kozmotm

I saw a few movies about raw food and I decided to eat only raw food in max 6 months.

NavySeals91

I was Raw Veggie for about 3 months from January to March with cooked eggs for protein. I did, kale shakes, green drinks, etc. I noticed a difference. I left my raw ways with veggie ways until June with green drinks, then I went vegan from July to December of this year. After my one year mark, and yesterday actually after long thought I reincorporated meat into my diet.

Of course it's grass fed hormone/antibiotic free beef and antibiotic free chicken/pork and humanely treated.

I will see how much I thrive, and while it is possible to live veggie or raw, it is consuming to get all the right macronutrients.


BEWARE OF MARKETERS WHO SELL THESE CLAIMS THAT RAW FOODS IS THE END ALL OF EVERYTHING. BEWARE. LOOK INTO THE SCIENCE. TRY IT OUT, BUT BE YOUR OWN JUDGE. DO YOUR OWN THINKING.

I highly advise against frutarian because of the constant insulin elevation...insulin resistance and type 2 will surely follow after prolonged eating habbits this way.

Balance is key.

Lower carb, about 150-200g a day from veggies, nuts, seeds, and some rice-whole grains if you must or feel it. (Gluten is meh) and higher in the fats and protein department. A Macronutrient ratio equalling 40 30 30 or 35 35 30 or 35 30 35 Protein Carbs Fats respectively will produce optimal health. (balance)

No sugar/starch/refined sugars/processed foods and health will sure follow

Cron-o-Meter is open source software you guys can get for PC or MAC which has access to the USDA database of food and measure macro, micro intake, minerals, vitamins, aminos, and lipids. Plus it can create charts for your nutrition over a certain period of time. It is a useful tool and invaluable if you want to monitor your health.

My general macro intake is 170g protein 200g carbs and 100 g fats (even when vegan) I am an athlete, so these levels are adjusted accordingly and I am also 235

Uneccesary insulin spikes lead to premature aging and chronic disease, control insulin and life span and quality will improve.


For anyone who decides to jump into raw, research it well before hand. Know your macro/micro levels you need to attain and if you experience side effects which worsen your health adjust something..."detoxes" can happen, but most experience malnutrition. If it lasts a couple days then your fine its a detox, but detoxes don't happen over weeks.

DON'T do the mastercleanse! DON'T bad health will follow! If you do it, do it for 1 or 2 days, not 7 or longer
3 days most and don't do it again for another month and a half. Make sure when you break the fast you eat more, a lot more, think 2x your BMR, your body will be starving for nutrition.

To each there own, you gotta be tough on this diet, you will catch a lot of crap from friends. Do it right, know what you are getting in to. Think about humanely treated hormone/antibiotic free natural diet meat for morals and health. It doesn't have to be much, some flesh once in a while, once or twice a week.

Avocados are a must if you are vegan as so are Almonds.

Seitan is pure gluten, try not to indulge on it. Fake meats r worse than anything. Loaded with sodium, far from natural.


Lean Meat(protein), vegetables, nuts/seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar. Health in a sentence. Balance.


Beyond Vegetarianism--Raw Food, Vegan, Fruitarian, Paleo Diets for some info that can help you structure your diet and learn about how we were designed to eat (and chimps too who do eat flesh when available)

keyaziz

Low fat raw vegan here. I follow Doug Graham's 80/10/10 diet. Been interested in it for 2 years, took me about a year to fully transition. I LOVE it and I get so much more done.

My 2 year old also loves eating his fruits and greens

My boyfriend is half way and has no desire for 100% at the moment. I occasionally may have some baked potatoes but I can't handle anything else anymore and have no desire too.

EDIT: Thought I would add before this I tried the Wai diet and it was ok but I felt something missing. 80/10/10 cleared up my asthma and allergies and has sent my running performance through the roof

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mine1718

Never tried eating raw food (meat) etc, seems gross , yuck =]

wemakeiteasy

We've been vegan for over 6 months now. It's been the BEST thing for our health.

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maksym

Glad to see such great results here...


Again, It is really worthy to try.
Look around, it is normal to try alcohol. Right?
It is normal to try to smoke. Right?
So... what it is not normal to be healthy? To try just for couple
months Raw food lifestyle?

maksym

Hi to all again...
Couple my friends just recommended me to watch a movie - "FOOD Inc."
Which documentary film about today food industry.
I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly advice everybody to have a look on it.
Some video about it here (NO aff. links inside):

Mili_D

maksym

2mili_d
regarding feeling hungrier, I will recommend you to do diagnostic on parasites with your doctor.

Marketstriker

I tried to follow a vegan diet. This experience gave nothing good. Could you, please, explain me what positive changes in my life and health can I get from raw vegan diet?

maksym

Sorry, bro... do research here and in search engine about that.

Loren Woirhaye

Marketstriker, I would suggest you get one or both
books: "Healing With Whole Foods" by Paul Pitchford,
or "Conscious Eating" by Gabriel Cousens.

You can find videos of Cousens talking about diet. He's
an M.D. - You can get on his list at Home Page | treeoflife.nu

People have told me they tried going veg and they didn't
feel any better - and on quizzing I always found they were
eating junk food. Even if you want to eat meat you can
improve the way you feel a lot by getting the processed
foods out of your diet and eating a lot more fresh fruits and
vegetables.

You may have wheat or other grain allergies - so if you tried
to give-up meat and shifted into eating a grain-based diet
(pasta, bread, rice) to replace the calories you were getting
from meat, then you might have replaced one unhealthful
habit for another.

The only real secret to feeling great is to educate yourself
and apply what you've learned.

JaiJay

I honestly don't think that I would be able to keep up with it and I'm shocked that your children do this too happily. I guess though, when thinking about it, if it is all that they ever knew then they would grow up with this being "normal"?

NavySeals91

If you are doing this, supplement B12 AND IRON.

Get B12 and IRON

You NEED B12 AND IRON!


Just thought I'd hammer it in.


I caution you to be wary of the people who sell raw food diets. One guy said he could do 1000 pushups, gabriel cousins in one sitting by being raw. Could be possible, but most likely BS. A lot of people claim these herbal supplements will cure anything, these snake oils. BEWARE!

I'm not dissing it in any way. I did raw for 3 months and vegan for 5 and veg for 4. Green shakes made me feel great, do try and incorporate green shakes into your diet. However, be cautioned to go completely raw. We evolved to eat cooked foods, and some foods are healthier cooked and provide more nutritional benefits. The tomato for instance-cooking it activates the lycopene even more.

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ECS-Links

Great thread.

I'm not a vegan, I eat meat and cooked food but I'm quite attracted to raw food and being in Australia is a huge plus. It is readily available all year round. However I’m very far from being as raw as I’d like, it is quite hard to get to juice or try to come up with a good variety of raw recipes and organic vegetables and fruit are too expensive as well. I've come across David Wolfe's site and some of his interviews I think his passion is quite engaging...

One big negative for me is being addicted to bread, cheese, vegemite and generally I succumb to my cravings for salty stuff. I’d like to get Yuri Elkaim’s “Eating for Enery” book – has anyone read it?

Chris Faraday

It's the More RAW DIET:
COOK foods barely when you do & use low heat.
Some RAW with Each Meal - work to Mostly RAW
High Water content Veg's & Fruits before meals.
Learn about good oils and going Allergen free (INFLAMMATION)
B12 Sprays under the Toung
Learn about WATER, HYDRATION ALKALINITY - and MINERAL WHAM!!!

If you dont... OVER-TIME WHAM!!!!

