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17 years ago
Bryan
RawGuy2000,
You and have have both been raw about the same amount of time, yet our respective health is vastly different. While a cleanse or a cure might offer temporary relief, things won't change until you remove the lifestyle habits that caused your health to fail.
Eating fruit with their natural sugars in them is not the cause of fungus. Fungus grows on the body for two reason - 1) ther
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
A low fat raw vegan diet will prevent cancer. The study involved used people who were eating cooked low fat meals. Also, it didn't say how low the diet was. It could be that they considered 30% low fat (since it is 12% lower than the American average). 30% fat is not that low. Low might be 5% fat.
A truly low fat cooked vegan diet (10% or less) will go a long way to preventing cancer. This me
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2493. Re: Fats
yogamama,
We don't need concentrated fats on the raw diet. This is because most fruits and vegetables have some amount of fat in them. Most fruits and leafy greens have a perfect balance of the essential fatty acids.
Having a diet with over 20% of its calories coming from fat is a high fat diet. The Standard American Diet is 42% fat. Some transitional raw diets are as high as 60% or more.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Marcos,
My personal experience does not match the advice of your nutritionists & colonic experts. How long have these folks been 100% raw? I have been 100% raw vegan for over 4.5 years now. I am in excellent health and I feel great. What about these so called experts? Are they in excellent health and feel great?
If someone doesn't feel great on a 100% raw food diet, I would take a look
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2495. Re: Sample Day of Food
Yesterday my first meal was at 1pm after doing physical labor all morning. I ate 1/2 of a medium red seeded watermelon, probably about 7 pounds worth. I had a snack after working and before dinner, where I shared a frozen durian with a friend. For dinner at 7pm I ate 3 banana smoothies. The first smoothie was 2 vanilla beans and 4 bananas. The 2nd & 3rd smoothies had 2 bananas each, some fr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
I disagree that "Colonics and Enemas should be part of a healthy diet regime for everyone". If one has a healthy raw diet, colonics are totally unnecessary. If someone on the raw diet feels they are necessary, they ought to examine their diet and remove those elements that make colonics necessary for them.
Colonics remove the natural flora from the colon. This is not healthy. Some pe
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Cacao can be fun but it doesn't feel healthy to me. Each time I'v tried it I have a runny nose the next day. I felt good when I ate the cacao, but I'm not sure it worth the detox symptoms.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2499. Re: sagging skin
I've lost a significant amount of weight over the years. At the beginning I had some sagging skin around my belly, but my body reabsorbed it. Once on a water fast my weight went really low. As my weight went down, my body actually absorbed/digested all the extra skin.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
It is important to let go of the control, the obsessiveness and the compulsion. This is easy to say but hard to practice as it requires a high level of consciousness and commitment and patience. Excessive control can lead to excessive backlashes. Its better to go slow and steady. The beginning of any kind of healing requires observation.
Here are some things you can do for now.
Eat a lot of
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
A complete raw foods diet doesn't suit everyone as there have been people who have tried it and then decided it wasn't for them.
There are others who heard of it but didn't even try it, because of cultural biases or personal preferences that prevented them from having an experience of a all raw foods diet.
As for body types or genetic influences that can prevent a person from thriving on an
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Ally,
I do eat nuts and seeds. I just limit the quantity to a small amount, and not every day. I prefer seeds over nuts, and nowadays I consume hemp seeds and sesame seeds.
I've noticed that when I do eat a significant amount of fat in a meal, I feel slow and groggy afterwards, and even the next morning. Also, sometime after a fat meal I have a desire for something sweet. I feel much better
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Narz,
Look at that guy who make the Supersize me movie. When he ate only at MacDonalds, he started getting super sick. We don't have any examples of people living only on cooked hamburger patties. The human body is amazing in how it can adapt to all kinds of input. But even in the SAD world, how many of those people will thrive on a monodiet of cooked hamburger patties? I have to wonder if a p
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
No, I get the marjority of my protein from fruit. If I eat 1500 calories in a day, maybe 1300 to 1400 of those calories are coming from fruit. Only 100 calories is coming from greens for me. Since the bulk of my calories come from fruit, the bulk of my protein comes from that same fruit.
