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Good (early) morning,

The raw diet has even attracted the attention of mass media TV shows. My wife

and daughter watch CSI and an episode the other night " featured " a presentation

of homeschooling and " wierd ideas about food " as the premise of a story. I

didn't watch it and haven't talked to them about it - but I've been trying to

think of a more positive way to present raw food in a mass media format that

would inspire good backlash.

 

Nick Hein

Morgantown, WV

 

 

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Hi Nick,

In 2004 I still thought of a raw food diet as one of the many kooky, flaky, and

probably unfounded fads, probably closely associated with some crackpot

subculture. In public I would have said something more polite, still this is

what I thought. I believed this in spite of having one foot in the

counterculture for decades (the other foot was mostly mainstream), and having

eaten a non-mainstream health food cooked diet for years (mostly brown rice,

green vegetables, fish, and nuts).

 

Now I've been 99%+ raw for 3 years and mostly think of it as a normal diet. What

got me to take a chance on going raw was 2 things.

 

1. It didn't seem as if anybody on a balanced raw diet (fruit, greens, and nuts)

died from it or even got any major illness from it.

 

2. There were many first hand accounts of people recovering from many different

severe chronic health problems on a raw diet after wasting years of money and

time on useless mainstream medical solutions.

 

So I figured that since raw food wouldn't kill me, and mainstream medicine was

killing me, I might as well try a raw diet and maybe I'd get lucky. Basically I

went cold turkey, and my " transition period " was about 2 days as I acquired

different food, and started working out different meals. I did get lucky, and

instead of declining, my health is improving now on the raw diet.

 

The key for me was reading the firsthand accounts of people with supposedly

hopeless health problems of many different kinds, and hearing their story of

recovery on their raw food diet. Hearing their story, not just the facts, was an

essential part of what convinced me to try going raw.

 

Eventually the concept of empowering the body to heal itself started sounding

valid enough to be worth giving it a try. Being desperate to find a solution

before I died helped a lot too. The basic problem was I was 5' 8 " and 120 pounds

and slowly and consistently losing weight, and had most of the symptoms of

chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

These firsthand accounts won't convince the " experts " but are likely to have a

significant impact on everyday people.

 

One big advantage of using a raw diet to support healing is that you can do it

on your own without having to get the support of a government approved medial

expert first (licensed medical doctor). Once you decide you want to go raw, you

can choose what ever support you want (books, friends, or coach) and just do it.

So helping people to make this choice will make a big difference.

 

A collection of video clips of people saying basically " I was dying (or disabled

by health issues), medical doctors were useless, then I went raw, now I'm

getting healthy again " would be pretty useful. Getting examples of people

recovering from all kinds of severe chronic health problems would be even

better.

 

Finding mainstream people, who look like plain old Joe or Hazel Middle America,

who will share stories like this would be great.

 

I think we are still a much more oral culture than most experts think. As

grounded in scientific method as I am, hearing somebody tell me their story

still carries great weight with my emotional acceptance and my choices. This is

likely to be much more true for people without any training in scientific

method.

 

Once somebody decides to go raw, there are lots of resources now, so the crucial

point is to help them make that decision to go raw, and I really think firsthand

accounts are very helpful in accomplishing this.

 

May your day be filled with clarity, grace, strength, progress, and warm

laughter,

Roger

 

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" Nick Hein " <nick.hein

 

Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:19 AM

Interest in the raw diet

 

 

> Good (early) morning,

> The raw diet has even attracted the attention of mass media TV shows. My wife

and daughter watch CSI and an episode the other night " featured " a presentation

of homeschooling and " wierd ideas about food " as the premise of a story. I

didn't watch it and haven't talked to them about it - but I've been trying to

think of a more positive way to present raw food in a mass media format that

would inspire good backlash.

>

> Nick Hein

> Morgantown, WV

>

>

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