Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 Doug,<br><br>Your response to Susan grips my interest.<br><br>As a sufferer of at least atherosclerosis and possibly Buergers, I am struggling to get a raw food diet that sustains me. <br><br>A percieved deficiency is a lack of body heat and energy which I guess is probably due to a lack of carbohydrates. You mention grains but wheat I avoid. What other foods will fill the gap. I have eaten raw potatoes to get lipase in the hope that it will break down the plaque in the arteries but I read conflicting notions on the value of eating raw potatoes.<br><br>Also I went on quite a long water fast a couple of months ago and that changed my metabolism positively and completely.<br><br>Do you have any notions on where I should search to find dietary help for my condition?<br><br>Best regards<br><br>Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 A point about not getting enough carbohydrates. Why aren't you? Just eat more fruit. We don't need any complex carbohydrates or at least only what is found in fruits. <br><br>I used to be cold on the raw diet, I used to not be able to do it. It took me 5 years of experimentation to finally get a hang of it. Now after 4 months of raw I am fine. I am not cold at all in the cold weather here in NJ. In fact I seem to be handling the cold better than the average person. I eat a load of fruit and therefore get enough carbs to fuel my body. At my dinner meals I usually have a nut pate or some avocado. <br><br>The problem is that people are not used to eating so much fruit. But we have to replace what we would normally eat in terms of carbohydrates with enough calories to fuel us. That means you are going to feel full because fruit has a lot of water in it. Cooked food diets have all the water removed so the calories are condensed. <br><br>One thing to stay away from in the winter is too much citrus fruit. I can eat just one of those at room temperature and it sends chills down my spine. When I first tried raw in the winter time I subsisted on about 75% oranges. I was freezing like crazy. It's a great summer time cooling fruit.<br><br>Also so many people are worried about the sugar content in fruits. But that is the way we are supposed to get our sugar content; via fruits. Glucose is our main fuel need. Our brains need sugar to function. Eat fruit, it's good for you. <br><br>I know that some raw foodists will disagree. But I know Dr. Graham was able to get diabetics that came to his clinic off of insulin within a week on a raw food diet. Many times even with eating fruit. It depended on their reaction to the sugars. Eventually he got them eating fruit once their bodies adjusted and their blood sugar levels went down. The key was not combining sugars with fats at the same meals. If you eat only fruit your blood sugar levels will go down very quickly because the body can absorb it naturally. Fats slow digestion and therefore if you have sugar with your fats you will have a long elevated blood sugar level.<br><br>Good Luck, Roger Haeske<br><br>Get a Free 6 Step Technique to Transition to a Raw Diet, go to <a href=http://superbeing.com/awesometechnique.htm target=new>http://superbeing.com/awesometechnique.htm</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 Hi Peter,<br>Lecithin seems to be good at cleaning out the arteries. It is inexpensive. I have a large container of the lecithin granules that I bought at my co op.<br>Marlene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 Thanks for your interest, Roger,<br><br>Broadly I follow David Wolfe's Sunfood Diet. Thus I eat fruit for breakfast although as of tomorrow I will cut out the citrus. Then the leafy food at lunch and finally an attempt at vegetable fats in the evening.<br><br>Thus I tend to keep sugar away from fats but the fats do get mixed sometimes with the foliage.<br><br>I believe that my condition can be cured by diet and that diet is far more important than the medical profession generally appreciates.<br><br>I wonder whether it might not be better to make the separation by days rather than meals...<br><br>I have been on raw food for about a year but a couple of months ago I went vegan, The transition is a long process. <br><br>I will drop in on your superbeing site.<br><br><br><br>Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 Thanks Marlene,<br><br>Lecithin is on my list of supplements.<br><br>Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2002 Report Share Posted January 1, 2002 Peter;<br>I wholeheartedly agree with Roger. I eat a lot of citrus here in Hawaii to stay cool, its usually hot here. I don't believe enough can be said about avocados. they are loaded with lipaze. and I read somwhere they contain more vitemins and minerls than any other food. They may be expensive where you live but worth it. (the are free here, eat your hearts out.) Also, about Roger; I get a sense, reading his posts, that Roger is having a lot of fun with living foods. This is something we all need to focus on. This is fun stuff, trying new recipes, creating our own, pouring through books, discovering new things, and becoming a new person. The only problem I have is T-shirts, Why don't we have T-shirts???<br><br>Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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