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Raw is best: The optimal diet is definitely not agricultural based.

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Jared Diamond of Guns Germs and Steel fame once wrote an old essay entititled: (Agriculture) The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.

He argues that for majority of human evolution we have been hunter gatherers and that human biology therefore is suited to a hunter gatherer diet. When humans turned to agriculture for reasons not fully or verifiably conclusive, humans experienced protein and vitamin deficiency, new diseases, shortened lifespans, markedly shortened physiques due to malnutrition, etc.

Agricultural based staple foods means cooked. Corn, Wheat, Rice, Vegetables…. all cooked and not much variety, they taste bad raw, they are indigestible raw.

So Jared Diamond is probably correct. Because simply by shifting people to a raw paleolithic diet of raw fruits and raw animals, humans routinely recover from their “incurable” illnesses. Ha ha ha, incurable from the “cooked” point of view. Incurable from the $$$ monopoly called medical quacks point of view. The raw community has been curing the incurables for many years now and with the power of the internet, the raw community is becoming more popular.

A year ago I thought that raw eating was downright unpalatable. But hobby healing took me in the correct direction. If the people I help are cured simply by eating raw food, why shouldn’t I do raw food on a regular basis myself? I’m glad I did and it is taking my health to new heights.

Ask my kids, “Who never gets sick?” They will tell you “Daddy!” Why? “Because Daddy is experimenting with raw food!”

We had a raw lunch today. Raw mongo sprouts and raw tuna meat.

So I fed my 3, 4 and 6 year old raw food this lunch. Delicious. Nutritious. And they even requested me to buy salmon sashimi for next time.

Okay so most foods are farmed today, some are still caught in the wild. Or some relatively still grow wild and are still very much organic. Tuna is wild. Salmon is usually farmed. Real fertilized eggs can be had by raising your own chickens or by paying a high price at your organic store. Mr Gil Carandang, the father of Philippine organics says he can identify as a farmer which fruits or vegetables are usually free of pesticides and chemicals, simply because they don’t need them. Coconuts, bananas, chico, dalanghita, kayomito, santol…. make your own list. Stay away from strawberries, organic proponents joke that bugs and worms are dead kilometers away from the stench of chemicals thrown at the strawberry fields.

Bottom line is I now stay away from rice, corn, wheat and whatever junk byproducts made from them. I also stay away from the common farmed fish fed with junk like hito, tilapia and bangus. Go to the non organic pig farm and chicken farm and smell the stench and see how unhealthy those animals are. My kids saw them. They don’t want to eat sick animals.

Read Jared Diamond’s full essay here.

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This raw foodist is independent and makes no food preparation

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For my friends and relatives who just tuned in to my blog, yes, I’ve turned raw.  It’s not horrible.  It’s natural.  It’s easy.  I am now free.  Independent.  I can dare say go on great adventures if I wanted to.  I am no longer tied to a home kitchen or some restaurant kitchen.

My favorite hangout is the wet market, especially the fruit section.  I go there almost every other day.  The fruit vendors know me.  They know I buy a lot.  If I succeed in turning my whole family raw, I wouldn’t need to spend a single peso for cooking.  Imagine, no cook, no lpg, no pots and pans, no condements, no mixing, no hassles.   We can go on camping trips and have no need for fire, no stove.  Just fruits.  We are now survivors.

Imagine if all you men out there were all raw foodist, mono eaters like myself.  If your wife is too lazy to cook, who needs her?  If your maid wants to leave you, no real loss.  The laundry can get done at the laundromat.  Kitchens can be small and have little activity.

Me, I just store my fruits.  Wait for them to ripen and just eat the ripe ones.  I just need a coconut ax, a fruit knife, and some plates.  Many times I just use my bare hands for mangoes, for bananas.

On the go, a busy businessman like me needs no time off for lunch.  I just have a few fruits in my bag and I have my snacks or meals.  I don’t even bother bringing water.  My dalanghita hydrates me tons better.

