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17 years ago
Frannie
I read somewhere, it may even have been here, that people who eat cooked food are running a slight temperature all the time and when you stop eating cooked food your temperature drops to what is probably a more natural level.
When I first started eating raw I was cold all the time as well. I can't remember how long it lasted but since I've started eating low fat/high fruit recently I've star
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
You look fantastic Kwan and even more so for your age
I turned 50 this year and am beginning to wonder about menopause.
Did you experience any of the typical symptoms, such as hot flushes?
I have been wondering if raw women have these symptoms.
You're a great example to us raw girls, thanks.
Francis
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Nice thread Khale. When I ate cooked food I was not aware of my own spirituality at all. Once I made the switch to raw I felt a strong need to be in nature and I started discovering my spiritual self. It felt to me like I'd finally found a door I had been looking for my entire life and when it opened and I walked through everything started to make sense at last and I realized to my amazemen
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Hi Fresh,
I think there is some evidence that juicing is superior in cases of people healing themselves from serious illnesses and especially green juices. Ann Wigmore in her time and Brian Clement at the Hippocrates Centre have helped people recover from all sorts of things, including cancer and an important part of their program is the use of wheatgrass and green juices. And the reason the
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
At the moment I'm into juicing. Why? Because I was born out of a malnourished body, was breastfed on milk lacking in what I needed for too short a time, was raised and continued feeding myself on an inadequate diet until I came to my senses at age 45.
Since then I've been healing and remineralizing myself with green juices and prolonged juice fasts (the longest was 9 weeks). I don't know
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Thanks Mia for all that information. It definitely echoes how I've been feeling about my son although it has taken me ages to get there. It wasn't until I started eating raw and getting in touch with my spiritual self that I was able to look at my son's ADHD as something other than a "problem". Now I'm not at all worried about him anymore. I'm thinking of taking him out of school a
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
I would like to join you guys as well. I have been reading the high fruit-low fat-research trial thread and have been experimenting with it for the last two weeks, so I feel ready to do it for real now
I am fifty years old and have been eating 100% raw for the past four and a half years but something has been lacking. I still haven't got to the stage where I feel that I have loads of ener
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
That's an interesting way of looking at it miaculpa. Could you elaborate on how you see your ADD as being a gift? I would genuinely like to know what makes you feel like that. I've often felt that it's the school system we have to put our children through which is wrong and not my son who happens to not fit into that system.
Thanks for sharing, francis
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
129. Re: help!!!
Have you tried using your own fresh urine on it? In my experience it works well on controlling itching and it might help with the scarring as well. If your diet is already quite clean your urine will be clean as well so you don't have to worry about it smelling. If you google "urine therapy" you'll find lots of information. Below is a bit I just found.
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Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
My oldest son, who's 16, has ADHD. That's ADD with some Hyperactivity thrown in. He has improved so much on Raw. He is much calmer and can focus and concentrate better. And I can always tell when he has eaten junk because it immediately affects his behaviour. Coca Cola does terrible things to him, it keeps him stuck to the ceiling for hours. Aspartame keeps him awake all night. He is
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
I think juicing is probably not very natural if you look at it from the perspective of our natural diet back in the days when we still ate all raw before we discovered the delights of cooking.
But I am reading the Anastasia books right now and it struck me the other day how most of us were not as well nourished as we should have been by either not drinking our mother's milk at all or not fo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
132. Re: mucoid plaque...
Whenever I do a fast, like a waterfast (so just water going in) and I give myself an enema with distilled water (again, just water going in) I'm releasing mucous. Strings and flakes of it. I've touched it (sorry to be so graphic) to make sure that's what it is. I've been eating raw for four and a half years and this mucoid stuff is still coming out. Just my experience.
Love, francis
Forum: Other Health Related 17 years ago
Frannie
THANK YOU Gosia, for starting this thread. It has been such an inspiration. I have known for the last year that my body wants me to eat high fruit/low fat but for emotional reasons I've found it hard to even start. I've recently managed to cut out salt/spices/condiments and nuts and with the help of this thread I've finally been eating high fruit/low fat for the past week. I'm probably eati
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
It made me nauseous when I first started drinking it about 3 years ago. I have been drinking it quite regularly since because I like how it makes me feel after I've had it. Energetic, centred, calm. Somewhere along the line the nausea disappeared, I can even have two or three shots in one go now. I still can't throw them back though, I have to take small sips and chew them well. My feeling
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Thanks everyone for your valuable input.
