Guest guest Posted June 6, 2001 Report Share Posted June 6, 2001 I must be from a different planet than those who have trouble with a raw-food diet. Maybe they don't take vitamins because of naturalist delusions, or they don't touch raw fish because of pseudo-ethical qualms. But I'm not such a doctrainaire purist. If 100% raw hadn't worked so spectacularly well with me, I wouldn't be posting this, so I advise you not to sell it short.<br><br>I can taste the life-force in raw food. With enough volunteers, the reality of this experience could be validated with standard psychophysical tests.<br><br>I can feel the blessedness of having just eaten raw food. I can feel the pleasure of its remains going out of me. I enjoy walking or jogging barefoot far more than driving my hot car -- my goal is 1,000 miles of running this year.<br><br>Anyone who is not bursting with physical prosperity, vigor, and athletic fitness, who has not seen his IQ seem to go up 20 points, or who has sickness symptoms such as I've seen posted here, then you need to add something. I'm no guru, but at age 56 there is absolutely nothing in common with me and the concept " old " . Maybe I'm overconfidant, but I expect to be in the same shape 50 years from now. <br><br>I just worked two 10-hour days of brush-clearing in 90+ deg Arizona temps, and loved all my energy. Even at the end of the day, worked and 'bushed' as I was, I ran a mile (with much effort) just to show I was NOT 'tired' (it takes driving back to Calif for me to get tired)<br><br>When I started the transition to raw (3 yrs ago), I was 50 lb overweight, drank a lot, and had just had a kidney stone zapped. People who'd last seen me before then are staggered with amazement when they see me now. I am so much more agile and fleet than the average person on the street. I pity them all whenever I'm in a restaurant. <br><br>For me, gustatory pleasure is THREE times better now, with all the subtle energy from slowly chewed raw food. Sipping a beer for 2 hours gives me a better buzz than guzzling a fifth did before. <br><br>If you're still having problems, broaden your diet and get some supplements. Heat-destruction couldn't possibly add anything positive that raw food doesn't already have, but its application to what you eat (don't you feel how sacred it is to eat?), the profanation by heating of what is about to become you, this folly certainly destroys you as surely as would heating your own flesh with the same torture that kills FUDE.<br><br>So ditch all these silly doubts, would you? If I can do it, anybody can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2001 Report Share Posted June 6, 2001 Good post. sipping beer? Wine is raw.:-)<br><br>Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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