Why Does the Media Completely Misunderstand Raw Food Diets?

re: Why Does the Media Completely Misunderstand Raw Food Diets?

TWS500 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:51:07 GMT

There are many recipes for steak tartare on the Internet...I've tried several and enjoyed each one... I buy beef - filet mignon - at a very reputable market and grind it myself...twice... Adding a minimum of ingredients thereafter produces the best-tasting healthy meal...

For anyone who wants delicious steak tartare already prepared, try the restaurants Central and/or The Source in Washington, D.C. Yummm...!!

re: Why Does the Media Completely Misunderstand Raw Food Diets?

moo_203 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:55:05 GMT

islander,

i was right here and signed the petition as well.

but i was under the impression that farmers had the right to sell directly to the public and i was ordering un-nuked almonds from him on a reg. basis and now ....he cannot tell me whether the almonds are or are not nuked! the almond police showed up and threatened him...so i guess he has no freedom of speech either...i went to cornicopia to follow up with my statesmen. i hope you all will as well. :o)

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EWELLS2 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:39:32 GMT

I eat about 2 cooked items a week. 1 is venison,

the other is fish I catch in the north Atlentic.

( Cashes ledge ) Usually haddock or pollock.

I cook both on a bed of onions and mushrooms.

I use coconut oil only to cook at very low heat.

I don't think it would taste as good raw, and with

the worms I've seen in flesh, I am not going to

try. Am 74 and work every day. I take no meds.

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Mangreen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:12:35 GMT

Dr. Clement also says that "eat right for your type" as Dr. Mercola fantasizes has no base in fact. Dr. Clement is a scientist who has diligently and honestly researched and studied the effects of "Raw Living Foods(plants)" on Human Beings for over 35 years. He practices what he preaches as well. I am 54 yrs. young and I am in the best shape of my life thanks to the "Living Foods Principles" I believe DR. Mercola does provide some useful information to the mainstream public. He should spend 3 weeks at Hippocrates Health Institute. The best 3 weeks of his life.

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Julieanne — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:05 GMT

sunshine50

Raw cabbage is even better for you when made into sauerkraut - supposedly has lots of health benefits.

Chadzilla

For more protein without the carbs, try making seitan. It is made from vital wheat gluten, so no good if you are gluten intolerant. I went to a vegetarian Chinese restaurant where all the dishes were made from this - it was like eating pork or chicken. I didn't know what it was made from then. I Googled it and found quite a few recipes.

Also, savoury yeast flakes (or nutritional yeast) are very high in protein and give food a 'cheesy' taste. You can probably buy this at health food shops.

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Adriane K — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:44:28 GMT

I like how cooked meat tastes. I can't imagine eating raw meat. Also where are all of you getting good raw meat? I live in Milwaukee and I don't have gas money to be driving all over for natural food and milk sources.

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curious7 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:39:58 GMT

It is not so much that the media does not understand the benefits of whole raw foods, it is that there is no money to made unless they have the mainstream corporations behind them. That means that if they speak against such companies as Kraft, Kellog, Post, and the like, there would be a monatary backlash.

Our health is not of concern to the money changers, the bottom line is the concern. If we as Americans were to eat healthier, diabetes would be less of a concern, obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and even cancer would be on the down swing. Then where would BIG PHARMA be?

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moo_203 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:49:40 GMT

speaking of raw.........I'M SO MAD I COULD SPIT NAILS!

i have been ordering my non-pasteurized almonds from a ranch in calif. for over a year now.

i just went to their site to place another order when i noticed that in the ad it had omitted the words "non-pasteurized"

so i sent them an e-mail inquiring as to why? were they pasteurized or not?..

my answer was a long post about the "almond police " coming to them and threatning them about making an example, etc.that they cannot give any info out regarding thier almonds..they did'nt say one way or another if they were pasteurized or not. they suggested i go to the many links listed below but the links pages had all expired. go figure.

i thought the farmer had a right to sell directly to the public?

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RawSoldier — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:10:45 GMT

Rawesome!! Keep on rawkin in the free world! Good reads listed whoever that was. Roger, I have read your site, good stuff, thanks! Settle down my fellow rawkers, we musn't get too intwined in their negative thought process. We musn't reveal our super human powers to those who have no desire to make the world a better place. There are plenty of eager enthusiastic interested folks whom we should be spending our time helping.

The negativity -mongers (ex. the audience in the video and a few on here) will not even listen to what this little girl has to say. She is my age. I had no clue what was REALLY going on in the world when I was 12. Amazing speech! I grew up in LA (Lower Alabama), by the way, and was a typical hunter, meat and potatoes, coffee, alcohol, tobacco, and junk food eater constantly surrounded by FUD and living for a lost cause. I am a Soldier in a land of aggressive meat consumers. I'm doing just fine!

www.youtube.com/watch

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webwitch6 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:15:38 GMT

Well, I have chimed in before about meat diets, so here I am again. I am a 20 plus year vegetarian, and at the age I am now, I am the healthiest person on both sides of my family, and among all of my friends. I am the only vegetarian in the family, there is one vegan, but that diet I just dont get at all. She is always sick all the time btw.

