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17 years ago
Bryan
2341. Re: Sample Day of Food
Speaking of too much sugar:
When one overeats carbohydrates, what happens is the body converts the excess carbohydrates into fat, which can lead to obesity.
When one overeats fiber, one starts to experience weight loss, because there are not enough usable calories consumed. There can also me malnutrition, because there are not enough vitamins and minerals consumed.
When one overeats fat
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2342. Re: Sample Day of Food
djatchi,
I eat a lot of bananas. While they are not my favorite fruit, they are the cheapest source of organic fresh whole ripe fruits. The more bananas I eat, the lower my food bill is, since I'm paying $1 a pound versus $2 to $5 a pound for that food.
How do you know that bananas have too much sugar? Is this from your own personal experience of eating bananas for years like I have? Or are
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2343. Re: Storage Ideas
I have a set of 3 hanging baskets, that I keep small fruit, stone fruits in. I converted a pot/pan rack into a rack to hang bananas from, since I will buy 20 to 40 pounds of bananas at a time.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2344. Re: Fruit Flies!!!
What causes fruit flies is fruit that is overripe that is either rotting or has breaks in the skin/flesh. Also, any compost that is left unsealed is an excellent breeding ground for fruit flies. To control fruit flies, I do the following:
I keep all my compost in a 5 gallon sealed bucket, the kind you get at the hardware store. The fruit flies are unable to get to the compost unless they are l
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2345. Re: Sample Day of Food
My late summer meals have been looking as follow:
noon: 4-5 pounds watermelon
6pm: 2 banana smoothies - 8-10 bananas, strawberries. After the smoothies digest for a while, I have a salad - 6-8 ribs celery cut with slicer disc in food processor, 2-3 tomatoes, 6 tomatillos, bell pepper, cilantro
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
This is definitely a vegan forum! Non-vegans are welcome to participate in the discussions, but promoting non-vegan foods is grounds for losing your account.
I was not a veg*n when I went raw, nor was I one as I transitioned. That being said, when I posted on this vegan forum, it wasn't hard for me to not push my non-vegan foods.
There are very few places where vegan can discuss their food
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2347. Re: Depression help
Perhaps the problem isn't diet, but some feeling that you don't want to feel or experience. Check out this article I wrote on Success on the raw foods diet.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2348. Re: Austin
The Whole Foods in Austin has a raw food deli and juice bar.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Arvydas,
Here are some Glycemic Index and Glycemic Loads of common carbohydrates as compared to sweet fruits (bananas, mangos)
A Glycemic Index of 55 is low
A Glycemic Load of 10 is low
food GI, GL
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rice 86, 37
baked potato 85, 26
wonder bread 71, 10
pasta 64, 27
banana 51, 13
mango 41, 8
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The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Too much of any food, whether it is fruit or lettuce is not good for your health. That being said, there are raw vegans, myself included, who do well with over 80% of our calories coming from fresh fruit.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Arvydas, I've sit and watched deer eat for hours. They are opportunitic eaters, and will eat whatever is tasty and available. And when the less tasty stuff is no longer availble, they'll eat the less tasty stuff (like dried grasses).
As for what humans should eat, what kinds of foods are easily obtained with our particular anatomy? If we are in a forest, how hard is it for us to eat a fruit o
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2352. Re: coconut oil query
People seem to have a lot of objection to calling coconut oil "empty calories". By empty, I mean devoid of the other nutrients that were once part of the food. In this case, the coconut is first sqeezed, then put through multiple passes of a centifuge until it is a pure oil. If it pure, what happened to all those other nutrients in the coconut that aren't oil? They have all been discard
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2353. Re: Daily Essentials
Whole fresh ripe raw organic fruits and vegetables are the best foods to eat. Increasing the amount of whole foods, fresh foods, ripe foods, raw foods, organic foods, and fruit and vegetable foods in your diet will give you superior nutrition.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
The body is very good at not throwing away calcium. The reason the recommendations for calcium are so high is partly because of the dairy and meat industry influence on these numbers. Also, on the SAD diet, the body becomes so acidic that the diet actually causes leaching of calcium from the bones to neutralize the acidity. On a healthy raw diet, where protein is lower and hopefully the fat intak
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
fruitlux,
Its great that you recognize that you don't know what to think. However, it sounds like you let your thinking scare you away from a diet that seemed to be working for you. You didn't mention that you had any problems on your raw diet, just that the stories that you heard scared you.
