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14 years ago
sunshine79
The goal is OPTIMAL HEALTH.
The GOAL is not to be vegan, or to be raw. Rather, raw vegan is the PATH to optimal health on this forum. Or, one hopes it is the path to optimal health. We don't know for sure that it is. When, in any religion or way of life, the emphasis is put on the PATH, rather than the GOAL, yeah, sorry but you've got yourself a cult there. If no dissent from the path is allow
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
sunshine79
I think it is exceptionally interesting to hear various peoples' experiences with various attempts at finding the ideal human diet. Since the jury is still out on what exactly this would be, I think it's fair to have an open and honest debate about all the variables. Otherwise, it's just a cult.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
sunshine79
ooh this is hard to find in the medical profession.
In NYC there are a few, thank god - medical doctors who've decided to specialize in holistic medicine - very rare, but a great find. It is great to have someone who understands intricate biological processes and vitamin/mineral interactions in the body. I went to one, and out of 4 doctors that I visited for the same problem, the holistic M.D.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
sunshine79
Um no, fruit would not be a good substitute for a peanut butter craving.
Think about what nutrients are in peanut butter that your body is asking for. Whenever I crave peanuts, it usually indicates a need for magnesium. Try substituting spinach, and if your peanut craving goes away, then it was probably a magnesium deficiency. Otherwise, maybe your body is asking for fat (it is, after all, win
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Yes I just read about it a few days ago, actually. Iron, zinc, and copper apparently all work together synergistically. So a low iron level could actually be caused by either too much or too little of either zinc or copper, it's all so complicated. I'll find the link tomorrow when I get on my laptop.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
SuperGreens Wrote:
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> The most notable experiment with a culture or
> group living a 100% vegan lifestyle is described
> by John Fielder.
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> Fielder is a Natural Hygienist, similar to Herbert
> Shelton and TC Fry. They had a big group of people
> in Australia who tried the raw vegan lifestyle.
> The story is
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
9. Re: sashimi
Beware of ciguatoxin! I saw it in Oprah magazine, a lady wrote in about having gotten it after eating sushi in Hawaii, and it sounds like a particularly horrible food poisoning because it's a nerve toxin and gets stored in fat cells for long lasting effects (she was having nerve symptoms even 3 years later!) So, I'll never eat sushi again.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Tara - haaaahahaha!!!
Musicbebe - the Sandra Cabot liver cleanse was greens, vegetables, lean meats, and I think fruit, too, but no starchy carbs like bread, pasta etc. Also green juices & milk thistle, which is a liver cleansing and protecting herb (I liked the Solaray brand from health food stores). I still keep some around for detoxing on the now-infrequent occasions when I drink alot.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
I just re-read the post & notice that you've been raw for a year and a half... so, it could perhaps just be your body type, as well - the tendency to have a little more weight in the midesection.
Is your spine correctly aligned, or do you have extra curvature in your lower back? Pregnancy could've created or exacerbated such a condition, and make one's tummy stick out further as though pr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
I think a liver cleanse! I'm 5'2" as well and have weighed 135 on cooked food. In addition I used to party and drink alot and loved Mexican food on a hangover. By my late 20's my metabolism was frustratingly sluggish and I just knew it had to have something to do with the toxins I was ingesting.... so, I started perusing information and came across Sandra Cabot's liver cleanse book and it w
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
The Endomorph's Body Transformation Survival Guide:
Here's an excerpt from it:
There is only one true way to determine your maintenance calories. Are you ready? Because I’m going to tell you right now. Carry a notepad around and log everything your eat. At the end of the week add it up. If you lost weight you’re below maintenance calories, if you’re the same weight then you’r
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
arugula Wrote:
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> Some people think that fruit is bad for them.
> Well, fine. If it takes that much effort to
> convince them otherwise maybe it isn't worth the
> effort.
