Comments on: Raw Food Experiment- Day 1/90 http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/diet/raw-food-experiment-day-190/ Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/diet/raw-food-experiment-day-190/comment-page-1/#comment-138 admin Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:54:19 +0000 http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/?p=203#comment-138 Excellent point Patrick. I'm not sure about cooking adding calories to the food, but I'd love to see that research. After a lot of experimentation with raw food (and I do value experience more than almost anything) and observing many raw food people, I think there is a lot of value in a high-raw diet, especially if you want to have energy and look vibrant and healthy, but having occassional meat/dairy in cooked form is healthy too and probably adds balance that some long-term raw-foodists could use. Some of the best arguments for a high-raw diet today are 1) It's now possible because of modern transportation to eat high-raw regardless of the climate or season you live in. 2) The sources we have for food we traditionally cook have become so poor due to factory farming, pesticide and herbicide use that leaning more on raw, organic plant food is a better choice comparatively than it would have been 100 or 1000 years ago. In terms of my own diet right now, I try to eat about 85% of my meals raw vegan and the rest I eat whatever, although I always try to find the highest quality food sources possible. Excellent point Patrick. I’m not sure about cooking adding calories to the food, but I’d love to see that research.

After a lot of experimentation with raw food (and I do value experience more than almost anything) and observing many raw food people, I think there is a lot of value in a high-raw diet, especially if you want to have energy and look vibrant and healthy, but having occassional meat/dairy in cooked form is healthy too and probably adds balance that some long-term raw-foodists could use. Some of the best arguments for a high-raw diet today are 1) It’s now possible because of modern transportation to eat high-raw regardless of the climate or season you live in. 2) The sources we have for food we traditionally cook have become so poor due to factory farming, pesticide and herbicide use that leaning more on raw, organic plant food is a better choice comparatively than it would have been 100 or 1000 years ago.

In terms of my own diet right now, I try to eat about 85% of my meals raw vegan and the rest I eat whatever, although I always try to find the highest quality food sources possible.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/diet/raw-food-experiment-day-190/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Patrick Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:52:27 +0000 http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/?p=203#comment-137 Question: can you name a single tribe or native (aboriginal) ppl who eat only raw... I think you will hard pressed as I dont think there are any. Its food for thougth as they say.. some research i heard about suggests that cooking adds calories and that the extra calories allowed humans (once they started cooking) to evolve larger brains... Question: can you name a single tribe or native (aboriginal) ppl who eat only raw…
I think you will hard pressed as I dont think there are any. Its food for thougth as they say.. some research i heard about suggests that cooking adds calories and that the extra calories allowed humans (once they started cooking) to evolve larger brains…

]]> By: Kayla http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/diet/raw-food-experiment-day-190/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Kayla Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:38:33 +0000 http://www.powersecretsforlife.com/?p=203#comment-79 In the same boat - dabbled in raw food and haven't moved forward much with them. It will be interesting to read your thoughts. One thing I have learned is that for my kids putting washed baby spinach leaves in berry smoothies is a great way to get greens for my kids - they actually CRAVE them! Here is what we put in - You need liquid as a base so I either use water or Fresh OJ then add - 1 cup fresh baby spinach then we add whatever fruit we have on hand - mixture of fresh and frozen - frozen tripleberry mix (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries) Frozen mangos Banana Apple In the same boat – dabbled in raw food and haven’t moved forward much with them. It will be interesting to read your thoughts. One thing I have learned is that for my kids putting washed baby spinach leaves in berry smoothies is a great way to get greens for my kids – they actually CRAVE them! Here is what we put in –

You need liquid as a base so I either use water or Fresh OJ

then add –
1 cup fresh baby spinach
then we add whatever fruit we have on hand – mixture of fresh and frozen –
frozen tripleberry mix (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries)
Frozen mangos
Banana
Apple

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