I could listen to Victoria for hours ... This information is so enlightening and so informative. How I wish I would have discovered this when my baby was born. He's 3 yrs old now, better late than never.
I don't know why you were given two negatives on your message, though assume it maybe because you included 'meat, milk, cream and eggs' in your idea of what great foods there are that aren't raw, and are all well documented as a cause of the most predominant western diseases out there. I agree with your other points about how the raw foodist theory can have you believe everything else is so bad for you.
Just thought I'd add, to feel satiated on raw, makes it an extremely expensive diet. Then bung on the superfoods, potions and supplements the famous superfooders sell on their overly-priced websites, and you're looking at big over-spending. That's not practical for many families.
I am interested in truth, not some bullshit story about how babies refuse food 'because it's not raw'. I tried my baby daughter on raw avocado, and she scowled and refused. I tried her on mashed potato and carrot, and she loved it...see, it's a poor way to reason. I see a great benefit in raw foods though, but I'm not in the camp of 'you feel love when raw'...maybe that's because I'm only 50% raw and it's euphoric-envy ha. Don't feel guilty for eating cooked.
If you are eating heated, beated, treated processed foods you'll get sick.
Jack Lalane put it best.
"IF GOD MADE IT, EAT IT
IF MAN MADE IT, DON'T EAT IT
IF IT TASTES EXTRAORDINARILY SWEET, SPIT IT OUT" (sugar)
Who are we to argue with a man thats been there-done that. Jack was an incurable bulimic as a teenager and wanted to kill his two brothers, commit suicide and burn his house down. His fed-up Mom took him to see Paul Bragg and he was transformed and started working out. END OF STORY
Though you'll also get sick if you decide to go on the raw, and find you can't afford all of the expensive foods, and then decide instead to cut down on your raw in-take to make it cheaper. Not only does that starve the body of essential nutrients (and forget supplements), but also does of fuel Not being able to attain the healthy form of the diet can make you feel guilty and down too.
As good as it 'can' be (if done right) It's a very difficult diet to be on, socially and financially.
I agree .. watching this depresses me.I live in the czech republic where most food is crap and anything unprocessed is expensive.I eat meat and some veg and bread and exersise and try to avoid the crap they sell here .Its the best I can do.Must be great to be rich.
Well I don't really care what anybody does.LOL. I'm also making a point. Look. You said about brainwashing right? I haven't seen any pushy commercials about raw food on TV. Hoever there's always all kinds of "other" food commercials. Nobody tells you to go raw. Victoria for example talks for herself here and the family she saved. I talk from my experience too. I do feel better. I do have more energy. I finally can say NO to all the junk I used to eat. So it's up to everybody to be Raw or not...
The reason raw food's are not advertised on normal terrestrial TV is because, atleast in the western world, it's deemed as a 'bizarre' diet, and it has thereffore not been able to push the boundaries into the world of TV yet (plenty of adverts if you want to look for them on the web though). It's not 'up to everybody' to be raw because it's expensive to be raw AND healthy and feel satiated if you can't afford the right foods :) I was once 100% raw (now 50%), so talk from experience too x
I remember being out with my mum and sister once, and we were out looking for lunch at the local supermarket. They bought this huge pizza for £1.60 to share, and I bought tomatoes £1.38, cucumber £1.09, an avocado £0.98p and a small bag of cashews £1.60. They had abit of my salad, but my lunch was still much more expensive than their lunch, and I didn't have alot left. Sad but true. That's just one experience though ;)
Yeah, nutritious food usually cost more money per calorie that's true.
But you could have bought some quinoa and mixed it with a small amount of veggies and a little oil. It would nutritionally still be a better meal than the pizza and it wouldn't cost you that much more.
Yeah sure, I mean I realise that. I just feel in general my weekly shopping bill is quite abit more expensive, but then for me, it's because I live/and buy for 4 others that eat cooked, so it's a case of buying lot's of raw and other foods too. If I lived alone and and bought for myself alone, I may not notice as much of a difference.
