Going raw food

[Borachio]

Spinach!!! Yay! How can anyone not like spinach??

The raw food diet (without meat) is the so-called Garden of Eden diet, isn't it? Should be good in terms of anti-oxidants and roughage.

I'm surprised it isn't more popular with the Creationists around here. (I don't know, perhaps it is.)

In the past, I have toyed with vegetarianism - in various forms - and I've felt that hunger you get for meat. After a bit, you get over that and meat starts to smell really bad (like cow sh**?). But towards winter I start to get really hungry again and start in on the old oh so tasty cows, pigs and lamb.

All the moral issues seem to completely bypass me. Can't think why.

How do you feel about cannibalism? Or how about one's own relatives? After all, am I not related - although sometimes rather distantly - to all living things on earth?

Processed food is a big no-no, in my view. Expensive, poisonous, environmentally injurious stuff pushed by Big Food. What joy!

 

[Quackers]

I know from expierence that America has sort of a trauma regarding raw meat. But when properly handled and smoked it is no problem. In Germany raw meat is fairly common as a dish. Like raw ham and another thing I don't know the ENglish term for:

Delicious! (on occasion)

When you say raw ham, do you mean meat straight from the pig and with no curing? As in you may as well sink your teeth into a pigs carcass and have lunch?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Slightly (very?) OT, but since we are discussing swine, no pig lover has truly lived till they have tasted the Balinese delicacy that is Babi Guling

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=b...Q&biw=1024&bih=690&sei=59_qT8fLE-SpiAe225SxBQ

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Staying on a healthy raw food vegetarianism diet for a long term is really difficult as you will have to be extremely careful to get enough calcium, zinc, iodine, vitamin D, vitamin B12 and iron.

Are you saying that these nutritions are scarce in raw food?

One could perhaps eat raw organic egg or some of the seaweeds available...

 

[holy king]

Link to video.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

When you say raw ham, do you mean meat straight from the pig and with no curing? As in you may as well sink your teeth into a pigs carcass and have lunch?

Obviously. Must be our barbaric Germanic inheritance which also made us kill infants in WWI. Hitler tried to civilize us by teaching to only kill sub-human infants. Nowadays we can't kill anyone , but our thirst for blood needs satisfaction.

By raw I mean not cooked.

 

[Quackers]

Well i'm glad for that german history lesson and to be honest i am not surprised

Anyway I think your definition of raw meat is weak. Cured ham has ridded itself of all that delicious, exotic bacteria which gives raw-meat eating that thrill

 

[luiz]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=raw-veggies-are-healthier

Pro's and con's. It seems not as clear cut to say cooked or raw is healthier.

Well it's certainly less risky to eat cooked meals. Food poisoning sucks big time.

Answering the OP, it's quite easy to have a balanced and healthy diet while not giving up anything major such as "all cooked food". I really don't get the appeal of radical diets.

 

[Azale]

Link to video.

The definitive guru on this subject. He's like the Gordon Ramsey of raw food.

 

[Quintillus]

I know from expierence that America has sort of a trauma regarding raw meat. But when properly handled and smoked it is no problem. In Germany raw meat is fairly common as a dish. Like raw ham and another thing I don't know the ENglish term for:

Delicious! (on occasion)

I found the English Wikipedia article for it: Mett. It does look good. And I see the possibility of raw food meat was raised quickly. If you allow it as a compromise, I recommend reindeer carpaccio as a nice combo meat-vegetable dish that's probably availably seasonally (in Stockholm, or perhaps slightly north, not where I am). And Quackers is right, fish is a possibility, too.

But I can't see myself going all raw-food, regardless of whether meat is included. For 36 hours, I could certainly binge on fruit and a few good salads. Long term though, beyond the aspect of liking cooked foods too, it would be quite inconvenient. Being vegetarian puts a slight hamper on food options while traveling, but not too much. Being vegan puts a lot more restrictions on and requires planning in advance. Being vegan and allergic to corn in Sweden adds to the restrictions, though it's not impossible. Being vegan and allergic to corn in America makes it nearly impossible to eat out. I think you'd be similar to that last one if you went all raw food - basically you'd always have to bring your own food and procure it from stores, farmers' markets, etc. And even if you were willing to put up with it, it might get on the nerves of traveling companions after awhile.

 

[Berzerker]

So my friend has started eating a raw food diet and has spent the last month trying to convince me and my girlfriend to become raw food vegitarians. This is totally out of character for the meat loving me however I am interested in trying it. Since I left home a few months ago my diet has been bad. I eat processed food and mountains of pasta.

So I am willing to give raw food vegetarianism a chance. Does anyone else do it? Has anyone else tried? I have done it for 36 hours now and I am starving. Seriously I need meat and fries to get full, no amount of veggies seem to fill me up.

go for it, I cant quit cold turkey but I'm trying to replace animal protein with plant.
From my reading it'll take 2-3 months for your taste buds to adapt and you'll lose your desire for meat and garbage foods