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This raw food diet gets me to learn new skills. I finally decided to be self sufficient and not depend on our maids to open my own coconuts. Why a macho man like me depending on girls to open my own coconuts.

So I bought a new coconut ax, our old one’s handle was busted. Then I bought a specialty knife made from bearing steel and the handle made from carabao horns, the best the Batangas blades craftsmen can offer. It was a lucky break for me. I was dreaming about these Batangas made blades and my cousin was telling me stories about them and describing what the good ones were. Then this walking street salesman pops in beside me after I take a pee in a gas station and sells this wonderful handcrafted blade. Looks like a blade from Rambo or Crocodile Dundee. The seller says an American gave him the design specifications and had it made but they missed each other. Don’t know if that story is true, it seemed like a good blade so I got it. It had a tiny steak knife with it too, a miniature replica. Then he included a vegetable knife all for the price of P 1,500. What a bargain, I happened to have cash. This was meant to be. So I bought it.

Now to sharpen the knives. We went to an established sharpening shop called Hortaleza and had the knives sharpened. Ah, sharp blades. Satisfying. No longer will our maids complain about dull equipment. Our lives are now easier. Now that I had the tools, I had the will to learn to use them and open my first coconut.

My maid taught me to chop the bottom of the coconut, not the top. Well, with the top you had something to hold on to with your left hand. And the bottom part was not as thick as the top part. It’s all experience. You have to chop not too deeply or you crack open your water immediately. The thing to do is to chop closer and closer to your goal. When you see the whites, you are almost there. Then just shave enough to gently open a hole big enough for the coconut juice to flow straight into your pitcher.

Once you’ve emptied your coconut juice, just chop open the coconut in half. Then with a spoon scoop out the meat. We usually order coconuts that have the most water, not much meat. The coconut vendor knows, they just tap the coconuts with their ax and a recognizable sound is heard about how thick the coconut meat is.

We now buy our coconuts wholesale at the market some 15 or 20 pieces at a time at 13 or 15 pesos each. The price fluctuates.

My kids got a kick out of watching daddy open their coconuts for them this morning.

My first son poses with the coconuts. Check out my Rambo blade.

My Rambo blade came with a miniature one and carrying case.

Yesterday I went crazy.  I don’t know why.  Maybe I was inspired by Aajonus Vonderplanitz and Wai of www.waisays.com.  I’m trying to solve my brother’s craving for fish.  My analysis is that my brother needs brain food.  But this brainfood must be RAW.

All Raw is the key.   Cooking is the culprit of all.

So anyway, I wanted to consume more fats.  But I got carried away and consumed all them fatty things in a few short hours.

I consumed 1/2 glass of fresh coconut cream / gata, this gave me a headache.  I know it did because after being fruitarian 100% for a month, I never get sick.  Then 2 hours later raw salmon.  Then 2 hours later 2 raw duck egg yolks.

I woke up around 5am to pee… then to puke.  I only puked stomach acid.  My digestion works fine.  It seems my liver got purged.  Purged by the gata, the salmon, the 2 raw egg yolks crammed full of lecithin.  Then after puking some relatively hard poop.  But these were just stoppers.  After removing the hard poop, came fully formed soft poop that didn’t seem to want to stop.  I kept going back and forth to the bathroom.

Looks like an intestinal purge.  Maybe a parasite purge.  Maybe a liver purge too.  All rolled into one.  It is almost 8am and I hope I’ve cleaned them all out.  I have not had a bite nor juice to drink this whole morning yet.  But I feel fine now.  I just needed to eliminate.

Just on the topic of food / water.

The blindspot of the paleolithic diet is recommending the drinking of water. Only today with distillers and reverse osmosis machines can we drink clean water. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Barefoot, hygienists and the fruitarians agree on the concept of water. Humans are not drinking animals.

Water needs to come from food.  Water in food is structured to benefit humans.  I have experienced this first hand.  Plain water is yuck. Eating cooked food as the paleo diet says will require drinking water.

Raw food / fruitarian gives you all the pristine water you need.

My theory is that the ideal / garden of eden conditions diet is 100% raw food / fruitarian some fruit veggies and some nuts. Easy, convenient, nutritious.

In times of less available fruits, turn to cooking vegetables, which are inedible raw.

In times of despair, eat animals but you gotta cook em and put spices on them to make them taste good.

When times are better again, garden of eden conditions, 100% raw food / fruitarian.

I therefore think that eating cooked animals or cooked vegetables is an option to avoid starvation. Crisis situations only. Subsistence. Probably winter food. Not intended for the long term. That is why people get sick. The crisis foods become staple food.

Of course paleo diet and raw foodists agree that agriculture brought on the modern diseases. Grains are for the birds only. Rice, corn, wheat, soy, potatoes should not be staple foods.
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The 2 week orange juice fast successfully took me to raw eating. I’ve been 100% raw vegan fruitarian for 1 month now. I feel good, I feel strong. Though I’m still slimming down. My wife says I look like a POW, prisoner of war.

My fruitarian readings tell me this is part of the detox process. I’m observing.

My current drawback is I feel cold, is this part of detox too? I mean I live in Manila, Philippines a tropical country. And December 2007 temperatures have gone down only to some 19 to 22 degrees Celsius / 66 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Hey, you hardy non tropical folk think that is normal temperature. I’m trying to alleviate this by trying to get more sunlight. But lately it’s been cloudy and with the typhoons passing by. But today it is sunny and I got some good 15 minutes of bare sunshine.

My question is on feeling cold. I’ve read raw vegan guru David Wolfe say winter is hard on him too. Your thoughts on my feeling cold?