Eating: Great Documentary Regarding Healthy Food Choices.

August 21, 2006

Click links below for info on this documentary.

http://www.ravediet.com/images/EatingFlyer.pdf

http://www.ravediet.com/whatsinfilm.htm

August 30, 2006

How do you grind your own flour? Do you simply grind up almonds, or

flaxseeds?

Thanks for the overview of the book. Seems like it is based on very simple

concepts that are very much in line with the diet that I am supposed to

follow. When I don't eat right I get very sick as well - and yet for some

reason, the will power and discipline to eat as restrictively as I need to,

is very hard for me. I guess it takes time and I will eventually get into a

groove.

Thanks again!

Sharon

On 8/29/06, Deborah Pageau <dpageau wrote:

>

> I haven't seen the whole video yet, nor read the book, but I have read

> and seen a great deal of the previous works by most of the contributing

> authors, so I suspect it may be similar to the type of regimen they all tend

> to recommend. The diet as it was described on the website matches what they

> have tended to recommend for years: whole fruits, whole veggies and legumes,

> whole grains (in my case, only gluten-free whole grains). It's very low in

> fat, completely vegan whole foods, very simple and natural. I avoid salt,

> sugar, alcohol, coffee, refined flours (I grind my own), oil. I've been

> eating this way for the past 20 years.

>

> I was terribly sick when I first started, it made all the difference to my

> health. When I have " fallen by the wayside " at times and made myself sick

> again, getting back onto it has convinced me (again!) why I do it.

>

> Deborah

>

> Do you have the book and video? Are you practicing the Rave diet? The

> website doesn't give much info about the " diet " or way of eating - so I

> was

> just curious what it entails, and if you are seeing results, feeling

> better.

>

> Thanks,

> Sharon

>

> On 8/29/06, Deborah Pageau <dpageau <dpageau%40dccnet.com>>

> wrote:

> >

> > Eating: Great Documentary Regarding Healthy Food Choices.

> >

> > http://www.ravediet.com/images/EatingFlyer.pdf

> >

> > http://www.ravediet.com/whatsinfilm.htm

> .

>

August 30, 2006

I have a Whisper Mill grain grinder for larger quantities, but when I just want

a cup or less, I use my coffee grinder. It works well enough, although the mill

produces a finer grind. I do the flax seed in the coffee grinder, since I only

do a tablespoon or so at a time generally, and the mill can clog up on oily

substances. Almonds, I tend to grind up in my food processor. Getting them

fine enough to use as flour would be tough though. I'd probably want to buy

almond flour if I was baking with it.

I understand totally about the time it takes to really relearn eating habits and

choices. I was raised on the SAD, and my process of re-educating myself has

really been a life-time study. I probably first became aware of the impact of

diet on health when my father died at the age of 52 of a heart attack. I was

12. I took my first baby steps along this path a few years later by baking

whole grain (regular) bread. A few years later, in university, I lived with a

friend who had very eclectic views on food, which really opened my eyes as to

the possibilities. I continued to explore with only a vague sense of what was

healthy nutrition for another ten years until after my daughter was born. That

was when my need for high quality nutrition really peaked. Then I got serious

about eating to live, instead of living to eat. Twenty years after that, I'm

still learning and refining. :-) Onward and upward....

Deborah