Raw Foods Interview with Beets Living Foods Café Owner Sylvia Heisey

[Larinmoonstar]

You simmer vegetables and slice them...

You aren't a chef. In the industry that is whats called a vegetable commis.

[katmobile59]

you look really good too, no wrinkles!

[youknowthatotherguy]

DId she just say that it can cure cancer?? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight...

[LifeRegenRevolution]

@youknowthatotherguy

its True ! an organic raw vegan diet cures ALL disease , thats a fact. If you dont believe me watch vids on channel

LIFE REGENERATOR

[nobraintheory]

@LifeRegenRevolution - Then why did you undergo Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy for your disorder, when you could have just eaten a vegan diet?

[quasim0do]

@youknowthatotherguy Yes, the body can heal itself from cancer if you allow it to.

[Christopher711]

Oh wow. I like to eat walnuts. That's how I get my omega3. :(

[quasim0do]

@Christopher711 Keep eating your walnuts! Just at least soak them over night to get rid of the enzyme enhibitors that will mess with your digestion. In fact, if you soak walnuts for 2-3 days (just remember to rinse them and change the water 1-2 times a day) and then dehydrate them, they will become the best walnuts you have ever tasted! So creamy and buttery.

[DoctorSess]

what about sushi? great stuff to know.

[quasim0do]

@DoctorSess Sushi is not raw. It's mostly served with raw seafood or vegetables though. But I personally wouldn't touch the raw seafood since most of the stuff you find at sushi restaurants is loaded with parasites.

[DoctorSess]

@quasim0do right, i've learned a lot in a year... sushi is the rice but sushi with raw tuna or other fish is the kind i like. i go to the same place always and it's very nice and high quality (i've never had a problem or gotten sick) and it's very good. they even give us free rolls (they prolly give everyone free rolls lol). I'm not going to let a fear of parasites stop me from enjoying spicy tuna rolls every once in a while but hey life is full of risks :-D

[indigothecat]

While I'm not as convinced about raw foods completely healing ailments, I do believe that the body is a lot more healthy in this kind of a diet... which can lead to recovering faster from certain things, but it's certainly not the only thing that should be done.

When I make veggie stir fry now, maybe I'll turn the heat down. I always load in the broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, tomatos (sometimes), green onions, tofu, and anything else I feel like throwing in.  Yum!

[thewritepassion]

@indigothecat

Your stir fry sounds delicious!

[LifeRegenRevolution]

@indigothecat

watch the Raw Vegan vids by

LIFE REGENERATOR

[quasim0do]

@indigothecat It's not so much the raw foods that are healing, it's the elimination of harmful foods that allows the body to heal itself instead of taking care of new toxins all the time.

[RiouInsuiko]

I love eating raw - from carrots to calf liver!

[stellarshore]

i just checked for the web page and got nothing of this sort, hmmm...any help? thanks

[stellarshore]

I've become quite conscience of my diet now as i hear its much better for skin and ageing. also iv developed a little bit of a gut which i have to make my everest in removing..

[bonzaibb12]

@cdriggs I did not have Streptococcal pharyngitis. My condition was not common.

[bonzaibb12]

@cdriggs If he was living a wartime lifestyle then his immunity was lowered by at least 50%.

[bonzaibb12]

@cdriggs In order to satisfy a vegans nutritional need you have to take synthetic vitamins , hormone disruptive such as soy and other replacements unnatural to the body. This goes against nature and what our bodies have been predispositioned to process through thousands of years of genetic programming.

[LifeRegenRevolution]

@bonzaibb12

Thats totally False, the vids on the  Raw Vegan channel LIFE REGENERATOR totally disprove indisputably your Claim

[bonzaibb12]

@cdriggs Actually it is not illogical. The digestive system is tied in with your ability to fight off infections and virus's. Also Strep while common is very rare in the voice box and is 100% fatal if not treated immediatly. Deadly Strep is not common ! My immune system was lowered by a bad diet and constant diarrhea. When this happens your ability to absorb vitamins and nutrients is lowered making your entire system susceptible to all kinds of disease and illness. Look up Epiglotitus .

