Re: Re: New here and want to learn.../root veggie?

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Hi Shelene,

You ask a very good question and I will do my best to answer it for you.

These foods are not acidic in nature, they become acidic through the

process of metabolism within the body.

Eating raw carrots, potatoes, beets, etc. are hard to digest. This puts

stress on the digestive system which creates an acidic environment. Even

the process of thought creates an acidic environment because thinking

creates metabolic wastes and all metabolic wastes are acidic. Every

action that goes on inside the human body creates waste that is acidic.

This is the nature of our body. All metabolic processes create waste

that is acidic in nature. This is why we need an alkaline diet.

When one eats raw fruits and tender leafy greens, these are very easy to

digest compared to cooked foods, or root foods, nuts, seeds, and grains.

They are mostly water and easily give up their nutrients to our body.

They create very little stress on the digestive system thus providing

more alkaline organic minerals that our body needs to neutralize and

remove the acids formed by every single process that goes on in our

body. Stress of any kind and will create acidic waste to the degree of

the stress. The more harsh or harder the stress the more acidic waste

there is to neutralize and eliminate. This is the main reason why stress

is the number one killer of man. It isn't cancer or heart attacks. It is

the stress caused by our very own choices in diet and lifestyle. The

diseases that kill only come about through stress due to our choices.

There is no other reason.

As for juices, I don't normally recommend them unless one adds the pulp

back into the juice or eats some of the fruit before drinking the juice

or eats a salad first. We need the fiber that the pulp provides to slow

down the absorption of the sugars. Even carrot, potato and beet juice.

Otherwise, we run the risk of creating more stress in our body,

especially the pancreas. In your case you prefer a green smoothie. This

is very wise. You are getting all the fiber along with the juice. I much

prefer a smoothie over plain juice myself. Besides, juicing creates a

fractionated food that is less optimal than the original food.

As for cooking anything, I much prefer to suggest lightly steaming

instead of harsh cooking. Cooking just destroys anything beneficial.

Lightly steaming, and I realize this a relative term here. at least

keeps some of the nutrients intact.

Realize that almost every raw person out there is still going through

transition to some extent. What do I mean by that? Anyone who has tried

to go all raw from a basically all cooked diet will either fail or have

an extremely unhappy and difficult time. It takes years to get over the

emotional aspects of food. Almost all of our forays into eating are

compounded with emotions since the day we were born. On top of that, we

also have all the toxic waste from all that food still in our bodies to

some extent. We also have cells, tissues and organs that are built from

less than optimal nutrients. The body does a magnificent job of putting

itself together even when it gets little to no proper nutrition.

However, as we all know there are consequences that go along with

everything.

We all get to choose and we all get to enjoy the consequences of our

choices, be it soon or later. Either way we all pay the piper.

I truly hope this answered your questions Shelene.

Don

shelene costello wrote:

> Don,

> if root veggies like carrots and potatos and then I

> assume beets, are so acidic, why do so many of the raw

> eating activists, I have read, push the juice from

> these veggies as being a major part of the diet?

> I'm asking to learn, not just question. Also, because

> I have found that I much prefer having a green

> smoothie to having just juice, as it sits in my

> stomach so much easier.

> And they often reccomend if you are going to have

> anything cooked, make it a baked potato or something

> like that.

> These people appear to have the health benefits of raw

> as well.

> Now I personally can see the whole foods aspect, as I

> have been raw feeding my dogs for years, and the whole

> food aspect there makes a huge difference.

> So if you could clarify, I'd really appreciate it.

> Shelene

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[Guest guest]

Your welcome Shelene and by all means enjoy the new you, your new life

and all the new experiences.

Don

shelene costello wrote:

> Thanks, Don. That helped.

> The emotional aspect is the thing that my mom and I

> both are struggling with. Our family has lived its big

> moments around the dining room table, I think.<G>

> I can see that it will be a lifetime learning and

> experimenting process.

> Some days we do great, others we just don't.

> But overall, more and more is going better.

> Mom is struggling to get her ph balance better, and

> some of what you mentioned makes so much sense about

> that.

> Mentioning stress, we moved this past year(a big, big

> project) with my husband being a packrat

> exta-ordinaire

> and all my animals(goats, horses, dogs, cats,

> chickens). I also quit my job. I have had so many

> people tell me that I look and seem so much more

> relaxed this year. I didn't realize, but when I

> thought about it, I really am. In many ways I am

> taking charge and de-stressing. I like the new place.

> Yep, it makes a big difference.

> Thanks, again, Shelene

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