My kids and I ran sprints today at the olympic oval and we only brought a few dalanghita’s with us.  No water. Bah. Dalanghitas hydrate better.  Of course afterwards we went to the coconut vendor for some even more refreshing coconuts.

So being a raw foodist, primarily raw fruitarian (I also eat raw eggs and raw fish), brings the garden of eden back to the present, right before your very eyes.  We live in a tropical country and with international trade, we have a wide variety of fruits.

Fruits are more expensive than vegetables.  So?  I don’t need to cook fruits.  We threw away all vitamins and supplements.  And we don’t get sick.  Raw is best.  I hope you discover and experience the same joy I feel today.  Once you experience the convenient and delicious yuppy lifestyle of raw fruitarian, you will love it and will want to stick with it.

Lunch at the Hippocrates Center in the Philippines called The Farm

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At last my wife and I made that lunch date happen at The Farm in Batangas City but with my mother in law. It was quite a long but pleasant drive and adequate directions were given by the operator when my wife asked for directions.

After a more than 2 hour drive from Marikina we arrived in The Farm near the city of Lipa. We were a little late, past 12 noon so we parked and immediately went straight for the restaurant. It used to be called 85/15 stressing that they served 85% raw and 15% cooked.

I must warn you that I’m writing this review from the point of view of a raw foodist. I’m currently following the Wai Diet, majority raw fruit and add some raw fish and some raw eggs. Mono meals at that. I usually only eat 1 food item at a time. I don’t combine them. I have no problems with other approaches, I’m not religious, nor am I a fundamentalist. I’m open minded. I’m the kind of guy who just does whatever works. The Farm at San Benito subscribes to the mostly raw and vegan philosophy. There is no raw meat or raw eggs here.

Back to the lunch at The Farm. We chose a great spot at the edge of an open air balcony. Big forest trees out there, view of the mountain, a coconut tree being harvested of its fruits, a man chopping away while at the top. Some Indian tourists were there and it seemed it was the first time they saw a coconut man.

We had a reservation and had the set lunch of the day. It started with a soup and salad bar that was all you can eat. The red beet soup was cooked, there was sauerkraut, radish & carrot in vinegar, there were fenugreek sprouts, sunflower sprouts and of course salad greens, some other stuff I forgot what they were, they had tomatoes… oh nightshades, not for me, I’m an eczematic person, nightshades don’t agree with me.

Then came the set meal, all presented gorgeously, my wife loves these expensive looking presentations. An appetizer with some raw cracker like creation and mushrooms. I trust the mushrooms are safe. Then there was the main meal with a dividing line where the waiter said this half is raw and this half is cooked. Then came dessert, presented like pie. Sweet. Oh I couldn’t finish it. Too sweet and already too many food combinations for me. Remember I’m a raw foodist used to mono meals, my tummy isn’t used to this much combinations.

Did I tell you you could order the same foods as much as you want? All you can eat? All you can eat main course and all you can eat soup and salad bar. My wife ordered another main course set for the picture taking and she and her mother ate it all.

Somehow my wife didn’t seem to have enough yet and proceeded to order a la cart for a fruit with chocolate fondue and mango-coconut smoothie, a chocolote smoothie. Talk about pigging out on healthy food. Then she ordered some take out munch food. I don’t know what that is, I don’t eat “munch food”.

The food was great. Too much combination for me. But perfect for the transitionist. The usual rich people have lunch and dinners in several opulent courses. At least this is 85/15. But left on your own, the uneducated might pick too much cooked food. Or pig out. Or get a tummy ache from combining too many foods.

The restaurant 85/15 in the Farm at San Benito gets 5 stars if you are vegan. I’ll tell you about our tour of the place in another blog post.

Raw food has made me slim, not underweight

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Some people see me as “disappearing” or too thin or looking like a POW.  They just are not used to seeing me slim.

