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• Foods, herbs, medicines, etc. do not heal or cure anything. It is the bad stuff that we do to ourselves that causes all of the problems, all that needs to be done is to eliminate the bad stuff and the body will return to normal health. Using herbs, …

  in Loads of questions & Venting session! Comment by SocaL
• I think you are on the right path in even bothering to research changes to your lifestyle. Of course the first thing I suggest as others have is to quit smoking. That alone will give you more positive changes to health than any diet can ever do. Aft…

  in Loads of questions & Venting session! Comment by SocaL
• Doug Graham is your man! He is mid 50’s and has the body of a 20 something year old. He practices what he preaches. He has been on a low fat raw diet for 27 years now and he has not been sick with even a cold since 1980. He wrote the 80/10/10 Diet b…

  in thoroughly confused - need to hear from long-time rawists Comment by SocaL
• The very reason why humans began eating animal foods and grains in the first place is due to the tribes spreading out beyond the tropical zones of the earth. In the tropics there was an abundance of fresh ripe and sweet fruits and vegetables. When t…

  in Something funny...and scary. Comment by SocaL
• Here is a blog from a guy who is working with Doug Graham (the 80/10/10 doctor) to get off insulin. He is a type 1 diabetic. http://robertbarbaro.zaadz.com/blog You can see the truly amazing results in the drop in his insulin use in just 4 months.

  in Has anyone healed an ailment with raw food? Comment by SocaL
• I cured my ulcerative colitis 100% with a clean diet and natural hygiene. The thing most of you don’t seem to understand is that thinking something is going to heal or cure a condition is incorrect. That is allopathic medicine thinking. No food, her…

  in Has anyone healed an ailment with raw food? Comment by SocaL
• Paul Fanny, the president of the University of Natural Health (one of the most highly regarded alternative health schools) wrote an article in the last Living Nutrition magazine that there is enough B12 created by the bacteria in our mouth, teeth, t…

  in B12 in Plant Source Comment by SocaL
• Tomatoes are also a good source of salt. I don’t really like celery too much either but if you put some almond butter or some other raw nut butter on them they taste so much better. All salts are toxic, sea salt, celtic salt, Himalayan salt etc. The…

  in what happens if I do not eat salt Comment by SocaL
• I use this one: Blender It is made of glass and has all metal drive. It is not a vita-mix but for my purposes it is working fine.

  in Best Affordable Blender Comment by SocaL
• If it’s just to get you off of cooked food and fatty foods then do enjoy the sprouted grains. For the long term grains are not a healthy option. All grains do not digest well in the body leaving undigested carbs in the bowels. This leads to leaky gu…

  in Subsitute for Nuts and Seeds Comment by SocaL
• You can try buckwheat grains. I personally do not recommend consumption of grains but these grains are used by many raw food chefs. Very often (if not always) allergies especially to certain foods are developed by eating the wrong diet. You might fi…

  in Subsitute for Nuts and Seeds Comment by SocaL
• Shambavi, you are correct. As you get more and more into this kind of a diet you will feel less and less of a need to eat complex food. I eat as many as 12 – 15 bananas in one time and sometimes 2 1/2 pounds of cherries. I do not feel the need to ea…

  in Sun-dried fruit Comment by SocaL
• According to many raw enthusiasts anything that is exposed to temperatures above 110 degress Fahrenheit will lose all of it’s natural enzymes. They will no longer be considered raw. I am not sure what the enzymes have to do with anything however bec…

  in Sun-dried fruit Comment by SocaL
• As I have always repeated that garlic, onions, peppers, and all their relatives are in fact drugs (or herbs) and as such deserve to be regulated as drugs are. People can harm their health if they get too addicted to these and they should be regulate…

  in Can 'they' really do this??? Comment by SocaL
• I do 15 minutes on treadmill / bicycle and 30 minutes of strength / weight lifting every second day. Off days I will walk for 45 – 60 minutes. Mostly it’s a matter of the amount of time available. If I had unlimited time I would extend all of this.

  in Body building on raw Comment by SocaL
• Interesting. Every culture seems to have some kind of method to heal naturally. The Chinese have their herbs, the Indians have the Ayurvedia, unfortunately the pharmaceutical companies who are very wealthy are trying to change all of this and make e…

  in questionable ingredients Comment by SocaL
• I will only address the plantain and onions questions. As for plantains I actually love them more than bananas but for 2 reasons I eat more bananas. The first is they are not available where I live in organic. I prefer to eat organic for many reason…

  in questionable ingredients Comment by SocaL
• I used to use and abuse a few recreational pharmaceuticals when I was a teen and into my early 20’s. At 25 years old I was stricken with Ulcerative Colitis. I have no idea if there is any link but I see no reason in the world to ever use any kind of…

  in Drugs Comment by SocaL
• I’ve been there a number of times. A few interesting selections on the menu! The great thing about Thailand is that there are awesome fruits available for such little money all the time. Durian, mangosteen, longan, rambutan, the list goes on and on.

  in Those in Thailand.... Comment by SocaL
• Zoe, just as you feel with cacao and coffee etc. you will eventually also feel with onions and garlic (and all the other toxic plant foods) when you have stopped polluting yourself with them for a time. You probably felt cacao was a great raw food w…

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• Yeah, weird dude! He was there at the time I was, he looks like some Hollywood type – I think he is trying to break into being a moviestar. Coffee is okay but bananas – no way. Think he has it all backwards.

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• As promised, here are the results of my research! I went to Juliano’s Raw today after visiting the dentist (which is a very long story). I asked about the infamous coffee and the answer that I got was that they use real coffee which is not raw. Ther…

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• I wake up all energetic and ready for a new day, why spoil it with coffee? I usually drink a strawberry or raspberry smoothie for breakfast. Easy and good, 1 pound of fresh ripe organic strawberries and a blender. Wash, blend, drink.

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• rawmama, I suppose it depends on the browser you are using. I use MSIE version 7 and it is fine. What browser do you use?

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• This is from Juliano’s online menu: MACA ICED COFFEE $7.39 Creamy super food smoothie that will be the best iced blended coffee you’ve ever had!! ESPRESSO $1.85 served at 120 degrees. CAPUCCINO $5.54 Frothed milk and espresso, kissed with honey. He …

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• It all seems like I am from some other planet to many of you. If others get to the place I am at with food and see it as a part of your body and not a means to entertain, you will understand. I get entertainment from a ripe juicy watermelon or pinea…

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• Land devoted to producing coffee and tea even if fair trade and organic could be used for organic food production, currently millions and millions of acres of quality fertile land is devoted to growing these plants which (even if the mainstream say …

  in Raw Coffee Comment by SocaL
• As I posted on another thread, Charlie’s gym is another awesome place to check out how to be raw and in great shape (low fat). http://www.charliesgym.info/ Eating oils will only replace the old cooked fat with new raw fat and not help build muscle. …

  in High calorie raw Comment by SocaL
• Welcome to the board. My suggestion is to use a site like nutridiary.com or fitday.com It is free to join them as a regular member and you can input your daily foods and see how many calories you get as well as the % carbs, % protein and % fat. In o…

  in High calorie raw Comment by SocaL
• I am absolutely ADDICTED to the rejuvenative foods’ Watch out when you say that. Anything that we seem ‘ADDICTED’ to is usually (most always) harmful to us. I used to eat those products as many of the raw gurus were saying how healthy they are. Afte…

  in Fermented foods.. Comment by SocaL