Comments on: Are you getting enough protein in a raw vegan diet?

By: Laurie Thomas

Laurie Thomas — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:59:18 +0000

PCOS is a result of insulin resistance, which in turn results from eating too much fat. Many people who try to eat a raw diet end up eating too much fat and not enough starch.

http://wheredogorillasgettheirprotein.blogspot.com/2011/03/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-diabetes-of.html

By: Sevrina Crane

Sevrina Crane — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:07:23 +0000

Hello! I have been raw vegan for several days branching off of an almost entirely plant-based diet (except rarely an egg from my chickens). A few days ago I transitioned into vegan and was naturally following the raw approach, but because of blood sugar sensitives haven’t had an entirely raw diet even though in my heart, such as yours, I feel I am. For me, I include a nice amount of nuts and seeds each day along with 1/2 of beans or more each day. I am aiming to loose weight and maintain my PCOS symptoms, and have been loosing weight with this diet and finding it works best for me mentally and psychically but find a lot of other people are somewhat malnourished themselves. Anyway, I wanted to say that I was looking for an article such as yours to tell me that following an entirely raw vegan diet isn’t always necessarily the healthiest idea (especially for someone who is very active and has blood sugar sensitives). In this case, I am following a raw vegan diet with the exception of beans, lentils, etc. Thank you for this article!

By: Mike Kinnaird

Mike Kinnaird — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:11:34 +0000

That’s interesting Laurie, thanks. Not heard that argument before.

By: Laurie Thomas

Laurie Thomas — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:08:06 +0000

It’s silly to worry about proteins being “denatured” by cooking. They get also get denatured and even digested by the acid and enzymes in the stomach and intestines.

The fact that proteins can be denatured by cooking can actually be a good thing. I know people who have such bad allergies that they can’t eat any fruit unless it’s cooked.

By: Mike Kinnaird

Mike Kinnaird — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:15:08 +0000

Hi Brittany, I’m with you in that my heart is with raw foods and I do think it’s the future. HOWEVER, you don’t hear much about the failures to stay with raw foods and there have been MANY people who believed in it, who wanted it to work but it didn’t. So, we need to know WHY. The truth is that every other animal, every other life-form eats raw, that is FACT. So something is wrong somewhere. It may be as simple as a B12 problem or it maybe because of not enough calories or because supermarket fruit is NOT wild fruit, it has more sugar, less minerals and less protein in general than wild fruit. It maybe because there’s not enough protein.

So… Raw is NOT to be recommended right now because we don’t have all the data, we don’t have a reliable way of making it work. In the future, I think it will happen, but that future is a good way off because we need GOOD science, i.e. not funded by people with an agenda, and so we’re not getting any science because there’s no independent funding.

We have to come at this nutrition problem from the angle of “what is a natural diet for humans” and go from there. That’s the only sane angle but that is not happening either.

~ Mike