Changing to Raw Foods

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Raw potatoes are wonderful for us. They actually

taste great. Try them as a snack in slices. I eat

sweet potatoe mostly. I alsu juice both types.

 

As to meat (flesh) eaten raw. I do eat sashimi on

occasion. I try to stay away from fish though due to

the high mercury levels it contains. I think this

" raw food group " is referring mainly to raw fruits,

veggies, nuts and food grown from the earth. I

certainly would cook all meats.

 

You would be surpised though how much you can change

tastebuds. Children can grow to love raw foods. It's

innate in all of us. We've just contaminated our

tastebuds with the toxic foods our society promotes.

Try weaning your children onto raw foods. It may take

awhile, but it can be done.

 

Regina

 

--- placebos4u <mark wrote:

> At this time I dont just eat raw food. I have a wife

> and two young

> boys, 7 and 10 who I seriously doubt would like

> everything raw, and I

> certainly wouldnt push it on them.

>

> Having said that though I do eat as much raw as I

> can, or at least

> think I can eat raw. I very rarely eat red meat, as

> I just dont like

> the idea of it and I'm certian it cant be the

> healthiest food type. I

> do eat chicken, and love fish.

> What would be wrong with cooking fish? What about

> bacteria if we

> didnt cook the fish, surely there is the danger of

> poisoning.

>

> Is it ok the eat raw potato? Does it make you feel

> ill at first, and

> does it ever contain nasty bacteria that may get

> through the acid

> environment of the stomach?

>

> I would like to eat more raw food, but am unsure as

> to what the

> dangers are.

>

> Cheers

> Mark

>

>

> rawfood, " Peter Gardiner "

> <petergardiner@e...> wrote:

> > I could not agree more

> >

> > I will ramble a bit and then come to some firm

> ideas.

> >

> > My father told me that the toughest thing he ever

> did was to stop

> > tocacco. I tried for years to stop and relapsed.

> However when I

> could

> > feel my ability to walk slipping by the month and

> saw the medic who

> > said. " Give it up or I will be cutting off your

> toes for starters. "

> > Then stopping was a breeze and after two weeks

> with the odd quick

> puff I

> > was over the hurdle and never reverted. It was

> easy to give up.

> >

> > I also heard from a medic whom I met socially that

> " Oh they all

> give up

> > smoking when it is too late. The failure rate is

> about zero except

> in

> > Southern India where the only pleasure poor people

> get is the biddy.

> > There they come in and beg to have their limbs cut

> off to relieve

> the

> > pain. "

> >

> > In my case I took a roundabout road to going 100%

> raw. First

> cooked red

> > meat went. Gradually chicken went. Then I

> decided to go for raw

> food

> > and ate raw fish and raw meat in small quantities

> with a lot of

> > vegetables. I thought of Picasso going through his

> blue period as I

> went

> > through a period of eating raw potatoes to the

> astonishment and

> horror

> > of my wider family.

> > I got used to fads and saw them as illumination

> for the road

> ahead. A

> > month or two later I dropped raw meat and ate a

> lot of sardines. I

> > tried a bit of fasting and at the end of a year or

> so I decided to

> do a

> > long water fast and I found the rawfoodists on the

> internet.

> >

> > Thus I went on the long water fast and read David

> Wolfe's Sunfood

> > Success diet. My reaction on reading his book was

> that I cared zero

> for

> > his religious advice (I found it as usefuls as

> Bush's politics)but

> was

> > spellbound by his dietary observations. I raised

> his book into one

> the

> > ten most important books I have read in my life.

> The fast had put

> me on

> > a huge detox and gave fresh raw spinach a taste

> such as can only be

> > imagined.Thus the last leap over to full raw was

> easy. Now I am

> phasing

> > out alcohol completely.

> >

> > Alongside all this I had to locate the raw food.

> For example I

> read a

> > notice from an Auzzie saying that avocados are

> expensive in

> Australia.

> > I buy a box of 20 avocados for between one and

> three Euros. I get

> black

> > Spanish olives for three Euros a kilo and nearby I

> have a

> greengrocer

> > who always has fresh spinach. I do not want to

> bore you with more

> detail

> > on that subject. Supermarket vegetables look

> generally uninspiring

> to

> > me.

> >

> > There is another aspect which is not clear.

> Imagine that you have

> never

> > swum in water. Can the experience truly be

> explained with words.

> Is

> > analogous with raw food dieting. It is hard to

> believe that one can

> > survive without cooked food. Added to that, the

> digestive system

> has to

> > start hunting for nutriets in different places.

> The transition can

> > easily leave one with a mild sense of hunger which

> leads worries

> about

> > the validity of the diet but if you hold on the

> body learns how to

> > extract what it needs.

> > At the same time detox is going on. I recall in

> the early stages

> when I

> > stopped meat how important blue cheese became. It

> tasted like

> nectar as

> > my body needed it. Now I get vegetable fats from

> olivesand

> avocados and

> > the same blue cheese would taste of blotting paper

> and cause my

> stomach

> > to make a lot of gurgling noises. Thus being

> totally doctrinaire or

> > myopic is not helpful either

> >

> > Another example, I felt cold in winter until I

> stopped eating citrus

> > fruit and ate more bananas(this gleaned from the

> rawfoodists).

> >

> > Probably the best plan is to keep trying, read

> books, do not worry

> about

> > and learn from the odd relapse. Feel the changes

> as they happen to

> you.

> > Getting better at anything involves a changing set

> of criteria.

> >

> > When things get puzzling or require peer opinion,

> drop a line to

> > rawfoodists! There are a great help as they answer

> readily usually

> in

> > just the place you need it which often saves

> mountains of reading.

> >

> > Peter.

> >

> > The hour a day walking is tremendously important.

> It is another

> subject

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

>

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