{"id":145,"date":"2009-08-03T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/08\/chat-with-montel-williams.html"},"modified":"2009-08-03T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:39:46","slug":"chat-with-montel-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/08\/chat-with-montel-williams.html","title":{"rendered":"Chat with Montel Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MontelAmericaLarge.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/MontelAmericaLarge.png\" width=\"343\" height=\"233\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>This morning I had the delightful experience of guesting on <a href=\"http:\/\/airamerica.com\/montelacrossamerica\">Montel Across America<\/a> with Montel Williams. He has done the most remarkable job of maintaining his health in the face of MS; it was a real honor to talk with him and provide the &#8220;Living Well Tip of the Day&#8221; that always closes his show. I chose &#8220;Enliven Your Diet&#8221; from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriamoran.com\/charmed\">Living a Charmed Life<\/a><\/i>. It&#8217;s the idea of eating fresh, unprocessed and uncooked, vegan food for at least 50%, ideally 75% or more, of one&#8217;s diet. Starting slow is fine. Nobody has to be perfect. It&#8217;s about building up to taking in the best fuel you can provide for yourself.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here are the tips from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriamoran.com\/charmed\">Living a Charmed Life<\/a><\/i>:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Start the day fresh &#8212; fresh juice in the a.m.<\/li>\n<li>Blend enlivening elixirs &#8212; luscious smoothies, ideally with greens (romaine, spinach, kale) added. Montel actually markets a super-blender that&#8217;s half the price of other high-powered blenders. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myhealthmaster.com\/\">The Health Master Emusifier<\/a>&nbsp;and I&#8217;m impressed with what I&#8217;ve seen. If you&#8217;ve tried it, let me know what you think.<\/li>\n<li>Create super salads and shoot for two a day.<\/li>\n<li>Learn a few raw recipes &#8212; there are plenty of them<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromsadtoraw.com\/RawRecipes.htm\"> free online<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bring on the reinforcements &#8212; carry a piece of fruit, dried fruit bar, or flax crackers with you if lunch turns out to be meager or you just get hungry.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t get cold &#8212; during the winter (or under siege of air-conditioning), avoid ice-cold foods and beverages; use warming spices like cayenne and ginger; and drink antioxidant green tea or a satisfying herbal such a licorice<\/li>\n<li>Go &#8216;live &#8217;till 5&#8242; &#8212; see if several days a week you can stick with fruit, salads, juices, smoothies, nuts and seeds for breakfast and lunch, and enjoy raw and cooked foods for dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bottom line: at least one big-o salad and three pieces of fresh fruit every day, so help you God.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For extra fun, learning, and fabulosity, I&#8217;ve signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therawdivas.com\/\">Raw Divas 7-Day Detox<\/a>. The Divas, Tera and Keely, based in Wyoming and Quebec respectfully, have a snazzy\/jazzy site for ladies who have an interest in raw food. The 7-Day Detox is free, starts whenever you like, and includes a nice little e-book, journal pages, daily e-mails, and access to the Raw Divas&#8217; &#8220;Power Room&#8221; where you can connect with other divas-in-the making. I&#8217;ll keep you posted&#8230;.<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therawdivas.com\/\">The Raw Divas&#8217; Sisterhood<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"raw divas.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/raw%20divas.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"103\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Montel Williams&#8217; guests today on &#8220;Montel Across America&#8221; was Living a Charmed Life author, Victoria Moran, who provided as the Living Well Tip of the Day: &#8220;Enliven Your Diet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-happiness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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