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14 years ago
rawpreston
I dunno there are a load of people on Earth who eat like 1-3% of animal products and therefore are not vegans (but they're pretty close). And the vegan trend is a pretty new thing, it's not like it's been common in the Western world for hundreds of years and there are some plethora of lifelong vegans to look at. So the jury is still kind of out. I don't think anyone can really argue that a hea
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I believe the Okinawans get their longevity from their tendency towards caloric restriction. They have a saying/custom called Hara Hachi Bu which is where you eat to 80% full and stop. I don't think they are related to the raw vegan diet often because I believe they eat a fair amount of fish and maybe don't eat as low-fat.
Not sure about the list of oldest people. I doubt many were raw ve
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Wasn't trying to be rude but you left the impression in the other 80/10/10 thread that raw is what caused you to lose all the muscle, you seemed to agree that 80/10/10'ers look skinny, and you never mentioned the positives 80/10/10 gave you like the actual gaining back the 40lbs of muscle. I was just trying to get your story straight. You're claiming the 80/10/10 is deficient in something (?)
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
The flipside of the story about the Abkhasia, Vilcabambas, and Hunzakuts and their 15-18% fat intake is that they eat 69%, 74%, and 73% of the calories from carbs. The reason they are cited is that they are among the longest lived people on earth, and they eat high carb, low fat diets. The 80/10/10 book references it got the info from John Robbins' book: "Living, Loving and Lasting: The Sc
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Uh I would disagree and say that I'm fairly sure a 19yo male is pretty much done growing, and also doesn't have any special fat needs. Unless you only recently hit puberty or something?
I would caution against doing both highfat binges and high-fruit binges. Might lead to blood sugar issues. If you want more info on the balance of fat and carbs while doing raw, the best book I've seen on th
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
marksquire Wrote:
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> Peder,
>
> I switched over to raw foods, from a typical
> "bodybuilder" diet, so I know what it's like to be
> concerned about the weight you're losing. In
> Fact, I went from 200 lbs (with 6% bodyfat), down
> to 155 at one point! Lost 45 lbs of MUSCLE on a
> raw food diet ini
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Mark Squire,
I was just reading your testimonial in the 80/10/10 book, and in it you claim to have gained 30lbs of muscle in the first year of 80/10/10, and 10lbs more the following year. This was after you did 3 years of high-fat raw foods lifting with nothing to show for it. Is this all true? Because here you've made it sound like you lost the muscle on 80/10/10 and raw, not gained it. Exa
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I'm sorry but the notion that fruit causes or fuels cancer is ludicrous. Fruit is well-known to have amazing anti-cancer properties, along with vegetables. Yes cancer cells feed on glucose. --->So does every other cell in your body.<--- If you eat a lot of fat or protein and low-carbs, guess what they must be converted to carbs for your body to use them as fuel. I refuse to sit around
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> Clement is a very strict believer in Raw Foods. So
> strict, in fact, that
Actually, he eats and recommends cooked foods, for healthy people. He just isn't upfront about it.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Why would people hide the bad part? They have nothing to gain. Why would so many follow a diet if there were "bad parts"?
I can accept it's not a diet for everyone, but Mark you're saying it's not a diet for anyone?? I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that you lost 45lbs of muscle unavoidably because you went raw, then gained it all back after leaving raw. No diet causes m
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
marksquire Wrote:
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> But it
> just doesn't provide the nutrition to sustain you
> long-term. It's a deficient diet, IMO.
Deficient in what exactly? I'm just curious.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
suncloud Wrote:
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> some people may do
> better on more greens and less fruit.
There isn't much of a continuum between high fruit <==> high greens though, since greens don't have enough calories to primarily sustain us. No one gets the majority of their calories from greens. Who eats more than 2 pounds per day of greens?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I say skip the "raw" section, if it's anything like the one at my WF it's way overpriced and all dehydrated. The staple of the raw lifestyle is (should be) fruit, vedge, and greens! Some nuts and seeds are ok too. Hit up the produce section, get all organic if you can afford it. Some dehydrated stuff is ok for transitioning, but shouldn't be a staple.. living foods are best as they
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
you might try making this query on 30BaD or Doug Graham's vegsource forum if you're truly interested in 80/10/10 success stories. There's quite a few in the book too, and on youtube.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Let me clarify that i would never make a post "Why are people who don't 80/10/10 so fat?" because I'm not that judgmental, I don't claim to have all the answers, and it would be a totally baseless and pointless query. I was just pointing out the flipside of the coin.
