Eating a raw diet for 40 years, no longer vegan!

Today's video is with my friend John Fielder of Australia. John has been a raw foodist for over 40 years and is no longer a vegan. This interview was done over skype and is not great quality in the picture but wonderful information so hang in there and enjoy.

We had one winner who guessed correctly who it was going to be. In time I will be replying to the massive amount of comments I got to my last videos.
Question of the day: Were you once a raw vegan and you went back to eating cooked food or animal products? Post your reply below.

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[ajchanter]

lol

[DrSeptember]

On average, for someone raised on the Western diet, about 2 to 5 milligrams of B12 are stored, mostly in the liver. This means most people have at least a three year reserve of this vital nutrient.

Conservation of B12 by the body boosts the time this supply lasts by 10-fold. After excretion through the bile into the intestines most of the B12 is reabsorbed by the ileum for future use.

[gojiberries1]

I read that people who have A B Negative blood are very good with vegetarian diets. I am not sure about Vegan.

I listen to my own body. If people feel great being vegan they should follow what they believe if they make sure they are deficient.

[imnotabear]

seems he has closed his mind to veganism

personally speaking I am not 100% raw vegan but the more raw vegan I am over a period of days the better i feel.

humans have a meat eating history, but history is not evolution and a few insects in our diet does not make us meat eaters

[paulgem123]

I am with you on this. A recent book I read on the Okinawin diet I believe is best. Minus the Pork and shell fish for me ;-)

[abyssquick]

I have to say I am bemused by the 4 "thumbs down" merely for stating simple scientific fact. Science is science. Humans have a distinct meat-eating history - not some arbitrary opinion!

Ancient human diets are a specialized field of paleoanthropology, and are fairly well understood. Numerous finds of million year old animal bones with toolmarks from hominid habitation sites. Lots of books available out there.

However, I wasn't saying "We should eat meat because our ancestors clearly did."

[RawFitChris]

Question: What does John mean by "not experiencing the health level that we feel we should be" ? Is he talking about 1) listening to a single blood test (which has many interpretations too complex to enter into here) by an Nd or MD, or 2) experiencing certain physical ailments or performance decreases, or 3) the way that modern people who are usually carrying more excess fat on their bodies view him?

[RawRebuild]

@DrSeptember

Thanks for your response. Could you please cite the sources for the quotes you just referenced. I am aware of the modern day studies involving the Okinawan peoples. I am also aware of their many incongruencies and limited conclusions. I will counter if you are able to provide references.

[DrSeptember]

The Okinawan diet is LOW IN FAT and has only 25% of the sugar and 75% of the grains of the average Japanese dietary intake.The traditional diet also includes a relatively SMALL amount of fish and somewhat more in the way of soy and other legumes (6% of total caloric intake). Almost NO MEAT, EGGS, or DAIRY products are consumed."

[DrSeptember]

You are making it seem as if pork is the staple of the centenarians diet in Okinawa. Big mistake. Just like in all the poor rural areas of the world, meat is a rarely eaten:

"the traditional diet of the islanders is 20% LOWER IN CALORIES than the Japanese average and contains 300% of the GREEN/YELLOW VEGETABLES(particularly heavy on SWEET POTATOES). "

[RawRebuild]

For anyone interested click 'view all comments' to read from the beginning.

[RawRebuild]

When Sasamori Gisuke, who was born in Aomori Prefecture, visited Okinawa in the twenty-sixth year of the Meiji era, he was full of praise, saying, 'They say one sort of pig is enough to produce dozens of different marvelous dishes. The delicacy of the pork cuisine here would be enough to shame into silence Westerners who also eat meat as a main dish.'