What About A Deficiency?

[commoncents]

I started Colon Hydrotherapy and after telling the therapist I ate 100% raw food, she told me about a woman she knew who was Raw and she was looking worse and worse as the years went by. Then, one day she ran into her and she looked much better and she asked the woman what she did differently, and the woman stated she began including some cooked foods in her diet.

The therpist continued to give me her opinion that eating 100% Raw was not safe and could create numerous deficiencies. She made me promise that if I felt out of balance doing it this way that I would reconsider doing Raw 100%.

I thought about our conversation and thought back to the many people who I've had variations of this conversation with and always with them being concerned that I was a Raw Foodist, blah, blah, blah.

It made me wonder where was the concern when I was tipping the scale at 220 lbs, could not walk up a flight of stairs and was very obviously heading for a degenerative disease or early death? It is quite ironic that I get all of this "concern" and "advice" when I am eating in a style that has bought amazing results to my mind, body and spirit, but absolutely nothing was EVER mentioned to me when I was digging my grave with my fork.

[Revvell]

Good point.

[Veganforlife]

I say keeping going 100% Raw and let your mind, body, and soul be your healing guide.
There's too much proof that eating Raw IS healing...

[Tsurugi_Oni]

Every other creature on earth eats their food raw (except maybe fermented), yet for humans we should be concerned?

It's just like vegetarians who survive off of cheese pizza and coca cola. Sure they're "vegetarian"....... people like that tend to give the whole category a bad wrap.

[Dararaw36]

It made me wonder where was the concern when I was tipping the scale at 220 lbs, could not walk up a flight of stairs and was very obviously heading for a degenerative disease or early death? It is quite ironic that I get all of this "concern" and "advice" when I am eating in a style that has bought amazing results to my mind, body and spirit, but absolutely nothing was EVER mentioned to be when I was digging my grave with my fork.

Yeah, I got that when I said that I was going to fast. They're all worried that I'm going to become anorexic as if the only reason I'm doing this is because of my weight. I'm not that shallow and it really pisses me off that my close friends would think of me that way. They have seen me gain and gain and gain and hear about all of my trips to the hospital and all of my ailments and always when I mention my weight tell me that it's okay. I have hypertension, not only in my heart, but in my spine (the fluid has high pressure), which effects my optic nerves that are swollen, hypertension of the muscles in my esophagus, severe migraines, and I'm not even including my mental conditions. They know these things and keep saying, oh you're beautiful, you're fine. All of this huffing and puffing just to walk on a level sidewalk. It's as if they really want me to die.

Okay, I'm being a bit dramatic, but I totally get your point and I completely agree with what you're saying.

[rawrawks]

Let em say what they will. How can raw be more deficent than the sad "foods"...gimme a break right?

[Veganforlife]

Just keep eating 100% Raw and you will be so healthy that they will soon be eating their words. They are just envious...

[coco]

Ok, so cooking the same foods you're eating now is supposed to make them more nutritious? How does she figure?
I can understand being asked about B12, D, protein, enough calories, those are the questions everybody always asks, even us, but that bit about cooking it is totally unfounded. What's up with that?

[commoncents]

It is sheer ignorance and I've learned to ignore it, but just thought how ironic that I did not get any comments when I was obese and sick. Like someone else mentioned, I get the same with fasting, so now I just keep my mouth shut and do what I do and I know how it makes me feel and look and leave it at that.

[iluvmangos]

I started Colon Hydrotherapy and after telling the therapist I ate 100% raw food, she told me about a woman she knew who was Raw and she was looking worse and worse as the years went by. Then, one day she ran into her and she looked much better and she asked the woman what she did differently, and the woman stated she began including some cooked foods in her diet.

I don't know why that woman looked worse and worse, but health is about more than just diet. I doubt she looked worse for lack of cooked food. How much sleep did she get? What was the quality of her drinking water? Did she exercise? Did she get enough sunshine? Was she actually 100% raw? We don't know the whole story and I suspect the colon hydrotherapist doesn't either.

[commoncents]

I don't know why that woman looked worse and worse, but health is about more than just diet. I doubt she looked worse for lack of cooked food. How much sleep did she get? What was the quality of her drinking water? Did she exercise? Did she get enough sunshine? Was she actually 100% raw? We don't know the whole story and I suspect the colon hydrotherapist doesn't either.

Absolutely right, however, she boiled it down to the fact the woman was 100% raw. It is her bias. I could tell the minute she started speaking.

[Cerellia]

What she is saying is totally unprofessional. I would understand (athough not agree) if she was worried about all the things that are in a "normal" diet and a raw vegan diet excludes (meat, dairy, wheat, soy, ect.). But making it a matter of the food being cooked or not is just silly: Cooking does not add anything good to the food, it just destroys vitamins.

[Raw Angel Mom]

On top of the enzyme, Vitamin A, D, E and K get destroyed pass 125 °F.