Re: Hello...AV and raw foods

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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:21:12 -0000

" humilispuer " <humilispuer@...> wrote:

> I'm a new member. Name's Jonathon and I live in Orlando, Florida. I

> was excited to stumble across this group as I have been following the

> advice of NT on and off for a good amount of time.

Welcome

I have a question

> for all of you: I was wondering if any of you had any thoughts or

> opinions regard the Primal Diet as espoused by author Aajonus

> Vonderplanitz: http://www.primaldiet.com/? He basically suggests a

> diet dominated by raw animal products. Meat, eggs, butter, cheese,

> etc. All from pasture fed animals. He is very much against cooking of

> any kind and believes it leads to disease.

IMO, you can learn a lot from AV in terms of making raw animals products

a regular part of your diet. I also believe that his approach can be one

linchpin in getting well again but not necessarily the only one as he would

have you believe.

And frankly, AV makes a lot of claims often with very little if any

support other than his own purported experience. I think his cooking

leads to disease mantra fits into that category.

Enjoy his material, but be careful to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Did Dr. Price ever

> encounter a group that ate an all raw diet or did he notice health

> differences between those who ate more raw food and those who did

> not?

I don't think there was any group that ate 100% raw although some may

have come close.

As regarding health, Dr. Price had a pyramid of sorts as to the relative

health of his groups. My memory may be incorrect but seafood and grain

eaters were the healthiest, mostly meat eaters were second, and those

who didn't eat much meat were third. All the groups ate varying levels

of raw animal food and he didn't categorize them along those lines.

A looooong time ago I made a post that specifically laid this out. But

given the state of the archives I doubt I could find it.

>Aajonus claims to have cured many diseases that western medical

> science deemed uncurable.

Ask him for the evidence. <weg> Get a list of the 200 or so people he

helped. Talk to them.

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" They told just the same,

That just because a tyrant has the might

By force of arms to murder men downright

And burn down house and home and leave all flat

They call the man a captain, just for that.

But since an outlaw with his little band

Cannot bring half such mischief on the land

Or be the cause of so much harm and grief,

He only earns the title of a thief. "

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> As regarding health, Dr. Price had a pyramid of sorts as to the

relative

> health of his groups. My memory may be incorrect but seafood and

grain

> eaters were the healthiest, mostly meat eaters were second, and

those

> who didn't eat much meat were third. All the groups ate varying

levels

> of raw animal food and he didn't categorize them along those lines.

I don't have to tell *you* this, but we shouldn't forget Price's

emphasis on soil. For example, among the Gaelics, if memory serves,

he divided two groups not by *what* they ate, but by whether or not

they were using their smoked-thatch roofs as fertilizer. The

government had forced them out of the thatch-roof huts because they

claimed the smoke was causing tuberculosis, but only the groups still

living in them were free of TB due to the soil quality.

Chris