the thin quandry - Bring it on!

[Guest guest]

I say BRING IT ON! I think it would be wonderful if all the models started

eating this way and raw food went main stream! Couldn't the world be a better

place?

 

Think of all the girls and boys that would follow suit. Perhaps Anorexia and

Bulimia would be a thing of the past. People would actually get healthy.

Perhaps we wouldn't be the most obese country in the world. Perhaps we would

even get back to the number 1 spot of healthiest countries as we were in the

earlier part of the 20th century instead of the 100th as we are now.

 

What if a bunch of people stopped eating so much flesh? What if as a whole,

America stopped snacking on junk food? Studies have already shown that if

vending machines are removed from schools the kids get less aggressive and more

studious.

 

What if the majority started eating raw food and most diseases were eradicated?

Could the world be a better place? Wouldn't it be nice to not have to give our

children insulin shots in there stomachs starting at age 5 or 7 or 10 ....?

Wouldn't it be nice to not have to sit by the hospital bedside of a love one,

watching them wither away as poison drips through their veins?

 

I know I tend to be a 'Pollyanna', but couldn't the world be a better place?

Woo Hoo! Raw Raw RAW!

 

To your health!

Paula

 

 

 

 

 

plasticbubblegirl <a_sirk

rawfood

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:08:58 AM

[Raw Food] the thin quandry

 

hello, i joined this group recently hoping to find great raw recipes

and tips and such. i have been raw/vegan/alkaline (when i don't

cheat) for about two years, as i am trying to keep my entire system

from shutting down due to autoimmune disorders.

 

for me, being raw/raw-vegan came from trying to preserve my health,

but i have been suprised and delighted at the wonderful things i have

learned, foods i've tried, and people i've learned about.

 

i have also lost weight. about 30 pounds, although i could lose 30

more without ever having to worry about my health.

 

but as i read more and more, i see people who are going raw just to

be thin. i'm not sure why - well, maybe because my health is partly

this way because i harmed my health with extreme dieting - but this

worries me.

 

i'm drawn to raw not only for health, but because it seems to be

filled with light and inspiration and with a looking away from

traditional (read poisonous) eating and beliefs.

 

is anyone else bothered by it becoming a hot-model diet trend? does

anyone else see danger in that?