does anybody know about "the raw food diet"?

who don't know how to cook! 8]

your Lean Cuisine because youre in a hurry and it really dosnt help anyway?

"The value of whole, unrefined foods .was dramatically demonstrated on a grand scale during the First World War. Denmark was plagued by a serious food shortage. The government assigned Dr. M. Hindhede, the director of the Danish Institute of Nutrition Research, to design a program for protecting the nation from the hunger threat.

The first action of Hindhede was to increase whole- grain production by limiting livestock production and curtailing the sale of meat, thus saving grain for human consumption. Production of alcoholic beverages was banned for the same reason. Also, grain processing was stopped and only whole-grain bread and cereals were allowed to be sold. Farmers were directed and encouraged to produce more grain, green vegetables, fruits, milk and butter, instead of meat."

"These simple, but from a nutritional standpoint revolutionary , changes in eating habits resulted in spectacular and rapid changes in the health condition of the whole nation. The death rate dropped over 40% in one year. Diseases that affected other European countries, including the dreaded influenza epidemic, bypassed Denmark. In only a few years, Denmark became the healthiest nation in all of Europe! " (p. 46)

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heard they did a study in California. Made people with diabetes go on it for two weeks, and poof they had no more diabetes. Haven't researched it but it came from a good friend of mine.

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Do your own research, but I truly believe in this program. They also have one for kidney and liver detox.

I could never just eat raw fruits and veggies for the rest of my life, (I like steak too much) but I can do a 5 day - 2 week program once a year.

You also can google Dr. Shulze and read about the man and products.

Best of luck.

I'm not disciplined enough to do a raw food diet, but I can see it's appeal

information? I have over ten science books and numerous journals dealing with enzymes and not one source has ever claimed that enzymes are destroyed at 118 degF. The only place I have seen this information is in raw food books (I have several) and on QuackWatch.com. This information is FALSE. Amalyse enzymes are used to break down carbohydrates. Turn starches into sugars. Which is the exact process used in brewing. Most breweries mash (which is the process of having the enzymes break-down the starches into sugars which are then used by the yeast to make alcohol)their beer usually between 140 to 165 degrees. We have actually gone higher with some success. So if one type of digestive enzyme prefers 140-165 degrees to actually do their work, how can they be destroyed at 118 degF? It's impossible.

I am not debating the raw diet, I recommend 90% raw to my clients, just this misplaced falsehood.

Why do we have incisors?

I've tryed to cut back on meat after a few days of nothing but fruits and vegetables my body starts tweakin'

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Years ago (maybe 10?) my whole family was on a modified Hallelujah Diet (80% raw, including juicing/20% cooked - no animal products). I don't really remember any details about how it made us feel. There are many people that claim that the Hallelujah Diet has greatly improved their health.

Two summers ago, I was experiencing severe headaches daily and so decided to try the Hallelujah diet again. My headaches went away and I felt a lot better. Unfortunately, it is a very hard diet to keep on, especially if the rest of the family is eating other food. I stayed on it for 2 weeks, before gradually going back to our regular diet (which is much healthier than the Standard American Diet).

While we don't know, there is speculation that being on the Hallelujah Diet when I was 11 may have slowed down the progression of my kidney disease (one of the explanations why I would need a transplant at 21 versus my younger brother at 14 and my younger sister at 13 or 14).

Question:
Should we include raw with minimally cooked foods?
Is cooking broccoli and carrots releasing more nutrients?

I think we make too much about the anti-oxidants issue, when the real issue here is about digestive enzymes. When we start cooking our food, the pancreas has to generate the enzymes to digest the food, and that’s a lot of work on the body.
When you’re eating raw foods, the enzyme required to digest the food is contained in the food. And not only that . . . . . it’s the properly tagged enzyme to digest that particular food. When your body has to produce the enzymes, it looks at what you put in there, and it sort of makes a guesstimate of say well, “I’ll tag the enzyme this way . . . and I think it will work”.
That’s why you notice . . . when you eat cooked corn . . . it comes out the other end as undigested. Cooked corn, especially kernel corn out of the can, or inside a casserole, or something when you eat like that, the corn all comes out and it doesn’t seem like anything happened . . . especially when that’s the only thing at the meal . . . because the body can’t properly tag the enzyme for cooked corn.
But when the body is eating raw corn . . . it has the enzyme in it . . . and that’s why it’s completely digested.
If there’s an evidenciary thing . . . I’m an scientist and engineer, and like science projects that I can try on myself. And that’s a good one . . . raw corn, especially when it comes into season here in Georgia.
So the real thing here is about the digestive enzymes being contained in the food and when we start cooking them we loose that advantage and go back to the condition . . . that the body has to do all of the work.
You here this all the time . . . “Oh, I only need 4-6 hours of rest, and I bounce out of bed and I work so much harder. . . I have so much more energy and feel so much better!”
When the body doesn’t have to produce enzymes that’s all found energy.
That’s saved energy. It’s a day of labor your body did not have to do. By some estimates, it’s eight hours of work your body did not have to do for raw fooders.

