Raw Food

Carrie6o6

I am looking into the whole "raw food fad" I guess you could call it. It seems very interesting. I wouldnt mind trying some of it. Anyone know any good recipe websites for it?

Carrie6o6

I am looking into the whole "raw food fad" I guess you could call it. It seems very interesting. I wouldnt mind trying some of it. Anyone know any good recipe websites for it?

ErinRNinMaine

http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/

I have perused this site many times, but never tried any of the recipes. Not that I wouldn't but I guess I've been lazy. It seems to take more time to make uncooked food--doesn't make sense, does it?

Anna_Banana

The people that are on the raw food diets only eat raw food, and believe that cooking it breaks it down and you aren't getting all the nutrition from the food. There are a lot of different views out there on eating raw. Some people become so obsessed with only eating totally raw totally organic that they become very trapped by it all. I saw some info on it on abcnews.com It can really be pretty scary. On guy that promotes the all raw totally organic is also no meat and claims that when you eat meat you are eating that animals "fear", which is very bad for you.:noway: Most of the people that they had on their looked about 20 to 30 years older than they actually were, these were people with major phycological problems .http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Stossel/story?id=5735592&page=1 this is the link to the 20/20 storey. There is a good video on there too. I'm not saying you are like these guys, this was just something I had came across and thought it very interesting.

I think it's great to try to eat healthier and eating raw foods is fine, just don't get so absorbed in it that it becomes unhealthy.

PictureGirl

I did the whole raw food thing for a month. I felt great but it TAKES SO MUCH more time. And the grocery bills are much more expensive since you are eating primarily organic produce and nuts. The principles of the diet make a lot of sense though. Try reading Natalia Rose's "The Raw Food Detox Diet. I ate "raw" all day and ate a cooked meal at night.

Carrie6o6

For me I just want to keep my food simple. Raw breakfasts and lunches like a fruit salad, smoothie etc.... I am just bored of my same old foods. For dinner I will still have my "meat and potatoes" I could never give them up coming from a family that eats a lot of meat! haha Im not so concerned. Just looking for different style foods

Fitness_Chick

I am looking into the whole "raw food fad" I guess you could call it. It seems very interesting. I wouldnt mind trying some of it. Anyone know any good recipe websites for it?

Do you have any coops near by you...Health Food type coops? I get tons of great ideas, recipes, suggestions when I give them a ring or pop in and ask how to figure out something or other I want to try out.

I've seen so many books on raw food and they have tons of recipe ideas.

Perhaps the library for starters so you don't have to do any money investing right off the bat to see what you find? If you have any earthy cool health food stores (uh nooooo not the GNC type..lol) they always hire the way cool folks that come up with some great way out there stuff. I know many of them do raw.

Protein would come from tofu cubes and fresh veggies with pesto, or things that way.

Hey, love to hear how your search goes:happy:

Carrie6o6

We do have some stores like that. About 40min drive to the closest one. I will go check them out. I will let you know how things go

may_marie

claims that when you eat meat you are eating that animals "fear", which is very bad for you.:noway:

actualy i have heard that when the animal is about to get slaughtered they can feel it, they abviously get scared, (depend on the laws,, its much better here in the UK where they dont let the animal see or hear what happens to the animal before them) that makes the animal stress witch releases chemicals into tissues, now i dunno what is the impact of those chemical on the meateater. there is some sense in it though.

i have also heard that eating raw food is good for you, i think it would be a nice thing to try at some point ,,, maybe .. let us know how you get on

songbyrdsweet

On guy that promotes the all raw totally organic is also no meat and claims that when you eat meat you are eating that animals "fear", which is very bad for you.:noway:

:laugh:

So now fear like, gives you cancer or something.

I could eat raw if I could afford sashimi-grade tuna:bigsmile: I'd just chow on salad and sashimi...mmmm. Organic foods aren't nutritionally different from non-organic foods, so there's no reason to pay more unless you're concerned about which pesticide you want to ingest. Fortunately, none of them are toxic, or, you know, we'd be dead and stuff. The only reason to really add to your grocery bill is to buy grass-fed beef, because the nutritional content actually differs greatly.

If you have a butcher nearby, buy some lamb and some bulghur wheat and mix it together and eat it raw on an onion with a little olive oil and pepper....mmmmm. Kibbeh nyeh, it's one of my favorite lebanese dishes. Unfortunately we can't make it because we don't have a butcher that could kill it right there for us.

Fitness_Chick

claims that when you eat meat you are eating that animals "fear", which is very bad for you.:noway:

actualy i have heard that when the animal is about to get slaughtered they can feel it, they abviously get scared, (depend on the laws,, its much better here in the UK where they dont let the animal see or hear what happens to the animal before them) that makes the animal stress witch releases chemicals into tissues, now i dunno what is the impact of those chemical on the meateater. there is some sense in it though.

I think it makes sense as well...I belive everything puts out something in this universe.....

Carrie6o6

My husbands mom used to work as a the meat person haha (that sounded dumb) in a grocery store and once she saw the meat had purple spots... she asked about it and they said that the cow knew it was going to die before it went in and thats what happens to the meat. Ive seen it on store shelves as well.

kerrilucko

My husbands mom used to work as a the meat person haha (that sounded dumb) in a grocery store and once she saw the meat had purple spots... she asked about it and they said that the cow knew it was going to die before it went in and thats what happens to the meat. Ive seen it on store shelves as well.

I think those are bruises from the handling of the meat. Maybe the guy was kidding :huh:

songbyrdsweet

My husbands mom used to work as a the meat person haha (that sounded dumb) in a grocery store and once she saw the meat had purple spots... she asked about it and they said that the cow knew it was going to die before it went in and thats what happens to the meat. Ive seen it on store shelves as well.

That's unoxygenated myoglobin...meat takes on different colors with different levels of oxygenation. Purplish to reddish to brownish. Fear doesn't have a 'color'...stress causes certain hormones to be released in different concentrations, but that acts largely on the adrenal glands and circulatory system to increase blood flow and cause other hormonal cascades. There'd also be a sudden reduction in muscular glycogen storage and liver glycogen, and small animals may urinate or defacate to lighten their body mass and move more quickly. However, since animals don't have a concept of 'life' and 'death' you could look at a cow and say, 'I'm going to shoot you", and it wouldn't know what's coming. The stress comes from living conditions, not getting bonked in the head.

kimmerlyjo

I actually JUST saw a spot on 20/20 about this... people are actually becoming OCD and basically anorexic from going overboard on the raw food thing. The people they interviewed seriously looked so sick and emaciated it was horrible. There was a guy who is running some sort of workshop pushing people into the raw food craze and talking about how when we eat meat we are actually eating the anmals fear and that is what makes us sick... They showed before and after pictures of these people and i'm sorry but they looked healthier BEFORE. The one guy seriously was nothing but skin over bones.

Believe me, I am causious about the produce and meat I purchase, but for me going all out is a bit overboard... this is just me though... I will support what anyone else does that makes them healthier and happier as long as it doesn't hurt them!

:happy:

may_marie

it seems that that guy gave the raw food way of life a bad reputation.

everything in moderation is good. i think i would be very good to eat more raw foods in general. there is even trendy restaurant that serve only raw foods

beside there is nothing wrong with avoiding meat for your health as long as you know what your doing.

that guy does seem like a wierdo though. lol

Anna_Banana

it seems that that guy gave the raw food way of life a bad reputation.

everything in moderation is good. i think i would be very good to eat more raw foods in general. there is even trendy restaurant that serve only raw foods

beside there is nothing wrong with avoiding meat for your health as long as you know what your doing.

that guy does seem like a wierdo though. lol

That's kind of what I was trying to point out. That it's okay to try new things, but don't go overboard. The guys on the 20/20 special have went way overboard on their eating raw. Scary overboard. We are ment to eat meat, that's why we have teeth designed to eat it. I think the whole "fear" thing is something that that guy came up with to convince people that the meat would make them sick so they wouldn't eat it.

songbyrdsweet

it seems that that guy gave the raw food way of life a bad reputation.

everything in moderation is good. i think i would be very good to eat more raw foods in general. there is even trendy restaurant that serve only raw foods

beside there is nothing wrong with avoiding meat for your health as long as you know what your doing.

that guy does seem like a wierdo though. lol

That's kind of what I was trying to point out. That it's okay to try new things, but don't go overboard. The guys on the 20/20 special have went way overboard on their eating raw. Scary overboard. We are ment to eat meat, that's why we have teeth designed to eat it. I think the whole "fear" thing is something that that guy came up with to convince people that the meat would make them sick so they wouldn't eat it.

My grandma says our canines are made to 'tear bark'. :laugh: She and I don't agree on food lol...she's not as bad as this guy though!

Carrie6o6

Is it true that how you cook your food determines the amount of nutrients in it? If that made sense haha

songbyrdsweet

Is it true that how you cook your food determines the amount of nutrients in it? If that made sense haha

Yea, but cooking food doesn't completely void it of nutrients. In fact, some foods have to be cooked so they don't make us sick and so we can absorb certain nutrients.

Eating raw vegetables ensures that we retain all the nutrients. However, eating too many raw green beans can give you diarrhea, and raw fibrous veggies are hard to digest. The best way to cook vegetables is by steaming. The worst is boiling them--they can leak nutrients into the water, especially if they're overcooked.

Obviously, eating raw meat is hazardous. Heating meat does denature the proteins--part of the reason the texture changes. However, denatured proteins don't lose their constituent parts, so you're not losing anything. They just change shape. This would take place in your highly acidic stomach even if you didn't cook them.

When eggs are eaten raw, we can't absorb the biotin they contain. This is a common deficiency in people who eat a lot of raw eggs. Just like with muscular protein, the nutrients in eggs aren't destroyed when subjected to heat.

People fail to realize that food will undergo drastic changes in the body due to the pH of our stomach acid. It's not like, if we eat something raw, we absorb EVERYTHING and become healthier for it. Proteins will always denature, and uncooked fibrous vegetables will actually be *harder* to digest than cooked ones. Regardless of how we eat our food, we never absorb all of the calories. Our intestines just aren't that good at it and can't mix the chyme enough to come into contact with all surfaces. Eating raw food doesn't make it any better. Cooking just begins some of the mechanical and chemical digestion for us.

Just some 'food' for thought....har har. :laugh:

Carrie6o6

Songbyrd your so awesome!! :bigsmile:

songbyrdsweet

Well so are you! :drinker: