OK, so, today I was reading the Women’s Health magazine, and I came across a question this lady asked a nutritionist about eating a raw diet, and if it was healthy or not. You can imagine my surprise when the nutritionist answered that eating raw meat and unpastuerized foods was not healthy! I thought, whoa! Did this nutritionist just imply that eating raw meat was part of a raw diet?? So, I wrote her an e-mail and basically told her that I didn’t believe she had done any research regarding the diet, and had she done so, she would’ve discovered that a raw food diet is vegan, and has nothing to do with meat. Low and behold, she wrote me back and stated she had done her research, and that there are raw foodists who are not vegan, but do eat meat! I was a bit surprised! Apparently Carol Alt is one. She had sent me a link regarding it (wikipedia). I’m curious if anyone here was aware of such a thing. Maybe raw vegans are just more verbal about it?
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That is really odd! In all my research, I’ve never come across raw foodists eating raw meat! In all the websites I’ve gone to, and the cookbooks I have.. I’m just a little shocked actually..
When I first went raw, I began eating 100% vegan (with the exception of honey). Now I eat raw egg yolks for B-12 and raw milk cheeses once in a while. I feel a lot healthier, more energetic, and more grounded when I include those foods than I do when I eat raw vegan exclusively. I don’t do it for protein, but (for me) there was something my body needed that I wasn’t getting from raw vegan alone and adding the egg yolks helped me out tremendously. Raw vegan works for a lot of raw foodies, so I think it all depends on your body.
I am working on being more raw, a vegan diet has never worked for me, so if I do go all raw, it will be including raw meat. Besides the Carol Alt books, there is a raw food book by an author named Kymythy who cured herself of cancer on a raw diet including meat. Most raw meat dishes are “cooked” in some sort of citrus-based marinade to kill harmful bacteria, etc. While I do love the environment, I love myself just as much, and a vegan diet made me very ill.