The Earth Diet is a lifestyle designed by actress and former beauty queen

Beauty Queen

"Beauty Queen" is the second song from Roxy Music's second album, For Your Pleasure. The lyrics refer to Ferry's girlfriend, Valerie Leon, one-time UK beauty queen, B-movie actress and model working in the Newcastle area, circa 1973.-Musicians:...

 Liana Werner-Gray

Liana Werner-Gray

Liana Lee Werner-Gray is an Australian model and actress best known for her role on The Man In The Maze.- Personal life :...

. Although the original purpose of the lifestyle is to focus on the abundance of what the earth provides naturally, word of the diet spread and quickly gained popularity as a means to lose weight and reduce exposure to unwanted chemicals.

The term "The Earth Diet" is a trademark of The Earth Diet Trademark Limited Partnership.

History and theory

Liana Werner-Gray’s idea of eating only foods naturally provided by the earth began in Australia, following her Miss Earth

Miss Earth

Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. Miss Earth is also one of the most publicized beauty contests in the world....

 Australia 2009 People’s Choice win. She pursued the idea of eating only foods that the earth naturally provided for 365 days . Werner-Gray started a daily online blog to share her journey with the world. She began the diet on Saturday, October 24, 2009

Main Principles

The Earth Diet is relatively simple in principle. It is an entire lifestyle that focuses on the abundance of what the earth provides naturally.

The principal claims of the The Earth Diet are:

• The Earth Diet is a lifestyle that focuses on the abundance of what the earth naturally provides.
• The Earth Diet replaces processed foods with foods that the earth naturally provides.
• The Earth Diet reduces the chemical burden on the body.
• The Earth Diet encompasses all foods that the earth provides naturally: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, spices and meats.
• The Earth Diet is for everyone, children and adults, vegetarians, vegans, meat eaters, sweet lovers, rawists and fruitarians.
• The Earth Diet is nourishment for the body.
• The Earth Diet designs challenges and cleanses for weight loss, weight gain, weight maintaining, detoxification and more.
• The Earth Diet is sugar free, soy free, preservative free, MSG free, GMO free, hormone free, artificial anything free.
• The Earth Diet is cooked foods AND raw foods.
• The Earth Diet provides suggestions for the most natural and authentically healthy foods and products available on the market.
• The Earth Diet is health for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
• The Earth Diet provides an opportunity to increase metabolism.
• The Earth Diet cleanses and detoxifies.
• The Earth Diet appreciates what the earth has to offer and is grateful for every meal.
• The Earth Diet is organic when ever possible.
• The Earth Diet is raw whenever possible.
• The Earth Diet is eating seasonally whenever possible.

Popularity

While the concept of eating healthy is not new, The Earth Diet is the only one of its kind combining foods that are naturally provided by the earth, organic food

Organic food

Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.For the...

, raw foodism

Raw foodism

Raw foodism is the practice of consuming uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet....

, Alkaline diet

Alkaline diet

The Alkaline diet is a diet based on the scientifically unsupported theory that certain foods, when consumed, leave an alkaline residue, or ash...

, juicing

Juicing

Juicing is the process of extracting juice from plant tissues such as fruit or vegetables. There are many methods of juicing, from squeezing fruit by hand to widescale extraction via industrial equipment...

, eating seasonal foods, and is easy accessible to people to follow all over the world . The Earth Diet’s success coincides with the emerging popularity of the locavore movement and farmer's markets , Kevin Trudeau

Kevin Trudeau

Kevin Mark Trudeau is an American author, radio personality, and infomercial salesman best known for promoting alternative medicine. A number of his television infomercials and several of his books, including Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, allege that both the U.S...

 Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Food, Inc, King Corn (film)

King Corn (film)

King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn...

 and Jenny McCarthy

Jenny McCarthy

Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and...

 book Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds.

Television

Liana Werner-Gray

Liana Werner-Gray

Liana Lee Werner-Gray is an Australian model and actress best known for her role on The Man In The Maze.- Personal life :...

 will host a new Australian Television Series On the Course (2010 TV series)

On the Course (2010 TV series)

On the Course is a television series about golf. On the Course began in 2010 as a conventional golf show. Over time, during pre-production it has developed an adventurous and humorous style of golfing for viewers to improve their own golf game...

 as the nutritional advisory for the host and golf trainees. To air on Australian Television in 2012.

Criticism

• CNN claims that Fruits and Vegetables Are No Miracles In Cancer Prevention
• Because there is no legal criteria for natural foods, food manufacturers will often place a "natural" label on foods which contain heavily processed ingredients such as evaporated cane juice crystals (a fancy name for white sugar), vegetable glycerin, soy lecitin, monocalcium phosphate, and mixed tocopherols.
• Food processing: a century of change, R. W. Welch and P. C. Mitchell (2000) British Medical Bulletin, 56 (No 1) 1-17,
• IS THERE A DEFINITION FOR NATURAL FOODS?, Institute of Food Technologists,

External links

• The Earth Diet official website
• The Earth Diet Daily Blogs

See also

• List of diets
• Organic certification
  Organic certification
  Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, [food] processors, retailers and restaurants.Requirements vary...
  
  
• Raw food diet
  Raw food diet
  Raw foodism is the practice of consuming uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet....
  
  
• Whole foods
  Whole foods
  Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible, before being consumed. Whole foods typically do not contain added ingredients, such as salt, carbohydrates, or fat. Examples of whole foods include unpolished grains, beans, fruits, vegetables...
  
  
• Health food
  Health food
  The term health food is generally used to describe foods that are considered to be beneficial to health, beyond a normal healthy diet required for human nutrition. However, the term is not precisely defined by national regulatory agencies such as the U.S...