. . .talk to folks successfully experiencing the raw way of eating by visiting VegSoure’s ”Raw Foods and Sports Nutrition” message board, hosted by Dr. Doug Graham at: http://www.vegsource.com/talk/raw/index.html   [End]
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I’ll take ’em, I think they fit perfectly.   [End]
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Actually, John does recommend use of flax for EFA’s. As for protein, one can actually easily over-consume protein in a vegan diet via legumes. Excessive protein consumption has been implicated in calcium wash out.   [End]
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Some advocate the diet you have described, Dr. John McDougall being one. He has been hugely successful in helping people overcome a variety of pretty serious health problems with dietary changes alone. His work is back by solid scientific studies. More frequent meals do make a big difference, and I find since I have switched to mostly raw (almost all raw) I’m much more satisfied that when more of my calories were coming from cooked foods. Dr. McDougall has his own site at: http://www.drmcdougall.com/index.html He is also represented with a message board on VegSource at: http ...
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A Poll: 1. How many cleanses have you done? 2. How many cleanses do you plan to do? 3. What are the health problems that prompted you to try this? 4. What results are you seeing in that health problem? 5. What other favorable results are you experiencing? 6. What recipe do you prefer, and why? 7. What mistakes have you made? 8. What problems have you experienced? Now my questions: My health problems include life-long allergies and mercury toxicity following removal of fillings (which was supposed to help the allergies). I am eating a raw vegan diet, I switched recently f ...
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Any idea why grapefruit juice is better than lemon?   [End]
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You’ll get nothing but support from me. My doc tried to get me to take hormones a full three years before I became symptomatic of menopause or showed any lab results consistant with perimenopause, and she regularly tries to convince me I *must* eat meat and eggs. If I have leaky gut, as I now suspect, those foods will not help me heal, nor will they help with the menopause symptoms. I’m symptom free on a vegan diet, my body loves those veggies. Maybe it’s time for a new doc.   [End]
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Well, if it makes you feel better, I’m having the same kinds of problems. The thing is, people have systems of belief, and even Science involves a degree of belief or faith. You messed with his system and his system can NOT be wrong, thus the use of shaming behavior. When people cling to one frame of reference like it is religion, the only way they can survive unshaken is to shame you into silence or submission. Either one will do. The only way to prove them wrong is to live your life, all of the evidence in the world will likely not convince them because they are so resistant to ...
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It may be in part due to the fact that everyone is different, but also the overall content of a raw diet that includes meat is far superior to the Standard American Diet (SAD) which would include packaged foods and lots of simple carbs as well as more fats in the form of fried foods, lots of hidden dairy products which bring in hormones and drugs, etc., etc. A piece of raw meat is a far cry from a piece of fried meat slathered with mayonnaise (eggs and added oil) and cheese and stuck between two pieces of nutritionally void white bread. And for every bite of empty calorie, you give up th ...
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Also good reads are Perfect Body, Beyond the Illusion by Roe Gallo and Raw Family by the Boutenko’s. IN this book they chronicle their journey from illness to health via raw diet. See them at Rawfamily.com   [End]
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I’m currently looking to dietary literature for answers for my allergies and rosacea. I’ve done everything in the past, medical docs and allergy docs for 30 years, alternative docs (NAET’s) and holistic dental practice (including mercury removal) for the last ten and I am as sick as ever this spring. The Rosacea developed after having the mercury removed from my teeth (all proper dental precautions were applied, but I still am mercury toxic anyway). In Victoria Boutenko’s book 12 Steps to Raw Food, she indicates that blood tests showed all raw vegan eaters to be free of parasitic in ...
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