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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:01 pm
I've been researching about enzymes and looking at the possibilities for an all raw food diet, but I'm wondering how feasable this is and if there are really any benefits.
Now, the first two months that I was vegetarian I ate only raw fruits and vegetables, but that's hardly a long-term option because I was eating constantly and I can't do that with work and school...
I'm a bit skeptical about some of the raw-food advocates, claiming to only eat non-proccessed foods, while the main tool they use is even called a "food proccessor" neutral
I'm sure it could do me good for a while though once I have enough information, what do you guys think?
Would it be feasable to have a lifetime of raw foods without hypocrisizing (can't think of a better word right now) yourself?
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:25 pm
Of course! My sister followed this for about 2 years for personal reasons.
You can kind of cook it if you want, just remember, all the best enzymes in food are killed at 115 degrees!
Certain cooking techniques that make foods more digestible and switches up the diet are:
* Sprouting seeds, grains, and beans
* Juicing fruit and vegetables
* Soaking nuts and dried fruit
* Blending
* Dehydrating food
Some things you can use to change the feeling of the food are:
* A dehydrator, a piece of equipment that blows air through food at a temperature of less than 116 degrees F.
* A good-quality juice extractor for juicing fruit and vegetables
* A blender or chopper to save time
* Large glass containers to soak and sprout seeds, grains, and beans
* Mason jars for storing sprouts and other food
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:49 am
I ate a raw food meal from this heath food store and got so sick. I almost missed our super fun company trip that afternoon. Not surprisingly, the store closed down afterwards.
Then I saw this one show on the Travel Channel and this guy visited this raw food guy in Jamaica and he made this awesome pie with all these colorful local fruits. It looked so delicious!
I'd love to try it out, but it seems difficult to maintain, 'specially when my husband loves his meat and all that. But maybe one day I'll try making something like that pie 3nodding Trying once is better than not trying at all I believe!
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:09 am
You can try it, but keep your head on straight - if it doesn't work for you, don't feel obligated to stay with it. From what I've studied, raw vegan diets often carry a risk of falling into the "cult diet" trap. (I'm working on a write-up on that.) Failure seems to often result in other practitioners or the 'experts' blaming the victim instead of the diet. (Brainwashing technique - be careful of it.) In many cases, they provide a short-term boost to health, but may have more negative effects if they are sustained for long periods of time. For more information, visit Beyond Vegetarian.
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:28 am
I think incorporating a high amount of raw food into your diet is a good thing. I'm not sold on a 100% raw diet because dairy can be beneficial and foods like eggs and some vegetables are actually more nutritious when slightly cooked. Personally I've taken to minimizing the cooking time as much as possible (I don't char things to death anymore XD)
I've tried a few raw food recipes and I will say that many of them are simply delicious and light and filling all at the same time. yum.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:52 am
Wow, i watched a documentary on 2 people suffering from orthorexia nervosa, brought on by following raw foodism diet. And they're not scared of being fat, they're scared of bringing crap into their bodies.
They also HAVE to eat healthy 24/7 and spend hours calculating what they eat and are too scared to shop from a grocery store.
The man was 28 years old and 110 pounds, they both were wasting away and aged terribly.
And then i remembered this thread, and if you havent already, please look into orthorexia nervosa because those following that diet say its hard NOT to fall into that.
I had no idea that was a danger O_O
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:20 am
Unfortunately, it is. Now that I think about it, that aptly describes the vegan extremists who have unwittingly starved their children to death. They were so afraid of the notion of putting anything "impure" into their children. One couple seemed to think that their child's emaciated state was actually a sign of health - to them it indicated that the child had no mucus in its body. (Some raw food extremists seem to think that all disease is caused by mucus, which is created by eating the wrong foods. Now, I don't know about you, but I thought that sort of thing belonged in the Medieval era!) You might find this article of interest: The Cold Truth About Raw Food Diets
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:20 pm
A curious experiment would be for us to spend a week eating 100% raw.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:27 am
onicoe A curious experiment would be for us to spend a week eating 100% raw. I would do it XD We could keep food logs on a specific thread >_> Would a week prove anything in such a short time?
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:46 am
The only thing you could prove in a week is that going raw for relatively short periods of time is beneficial for some individuals. The ill effects associated with raw diets do not generally appear for several months, and I would wager that the time it takes for them to set in (as well as other variables) would depend upon the individual.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:56 pm
That's true. Any health benefits would be short term, if they happened at all. What I was getting at is that there seems to be a popular fascination with the raw food diet. So spending x amount of time 100% raw as a group would be interesting to discuss our experiences.
I've read a bit on the diet and have tried a few recipes but have yet to commit to it for any length of time. It'd be a more subjective experiment rather than anything scientific.
2 or 3 weeks would work as well. I'm game for anything.
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:47 am
The other day my Aquatic Science teacher went on a tangent about calories and food and he said (I don't know about the validity of this because he often just spouts things out of his ears) that a lot of foods like carrots, potatoes, celery, cabbage, and lettuce don't give any energy at all when they're eaten raw. Apparently, they give you minerals and fill you up but you don't get any actual energy from them. I'd heard that lettuce and carrots only had like five calories per full cup of food, but no calories? What a concept. I wish I had more time to research all these things gonk
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:12 am
it's called "negative calorie" foods. Foods that take more energy to consume than are contained in that food. It's a popular concept among anorexics. I don't know that validity of it myself.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:18 pm
So cooking them breaks down..fiber? So we can digest them? Is that why we can eat bamboo? razz
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:18 pm
Good god, I just read Ani Phyo's cookbook and now I totally want to try raw. I remember back when I was a macrobiotic vegan I had wanted to try raw, but this was ages ago and I would go to message boards and all the posts would be like "I can't manage to eat 12 bananas a day, HELP!" and I'd be like omg wow, why ; ;? But now the gourmet set has found raw and it seems so much more fun.
Now that banana thing is termed "Monofooding". Cute, really.
I doubt I can go 100% raw because winter in Chicago ... at some point I seriously will need a hot drink or soup. But 100% in the warm weather is doable.
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