transitioning to NT (was Re: Responses to Taubes' NYT Article...(long)

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>>>>>>>Hi Suze,

Thanks for your reply. That's just it, I felt and looked the best

on the raw vegan diet, but it actually caused me problems in the long

run. Now, I'm trying to fix those.

--------->well, i wouldn't advocate a raw vegan diet, except for short term

cleansing purposes perhaps, but maybe you could meld the best of raw

veganism with the best of NT to make YOU feel good and to get the necessary

nutrients into you. if there were certain foods that you favored on your raw

vegan diet, perhaps you can continue eating a good quantity of those, but at

the same time, make sure you are getting adequate amounts of animal foods.

since there is no particular NT 'diet' per se, like a zone diet, or atkins

diet with specific macronutrient ratios, it's pretty easy to customize an

NT-compatible diet to individual needs. you may need a long transistion

period to consuming more animal foods to suite your comfort level. no sense

jumping right in if it's making you feel bad, or uncomfortable or mucousy.

until the time you are comfortable both physically and pyschologically in

consuming more animal foods, you might consider taking desicated liver

and/or other desicated organs so that you are getting the nutrients without

dealing with the difficulty of digestive upset or if eating these things in

their whole state is difficult for you in any other way. yes, the nutrients

are best from whole foods, but i see nothing wrong with taking these

supplements until you become more comfortable eating animal foods in their

whole state. Standard Process has a number of such supplements, and although

they are far from perfect, their supplements are some of the highest quality

available, imo.

do you like butter? if you do, and you can get butter from pasture-fed

animals, that would be one very healthy animal product that you could load

up on while transitioning to others more slowly.

>>>> I'm eating yogurt and drinking

kefir, but I feel mucus especially in my throat.

-------->i drink about 3 glasses of kefir a day, and i get a little mucousy

too.

>>>>

I've mostly had fish and poultry at this point, as that's all I've been

able to locate free-range and organic. My quarter parture-fed beef

won't be in until the end of summer / early fall. The eggs I've been

getting work fine for me.

--------->if you can get eggs and poultry that is *pastured*, that would be

even healthier (and much more tastey!) than organic or free-range (which

often means free range in a barn), IMO.

>>> I don't really care for cheese, but I do eat

it once in awhile. I did get some organic beef liver when I went to the

city last week and made that. It was good and tender and I could cut it

with a fork.

--------->wow! excellent. keep eating the liver if you enjoy it. i think of

it as 'superfood' - the royal jelly of animal foods, so to speak. it's chock

full of nutrients.

>>I just started eating fermented veggies and I'm also

trying to get use to those.

--------->well, you're ahead of me....i haven't gotten around to fermenting

veggies yet.

>>>>This is all very new to me, but I can't

said I feel the energy I did on the raw vegan diet. I do feel fuller

after I eat though and I can go for longer periods of time between

meals.

--------->oddly, i still feel like much of it's new to me too! i started a

very slowwwww transition to more traditional foods about 6 months ago. for

me, my energy increased drastically, but part of that was probably cutting

out lots of the processed carbs i was eating previously, although i also ate

lots of organic veggies. haven't cut those out - in fact, i'm pretty much

gorging on those now since the local organic farmers here are producing

incredibly tastey veggies this year

keep us posted on how you're doing!

Suze Fisher

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