After a series of successful seminars on raw food preparation and achieving a healthy life style, the country’s certified raw food chef Cheloy Ignacio is fast becoming in demand in health food seminars and lecture series. After the well-attended seminar last Sunday on the “Healing Wonders of Raw Food” with Dr. Sam Dizon, this Sunday (June 13) and the next succeeding two Sundays (June 20 and 27), will be another much-anticipated forum. She will venture again with another topic complementing her advocacy on promoting healthy life style through raw food diet.

This Sunday, Cheloy’s theme will be “Building A Career Thru Healthy Lifestyle”. As guest speakers, she will invite a top motivational career trainor and speaker Mr. Romeo Pasilan and Mr. Mike Vargas, a businessman and the CEO and owner of SPEM Health International Corporation, the exclusive manufacturer of Barley Essential Premiun (Powered by Nature). It’s a food supplement that is 100% natural and organic.

For a fee of P1,000.00 (one thousand pesos only), participants will be treated to a free breakfast and lunch, from Cheloy’s selected raw food recipes. Only 50 slots are available. It will start 10 in the morning. For reservations, please call Archie Besin at tel. no. 355-0619.

And for those who are interested in a more extensive and purely raw food preparation class, that is every Saturday, from 10 a.m. onwards, there will be a registration fee of P5,000.00. All the recipes prepared during the class will be served to all the participants. Everyone must come with an empty stomach to enjoy the healthful taste of raw food.

SOURCE: FUNFARE By Ricardo F. Lo (The Philippine Star) Updated June 04, 2010 12:00 AM

As promised (and as per her request), we showed up with “empty stomachs” early Wednesday night at Chef Cheloy Ignacio’s newly-opened (only last May Living On Live Food resto on Kamuning Road, Quezon City. “We” included Ronald Constantino (Tempo columnist), Nestor Cuartero (Tempo entertainment editor and Bulletin assistant entertainment editor), freelance-writer Mario Labad and yours truly.

As most people must know by now, Cheloy (ex-wife of a semi-retired actor’s father) is the Rawfood VEGAN Chef/Health Coach, graduate of a health-oriented school in California, who has started what she called a “RawVolution” dedicated to the proposition that eating raw food is good not only for one’s health but may also cure a lot of illnesses. Read more…

Eating the right food is the best way to live a healthy lifestyle. And one of the most effective source of healthy diet is eating raw food. As the definition suggests, raw food consists of fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouts, seed, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweeds.

According to scientists and nutritionists, there are substances called enzymes which are present in plants where raw foods come from. These enzymes serve as catalysts that speed up the conversion of food in our system. Without these catalysts, the conversion may take long or may not take place at all depriving the body of the needed nutrients.

Starting June 5 (a Saturday), and the succeeding Saturdays thereafter, a series of seminars will be conducted on raw food preparation at the newly opened Rawvolution Restaurant and the Natural Health Institute of the Philippines (Training Center), located long Kamuning Road (#113 Dona Julita Blg., fronting Kamuning barangay hall, tel. nos. 355-0619/546-4181). Read more…