My head is exploding with all sorts of conflicting information that I really don't have much of a desire to blog about it. So, hopefully, this will be a really short blog and I won't get all opinionated along the way.
I looked forward to hearing from David Wolfe because I recently discovered that he is the big guy behind promoting the raw food diet. He doesn't eat meat --- "Killing brings about bad Karma." He calls eating raw meat a "silly extreme." (I've personally have only wished for raw milk --- especially once I learned that heating the milk changes the protein into one our body cannot metabolize. But, currently, I'm not convince milk, either way, is a good choice anymore.) He also says that if you do eat meat, do so sparingly. He encourages us to limit our exposure to: mutigans (I'm assuming GMOs), carcinogens, bad Karma and unknowns in our diet.
The main idea is to switch our meat calories to raw food calories. One of his SuperFoods, marine plankton, is full of chlorophyll, EPA and DHA, a range of phospholipids (meat sources are: lecithin, found in egg yolk; bee products such as Royal Jelly (good for fertility) and bee pollen; and something else I didn't catch.) He also gave a list of vegetarian sources of proteins: marine (krill and muscle) oils for a successful vegetarian, Royal Jelly, bee pollen, blue-green algae, goji berries, maca berry (good for hormone balance and menstruation), phytoplankton and incan berry.
His theory on acid/alkaline foods is that herbs and SuperFoods are alkaline and all the rest are acidic or neutral and that it is important to keep a balance between the two. For example: nuts and seeds are the opposite of vegetables, stems, leaves and roots. Therefore they should be eaten together. Another example would be eating rice and beans together. He says that if you eat meat, you must eat the bone marrow as well, which he doesn't encourage because of all the toxic build up in the bones. And, olives are an excellent alkaline fat source.
Over time your stomach will shrink and it will be able to better utilize the nutrients. "The less you eat, the longer you live," seems to be well-known with everyone that's into health and nutrition. If we want to live longer we need to "be careful what we put in our bodies and protect it from the 75,000 toxic chemicals that we have dumped into our environment since the 1930s."
Some ways to detox our bodies of these toxins are to use designer and normal detoxes which include colonics and month long herbal detox programs. (He says some good ones are Euguva, Health Force, Blessed Herbs and Rise and Shine.) Also, use hot and inferred saunas to sweat it out. (I've heard that that is the only way to remove plastic toxins, but that you can sweat those out by exercising. Maybe a sauna is better at making you sweat?) You can also use Vitamin B3 in 200 mg/500 mg/1000 mg dosages, but I'm not sure how often. 1000 mg supposedly makes you feel like your dying! Combine the vitamin with using a rebounder. Fasting is also a good way to detox. Same as juice fasting and his favorite way to do that is with citrus fruits or apples.
"Digesting is the #1 energy zapper" and raw fermented chocolate (and here for you chocolate lovers) is the #1 longevity food! (Olives and honey are also really good longevity foods.)
Ok, onto Daniel Vitalis, he use to be a vegetarian, turned raw foodist and eventually Vegan, but found it didn't work for him. He informs us that cooking vegetable properly (not microwaving or frying) releases more nutrients, making those foods more nutrient dense, but still, animal nutrient density is 10 times higher because they have already eaten the grass and now those nutrients are compacted in their meat. So now he takes the hunter/gather approach and forges for his own wild greens and hunts wild animals. (He's done a lot of research to learn how humans have eaten throughout history and says we have always eaten animals.) I'm not really sure how much meat he eats, but he never says to eat it sparingly and says that wild greens aren't enough. He does insist on you eating your meat from your local wild whenever possible, otherwise, find a good healthy local source for an heirloom quality healthy animal. He just bought himself a grass-fed cow and intents to eat the entire animal, tongue and all! (The idea of doing that myself just isn't going to happen.)
He says, just as a vegetarian wants to avoid pour quality and genetically altered plants, you also don't want your meat source to come from manufactured animals, "Deficient animals make deficient meat. ... We are eating ourselves into extinction." He also claims those animals to be the reason our skeleton structure is getting smaller and weaker and also our brains are smaller then ever in history. He asks if we ever see a squirrel with crocked teeth and that all these abnormalities in our bodies are not found in history. We do things to hide what is happening to our bodies so we don't really see the big picture.
I did find it interesting when he talked about the main problems with most people's diet is the nutrients they are missing. He says we should get our nutrients from all the Kingdoms of Life: the Plant Kingdom, the Microorganism Kingdom (fermented foods), the fungus Kingdom (he really loves those mushrooms, too) and the Animal Kingdom.
Although he made some good points about eating meat, overall I don't think going on his diet is for me. Also, he ended with this whole doomsday deal. I just didn't think his comments about the world being overpopulated so we all can't eat this superior way was needed. He went on to talk about our diet's making us sterile and pretty soon we won't be so crowded anymore and that's just the way it is. He plans on staying around so his (health?/genetics?/wilderness land?) can be passed down through his generations.
Ok, so at the very end when he's thinking about what he can leave for his posterity isn't a bad idea, and maybe that's something I should do, it's the hopelessness he has for the rest of us --- or is that just for those that don't plan on eating like him?
More tomorrow.
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