Raw food diet

**Jeanna** · 05-16-2008, 10:39 AM

Does anyone do a raw food diet? I have been looking into it and think I want to try. It will be a big change for me for I am a born and breed southern country girl. I was raised to believe that if there wasn't meat on the table then the meal wasn't done. I have noticed my taste buds changing and craving more fruits and vegetables so maybe I will like it. Then other problem I have is I will still have to cook for the rest of the family. It will be tempting.

**Cymbaline** · 05-16-2008, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jeanna

Does anyone do a raw food diet? I have been looking into it and think I want to try. It will be a big change for me for I am a born and breed southern country girl. I was raised to believe that if there wasn't meat on the table then the meal wasn't done. I have noticed my taste buds changing and craving more fruits and vegetables so maybe I will like it. Then other problem I have is I will still have to cook for the rest of the family. It will be tempting.

Dumb question and I don't know anything about it but since it's called "raw food" and not "vegan" foods does the raw food diet allow you to eat sashimi ?

**ShawnaRae** · 05-16-2008, 11:07 AM

I hope it goes well for you! Once a year I go raw for a month or so. I eat lots of salad, fruit, sprouts, raw soups and seed cheese. It is hard when your family eats differently! But it feels very good, and is so cleansing, that I'm not usually tempted. But then, I only go for 30 days!

**DAAC3DEC** · 05-16-2008, 11:11 AM

I too have done it off and on since being a veg head.........once I make it through the "withdrawls" I feel fantastic.....but daily life isn't condusive to this way of eating, and I have no willpower...........

**Jeanna** · 05-16-2008, 11:13 AM

The diet I am looking into contains no meat. I have heard of raw food diets which contain raw/uncooked meat. That would not be a temptation for me though. When I eat meat I have to have it cooked well. I am looking more into the one that you eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and such. Nothing cooked.

**emily_hope** · 05-16-2008, 11:21 AM

Good luck with your goal. I have never tried eating just raw foods. I do enjoy fruits and vegetables though. I think it would be easy for me, but like you say, the hard part it the rest of the family.

**cab54** · 05-16-2008, 11:52 AM

FV member COUNTRYBUMPKIN has talked about her raw diet here. Maybe she will see this thread.

**COUNTRYBUMPKIN** · 05-16-2008, 11:59 AM

Hi Jenna, I have been eating a mostly raw food diet since October of last year. I do not have time right now to post more of the specifics on this, but when I arrive back home on monday I can post alot more. If you go to www.naturalnews.com and type raw food diet in their search box, alot of great articles will come up! Lynn

**DAAC3DEC** · 05-16-2008, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Jeanna

The diet I am looking into contains no meat. I have heard of raw food diets which contain raw/uncooked meat. That would not be a temptation for me though. When I eat meat I have to have it cooked well. I am looking more into the one that you eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and such. Nothing cooked.

I have heard of that too, eeeewwwwww. I don't know how people don't get sick/parasites from doing that.........

**kaykwilts** · 05-16-2008, 02:39 PM

My SIL is on this diet. She uses the Hallejuaha (spelling?) diet. She has gone to North Carolina and attended seminars on the subject. She has been eating this way for a year. She won't even eat dairy of any kind.

**Jeanna** · 05-17-2008, 08:00 AM

Thanks everyone. I think I am going to start at 50-60% raw and try to work up. Meat is not that hard for me to give up but milk products are. I am not a big cheese eater but I love milk and yogurt. I also like whole wheat bread.

**Frugal Nurse** · 05-17-2008, 08:28 AM

I do the raw food diet.
It doesn't contain meat.
Humans were not meant to carniverous.

I have to tell you. It tastes sooooo much better! really!
I have a dehydrator, a sprouter, a super duty juicer/extractor.

There are lots of books/uncookbooks available. Rainbow Live is one.

I first started my raw way of life after reading The pH Miracle by Robert Young. A bit extreme (as most passionate people are) but the concepts are on target.

Doing this pH transition sort of lead me into the raw diet. Dr. Young's book talks about 80% raw 20% cooked. Which is do-able.

I was beaming health! so, I went all raw.

