True or False

[River Mom]

Is there any benefit to being 70 or 80 if you can't go 100% raw.
I read something last night (not here) that if you can't go 100% it's better for your body if you don't do it at all. I do not get that...

I ordered Alissa's book but have to wait for it to get here. That will probably answer alot of my questions but untill then. What's up with this.
Thanks
River Girl

[SmilingRawDancer]

Some raw is better than no raw, but ALL RAW is better than SOME raw.
Some people do well transitioning slowly and some do better eating 100% all at once, others do better abstaining from cooked foods altogether because of the emotional/addictive ties they have.
Some people CANNOT be 100% raw with any cooked food sneaking in.
But everyone can have SOME RAW in their life.
Makes sense?

Eat raw.
Enzymes, unhindered nutrition, clean vibrations.

[Rawkinlocs]

No, that's not true at all. One can gain all types of benefits if they incorporate more raw food into the diet...the more the better!

Alissa DOES recommend going 100% raw mainly because when you leave that cooked food "window" open then it can lead to keeping the cravings for it alive.

But yeah, I think it's better to incorporate more raw food into one's current diet than to just not do any raw at all because if you are eating 70% or more raw food, then eventually your body will start to tolerate cooked food less and less and you will just begin to notice that you don't feel as optimal when you eat cooked food.

[Revvell]

Consider this... is it better to have more nutrients than no nutrients? However much raw food you incorporate, that's how many more nutrients you are feeding yourself.

People who say all or none are saying they'd rather have NO nutrients than some? Makes no sense to me.

Revvellicious

[StarFire]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s43/FireStar_830/iagree.gif... Yeaah... what they said!! ;) :D

[River Mom]

Thanks for that.
I was not eating 100% and having the bloating and other symptoms that I just read about someone else having.

I just didn't know how to explain it. Then I read last night if you don't go 100% it's better if you don't do it at all and I just wondered if I was hurting my body?

It's so comforting to have you all to explain things to me.

I'll keep going the best I can,
RG

[supergreen]

If you put the wrong fuel in an engine, it probably won't work very well. But if you put 100% of the right fuel in it it will work perfectly aside from normal wear and tear. Put a mixture of 50% of each of the fuels and it will work better than when it was running only on the wrong fuel. The closer to 100 the percentage of normal fuel is the closer to perfect operation the engine will have. In this case the engine is your body.

The more the better. If you put a 2 gallons of diesel in an normal car's tank of say 10 gallons(20% diesel, 80% gasoline), the car certainly won't operate at its best. But it would certainly operate better than if you only put diesel in it.

[juliebove]

Not true at all. In fact most people eat some raw food. I know people here claim there are people who eat all of their food cooked, but I still don't believe it. If you get a sandwich or burger there is usually lettuce, tomato, maybe even onion on it. Chopped onions on chili. Bananas or strawberries on cereal. Raw food is kind of hard to avoid.

Carol Alt claims one needs to eat 80% raw to get the benefit. Not sure if that is true or not either.

[PammieTaj]

I say do some research. Check out what Dr. Joel Furhman, Dr John McDougal and other vegan proponents have to say. Have you read the China Study? These people will have differing opinions on things as controversial as fruit and snacking, but they'll all agree that the closer your food is to what it is when it's at it's source, the better it is for you. How much closer is really up to you.

[Revvell]

The reason most of these people have such great results from what they are doing is from what is NOT put in the body so much as what is... meaning dead animal carcasses, their fluids, and all the "white" stuff ~ sugar, flour, etc.

The next step step is to put MORE nutrients IN the body by way of raw foods.

I did a very interesting interview with Mike Anderson, producer of the film "Eating" where he talks about a plant-based diet. In this movie he's basically addressing a SAD and moving towards a plant-based diet. In speaking with him, he said raw is optimal yet people basically need to feel safe enough to drop the stuff that's killing them before going further. (italics are mine)



I say do some research. Check out what Dr. Joel Furhman, Dr John McDougal and other vegan proponents have to say. Have you read the China Study? These people will have differing opinions on things as controversial as fruit and snacking, but they'll all agree that the closer your food is to what it is when it's at it's source, the better it is for you. How much closer is really up to you.

[moncha moncha]

I think it's healthy to add whole, raw food to one's diet. Could whole, raw food be unhealthy? ;)

[catdeveer]

how does one determine if they are 75% raw or 80% raw or 90% raw?

100% is easy to figure out! :p

thanks.

cat

[PammieTaj]

I have that movie "Eating" on dvd (I want to say it came with a book?). It's terrific. So much so that my husband will not watch it. I watched it on my little dvd player in bed one night and he covered his head with a pillow. Strong stuff.

[dreamrawalwz]

Not true at all. In fact most people eat some raw food. I know people here claim there are people who eat all of their food cooked, but I still don't believe it. If you get a sandwich or burger there is usually lettuce, tomato, maybe even onion on it. Chopped onions on chili. Bananas or strawberries on cereal. Raw food is kind of hard to avoid.

Carol Alt claims one needs to eat 80% raw to get the benefit. Not sure if that is true or not either.

I personally wouldn't count the tiny onion slice on a burger as substantial raw food :) I know some people that eat SAD seriously consider it though. Maybe a tiny side salad doused in a pile of dressing may count and sure is better than nothing though! I just don't think the tiny amount of raw food like you mentioned above can have any impact on all the SAD people are eating. Just my opinion.

[Judy]

I say false too!
You can have a reasonably healthy cooked food diet, with wholefood organic products and steamed vegetables and all.
Thát would be loads and loads better than SAD.
Incorporating more raw fruits and vegetables would be even better than none at all, how small the amount.
Plus you can do 100% raw totally nót good.
Imagine years and years of eating only raw nuts, seeds, oils and dried fruits plus mixing it up with loads and loads of raw dairy and overeat, do wrong food combinations and not listening to your body at all. Then you would be 100%, but would you be happy & healthy (perhaps some will, but I surely would do wórse on such a diet than a reasonably healthy cooked one)?

I think you catch my drift...
I believe most if not all people agree that an amount of good fresh produce is better than none at all.