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If 10,000 Chicago Biters eat only raw foods for their next meal, we'll save almost enough energy to power two homes for a year.

Six hundred bikers rode nude through Chicago's West Side last June for the World Naked Bike Ride, a demonstration to protest oil dependency.

Nudie Foodie

The Bite

Wanna go au natural? On your dinner plate, we mean. Let "living foods" expert and chef Mehmet Ak (who, incidentally, dropped 70 lb during a raw food detox) show you how to make a spicy kale salad or a batch of power-packed brownies worth swooning over. Check out one of Mehmet's series of free - yes, free - upcoming cooking classes at Whole Foods Market in Lincoln Park. Or dive into one of the chef's intensive all-day workshops at his vegan and organic living foods restaurant, Cousin's Incredible Vitality, and learn how to make delish food without high-temp cooking, which depletes nutrients and energy (both the kind we use to metabolize food and the kind we use to heat it up). Bare ambition never felt so good.

Wanna Try

Raw Foods Class; Feb 12 at Whole Foods Market Lincoln Park; 1000 W. North Ave. (312-587-0648).
Raw Chef Curriculum I; Feb 9 at Cousin's Incredible Vitality; 3038 W. Irving Park Road (773-478-6868). All-day class, $195.

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