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15 years ago
Arkay
1. Re: sea salt
Sodium is essential for cellular functions and life. In nature, animals have been known to travel dozens of miles at regular intervals to "salt licks", just to lick the salt from the ground.
The osmotic "pump" that drives water and many nutrients into and out of cells depends on the balance of sodium and potassium. We NEED both of these elements in sufficient quantities
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Arkay
coco Wrote:
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> eww, why in the world eat something that your
> mouth is telling you is a total no go? taste is
> your first clue as to whether something is going
> to be healthy for you or not and sometimes a crazy
> combo Isn't healthy at all! it taxes the body
> trying to digest it. yuck. listen to your mouth
>
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Arkay
I've made plenty of really HORRIBLE smoothies. When I first got my Vita-Mix, I figured I could just "liquefy my salads", swish and "chew" them well and swallow them down. The theory was that the VitaMix would "chew" them so well that I'd be super-absorbing nutrients that my normal comparatively weak mastication couldn't release.
Well, I discovered that it was T
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Arkay
happyway Wrote:
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> laurieforti
> "Coral is calcium carbonate, CaCO3, and will
> dissolve calcium into the juice and the carbonate
> will
> neutralize the acids."
>
> What else could one use besides coral? Tums? A
> crushed calcium pill? Lime?
>
> How about rinsing the mouth with salt water
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Enemas are be a two-edged sword, depending on how they are used or abused. Some, like the coffee enema for liver detoxification, can be very helpful if done correctly and for a limited time as part of a detox program. Other "corrective" enemas are useful for treating specific conditions.
Some people get carried away with enemas, however, doing them too frequently, with too much li
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
6. Re: Enzymes
Interesting thread on a very complex (and far from completely understood) topic!
Raw foods almost always digest better than cooked foods. PART of that is due to enzymes in the foods themselves, which help break them down. While it is true that stomach acids will denature (break down) some/many enzymes, it does not immediately destroy all of them. Some are inactivated and only partly broken d
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
I've tried blending lots of salad combinations in the Vita-Mix. Leafy greens are fine, but you need to be careful when adding more flavorful or spicy ingredients like lemon, garlic, ginger, and even things like beets. The Vitamix releases so much more of what is inside the cells that it acts like a "flavor amplifier". Salads that taste delicious when eaten in their conventional form
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Rain water these days, with all the air pollution, should be filtered to become good to drink. In remote areas with cleaner air, it is less of an issue, but both airborne moisture and air pollutants move with the breezes for long distances, so it is still a good idea to filter regardless of where the rain falls.
Reverse osmosis filtration is still probably the best thing for drinking water, r
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
9. Re: Puffy?
Seabucktho Wrote:
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> The puffiness is interstitial fluid, and it can
> have many causes, including impaired organ
> function, particularly heart, liver or kidney;
> electrolyte (particularly salt and potassium)
> imbalance; sluggish lymph; weak vascular function;
> etc.
That is exactly right. I have made myself
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
MauiGreg Wrote:
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> Just got back from an amazing camping trip on the
> rain-forest side of Maui.
> ...
> It took about 30 seconds of brisk pedaling to
> blend... don't know if it would power my
> vita-mix.
It would power your Vita-Mix just as well as electricity, if you get two horses to pedal the bike. The Vi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
One of the famous Ali brothers (Traditional/alternative doctors from Calcutta, with a clinic in London, a few published books and many celebrity clients) once told me that I shouldn't eat apple skins. He had diagnosed me as having a "too acid stomach". He got rid of several of my symptoms with acupuncture, and gave me traditional and herbal medicines that helped a lot with other sym
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Almost all of the plants we think of as "food" can be eaten raw, although -- as already noted above -- some may not taste good and a few may make you sick.
HOWEVER, do not make the mistake of thinking that most plants in general are edible for humans. If you were to go out into a forest or field and start randomly munching on plants, you would almost certainly be very ill and perhap
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
13. Re: nuts!!!
I find that not all nuts are equal, by far. I LOVE cashews, but they nearly always bloat me; they are not very digestible. I also don't believe that they are raw, from what I have read about how they are processed. I only eat them when the desire for them outweighs my common sense or tolerance for later discomfort. Ironically, quickly cooking them (as in Chinese stir-fried dishes) seems to m
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Caffeine was (and occasionally is if I relapse!) a serious struggle for me. Coffee always gave me diarrhea, but I would drink several big glasses a day of strong iced tea from local restuarants: a triple whammy of caffeine, sugar syrup, and the bacteria that breed in those big tea urns when they are not properly sterilized each night. The withdrawal from that cocktail went beyond just the head
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
This may not help you if you choose not to accept it, but it is a basic principle of some traditional food/healing systems (including Chinese) that one should have some of each of the basic flavors in the diet, including "bitter". In fact, many, perhaps most, of the foods that are best for the liver and for detoxing are bitter foods.