It is difficult to follow if you work FT like I am doing now.
It requires food preparation like in the old days. You know.. make your own sprouted bread, crackers, pate etc.

Your protein comes from the greens that you juiced, the raw nuts (and only certain nuts.. not peanuts for instance).

The meals are pretty easy to make, once you get used to it- and prepare ahead of time.

Faulty for me, because my family REFUSED to be raw and suddenly REFUSED to even eat salad for that matter. I think I was being sabotaged.

For now... I've had to go back to SAD (Standard American Diet), be fat, be unhealthy, have allergic reactions.... (it's so sad) until I can find the time to prep my meals, dehydrate my food, things like that.

Also... all you carnivores!! It's okay if YOU choose to be meat eaters. I choose not to. And it's okay either way.

**Palooka** · 05-18-2008, 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by Frugal Nurse

I do the raw food diet.
It doesn't contain meat.
Humans were not meant to carniverous.

I have to tell you. It tastes sooooo much better! really!
I have a dehydrator, a sprouter, a super duty juicer/extractor.

There are lots of books/uncookbooks available. Rainbow Live is one.

I first started my raw way of life after reading The pH Miracle by Robert Young. A bit extreme (as most passionate people are) but the concepts are on target.

Doing this pH transition sort of lead me into the raw diet. Dr. Young's book talks about 80% raw 20% cooked. Which is do-able.

I was beaming health! so, I went all raw.

It is difficult to follow if you work FT like I am doing now.
It requires food preparation like in the old days. You know.. make your own sprouted bread, crackers, pate etc.

Your protein comes from the greens that you juiced, the raw nuts (and only certain nuts.. not peanuts for instance).

The meals are pretty easy to make, once you get used to it- and prepare ahead of time.

Faulty for me, because my family REFUSED to be raw and suddenly REFUSED to even eat salad for that matter. I think I was being sabotaged.

For now... I've had to go back to SAD (Standard American Diet), be fat, be unhealthy, have allergic reactions.... (it's so sad) until I can find the time to prep my meals, dehydrate my food, things like that.

Also... all you carnivores!! It's okay if YOU choose to be meat eaters. I choose not to. And it's okay either way.

Technically, humans are omnivores, not carnivores. That means teeth that are capable of eating flesh and veg. carnivores only have teeth to eat meat only and that is not humans. Neither are we herbivores as much as I dream we could be.

Vegetarian talking here. Just didn't want that simple mix up.

The raw diet I think can be way so healthy. Maybe some day I might do it 80%.

**Frugal Nurse** · 05-18-2008, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Palooka

Technically, humans are omnivores, not carnivores. That means teeth that are capable of eating flesh and veg. carnivores only have teeth to eat meat only and that is not humans. Neither are we herbivores as much as I dream we could be.

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That is truly accurate! I didn't see it that way. Thank you!
(bleh! eating flesh! sounds soo.... bleh!).
Yes, our teeth can chew flesh...but did you know that the human digestive system is not designed to digest flesh?

The decomposing flesh sits in our colon.... causing bad stuff to happen.
It won't happen overnight... it's a longterm barrage of build-up.
Carniverous species have short digestive tracts to rid the flesh quickly.
Herbivores have long digestive tracts to absorb all the good nutrients.
Humans have long digestive tracts.

Thats one the meat eaters can't argue.

**Palooka** · 05-18-2008, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Frugal Nurse

That is truly accurate! I didn't see it that way. Thank you!
(bleh! eating flesh! sounds soo.... bleh!).
Yes, our teeth can chew flesh...but did you know that the human digestive system is not designed to digest flesh?

The decomposing flesh sits in our colon.... causing bad stuff to happen.
It won't happen overnight... it's a longterm barrage of build-up.
Carniverous species have short digestive tracts to rid the flesh quickly.
Herbivores have long digestive tracts to absorb all the good nutrients.
Humans have long digestive tracts.

Thats one the meat eaters can't argue.

You know I read that in a book a long time ago. I am pretty sure it was a Dr. McDougall book. Although not raw but vegan. I can't remember if the China Study book covers this or not. It's been awhile since I read it.