[abbyguy]

Looks like you need a big fat T-Bone steak.

[bodyreader]

wow

[elohelreh]

Mmmm, I might want to visit my cousin in Austin now...:)

[youlance29]

Omnivores(cont):

4. Nutrients. Strict vegans must carefully watch the source of their food in order to ensure complete nutrition. when we were primarily hunter-gatherers, it would have been vital to gather nutrition from whatever source was available, animal or vegetable.

5. Archaeological Evidence. Evidence from our earliest ancestors indicates that we have always consumed meat. This evidence includes bone evidence in proto-hominid fossil sites and coprolites.

[youlance29]

Omnivores:

1. Dental structure. Our teeth evolved to eat both meat and plant matter.

2. Digestion. We are able to both tolerate and fully extract nutrients from most plant and animal sources. Exceptions include cellulose and chitin.

3. Primate Studies. Other primates, our closest living relatives, are also omnivores. This list includes Chimpanzees, Orangutans, and Gorillas.

[RogerOnTheRight]

Actually, everyone is wrong. Meat eaters, vegetarians, vegans, the lot.

The only pure diet is to not eat at all. And, to minimize your carbon footprint, stop breathing as well.

Go on, do it.

[ComradeRama]

Humans evolved on sweet fruits.

Sweet fruits and tender green leafy vegetables is our physiological food.

Someone already mentioned Manoftruthhealth but you should also look up Durianriders. These guys have amazing information of human physiological diet.

[youlance29]

@ComradeRama Humans evolved as OMNIVORES!!! if we evolved on sweet fruits and greens alone, our ancestors would have either starved to death or died of disease!!! stop listening to nut jobs trying to sell you his book or philosophy. if you really want to learn about nutrition, go talk to a nutritionist or dietician!! they are science based and are not delusional!!!

[baronmorris]

whatever helps you sleep at night.

we don't have the teeth of meat eaters, nor the intestines. Look it up.

I am no longer a strict vegetarian, but I don't kid myself with a weak-ass evolutionary argument that's not grounded in fact. There are lots of good reasons to be vegetarian (esp. with a focus on raw foods), & very few good reasons to eat meat - mainly, selfish gluttony and laziness. No, wait... those aren't good reasons at all. I dated a dietician. It's amazing what they don't know.

peace

[youlance29]

@baronmorris hello? our teeth and intestines are much closer to a carnivore than it is to a herbivore with multiple stomachs like a cow!!! truth is we evolved to be omnivores. i have no problems with recommending a vegetarian diet only a vegan diet!!! you say people who eat meat are selfish, gluttony,and lazy? a vegan will say the same of a vegetarian! is that true of you and why u r a vegetarian? lol you dated a dietician and you think she doesn't know about nutrition. who are you, jack lalane?

[baronmorris]

jack lalane. ha. good one. ;-)

a little research goes a long way, mate.

ie, michaelbluejay. com/veg/natural. html

see esp. the chart halfway down the page comparing herbivore, carnivore, and human physiology.

carnivore: intestinal tract only 3 times body length, so rapidly decaying meat can pass out of body quickly

herbivore: intestinal tract several times body length (plant foods decay slowly so can take their time to pass through the body)

humans: intestinal tract several times body length

[youlance29]

@baronmorris you read some books and watch a few videos so now you're the guru of nutrition? shit, no wonder she broke up with you!! LOL, c'mon that's a good one! haha. seriously, we can live off(although not healthily) and digest a meat only diet like a carnivore but we cannot live off a plant only diet like a herbivore. the length of the intestines is not the argument here but the ability to digest meats or plants. herbivores have mutliple stomachs to digest plants. lions/humans=1 stomach, U?

[baronmorris]

Ok now I'm thinking you must not be very bright. Did you read any of the info at that website?

You're really stuck on this cow thing, huh? Really lets you feel off the hook, don't it? How many stomachs does a horse have? one. (vegetarian)

There goes your argument! lol

Cows & goats are known as ruminants - they ruminate, or chew and regurgitate & rechew their food, & have multiple stomachs.

All ruminants are herbivorous but not all herbivores are ruminants.

We can in fact thrive as herbivores!

[youlance29]

@baronmorris yes a horse is a non-ruminant with only one stomach. a ruminant like a cow has multiple stomachs for better digestion of hard plants with high levels of cellulose. So herbivores can have 1 or multiple stomachs depending on their plant feeds. ALL carnivores have only one stomach. so by your logic, is the stomach of a human more like a carnivore or herbivore?? hmmmm?

We can thrive as herbivores? Ok, then we can thrive as carnivores too! what does that mean? yes, we are OMNIVORES!

[monehget]

@youlance29 you definately lost your shitty argument right here hahaha

[youlance29]

Humans are definitely meant to be omnivores-Hydrochloric acid in our stomachs, NOT found in herbivores, enzymes in your pancreas designed to break down meat, NOT found in herbivores. No cellulase (the enzyme need to fully break down vegetation), cellulase is needed for an herbivorous animal, but we don't produce any. Our intestines are long (generally a sign of herbivorous animals) but our intestines are not nearly as long as a true herbivore. We possess canines, NOT found in herbivores.

[ComradeRama]

@youlance29 Haha! I'm on the raw food diet and i'm not starving to death. As a matter of fact i'm stronger and healthier. I used to have insomnia, guess what, that's gone. My circadian rhythm works perfectly now.

[youlance29]

@cdriggs there is nothing wrong and very nutritious to eat MODEST amounts of RAW organic diary, lean white meats, FISH, and MINIMAL amounts of red meat. the big problem with diary is excess amounts of processed diary-pasteurized/homogenized milk and the use of antibiotics/growth hormones in animals. bottom line is to consume a non-restricted BALANCED whole foods diet that is organic and with emphasis on raw. it is processed foods that bring on excess acidity not good clean diary and meats!

[billybbob18]

I tend to agree with nutritional type model. Genetics rule how we process food. I'm one of those pesky meat lovers because I need it. Those of us who come from northern environments need the nutritional profile found in meats. Look at the Inuit diet of MOSTLY meat. Give em tons of veggies, and watch them shrivel up. We should all go as raw/organic as possible. Peace.

[youlance29]

@cdriggs tell me how can a whole foods diet be more nutrient deficient than a vegan diet?

[youlance29]

@cdriggs i am as much a meat/diary zealot as i am a veggie/fruit zealot. so does that make me a whole foods zealot? sure!!

[youlance29]

@cdriggs i am thoroughly disgusted by people who twist facts, use half truths, mis-uses science(studies) and stubbornly fight the truth in order to spread their personal philosophical(veganism) or religious(buhhdism) beliefs to hurt others.

[youlance29]

@cdriggs sure that may be true if you were more nutrient deprived from another diet like the typical Sad American Diet(SAD). Campell is a vegan zealot. he wrote the book china study not to see if meats and diary are healthy, but to prove it is unhealthy. he selects specific studies, mis-interprets studies, and falsely extrapolates his findings in order to discredit meat/dairy and spread veganism. he has been thoroughly debunked by many physicians, scientists, and the weston price foundation.

[youlance29]

@cdriggs just to clarify, i'm not saying raw foods are bad. raw foods are very healthy and i would highly recommend everyone to eat as much raw foods as possible. the problem i have is not with raw foods, but with the restrictions put on other healthy food groups because of an insistance on eating only a 100% vegan diet. As a physician, i am 100% science based. i cannot allow personal philosophical or religious biases affect my nutritional recommendations to patients.

[youlance29]

@cdriggs the reason why any fad or radical diet works for someone overweight is because it restricts calories whether it be a raw vegan or banana diet. that's why you lost weight and all the symptoms and diseases that came with it. that does not mean a caloric and nutritionally restricted diet will be healthy in the long run. In the short run, a vegan diet is fine for most people if your goal is to reduce excess weight that is contributing to health problems. And congrats to your good health!

