Guest guest Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 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 - " 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 > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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