Lose the BRands & Boxes - Bottles over cans - meet the FARMERS

: )

this is the diet for the next 50 years - GOOD LUCK All

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MEAT - eh
Fish - better (low heat - slow heat)
Olive oil + hot skillet = Trans-FAT
Real clean fish -
Egg yolks raw - or low heat

More greens folks

Disclosure: No one size fits all - but hope you will consider the above guidlines

Seeds - soaked if you can

Nuts - eh - many issues for people - not that clean & hard to digest

Quick Ideas Here - Hope you will consider

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The Dotcom Hippie

I'm about 75% raw vegan right now. I go up to 100% from time to time. I'll never eat mostly cooked foods again - I was walking around feeling like **** for years without even knowing it. How you feel eating like this is incredible.

maddiet

I am not 100% a raw vegan but I became a vegetarian four years ago and it was one of my best decisions.

If you haven't been eating dairy for a year or so you should test your B12 levels because you can't get it from plants. I take B12 suplements every month because it's esential for your brain.

I am really curios if your decisions have religious motivations also?

Thank you

Wayne Cochrane

B12? Where do the elephants and the giraffes and the rhinoceroses and the hippotamuses and the buffalo and the camels and the horses and the cattle and all the other biggest (land) animals in the world get their B12?

I don't believe the misinformation put out by the animal food industry.
B12 is found in small amounts in fruit, vegetables and mushrooms and fermented foods.

Wayne Cochrane

Still feeling hungry? Then eat more! Your body is telling you you need more food. If you are eating good low-fat raw vegan food you will not put on excess weight from eating more. My companion and I eat masses of food and do not put on excesss weight even though she was overweight before she changed to raw vegan.

Wayne Cochrane

"One big negative for me is being addicted to bread, cheese, vegemite and generally I succumb to my cravings for salty stuff. "

Please don't make the mistake of lumping "salty stuff" in with bread, cheese and vegemite. Bread and cheese are poisonous. You are craving salty stuff for the simple reason that your body needs salt. Natural salt is required by evry system in the body from the nervous system to the blood, the kidneys etc. When I used to work in a natural health clinic in Sydney 90% of the people who came for help were suffering from severe salt deficiency due to believing the anti-salt proganda and misinformation put out by the medical industry. (To create their continuity market. Who are their customers? Sick People. They need us to be sick. I refuse to co-operate with them. I have not been to a doctor for illness for 36 years. And I haven't taken ANY kind of drug or medication for 36 years.)

The healthy way to satisfy your salt cravings and improve your health is to use natural salt in your diet. Himalayan Salt is the best and is readily available in Australia now. next best is good quality natural unprocessed Australian sea salt (not Celtic!)

Good luck!

Wayne.

tk226

Very informative post, honestly I'm not a Vegan. But trying to strike a healthy balance in dietary habits.

Wayne Cochrane

Yes I am raw vegan.

I stopped eating meat 34 years ago.
I stopped eating seafood about 25 years ago.
I stopped eating dairy foods (became vegan) about 20 years ago.
I have been eating almost 100% raw vegan now for about 3 years.

I only wish I had become raw vegan in the beginning 34 years ago!

Wayne.

Zabrina

I'm interested in working my way towards a raw vegan diet. I tried a vegetarian diet for about a month in February-March and really liked it, since I'm concerned about the meat industry and feel guilty eating meat when I know about it what I do!

My only concerns are ease of preparation, nutrition, and money. I'm going to be starting to cook for myself starting either this September in a fairly isolated area of Canada or next September in Japan.

Either way, my food budget is limited (think $100-$200/month) and I need to ensure I get the right balance of nutrients within that budget, since I'm a rather small individual who doesn't tend to eat much at the best of times and I struggle with getting enough iron. Plus, I'll have limited food prep time between full-time school and full-time work.

But I'm doing advance research now in case my plan for September works out so I can start off on the right foot. Any more pearls of wisdom people have are much appreciated.

nelsonbiglar

I wouldn't say that I'm vegan, yet! I have really changed my eating habits in the last year, green drink (naka - vital greens) in the morning, 4000 international units of vitamin e a day, calcium suppliments, and good all around vitamin supplements. 70%raw green foods/30% low fat split in my meals. I try 5-6 meals a day. I zig for 6 days and take a zag day to eat whatever I want.

