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14 years ago
rawpreston
If you want to stop craving salt you need to stop eating all salt. Including seaweeds and olives. You have the right instincts, salt is indeed bad (sorry even himalayan and celtic which are still mostly NaCl). Whenever I eat something salty my face is puffy for days. Salt is a poison. Kills cells! Causes stomach cancer! It's a preservative! How can something be deadly in larger amounts b
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
62. Re: Alcohol.
I huge part of why medical insurance costs so much in this country is because of the exponential costs associated with keeping people alive for that last month, or year. But of course most ill/old people are somebody's mom, grandmom etc, and obviously when it's someone's own family member they want/expect modern medicine to pull out all the stops.
Most people float through life symptom-free,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
63. Re: Alcohol.
SuperInfinity Wrote:
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> > Because of modern medicine. We now can keep
> > people alive for far longer than they would
> have
> > lived naturally.
>
> BZZZT!!!! WRONG!!!!
>
> Naturally they would live FAR, FAR longer and
> better.
>
> This is one of those textbook LIES propagated
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
64. Re: Alcohol.
jargon Wrote:
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> Question. Why has the average life expectancy gone
> up, rather than down, if food these days is
> getting worse and worse?
Because of modern medicine. We now can keep people alive for far longer than they would have lived naturally. Drugs reduce symptoms, and people's lives can be extended or they can be ke
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
65. Re: Alcohol.
jargon Wrote:
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> EDIT: I didn't mean to go even further off-topic
> here. But, I start to wonder. Is there at all a
> diet of eating raw, with the addition of say...
> cooked meats? What negative affects does meat have
> on the body? What would be so wrong with following
> a strict diet of raw foods with the additio
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
66. Re: Alcohol.
Cool man.
A little more about me. I was not a vegetarian before coming to raw a year ago, I used to be a hardcore meat eater. Big ol' black angus Quiznos sub was my fave. My dad was a hunter and I grew up eating venison most every night as a kid. I lived in Wisconsin for 32 years, land of beef and dairy, most people there don't know wtf a vegan even is.
I do however think a lot of peopl
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
67. Re: Alcohol.
jargon Wrote:
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> However, it is a hobby of mine that I am quite
> fond of. I suppose I can try to wean myself off of
> it while eating raw.
A hobby? Do you mean you brew? Ah that could be difficult. I used to have a $1000+ espresso rig that I was in love with, coffee was similar to alcohol for me, once I went raw and started
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
68. Re: Alcohol.
Nullify? Nah. SAD+alcohol is still far worse than RAW+alcohol.
How long have you been raw? It's my experience that the longer someone is raw, and taking great care of their themselves in every other respect, the desire for alcohol falls away. Eating SAD, we use alcohol to numb our pains, escape uncomfortable reality, and catch a fleeting buzz. But when 100% raw, every moment is a buzz, we
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
It can definitely be challenging at first esp. if switching from dense/cooked foods to a raw high-fiber water-rich diet, because the stomach just isn't used to the volume. But it does stretch nicely in a few weeks to accommodate this, just gotta keep giving it "workouts" and soon enough you should be ok with 3 meals/day or even 2. Just don't then use the larger stomach in a binge on t
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I agree 80/10/10!
I think a lot of people overeat on nuts because they're not getting enough calories from the vegetables and greens and small amount of fruit. Eating more fruit is the answer (but also staying fairly low-fat or complications could arise from excessive fat+sugars).
Nuts are also small but very dense in calories so our stomach doesn't get full on them easily, so it's hard to
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
The pie chart is your total C/P/F breakdown for the day. It's good to quickly see if our fat or protein has gotten much higher than 10% for the day. typically until we add in the overt fats, any normal fruits+veg do average around 90/5/5.
The bars on the summary page, the 5g/46g of protein, that just means 5g is what you've eaten so far in protein today, and the 46g means that if you were to
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Yeah there is a tiny amount of saturated fat in fruits and veg, nothing to be concerned about, just 0.1g in those 250g of cantaloupe. Plant saturated fats are fine, I think in some ways they're actually healthier, something like they can't be oxidized or something? I think even animal saturated fats have been a bit of a scapegoat for meat over the years when it's actually probably animal protei
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Is only the surfing more difficult? How is your running? How are your energy levels in general?
