Great post Jean

[Guest guest]

Your post is the best I have seen on this site in

a long time. Not that I agree with you, I certainly

do not, but what this site needs is controversy, to

get it up and moving again. Its been a little dead

around here. Your diet is, to say the least,

CONTROVERSIAL. Glad to have you aboard Jean<br><br>Doug

[Guest guest]

Thanks. Right now I eat a lot of nuts, fruit and

veggies most of the time, but most of all, I trust my

instincts and did re-learn to eat instinctively. That was

valuable and made me trust my body's wisdom. The result is

I don't eat according to what I " think " I should

eat, but allow myself to be guided by my body's

reaction with regard to taste and smell, as animals do in

the wild. <br><br>I believe we have been socialized

to not pay attention to our reactions and most have

forgotten how to eat instinctively. Interestingly enough, I

have observed that I and others I have know who have

tried this, have lost this ability when eating too many

cooked foods. <br><br>Therefore, what I eat varies from

month to month depending on what I am drawn to eat. My

attitude is that you can't force a body to be healthy or

not; it is simply as healthy as it can be given its

environment. I believe, from my professional and personal

experiences, that when you give the body the opportunity to

have access to a wide variety of raw foods, and you

allow yourself to be guided by instincts, you will eat

what you need and avoid what you don't. <br><br>The

body's wisdom is so profound this way it is astounding,

but, again it makes sense that we have some kind of

genetic programming for being able to select food that is

good for us vs toxic for us. Thus a food that is good

for one will become toxic at a point of excess

consumption, and, correspondingly, its taste will change.

Trusting that change in taste comes with experience. It

was a really strange experience the first several

times I did this and realized that taste is a gauge of

a food's nutritional value. Thus our ancestors who

had this ability could eat food out of the wild, and

eat plants that were nutritious and screen out plants

that weren't. Those who couldn't died, and so we are

all descendents of those who have this ability to

distinguish between raw foods that are nutritions and those

that are not. Our ancestors were also omnivorous as

due to scarcity they were forced to eat all types of

edible items in order to survive famine times.<br><br>I

have also found that in general, most people feel

better when avoiding dairy and products with flour; and,

that people do not get nearly enough nutritional fats

(such as omega 3s and 6s). Interestingly enough, raw

hemp seed, when cold pressed yields copious amounts of

these fats in the proportion the human body needs. They

are also available in raw fish and flax seed oils.

These same oils/fats, when heated to the point where

they are transformed to transfatty acids become toxic

and have no nutritious value whatsoever. This means

that the majority of the American population probably

starved for raw fats. Without raw fats one's energy level

will drop as these are essential for energy

produciton. So then you have the dilemma of fat people being

low energy since they don't have enough fat in their

diets to exercise. <br><br>One patient of my was very

overweight and fanatically cut fat from her diet. When I met

her she had thin hair and low energy. One of the

first things I did was added a little raw fat (flax

seed oil to salad dressing, plus sashimi), took away

all cooked fat (not much), and her hair rapidly

became thick and healthy over period of a few months.

She became more energetic and lost weight. This was

without other modifications to her diet. It was very

noticeable. Later, I changed other things in her food, but

that was a first step.<br><br>I've been in private

practice for 16 years and when I discovered the raw foods

approached and passed it on to appropriate patients, their

improvements were noteworthy. <br><br>I look forward to

exchanging more thoughts.