Comments on: Are You Getting Enough Protein in a Raw Vegan Diet?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:05:51 +0000

Oh and check out the book “Left in the Dark” for newer theories on brain expansion and our diets. Might suprise you =)

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:04:16 +0000

Meeting protein needs is not difficult to attain at all, I would say the issues people should watch out for (this is not just on a raw diet) are food combining, excess overt fats (clogging, acidic), lack of variety, produce quality, eating when hungry, enough sleep, enough exercise (hence greater food intake, more nutrients, macro and micro). .8g/kg is RDA/WHO requirement..with built in doubled safeguards based on denatured heated animal proteins. Melons have a ton, greens you can build your way up, even healing from colitis I’ve eaten a lb of spinach raw straight from the bag at farmers markets walking around. Juicing greens/certain veggies can be an adjunct while you work your way up (or heal certain conditions) or just to add to it (way less time than cooking a meal that’s for sure). Really, your evolutionary evidence is just theory, and there are several theories that say otherwise, about evidence. There is so much science, logic, physiology, anatomy, and experience to the raw vegan high fruit low fat diet. Of course some say oh just do lots of fresh fruit and veg don’t worry as much about the rest, well your instincts will shift naturally but any amount of excitotoxins (salt, many spices) and refined foods throw off a diet. There is a huge shift that happens when this is followed 100%, emotional eating can fall away, psychologically disordered aspects of eating can vanish, your absorption increases, the body is able to eliminate toxins and work on old issues.

By: Elie

Elie — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:22:42 +0000

Amazing….everything you’re writing…i agree and thought about it before..specially the protein part…the essenes…….i came across ur website by “chance”
waiting impatiently for the ebook….
best regards
Elie

By: Mike Kinnaird

Mike Kinnaird — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:10:25 +0000

Hi Randomguru!

Congrats on your raw food achievements and a very cool looking website! Well done.

I don’t believe it’s enough to go by how you feel daily. As I’m sure you know, the human body has many reserves and you won’t necessarily feel anything until way too late.

The acid test for any diet is how it performs over several generations.

Your research WILL lead you down that path because they all reference each other — led by the China Study sitting at the moment on top of the heap.

There are credible nay-sayers if you care to look. A good place to start is the amazing debate between Colin Campbell in the blue corner and Loren Cordain in the red corner. A fascinating debate that if nothing else, shows how far we are from a resolution to the dietary dilemmas that impact us.

Feeling good now means very little actually. You will feel just the same if you were on a drip for 3 weeks. But there are folks who were just as excited as you that ended up very sick or worse.

I take my hat off to the raw food pioneers — I’m one of them I guess since I did it for 6 months, but the mainstream world isn’t ready for raw just yet. There are many problems to be ironed out before that can happen.

The ultimate diet I believe will be some some of raw diet but we need science and that aint happening. And I mean proper science — i.e. not funded by those with vested interests.

I also believe that before you can make a rational decision about something as important as this, you have to listen to both sides of the argument. Researching only one side is bound to convince your brain that a raw vegan diet is all there is to natural human nutrition because you’re not hearing anything else :-)

I’m glad your feeling great, that’s a wonderful feeling and I’ve been there on raw. For me, for now, all I can say is it’s an amazing tool for healing and that the ultimate diet will be close to that but long term there are too many folks getting sick and even dying.

We need more answers in my view before raw can make the leap from the pioneers to the mainstream.

God bless ya and good luck!

By: randomguru

randomguru — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:42:15 +0000

Nice post! And best wishes to you on your raw food journey.

I’ve been a “high raw” vegan since August 2005 and 100% raw since November 2008, so i’m always doing research online to get more information.

I’m going for 100 days at 100% raw right now and I’m on day 68. And so far I’m feeling pretty spectacular!

As far as protein goes, I admit there needs to be more cutting edge research that documents raw vegans and their protein needs.

The big research thing I’d like to see is in Enzymes, because raw vegans continually promote the fact that enzymes ARE amino acids and there’s more of an abundance of enzymes in raw foods compared to cooked, supposedly.

I think that in the end, each person’s dietary journey is a personal one. You have to go by what you feel daily, what works and what doesn’t work. It’s a process of continual research and re-discovery to be able to experience the best health possible in a world full of additives, chemicals, pesticides, processed and genetically modified foods.

The more I do research, the more it seems to be that we need to definitely eat mostly plant foods, raw, organic and wholesome…