Its up to us all to take care of ourselves and not hope for a magic bullet when we get older or get sick.

I have been following the acid/alkaline approach which I got the first bit of info through some of Tony Robbins info which led me to Dr Robert Young and his approach to eating and health. Bacteria and all the bad stuff in us can't live in an alkaline state. So the more acidic our bodies are the more we may get sick. Its really been a great experience to learn this and follow through on it.

I must say that there are times when this whole process becomes difficult but in the long run its make all the sense in the world.

Take care everyone... eat like you know you should and leave the pills with the doctors.

Mitch

xiaophil

Thanks everyone for their insights into their diets.

This thread has inspired me to do a 30 day trial.

Could someone please tell me the best way to get started?

I have access to a variety of raw foods but no idea of recipes and would prefer something as simple as possible - there's no time for gourmet preparations.

Perhaps you could share your favorite staple recipes?

Thanks again,

Phil.

EDIT: OK I get it now - raw food.

Here's my favorite recipe so far:

1) Chop it up (optional)

2) Mix it together (optional)

Works Great!

Alvina Torres

I'm hugely into raw food...playing with the idea of going vegan. I actually maintain a blog and column about raw food and just started a book. I was 100% for a while but slowly items like coffee which I absolutely love came back into my diet.

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CrocGena

I'm all for raw vegan foods too, but my wife cooks too good and I don't want to disappoint her

Well when i'm at work, I only eat raw foods.

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Thanks!
I am trying to stick to a vegetarian/vegan diet for myself and my son (3,5 years old) and I am fighting the same battles with my parents! -- "what!! the child must have meat!!" It's great to know that someone is winning!

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rajhu

Hi Folks,

I just saw this discussion while searching for something else so I figured I'd chime in.

I've been 100% Raw Vegan since 2001 and have been partially raw since 1996.

The most incredible thing is that my 6.5 years of depression went away in just one day of eating about 50% of my diet as raw fruits and vegetables.

Of course, the more I ate raw the better I felt and feel. And it's fantastic in it's anti-aging effects.

These days I teach people easy ways to beat cooked food addiction.

If you're interested I provide a lot of free information in the form of audios on one of my websites:

http://HowToGoRaw.com/audios.htm

And you may want to check out my top secret for beating cooked food cravings:

http://SavoryVeggieStews.com

Savory Veggie Stews are so easy to prepare a baby can do it. For a cool treat check out the video of our son Andrew (at 2.5 years old) making dinner for us ala Savory Veggie Stews style. It's all the way at the bottom of the page of the Savory Veggie Stews site linked to above.

Andrew our son has been 100% raw his whole life and is doing amazingly well. Our whole family eats 100% raw we don't have any desire to go back to poisoning ourselves with cooked food because what we eat every day simply tastes amazing and yet it has all of these incredible health and personal growth advantages.

Cheers,

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pube12

Very interesting. Steve Pavlina online is a great resource for blogging about being a vegan. Check it out..

Kaitlyn Aliano

My eyes literally lit up when I spotted this post! I have been raw vegan on and off since 2007, but have been close to 100% for the past few months and am actually leaving to WWOOF (see WWOOF.ORG), volunteer on an organic farm, July 1st!

Kaitlyn Aliano

ROGER! You post on WF? Wow, who knew?

rajhu

Hi Kaitlyn,

Yes I've been a member here for many years. I think this is actually my second forum membership.

Love the Warrior Forum and Allen Says.

Be Raw, Be Healthy, Be Happy,

Roger Haeske

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RobynRed

Oh what a wise bunch in this thread

Been raw vegan for a few months now after reading the 80 10 10 book by Doug Graham (recommended reading if you haven't already) ... love him

I also frequent the 30 bananas a day forum (highly recommended) to help keep me on track!