[youlance29]

@cdriggs you don't need to be on a raw foods diet to contract strep. it would be ridiculous to say that. but you cannot deny that a raw foods diet can negatively affect someone's immune system when they are feeling awful with diarrhea from it. it's no different than someone negatively affecting their immune system when eating a processed junk food diet. If you don't believe that a raw vegan diet has nutritiional deficiencies than you'll find out the hard way. I am a nutrition based physician.

[LifeRegenRevolution]

@youlance29

You need to watch the channel of

LIFE REGENERATOR

[youlance29]

@cdriggs bonzaibb12 said she felt good on a 70% raw diet but felt bad, weak, and with tons of digestive problems on a 100% raw diet. whether her epiglotitus/pharyngitis is directly due to the raw foods is unclear. But it is certainly tied to it indirectly by causing her to feel and to be unhealthy. it is a fact that a raw vegan diet causes both a caloric and nutrient deficiencies which may have caused her immune system to falter(from diarrhea too) and not allowing her body to fight off the strep

[bonzaibb12]

Fermentation without cooking does make them safe to eat. There are many food that are great for you in Raw form like Milk, Sushi , nuts and fruits but this Raw diet is too extreme . Traditional whole foods is what we are genetically predispositioned to eating.

[bonzaibb12]

The Raw food diet actually put me in ICU . I did it gradually over 6 months and followed the directions of Gurus like David Wolfe. The best diet is a whole foods diet, Organic, fermented and foods that have been eaten traditionally for 1000's of years. Our bodies were not meant to eat totally Raw such as cabbage,wheat and broccoli.

[youlance29]

@bonzaibb12 i agree. i'm sorry you ended up in the ICU. what happened to cause that exactly? we don't need to be obsessed or to force ourselves onto a 100% raw diet. we should have a 100% whole foods diet with emphasis on ~50% raw, organic and fermented foods. Radical diets like the 100% raw and vegan are not optimal diets for humans. these are no better than other radical diets like atkins which are not based on nutritional science, but based on book sales, theory, philosophy, or bad science!

[bonzaibb12]

@youlance29 Thank You. Well after about 6 months I went from about 70% Raw to 100% within 30 days my immune system went so low I got a rare Strep condition in the vocal box called Epiglotitus. It is extremely fatal and I was only minutes from suffocating to death when I went to the E.R. before this happened I never felt good on the Raw diet I felt week with tons of digestive problems. Many Raw enthusiasts would like to say I did it wrong but I followed the protocol to a T.

[youlance29]

@bonzaibb12 i've heard of many people who were on a 100% raw vegan diet for years to complain of GI problems, tiredness, and unsatisfaction leading to junk food binges every few months, but i've never heard of something so serious as yours. It sounds like your throat was closing up due to the strep infection and or somekind of anaphylatic shock? how did you get the strep in your throat? i think most radical diets only work in the short run only because you're cutting out processed foods.

[bonzaibb12]

@youlance29 My immune system was too low. Strep does not usually invade the voice box its extremely rare and it was the strep that cause my throat to close. However I have always had super immune system I only get a cold every few years and have had the flu maybe 2 or 3x times in 32 years . During the time I got sick I had little contact with other people I was staying home a lot because I was weak from diarrhea caused by the raw food. I got better immediately when I went back to a normal diet.

[bonzaibb12]

@youlance29 Yes I have stopped the Fad's and gone with a traditional whole foods diet after reading some WAPF books by Sally Fallon . I feel great now and have been eating this way for about a year. I like that it does not radically cut out any food groups and I can basically have anything I want if Its not processed and prepared properly. One thing I noticed that made a huge difference in digestion. was making my own sourdough. I use the no knead method. Soo Easy.

[flamingogo90]

i agree!

also, it's shown that we absorb the vitamins better from cooked vegetables than raw vegetables. even though there are more enzymes in raw ones, ourbody cant digest them properly.

you should aim for both cooked and raw veggies in your diet!

[EmpoweredByKnowledge]

@bonzaibb12 check out manoftruthealth channel, he explains how we should eat raw foods that only appeal to our eyes.