Thinking about raw.

[Guest guest]

What is a diet like?<br><br>Almost all people

keep the same diet all their lives because that is

what they want. Our desires for food are formed when

we are children.<br><br>At the same time we learn a

particular language and this remains our mother-tongue. And

our food is just as intimate, Mom's home-cooking. And

we learn what to believe at our mother's

knee.<br><br>So we learn as children what language to speak, what

religion to believe and what food says, " home " .<br><br>So

motherless children must be rational to know what to

eat.<br><br>What is the intense sadness at the root of the raw

food movement?<br><br>Can we hear the cry of the

motherless child or only the relentless rational arguments

for raw food?<br><br>Is this sadness masked by the

hyper-rationality of the raw food evangelists?<br><br>Are we

looking in the wrong place?<br><br>Are we blind,

motherless children?<br><br>Victor.

[Guest guest]

You sound like an over medicated philosopher.<br><br>Are you searching for a new

mommy? Look here:<br><br>Victor...Victoria!<br><a

href=http://www.living-foods.com/news/rahrahraw.html

target=new>http://www.living-foods.com/news/rahrahraw.html</a>

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr Feelgood,<br><br>It seems our desires for

particular types of food are enculturated.<br><br>Just as we

learn a mother-tongue, we learn what food means

'home'.<br><br>To use food instrumentally; to use food to reach a

particular objective is a sign that we are split off,

separated from our own culture. We are no longer at home in

our own culture; we are in a large sense,

'motherless'.<br><br>Animals are born with instincts. We learn a culture: a

language, a religion and a cuisine.<br><br>So culture

becomes, for us, 'second nature'.<br><br>When our culture

fails us, when our 'mother' fails us, we are driven

back onto extreme rationality.<br><br>It's a dead

give-away.<br><br>Victor.<br>The Over Medicated Philosopher.

[Guest guest]

& gt;It's a dead give-away. & lt;<br><br>What is it,

and what does it give away?<br><br>Our culture

bombards use with media supported by advertising. About

half of the food advertising dollars spent, sell soft

drinks, chips, candy and other junk food. Another 30%

goes toward advertising fast foods that are full of

fat and sugar and made with highly refined nutrient

deficient ingredients. Another 18% to advertise other

refined products. About 2% goes to advetise produce, the

most healthy part of our diets.<br><br>We are the most

over-fed under-nurished culture on the planet.<br><br>All

kinds of maladies are the result. Then we are bombarded

by advertisers to take all kinds of drugs to

surpress healing symptoms. Then we are told to expect

things like prostate and breast cancer just because we

reach a certain age.<br><br>When the influence of our

mothers and culture put us on, or on the road to, our

death bed, no rationality can be extreme

enough.<br><br>What do you think of Victoria?

[Guest guest]

& gt;What do you think of Victoria? & lt;<br><br>I

thought that you comment Victor--Victoria was a reference

to the Movie Victor/Victoria, where the protagonist

was half man, half woman.<br><br>I thought you were

insulting me by calling me a half man because of I was

expressing my feelings.<br><br>I must admit I find it

strange to be sexually insulted while I think a man

expressing his feelings is a fine creation.<br><br>Victor.

[Guest guest]

& gt;Victor...Victoria! & lt;<br><br>What I meant

was: Victor...let me introduce you to Victoria

Boutenko.<br><br><a href=http://www.living-foods.com/news/rahrahraw.html

target=new>http://www.living-foods.com/news/rahrahraw.html</a><br><br>She is

very knowledgeable about the benefits of

eating all raw foods. She has done a lot of research and

gives weekend workshops. She has been extremely

effective in " reprogramming " what some our mothers and

culture have taught is best for us. She uses mostly

common sense, emphasizing what most of us already know

to be true, even though old habits

die-hard.<br><br><a href=http://rawfamily.com/

target=new>http://rawfamily.com/</a><br><br>The secret is not, not eating cooked

food, but eating

deliciously prepared and unprepared living food. As you pour

crystal clean pure water into a glass, soon all the dirty

polluted water is displaced.