Raw For 30 Days

[sean]

Check out the trailer for the new film Raw for 30 days. Thanks to Mmothra's blog for the heads up.

 

Sean

[Trunk]

Check out the trailer for the new film Raw for 30 days.

Impressive.

[karen]

There's certainly a kernel of truth (no pun intended to the argument for eating raw vegan. But there's a false dichotomy set up, where the raw vegan diet is compared with the SAD diet including commercial meat and dairy. It presupposes that the only alternative to the obviously damaging effects of commercial processed foods is this one particular type of diet.

 

What if you simply eliminated all the commercial processed foods, but you substituted raw grass-fed meats and dairy? Or even some cooked, organic foods? You could take someone who's been on the SAD junk food diet, have them eat a macrobiotic diet, a cooked Ayurvedic diet, a cooked diet according to their TCM imbalances, or a raw animal food diet including grass-fed meats and dairy, and you'd probably see great improvements with any of them!

 

There are glowing testimonials among adherents of all these diets. What do they all have in common? It's what they're NOT eating, moreso than what they are eating.

 

Weston Price found that native cultures all over the world who were robustly healthy were eating completely different diets depending on their particular culture and climate. But what they all had in common was a complete absence of the "displacing foods of modern commerce", aka fake, chemicalized foods.

 

Now, for us it usually takes a bit more than just eliminating the bad stuff to achieve vibrant health, depending on a lot of factors. But many people will see significant improvement of all sorts of health issues just by that alone, so talking about a specific diet at that point is introducing too many variables to be a sound experiment.

 

Diet isn't a one-size-fits all issue, and after the glaring errors are corrected, there can be quite some individualizing to do.

 

-Karen

[mYTHmAKER]

There's certainly a kernel of truth (no pun intended to the argument for eating raw vegan. But there's a false dichotomy set up, where the raw vegan diet is compared with the SAD diet including commercial meat and dairy. It presupposes that the only alternative to the obviously damaging effects of commercial processed foods is this one particular type of diet.

 

What if you simply eliminated all the commercial processed foods, but you substituted raw grass-fed meats and dairy? Or even some cooked, organic foods? You could take someone who's been on the SAD junk food diet, have them eat a macrobiotic diet, a cooked Ayurvedic diet, a cooked diet according to their TCM imbalances, or a raw animal food diet including grass-fed meats and dairy, and you'd probably see great improvements with any of them!

 

There are glowing testimonials among adherents of all these diets. What do they all have in common? It's what they're NOT eating, moreso than what they are eating.

 

Weston Price found that native cultures all over the world who were robustly healthy were eating completely different diets depending on their particular culture and climate. But what they all had in common was a complete absence of the "displacing foods of modern commerce", aka fake, chemicalized foods.

 

Now, for us it usually takes a bit more than just eliminating the bad stuff to achieve vibrant health, depending on a lot of factors. But many people will see significant improvement of all sorts of health issues just by that alone, so talking about a specific diet at that point is introducing too many variables to be a sound experiment.

 

Diet isn't a one-size-fits all issue, and after the glaring errors are corrected, there can be quite some individualizing to do.

 

-Karen

Good post

Maybe Tiny Tim should have said "You are what you don't eat"