Longevity Poll

[light food]

Hi, I read something about longevity being a big factor in why people go raw and I wanted to know what people really think! I was also wondering what factor instincts play in people going raw. Thanks for answering my poll!

Longevity -

What effect does longevity have on your interest in raw food, if raw foodists lived just as long as everyone else would you still be into raw food?

Instincts -

Do you think that your instincts or something you read led you to raw food?
If there was no info on raw food, would people still eat choose raw food even though they didn't know why?

[Coriander74]

Good questions!!!

I think it's quality of life over quantity, personally. I would want to feel this good about the years that I do have instead of being overweight and unhealthy like I was :)

My good friend led me to raw foods... she messaged me one night with this idea about raw, and led me to this site, and I went on it a few days after.

I think people would eat whatever made them feel their best :D

Thanks for posting this!

[Lady Green Jeans]

Great thread. I agree--it is a matter of feeling so much better, looking better and enjoying life more because of it. As nobody really knows how long they have, making the best of whatever time is the best choice--IMO.

[Queen Shelley]

I'm 60 and my hubby just turned 70 so it is longevity for us! No insurance for another! I've been into Homeopathics and Herbs for years, give me a pill or tincture, don't tell me to cut something from my diet! :eek: We've studied since 1980's when the Fit For Life came out, did it, ate cooked. Hallelujah diet, did it, cheated with the evening 'cooked' part. And every other cooked food diet there is. Gained weight steadily. It was when my hubbys blood pressure was 225/90 that kicked us in the butt! He's down to 198 at 6'2" a 1981 weight. I'm down 30 with 60+ to release.

The constant hunger, no matter how much cooked food we ate was a hurdle we couldn't jump over. Now I don't have to measure anymore!!! :D We can eat whatever raw we want! :D We can have pie for breakfast! :D Perhaps we'll slow down and eat simply later.

[GreenPrince]

What effect does longevity have on your interest in raw food, if raw foodists lived just as long as everyone else would you still be into raw food?Yes!



Do you think that your instincts or something you read led you to raw food?
Yes!



If there was no info on raw food, would people still eat choose raw food even though they didn't know why? Yes!

My goal is to put life to my years, and not years to my life. A quality of life.


I think we have a primary lifespan. We can shorten it by bad food, but only
slightly extend it by only good food. There are other spontanous qualities
behind an extended lifespan: tranquility, a life goal, a sensing of a
higher meaning with my life, and that I am contend with my life.


I think I can extend my lifespan by raw food, a little more by combination
with physical activities, still more by mental training and an extreme
extension by devoting my life to advanced yoga or similar.


If you plot the lifespan of people around the world, you will find an
approximate normal distribution or Laplace-Gauss distribution - a bell
curve. Very few at age 115 - 120, and almost none now living person 140 - 150.

If you travel around the world, far out of the cities and tourist resorts,
beyond the local population and live with sages, medicine woman and men,
and win their deep confidence, you may hear something weird..


There is almost none rumour of somebody between 150 - 250 age...
but above 250 ... and around 300 - 400 there are small groups of now living persons.

There are such rumours. You will never read them in a paper.
I know what you think, and I reacted the same way the first time.

[mongomango]

I'm 60 and my hubby just turned 70 so it is longevity for us! No insurance for another! I've been into Homeopathics and Herbs for years, give me a pill or tincture, don't tell me to cut something from my diet! :eek: We've studied since 1980's when the Fit For Life came out, did it, ate cooked. Hallelujah diet, did it, cheated with the evening 'cooked' part. And every other cooked food diet there is. Gained weight steadily. It was when my hubbys blood pressure was 225/90 that kicked us in the butt! He's down to 198 at 6'2" a 1981 weight. I'm down 30 with 60+ to release.

The constant hunger, no matter how much cooked food we ate was a hurdle we couldn't jump over. Now I don't have to measure anymore!!! :D We can eat whatever raw we want! :D We can have pie for breakfast! :D Perhaps we'll slow down and eat simply later.

Heh, yah, fit for life got me started too, then dr. walker's books. It was almost revolutionary way back then.

Longevity doesn't really have much of a factor in my decisions. One can die at any age from a great many things besides illness, and I believe when it's my time to go, go I will, regardless of my diet. The bottom line for me is that I feel better.

I don't think it's instinct that draws one to the diet, I think it's a spiritual pull. When I first became a vegetarian, I HATED all vegetables. ALL of them. Grew up on canned green beans, mashed potatoes and meat and never had a fresh veggie till I moved out..oh, yes I did, carrots cooked too long! But from the very moment I started reading about vegetarianism, and then quickly raw eating...I KNEW it was right. KNEW. I was mortified...horrified...and terribly depressed cuz mickey d was my main man, yo. But I knew. I believe we only recognize truth as instantly and vehemently as that when it comes from a spiritual source.

As far as eating it with no information, once you do it and see the difference in how you feel and feel the...hmmm...what's the right word...the cleanness of yourself internally....you would continue to want to eat raw.

[codajess]

I had a discussion with my grandma a few days ago, then again, the same discussion when a coworker questioned me.
I don't want to live forever. I don't mind living til my 70s-80s like a normal person. I just don't want to be sick the last 30-40 years of my life. That's my reasoning.

[light food]

I meant to answer my own poll right away but I didn't have time. :rolleyes:

Longevity: I'm after quality not quantity myself, however, I'm only halfway through my life so if I were retired I think my goal would probably be adding a few more years.

Instincts: I think instincts have a lot to do with raw food, because some people will search out all kinds of info and go down the raw path even though they never heard of raw food before, and some people can have raw food books given to them out of the blue and they ignore the info.

[alex]

There are a whole lot of ways to shorten ones life, but only two proven ways of extending it:

1) fasting or a calorie restricted diet (20 - 25% less)

2) reducing the bodys' core temperature

Quality of life is all important. To live in near optimum health (optimum health can never be reached - it is an ideal, like absolute truth or absolute justice - things that we strive towards).

To live in near optimum health requires work, effort, persistance, consistancy. Most people take it for granted until something goes wrong, and then they don't have the right information to reverse and cure the problem. It's all about prevention!!!

The best medical advice anyone can ever give us is three words:

Prevention, Prevention, Prevention

As far as instincts go - I don't think we have too many left - our conscious mind gets in the way.


alex