Wayne Cochrane

Hello Robyn.

I am also a member of 30 Bananas A Day. (Although a very quiet member.)

Please be careful of the anti-salt misinformation put out by Doug Graham and his followers.
They, like almost everyone else in this society have been brainwashed by the medical industry (whose [recurring income/continuity] market is sick people ).

Most (like about 90%) people in Western societies (including many raw fooders and raw food "gurus") are suffering from SEVERE salt and mineral deficiencies.

Natural sea salt or Himalayan salt is vital for most peoples' health.

Anyway, good luck with it and take care!

Wayne.

RobynRed

Hey Wayne

Thanks for the reply. Doug doesn't state we don't need sodium, rather we don't need the artificial "table salt".

I get naturally occuring sodium from foods such as celery, passion fruit, tender young greens etc

markament

Yes I've been raw vegan (95%) for the past 10 years. I offer courses and retreats from my home in Bali.

There is so much to say about this topic and my personal story with it. If you'd like links to my information based sites please just PM me.

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Gary Pettit

I have to say, Vegan is not for me.
I'm a meat-and-potatoes man, for sure. But I find my energy both in the exercise I do everyday, and moderation with which I approach everything.
But I must also say, the vegans don't have any worry about the massive egg recall!

naruq

I eat Fresh fruits and vegetables daily. I also take nutritional supplements and drink Freshly squeezed fruits and vegetables. I do eat certain meats on occassion.

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Yes!

I have been vegan for 50 years, since 1960
Healed myself of asthma and allergies

Went raw in 1970 after living in Ecuador

Now own about 15 companies dedicated to the mission
And many books

Including The Idiots Guide to Eating Raw

For real, it is the only way to world peace, harmony and self empowerment and I have coached over 1000 CEO's, business leaders and social activists on this path. This is one of my ways of giving back because of the abundance I have experienced.

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daj

Use to be a raw foodist for 2 years. Now I mostly eat animal fat, bone marrow, and meats. I also find local berries in the wild to eat at times (during the summer/fall months). Most fruit these days in grocery stores (including Whole Foods) are all hybrids and are as far away from their natural origins as possible.

Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/v/I_fta0-93Ms
Daniel Vitalis is a well of informaton! One of the only down-to-earth raw "animal" foodists out there, IMO.

Many raw foodists are eating foods from tropical locations so far away from where they live. Talk about not being eco-friendly! I think people should adopt a local diet based on their current location. There's food you can forage everywhere, yes even in the desert!

Of course you'll recieve benefits at first when you change your diet from processed foods to raw fruits, greens, and veggies, but slowly your health will decline and you'll become a shell of yourself if you continue in that direction. Many fruitarians have so many cavities their teeth look wretched. Many of the popular raw foodists have dealt with cavities due to their high fruit consumption, and many have changed to a mix of a raw food and animal diet after they realized how veggies and fruits won't give them everything they need and that sugar buzz just leaves them to crash and burn. Our ancester's all shares the same bond of being hunter-gatherers, they didn't just eat fruits and veggies. I think everyone needs to learn to hunt and forage for their own food if you really want to bond with nature.

Loren Woirhaye

I was sent this interesting book to review:

"Green For Life"

It's not that well-written but the thesis is powerful, that
we might do well to look at the chimpanzee diet and base
a vegan/raw diet around what the chimps eat.

The author was raw vegan for a long time, and her husband
and kids too, but they found the diet wasn't working as
well for them after awhile.

Many raw food people, vegans and vegetarians may be eating
too much starch (bananas, potatoes), starchy hybrids (corn,
wheat) and not enough plain, bitter greens. Chimps don't
eat a lot of tubers (taters) but they do mostly eat greens and,
when they find them, fruit. They don't eat a lot of nuts -
many raw food people eat too many nuts, which have protein
but are hard to digest.

