Q on fine tuning Dr F's Eat to Live 6 week program

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Jay:

1. You will be able to eat that pound of salad in a snap by letting

all your ingredients spin around in the food processor using the " S "

blade until it looks like salsa or finer. Your stomach, not being

accustomed to the fiber, will thank you for getting some assistance

in the chewing department. Adding cilantro and red bell pepper will

liven it up a lot.

2. After doing the above, you may love it as is, however, a few

drops of nama shoyu, apple cider vinegar (unfiltered such as

Spectrum or Braggs), dried onion or celery bits, vegetable glycerin,

miso, Tabasco Habanero (not all together) are some things that will

add variety and keep you interested. Wrapping this salsa in a sheet

of nori (seaweed) is yummy stuff and gives you daily iodine.

3. Although you do not need to eat any cooked vegetables at all, I

think you should eat them (any that you mentioned) only if you have

the desire (you're thinking to yourself that you're hungry and raw

foods don't satisfy). Why force yourself to ingest foods (cooked)

that must rely on your body's enzyme reserves to digest? If you do,

steam them with a little water. Place them not above (the usual

way), but in the water for a few minutes. Drink this water with your

food. I cite this Frederic Patenaude's The Raw Secrets in giving

this suggestion. Not as good as raw, but still good for you.

3. Dressings: Sprinkling ground up cashews mixed with coconut oil is

a fine addition to your nori wraps. Ground golden flax, alone or

mixed with some glycerin, gives food a buttery flavor and provide

essential fatty acids. Dr. Douglas Graham has great suggestions all

around in his High Energy Diet Recipe Guide.

4. Lastly, if you have what you feel are side effects like bloating

or gas, stay with the program but try not to live with it too long.

I am almost sure you will experience it just with the change in

diet. Change what you are doing or ask the forum here or read a good

reference like The Raw Secrets, which talks about indigestion, food

combining, and common pitfalls. Even good food can debilitate you if

taken haphazardly.

 

I may get some opposition of this one particularly, however, I am a

big believer in bentonite clay. Do your own research and decide.

http://www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=76 & i=2 is a place where

participants go back and for debating about it. I first heard about

it in Power Juices Super Drinks by Steve Meyerowitz (he is known as

the Sproutman).

 

Miko

 

rawfood , Lazzaro9@a... wrote:

> Hello Roger and All-

> I have just begun Dr Fuhrman's 6 week program (I am hoping to use

this

> program to ease into 100% raw, I appreciate if I could get some

help here since Dr F

> is not 100% raw.

> in chapter 8 " Your Plan for Substantial Weight Reduction "

> Pg 181 " Nuts and seeds are ideal in salad dressings... "

> WHAT salad dressing? HE does not give suggestions elsewhere in

this chapter.

> I am doing the 1 LB salad w raw veg thrown in, usually split up

into 2 huge

> bowls at 2 dif meals (each happenst to be about 8 oz). What I have

been doing is

> using chopped tomato, garlic and onion to make the salad " wet " .

Any other raw

> alternatives?

> He states stewed tomatoes, could these be used ? (Again, I realize

these are

> not raw items).

> The goal is basically 1 lb raw green veg/salad, 1 LB cooked green

veg and 4

> fruits w 1 cup of any of the following: beans, legumes, tofu.

> A q regarding the cooked greens. I find 1 LB of bruseel

> sprouts,asparagus,green beans,spinach etc is too much. Would it be

ok to use the other veg he says

> are ok (i.e. not starchy) such as peppers,eggplant, onions etc?

> As far as the 1 LB of cooked I have been doing about 1/2 LB green

and 1/2 LB

> of the above (slightly roasted)

> any other suggestions for taples and what foods work best w this 6

week

> program?

> Thanks

> Jay