100% for around a year, but it staggered towards the end into 80%, then to 60%, and now to 50%. I also missed cooked quite abit, because I found munching on cold food abit boring. I used to warm things in bowls of hot water, but it was tedious really, and was never as warm as I wanted it to be. My 50% raw is easy to maintain because it's all salad. I'll have two meals a day now: 60% cooked grain (like quinoa or brown rice) and 40% salad/raw veg, and my snacking is always raw veg/fruit/nuts
Wouldn't u say just to maintain a healthy, alternative diet is expensive?I've tried raw off and on, and I think overall, I feel better raw.Why brown rice?Why not wild?How do you think the public devotees are able to maintain raw?Do you think maybe, this is just presentation, & they may have their "moments"?What would you have eaten in lieu of the cooked grain you now consume?
Because I have a large family, I fit in better at the moment. I would usually eat sprouted quinoa, though a tad crunchy. Loved my seed pate's which I still make alot of. I'm sure everybody has their moments? I don't eat cooked grain that often. I craved an avocado salad like mad tonight, and usually substitute grain with just steamed brocolli/asparagus, which is just more satiating when steamed (for me!). I did consume ALOT of cold pressed oils when totally raw...I actually put weight ON!
I don't know, but it seems to me you eat more than 50% raw; way more. Overall, you are conscientious about your health, which is the key thing. Do you think you'll ever go to, let's say, 90+% raw?Asking again, do you think that public, raw figures are always 100% raw, or is it possible that have their moments as well?
Sure, I do sometimes. Some days I might have a rice noodle day too though ;) Love them with loads of salad/spices and lime juice (Thai like!) and some tofu or beans. I think most raw 'nazi's' stick to their routine, though I read that Shazzie had some cooked food at Christmas a year or two (?) ago in her recent book 'Evie's kitchen', and she is about as raw as they come ;) Maybe I eat more raw than I think if I consider it via mass? The 'volume' on my plate is about 50/50, so maybe I eat more
p.s, maybe I'll increase raw after my kid's grow up, or maybe when they learn to love their veggies more :) For now though, I do love to eat with the family, and my kid's are practically vegan, meaning we can eat atleast some food as a family :)
Well You don't know if you're addicted until you really experience it :) Think of it this way. How many people know that french fries are bad for them? Ice cream, cakes, candy, coke? Everybody knows it's bad. How many of them continue to eat it anyway? LOL. I mean you can eat regular food and not be addicted. I've seen a few people like that. But from my experience when I went raw I really do say no to everything unhealthy easily. Not as before when I couldn't. So..It's hard to judge here..
going raw makes quitting the bad food easy. I'm recovered addict, what Victoria says is true. When I eat cooked food, I crave it again and again. When I eat raw for 2-3 days, the craving for cooked food is completely gone.
I went on a lot of raw food about two years ago. I kept hearing juice, juice, it's soooo good for you. (I never thought to look for any medical research on this.) So I juiced tons of brocolli and spinach and (not even knowing what they are) other....goitrogens.
Goitrogens kill the thyroid! They include things like strawberries, spinach, brocolli, well look them up maybe. Now I am hypothyroid. I'm supposed to take thyroid meds (take natural, not synthetic, it if happens to you) for life.
I could listen to Victoria for hours ... This information is so enlightening and so informative. How I wish I would have discovered this when my baby was born. He's 3 yrs old now, better late than never.
GlorytotheOnetrueGod 6 months ago
Wow, I saw this video 40 days and 20 pounds ago. I'm eating as much as I can, and I'm never hungry. I'm lovin it! Thank you Victoria.
RawDee1 2 years ago
I don't know why you were given two negatives on your message, though assume it maybe because you included 'meat, milk, cream and eggs' in your idea of what great foods there are that aren't raw, and are all well documented as a cause of the most predominant western diseases out there. I agree with your other points about how the raw foodist theory can have you believe everything else is so bad for you.
mel79stars 2 years ago
Just thought I'd add, to feel satiated on raw, makes it an extremely expensive diet. Then bung on the superfoods, potions and supplements the famous superfooders sell on their overly-priced websites, and you're looking at big over-spending. That's not practical for many families.
mel79stars 2 years ago
I am interested in truth, not some bullshit story about how babies refuse food 'because it's not raw'. I tried my baby daughter on raw avocado, and she scowled and refused. I tried her on mashed potato and carrot, and she loved it...see, it's a poor way to reason. I see a great benefit in raw foods though, but I'm not in the camp of 'you feel love when raw'...maybe that's because I'm only 50% raw and it's euphoric-envy ha. Don't feel guilty for eating cooked.
mel79stars 2 years ago
Yeah I'm surprised to hear Victoria say something like that. She usually put more thought behind what she says.
quasim0do 2 years ago
If you are eating heated, beated, treated processed foods you'll get sick.
