COMMENTS ON MIXED DIETS: RAW+COOKED

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I often peruse the Living and Raw Foods site for tips.

This is a nice article and has some transition(and other) tips. I also liked his balanced approach and his attitude towards fear/hatred of foods.

I excerpted what stood out for me.

( I left our his "raw is law" refutes just for the sake of space....it is interesting, as well.)

" ...... the slogan appears to advocate a raw foods diet, based on the fear and/or hatred, of cooked foods. Including fear/hatred in the philosophical basis for your diet is an incredibly bad idea, because then, when you eat, you are also (figuratively) mentally 'eating' fear and hatred. Further, as diet is such an important part of life, if your diet is based on fear/hatred, then you are placing fear/hatred at the very center of your life! We should have positive reasons for our diet, and a positive emphasis in our life.

I would summarize my reaction/opinion of this slogan, by correcting/restating it as follows:

Cooked food IS NOT poison, but a diet high in cooked/processed food is not good either. Many individuals would benefit from a diet that is high in raw and unprocessed foods. Fear/hatred of cooked foods is not an appropriate basis or motivation for a diet. Fear/hatred ARE poison, and are more harmful than a diet of cooked food. So, eat raw foods, have positive reasons for your diet, and avoid the mental poisons of fear, hatred, and zealotry."

At this point, some readers will ask: if cooked food is not poison, why are you telling us which cooked foods are "clean"? This is a fair question. The answer is that some cooked foods are OK, e.g. boiled potatos are more easily digested than raw, while some cooked foods are not OK: meat fried in saturated fat, then heavily salted, is very bad for you. The point is that we should be accurate and honest. Raw kidney beans, raw rhubarb are known to be toxic; would it be fair then to claim that "raw food is poison"?

I hope you found the above interesting. Good luck in your diet and health efforts! "

COMMENTS ON MIXED DIETS: RAW+COOKED

by Tom Billings

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/mixxeddiet.html

Enjoy,

Kit