The vitamin content in beet greens, for example, is off the charts -
but almost nobody eats them. Beet roots are sugary and starchy,
but the greens have neither of those drawbacks, plus more
protein than the roots.

Look into it - start blending up whole greens and see how you
feel. Trust, but verify.

daj

From RawFamily.com (Book Author of "Green For Life"):

"The fresh ripe fruits dominate the flavor of the greens and the absence of any fats maximize the absorption of the nutrients." - about green fruit smoothies...

Considering Vitamin A, D, E, and K are FAT-soluble vitamins which many leafy greens have a lot of, how does the absence of fat maximize absorption of these nutrients when these vitamins are stored by the body and dissolve in fat? only Vitamin C and B vitamins are WATER-soluble and they quicly leave the body if you don't need them.

BTW, Humans lack the enzymes necessary to digest cellulose. Leafy greens work well as a fiber in humans. They act like a broom for your digestive system to clean you out. But... most of the nutritional value of these plants don't get digested due to the cellulose wall.

rajhu

Actually there are fats in virtually all "whole" raw foods including fruits.

Leafy greens tend to be fairly high in fat compared to fruit.

For instance spinach is 14% of it's calories from fat. Romaine 15%, celery 10%, lambsquarter is 16% and Boston lettuce is 14% fat.

In any case, a raw food diet still has plenty of fat in it. And some raw foodistst unfortunately eat way more fat than the average person on a Standard American Diet.

Personally I like to keep it at 15% of calories or less from fat and that is more than enough.

Been 100% raw for over 9 years and doing fantastic.

Cheers,

Roger Haeske
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Loren Woirhaye

That's true. That's why we have to chew raw greens to a liquid to
break the cell walls and get the nutrients. That's a lot of chewing
and hard on the teeth. That's why most people in this mode of
diet have turned to high-powered blenders like the Vita-Mix to
masticate the cell walls and make the green nutrition available
without all the time and energy investment chewing requires, not
to mention the tooth wear.

Jeff Noel

I've seen it mention time and time again. "It's to expensive."

It is more expensive being sick.

Food for thought no pun intended.

nucleus

I did for six months years ago. Here is the thing, many people get excellent results in the short run because most people have too much internal heat, and vegan diets are very cooling, too cooling for long term use for most people.

You know what I call vegans and vegetarians? Sick people. All the long term vegans I know have crappy skin and brittle, dull hair. Short term, six months, a year, no problem; longer than that is getting on thin ice.

Keep in mind that there is not one single native culture that is vegetarian, much less vegan. So if you are doing this long term you are experimenting with your health, there is no long-term successful history of such an extreme diet.

That said everyone is different, and you do what is best for you. The chinese regard a vegetarian diet as very unhealthful.

Vegetarians have delayed cancer and heart disease but accelerated neurodegenerative and auto-immune diseases.

Best wishes,

Dr. Hans

TommyG

Wow!! I'm really surprised to see this thread here. I have been a vegetarian for 15 years and in the last year went to 75% raw food. I feel absolutely great!!

One thing I see some people chiming in about is that vegans or vegetarians are unhealthy, it's not true if they are removing processed foods and sugars from their diets. Many people become vegetarians for health reasons and cut out the meat but still eat processed foods, sugary foods and this is what is making people unhealthy.

Dr. Dan mentioned Dr. Robert Young and I agree. He is amazing. Medical doctors say you can't reverse type 1 diabetes but Dr. Young has. He also helped Kris Carr, author of Crazy, Sexy Cancer, to reverse her "rare, aggressive incurable cancer with a 100% fatality rate" and she did it with a raw diet.

Dr. Young and his wife are meeting with President Obama and Michelle this weekend to discuss his amazing results helping children reverse diabetes. The raw diet works and works great but if you are going to continue to eat acidic foods that cause cancer and diabetes (soda, meat, processed foods, artificial sweeteners, sugary foods, etc) then you will not feel better.

Love the idea of seeing some many vegans and raw fooders here on the WF!!