Oh, and one other note about carrots too. Carrots, if you look at the nutritional break down chart, there’s not much nutrient in the carrot itself. The carrot tops . . . that’s where the nutrients are. People think its strange when I go out to my garden with my shears and I take the carrot tops off and throw them in my smoothie . . . you’ll get more nutrition out of those carrot tops than you will the carrots themselves.

Some of the most notable are Plato, Plutarch, Pythagoras, Socrates, Seneca, Tretullian, Chrysostom, Ovid, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, Pliny, Porphyry, Hippocrates, Voltaire, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Francis Bacon, Rosseau, Alexander Pope, Linnaeus, Shelley, Tolstoy, Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Horace Mann, Ghandi, Bernard Shaw and Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and Dennis Kucinich to name but a few.

Raw vegans regard good health and vitality as a normal way of life. Our goal is health, in a perfect balance of body, mind and spirit. We find health in the balance of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of man. We therefore select a diet which will accomplish this goal.

You can do what you want though.

The problem with it lies in the blood.

If your an animal I guess you'd be comfortable with it.

I at least cook it til its done, "no blood".

M'mm yum yum yum.

Vegetarians are weak, abstaining from meats. I won't listen to any argument of the opposite cause "I know"! But, different folks have different intake requirements. A bite or two may be all that you need.

His book is Conscious Living (I think)

Awareness is building. Hurrah!!! .
If you like to follow an excellent raw blog, especially for "body builder" insights, here's a successful raw fooder who's a tennis coach and body builder, and a Ron Paul supporter http://rogerhaeske.com/

Further excellent info for the raw message, www.health101.org and www.fredericpatenaude.com are a must visit and absorb. These are good 100% raw advocates - Don Bennett, health 101, calls himself a DAS, Disease Avoidance Specialist - he helps people do the raw lifestyle correctly and successfully. Frederic Patenaude is right on also - his book Raw Secrets is invaluable for people wanting to make a success of starting a 100% raw lifestyle - it is available as a download from his sight . . . for a price - it was really valuable to people I know when they were at the beginning of this path.

In the little bit of time I have right now, these are my thoughts: We need to stay in reality. Realistically most people need to take these changes gradually. 1st - The RAVE DIET, www.ravediet.com is the realistic place to start. RAVE is a catchy acronym No Refined Foods, No Animal Products, No Vegetable Oils, and No Exceptions and do Exercise. The RAVE DIET is available in a book that comes with an DVD. That same DVD "Eating Plus" is available separately too. If people can't do this, they haven't a chance of succeeding on 100% raw. 2) If they can do RAVE in general, then make the total switch to whole grains (brown rice, millet, and oatmeal) and fruit for calories - eliminate the nuts and seeds almost completely. A number of people speak to this. People who go this far will do very well and may not want to go completely raw. It certainly is a much better place than where they started. 3) gradually eat RAVE raw which will move them to Doug Graham's 80/10/10, www.foodnsport.com, which is what I think works over the long haul. As Doug says, the principles are so simple and the details are many. This requires people to learn and keep learning.

As I see it, the trick to eating healthily 100% raw is to eat enough and a wide variety of plants. The high priorities are Enough Calories of Nutrient Dense foods. Nutrient Density, Nutrients/Calorie, is a Joel Furhman term, www.drfurhman.com . By nutrients, he means micronutrients: vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Every affluent person has no trouble obtaining the macronutrients, protein-carbohydrate-fat. The problem we are having results from obtaining these macronutrients from nutrient poor foods and in the wrong proportions. AND the diet alone is not enough. Health depends heavily on the whole balance. The correct diet, however, helps us achieve in the other areas: Rest and Sleep, Exercise, Sunshine, and Emotional Peace.

www.garynull.com. He has a PHD in Nutrition and is a research scientist.
Some foods require cooking in order for the body to be able to utilize the nutrients. Cooking beans is a must or you can't digest the nutrients. Broccoli must be lightly steamed to break down the fiber that holds the nourishing parts. Cauliflower is toxic when eaten raw.
Nuts are great raw they have high nutritious fat content and it is a healthy fat.
Sprouting is easy and takes little effort. Get some heirloom seeds for sprouting and soak them in a glass jar for a few seconds rinse off, cover the opening with a straining cloth and empty out the water. Do this once a day and in a few days they will sprout. Keep rinsing them once daily until they turn green and add them to your salad.
Juicing is the ultimate in getting concentrated nutrition. You get about 5 times the nourishment from a fruit or vegetable when you juice it.
Good luck!

As a nutritionist with a masters in Human Nutrition and a Ph.D. in Holistic, I can see both sides of the equation. I, with a colleague, wrote all of the course material that Hallelujah Acres uses for their correspondence courses. I have worked with clients over the years. I have also gotten somewhat familiar with the Ayurvedic way of thinking. I have seen Howard Lyman and know what he says. I have also read several books on the problems with milk. A book called "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand better why animal products should be kept to a minimum. All of this helps to get a bigger picture.

