Guest guest Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 Are vitamins acceptable on a raw food diet and what foods will give me essential fatty acids. I visited the produce section a few days ago and I must have looked very confused because the sales person asked if I needed any help. Considering he he didn't ask anyone else I guess I really stood out. lol Anyway, I remember a time when I literally would be in the grocery store for hours and would never walk by the fruits and veggies unless I was looking for white potatos. For years I've existed on sugar, processed carbs, red meat, and starchy veggies like corn and potatos, without green veggies or fruits. You can imagine how I've felt and how I currently look after 35 years of this madness. I'm sure my body is thanking God I've come to my senses. To be honest I never really thought about the nurtrients in food to control my weight and maintain or improve health. I honestly believe that if I ate the amount of calories I needed and kept the fat content low it didn't matter where the calories came from. Boy was I wrong. Since reading about raw foods I understand many of the mysterious problems I have had with my weight, skin eruptions, mood, ect. As big as I am I have literally been starving from a cellular and nurtrient point of view. Who would have thought food was that important. It's almost like a drug. Doctors never ask their patients what their diets are like, they only offer synthetic drugs which only complicate our problems. Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Hi Skinny Lili:-), and welcome to your new life. >what foods will give > me essential fatty acids. - Omega 6 from that new fruit you're eating [avocado] and from the fats in other fruits and veggies. Omega 3 from seeds and nuts; flax, brazil nut, walnut, almonds etc. Or from that Raw egg yolk you asked about. Omega 6 will displace Omega 3 if it's in too high a ratio, so be sure to take some Omega 3 foods when you eat Omega 6 foods. The seed of the avocado contains Omega 3 but it's basicly inedible. I mention this only to show how the whole fruit is often balanced. This goes for eggs also. *Note that the white of an egg, uncooked, blocks the absorbtion of biotin but the yolk has sufficient to overcome the block. So if you ate the white of an egg raw without the yolk you'd be short of biotin but when you have the complete raw egg, you're balanced. Salmonella is so rare in organic free range eggs that you can consider it nonexistant if you keep things clean and keep the egg in it's shell until you eat it. But eat the whole egg. Another thing you'll be concerned about, Lili, is trace minerals. There is a school that believes the minerals are not absorbed in the inorganic form and they must come with the food, but as much of the soil in which our food is grown is short of selenium, chromium, vanadium etc. we must supplement. Here's How: Put 5 drops* of liquid trace minerals into a half glass of water and soak your seeds to be sprouted, in that water. When the sprouts are edible there will be some trace minerals in an organic form in your diet. The seeds will only absorb the needed minerals and usually don't bring in the heavy metals that we don't want. Lead or mercury don't get into a plant through the roots but from surface contamination, like smog or acid rain. *drops means drops, not squirts. You only need traces. Liquid trace minerals [colloidal minerals] are available in health food stores. rusty - " Lili " <ladyschaumburg <rawfood > Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:17 PM [Raw Food] Vitamins/EFAs/My thoughts > Are vitamins acceptable on a raw food diet and what foods will give > me essential fatty acids. I visited the produce section a few days > ago and I must have looked very confused because the sales person > asked if I needed any help. Considering he he didn't ask anyone else > I guess I really stood out. lol Anyway, I remember a time when I > literally would be in the grocery store for hours and would never > walk by the fruits and veggies unless I was looking for white > potatos. For years I've existed on sugar, processed carbs, red meat, > and starchy veggies like corn and potatos, without green veggies or > fruits. You can imagine how I've felt and how I currently look after > 35 years of this madness. I'm sure my body is thanking God I've come > to my senses. To be honest I never really thought about the > nurtrients in food to control my weight and maintain or improve > health. I honestly believe that if I ate the amount of calories I > needed and kept the fat content low it didn't matter where the > calories came from. Boy was I wrong. Since reading about raw foods I > understand many of the mysterious problems I have had with my weight, > skin eruptions, mood, ect. As big as I am I have literally been > starving from a cellular and nurtrient point of view. Who would have > thought food was that important. It's almost like a drug. Doctors > never ask their patients what their diets are like, they only offer > synthetic drugs which only complicate our problems. Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Hi Rusty. lol I wish skinny were the word to describe me. Maybe in a year. Thanks for the answers. Lili Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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