One of the lessons I've learned on my raw journey is to trust my own experience over the recommenda
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2356. Re: Raw Culinary Schools
I was at the Vibrant Living Expo at Living Light this year. It is quite an exceptional facility. They have definitely raise the quality bar in the raw education field. Also, the list of graduates who have gone on to raw chef fame is quite impressive, including Roxanne of the famed raw restaurant of the same name.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Hybridization is a natural process, and it in fact hard for farmers to avoid. Just the other day I bought a Baby Crimson watermelon whose flesh was like a Navaho melon. I suspect that the Baby crimson, which normally has a dark red fresh and small crunchy black seed, was pollenated with a Navaho, which has pink fresh and chewy large light brown seeds. The farmer grew both Baby Crimsons and Navaho
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2358. Re: Baked Sweet Goods
Most baked sweet foods contain a lot of fat. Its is the combination of fat and starch that presents a harder to digest combination.
Also, grains contain opioids. This is what makes wheat so addictive. These opioids also sedate the body, so people often feel calmer and more grounded after eating wheat. This is also what makes grains addictive, as opioids are addictive.
What helped me in get
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2359. Re: Stomach Aches...
There are two reasons why watermelon may hurt your stomach, and each one has a different symptoms. If when you eat watermelon, you get gas or diarreah, this is because there is some food still in you stomach from a previous meal, and the watermelon starts to ferment because it can't get past the previous food, which is still digesting.
The 2nd symptom is just plain stomach pain or body chills,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
The amount of hype about B12 out there is amazing given how few people die from B12 deficiencies. Pernicious anemia is the disease one gets when one has B12 deficiency. This is one of several anemias, including Hemolytic anemia, Idiopathic aplastic anemia, Immune hemolytic anemia, Megaloblastic anemia, Secondary aplastic anemia, Sickle cell anemia.
In 2004, ALL anemia deaths in the US came to
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
When the body is detoxing, and you reintroduce the toxin, the body does feel better.
The raw vegan diet does present its challenge of detox, and when people experience the symptoms of detox - which could be cold/flu like symptoms, or could simply be weakness or fatigue, they get frightened into returning to their old ways, and guess what - the symptoms disappear.
I've experienced the weakn
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2362. Re: Apple Cider Vinegar
runnerchom,
Braggs ACV has acetic acid, based on the link that rooneyandmuldoon gave in his earier post above. Its concentration of acetic acid is no different that commercial white vinegar. From the Braggs website:
Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar
pH = 3.075
Concentration/Strength = 63 grain
Acetic Acid = 5.14 %
Potassium = 24mg/Tbsp. <2% DRV / RDI
By the way, perhaps there is more addi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Kathleen,
QuoteMy point is that one can't make a hard and fast rule concerning how the body heals itself. "Getting out of the body's way" sometimes requires not eating and sometimes it requires eating; sometimes it requires rest and sometimes it requires exercise and so on.
I agree with you on this point. My body tells me it wants. What makes it difficult for me to hear my body's
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Raw vegan foods provide us with fuel and nutrients. It is the body that heals itself. I don't know if people are familiar with fasting, abstaining from all foods and getting total physiological rest, but when we fast, and there is no food being comsumed, this is when the body is able to perform its greatest healing. If raw vegan foods were necessary for the body to heal itself, then with the abse
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2365. Re: Apple Cider Vinegar
Marcos,
While I think you a great person and your presence is a blessing here on the board, I'm not sure I would listen to your health advice, especially when it comes to diet, as your diet and lifestyle has led you to suffer from parasites. I know a lot of people eating mostly fruits and greens, and none of them have parasites and need cleanse like you seem to need. I have swum in waters that
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
What were the ingredients in the recipe you made, and how much of it did you eat? I ask, because there are different things you can do that might help but it does depend on what was eaten (or overeaten).
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2367. Re: Protein
Nedsin,
I've heard that athletes training for the Olympics will sleep in excess of 12 hours during their training. Members of the Kenyan running team will sleep in excess of 20 hours during their training. I've heard that some people who were unable to gain muscle on the raw diet (who where training very hard), increased their bodyweight simply by adding 3 extra hours of sleep each night. It i
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2368. Re: Protein
Denis,
Concerning the inability to gain muscle on the raw diet, how many hours a night do you sleep?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
John,
Thank you for this excellent research. Especially for pointing out that agave is not even raw, as many people think it is (as did I).
I was at a raw food prep class at this years Vibrant Living Expo, and the chef was making a raw chocolate mousse. This mouse was made from agave syrup, soaked dates, avocado, celtic sea salt, and raw chocolate. One person in the audience asked the chef
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
One doesn't lose muscle on the raw diet, nor does one gain muscle. Muscular people whose muscles appear to shrink on the raw diet didn't lose muscle, but lost water and fat that was marbled in with the muscle. A typical bodybuilder has such a high fat unhealthy diet that their muscles contain a lot of fat.
Even when fasting and drinking only water, the body will first consume all the fat on th
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