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8 years ago
iandthou
Before going on a high raw diet this June, I was not preparing my own food. I would either eat at my workplace or school, or would eat the food made by a person who comes to cook at our house.
Since going raw, I've been preparing my own salads and I realise that I am spending far more time on food than I used to earlier. It takes me half an hour to wash the vegetables thoroughly, then peel an
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
BJ Wrote:
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> Iandthou, are you assuming that at one point
> humans as we know it ate an all raw diet. If so,
> what was their diet and where did they live?
If fire was a discovery, rather than something we knew from the day the first human beings came into being, then there must have been a time before that discovery. Food bef
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
rawgosia Wrote:
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> They tried it. It worked. They adopted it. They
> mastered it. They made it into industry.
What do you have in mind when you say 'it worked'?
I can imagine that if I have been a raw fooder since birth and so have my ancestors, I would not like the effects of cooked food on my palette, emotions and body. So I
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
fresh Wrote:
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> not enough raw food in the area where people were
> living.
> forced to cook items for easier chewing/digestion
Why would they want easier chewing and digestion in the first place? And why would the entire society adopt this? I can imagine that a few ill people might have wanted easier chewing and digestion.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
Why did human beings begin to cook their food?
I imagine that today people eat cooked food because that is the tradition they have inherited and are attached to. But why did it all start? If cooking creates toxins and requires an additional expense of time and perhaps money, why did we begin to do it at all?
I've been wondering about this for a while and cannot find an answer. I sometimes
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
Yes, I've read this article. Thanks
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
Today I was at a market and passed by an organic / fair trade store and decided to buy some flax seed oil. I bought a 700 ml bottle, pretty cheap and was quite excited about it because applying regular almond oil under my eyes has helped my dry eye condition, and I thought organic flax seed oil might be even better, because it has more omega 3.
When I got home and read about flax seed oil I re
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
la_veronique Wrote:
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> iandthou
>
> coffee grinder... grind flax seeds
> consume right away
> so oxidation is negligible
> yes, such gadgets are indeed artificial
> so...your choice
Thanks
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
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> Lay some heavy cotton cloth on a plastic tray and
> spread the soaked flax seeds on it (only takes a
> minute). Doesn't matter if a few are on top of
> each other, but try to spread them out.
>
> Use a tray with sides so you can peg muslin cloth
> (see link) to the sides, OR put the trays in a box
> and seal with muslin
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
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> iandthou Wrote:
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> > Thank you. After reading this webpage I
> concluded
> > that sprouting flax seeds (and seemingly other
> > mucilaginous seeds) may not be worth the
> effort,
> > since it says
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
Thank you both for your replies.
Lisa, yes, the idea of not using your eyes to read or even watch a screen while eating makes sense to me. I think perhaps the single biggest change I see in my 5 months of being largely on a living food diet is that I am much more conscious of prana or energy and how it is moving inside and outside my body. It is such a strong experience that I began to read o
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
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> I do neither because sprouting is shown to be
> scientifically superior. Not just is sprouted flax
> superior nutrition, but farrr superior nutrition.
>
>
> * Far higher vitamin levels
> * far higher mineral levels
> * far higher phytochemical levels
> * far higher enzyme le
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
When you have a meal, do you eat quietly, or do you eat and converse with others, or do you watch something on a screen or read?
I've been wondering about how important it is to be aware of not just what I eat, but also how I eat it. I used to eat while watching a video on my laptop, but I have stopped doing that. I realised that when I sit quietly, away from everything, and eat, I am more mi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
What is better, nutritionally?
I read that the body cannot digest whole flax seed so it should be ground before soaking. If that is the case, can the body digest flax seed that is soaked but not ground?
Personally, I prefer soaking the seeds and eating them with the moist, gel-like substance around them. Grinding manually seems to be hard work, although I have never tried. And I don't lik
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
la_veronique Wrote:
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> iandthou
>
> maybe you could eat the bulk of your food before
> and after going to work
> in that way, you are ensured that MOST of your
> diet is free from the x ray radiation ( from the
> train)...
