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17 years ago
arugula
2671. Re: acid - alkaline
>because according to that chart
>ALL fruits and veggies are alkaline
>and i know that simply is not true
And how do you know this? What is your criterion?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
You can contact your local county extension office to find suggestions for what will grow best in your area and when to plant. If you can get a real live person to talk to be sure to express your concerns with growing organically, because they tend to emphasize pest control and fertilizer with chemicals, at least in my area.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
The government would be subsidizing fresh produce rather than grains for animals, animal foods, animal products, and oils for frying fast foods.
We'd be spending a lot less on health care.
We'd save a lot of energy and water and create a lot less pollution.
But we'd still have an obesity problem. There would be almond butter and avocado junkies. Raw cookies and cakes. Etc.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
Eat a wide variety of plant foods, without relying too much on any one. 50 servings of 30 kcal of each type of plant is a lot better than 5 servings of 300 kcal of each type of plant. If you like monoeating than try to be sure at least to make it a different food or set of foods every day for a month before you go back to the same food.
Try to grow your own foods or get some of the non-major v
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
I think that tougher greens go down easier when they are shredded.
I use some cooked beans to help avoid the high fat vs. high fruit problem and to add some protein, I think it gives me a better macronutrient balance. Plus it's easier and cheaper for me.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2676. Re: health survey
> I currently am on meds for depression
I agree with Ally, I think that exercise will be a very big help. Cleaning up your diet will help if you have any deficiencies. But if your diet is already very good and you are already optimal with essential fatty acids etc., I doubt that you will see much of a change.
>anxiety
I am not sure that diet will help much, aside from maybe feeli
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
>> Sunscreens don't cause cancer.
>How do you know that?
Because there is a measureable increase in thymine dimer formation (kinks in the DNA) when sunscreen is omitted even a single time. If these kinks left unchecked, or if the repair enzymes are also damaged, lead to uncontrolled replication i.e. cancer.
Multiple studies have determined that sunscreen reduces the amount of D
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
>If a person can take exposure to the sun without getting sunburned, that might be OK.
It's not ok. You can get a lot of DNA damage and wrinkling and photosagging without getting burned ever. The only reason we still see sunscreens in terms of their burn protection (SPF) is that redness is easier to measure than DNA damage. Protection from thymine dimer formation would be the more relevant
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
No, see the other post.
1. In our natural state, before agriculture, we usually died before the age of 40. Life was harsh and brutal and many women would have died during childbirth. So you wouldn't have seen all these wrinkled crone and granfather types.
2. In our natural state, we live in areas more appropriate to our skin defenses. So you wouldn't see hoardes of phototypes I and II livin
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
Your skin will have better antioxidant defenses on raw and this will promote healing. But diet alone can provide protection factors of 2-4. Depending on your phototype,
I= freckly redhead, blue eyes usually
II= fair Caucasian
III = typical Caucasian
IV = Mediterranean, some East Asian, Hispanic
V = darker Asian, lighter African or mixed descent
VI = darker African
you can easily overw
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
At McDonalds, they use the same oil to fry their french fries and hash browns for three days before changing it out. Each day they go through a frying cycle an average of 15- 20 times per hour for 24 hours per day. So if you eat their fries or hash browns, you could be eating oil that has been subjecterd to2.5 minutes of high temperatures 1440 times.
The sad thing is that even if you explained
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
I don't know if you will crave anything. After 16 years of not eating flesh (14 years vegetarian and 2 years vegan) I still find flesh foods repulsive. But not cheese, sometimes I still want that.
But cheese is different in that it has opiate peptides that might in themselves be addictive.
Neal Barnard (of PCRM) is going to be conducting a clinical trial to see if he can measure a rise of
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2683. Re: acid - alkaline
This is a good site with some basics
And here is your food table!
If you prefer the pdf (easier to read, I think)
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
B12 continues to be a problem in some cases and B2 can also be problematic.
Also it looks that some vegans will have elevated homocysteine levels even when B12 status is adequate but this is also true for many omnivores.
Probably this means that there are other nutritional inadequacies present for either omni or veg.
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Ann Nutr Metab. 2006 Sep 19;50(6):485-491
B-Vita
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2685. Re: non-organic greens
In the thousands of studies that have found benefits from eating greens, essentially none of them have been restricted to organic vegetables.
Its far more important to eat greens period, than to restrict yourself to only organic foods.
Consider all the people who eat diets high in organic grains and dairy and egg and processed/refined oils and very little vegetables or fruit. I know a lot o
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2686. Re: vitamin toxicity
Do a google search on
"tolerable upper intakes"
or
"tolerable upper levels"
with or without the s at the end.