Jack Lalane put it best.
"IF GOD MADE IT, EAT IT
IF MAN MADE IT, DON'T EAT IT
IF IT TASTES EXTRAORDINARILY SWEET, SPIT IT OUT" (sugar)
Who are we to argue with a man thats been there-done that. Jack was an incurable bulimic as a teenager and wanted to kill his two brothers, commit suicide and burn his house down. His fed-up Mom took him to see Paul Bragg and he was transformed and started working out. END OF STORY
artashes 3 years ago
Though you'll also get sick if you decide to go on the raw, and find you can't afford all of the expensive foods, and then decide instead to cut down on your raw in-take to make it cheaper. Not only does that starve the body of essential nutrients (and forget supplements), but also does of fuel Not being able to attain the healthy form of the diet can make you feel guilty and down too.
As good as it 'can' be (if done right) It's a very difficult diet to be on, socially and financially.
mel79stars 2 years ago
I agree .. watching this depresses me.I live in the czech republic where most food is crap and anything unprocessed is expensive.I eat meat and some veg and bread and exersise and try to avoid the crap they sell here .Its the best I can do.Must be great to be rich.
luckylangerie 2 years ago
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have fun having diarhea all the time from eating raw food you fat cow!
opayul 3 years ago
I love it, thanks, Victoria.
TheBestOfRawFood 3 years ago
Well I don't really care what anybody does.LOL. I'm also making a point. Look. You said about brainwashing right? I haven't seen any pushy commercials about raw food on TV. Hoever there's always all kinds of "other" food commercials. Nobody tells you to go raw. Victoria for example talks for herself here and the family she saved. I talk from my experience too. I do feel better. I do have more energy. I finally can say NO to all the junk I used to eat. So it's up to everybody to be Raw or not...
GoodAndRaw 3 years ago
The reason raw food's are not advertised on normal terrestrial TV is because, atleast in the western world, it's deemed as a 'bizarre' diet, and it has thereffore not been able to push the boundaries into the world of TV yet (plenty of adverts if you want to look for them on the web though). It's not 'up to everybody' to be raw because it's expensive to be raw AND healthy and feel satiated if you can't afford the right foods :) I was once 100% raw (now 50%), so talk from experience too x
mel79stars 2 years ago
The raw diet can be really cheap if you live close to nature. And you can grow a lot of food yourself, even if you don't have a garden.
You don't need to buy into superfoods and powders to be healthy.
quasim0do 2 years ago
I don't do superfoods in general.
I remember being out with my mum and sister once, and we were out looking for lunch at the local supermarket. They bought this huge pizza for £1.60 to share, and I bought tomatoes £1.38, cucumber £1.09, an avocado £0.98p and a small bag of cashews £1.60. They had abit of my salad, but my lunch was still much more expensive than their lunch, and I didn't have alot left. Sad but true. That's just one experience though ;)
I do also grow my own ;)
mel79stars 2 years ago
Yeah, nutritious food usually cost more money per calorie that's true.
But you could have bought some quinoa and mixed it with a small amount of veggies and a little oil. It would nutritionally still be a better meal than the pizza and it wouldn't cost you that much more.
quasim0do 2 years ago
Yeah sure, I mean I realise that. I just feel in general my weekly shopping bill is quite abit more expensive, but then for me, it's because I live/and buy for 4 others that eat cooked, so it's a case of buying lot's of raw and other foods too. If I lived alone and and bought for myself alone, I may not notice as much of a difference.
mel79stars 2 years ago
Do you think you'll ever go back to 100%? How long were you 100%?
