Perspective

[RebeccaI]

Hi all

Thought I would share a couple of interesting observations with you from a family get together this week.

Day 1: Two sweet children have been through the buffet line twice - both times for plates loaded with fruit. On their third pass, Grandma follows them up saying "Have you had any meat?? You have to eat some meat! You can't live on fruit alone - come one let's get you some ham!" :rolleyes:

Day 2: Aunt E in the course of conversation with about 6 of us mentions that her doctor has diagnosed her with a mild case of osteoporosis. It is tough on her because she "knows" she needs to drink more milk but she just doesn't like it. I was shocked when the rest of the family then cimed in with how much they LIKED milk but had trouble getting enough because of how it affected them - sinus infections, itchy scalps, hives.... but they "know" it's good for them so they keep drinking it. :confused:

Day 3: There is a vegan cafe in town and I ask two of my sisters to join me in checking it out. One is game and the other says "why on earth would you want to go somewhere like that??" The utter shock on her face just made me want to giggle! :p

I was amazed that no one even questioned consuming something that made you feel yucky on the pure presumption that it is good for you regardless. A year ago, I would have been saying those exact same things! :eek:

I feel so blessed to be walking this road, to have my eyes open and a completely new perspective on health and nutrition.

[Ariannah]

Our taste buds are given to us for a reason. Our society's perspective has indeed changed. The 2 little girls loading up on fruit were correct. Yet everyone thinks "you can't live on fruit".

Fruit is still my favorite raw food - because to me, it's the only group of plant life that tastes good right away, without needing any "tweaking". It's led me to believe that the food that is best for us, is the food that, in it's natural, unprocessed state, pleases our un-altered palates.

[magglepie]

I agree about fruit! I loveeee fruit. In fact my favorite foods are kiwis and bananas. I cannot believe that despite all the very obvious (maybe not to them) side effects that your family is having to dairy they still continue to consume. Although, I must admit that it does not surprise me that people believe dairy is healthy for them what withe all the brainwashing that the USDA tries to put out about it. At the daycare I work at, the administration has this lady come in to teach the children about "nutrition." Which means that she teaches them about how healthy it is to eat meat, dairy and cooked food. She also makes the kids snacks, and every snack she has made has had some sort of dairy product in like yogurt or buttermilk. Yuck.

[Ariannah]

It's funny, though. I had a conversation with someone who said, "I just discovered my wife is lactose intolerant"... he shook his head and made it sound bad.

We're so used to ingesting the sludge of the earth and calling it "normal", that any of our body's objection to it is treated like a DISEASE!! That is so sad.

One of the things I enjoy so much about raw is that I don't have to eat anything I don't like. I get to trust my BODY! My taste buds get to be the guide as to whether something is "good for me" or not. I mean, what did people do before "nutrition books?" They ate things they could find in nature, and I am sure if something tasted icky, they spat it out.

[RawVegan4Health]

I get a laugh out of everyones misconceptions about healthy food now. Last night was the first time I had to deal with telling some people I was a raw vegan and caught some flak over it. It wasn't too bad though. Everytime they would accuse me of having to eat weird stuff I'd just say, "Yeah, like this morning when I had a banana. What could be weirder than that?":p

[Raine]

I had to a lunch meeting the other day and I fibbed and said I had had brunch earlier and just wanted some water and lime. One of my dear friends said, "You had bunch huh? You're not fasting again are you?" I just smiled & shook my head.

It was wrong of me to fib but no one understands how great I feel fasting.

[RebeccaI]

We are a small farm family so I am not shocked. It just makes me wonder what other things we move in the world's lockstep to and don't even question it. I consider these people to very pretty intelligent, well-educated people and yet because they have been taught the "food pyramid" of health since they were little - they wouldn't really even think to question it.

Kinda makes me wonder if this is how folks felt when they figured out the world was round and not flat! ;)