Age?

[walnutty]

I am very curious about everyone's ages that I see posting on Raw Food Talk.

Posting is, of course, optional...:heart:


I'll start... I am 47 years young!

[SunshineMN]

I'll be 45 in just a month.

[MysticTree]

41 - need to update my avatar though really. That picture is quite old now.

[Frugal Raw]

I am 46 years young; my avatar is from earlier this month. :)

[Raw Angel Mom]

Same as you sweet heart, i thought you were so so much younger. Somehow, i though you were a teenager, lol..... Good grace you look so young

All the best!

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

You raw fooders look so young in your photos.

l find it interesting how everyone [including myself] is in their 40's so far. The older you get the more you feel the need to look after yourself. When you are young you feel more invinsible and not in need of a healthy lifestyle.

We use alot of our digestive enzymes up by the time we are middle aged because many of us have eaten so much cooked food that it starts to take it's toll, so we age much more after 40 and we start having digestion problems and all types of issues. lt is said that eating raw is so much more important after you reach 40 because of that reason. Many folks can get away with abusing their body for years, but when people turn 40 stuff begins to deteriorate so we must eat much better and make an effort to do regular exercise.

[robh]

Mr Raw, I think you are right about age, enzymes and health in general. Kids seem to be so healthy - regardless of the crap they eat.

I will pipe up for the 30-something group. I just turned 35. I just found raw food in January.

Would anyone care to share when they become raw foodists? I could start a thread for that I suppose, but it seems related to this one. I am pretty curious.

You all look great, by the way.

[Raw Angel Mom]

Raw food found me. I have always been spiritual and it was like the food i eat has to be upgrade as i went along on my journey. I have been fascinated about health since a child but i was misguided as so so many of us with this silly food guide that is sponsor by the dairy and farm association. Anyway, it was a journey but the more i would progress spiritually the less i could tolerate certain food. I came from a place where i could eat absolutely anything to i can only do organic plant food now. Many report becoming spiritual after doing raw food, as for me, it was the opposite, my body didn't want the dense food anymore. When i got sick from eating raw lima beans (very poisonous), i found out i was pregnant, not knowing better i went back to organic vegetarian food but i was tired always and i thought it was the pregnancy. It is only when my daughter didn't want to do cook food that i went back to raw vegan. Raw food is what helped me to cope with my work, stress and extreme fatigue that i couldn't recover from the day i went back to cook food. Green smoothie is what helped me to get back to raw vegan food.

All the best!

[DebB]

I'm 56 ~

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Raw food found me. I have always been spiritual and it was like the food i eat has to be upgrade as i went along on my journey. I have been fascinated about health since a child but i was misguided as so so many of us with this silly food guide that is sponsor by the dairy and farm association. Anyway, it was a journey but the more i would progress spiritually the less i could tolerate certain food. I came from a place where i could eat absolutely anything to i can only do organic plant food now. Many report becoming spiritual after doing raw food, as for me, it was the opposite, my body didn't want the dense food anymore. When i got sick from eating raw lima beans (very poisonous), i found out i was pregnant, not knowing better i went back to organic vegetarian food but i was tired always and i thought it was the pregnancy. It is only when my daughter didn't want to do cook food that i went back to raw vegan. Raw food is what helped me to cope with my work, stress and extreme fatigue that i couldn't recover from the day i went back to cook food. Green smoothie is what helped me to get back to raw vegan food.

All the best!

A very interesting post Raw Angel Mum. Now l understand why you eat mainly fruit and don't use supplements; you are highly detoxed and spiritual, that explains alot.

After listening to Dr Morse l really feel l should be doing much deeper cleansing too. l want to get those intestines really really clean and plan to get really busy when the winter finishes.

[Raw Angel Mom]

A very interesting post Raw Angel Mum. Now l understand why you eat mainly fruit and don't use supplements; you are highly detoxed and spiritual, that explains alot.

After listening to Dr Morse l really feel l should be doing much deeper cleansing too. l want to get those intestines really really clean and plan to get really busy when the winter finishes.

I still have a journey with the detox not quite that clean, i plan to do another water fast this fall. I am very sensitive with energy and what is going on around me but i am more then ok when i connect with nature. I am on a journey. My body isn't quite in shape (inside). Actually many abnormally were found from my iridology test which i suspected anyway. I don't really care because i know i am healing and i am on the right path but it is pointing me in the right direction. You can have your picture taken from your eyes and send him to dr. Morse for an analyst. He is very impressive with that. Make sure to tell him to say everything that he finds. He feels that people shouldn't be overwhelmed with all the abnormally and focus on a couple thing. I wanted to know everything, lol..

Perhaps for you, you should read again this book "The Gospel of peace" and consider a water fast. If you research, you will see that if you have any teeth problem, digestion problem etc.... water fast will make a huge difference. In book 4 he talk about doing wheat grass instead of dairy. I will do another water fast in the fall. This summer, i want to load with all the fresh fruits/produce.

[Non]

I'm 26 yrs old.

[Cruditas]

48 years young for three more months!

[Living Food]

I'm in my 30s.


After listening to Dr Morse l really feel l should be doing much deeper cleansing too. l want to get those intestines really really clean and plan to get really busy when the winter finishes.

I would like that too (you can never be too "clean"), but as I understand it Dr. Morse advocates a very high fruit diet for detoxing...how to do that without eating mediocre store-bought fruit (which i absolutely refuse to do)? I don't have enough local fruit to do that for very long at all, and I couldn't imagine giving up my wheatgrass and microgreens.

How are you planning on doing it, Mr Raw/The Sproutarian?


And how are your teeth?

[Raw Angel Mom]

I'm in my 30s.



I would like that too (you can never be too "clean"), but as I understand it Dr. Morse advocates a very high fruit diet for detoxing...how to do that without eating mediocre store-bought fruit (which i absolutely refuse to do)? I don't have enough local fruit to do that for very long at all, and I couldn't imagine giving up my wheatgrass and microgreens.

How are you planning on doing it, Mr Raw/The Sproutarian?


Perhaps you can plan a vacation sometime, ... We don't have fresh fruits here either except for summer and fall (berries/peach/apple). Wheatgrass and microgreens are wonderful, you don't have to give that up. You can try fruits during the day and do these greens at the end of the day.

Doing a fruits fast is only another level. If you are still detoxing and healing then don't worry about this. For myself, i was saturated, and i need to do something more. The next level after a fruits fast if it isn't strong enough beside doing the herbs is water fast (again always research first).

You can also do a mono diet fast with fruits, just eat the fruits that are in season or you can buy and they are very fresh. Fresh ripe fruits make your body alkaline.

Black grape are very purging, i recall seeing quite of bit of stuff coming out. I wasn't even doing 100% just morning/lunch.

[Living Food]

If you are still detoxing and healing then don't worry about this.

No, I feel amazing and am just getting stronger every day - that's why I want to take it to the next level and start cleansing really deep.


Perhaps you can plan a vacation sometime

That's probably what I'll have to do; head over to a tropical location for a while and gorge myself on fruits right off the tree. I've always wanted to eat fresh noni anyway...

I do wish that I could grow more fruits where I live, but i have very limited space and so forage for most of my fruits. I'm working on getting a miniature orchard/vineyard going and am propagating wild wineberries now, but again I have very limited space.

[Non]

yea the acid fruits seem to be very cleansing. I got a bag of oranges yesterday. And some non-organic canteloupe.

I still don't really vibe well with Dr. Morse though for some reason. I mean his info might be correct though. And yea as I see it his all fruit diet is more like for cleansing really. He focuses on healing and fruits move the lymph very well. He also uses herbs so.. I guess one couldn't do without the herbs on such a diet also. As for other nutrients, that's why I think it's kind of hard to do such a thing in these days. it would only really be like a "fast".

[Raw Angel Mom]

I would love to have fruit trees on my land But the good news, i have wild raspberries that keep growing and are very resilient. I don't have land for garden, i had to use flower pot but if i could, i would have much more fruit. I am attempting grape.

You don't need to do the herbs, you can just go with fruits. I try to find the herbs fresh and i either make a smoothie or juice them. These days, we have a lot of dandelion. I couldn't do the plantain herbs because it is so bitter, but i will give another try. I love parsley, basil, mint, peppermint and cilantro. So yummy and great healing herbs.

[Chincha]

I don't know if my post counts as I'm mostly lurking (and loving everything that's on here - so thank you to all of you active forum members for daily info! ) but I'm 23.

[ReneeH]

I'll be 41 in September. I think I'm finally adjusting to being over 40... It took a while, though! I kept seeing 40 as this huge top of the hill that slopes downwards to eternity!!!! Thankfully not everything is dropping yet, so I might have a little bit of time to enjoy before its REALLY over!!!! :-D

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

How are you planning on doing it, Mr Raw/The Sproutarian?
Well, l am certainly not going to start eating a fruit diet, no way! l plan to do enemas every two weeks and do wheatgrass implants twice a day. l am convinced that will be way more effective than Dr Morse' fruit cleanses.

l might also get into herbs and water fasting, but Dr Morse will have to convince me why it would be better than just living on green juices.

l think the fruit cleanse is a bad idea mainly because most fruit is not picked ripe, so eventhough it looks like fruit the true health quality of the fruit isn't going to be there. l know fruit certainly isn't health building from my own experience. IMO, if fruit isn't ripe it will strip the body of nutrients.



And how are your teeth?
They have stabilized now. l believe that one of the primary reasons for tooth decay is the abundant spiral-k (can't spell it) in our mouths mainly caused by sugar consumption (fruit), there is good science behind this now. The only tooth paste on the market which kills this bacteria is Perio toothpaste, and that's what l have. But freshly grown cereal grasses have been shown to also kill every bad bacteria ever tested.

l got a year older today.

[robh]

This thread got WAAAAAAAY off topic, but isn't vitamin C the common denominator between acidic fruits and wheatgrass? It sounds like both would work. (assuming you can eat enough fruit) Digesting the fiber in the fruit would distract the body from healing and detoxing. The sugar in the fruit also has some side effects (bad teeth). While I am not sure that I would subject myself to Mr Raw's delivery method, a wheatgrass juice "fast" would probably be a killer detox protocol. Is it still a fast if you don't "drink" it?

[Bihaku]

Off topic:

Just curious, are you Irish American? I wasn't sure if your username is "Rob H.", or you are playing with Irish Gaelic alphabet sounds to say "raw" by using Irish Gaelic alphabet, because "robh" is pronounced "raw" in Irish Gaelic since "bw" has a "w" sound, but I don't think it means "raw" as in English.


Mr Raw, I think you are right about age, enzymes and health in general. Kids seem to be so healthy - regardless of the crap they eat.

I will pipe up for the 30-something group. I just turned 35. I just found raw food in January.

Would anyone care to share when they become raw foodists? I could start a thread for that I suppose, but it seems related to this one. I am pretty curious.

You all look great, by the way.

[MysticTree]

I find it interesting that everyone is very candid about their age except Ron. No picture and no age. Anyone else who doesn't want to say how old they are stays off the thread. Why so bashful Ron? btw ... easier to type "Ron" than you new user name which is quite long.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I find it interesting that everyone is very candid about their age except Ron. Why so bashful Ron?

l've had bad experiences with online stalkers digging in all my private details and following me from forum to forum over the years and post private details online for all to see. l only hope they haven't found me here yet. The less l say, the better.

Just call me Mr Raw.

[MysticTree]

I've had stalkers too but I say publish and be damned! I won't be bullied.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I still don't really vibe well with Dr. Morse though for some reason.t".

Dr Morse doesn't do much for me either. He is always so general and never goes into much detail about anything. He never is convincing and never talks about studies done to support what he says and he views seem very limited and narrow. l don't believe he has any science background either, and he seems to think that cleansing is the answer to everything. And when he talks about good topics he only skims the bare surface. He is good at promoting himself, but he doesn't come across as anything special...just another guy. l could be wrong but my 6th sense is telling me he isn't very well studied, nor is he a top expert in anything. + he seems to think that raw fooders never develop deficiencies. + he rants and raves, but his arguments never go anywhere. l really like Dr Morse but l wish he would give us something good to chew on and think about instead of a class in `health 101'.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I've had stalkers too but I say publish and be damned! I won't be bullied.

You are right. l am slowly coming out. Even doing undercover youtube is a big step for me. l can see myself showing my face one of these days and saying `the heck with it all'.

