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Kindred

07-18-2011, 08:05 PM

speltrong

07-18-2011, 09:38 PM

i'm pretty sure you would get sick and throw up long before you could eat enough raw foods to cause any real danger to yourself.

BeingK8

07-22-2011, 05:16 PM

Are you meaning if you eat them all at once? Because Victoria Boutenko is all about rotation of greens because eating one type over and over can lead to oxalate formation and that's bad for you. Don't have ANY idea how long you have to have them, but that's not all at once, it's having, say just kale as your green in all your salads and smoothies, every day for a length of time.

Revvell

07-22-2011, 06:37 PM

Can some raw foods be dangerous in large quantities?

I'm not sure what you're asking ~ or why. If you want (and can) eat a head of cabbage ~ do so. Are you talking in one meal? One day? one week?

You used to eat 1 kg. of carrots a day. O.k., so?

What's your question and what's a "large" quantity?

mer-maid

07-22-2011, 07:40 PM

I have a severe food intolerance for spinach--raw OR cooked--and it has sent me to the ER before. (Horrible gastric symptoms, losing consciousness from severe drops in blood pressure, etc) I'm not certain just what is in spinach that my body can't handle--but now I'm worried that even if I substitute other greens in the quantities called for in most of the juicer recipes, I might have a similar reaction. Does anyone else have a problem/sensitivity/allergy? Any suggestions for substitutes?

MysticTree

07-22-2011, 10:40 PM

I am planning to eat an entire head of cabbage some time in my life (I dont know why i just want to).

Also I used to eat 1kg of carrots a day.

Anywhooooo

Can some raw foods be dangerous in large quantities?

Pretty much anything is dangerous in quantities large enough to be dangerous. It depends on the quantities but a head of cabbage is probably only going to be a problem if you eat only a head of cabbage for every meal for many days or weeks ... even then, it's more than likely you would recover.