Transitioning to RF; Choosing the right RF diet (WAS: nuts)

[Guest guest]

Hi Siri, and thanks so much for asking. I love questions!! :) They are the

fuel from which we all learn, in a sense.

 

I would begin with your phrase " the raw diet the way it's designed " . For me,

the answer to your questions about nuts lies in comprehending as best I can

just how and what our species is designed to eat.

 

When I first began exploring raw foods back in 1997, I was introduced to

many fancy recipes, soaking and germinating (often mislabeled sprouting),

genuine sprouting (where greens actually appear), and so forth.

 

RF teachers called such foods " transitional " , but I often found myself

feeling better after eating cooked foods -- and I mean heavy cooked foods --

than following these raw concoctions. I did not see the value in trying to

reproduce a cooked menu in a raw world, and honestly I thought that the

people who raved about these recipes were nuts (for the most part ... to me,

the cooked foods generally tasted better. So the recipes never became

central in my own RF lifestyle, thankfully.

 

Then I learned about what we really need ... oxygen and water, fuel (simple

sugars) and SOLUBLE/DIGESTIBLE fiber, alkalizing minerals and vitamins, a

LITTLE protein and fat, and almost no starch. And I began eating

differently, changing the focus of my diet/program to fruits and greens.

Nuts became a background food, an occasional treat or a condiment; seeds

almost disappeared from my diet.

 

Why these foods? Quite simply, our species digests them more easily and

quickly than any others. Maximum nutrition for minimum effort, the basic

conservation-of-energy equation.

 

And in the process, I learned a whole new meaning for the term

" transitioning " . I now understand that it means relearning to eat enough of

the right foods so that we do not " need " , aka crave, the heavier foods that

are low in oxygen, water, and fuel, and high in fat, indigestible fiber, and

so forth.

 

Foods that are high in water are typically low in caloric density ... they

contain fewer calories per bite. So we need to eat more bites ... LOTS more.

And that is the essence of transitioning, relearning to eat enough, of the

right foods.

 

My advice to you is to begin learning about low-fat raw vegan, an entirely

different approach to RF than what is taught by most RF teachers. This is

the stuff of highest performance, highest energy, greatest ease of movement,

greatest athleticism, etc. And because fruits grow on trees and vines, this

is also the way of eating that brings us most into harmony with the ecology

in which we live.

 

May I suggest, if you wish:

 

- Doug Graham's new book, The 80/10/10 Diet (www.foodnsport.com/811).

 

- The PathOfHealth group, where not only the knowledge level, and

therefore the level of discussion, but also the quality of the

communication, the compassion and supportiveness and openness, are quite

remarkable for a discussion group.

 

- Our free PathOfHealth teleconferences, the next being on January 24 and

entitled, " What is Health? "

 

Write back to discuss more, if you wish. And again, thanks for your

question!!

 

Best,

Elchanan

 

 

RawSeattle [RawSeattle ] On

Behalf Of Siri Betcher

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:46 AM

RawSeattle

RE: [RawSeattle] nuts

 

Elchanan:

 

I hope you don't mind me asking. What do you eat now in place of eating

lots of nuts. I find that I am allergic to most, if not all, the nuts

mentioned, which puts a damper in allowing me to do the raw diet the way

it's designed.

 

Thanks,

 

Siri