I believe that it's probably easier to change a child's diet in such a radical way if you do it at a young age. They are not so addicted to cooked food yet. I think that most of the problems parents have with getting young children to eat their (cooked) food is that these children still have (some of) their natural food instincts that they were born w
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
I don't think it would make a lot of difference to my eldest if I let him take healthy cooked food to school. At his age all the other kids are eating crisps, fries and burgers and drinking soft drinks and he doesn't want to be the odd one out. At sixteen not many kids want to be so different from everyone else. With all the hormonal changes going on and suddenly having an almost grown up bo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Hi Rawrrr,
I think you must have got the wrong impression from reading my son's adventure with a croissant. Bryan was right in assuming I didn't know about him choosing to eat a croissant. My son is ten so he has pocketmoney and I can't be with him all the time. Obviously, as a loving and caring mother, I felt very sorry for him when he became so ill and I lovingly looked after him and n
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Once upon a time there was a ten year old boy who had been eating completely raw for almost five years. He had asthma before he started eating raw but now he was as healthy as could be and happily munched his way through fruit, green smoothies and green juices. Then one day out of curiosity he decided to eat a croissant. That night he started to cough. And cough and cough. This went on
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Hi Sharrhan,
I would have loved to join you but I am just finishing the fourth day of my waterfast. I am planning to do a week but from here I am just taking it one day at a time. The first two days were fine and on the third day I had a lot of energy in the afternoon and got some necessary chores done but today all I wanted to do was sleep and when I took my son to school in the morning I
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
140. Re: orange
Wow Taylor, what a story. Thanks for sharing.
Love, francis
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
141. Re: orange
LOL Taylor, that would be a nice explanation for our national colour. Unfortunately Holland is a country of Kaaskoppen, meaning Cheeseheads, the Dutch love their dairy and their bread. Us rawies are the tiniest of minorities. Most people here don't even know we exist unlike in your country.
Orange is the name of our Royal Family who originally came from the county of Oranje Nassau, so
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
142. Re: orange
Hi Taylor,
When my (ex)boyfriend and I first went raw we dranks loads and loads of carrot juice and his skin turned orange as well. The explanation I found for this is that the liver can't handle the toxins which the body is getting rid of so the skin is also used as an organ of elimination. I read it's nothing to worry about, you'll just look a bit odd for a while. I live in Holland and
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Hi Debbie,
Sorry for not answering sooner, I was not on the internet much this week.
Green juice is mostly made of cucumber, celery, spinach, kale and fennel. Sometimes I'll also add some carrot and parsley. We also have wheatgrass juice three or four times a week which the kids will follow with some honey or a date. Remember the Mary Poppins song "Just a spoon full of sugar helps
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Hi everyone,
Thank you all so very much for your help. I should have said this yesterday but I became so engrossed in all the information I found on the sites you guys provided, I stayed up far too late again reading on the internet. This is one of the problems I have with this site, I always end up going to bed too late
Anyway, I'll let you know if my friend's epilepsy symptoms improve.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
La Veronique.
Good luck on your green journey. I'll come and visit you from time to time to see how you are doing.
I finished a two week green juice fast 10 days ago and it was so good.
Love, francis
Forum: Raw Diary - Your Personal Experience 17 years ago
Frannie
Hi guys,
I have a friend who has epilepsy. She started eating raw a couple of months ago although she's not eating 100% raw. She is medicating quite heavily and feels withdrawal symptoms if she's even a little late in taking her medicine. She's hoping to be able to come of the medicine all together through adopting a raw diet but is not sure if this is possible and she's also not sure ho
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
147. Re: Mono Mission
la_veronique,
I agree, green juices are so powerful! I had kale with spinach and parsley and fennel but had to dilute it with cucumber and celery. And then in the second week I had to dilute it with water after it was made. I also had wheatgrass juice every day.
The first week I had loads of energy and then the second week all I wanted to do was sleep. I did the fast together with t
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
148. Re: Mono Mission
la_veronique,
That is just so beautiful, it sent shivers down my spine.
I just printed it out and I am going to stick it on my fridge door to keep me motivated on my own exploration of eating mono. Because that is just how I felt today after fasting for 14 days on green juices and then eating mono today. I felt like I was surrounded by a crystal, clear halo. So full of beautiful ener
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
alexivan00,
I have been eating raw with my two sons, now aged 9 and 16 for 4 1/2 years now but I remember how scary it felt when we first changed over. Not so much for myself but to do it with my children. Like you I wanted them to eat as healthy as possible but I wasn't sure they would get everything they'd need eating raw.
So I tried to feed them as wide a variety of raw foods as I co
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Frannie
Make sure you get toothpaste without glycerine. Even most of the organic ones have glycerine added to them.
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