I have been sick 5 times that I can recall in 20 plus years. The vegan has been sick about 898 times . The meat eaters all have chronic ailments. They also all take piles of colorful pills. (even the vegan).

Is being a vegetarian the right choice for everyone? Probably not. But it is for me.

Gimme my veggies, small side of good grains, butter, yogurt, apple and grape juices ,and fruit and I am a happy camper. If you want to slurp up animal juices and gnaw on animal flesh, go right ahead. Just dont offer me any :)

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Juli — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:11:17 GMT

Once one understands the interconnectedness of all beings, meaning consciousness is ONE, then how can one justify killing any animal for food, when we have the abundance of plants? Anything which can run, fly, swim, crawl away from you, has consciousness. Aside from the horrific suffering most animals undergo so we can eat their flesh or their excretions (milk, eggs), even the "free ones" must be killed against their will. What animal willingly and without fear, walks to their own slaughtering platform or noose?

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DLARAH — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:48:21 GMT

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Greg S — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:16:29 GMT

Dr Mercola, this is the most rediculous thing you have ever written.

I don‘t even want to get into the dangers of animal protein pertaining to cancer, arthritis, depression, parasites, etc. There is so much protein propaganda out there that no one should believe, and all based on studies by the beef corporations.

A shark can‘t live on kale? This is such an ignorant statement! Do you have rows of razor sharp teeth in your head? And how long is your intestinal tract? Way too long to compare yourself with any carnivorous animal!

This is how I will choose who to believe: those whose diseases are healed, whose discomforts disappear, whose well being glows, whose tumors disolve, who get out of their wheelchairs, whose bones regenerate, who don‘t get sick, who don‘t have body odor and blemishes and fat bellies. And you don‘t find their books at Borders or the grocery store.

Yeah, ok, you give up your cell phone and meanwhile go eat your raw animal flesh. That‘s real consistant. And stop comparing yourself inappropriately with carniverous beasts. The strongest animals, with the most stamina, are almost all raw vegans and don‘t have sharp elongate fangs. You on the other had, are better suited to masticating carrots and spinach.

Sheesh. What the hell is next. An article on how drinking urine is good for you? Yeah, I‘ll bet it‘s loaded with freakin‘ protein.

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rawfoodmuse — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:12:37 GMT

There's lots of misunderstanding going on here too.

1) When a polar bear is relocated to San Diego zoo... it is STILL designed for POLAR bear food.. that doesn't change because has been relocated. Just because people MOVED away from the tropics, doesn't change what people are DESIGNED for. ADAPTATION is completely different from EVOLUTION.. It doesn't take nearly as long to adapt as it does to evolve.

2) Again, based on design.. using the animal model in nature like Mercola has, there is NO model in nature to show us this difference of carb vs. protein types... Great White sharks eat what they do because they are DESIGNED for it... ALL of them.. you don't have some GW eating seaweed (as in his example) and others not. ALL animals are like this.. you never an elephant wondering about if it's a carb or protein type... they just eat what they do because they are designed for it AND they clearly enjoy it. No species has separate carb and protein types.

You wouldn't think for a minute that it would be normal for a lion to eat bananas... ergonomically it's a bizarre picture... ALL carnivores eat their meat within minutes (or hours if they must

drag it away for safety of their being or cubs). They eat EVERYTHING... it's warm.. the blood, it's fresh.. no such thing as "aged beef" (rotting), the organs.. they CLEARLY love all of it. They have claws and speed with which to bring down the food they were designed for.

If what we are designed for is NOT available due to climate conditions (and we are in nature) then certainly, from a survival standpoint, we yes, will kill and eat animals and we'd eat right after the kill. This is SURVIVAL. it's different... it's adaptation. yes, the body is amazing.

Carnivores internal workings are very different from humans/anthropoid apes.... you NEVER see apes

at watering holes in any nature videos.. even Planet Earth... they get their water from eating fruit & plants.

think nature

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Debrah — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:14:38 GMT

I would add that to those of you who eat vegan diets because you don't want to kill animals--you have obviously not lived on a farm. I remember the many little creatures that were killed in the fields when my dad used a plow or combine. Unless you are able to buy all your food from Amish people who use horse drawn equipment or grow your own animals will die. I prefer to follow the Native American idea of being grateful to the spirit of the animal for giving its life for our sustanence--I also think it is important to only consume animals that have been humanely raised--thus no factory farm animals--it is better for them and us!