Hi Stefan , so you live in Germany. When you say you eat your food raw does
that mean that your food is always cold? I find that being in the northern
hemisphere i need to eat warm foods in the winter as i find them more
sustaining and nourishing. What is your body type? I am a Yin person, medium
framed and very slim. I personally have found that the yin types are not as
physicaly robust as the more Yang types, hence they do not do as well on an
all raw food diet. With regards detoxification I find that this is an on
going process on an all raw food diet and this puts a strain on the organs
of elimination. I know this is a fact as many people on an a raw food regime
can look jaundiced which means their liver is struggling to detoxify.
Are you a broad yang type?
The cooking of food makes it more digestible for people whose digestive fire
is not optimal. The chinese regard too much raw food as too cooling and thus
undermines the digestive fire.
With regards eating raw meat i would find this too awful to consider for me.
What about eating chicken? Cooking helps to destroy harmful bacteria. Not
all cooked meat is cancer producing . This depends on how it is cooked.
Frying and smoking meats can be more carcinogenic.
I am not a vegan or a vegetarian as i found that this diet was not good for
my health. I include now some animal proteins but i avoid most dairy as it
is too drenched in antibiotic residues and it is too heavy for me.
Cheers,
Martha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Jöst" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Bodybuilding on raw food


> Hi Martha,
>
> you said:
> >Hi Tracy from what I have learned through years of experimentation with
diet
> >is that it is very hard to build up muscular strength and endurance on
raw
> >food.
>
> For clarification: do you speak about raw vegan or vegetarian diets here?
>
> >There are many people who are more Yin in constitution and hence a raw
> >food diet does not suit them in the least. As they lack the necessary
> >internal fire in themselves they need to get it from the food they eat. A
> >raw food diet is too cold for their digestive systems to handle and they
get
> >sick.
>
> Nuts, meat and fish are considered to be "warming" in this system, AFAIK.
> If people include these in their raw diet there should be no problem to
> have a Yin-Yang balanced diet. Also they can use onions and garlic which
> are increasing the digestive fire.
>
> >What i have also found is that the foods that are most eliminating are
> >the raw foods and too much elimination causes demineralisation in the
body.
> >The raw foods favor breakdown rather than build up of the body.
>
> This may be true for beginners which experience a lot of detoxing and
> breakdown of old bad bodymass. Afterwards new healthy mass is built.
> Most raw fooders think that eating healthy alone is the solution of
> their problems. They forget that it is also important to use and train
> your body. So they don't do any sports and wonder why they remain to
> be emaciated.
>
> Also lots of people are eating too much fruits and only a few vegetables.
> They are indeed demineralisating themselves. Fruitarian diets are very
> unbalanced and tend to be impossible on the long term.
> Balanced diets can be done arbitrary long: year, decades,...
>
> A good criterion for a balanced diet: do you always feel comfortable
> with it? Are you satisfied each and every day? Even after several
> years with this diet?
>
> >Some raw foods , especially in the warm summer months are a good way of
> >cooling the body. Can you imagine suggesting to an eskimoo that he eat
only
> >raw food? He would die.
>
> Excuse me, this is nonsense. The ancestors of today's eskimos, the inuit,
> ate all of their food raw. Of course they had a lot of animal foods in
> their diet, up to 95%.
>
> >I have found that raw food is more suitable for a warmer climate. if you
> >live in the colder northern hemisphere it is impossible to eat all raw
food
> >and keep warm and healthy.
>
> I can agree with this only for diets with large percentages of fruits.
> I live in the northern hemisphere by the way (Germany) and practice a
> 100% raw food diet since years.
>
> >Saying that raw food is a must for everyone is misguided and dangerous
and
> >reads like adherence to religious dogma.
>
> That is certainly true.
>
> >Who are these people who can eat raw meat? Cooking the meat makes it
easier
> >for the body to digest and it tastes a lot nicer.
>
> For me meat is an important part of my diet, especially in the long and
> hard european winter. Cooking turns meat into undigestable waste which
> will later give you cancer. Raw meat in my experience is much easier to
> digest than cooked. And after all those years of raw I prefer the taste
> of raw meat. If my body needs it it tastes like the finest steak I ever
> ate in a good steakhouse. No idea why people need to cook this. Raw tastes
> better.
>
> >My advise to you lot out there is to go with the way your body feels
rather
> >than the way you think you should feel if you follow the raw food
doctrine.
>
> That is a wise advise which I agree with.
>
> Best raw regards,
>
> Stefan
>