Has anyone ever been and eaten in the Jungle in Africa?

[Guest guest]

I am just wondering if anyone in here has ever been and eaten in the Jungle

in Africa? What do they eat there?

As far as I experienced, they eat grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and meats!

Africans in most natural surroundings live very healthy and really don't have

the all these western diseases (as long as Westerns don't interfere). They

also have the most bright white healthy teeths one can think of! Without any

interference from dentists! Africans eat grains for ancient times! Makes we

wonder!

 

Also what makes me wonder, I don't know of any folk on this globe who

lives entirely vegan, not even to talk about entirely raw vegan and certainly

not

as frutarians. Does anyone know of a society who is absolutely vegan or

frutarians

and how old they become?

 

I know only two societies who age over 100:

1. Swiss Alps, people live on lots of raw vegetables from their gardens, wild

growns, grains, fruits and also raw dairy, poultry and air dried meat (like

jerky was once

before pasteurization). Makes me wonder!

2. Hunza areas, people live on lots of raw vegetables, wild growns, grains,

fruits, honey,

and some dairy. Makes me wonder!

 

Ursula

www.goodmoodfood.com

 

 

 

 

> But then I started thinking, well, what would I eat if I knew absolutely

> nothing about nutrition, science, studies and so on (ie, if I was off in a

> jungle or on a deserted island)? I'd go for things that A: taste good; B:

> are easy to digest (no blender in the jungle); C: sit well in the belly, and

> D: without causing any adverse affects after eating. Lettuce tastes good, is

> juicy and sweet, and is easy to eat. Kale, spinach, bok choy, and others,

> don't taste so good, are hard to chew, and don't sit easily in the belly.

> Fruit tastes great and sweet, and are something I'd want to eat a lot of the

> time; lettuce, cucumbers and similar, are less sweet, and good for a change

> of taste, and also very refreshing. I probably also wouldn't eat anything

> that resulted in sweating (thus wasting water), or unhuman smells (risking

> attracting predators), or anything else that might put survival at risk.

[Guest guest]

For me PERSONALLY, eating a raw vegan diet is my way of correcting all of

the wrong I have done to by body over the years. Though I am sure that there

are cultures and societies on this Earth that can enjoy a rich healthy life

eating meat and cooked foods, I know I cannot. My body is not theirs. Just

like unlike other people on this planet, I cannot digest meat, and grains. I

also am intolerant to gluten. As a child, I have gone through over 20+

rounds of antibiotics for severe ear infections and strep throat. I also

gone through years of eating a typical SAD diet and now need to be super

strict just to achieve " decent " health now in my late 20s (even though I

havent eaten a typical SAD in several years).

 

I feel because I've lived a Western lifestyle, I lost my " privilege " to eat

like the rest of the world. I probably will be spending the rest of my life

sucking green smoothies and eating only soaked nuts due to my very, very

poor digestion (thanks to the drugs)- even on a 100% raw diet.

 

Carla

 

On 10/24/07, urhora <goodmoodfood wrote:

>

> I am just wondering if anyone in here has ever been and eaten in the

> Jungle

> in Africa? What do they eat there?

> As far as I experienced, they eat grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and

> meats!

> Africans in most natural surroundings live very healthy and really don't

> have

> the all these western diseases (as long as Westerns don't interfere). They

> also have the most bright white healthy teeths one can think of! Without

> any

> interference from dentists! Africans eat grains for ancient times! Makes

> we wonder!

>

> Also what makes me wonder, I don't know of any folk on this globe who

> lives entirely vegan, not even to talk about entirely raw vegan and

> certainly not

> as frutarians. Does anyone know of a society who is absolutely vegan or

> frutarians

> and how old they become?

>

> I know only two societies who age over 100:

> 1. Swiss Alps, people live on lots of raw vegetables from their gardens,

> wild

> growns, grains, fruits and also raw dairy, poultry and air dried meat

> (like jerky was once

> before pasteurization). Makes me wonder!

> 2. Hunza areas, people live on lots of raw vegetables, wild growns,

> grains, fruits, honey,

> and some dairy. Makes me wonder!

>

> Ursula

> www.goodmoodfood.com

>

> >

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Raw Foods for Health and HappinessI have been to the jungles of Africa. Spent 6

months traveling through the northern half of the continent. We drove and

camped and had to buy our food locally. Zaire was the most remote place. We

couldn't actually buy food there because the villages we passed were not near

towns so they had no use for money. We traded empty cans and plastic containers

mostly. Sometimes we traded a watch or a t-shirt, or a pair of sandals. The

kinds of foods that were available to us were live chickens, eggs (some of which

turned out to have baby chicks growing inside - pretty freaky to discover when

you think you are peeling a hard boiled egg) pumpkins, okra, corn, tomatoes,

bananas, pineapples, and peanut butter. This was about 10 years ago so I may

have forgotten something, but that was pretty much it as far as I remember. Oh

yes, as we took a rickety ferry across the river from the Central African

Republic into Zaire there was a lady with a dead monkey of some kind. She had

kind of slit the tail partway and then put the slit part over the head so the

tail made a carrying handle. I guess that was going to be part of her supper.

In Mali they had millet (at least they had beer made from millet), but that is

not the jungle.

 

My point here is that they were definitely not living on raw foods only. Of my

list above I am thinking that tomatoes and pineapples and bananas would have

been the only raw things. The corn was definitely not tender and sweet like the

corn on the cob we eat over here. I am pretty sure that I got a blister on my

hand trying to cut it off the cob so we could make a stew out of it and the

other veggies. I don't recall seeing greens of any kind available to us. Maybe

the had them and weren't trading, but we usually scoured the whole market areas

to make sure we found everything we could.

 

Obviously I was not doing raw on that trip. I have sometimes wondered how I

would have fared if I had been. I don't think it would have worked out very

well with my traveling companions because there didn't seem to be a whole lot

available. We generally bought all we could at each village and that would be

like 2 pineapples and 25 bananas and a few handfuls of tomatoes for a group of

20.

 

Nancy