Soulblackman 2 years ago
100% for around a year, but it staggered towards the end into 80%, then to 60%, and now to 50%. I also missed cooked quite abit, because I found munching on cold food abit boring. I used to warm things in bowls of hot water, but it was tedious really, and was never as warm as I wanted it to be. My 50% raw is easy to maintain because it's all salad. I'll have two meals a day now: 60% cooked grain (like quinoa or brown rice) and 40% salad/raw veg, and my snacking is always raw veg/fruit/nuts
mel79stars 2 years ago
Wouldn't u say just to maintain a healthy, alternative diet is expensive?I've tried raw off and on, and I think overall, I feel better raw.Why brown rice?Why not wild?How do you think the public devotees are able to maintain raw?Do you think maybe, this is just presentation, & they may have their "moments"?What would you have eaten in lieu of the cooked grain you now consume?
Soulblackman 2 years ago
Because I have a large family, I fit in better at the moment. I would usually eat sprouted quinoa, though a tad crunchy. Loved my seed pate's which I still make alot of. I'm sure everybody has their moments? I don't eat cooked grain that often. I craved an avocado salad like mad tonight, and usually substitute grain with just steamed brocolli/asparagus, which is just more satiating when steamed (for me!). I did consume ALOT of cold pressed oils when totally raw...I actually put weight ON!
mel79stars 2 years ago
I don't know, but it seems to me you eat more than 50% raw; way more. Overall, you are conscientious about your health, which is the key thing. Do you think you'll ever go to, let's say, 90+% raw?Asking again, do you think that public, raw figures are always 100% raw, or is it possible that have their moments as well?
Just wondering.
Soulblackman 2 years ago
Sure, I do sometimes. Some days I might have a rice noodle day too though ;) Love them with loads of salad/spices and lime juice (Thai like!) and some tofu or beans. I think most raw 'nazi's' stick to their routine, though I read that Shazzie had some cooked food at Christmas a year or two (?) ago in her recent book 'Evie's kitchen', and she is about as raw as they come ;) Maybe I eat more raw than I think if I consider it via mass? The 'volume' on my plate is about 50/50, so maybe I eat more
mel79stars 2 years ago
p.s, maybe I'll increase raw after my kid's grow up, or maybe when they learn to love their veggies more :) For now though, I do love to eat with the family, and my kid's are practically vegan, meaning we can eat atleast some food as a family :)
mel79stars 2 years ago
Raw food = nature = patent.
Advertisers don't have a patent on nature.
Nature is smart.
tejo29se 2 years ago
I hear you. Such a shame humans don't take as much notice in the good nature offers as they could or should!
mel79stars 2 years ago
@tejo29se tell that to monsanto.
Darkangelmmortalwin 2 weeks ago
Well You don't know if you're addicted until you really experience it :) Think of it this way. How many people know that french fries are bad for them? Ice cream, cakes, candy, coke? Everybody knows it's bad. How many of them continue to eat it anyway? LOL. I mean you can eat regular food and not be addicted. I've seen a few people like that. But from my experience when I went raw I really do say no to everything unhealthy easily. Not as before when I couldn't. So..It's hard to judge here..
GoodAndRaw 3 years ago
Ditto.
going raw makes quitting the bad food easy. I'm recovered addict, what Victoria says is true. When I eat cooked food, I crave it again and again. When I eat raw for 2-3 days, the craving for cooked food is completely gone.
2008Raw2008 3 years ago
love it =)
crystalAura 4 years ago
I went on a lot of raw food about two years ago. I kept hearing juice, juice, it's soooo good for you. (I never thought to look for any medical research on this.) So I juiced tons of brocolli and spinach and (not even knowing what they are) other....goitrogens.
Goitrogens kill the thyroid! They include things like strawberries, spinach, brocolli, well look them up maybe. Now I am hypothyroid. I'm supposed to take thyroid meds (take natural, not synthetic, it if happens to you) for life.
LoricaLady 4 years ago
She's right
plumevine 4 years ago
I love Victoria. She makes so much sense. It's common sense that somehow people just lost along the way.
thrivesurvive 4 years ago
I agree with this x 2
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yardsnacker 4 years ago
I actaully do agree with this.
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BlindGuru 4 years ago
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blackberryjuice1 4 years ago
victoria boutenko is brilliant!
solargazing69 4 years ago