Juicing Fruit -- & --- cold weather and Rawfoods II

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Please forgive me - tired I guess - I pressed the return button and sent an

empty email instead of pressing the tab buttton to move to the body of the

email.

 

The Dr. Dean Ornish program for Reversing Heart disease talks at length about

refined sugar and limiting the amount per hour, per day, etc. for example 1

oz of juice is probably all we should drink in an hour. If you are running a

marathon (literally or figuratively) then maybe more per hour but fruit juice

is refined sugar...sure it is better then just the empty calories of white

sugar but if it goes right into the blood stream then we need to limit the

amount

or the excess gets stored in muscle or as fat and we go on the roller coaster

of insulin and sugar blues.

 

Regarding cold weather and rawfoods I have also experienced this challenge.

Everything you have all said I have experienced. This last winter is my first

in 5 years of rawfood of making it through.... I had two secrets --- 3 pairs

of long thermal underwear and making sure I did not get cold and if I did get

cold -- immediately take a hot shower and get into layers of warm clothing.

It could be emotional too as in the northern hemisphere we do expect July to

be warm or even hot...

 

Habib (Sam Bailey) one of the organizers and founders of the Portland

International Raw and Living Foods Festivals said that the first year of going

raw is

cold but that changes. (I will see if this is true for me this November as

that was my first month raw this time). Chinese medicine says raw food is cold

but they didn't have year round quality fruit (do we? LOL) July and August

are definitely the easiest months of the year to be raw in Vancouver WA...

 

Wishing you all the best.

 

Bill

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Bill,

 

Fruit juice does not contain REFINED (or processed) sugar. It would be

considered simple sugar (no fiber) though and has many of the same negative

effects of refined sugar. My understanding is that the difference between the

two is that simple sugars (such as honey) can still contain nutrients where

refined sugar is just carbohydrate. Probably not that big of a difference in

terms of its effects on the body but worth noting.

 

Paul

 

 

Please forgive me - tired I guess - I pressed the return button and sent an

empty email instead of pressing the tab buttton to move to the body of the

email.

 

The Dr. Dean Ornish program for Reversing Heart disease talks at length about

refined sugar and limiting the amount per hour, per day, etc. for example 1

oz of juice is probably all we should drink in an hour. If you are running a

marathon (literally or figuratively) then maybe more per hour but fruit juice

is refined sugar...sure it is better then just the empty calories of white

sugar but if it goes right into the blood stream then we need to limit the

amount

or the excess gets stored in muscle or as fat and we go on the roller coaster

of insulin and sugar blues.

 

Regarding cold weather and rawfoods I have also experienced this challenge.

Everything you have all said I have experienced. This last winter is my first

in 5 years of rawfood of making it through.... I had two secrets --- 3 pairs

of long thermal underwear and making sure I did not get cold and if I did get

cold -- immediately take a hot shower and get into layers of warm clothing.

It could be emotional too as in the northern hemisphere we do expect July to

be warm or even hot...

 

Habib (Sam Bailey) one of the organizers and founders of the Portland

International Raw and Living Foods Festivals said that the first year of going

raw is

cold but that changes. (I will see if this is true for me this November as

that was my first month raw this time). Chinese medicine says raw food is cold

but they didn't have year round quality fruit (do we? LOL) July and August

are definitely the easiest months of the year to be raw in Vancouver WA...

 

Wishing you all the best.

 

Bill

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi all!

 

 

Having returned from a week at the beach in souther NC (Holden Beach),

thought I'd check back. I was able to read, but not really reply to

messages whilst on vacation...

 

on this topic, I offer -

 

Having lived in the norther US, lower Canada, southern US, and in

South Africa for ~8 months, I offer the following on the cold vs.

hot -- (and, yes, I spent a couple of weeks one late June in England -

ended up going out and buying one of those special, oil-soaked

coats...thought I'd freeze to death..)

 

for me, my body seems more naturally happy in warmer climates. The

weather is just less of an issue (he says, as he watches hurricane

Dennis roll up the Gulf...) it terms of being cold. I have also

found that my blood has " thinned " since I've lived in FL, about 4

years now.

When I get " chilled " , whether it's here or up in VA, etc..etc...I do

the following: aim to eat my fruits close to room temperature...I

let them warm up from the fridge if they've been in there. If it

acutally " cold " outside, I'll eat any smoothie as a fruit soup,

having heated the bowl for a bit in the oven, so that it both warms

the fruit a little, and also warms my hands.

 

The other thing that I've found that helps is, in addition

to " layers " as someone else had suggested, is to first wear socks,

and secondly, if it's really chilly, to wear a hat on my head...

(something like 45% of our body heat escapes through our heads?

don't remember the exact statistic...) I found that this really

helped in the winter, especially in northern Ohio, with temperatures

frequently below 0 deg. F. I've found then that a hat on my head,

like a stocking cap, and nice warm, wool socks on my feet (or maybe

cotton now since I haven't been buying wool anymore...), and the rest

of the body unclothed, and crawl into a nice bed, covered with

multiple layers of bedding, I stay very warm. (a bed partner also

helps! lol!)

 

re: the fruit juice converstion - I've not had that problem since

I've switched to " blending " - attempting to keep the fruit as whole

as possible, vs. " juicing " , whereby we lose the fiber, and some of

the nutrients. I've also had good luck with diluting the blended

juice, as in the gatorade recipe I've posted previously.

 

Hope this helps.

 

all the best,

 

Bob