If you have to, go ahead and find ways to combin
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Bryan has it right (again) about the "hot spots" in microwaved foods. If you read the instructions carefully, most microwave instructions say to "cook" the food for a certain length of time, then wait for another period (usually from one to a few minutes) before eating it. That waiting period is to allow the heat energy to spread around from the hot spots to the colder areas
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
The link with sex would probably be lack of selenium, which is found in semen (I'm not sure about female secretions -?) AND in spinal fluid, which bathes the spinal cord and brain. The best source (by far!) of natural selenium is brazil nuts, assuming they have grown in soil that contains selenium. I've found that vegetal silica (from horsetail rush) supplements help with hair a little, too,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
I agree with Bryan and David on this; Bryan's post summarizes very well most of what REAL healing is about.
In the short term, your friend might also try garlic: the juice from mashed cloves applied directly on the wound, at the same time eating it for internal and systemic application.
If you can get truly RAW honey (NOT the processed supermarket kind --that would just make things WORSE!
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
The comment about candida yeast could be right on here. In a basically healthy gut, fruit is not a problem, but many people - especially if they have been previously eating a "SAD" diet or have ever taken antibiotics-- have higher-than-optimal levels of candida yeast growth in the gut. Fruit sugars can feed this stuff disproportionately, exacerbating the problem. Candida produces ov
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
If you are not moving around, because of your injury, you are losing your body's main source of heat generation: muscular activity. This is why people automatically start shivering when it is cold: the rapid muscular contractions of shivering help generate heat! Since you are lying there not moving much,your body's ability to cope with cold is greatly compromised.
As suggested above, try doi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
21. Re: Venting
That is a good idea, to tell yourself you can eat it AFTER eating some raw stuff. Another thing you can try is to drink a large glass or two of water; this often helps to switch off (or at least reduce) many cravings. Make yourself wait a few minutes after eating or drinking; it takes the brain a little while to fully register the increased fullness.
Another thing that helps is to simply rem
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
In Chinese qigong or qi-gung (loosely translatable as "energy work", trees are considered to be good sources of qi (air/energy/spirit). Practitioners will practice "standing on stake" (to use one of many terms I've seen used to translate "jahm jong", where they stand in an upright but slightly relaxed-down state, with the arms held up in a circular position. When th
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Without getting into the pros and cons of human adults drinking cow's milk, there is no doubt that fresh, clean raw milk is WAY, WAY, WAY better for you (or less harmful to you) than pasteurized, homogenized milk.
The real reason pasteurization and homogenization became legally mandated in most areas was lobbying from the milk industry. Milk treated like that won't support most bacteria any m
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
I like these, too... although I've had a few that got really over-over-ripe and started to taste "bad". I can easily sit down and eat a whole pack of the dried ones in one sitting, too. Like figs, these are just "persimmons" and nothing else. Thank God for a few dried fruits like these that can be bought without having several questionable artificial preservatives, flavoring
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
That sure looks delicious! Yummmm!
Care to share the recipe? (Please!)
And of course, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, all week long!
Can't wait to hear what brother says...and be sure to tell him when your birthday wish comes true!
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
A lot of good points have been made here already. A few additional thoughts:
(1) ALL plants have protective substances in them, that help keep them from being oxidized. These are called "anti-oxidants". To single out one in particular and over-emphasize it, is foolish; they tend to work in combinations, anyway, and different anti-oxidants work under different conditions, so eating
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Those headaches actually come because the blood vessels in the neck and head --constricted by the caffeine-- expand back to their normal size. The increased blood flow, back to what it should have been in the first place, actually causes the headache. It may help you just to remember this.
The recommendations to dry skin brush is a definite help, as is massage. I don't think I would have
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
A lot of very good points have been made in this thread.
Healing is a complex subject. Some things are considered un-healable, but it is difficult to say when and where the limits are to such things.
For example, the liver can re-grow itself (about 98-99% of original) when a large part of it has been removed, as long as there is enough left to sustain life during the healing and re-growth
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
A couple of factors can come into play here:
(1) As soon as you get rid of refined sugars and fiber-free jink foods, and start eating raw vegetable-sourced foods with their natural antibiotics, the bacteria that cause tooth decay just can't multiply enough to cause cavities. As has been said, you just don't get that build-up of plaque on the teeth with a raw diet that you do with a cooked on
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Arkay
Ever look at how much people pay for much-touted "grapeseed extract" with its massive anti-oxidant properties? I won't waste words on the benefits of whole-food sources over supplements, but why not eat the (chewed) seeds if there are such beneficial elements contained in them?
While the unchewed seeds themselves will pass through your system, some PORTIONS of the CHEWED ones ar
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