@Suncloud:
it sounds like you're doing fine at ~18% fat. You apparently keep fairly close tabs on what you eat, per
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
loeve Wrote:
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> As for why 80/10/10ers *might* look emaciated, the
> diet can be low calorie. Doug Graham is
> comfortable with 3-9% caloric fat, 3-9% caloric
> protein and 3% body fat, all stretching the limits
> of conventional wisdom.
I'd like to point out that 3% body fat is on the very low end of Doug's "H
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
suncloud Wrote:
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> I'm not on 8-1-1.
>
> Could it be that the criticisms/observations of
> 8-1-1 seem a little more justified for those who
> aren't doing 8-1-1, and a little less justified
> for those who are?
>
> From my point of view, when criticisms of a
> particular raw food diet are not aimed at
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Yeah it's ok, I think I got some good points off my chest. Your initial reply did crack me up Prana
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
This topic bugs me. Why the need to criticize people eating 80/10/10? Can we not instead focus on the positive changes they've undoubtedly made to their lives, and how good they must feel eating nothing but the Earth's wonderful fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts and seeds?
The reason why people who've lost weight on 80/10/10 look too skinny to you is because 2/3 of the population is clinic
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I think when a lot of people go raw, they let superfoods pushers take the opportunity to piggyback or "cash in" on their raw momentum and healthy enthusiasm.. so the person simultaneously cleans the crap out of the diet, starts living healthier, starts eating power-packed "normal" natural amazing raw foods, .. and buys into some superfoods because some healthy-looking charism
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
"Superfoods don't go bad because they've already gone bad"
-Doug Graham
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
la_veronique Wrote:
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> can you elucidate more about the short weak
> signal compared to the other cell phone which has
> to reach towers?
>
> its kind of confusing to me
Well anytime the phone is on a call it's putting out the same EMF and is in constant communication with a tower which can be miles away. That's re
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
The plastic corded device in the ear would be a good solution. It's safe because the sound isn't the problem with a cell phone, it's the high amount of radiation they output when they're in use. This radiation is at its worst within about 4 inches away, and can penetrate the skull. When you're talking with that corded device the phone itself would still be putting out the radiation, but just k
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Yeah I saw it early in my raw journey and it was one of the things which solidified things for me. I thought it was quite well done. I wish everyone in the world would see it.
Also decent viewing:
"The Future of Food", "The World According to Monsanto", "Eating", "The Beautiful Truth", "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 days", "Food
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
loeve:
There's a huge difference between a true low sodium diet (extended watermelon diet) and a proper diet which gets a proper amount of natural sodium (lots of fruit, lots of greens, and lots of vegetables). They weren't lacking salt, they were lacking sodium. It is never necessary to ingest salt.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Craving for salt = eat more celery, greens, and vedge! Pretty important to get the natural sodium from these. If you completely give up salt the cravings do go away, and our taste buds get used to it pretty rapidly.. so much so that if you haven't eaten salt for a long time and eat something salty, it's CRAZY salty, practically burns your tongue.. personally that tells me something.
The
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Yeah, cats have a taste for fat like we have a taste for sweet. But I have heard avocado is toxic to them.. be careful.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
58. Re: weight gain
Yeah I was going to recommend running too but I realized it may be a bit much for someone to start depending on where they are in life. I actually stopped running because I felt it was making me too skinny. Now I do sprints up steps for my cardio. I got some Vibrams and may well get back into running, "barefoot".
I highly recommend the couch-to-5k program for anyone thinking about
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
59. Re: weight gain
You haven't really said your age, or fat%, or how much weight you've gained, but I'll take a stab.
Are you eating too late at night? Be sure to eat nothing in the 3 hours before bed. If you get hungry in that time it means you didn't eat enough earlier in the day.
How many meals do you eat per day? Are you a meal eater or more of a grazer? I don't really have an opinion either way, I'm
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I just ate 1000 calories in about 5 minutes.
10 bananas, couple ice cubes, bout 1.5 cups water. blend it up. delicious.
you're probably just having stomach size issues from just starting out with 811. I see this all the time, it's due to our stomach becoming too small over the years from all the super dense cooked and fatty foods, since they are so non-voluminous. fruits+veg have tons
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