By the way, when I am determining how much food to eat, I don't calculate grams of protein or grams or carb
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
kohlrabi_Croce,
Of the calories I get from lettuce, a reasonable percentage is from protein. Even fruit has 3% to 5% protein. I don't care about grams, but about percentages of calories consumed. The percentage of weight that you are mentioning is meaningless to me, as all of raw foods is high in water weight. The reason cooked vegetables have a higher percentage of protein by weight is becaus
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Ok. I went to fitday, and entered in 1 cup of romaine lettuce. It said it was 59% protein, 24% carb, and 16% fat.
Going to nutritiondata.com, romaine is 67% carb, 15% fat, and 18% protein.
Going to nutridiary.com, romaine is 63% carb, 13% fat, and 24% protein.
I think I know what is going on.
The carb calories contain the fiber calories on nutritiondata and nutridiary. The carbs are
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
The sugar that causes premature aging is refined sugar. This a not what is found in fruit, which is frutose combined with soluble fibers and a lot of water.
I eat mostly fruit and most people are amazed when I tell them my age.
Bananas are a wonderful source of carbohydrates. I don't eat them when they are starchy, that is the skin is pure yellow. I wait until the skins are soft, pliable,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2508. Re: watermellon frenzy
When I eat watermelon I get totally blissed out. I wonder if there is some major amount of tryptophan in watermelon.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
If you are eating fruits and getting hungry, eat more fruit. It takes some practice to eat enough fruits to satisfy your caloric needs, and fruit contain a lot of water. With practice it is possible to eat large fruit meals that satisfy. But when first starting, it make take a bunch of smaller meals.
Veggies don't have that many calories. What a lot of raw foodists do is to add fats to their v
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
I like the gradual approach. Maybe start with breakfast, eating only fruit. Over time, make some of your lunch be fruit or salad. For snacks, replace the snacks with fruit.
As you take each step of increasing the raw intake, give your body some time to adjust. Also with fruit, it helps to eat the same kind of fruit in a meal. So instead of eating a banana, orange, and apple, just eat 3 banana
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
A few years ago, I ate an entire 21 pound watermelon in a single day
Nowadays I am unable to eat that quantity of watermelon.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
When Tom Billings (the author of BV) was a raw foodist, he was a fanatic raw foodist. Now that he is a cooked omni, he hasn't lost any of his fanaticism.
Here is a link that explains the faults in the BeyondVeg logic.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Marika,
When the body is in a challenged position when it comes to healing, say like in your examples where cuts don't heal, they get infected, etc, the best thing you can do is to provide the conditions of healing and health so that the body give all of its energy to healing.
This means cut out things that drain your energy, and do things that give your body more energy.
So what gives y
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2514. Re: Recommended Reading
Check out Raw Secrets by Frederic Patenaude. Also Perfect Body by Roe Gallo.
Here is a great FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about raw foods.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
The easiest meals to digest are those that have only one item, say like a fruit mono-meal. This might mean eating for lunch 4 pounds of watermelon, or a honeydew melon, or 6 oranges.
For most people on the SAD diet, they don't need to worry about food combining because the spices and condiments (salt, pepper, garlic, onions, vinegar, etc) cause food to be rushed through the digestive system (b
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
If English used the pronounciation used by other European languages, it would seem that it ought to be spelled "vigan".
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
kohlrabi_Croce,
I go to fitday, and enter in my favorite kind of lettuce (romaine/cos), and it tells me that it is 16% fat, 24% carbs, and 59% protein.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
Every cell in the body requires glucose or fructose as fuel. It is much easier for the body to convert fructose to glucose than it is to convert fats or proteins into glucose. The conversion of fats into glucose taxes the body and has some toxic byproducts that the body needs to eliminate.
Also, excess fats in the blood stream prevent insulin from carrying sugar from the blood stream into the
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
2519. Re: Poor w large family
If you have a yard, start a garden. You can grow lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, berries. Plant a fruit tree.
Start a food buying cooperative and buy foods at wholesale prices from produce distributors. My yoga group buys food together, and if we make the $250 minimum, we get the food delivered to the place of our choice. If we make only the $150 minimum, we can pick up the produce at one of the
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Bryan
The crash from eating fruit is probably a result of the high amounts of fat in your diet. You ought to put your daily menu into a nutritional calculator like fitday or nutridiary to see what the breakdown of carbs, protein, and fat is in your diet. A fat intake of 30% or more is a high fat diet.
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