Raw food diet

japanese food.

we have evolved a little and tend to require food to be cooked

Because of the comparitively long human generation, we evolve slowly, major changes in human lifestyle such as widespread farming and processed foods (bread, pasta) are relatively recent, we have not adapted to our modern day diets.

Detox diets are a load of crock, the body is designed to cleanse itself. Mind you laying off alcohol for a few weeks does help.

yes but the body is not... can't bring myself to say designed... evolved to consume large amounts of processed foods.

Raw tea is fucking rank.
You need to add hot water to that shit.

I understood that whilst wheatgrass was choc-full of fantastic nutrients, so few of them were in a form that the body could digest that they went straight through you, and therefore there was no benefit from it over any regular fruit juice.

Fruit and salad is all the raw food a person needs. The body's not equipped to process lots of raw vegetation - we don't regurgitate and then reconsume it like sheep, and we don't have a second stomach like cows. Whilst it's never a bad idea to eat healthily, I don't believe a raw food diet falls under that description any more than a MacDonalds diet does.

Tartar Polish raw meet dish usually made with beef if you want raw food.

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we don't regurgitate and then reconsume it like sheep, and we don't have a second stomach like cows.

Both sheep and cattle are ruminants, they both have a four chambered stomach and regurgitate to break down the cellulose by "ruminating".

I usually have a period in the New Year where I move back from slow cook to quick cook food. Certainly there are more ingredients that are raw but it doesn't mean nothing cooked, just cooked differently and certainly a lot less meat. It feels and tastes fresher and this will have a big impact on how you feel.

Crash dieting (which isn't just a massive drop in consumption but any radical change in eating habits) is rarely a good idea unless you are genuinely suffering medically from your current diet. Feeling a bit fat and lazy isn't a medical condition. Often you deprive the body of a source of energy and nutrients that it is used to and it has to work a lot harder to derive them from it's reserves. Cue feelings of discomfort and unhappiness. This is the main cause of failed dieting attempts. You're compounding this by trying to shed reserves at a time that the body is actively trying to retain them for both insulation and preservation. It isn't going to take it lightly.

Unless you have the sort of iron will that gets you on the front cover of a Rage Against the Machine album and you do want to work towards a raw food diet, don't dive into it straight away, ease yourself into it in stages. Otherwise you'll end up reaching for the food equivalent of nicotine patches and nobody looks smart with a cake strapped to their shoulder do they.

Because of the comparitively long human generation, we evolve slowly, major changes in human lifestyle such as widespread farming and processed foods (bread, pasta) are relatively recent, we have not adapted to our modern day diets.

Wild venison, berries and a turnip for Winston.

I myself am working myself up to a gallon of milk a day. Desperately trying to put on some weight, may mix it with cream too.

Oh dear, someone has been Rippetoe'd!

Do you want to be strong or just "big"?

Can you include raw steak and raw fish in this?

Should we bunch together and just have a 'funny diet' thread?

I myself am working myself up to a gallon of milk a day. Desperately trying to put on some weight, may mix it with cream too.

working yourself up to a gallon of milk?

fuck me...

I thought I had low aspirations.

Wild venison, berries and a turnip for Winston.

Not far off, there are many modern day illnesses and conditions that are linked to a diet unsuitable to our cave-man anatomy and digestive system, obesity, cancer, heart-disease...

We only live longer in Western countries nowadays because of greater availability of food, better shelter and huge leaps forward in medicine, but we are way off eating our optimum diet for the bodies we have.

Whilst not a raw food diet, a friend once went on a no freezing or microwaving diet. No idea about the benefits.

Sheep have three stomachs - The fourth is a false stomach, created through the symbiotic relationship between the sheep and the haggis.

The ruminant stomach consists of three fore-stomachs, which are the rumen, reticulum, and omasum, and a true stomach, the abomasum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant

Is this just raw veg? You don't include sashimi and steak tartare in this diet?

Can you include raw steak and raw fish in this?

Already asked, nobody answered.

1. What can I eat?

Unprocessed, preferably organic, whole foods such as:

• Fresh fruits and vegetables
  
• Nuts
  
• Seeds
  
• Beans
  
• Grains
  
• Legumes
  
• Dried fruit
  
• Seaweed
  
• Unprocessed organic or natural foods
  
• Freshly juiced fruit and vegetables
  
• Purified water
  
• Young coconut milk
  At least 75% of food consumed should not be heated over 116 degrees F.
  Purists do not eat meat or fish.
  

What's wrong with old coconut milk?

What does purified mean in this context?

Ask these guys:
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/popularhealthdiets/a/Raw_Food.htm

Sous vide the crap out of everything then.

+1

But it would take a lot of planning though.

My raw food diet..

I feel much healthier..

1. What can I eat?

Unprocessed, preferably organic, whole foods such as:....

....At least 75% of food consumed should not be heated over 116 degrees F.
Purists do not eat meat or fish.

yes but why? No one has answered my question yet. Is there a proven basis, or is it just a lifestyle choice? I've seen nothing to suggest it's the former.

Of course it's important to be health consious and ethically minded regarding your diet, but if it's all based on misinformation then the motives of those who advocate it are questionable, and the diet is perhaps unhealthy.

Every new strive for individualism provides a new market for manufacturers. Of course that's all wel and good for the economy and GDP and all that, but that's not why people eat raw food is it? Or am I missing the bigger picture?

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Of course it's important to be health consious and ethically minded regarding your diet, but if it's all based on misinformation then the motives of those who advocate it are questionable, and the diet is perhaps unhealthy.
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http://altmedicine.about.com/od/popularhealthdiets/a/Raw_Food.htm
Scroll down to "precautions".

And there goes any notion of rationality, logic or method, unfortunately.

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