on how to keep things simple and maintain the raw lifestyle. With Chris there is no mystery, confusion, contradictions or hard to follow regimens. Now it is simple! Chris reinforced that whatever we choose is o.k. There are no mistakes, just another step in the journey, be happy and live in the present moment. We can now say “ooh baby we like it raw!”

Thank you Chris and may God continue to bless and prosper you in all things.

In gratitude,

Aggie and Brian Thiesing

New Port Richey, Florida

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If you have enjoyed a consultation, received help, or benifited from any of Chris’s services and wish to share your story with others please feel free to email Chris at info@the-raw-advantage.com

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