From Fries and Beer to 100% Raw Vegan - Dara Dubinet

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Dara Dubinet is a raw food chef and a graduate of the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute. She has inspired the masses with her popular Youtube channel and acts as a 'plant based diet muse' through her videos and high vibration lifestyle. In this interview Dara talks about how she went from eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) to eating a 100% plant based raw vegan diet cold turkey overnight and how that affected her life.

Music Courtesy of Sheena Grobb (www.sheenagrobb.com)

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[227Morgan]

@TheCoolVegetarian

I'll check it out

[TheCoolVegetarian]

@227Morgan adipose tissue = fat cells. That's alright, everything takes time :)

There are some great books about the subject (such as 80-10-10 by Dr Doug Graham) :))

[227Morgan]

@TheCoolVegetarian

I understood everything except adipose tissue, but I assume I got the meaning behind the statement. I understand the value of this system, but I think it will take me some time to get to the point of implementation.

[TheCoolVegetarian]

@227Morgan Heat denatures the foods original structure, thus becoming foreign to the body (which doesn't recognize it as food) because the original bonds were broken and rebonded to form a completely different structure (a chemistry or molecular biology background would help in understand that). The new structure is toxic. Given enough time and energy the body will clean itself. If not, then it's most likely to be stored in adipose tissue.

[227Morgan]

@TheCoolVegetarian

So then I'm not sure I understand the issue of why they shouldn't be denatured before they are eaten.

[TheCoolVegetarian]

@227Morgan Great question! I'll attempt to answer it. You are right, certain strong acids denature proteins (such as Acetic acid, TCA and Sulfosalicylic acid). Our gastric acid is made of hydrochloric acid and NaCl and KCl, and it's function is to unfold the proteins so that the digestive enzymes can then break down the macromolecules into their smaller building blocks. So yeah, food that reaches our stomach is altered but solely with the purpose of being further broken down and later absorbed.

[227Morgan]

@TheCoolVegetarian

Don't the acids in our stomach/digestive juices denature the foods anyway once you eat them?

[adjca]

@TheCoolVegetarian We live in such a cold climate, I often steam veggies lightly in the wintertime and thought I was doing okay. I shall have to rethink this.

[TheCoolVegetarian]

@jd27x Were you undereating on calories when you went vegetarian?

[TheCoolVegetarian]

@99sra It's all good :)