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Exciting development today. I finally got the notion of really doing it. Eating raw beef. In the Philippines we have two main sources. Batangas and Mindoro. Our beef are all grass fed. Organic. Free range. Flavorful. The fat is yellowish. The imported grain fed beef have white fat and taste dull. The cows are slaughtered around 11pm and arrive in the big Farmers Market in the morning. So says the big macho man seller. I bet he eats a lot of beef.

Last night I was reading the success stories of Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ adherents. Many commented that grass fed beef tasted really good. The super model Carol Alt eats raw beef. Carol is more socially polite, she eats SEARED beef. So I search the internet for what searing does. To heck with that, I just asked my cook to make a demonstration. And it appears each side of the beef cut you made is put on a very hot pan and “seared” for maybe 2 or 3 seconds per side, it just browns the surface so the meat looks polite on the outside. But inside it is bloody raw. This should be good for transitioning. It smelled great. It tasted great. No condiments. No seasoning. I tried two types of seasoning we had at home, so so taste, the beef had its own great flavor. Doesn’t need seasoning. I tried a 1″ thick cut. I ate a 2″ x 3″ small cut.

The price of prime batangas beef is easier than fish. It is only P 240 per kilo for that steak we bought, the raw salmon is P 440 per kilo and the raw tuna is P 320 per kilo . How will my body react to raw beef? Only time will tell.

People in the raw food community routinely cure all the so called incureables such as cancer, diabetes, heard disease, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, etc. Rich people, smart people, athletic people, beautiful people, healthy people use the raw food lifestyle as their secret edge.

You know raw is good for you. You may have heard me repeat it all the time that raw food is the official God & nature specified fuel of humans. Now you can be informed the easy way how to go raw.

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I would like to describe my current January 2008 theory on the optimal diet for health and longevity. First we begin with RAW animals and fruit and some truly edible vegetables and nuts in the raw, not nightshades. In whatever ratio depends on you, what works best for you. Variety is important. Available and affordable are important.

If you have problems with affordability, I think it is a toss up between cooked meat and cooked grain and cooked vegetables. I would think cooked meat is the worst. I’ve tried cooked atkins. Grains next are the worst. Slightly cooked vegetables would be passable. Give me a steak tartar with no potatoes please. Don’t depend on condiments. Follow your taste buds.

Oh the fats. Give me the fats please. Fat raw fish. Cholesterol laden raw eggs. Fatty sea urchin. Fatty coconuts. Fatty olive oil. Fatty avocados. These fill me up real good.

Basically I’m on the Wai Diet philosophy. I don’t do munch foods. But the ratio of raw meats will slide up and down depending on your needs at the moment. I think exercising will expose your true needs. Listen to your body. Self experiment.

I have never heard of a rice cure, or a corn cure, or a wheat cure, or a soya cure nope, it doesn’t happen. There is no such thing as cooked meat cures either. There are no cooked vegetable cures. But there are raw meat cures and raw eggs cures used by Aajonus Vondirplanitz or part of the Wai Diet. There are fruit cures like juice cures, grape cures, coconut cures, orange cures used by many people. There are raw vegan cures but they are usually just termed raw vegan but are in fact raw fruits and raw vegetables.

Plain water is terrible for health.  Distilled water is passable.  Reverse osmosis water so so.  Humans are not drinking animals.  Our water needs to be structured coming from the foods we eat.  Being on raw fruit and raw meat will give you all the water you need.  Being on pure fruitarian will give you all the water you need.  I think this is a big key to health.  Water.  Drinking water is not good for your health.  It does not hydrate people properly.  Rather humans should be getting their eater from coconuts, oranges, grapes and all the fruits out there; even raw fish does not make me thirsty.

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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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.