I was in Los Angeles this weekend and spoke about the Women Go Raw project to a conscious mothering group called Tiger Mama. I showed the interviews that we did with women who had gone through pregnancy while eating a plant-based raw diet. Their labor was often shorter and less painful. You can see this in the interviews with Jinjee and Julie Pitcher.

On Saturday, I got to speak with the founder of Tiger Mama on the Santa Monica Promenade. Evita Ramparte is herself having her pregnancy while eating a plant-based raw food diet. She explains the benefits of this and why she believes in in so strongly. She has been eating a raw foods diet since 2004. She healed herself of ovarian cancer around that time though the process of cleansing and alkalinizing her body. Raw foods proved to be an important part of this process.