It's probably best to avoid exceeding such levels.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
cucumber
tomato
bell pepper
banana pepper
rhubarb
summer squash
casaba melon
lemon
guava
groundcherry
carambola
mulberry
blackberry
apricot
loganberry
kumquat
currant
cantaloupe
surinam cherry
nectarine
rose apple
grapefruit
lime
peach
raspberry
passion fruit
cherimoya
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
I don't think it will be possible if you are elminating concentrated sources of fats. Most likely your stomach will get full or you will feel an ache or feel sick from all the fruit before you consume enough calories.
I am not sure why you want to gain weight and muscle, though. Thinner is generally healthier, leading to longer life and reduced oxidative stress, provided that one has adequate
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2689. Re: sprouters
I think you might want to try some manual sprouting first and see if it's something that you really want to get into. You might be able to get a $4 jar with a screen (NOW Foods makes one) at your local health food store. Try that first and if you really love the results then you could get one of those expensive setups.
I've known of at least one person who purchased a very elaborate sprouting
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
jujube Wrote:
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> I've also gotten sick a few times from sprouted
> garbanzo and adzuki beans, but I don't know if it
> was food poisoning or just that those foods are
> hard to digest. (I got nausea, stomach pains, and
> vomiting from those.)
That is because they are toxic in their raw state. That's not the same as be
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
White tea has more antioxidants mainly because it isn't as highly processed as green tea. I guess you could think of it as less unraw than green tea.
It's really great with pear juice, for some reason those tastes go great together. Although I am not much of a juice fan.
I still drink red (not really tea, though), white, and green teas. Coffee, too, which also has considerable antioxida
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2692. Re: Feeling sick alot
Don't juice. Juicing gives me a headache, too. It feels like the sugar goes straight to my head.
Eat whole fruits and vegetables instead. You need the fiber for best health.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
It's not only how fast it gets into your bloodstream and processed (and the fact that you can dump so much of it into your bloodstream so quickly). It is also the lack of fiber as previously mentioned.
But there is one more very important thing about white sugar: no vitamins, no minerals, and no protective phytochemicals. It is energy and will allow your body to do useful work, but it is jus
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
Table sugar is sucrose.
Sucrose is a disaccharide (two-sugar) made of alternating units of glucose + fructose
Sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose before it is absorbed.
Wild fruits are mostly hexose (mostly glucose + some fructose and very little sucrose).
Cultivated fruit is high in sucrose.
Sucrose is sweeter than glucose.
Cultivated fruit is sweeter than wild fr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
I think it would be very difficult to gain weight on a pure sweet fruit diet. You will get full too fast. The calorie density of fruits is too low because most of them by weight are almost all water.
For example, if you ate 17 small peaches in one sitting, that would make you really full, uncomfortably so, but you would have only taken in about 400 or so calories and you would probably have no
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2696. Re: What is DHEA?
Sorry about misinterpreting your other post in the other topic!
There are a grand total of 8 clinical or randomized controlled trials using DHEA as a supplement in humans (i.e. not much). Most of them seem to be fairly positive.
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1: Autoimmunity. 2005 Nov;38(7):531-40.
Effects of dehydroepiandrosterone supplement on health-related quality of life
in glucocorticoid treated female
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
2697. Re: Excess Skin
Yes, it will have to be gradual. And also you will have to be a very young person (ideally teens or early 20s) for max resilience. Older people will have more laxity and reduced elasticity in their skins and may not fare so well when they lose a lot of weight.
When superobese people have gastric bypasses and lose huge amounts of weight they can end up with excess skin that is so large and hea
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
In case anyone wants to know how to get 100 g of raw protein in the almost ideal proportions of amino acids for humans, here is a recipe, but it would be very expensive and a lot of work (not only in terms of human effort but also in terms of electricity) to make.
If one was a semi-professional gardener and sprouter it would be cheaper.
132 g alfalfa sprouts
30 g arugula
342 g broccoli
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
I bought a sprouter jar and promptly broke it when it fell off the tile ledge on my kitchen window sill.
So now I just use a plastic bowl with lid and strain periodically.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
arugula
Hey, Narz.
I assumed the original poster meant DHA.
I have nothing against DHA except the price of vegan DHA, which is approximately 4x as much as non-vegan DHA. I think there is some debate remaining as to whether it is necessary and which groups really stand to benefit (all people? pregnant people? lactating people? people with a history of CHD or stroke? how about people who have very h
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