Famous Raw Foodists
By Ciara Carruthers

For two reasons it is good to know of some famous raw foodists. 

Number one, because although we all want the perfect health that we know is achievable through raw food, we also want to be beautiful. If we are really honest, it's one of our desires. So, to have beautiful people to look at, who we know are on raw food diets, well, it helps. 

Number two, for when people look at you as though you have a multitude of heads for eating only raw foods, after you educate them on the science of raw foods, you can do some name dropping, for example, "Well, Demi Moore looks so good at 40 because she's a raw foodist." (You can exclude the part about her having lots of plastic surgery...) 

And so...some famous raw foodists are.... 

As mentioned previously, Demi Moore is one of the most talked about famous raw foodist. In her role on Charlie's Angels, in which she starred next to Cameron Diaz, everyone talked about how amazing her body was. Since then, the raw food diet has been spread around the world, even more so, with thousands of women wanting to know Demi's secrets.

Next up we have one of my favorite actors, Woody Harrelson. He starred in the intensely violent 'Natural Born Killers', which I loved, but contrary to his character in this movie, he is actually a vegan and a raw foodist. He contributed to the book, "Cuisine: The Art and Spirit of Raw Foods", which I plan on getting my hands on.

Moving along, we have Carol Alt, the ex-supermodel. She published her own book, "Eating in the Raw: A Beginner's Guide to Getting Slimmer, Feeling Healthier, and Looking Younger the Raw-Food Way", which I have read and would recommend as as an easy and light entrance into the raw world. As a model, she starved herself in her youth to try and retain her figure, after which she experienced chronic health problems. Turning to raw food changed her life.

The beautiful Alicia Silverstone is openly raw. On her interview with Jay Leno on the tonight show, she spoke repeatedly about raw foods; about her raw food friends, about a woman she knew of who was 60 but looked 35. In fact, throughout the entire interview, she really plugged raw foodism.

Donna Karen, an expert in making other people look beautiful, has herself carved herself a more beautiful body using raw foods.

She lost 20 pounds on the raw food diet, and has brought raw foodism even more into the light by appearing on the Martha Stewart show, on which she prepared a green juice for Martha.

This is just a handful of the famous raw foodists that there are on this planet.

‘Stars’ have so much influence over the way most people live their lives.

Fingers crossed that more and more celebrities will become raw foodists, so they too can spread the word.