Mr. Vinny Pinto has analyzed and synthesized much of the raw and paleolithic food systems. Read what he has to say on this topic:
Traditional, Largely-Paleolithic Raw Foods Diet
For most of us, it seems that our nutrition — what we eat and drink — plays a key role in determining much of our health and vitality, and, often, the amount of freedom and options in our lives.
As someone with a lifelong experience and training in modalities of natural healing, and with a Master’s degree in a health-related field, it is my opinion and experience that the vast majority of us, likely over 99 percent of us, do not thrive on a Standard American Diet (SAD) which is high in cooked and processed foods and refined sugars. Rather, the vast majority of us seem to do best on a more traditional diet, far closer to what our ancestors ate, and far more suited to the biochemistry which our genes designed for our bodies. Such a traditional diet may be eaten either raw or partially-cooked. The partially-cooked version (often called the Paleolithic Diet or Caveman Diet) excludes any processed or refined foods as well as any foods which entered the human diet only in the past few thousand years. Thus, such a diet excludes grains, beans, legumes, sweet fruit juices, overly sweet fruits, and all processed and refined oils. Such a traditional diet must also include some raw fruits and vegetables and will also include some animal products, often including some raw animal products as well. Such a diet usually allows small amounts of cold-pressed, extra-virgin olive oil as the only pourable “vegetable oil”. The best single reference source on the web for diets of this type (often fully or partially cooked), and one which includes links to many other related paleolithic diet sites, is the PaleoDiet website (off-site link.)Many of us, myself included, seem to have done far better by going one step further than the partially-cooked traditional diet (also called Paleolithic Diet or Caveman Diet ) described above, and eating such a diet all raw. In this dietary system, all plant and animal products are eaten fresh and raw, just as our early ancestors did before the advent of widespread cooking, and, of course, before food processing. Such a diet seems to drastically accelerate healing and recovery from chronic diseases and other illnesses far beyond that seen with the partially-cooked traditional diets. There are several systems or philosophies which govern such a diet. All, or almost all, also stress the importance of drinking a sizable quantity of fresh and raw green juices daily. Incidentally, some folks (a minority) seem to do well on a purely vegan (all-plant food) raw foods diet, but the majority seem to eventually suffer some problems unless they incorporate some animal foods or at least animal fats in their diet. There are a number of systems, authors, popularizers and books advocating an all-raw diet which is essentially Paleolithic and which includes animal foods. Click on the link immediately below for an overview of these systems, and also an introduction to acronyms, terms and names associated with these diets.
An overview of the systems, advocates and books which advocate raw diets which include raw animal foods
— This on-site link will give you an overview of terms such as raw animal foods diets, raw vegetation and animal foods diets and also raw paleo diet, acronyms such as RAF, RVAF, RPAF and RPD, diets such as Primal Diet, Instincto, Anopsology, Pangaian, Traditional Diet, Weston Price Diet, Traditional Diet, Native Nutrition, Paleolithic Diet, Body Ecology Diet, Caveman Diet, Natural Hygiene, Vitarianism, Paradisian Essene Diet, Essene Diet, Essene Diet of Jesus, Eco-Eating, Body Electronics, the Gerson Diet, and even hate-filled white supremacist raw foodists. Moreover, you will become acquainted with advocates and authors such as Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Johnny Lovewisdom, Wai Genriiu, John Tilden, Ronald Schmid, Vilhjalmur Steffanson, Guy-Claude Burger, George Goodheart, Paavo Airola, Sapoty Brooke, John Ray, Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, Sally Fallon, Weston Price, Donna Gates, William Kelley, Hilarion, Master Harpo, Arnold DeVries and Walter Last.