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Raw Paleolithic Diet Day for my kids accomplished

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The Raw Paleolithic Diet is the diet humans evolved to optimally live on.  Yesterday was my chance to test how my kids would like a raw paleolithic day and they did love it.

My wife is out of town and took our oldest child with her on her trip.  So I was left with our 4 year old son and 3 year old daughter.

In the morning we had a fruit breakfast with ripe yellow mangoes and coconut juice.

In the mid morning, my daughter and I drove up to the big wet market and bought a good number of fresh raw meats and fresh raw fish.

At home, at around 9:30am my daughter and I ate a good amount of fresh raw sirloin beef with the yellow fat.

At lunch time we had a big raw salad with our dip consisting of extra virgin olive oil, raw green honey and balsamic vinegar.

Mid afternoon snack we had a lot of red water melon.

And in the evening we had fresh raw tuna with calamansi (philippine citrus equivalent to lemon).  The kids wanted more raw beef again so I did give them more.

Before going to sleep at 8:15pm I had them drink some coconut juice.

Raw days can be done, the kids did not get hungry.  I told the kids we were having a raw day and they understood it.  We kicked out rice yesterday.  Rice is a junk food displacing more nutritious food.  Instead of rice my kids ate more raw meat, raw fat, raw fruit and raw veggies.  And they were satisfied.

I think I will sponsor more raw days with them until they get used to the idea.

First Durian of the year 2008

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Yesterday afternoon my wife brought home a gorgeous Durian.  The first Durian in the house for the 2008 season.  P 100 per kilo.  This one came in at 3 kilos so it was worth 300 pesos.  We opened it up and the whole thing was going in 10 minutes.  You have to understand that I love the smell and taste of durian, and my 3 kids inherited the same love for the smell and taste of durian.

So now I’m thinking, maybe it would be cheaper and more fulfilling for us to purchase a whole crate of durian in Davao city and have it sent by boat the Manila?  Hmmm….  time to call up relatives in the south.

P.S. We were too excited and gobbled up the whole durian forgetting to take a photo of it.

Wild balimbings grow in the mountains of Antipolo

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I drove up the mountain of Antipolo this Sunday to taste their wildly grown fruit.  I chanced upon wild balimbings.  The tiny kind.  Cute.  Orange color.

They are not as sweet as the big balimbings.  I think these can be used for cooking.  But they are wild and should give us some wild nutrition.  Whatever it is, dig in.

My picture shows balimbings mixed in with some native guavas.

Marang fruit grows in the mountains of Antipolo

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I drove up the mountains of Antipolo last Sunday to buy my fruits. I was looking for wild mountain fruit. The kind of fruit where the sellers just pick freely. I was rewarded with a set of 3 marangs for 110 pesos. They said they picked it from the surroundings. It was ripe, sweet and yummy.

And I thought these only grew in the Mindanao area. They are usually too expensive in Tiendesitas. But in the provinces I’ve seen this sold so cheap. Whatever. We enjoyed it.

Fear Factor dinner with Raw liver, Raw Kidneys and Duck Balut

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We had a delicious dinner.  I came home around 7pm and brought out my delicious raw goat liver I bought last night.  With the liver were 2 kidneys.  All bloody raw in the tupperware.  I got my shears and started snipping.  All three kids swarmed around me.  My 3 year old girl already tasted a bit of the raw liver this lunch time and knew it was very tasty.  The 2 boys got curious and tasted the raw liver as well.  They all liked the raw liver.

Then the kids got curious with the raw kidneys.  So I snipped at the kidneys and both kidneys were consumed in a flash.  Eventually I got to eat.  And before finishing up I had my wife taste a tiny bit of the raw goat liver.  Ha ha ha, she can’t get over the fact that it’s raw and cringed while chewing on the small succulent piece.

Cringing wife had 3 duck embryos cooked for dinner.  For all you foreigners, this is called balut.  These are 17 day old duck embryos, cooked in boiling water for some 15 minutes.  We were all satisfied with the dinner.  It was just right.  Eating raw makes you full just right, never too much.

I noticed the past few days that I like eating meat only once per day.  So this morning I had fruits.  Then at lunch I had a big salad and celery.  My mid morning snack was coconut juice and meat.  And my mid afternoon snack was ripe indian mangoes.  And this evening the goat liver and kidneys.

Weston Price sheds light on the malnutrition epidemic

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I’m currently reading Dr. Weston A Price’s original 1939 book “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” and he packs a lot of clear, plain english ancient wisdom to enlighten our ignorant society.  What was most useful to me is the chapter on Soil Depletion and Pland and Animal Deterioration.  Which in short says somewhat: “You can’t build something from nothing.”

Weston Price

Weston Price

Fertile soil gives the raw materials with which you build nutrient rich plants.  The nutrient rich plants feeds the grazing animals.  Humans eat the grazing animals, the vegetables and the fruits whose raw materials ultimately came from the soil.  Abuse that soil over centuries and you literally deplete it of life giving minerals which affect your vegetables, fruits and animals and in turn humans.

This is another piece of the puzzle why in my recent diet experiments I have thrived wonderfully on raw organic / wild local in season fruits and raw wild ocean fish and raw organic / fertile eggs and raw organic goat internal organs.  These are the most nutritious foods in my locale.

Goats have to be fed green grass, not feeds.  Organic eggs are the best nutrition chickens or ducks can give.  The ocean is vastly more nutritious than the depleted farm lands.  Thus ocean animals are immensely healthier and thus more life giving to us humans than land animals.  Fruits are immensely more nutritious than vegetables as fruits are painstaikingly made by the trees or the bush to be edible and those nutrients are concentrated on the fruits.  Vegetables grow too fast.

This is why the Wai Diet is great.  Get the best organic fruits and raw nuts in your locale, get the best raw ocean fish you can buy, never farmed.  Get the most nutritious part of the land animals is my addition aside from the raw egg yolks, the raw internal organs such as liver and kidneys are outstanding.

Many of todays diseases are a combination of lack of proper drainage = constipation; and lack of nutrition.

I love babies and Weston Price has made me conscious about the need to feed children immensely nutritious food all the time.  Making children needs immensely nutritious food given to the father and mother many years prior to reproduction.  Aspiring mothers especially need lots and lots of nutrition, raw materials to make babies with.  Ah the epidemic of infertility today is in a large part due to malnutrition.

It all fits in, it all fits.  Read Weston Price’s book for Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Enjoy and be enlightened.