Interview with Bob McCauley

1. What are some Raw Food Staples in your current diet?
Spirulina, Chlorella, garlic, onions, many various greens, arugula, walnuts, hot peppers, raisins, avacado, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, sea vegetables, seseme seeds, flax seeds. Those are most of the staples, but I believe in variety. I eat 200 - 250 different foods each year. Health is about variety and making sure everhting is raw.

Are you 100% Raw?
I'd be lying to say 100%. 99% at this time. And it has taken a tough 8 years to get this far. Working on the last 1%. But only being 100% is not enough because that is not the end of health. I drink 2 gallons of ionized water each day, 15 grams of spirulina and 15 grams of chlorella each day, probitics with every meal, exercise vigorously each day and always maintain a positive mental attitude, even when things are going poorly. I think we focus too much on being 100%. We're not saints, we're men and women who want to be healthy and health is about all these other things that I mention here as well.

How did you start?
Someone introduced me to sprouting and I sort of figured it out for myself from there. You have to be a raw foodist to understand what it is like.

2. What is your new book, "Achieving Great Health" about, and how was it like talking to Peter Ragnar?
I talk about the six components of Great Health. Ionized water, spirulina and chlorella, probiotics, raw foods, exercise and maintaining a positive mental attitude.

I interviewed Peter 20 times and we have a 16 CD box set together of those interviews. Peter is a great friend and a great sage in his own way. He has done incredible things but what I love the most is that he insists that we can all do if we want to. Peter wrote the foreword to my book, AGH. Gabriel Cousens, MD, wrote the introduction to my book. He also is a great friend and mentor. I interviewed him times. The best thing was that I had 4 private conversations with Dr. Cousens and 20 private conversations with Peter after the interviews. You can't imagine what it's like to talk one on one to these guys when the microphones are off. They are incredible!

3. What do you think are the Three Pillars of Great Health and why?
Water and nutrition, exercise and a positive mental attitude. What else is there? The three things we need to do to be healthy is alkalize the body, hydrate the body and detoxifiy the body. Ionized water, spriulina, chlorella, raw foods, probiotics, exercise and maintaining a positive mental attitude acheive these goals for us. It is up to us to be disciplined
enough to build them into our lifestyle.

4. How can one build muscle and gain weight eating only raw and living foods?
There are many ways. First, Spirulina and Chlorella must be part of it because they contain lots amino acids (protein) and nucleic acids (RNA/DNA) that build the cells of our body. But I also recommend other power foods that can be found on the top half of my Raw Food Pyamid. I also use magnets when I work out and I take a tincture each day that was designed by Peter.

5. What are some quick tips or hints for Raw newbies?
Find the raw foods that you love and begin eating them and your body will crave raw foods more and more.

6. Do you have any major influences?
Jesus Christ is the biggest influence in my life, although I don't openly speak of it often. As far as health gurus it is definetly Peter Ragnar and Dr. Cousens.

7. What is your favorite raw food recipe?
Beside the endless salads I make myself, I love raw pizza.

8. Do you have any dental problems on the Raw Diet?
No. Never had any. Those that do eat too much sugar like raisins and dates, etc. Sugar is sugar and if you don't brush your teeth well after each meal you will get cavities. The Raw Food Diet doesn't make you bulletproof of impervous to bacteria. Also, I always use acid ionized water to brush my teeth each day.

9. Where do you see the Raw Food movement heading?
It is only going to grow and grow and grow from here. There's too many people like me and many others like David Wolfe and Paul Nison spreading the word. I really admire those guys. I've been out on the road doing lectures and it's hard work. You need to be dedicated.

10. Can you please tell us about some of your current projects you're> working on and/or developing?
I'm writing a book that is exclusively about ionized water. I am writing another book on what my average day is like. I am working on a video about the six components of Great Health. I plan to make a documentary about the raw life verses the cooked life. I am also working very hard to make Lansing, Michigan one of the centers of Raw Life in North America. We have a large raw community and it's growing tremendously because I am bringing people together at our store, The Watershed Wellness Center (www.watershed.net) I've a few other things going to, but these are the major ones.