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> I prefer the people who know that eating lots of
> raw f+v is very healthy, acknowledging that f+v
> includes sweet fruit.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
More importantly, skinny is only one body type, it is more a body type than an attainable goal for everyone. That TV show The Biggest Loser makes me so mad, because I notice that EVERY contestant has ONE particular body type, and it's the type characterized by short limbs & tendency to gain weight in the midsection (endomorph? mesomorph? I can never remember which is which). And it is SO hard
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
I used to do an Atkins-type diet as well and could sustain an hour run + weights everyday with very little carbs, in fact I had more energy (more energy than with carbs, but less energy than on raw). I think some people's bodies just don't function well on carbs. I would suggest cutting out the bananas, for starters, and eating salads, cucumbers, peppers, and zucchini. E3 Live to replace protein
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Jgunn Wrote:
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> can someone anyone answer me this ? why on earth
> did the inuit decide to settle in sucha harsh
> environment ? is there some documentation
> somewhere on this? its one of those questions
> burning in my mind for years
haha, yeah I know what you mean. But I think it happened gradually, with the migr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
When I read the original post I started thinking, ok maybe in India, since alot of Indians are vegetarian, and maybe there are also vegans in India? And if Indians can be vegan, can that be extrapolated to the rest of us? Or since the migration to India was the first migration, then are some of us now too far removed from our ancestral diet (such as the Inuit), that the presence of a vegan societ
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Utopian Life Wrote:
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> Who said they were looking for an ideal diet,
> Sunshine?
Aren't we all?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
What I'm wondering is this:
To illustrate with an extreme example, let's say a raw vegan from Florida moves to Greenland and opens up a health food store amongst the Inuit and says "See here, this is your ideal diet, raw vegan. Your fish habit is unhealthy and morally wrong." Wellll..... is it??
Because the Inuit, like the rest of us who are of European, Asian, and Indian descent,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
How about calling it the Holistic Diet? I think that's what I'm going to start saying to people from now on. I like how it has a very positive connotation and evokes images of eating simply and close to nature. Whereas "raw vegan" tends to freak people out when you explain that you eat mostly raw fruits & vegetables, as people tend to be turned off by the idea. "Holistic Diet&
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Debbietook, I did 2 years raw vegan in a Northern climate as well but could not do 3 - I started having weird bone injuries which was alarming to me as I have an athletic, larger frame and am not at all frail. So I did some research being that I was bed-ridden and all, and the light bulb went on in my head with the vitamin D/eggs/fish thing.
And again, most vegans who eat cooked food are NOT
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Also, human metabolism at the genetic level can adapt and change quickly, and that's probably true of I any migratory animal. For instance, certain humans developed the enzyme to break down starches such as rice (the ones who migrated East to Asia), other groups developed the enzyme to break down dairy (the ones who migrated North to Northern Europe), others the enzyme to break down alcohol.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
I agree with the article in the first post, it isn't possible to be vegan in the winter if you live above a certain latitude, because Vitamin D has to be supplemented and it comes from foods such as egg yolks and fatty fish. Even people who think they're vegan, if they eat fortified cereal, they're not really vegan because that Vitamin D supplement is fish oil in the cereal.
Given the importan
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Ok here's what you do - while your face is still wet, apply olive oil as your moisturizer. The layer of water will keep the oil from greasing up your face, while the olive oil makes your skin silky smooth.
I've tried this with other oils as well such as coconut and shea butter but even with the water layer, they make my face greasy (however perhaps these are ideal for darker skin tones?)
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
BY LENKA J. ZAJIC
Inspired by her own positive experiences going raw, Zajic went on to obtain a Masters in Vegan and Live Food Nutrition from the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona, where she conducted an in-depth 500-participant survey of raw foodists. The study’s findings showed that people who followed an 80 to 90% raw foods diet for 2 years reported marked improvements in immunity
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
I was perusing the internet and came across this, it's called Beauty Through Mineralization and it's a free e-course by David Wolfe. I JUST signed up, so I can't comment on whether it's good, bad or what but I thought I'd post it here in case anyone wants to check it out.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
Here's a list of US cities and their respective latitudes:
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
No.
The reason for this is that above the 40 degree latitude (such as New York City), our bodies cannot manufacture Vitamin D from the sun in the winter. So we have to get our vitamin D from foods in the winter, and these are not vegan - such as egg yolks and fatty fish. You can eat fortified cereal, for instance, which may appear vegan but is really just cereal with fish oil, it just doesn't
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
sunshine79
30. Re: Beauty
I think beauty is simplicity, confidence, open-mindedness, positive attitude, and a loving heart. I think true beauty is available to everyone but difficult to obtain because it means emanating true strength rather than vanity or arrogance.
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