Good instincts with cutting back on nuts and seeds, you may have been getting too much fat, it's common. Fat is not the muscles' fuel, and excessive fat is not conducive to athletic pursuits. Overeating on fats means undereating on carbs, which means glycogen stores are not up to snuff. Fats al
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
I believe the calcium DRI is inflated to account for all the meat eaters acidifying their blood with all the animal protein, and since the blood must stay a very specific PH, the body pulls calcium from the bones to buffer it, and they urinate it out and it must be replaced or they get osteoporosis or weak bones. Certain African mothers and rural Chinese eat very little calcium or meat and they
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
hehe 1600 sounds too little, 2025 sounds too much, don't worry about it too much. just listen to your natural hunger and your body will get what it needs. Mine says around 2500 but I have eaten as low as 1600 on some days but over 3300 on other days haha. My weight is totally stable though so I know it's fine.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Yeah that's perfect. What does cronometer say for your calories for your size and activity? The bar that says Calories: 1600 / ?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Look at the pie graph on the summary page for your percentages. Also if you're going for 80/10/10, go to File->Edit Nutritional Targets. You can set the goals for 80% 10% and 10% at the bottom. This will make the colored bars on the bottom make a little more sense.
Your fat and protein look a bit high for 1600 cals, but it's fine for just starting out. What did you eat that had that muc
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
It sounds like you're pretty new to raw. Congratulations on your weight loss. I'm sorry if I've been overly combative I just get passionate about fruit fears and misconceptions. I also see a lot of misconceptions about 80/10/10 in general and I just wish more people would read the book and give it a shot. The more people that do, the more subjects in the 'experiment'. The science of nutrition
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
> > They did not claim healthy status for the AGE
> > values, but yet you seem to be..
>
> I don't think I ever said vegetarians were less
> healthy than omnivores Preston. I said that among
> raw vegans, I thought it was helpful to emphasize
> low glycemic index fruits such as berries, citrus
> and melons over higher glycemic index fruits s
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
> > pborst Wrote:
> Because exposure to AGEs is what you eat over the
> time you eat it. A twenty percent difference
> between omnivores and vegetarians isn't the same
> thing as twenty percent of a lifetime. I chose
> the term exposure because that is what the
> throughput is from AGEs. Presence and risk are
> the result.
They didn't measure exposure,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
> I think you are overstating the uncertainty
> associated with comparisons. Protein intake was
> higher among the omnivores; fruit & honey ergo
> fructose content was higher among the vegetarians.
And I think you're overemphasising the relevance of this tiny study which used NO controls whatsoever that I could see, other than meat consumption, which is no
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
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> Regarding fruits not being high glycemic, I guess
> relative to processed foods that's true. But the
> real question is what affect to fruits which are
> high sugar such as bananas and grapes do to
> circulating insulin and glucose relative to
> someone who was eating a raw vegan diet with a
> g
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
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> Twenty percent older from age doesn't translate
> into 20 percent greater AGE exposure.
I didn't say that it did necessarily, but how do you know that to be true? BTW the word isn't 'exposure', it's 'presence'.
> real question is what affect to fruits which are
> high sugar such as bananas and gra
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
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> one study. Still, I see it very differently.
> The higher AGE levels in this study are correlated
> with fruits and honey, not junk food.
Not really. Fruit+veg+honey+grains intake (and it does NOT mention anywhere that they ate no processed sugars), versus standard meat eaters. Does this mean the meat e
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
people respect/trust doctors because they're intelligent, they've been through 8 years+ of school, and people assume they have the training to know what's best for our bodies. unfortunately they get almost no nutritional training (if any), are immersed in their own beliefs about food (SAD), and are catered to from day 1 by big pharma. fruit and vegetables don't stand a chance against big pharma
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
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> What is the relevance of a six year age difference
> between vegetarians and omnivores? I guess I
> don't follow. No, there are no controls. It's
> not a randomized controlled trial and I agree it's
> a relatively small study. Still, the omnivores
> had a higher protein intake and the vegetarian
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
to clarify, the example day I posted above ^^ is not an 80/10/10 sample day, it's an example of how someone might be eating a LOT higher percentage fat than they realize. replace some of the fruit with veg, or more greens, and the fat % is even higher, especially because someone would probably eat more fat to get their calories for the day.
and I said it's not possible to get our calories pre
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
pborst Wrote:
> I agree that high fat is not healthy. And I'm
> not proposing a high fat diet in opposition to a
> high fruit diet. With respect to AGEs, I think
> you are right other things being equal a junk food
> vegetarian isn't going to be as healthy as a whole
> food vegetarian. However, I have not seen any
> data that indicates processed fructose is any
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Utopian Life Wrote:
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> Wasn't my intent to have individual people posted
> and pointed out and judged.....
SuperInfinity Wrote:
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> I think it's a suspect way of looking at things.
<snip>
> IMO taking a few poster boys is hardly even worth
> doing, I'm sure
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
rawpreston
Doug's no spring chicken, I think he's 56 or 57, but I saw him speak last week in Seattle and was really impressed with his physique, posture, and poise. He has said that he started losing his hair at a youngish age, and when he was younger was always being taken as much older, something which led him to a healthier path.
If Kristina isn't absolutely glowing I don't know who is. She's been
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