I am slim now. But not underweight. 2 months of raw foodism expects a person to detox. Gets rid of the old unhealthy flesh (detoxing and slimming down), then weight gain to what is normal, then maintain that normal weight. How much do I weigh now? At the digital meter it says 112 lbs. I am 5′ 4″ short. Compute for BMI / Body Mass Index = 19.2 which is NORMAL WEIGHT according to http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ and I can bet you that website BMI had WHITE PEOPLE in mind.  I am a Filipino who looks primarily Malay and Chinese mixed in.

Seems I’ve been maintaining this 112 so far for 3 weeks.  We will see.  I am adding egg yolks and raw fish to my fruitarian diet.  I just bought 1 kilo of avocado, maybe that will make me put on more weight.

I do feel good at this weight.  Makes me want to exercise, run and climb trees.  So those who think raw food makes you too slim, nope.  Your body has a set point.  I think I’ve reached my set point.

Awful cooked food this lunch necessitates colon cleansing

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I had a home cooked lunch at my true friend’s house.  I was being nice because we hadn’t seen each other in a long time.  So as not to offend I gave in and ate a regular cooked lunch.  It has been so long since I did that and it felt strange.

After lunch I was so so so very sleepy.  Something that does not happen on raw food, even with 3 raw eggs.  My body was in overdrive trying to digest the less digestible stuff.

To tell you the truth, I did not enjoy the cooked meal, I had to drink plain water as cooked food is dehydrating.  I think switching to this raw fruitarian thing is too good a deal to give up.  Once you make this adjustment there is just no turning back.

Next time when I come over for a meal with friends I will just have to tell them to prepare me some raw fruit.  What are real friends for?  Real friends will understand that raw foodists need to eat raw every time.

This evening I drank Doctor Tam’s Miracle Tea as my colon cleanse.  This will clear the cooked food from my body by tomorrow morning.

Consuming more raw eggs in my diet

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I am somewhat following the advice of Wai in http://www.waisays.com/ regarding adding raw egg yolks in your raw fruitarian diet.  So technically I am not a 100% fruitarian anymore.  I am a raw foodist who eats primarily raw fruits plus some raw eggs and raw fish.

I’ve been doing this for a week now and I’ve gone up to comfortably consuming 3 egg yolks a day.  My transition phase is to use a bit of cooked white rice and put the egg yolks on it.  Everyday I reduce the amount of cooked rice mixed in until I reach zero white rice and just consume the raw egg yolks.

I love raw egg yolk delicious stuff.  The whites don’t taste so good though.  This evening I was a glutton.  I ate Durian around 6pm then at 7:30 pm I ate 5 fertile egg yolks.   Hmmm… I felt too full.  I think I should go down to 3 egg yolks.

I took Dr. Tam’s miracle tea to do a colon cleanse this evening.  This should get rid of that cooked rice.

Fruitarians do not need to drink plain old water

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Someone very concerned about my health told me right off to drink water. He found out I had not been drinking water.

I answered it this way:

“As for not drinking water, it is a common experience among raw fruitarians. I’m not thirsty for water. I don’t want to drink water. When you do eat COOKED FOOD, you will be dehydrated because of the COOKED FOOD and you will NEED to drink water. I did that today to be nice at the Prolife Christmas party I ate cooked food and I drank water at home. Yuck. Awful. This sounds strange to you because you have NO EXPERIENCE with 100% raw food yet. I thought Barefoot Herbalist was nuts too when I read that he hardly drinks any water. Well now I know why because I’ve experienced it myself. I can run and run and run in the olympic oval or on the beach under the sun and my dalanghita or buko hydrates me best. ”

Natural Hygenists have written at length that human beings are not drinking animals. We get our water from our food.

Aajonus Vonderplanitz wrote eloquently that with drinking plain water the human body only utilizes 10% of that because of poor water structure. The superior structure of water in raw fruits is extremely hydrating, some 90% is utilized by the human body.

You have got to experience this for yourself. It only sounds crazy because you have never experienced it yourself. Be a fruitarian today and know what I’m talking about. The cleanest, safest, purest, best water comes from the food we eat. Stop eating cooked food raw is best.