Lisa wrote: {{{snipped stuff}}
>Hi Irene,
>
>> As I look at the carrots which insist on
>> sprouting in my refrigerator, I can hardly call them "dead."
>
>Would you call a rose in a vase of water "dead?" It's unopened buds
will
>open in a few days. Does this mean the rose is alive?
>
No, I wouldn't call such a rose "dead." Eventually, it wilts, and
without the nutrients it needs to live, it does die. Some other plants,
on the other hand, do just fine being cut and placed in just water to
grow.
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>> In that case, then pizza, fries, roast beef, etc., are just food.
>
>:) Well, it depends on how you are defining food! I define food as
>something which has digestible, absorbable protein, carbohydrate, fat,
>as well as micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals and all the other
>infinitesimally small compounds we're now discovering which are
referred
>to as phytonutrients.
>
>I would, in fact, call pizza, french fries, and roast beef all foods.
>I'd like to know -- what would you call them? Now, I might not
recommend
>them across the board, as the ONLY foods that can benefit every person
I would call them food, too, but obviously, they consist of mainly
calories and not much else. And, even though many hard-core raw
foodists would be pressed to admit it, people do live on such diet and
sometimes live long! But, they aren't healthy enough to sustain life at
a **quallity** level.
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>> ... there is a definite effect from using overcooked,
>> processed foods than fresh raw ones.
>
>My point is not to trumpet the great benefits of a junk-food diet. I'm
>trying to make the point that there is no one diet that is right for
>every person - and that most definately includes an all-raw diet right
>along with every other highly-touted "best" diet.
>
I agree 100%!
Liza wrote:
>Air and water don't need to be put up on a pedestal, either. These
>things you mention are necessary requirements for health - but that's
>all they are. Life is not about paying inordinate amounts of attention
>to what you eat. In my opinion, life is about having fun, LOTS of fun,
>loving people, being creative, doing meaningful work when you can,
>playing and listening to loads of music, laughing as much as possible,
>helping other people, stuff like that. Eating food is just the fuel to
>allow us to do these other things, which are what life is really about.
That's **life**. Keeping it going requires food, air, and water.
**Living** requires the other stuff!
>
>> It's never JUST food. Not just here at this group, either.
>
>Not sure what you mean by that statement. Can you elaborate?
Just what you said about life and living. It's never **just** food.
It's about living.
>
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>> I don't think this
>> means that we are anthromorphizing our food ... we're giving it the
>> importance that it deserves.
>
>Ah! THAT'S the word! Thank you!
>
You're welcome! I can find a $1.00 word sometimes!
>I gotta say, though, that some people do in fact do that thing to their
>food. You can tell by the way they talk about (and to) their food. It's
>scary.
>
>> Now I don't believe that at 100% raw food diet all the time is
>> necessarily healthy (sorry Wes. I was 21 once and 26 years later,
see
>> things a lot differently), I believe that the discovery of a way of
>> eating to build health and keep us alive can't be lightly scoffed at.
>
>Hear, hear!! I agree 100%. Very well said.
>
Thanks (see gracious courtsy here) :-)
Irene
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