>
> Also, do you grow any of your own food? Maybe
> pots indoors or hydropon
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
la_veronique Wrote:
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> iandthou
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> do x ray machines damage food? i think that is an
> excellent question and I'm kind of surprised that
> it has not been asked before. I think that it
> would... logically speaking though I have no
> proof. x rays are pretty high frequency. if they
> can go through the bo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
fresh Wrote:
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> it's ok, iandthou, kwan comes back every few
> months to be holier than thou, accusing others of
> being uncivil even though one cannot expect
> perfection in this kind of forum, and she is
> apparently unwilling to participate in order to
> elevate the discussion onto the higher plane that
> she
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
kwan Wrote:
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> Hi friends,
> I stop by here every so often to see how things
> are going in this forum which I was a very active
> member of from the 1990s up until about 2005 or so
> (if memory serves me well)... and frankly, to
> determine if civility may have finally made a
> slight comeback on this board.
&g
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
SueZ Wrote:
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> iandthou, no problem. I'll not bother to respond
> to you're questions in the future. Carry on.
If that is what you prefer, so be it. I would be happier to see you respond, even if it is in the same tone as you did, than not respond at all. I only said "consider your style of speaking", and you heard "
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
SueZ Wrote:
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> I have it on pretty good authority, (from an
> international commercial airline pilot), that the
> pollution in New Delhi is so horrendous that he
> can smell it well before even starting to descend
> in altitude to land. Every time. You might better
> ask why are you there, iandthou, if you care about
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
Everyday I use the subway to travel and I carry my lunch and water with me. As one enters the subway one is required to put one's bag through an x-ray machine. For long I have wondered if this machine is damaging my food. I think it is, intuitively speaking, but I have no way to tell.
I also have no choice except to not carry food, which means to skip lunch, because the security staff would n
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
Utopian Life Wrote:
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> Is the original poster still here? What a waste
> of time.....
> anyway, I'd say 15-20% of calories from fat is
> good. Log it into fitday or cronometer. And
> don't forget all foods have fat, not jut nuts and
> seeds. I wouldn't worry about too much protein.
Thanks. 15% or around that
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
bluespixie Wrote:
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> Chew your food, stay hydrated and eat till you
> feel satiated.
>
> Keep logging your food. If you're finding yourself
> hungry... EAT.
>
> How active are you? If you have a sedentary
> lifestyle, change it, and you won't ever need to
> be counting calories.
Thanks. I do tai chi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
What are your experiences with eating raw spinach? Has it caused any problems in the long run?
Do you believe that the presence of oxalic acid makes raw spinach a dangerous food to eat on a daily basis?
There seems to be no consensus on this, on the archives of this forum, or on the internet, or even in the health books. Shelton says raw spinach is not good, Fuhrman recommends it. I'm not
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
I don't know if there are any scientific studies on this but I've been drinking organic wheatgrass powder, 1 tsp in a cup of water, once a day for about 3 months. I can only speak on the basis of intuition, and I think the powder is nutritious. I live in New Delhi, one of the most polluted places in the world. When I come home from work, I feel a glass of water with the powder undoes some of the
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
jtprindl Wrote:
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> Don't worry about getting too much protein on a
> raw vegan diet, you're not going to have any
> adverse effects from eating sprouted nuts and
> seeds if you're healthy. Also, like fresh
> mentioned, it's important to buy your nuts and
> seeds from a high-quality source to make sure they
>
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
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> Best to avoid cashews and eat sprouted seeds and
> soaked fermented nuts yogurts. Getting tired after
> these meals can probably be fixed after a while if
> you do certain things. I used to get tired after
> high fat meals too, but no more.
Thank you Sproutarian Man. Is there a limit to how many sprouted seeds or how many soaked nuts one can eat? I haven't found a
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
> iandthou, like everyone else here I just don't
> know. My guess would be to not go over five times
> the percent of fat that reduced your libido to
> 1/5th of what it had been. Test it.
. ok. thanks.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
SueZ Wrote:
> Olive, and other fruit and nut oils, are great for
> the human body and are also very satiating. Don't
> forget about avocados and coconuts, too.
Thanks. I do take a teaspoon of olive oil with my salad every other day or so. Perhaps I can get some almond oil. Will look up other fruit and nut oils. Avocados and coconuts are not easily available where I live.
Is t
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 8 years ago
iandthou
suvine Wrote:
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> RAW Macadamia nuts from Hawaii. Just munch on one
> or two
Ah, if only I got those here in India
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