RE: Lean tissue, protein, toxicity and health [s]

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On Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:30 PM , Gypsi wrote:

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....before I started trying to go raw... I had found Body for Life..which is

a way most bodybuilders eat to gain muscle and shape their body.. Finally

the light bulb went on and I understood the general formula the body

needs... but since looking into trying to go raw and understanding it the

" formula " seems similar but still very different.. Do we not still need to

balance our protein and carb intake at each meal? for the 6 or so a day??

 

You hear that if you just eat raw and no cooked foods and stay away from

soft drinks and milk etc that you will lose weight..one of my goals.... so

what do we really need to look at to lose the weight? I am so sick of being

fat that I need something to work with here... the weeks I seem to lose

weight are the weeks I seem to blow a day or two by eating cooked food..

what is up with that.. I do need to journal more to keep track of that part

of this... but I don't want to " not eat enough for my body " but I do not

want to over eat either... have to find that happy middle ground... I know

days I exercise I feel the need to eat more and knowing the body for life

info seems certain things are needed for proper growth of muscles etc. do we

really not need to worry about the extra protein after a work out ???be it

seeds or nuts... or protein powder??

 

This is my second of two messages in response, on different subject matter.

Elchanan

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In spite of deeply held beliefs among body-builders, the preponderance of

research now shows fairly clearly that increased physical activity does NOT

create any need to increase the percentage of protein consumption in our

diet. Conversely, increasing the percentage of protein consumed does NOT

provide any substantive benefit in terms of lean body mass acquired. Even

the government (in its dietary recommendations) now accepts this

information, in spite of resistance from the meat/dairy/poultry industries.

 

Lean tissue means bone, muscle, cartilage, ligaments. To focus on muscle

mass alone is misguided. Our bodies build lean tissue directly in response

to activity and impact. Active people have more lean tissue on their bodies,

pound for pound. People who run and jump and climb trees may have even more,

due to adding impactful activities.

 

Anytime we consume an excess of anything, we create a toxin load in our

body. This is as true of excess protein as anything else. And whenever we

add toxins to our bodies, the body MUST response in some way, consuming

energy and other resources, and decreasing energy available for activity

(physical, thinking, processing feelings, imagining, ALL forms of activity).

So toxicity is costly right now, not just in terms of longer-term effects.

 

We have all been taught to focus on what we are eating, that is, on what we

are putting INTO our bodies. And of course this is significant. But we often

overlook the benefits of eliminating certain things from our diet and/or

program. For example, a person with high blood pressure and who eliminates

salt from his/her diet will almost always experience significant and rapid

improvement in blood pressure, even without making ANY other changes.

 

The cleansing we experience as RFs comes largely from what we STOP eating,

this is at least as important as what we are now eating. When we STOP eating

meat, we experience improvement. When we they STOP eating dairy, we

experience further improvement. And EACH time we stop eating some toxin --

refined sugar, salt, grains, etc. -- we experience improvement, even if this

is the only real change we make at the time, and regardless of whether we

eat cooked or raw food or in what proportion.

 

To be sure, RF gives us a significant advantages: the full nutrient content

of all foods is now available, proteins are far more bioavailable, vitamins

and minerals remain intact and in solution (bioavailable), etc. But us

recognize that much of the improvement we experience, especially in the

beginning of the RF journey, comes from what we eliminate, not just from

what we are now eating. And let our choices be guided accordingly.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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