[robh]

Off topic:

Just curious, are you Irish American? I wasn't sure if your username is "Rob H.", or you are playing with Irish Gaelic alphabet sounds to say "raw" by using Irish Gaelic alphabet, because "robh" is pronounced "raw" in Irish Gaelic since "bw" has a "w" sound, but I don't think it means "raw" as in English.

That is cool - the Irish Gaelic pronunciation of my username. I am not, however, that clever. Rob. H. would be better.

[Queen Bean]

I'm 40. I've been into raw food since I was 17! Yes, no internet then, and very few books on raw. I was influenced by Viktoras Kulvinskas's 'Survival into the 21st Century' and Ross Horne's 'The Health Revolution'. The things I did wrong then... I ate sweet fruit for 12 days, and not very much of it during my 'fruitarian phase'. I remember I had to leave work early because I was very skinny and grey looking. I drove to the supermarket and bought some nuts. For three months around the age of 23 I ate one cooked meal a week and the rest sweet fruit and 200g-400g of nuts every day. I was also very skinny. I looked okay, but regularly fainted onto the bed. I put it down to detox at the time. :S Now, at forty, I still haven't found my stride and I'm still eating some cooked food. I still think I eat too many raw fat meals. I am slim (not skinny like I used to be, which is good) and get told I never change, although can see myself age after eating cooked food, unless, due to digestive issues I have hardly eaten and end up eating some cooked to get in some calories later in the day, and then I can look better than I did before. But I am addicted to the raw glow, so vanity is one factor in why it's hard to go back to a more standard vegetarian/vegan diet. I find that it's also a vibrational thing though. I find cooked food has a density to it. It's almost as though things become more sepia-toned when I eat cooked food. When I eat raw the world is more colourful and bright and I feel more connected spiritually. A lot of people on here are 'all or nothing' people. Unfortunately I'm not. At 18 I was convinced that I should become a fruitarian (my interpretation of that was eating just sweet fruit). I was a lot more disciplined then and able to follow through on a conviction. (I remember eating cherries when out with friends at a Chinese restaurant.) Now I find the social thing more of a challenge, and I am more wanting to take the middle path. But that means results are not so clear cut, which is a drag. Because I am having trouble digesting food in the mornings, I am considering following Matt Monarch's approach of focusing on micronutrients for the first meal of the day, as they are best absorbed then, and have my first macronutrient meal around 1pm. Tonya Zavesta says we should only eat within an 8 hour window. I don't want to be as extreme as her, but something isn't working for me. Even the apple for breakfast that I was eating (interestingly I since found out Gabriel Cousens also has an apple for breakfast each morning, plus ground flaxseed and a few other things) doesn't sit well with me. Anyway, you guys look a lot younger than your real ages. People who get into plastic surgery don't look younger, just weirder. I really believe to truly look younger, you need to eat raw. I've seen myself decrease by about 10 years in two days if going raw after eating too much cooked food.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I was influenced by Viktoras Kulvinskas's 'Survival into the 21st Century'

Me too. That book really opened my eyes and made me dream of the true potential of raw. The influence is still with me and will be for life. l still see Kulvinskas as the ultimate raw food guru, he had great vision and really understood how to do raw foodism at it's highest level. l can't speak high enough of him...a true legend! l only want to meet one person before l die, and that is Viktoras Kulvinskas.

lt was Kulvinskas who introduced sunflower greens, AFA blue-green algae and chlorella to the mainstream. He is still way ahead of his time.

[MysticTree]

I'm 40. I've been into raw food since I was 17! Yes, no internet then, and very few books on raw. I was influenced by Viktoras Kulvinskas's 'Survival into the 21st Century' and Ross Horne's 'The Health Revolution'. The things I did wrong then... I ate sweet fruit for 12 days, and not very much of it during my 'fruitarian phase'. I remember I had to leave work early because I was very skinny and grey looking. I drove to the supermarket and bought some nuts. For three months around the age of 23 I ate one cooked meal a week and the rest sweet fruit and 200g-400g of nuts every day. I was also very skinny. I looked okay, but regularly fainted onto the bed. I put it down to detox at the time. :S Now, at forty, I still haven't found my stride and I'm still eating some cooked food. I still think I eat too many raw fat meals. I am slim (not skinny like I used to be, which is good) and get told I never change, although can see myself age after eating cooked food, unless, due to digestive issues I have hardly eaten and end up eating some cooked to get in some calories later in the day, and then I can look better than I did before. But I am addicted to the raw glow, so vanity is one factor in why it's hard to go back to a more standard vegetarian/vegan diet. I find that it's also a vibrational thing though. I find cooked food has a density to it. It's almost as though things become more sepia-toned when I eat cooked food. When I eat raw the world is more colourful and bright and I feel more connected spiritually. A lot of people on here are 'all or nothing' people. Unfortunately I'm not. At 18 I was convinced that I should become a fruitarian (my interpretation of that was eating just sweet fruit). I was a lot more disciplined then and able to follow through on a conviction. (I remember eating cherries when out with friends at a Chinese restaurant.) Now I find the social thing more of a challenge, and I am more wanting to take the middle path. But that means results are not so clear cut, which is a drag. Because I am having trouble digesting food in the mornings, I am considering following Matt Monarch's approach of focusing on micronutrients for the first meal of the day, as they are best absorbed then, and have my first macronutrient meal around 1pm. Tonya Zavesta says we should only eat within an 8 hour window. I don't want to be as extreme as her, but something isn't working for me. Even the apple for breakfast that I was eating (interestingly I since found out Gabriel Cousens also has an apple for breakfast each morning, plus ground flaxseed and a few other things) doesn't sit well with me. Anyway, you guys look a lot younger than your real ages. People who get into plastic surgery don't look younger, just weirder. I really believe to truly look younger, you need to eat raw. I've seen myself decrease by about 10 years in two days if going raw after eating too much cooked food.

Did you always have problems with digestion? It concerns me that after all this time you have poor digestion such as you mentioned in the other thread. I am a middle road person at the moment. But my middle road is still quite strict. I mean I don't eat just any old nut and say it's raw but I might eat any old nut as long as I acknowledge that it isn't raw - does that make sense?

[Raw Angel Mom]

I started to eat fruits only from morning up to lunch since the 80's up to about 2007 (typical breakfast at time in between). Then did green smoothie, but I NEVER HAD TEETH problem. I only started to have problem when i got my mercury filling removed. I brushed my teeth only in the morning, but i will flush them. I think brushing your teeth after eating is very bad advice. I started to brush them twice a day (morning,night), and i do raw coconut oil (swirl). When i have teeth sensitivity, raw coconut oil does the trick.

So fruits never affected my teeth. Or perhaps, i just have a strong constitution with my teeth, i don't know but no decay. My dentist would go in shock when i would say that it is my first visit in six years. He thought my teeth were excellent.

Just to say, that not to fear the fruits because of the teeth issue. Don't brush your teeth after eating, you can flush them, but don't brush.

[MysticTree]

I started to eat fruits only from morning up to lunch since the 80's up to about 2007. Then did green smoothie, but I NEVER HAD TEETH problem. I only started to have problem when i go my mercury filling removed. I brushed my teeth only in the morning, but i will flush them. I think brushing your teeth after eating is very bad advice. I started to brush them twice a day (morning,night), and i do raw coconut oil (swirl). When i have teeth sensitivity, raw coconut oil does the trick.

So fruits never affected my teeth. Or pehaps, i just have a strong constitution with my teeth, i don't know but no decay. My dentist would go in shock when i would say that it is my first visit in six years. He thought my teeth were excellent.

Just to say, that not to fear the fruits because of the teeth issue. Don't brush your teeth after eating, you can flush them, but don't brush.

There is a lot of stuff on google about teeth and natural diets and health of saliva. It's not as simple as high sugar/low sugar. It's quite interesting to read about the studies done on "traditional diets and tooth health".

[Raw Angel Mom]

There is a lot of stuff on google about teeth and natural diets and health of saliva. It's not as simple as high sugar/low sugar. It's quite interesting to read about the studies done on "traditional diets and tooth health".

I will look into that.

Thanks!

[Raw Angel Mom]

Queen bee

Quite impressive your journey. Have you ever consider fasting? You must be much much more in tune with your body then so many of us. Congratulation for this amazing journey

All the best!

[walnutty]

Same as you sweet heart, i thought you were so so much younger. Somehow, i though you were a teenager, lol..... Good grace you look so young

All the best!


Aw, thanks!

I have always eaten pretty healthy and exercised. I have never smoked, drank alcohol or coffee. Part is genetics, I am sure. I also stopped sun worshipping about 25 years ago and always wear protection on my face and hats when out in the sun. AND I drink tons of water!

[Raw Angel Mom]

I am careful with the sun but more like in the peek hours, otherwise i seek to go outside for the vitamin D. I love when this is cloudy, no "UV".

[Living Food]

l got a year older today.

Happy birthday :)


I am careful with the sun but more like in the peek hours, otherwise i seek to go outside for the vitamin D. I love when this is cloudy, no "UV".

Actually, the harmful UV rays can still penetrate through clouds, it's the ones that you can make vitamin D from that have trouble doing so.

[Raw Angel Mom]

You are correct in a sense because the cloud has to be thick of course but it does block according to my source.

It is best in early morning or close to sunset. (Saving time 11am to 3pm is not ideal to get the sun ).


All the best!

[levamssg]

I'm 63 and have been raw for 8 years. :)

[Queen Bean]

Mystic Tree. Yeah, that makes sense. ;) I am strict with the raw component of my diet, but I allow myself some cooked in a conscious way. Maybe my problems are because I've been high raw for so long and my body is telling me to give up cooked food. The thing is, sometimes it is more problematic on raw days, not when I have a cooked meal. I keep vacillating and changing things around. I'm going back to Eating When Hungry, except having a raw dinner at around 7pm.

Raw Angel Mom. I've considered fasting. I've read about it. But I find it too difficult. Plus I tend to lose weight quickly. I have been told a few times that I look underweight, and I know that even after a few days of 100% raw I can look quite skinny. I am trying to maintain a body that looks slim, yet is still feminine. Plus, I just don't have the self discipline. I can only maintain raw by including raw recipes etc. I just can't do fruit and vegetables and that's it (let alone fasting). I often fast for part of a day, but that is all. I can occasionally do days with just fruit and vegetables and no fat, but not often. Sometimes I wonder if low fat cooked grains would be better for me than high fat meals. I am mindful of not eating too much fat, and eating enough greens, but I don't always succeed. Sometimes on raw I feel my bones are too light (hard to describe) and that I am too fragile. I have a vata constitution.

Vibrationally, I keep going back to fruit in the morning, although today I had nothing and didn't eat until one and that was a carrot and celery juice, because I wasn't hungry until then.

[Raw Angel Mom]

Why you cannot do fruits or vegetables? Do you have a reaction to them????

As for people telling you that you are too skinny, you need to watch out with this. Meaning, there is an unconscious effort at time, to sabotage our effort. People own insecurity can lead to say these comments. I have that said to me too and those people didn't look healthy at all. There energy or vibration were far from being high. I saw a youtube once that address this issue about losing weight. The person emphasis of not panicking and to trust the body. I totally resonate with this. I went underweight and now i am extra, lol... All of those second hand cigarette we were exposed, vaccinations, mercury filling, pollutions, water loaded with chlorine or chloramine, all of that food we ate that were prepared with dangerous food enhancer, preservative etc... These has to come out. It is store in our fat and the body wants that fat out to replace it with the good one.

[Raw Angel Mom]

I'm 63 and have been raw for 8 years. :)

You also looks so so young.. Good grace, is this your natural hair color?????
Congratulations for those 8 years, way to go girl!

[Queen Bean]

Raw Angel Mom, I mean I don't have the self discipline to just do a day on only raw fruit and vegetables, no fat. I do this occasionally, but still need raw recipes etc to keep me going.

Yeah, I once worked with a woman who would often tell me I was too skinny with a concerned look on her face. She was overweight, and I was probably a little thin, but not as thin as she made out. My barometer is my boyfriend. I know he doesn't like overweight women, so if he is telling me to eat more, then I do feel I am too thin. Plus, my mother and sister have said the same. Right now I don't feel I am too skinny, but I can lose weight fast if I don't watch out. But maybe my mindset was thwarted by that woman, because before that I didn't worry about being 'too skinny'. But you're right Raw Angel Mom. The toxins do need to come out and I think that sometimes a person can look worse before they look better, or too skinny until the body goes through the cleansing process and then finds its ideal weight.

[blizzardfrisbee]

I'm 55! I haven't been on raw food talk for a while but think it is time to come back.

[CaiHong]

I am 58 and would put a picture of myself but for some reason when I go to profile and avatar downloading a picture from my computer, my iPad is grayed out.

I went on a 28 day raw food diet about 5 months ago after the severest bout of constipation of my life. After that I remained about 80 percent raw but started to slip back into unhealthy eating though not as bad as before.
I started a raw food diet 8 days ago and to my surprise I had the same constipation problem yesterday. I won't go into too much detail suffice to say a chopstick and a high pressure water hose did the trick.
I am not cdiscouraged by this I have never felt better on a raw food diet.
I am currently in the process of opening a raw food restaurant in Vietnam.
CaiHong

[PansyLo]

I'm just 21.

Most people think I look about 17. Hopefully with real food I'll keep my young looks when I need them!

Interesting to see that most people are older. It's a shame that more young people aren't taking an interest in diet, more and more people are talking about what's going on with society and clueing up. People even talk about how our food is slowly poisoning us but these people still continue to eat the same way.

It's good that there's so many older, knowledgable people on here but it would be nice to see more young people too.

[MysticTree]

Our youth mostly seem hell-bent on drinking themselves to oblivion and eating junk food :(

[Raw Mommy]

30 years!

[gritsnla]

I am 48 and coming back to raw!

[climbing]

I'm 30 but feel about 15 and everyone I know says I look like I'm in my early twenties. Does that count as young?

[SunshineMN]

You're only as old as you feel right? LOL I'm hoping to keep feeling younger and younger by being raw! I don't really care that much if I look young or not as long as I feel like I am. I think I'm one of those people who will never grow old mentally.

[Divine Soul]

15
For some reason all the raw teenagers that I remember from one year ago are gone eh whats up with that :P?

[walnutty]

15
For some reason all the raw teenagers that I remember from one year ago are gone eh whats up with that :P?

It is so AWESOME to see someone so young care this much about there health to be raw!

[SunshineMN]

Divine Soul you are going to be way ahead of everyone in your generation if you keep it up! I sure wish I had discovered raw food in my youth. You have a great opportunity here!

[happylife]

I am a proud 65 1/2 years young. But, in my head I am more your age.. lol

[BlackKat]

26 here. This is an interesting thread. I guess what it comes down to is you're never too young or too old to start living life to the fullest (and healthiest) :-P

[cablegirl]

I will turn 46 this month, which I can't figure out how I got there so quickly!

[laughalways]

Yes, it goes fast...wait until you hit 50 :-)

[Tea]

32 years old and started raw when I was in my late 20's. About 40% raw right now.

[PansyLo]

I like to hope that my health will be relatively good considering I went veggie at 14 and ate moderately healthfully (mostly fresh unprocessed food but not much raw).
I'm still not 100% raw. I keep slipping up too drastically when I try for raw so I'm not going to concentrate on that for a while. I'm just going to get vegan and gluten free down so that I'm totally comfortable with being that at 100% again.
I'll still eat sprouts and get chlorella and eat more raw meals but I wont be concentrating on being raw at any percent.

In the next few years I'll hopefully be 100% raw and get that down while I'm still in my early 20's. :)

[ItsMichelle]

52 years young. Im only about 1 raw meal a day (1st day) working to 3.

[PansyLo]

15
For some reason all the raw teenagers that I remember from one year ago are gone eh whats up with that :P?

That's cool! How did you get into raw food?

[cablegirl]

45 years young, and have been around the raw food movement since 2008. I seemed to get sucked into life and eat some cooked veggies and my down fall is popcorn made on the stove with coconut oil. Joined the raw food challenge for August and so far so good:)

[RawSweetie]

I'm 48 :-)

[Ilse W.]

I am a well earned 62 years old, but I have ADHD and most of the time I feel like a teenager. I spent the last 7 years more or less retired and bored. A couple of days ago I started a new job: driver for a door-to-door shuttle service, mostly going from sleepy Sequim to the Seattle-Tacoma airport. I love it! Part time on the days I want to be available for work. I love driving and it's going to be my dream retirement job. Being raw will help with the necessary energy to haul around people's suitcases, lol.

[Non]

Interesting. I started being vegetarian about 18 yrs old, vegan I dont remember but a couple years after that. Then I became raw about a 1.5-2 yrs ago at 24.

I figured you know raw is pretty much the way to go if you even want to be vegan...