Guest guest Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Emily, For most of my life I've had real problems with being too cold on cool days even with wearing lots of polartec, and have had a lot of congestion problems, and so I had concerns about this and raw food in cooler wetter weather. There are some foods that are warming or cooling in essence, regardless of the temperature they are eaten at. For instance, pears and peaches are cooling, fig and papaya are neutral, and cherries and dates are warming. Also most nuts and seeds are neutral or warming. The high level of omega-3 fatty acids in some nuts and seeds helps a damp sluggish system more effectively utilize these nuts and seeds. I've noticed a big difference in how much warmer I stay when the food I eat is between 100-115 F, and the ingredients are warming foods. Even though apples are cooling, both dates and almonds are warming. When I'm chilled in the morning and drink a smoothie that is warmer than body temperature made from apples, dates, and almonds, it warms me up, and keeps me warm for several hours. In comparison, drinking a smoothie made with peaches, pears, and almonds, with the fruit out of the refrigerator, makes me so cold even physical activity doesn't warm my hands and feet up. Turning the food into smoothies also helps make the diet more warming because it takes less energy for the body to digest it, and it can be digested faster getting the calories into your bloodstream faster. The heat in the food and water you consume has so much effect on body temperature that winter mountain climbers carry additional fuel just to heat the water, so they are drinking hot water instead of cold water. You could try some warmed up, warming drying raw foods and see how well it works for you. Adding warming drying herbs and spices to your food can help increase this effect. Additionally the added vitality of live raw food will increase your body's vitality, and this will help increase its ability to compensate for the coolness and dampness of west coast winters. A lot of what I've learned I've found out by experimenting with different foods in different combinations and watching to see how my body responded. Even the most detailed books say you have to experiment to see what works for you in your environment. If a warmed up raw diet focusing on warming and drying foods and spices doesn't work, you can always go back to hot cooked food. It seems like the added sense of peace and well-being that comes with a raw food diet would really help support an intensive yoga practice, and so it would be worth experimenting to see if you could make it work for you. If you find a way to make raw food work for you in the cold wet months, I would really like to know what combinations of food you used. May your day be filled with clarity, grace, progress, and warm laughter, Roger - " Emily Iverson " <emilyiverson <RawSeattle > Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:24 PM Re: [RawSeattle] hard to stay raw > Barb, > I've been going on and off a raw diet(for lack of a > better word) for a few months as well. For the most > part, I love it! Everything I eat gives me a body > high. Or rather I can feel the nourishment from all of > my food. I saw a friend after a very long time of not > seeing her and she had dropped like 20lbs and her eyes > sparkled like I had never seen. I asked her what she > had been doing and she said she went raw. So I tried > it out. The first time I fell off the wagon was > because I got busy, didn't make time to prepare, and > didn't have very good appliances (no dehydrator or > blender, or space) and got hungry and ate cooked food. > > Recently, for about a month I was for the most part > raw again and having a great time preparing food and > coming up with different recipes that were cariations > of recipes from some great cookbooks I got. This > sounds a bit cheezy but I really like the Uncook Book > by Juliano and perhaps even more cheezy Raw Food Real > World by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis. They own > a raw restaurant in LA. The recipes are colorful and > very fun! > I have gone off raw food for the fall/winter. Talking > with my yoga mentor(I'm in yoga teacher training for > the next 7 months) I have chosen to eat warm food to > heat up my body as it tends to be cold and damp in its > afflictions. > I love eating raw food only! Love it Love it Love it > and maybe if it weren't getting really cold here I > would continue to stay with the diet. I think I shall > pick it up again in the spring. > Hope this answers some of your questions. > Namaste. > Emily Iverson > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 WOW thank you so much. That rocks! I'll look into warming foods. Raw food really makes life a better place and if I could stay raw and still be warm it would be great. Thank you so much! How long have you been Raw? Love, laughter, peace, and yeeeeeeha out to you as well! Emily --- Roger Padvorac <roger wrote: > Emily, > For most of my life I've had real problems with > being too cold on cool days even with wearing lots > of polartec, and have had a lot of congestion > problems, and so I had concerns about this and raw > food in cooler wetter weather. > > There are some foods that are warming or cooling in > essence, regardless of the temperature they are > eaten at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Emily, It felt great to get a sense of your enthusiasm, thanks. I'm been raw since the middle of February of this year. This means I wasn't raw during the dampest and coldest parts of last winter. I hadn't really thought about that until this thread started evolving. I started really thinking about this upcoming season when I realized I needed better diet solutions myself since I'm still having cold and damp health problems even after being raw for 10 months. May your day be filled with clarity, grace, progress, and warm laughter, Roger - " Emily Iverson " <emilyiverson <RawSeattle > Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:52 AM Re: [RawSeattle] hard to stay raw & warming foods and winter > WOW thank you so much. That rocks! I'll look into > warming foods. Raw food really makes life a better > place and if I could stay raw and still be warm it > would be great. Thank you so much! How long have you > been Raw? > Love, laughter, peace, and yeeeeeeha out to you as > well! > Emily > > --- Roger Padvorac <roger wrote: > > > Emily, > > For most of my life I've had real problems with > > being too cold on cool days even with wearing lots > > of polartec, and have had a lot of congestion > > problems, and so I had concerns about this and raw > > food in cooler wetter weather. > > > > There are some foods that are warming or cooling in > > essence, regardless of the temperature they are > > eaten at. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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