To those who are in a medical mess

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Strange thought.

 

 

As I stepped into the raw food diet I was convinced that the olive had a

role to play in diet. After sloshing down that sacred oil, even pouring

it into a glass and drinking it on occasions, I have bucked off. Raw

Foodists of this forum were muttering about " How cold pressed is the oil

you are getting? " Thus I chopped olive oil out of my diet. Nevertheless

I ate a couple of kilos a week of low salt olives thinking that it was

obviously better to eat the olive raw than to eat its processed

derivative of the oil itself: silly me for far too long.

 

I feel as duped as David Wolfe did about cashew nuts, on the olive. I

read his magnificent chapter but he said nothing about European olives

served in Northern Europe as " Fresh " . Go to the right part of the world

and I have no doubt that ecstasy is at hand with the olive. But here in

northern Europe the fresh olives available are boiled or go through a

process of having boiling water thrown over them. That I believe having

read on the Net about ways of curing olives.

 

Cutting to the chase I have chopped Olives out of my diet and having

chopped out enough to insult any Standard American Diet, I feel fitter

than a fiddle. So many irritations have left me. In the last couple of

weeks, having chopped out the olive my blood circulation has made an

exponential improvement. Atherosclerosis brought me to eating raw in

the first place.

 

Three years ago I could feel pain in my legs walking to the end of the

block at 35 yards.

At that time I read the medical encouragement from the American Medical

Association that I could expect a 30% improvement in my situation, given

that I followed medical counsel and all sorts of advice. Having studied

mathematics 30% improvement sounded so depressing. My medic (Dr.Prof.)

recommended immediate surgery. I declined.

 

When I push hard I still feel a pain in my legs but I am moving at

several times the speed of three years ago. Plus my increasingly

" frugal " diet gives increasing health. Fresh juicy cabbage leaves for

lunch are so good when I can get them. Otherwise spinach is at its best

far superior to the boeuf bourgignon of past years which I then enjoyed

so much...

 

The only mammal that worries about getting variety in its diet is the

human. All others have that aspect under control. I find the more I

throw out the better. Put simply: Green and fresh with some fruit for

breakfast is sublime.

 

bye bye

 

Peter Gardiner