Raw Food Pyramid?

[Raene]

Anyone know of a raw food pyramid?

[dreamrawalwz]

i think there is one out there, but each and every body is different. You have to follow what YOUR body feels comfortable at. :p

[THX-1138]

If I were to creat one, greens would certainly be at the base and nuts, seeds, and oils would be at the top. Just about the base would be fruit, then vegetables and monounsaturated fats. Some may put fruits and veggies together just above greens and then put mono fats, and then polys.

[*SunChild*]

I have 'natures first law' and in my book is the pyramid.

On the bottom is fruits and fats, from left to right, on the top is greens...BUT the key to blanace is smack in the middle...you don't eat more or less of any, really, nor do you have to. And your body tells you, like if you eat too much fats, you might start craving a leafy grean salad.
I think Alissa mentioned it in her DVD (the 'Pearamid'.) She described it exactly as the book illustrated it.

It's all about balancing the three, but you got to let your body communicate, forget trying to remember how much of each you had in a day, rather, wait and see what your next craving is. Over a day or a week you may be out of balance, but over a month it might be perfectly balanced.

[RawTruth]

It's all about balancing the three, but you got to let your body communicate, forget trying to remember how much of each you had in a day, rather, wait and see what your next craving is. Over a day or a week you may be out of balance, but over a month it might be perfectly balanced.* Bingo! *

[wyjoz]

I listened to Paul Nisson and he describes the Pyramid:

oils?

seeds/nuts

greens/vegetables

simple carbohydrates/fruits



Victoria in her book Green For Life has a Circle

fruit 50%
greens 40 %
seeds 8%
2 % oils substiture
for insects!

you got to see it and read that chapter to follow it. If you would draw a pyramid on Pauls or a circle on Victorias you would have an idea.

[wyjoz]

Ups! the circle did not come out at all after I hit post! Draw a circle 1/2 of if is fruits 40% is greens 8% sliver is seeds and 2% sliver is oils?

[Gosia]

Mine is simple:

the rest
ALL FRUIT


Gosia.

[RawTruth]

I listened to Paul Nisson and he describes the Pyramid:

oils?

seeds/nuts

greens/vegetables

simple carbohydrates/fruits



Victoria in her book Green For Life has a Circle

fruit 50%
greens 40 %
seeds 8%
2 % oils substiture
for insects!

you got to see it and read that chapter to follow it. If you would draw a pyramid on Pauls or a circle on Victorias you would have an idea.These are so similar, aren't they, with the exception of no nuts on Victoria's.

Cool. (Though I must say that Gosia's is the simplest:p)

[RawTruth]

Should we even be looking at a pyramid comparable to the U.S. Food Guide Pyramid?

After all, it's put out by the Department of Agriculture!

Here are a few excerpts from to think about:

[T]he U.S. Department of Agriculture's widely reproduced Food Guide Pyramid — whose largest component is grain products such as bread and pasta — is "built on shaky scientific ground" and distorted by the department's mission to promote agriculture, especially dairy and grain farming. . . .


Walter Willett, M.D., a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chairman of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health says "There's an inherent problem with the USDA creating the pyramid . . . The economic interests are so strong — and beef and dairy are the most powerful — that I think it's impossible for the USDA to say that people should limit red meat consumption or limit dairy products to one or two servings a day. It's very difficult for them to be objective, so it's probably the worst possible agency to do the pyramid."

It would be hard to shake that firmly-entrenched graphic out of our heads, but I'm wondering if it would be to our advantage to do so.

What do you all think?

[Raene]

at CHI they say to really limit fruit bc sugar is sugar. i dont know how i feel about that, but 50 percent fruit seems like too much.

[greeninlosangeles]

Unless they count nonsweet fruit like zucchini, cucumber, bell pepper, etc.(non roots)

[RawTruth]

50 percent fruit seems like too much.Compared to what? :)

Aha! See how challenging it is to think outside of that box we've all been sold? :eek: