subject: What I Learned From High-Fat Raw Gurus [print this page] What I Learned From High-Fat Raw Gurus What I Learned From High-Fat Raw Gurus
So I've been busy reading some material from prominent high-fat raw food gurus lately.
Here's what I've learned so far:
1. A whole and natural raw food diet means one full of dehydrated, processed, powdered, and packaged foods.
2. Eating multiple avocados containing over 70% of calories from fat in one day is totally cool and even healthy!
3. Satisfying my sweet tooth means concocting recipes full of fat, cacao, and refined raw sweeteners. Just eat sweet fruit, pshaw!
4. A raw food diet is the most nutritionally dense diet around. That's why we need lots of supplementation, DUH!
5. Every raw recipe must: a) take hours to prepare and b) rival all my cooked food favorites in fat and salt content.
6. Fiber is super important for digestion, which is why we should get rid of it all by juicing our food!
7. Food combining, Schmood combining.
8. As long as I stay raw, I can spend as much time lounging around the house as I want. SWEET!
9. We can get all the nutrition we need from ridiculously small amounts of food as long as we chew each bite for hours on end.
10. I'll be able to spend as much time as I want being lazy by sleeping less and less each night.
11. There's no way I'm getting all the vitamins and nutrients I need if I'm not spending an arm and a leg on supplements and superfoods.
12. The more water we shoot up our butts with a tube, the better.
All this without indigestion, crazy cooked food cravings, and overall poor health!
Wow, who would have thunk it? :roll's eyes:
In all seriousness, I have a few choice words for all the raw food gurus out there promoting (and supposedly following) these Hollywood "raw" diets of supplements, condiments, stimulants, irritants, fats and grass.
A Message to the Raw Food Gurus
I refuse to name names, but you know who you are...
Shame on you for promoting unsustainable diets. Shame on you for encouraging severe calorie restriction. Shame on you for ignoring exercise, sunshine, and restful sleep as necessary components for long term health. Shame on you for basing your dietary actions on faulty science and poor reasoning and encouraging people to follow the path you set out.
And DOUBLY shame on you for claiming to support a whole, plant-based diet and then pushing nave newcomers to pay you EXORBITANT amounts of money on "necessary" foods like dried sea algae, bee vomit, and royal jelly.
You are all helping to turn these well-meaning newbies into scrawny, lazy binge eaters. And the ones who know enough to see through the bull are simply thumbing their noses at raw veganism for good.
Shame, shame, SHAME on all of you!
Just the Facts, Ma'am
If you really want to go raw and be healthy, you don't need to pay out the rear end for supplements, superfoods, or hydro-colonics.
If you *really* want to see phenomenal results, here's what it takes:
1. Adopt a species appropriate diet, i.e. a low fat, high fruit raw vegan diet composed of lots of fruit, moderate greens and non-sweet fruits, and limited fat.
2. Adopt a solid exercise routine. Move your body EVERYDAY for AT LEAST 1 full hour.
3. Get adequate sleep. If you wake up groggy, you need more sleep.
4. Get adequate sunshine. About 15-30 mins a day should do ya.
Would you look at that? Solid, common sense, PRACTICAL information that you can put to use RIGHT NOW and you didn't have to pay me a single penny!
