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Delicious Nutritious Raw Pili Nuts from Palawan

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This city slicker finally gets to eat a couple of raw pili nuts. Not from Bicol, but from Palawan. Everything I heard about raw pili nuts were true. Truly delicious, maybe nutritious? But awfully hard to open.

I’ve tasted candied pili nuts many times. It is a product usually from the province of Bicol. But I have never tasted pili nuts raw. It is not sold raw in Metro Manila. When I see it in the delicacy stores they are always candied.

It appears that these raw pili nuts have 2 shells. One hard dark purple shell that eventually rots and a second very hard seemingly ceramic wooden brown shell that is dangerously pointed sharp and slippery. Difficult to open fresh pili nuts but not impossible.

This is our technique: With a hammer, mash out the first dark purple covering. It will be squishy if the pili nut is very ripe. Then wash the slimy nut. Better to dry them in the sun so they are not so slippery. Get an old magazine or catalog, the thick kind. Wrap the pili nut to make sure both ends are trapped. Hammer with just enough force to crack open the pili nut to access the delicious raw nut inside. If you hammer too strong, you wind up squishing the whole thing. Use a toothpick to be able to access the raw nut inside. Enjoy.

I think nature made it pretty hard to be able to eat a lot of fresh nuts. From my fruitarian teachings it says nuts should comprise a small amount of your diet. I’m all tired after cracking open 10 nuts by myself. Of course if you had a maid like we do, you could abuse her and ask her to open dozens of nuts for you. That would be gluttony.

My wife just brought home a second batch of pili nuts from Palawan today! Yummy!

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Crazy detox with all raw fruit, coconut cream, salmon and egg yolks

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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.

My current theory on raw eating. Open to your theories too!

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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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Raw Vegan Fruitarian for 1 month now

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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?

Dried Cayenne Powder Cures 3/4″ thumb wound in 1 day

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Our maid Arlene was washing the dishes and she accidentally cut herself on the coconut axe. An ugly cut 3/4 inches wide all across her thumb, deep and jagged. Arlene thought she heard her bone being cut.

Lucky for her I was beside her. And in the kitchen cupboard were my left over bags of dried cayenne powder. In 1 minute I was there to slap a good amount of dried cayenne powder on her bleeding left thumb. And in the next minute another maid wrapped a hankerchief on the bleeding left thumb now covered with cayenne powder.

Arlene felt the deep hot cayenne embedded in her flesh. It was hot for a few minutes then it felt fine. This morning her harnkerchief bandage was off. Her thumb had totally healed! Outstanding, just 1 day! And no scar!

Lesson learned. Keep cayenne powder handy in your first aid kit.

Dried Cayenne Powder Heals Wounds Fast

The patience to learn about your cure

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For a few days now I had been badgering Bugoy to learn and do the orange juice fast. He just got well from a terrible crisis but his psoriasis / eczema remains. He again proceeds to abuse himself by accepting a job offer in the heart of the big business city to relocate apartments in 2 weeks! And I thought we had 2 more months of concentrated healing to do.

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Appendicitis, My Friend, Colon Cleanse and Barefoot Herbalist MH

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A friend of mine was recently in the hospital diagnosed with appendicites. I begged him on the telephone to let me drive to his hospital 2 hours away so I can give him some fast acting colon cleanse herbal (Dr. Tam’s Miracle tea). Yet his dad, his mom and his doctor conspired so I couldn’t get through to him. He’s young, only 24. He said things moved so fast the MD booked him for an operation that evening and his parents agreed. I pleaded I rush to him and give him 1/2 cup of the tea and by operation time he will have pooped his problem away. But they cut off his cell phone and they wouldn’t even give me his hospital and room number.
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