Raw food is primarily food straight from the plant, with no processing. That is why it is so healthy. Fruits, vegetables and legumes are extremely nutrient-dense so they should be the primary foods in your diet. But, they don't necessarily have to be eaten raw all of the time. In the winter your body (per the Ayurvedic philosophy) does better on lightly cooked soups and stews. I have found, personally, this to be true. I crave salads like crazy when the weather warms up but crave my veggies in soups and stews with cool weather.

Grains are difficult to eat raw and actually very bad for you raw. The way to eat grains and beans raw is to sprout them. This can be very labor intensive, along with anything that you do when you decide to eat a raw diet.

A raw diet is a therapeutic diet. I have used it for clients for this. However, 100% raw is not something I recommend because I have seen too many people get very sick on this. We are all biochemically unique and require different ratios of nutrients. One person may do extremely well on this diet while someone else will waste away. Remember you, as an individual, are unique. But, eating things as close to nature as possible is best.

Have a great day!

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I've been a vegan for 15 years and it is not expensive to eat raw foods. I have more energy than anyone in my family & the optometrist has lowered the prescription of my contacts twice (eyes keep getting better -- or brain more clearer, not sure which)

It's basically anything you can grow in the ground and eat unprocessed/uncooked. If you don't want to end up in the hospital, don't mess with eating raw meat or eggs -- you can get Trichinellosis (worms), E. coli food poisoning or Salmonella food poisoning.

There's many books about it but read up on it first. "Thank God for Raw" by Julie Wandling is a good one.

Good luck.

China Study.

This book has gotten my son completely off meat.

He died in, I believe 1987. His nutritional / hygienic philosophic approach to diet included not just raw fruits and vegetables but fasting (in some cases prolonged, i.e.3-4 weeks or more) as well. He was the inspiration for T.C. Fry of the Life Science Institute. T.C. Fry taught / educated Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, the authors of the diet book "Fit For Life", a number one best seller back in 1985.

I recently read two guidelines that are easy to remember:

1. if it has a label, don't eat it
2. Eat stuff that can rot, but before it does

Thinking makes you smarter.

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A friend has been on raw food for about a year. It's pure vegan, and it's expensive as hell. He has pricey kitchen gadgets, and drives far for supplies.

After a doctor wanted him to go on acid reflux drugs for the rest of his life, he found raw food. He immediately dropped 20 pounds, feels great, and no longer need medication of any kind.

Many pro athletes are starting to use this diet, to maintain athletic performance, especially in the later years of their careers.

It takes money, and and a lot of discipline to do it, as eating out anywhere is exclusively salads, without any animal products.

The raw chocolate is a treat though. Imagine, a chocolate treat you can eat as much as you want.

like tomatoes, which release more lycopene when cooked and broccoli which releases more antioxidants when cooked (though the effect is reversed if broccoli is overcooked). Meats and fish cause cancer by produce hetrocyclic amines and AGE's when cooked at high temperature in a manner that toasts or burns them or causes sugar and protein to bind (glycation). So to prevent that, you can boil, steam, or slow cook at very low temperature.

Watch out though, government sprays chemtrails on vegetables which allow mind control when consumed. (Just had to add that in to keep it on topic).

I've been taking this for 4 1/2 years and have not been sick,not even a common cold...Barley grass juice is a high alkaline level base product,so it will balance out your PH. in your body if it's low.

Also it's has Antioxidants which inhibit the chemical process called free radical formation,which damages cells....Our unnatural way of life and man-made pollution cause disturbance to the human body,for example,the large scale production of "free radicals."...These chaotically-reacting molecules contribte to many diseases (from cancer to heart attacks) and are thought to be responsible for many premature aging processes.

Free radicals oxidize our cells so that they practically rust, making normal metabolism impossible...If the destructive ravages of the free radicals are not stopped,they can weaken the whole body untill illness and premature death results.

The juice from young barley leaves contains a multitude of vitamins and minerals:30 times as much vitamin B-1 as in milk, 6.5 times as much carotene as in spinach, 11 times the calcium in cow's milk, nearly 5 times the iron in spinach, nearly 7 times the vitaminC in oranges, and 80 micrograms of vitamin B-12 per 100 grams of dried barley plant juice...Barley juice contains 15 times as much protein as an equivalant amount of milk, and when compared to wheat,barley juice contains 5 times as much protein,25 times as much calcium,4 times the vitamin B-1, -100 times the vitamin C, 20 times the vitamin E and 26 times as much potassium as in wheat, (Let's live , 9/82 and New York Speech,pg.7)

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"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."

What's wrong with it?

Be really careful about this. Raw food is better for you, in that you get proteins unadulterated by heat...but there are some scary ramifications.

Basically...if you've grown up eating cooked foods, you have a limited ability to consume bacteria. People grown up on raw food have natural immunities to foodborne bacteria.

Case in point...Mexicans drink the water every day...I drank the water there once...without being really gross...it was a long flight home.

Better to educate yourself as to how to ease into raw food...start with active culture yogurt, raw milk (if it's even legal to buy where you live) and then you can work your way to meats.

Careful of raw food that is home-canned...please. Chlorstridium Botulinum (botulism) will kill you.