My Family Health Blog

I have a theory regarding the reason the american indian diabetic in the www.rawfor30days.com program quit. He said so himself and we should accept his words at face value. He said “I’m just about ready to cross over”, meaning, I feel like dying on this diet. “I’m just not used to eating like this.”

Rather his body makeup, his genes, his whole physique is not meant to be vegan. Veganism does not work on everyone. You can’t make an eskimo a vegan and expect him to be healthy. Just as you can’t make all american indians vegans!

I’ve read that american indian ancestors thrived in the american plains taking care of bison and hunting other animals. American indians ate quite a lot of raw fresh meat. When the white men came and slaughtered the bison, the indians had to preserve the dead meat as jerky or some other form, but this was less nutritious and the indians lost strength.

Carol Alt says her doctor did some profiling with her to determine how much animal meat she needs in her diet. I would think the american indian in the raw for 30 days program would have been cured of his diabetes if the raw meat and raw fats approach was used on him. Of course the producers and the tree of life center in arizona has no expertise on raw meat and raw fats.

So I say to you raw foodists to open your mind to adjusting your ways. Yes we need raw foods to heal. But raw food does not just mean purely fruits or purely vegetables or purely animal sources. See what works for you. Listen to your body. Follow your taste buds. If it tastes great raw, and you love it, eat it until you get your fill.

We don’t eat out anymore.  But our food bill is astronomical.  All this raw food exploration is expensive.  I know it doesn’t have to be when we stabilize on it.  But right now exploring, going around, experimenting is expensive.

Saturdays, buying organic vegetables and buying top quality fruits.  Every other day, buying more top quality fruits.  Every 3 days some top quality animal produce like fresh raw beef, fresh raw fish, fresh raw milk, fresh raw eggs.

Sure, rice and some vegetable tops like kamote tops are cheap.  But they are not the ideal human foods.  From a cooked foods point of view they are good enough.  But good enough is not my goal.

I’m looking at healing and looking good in every square centimeter of skin all over my body.  Flawless if you will.

Look.  Zero medical bills for me.  Zero vitamin bills.  Zero supplement bills.  Whatever for?  I buy the top quality fresh raw organic foods already.

I got a tip that bananas are really healthy.  Maybe I should just increase my banana intake and save more money.  Or better, I get healthier and I get better in my web development business so I earn more money and can purchase a wider variety of healthy raw foods.

I attended a big dinner party last night and as expected they had nothing raw to serve. Good thing I ate a lot of raw kinilaw na dilis before going to the party.

They had scotch whiskey, beer, wine, fried peanuts, fried pork skin (chicharon) and all cooked meats and cooked rice.

I asked for the waiter if they had raw fruit juices. He said there was absolutely none.

People were having a grand time getting drunk and singing with the live band. It was a blast of course to be with friends. I just did not see the need why I should sacrifice my health to have a good time and good conversations with friends.

They ask why I’m not drinking alcohol, if it is a health issue, I nod yes. They see me getting slim and ask if I’m getting slimmer because I’ve got a lot of women, I naughtily say yes.

With all the noise happening in the party, it would be a hard stretch to explain that I’m into health and raw food only eating.

I did not eat nor drink a single thing in the party.

I find the time to buy fresh Dilis yesterday afternoon at Farmers Market. Got 2 kilos of fresh Dilis at P 120 / kilo.

At home I watched how our maids did the kilaw. First they tediously gutted the Dilis fish one by one. They had to take off the heads and the stomachs because they said these were bitter. Then roll the Dilis in Lola Conching’s organic coconut vinegar (all coconuts are organic in the Philippines) to remove the lansa or fishy slimy smell, taste and feel. I tasted the vinegar cleaned raw fish, yummy. Then put chopped onions and chopped luya / ginger in it. Then squeezed more than a dozen calamansi on it. Then chopped some fresh sili in it.

All done, ready to serve. I think we put too much sili for the children. Only my 2nd son, the 4 year old was man enough to eat it with that much sili. He did so with water beside his plate. Manang Maring our cook was absent yesterday. Seems we don’t know here secret for her Kinilaw to be child friendly like she did the other night.

I enjoyed it. I loved that much sili.

It was hard for me to track down Rizal Dairy Farms on the web. Both their websites are down. They need a better website developer and maintainer. Maybe my company can do their website. I’m a web developer remember? www.filipinowebservices.com

I finally track down a number and call their office on a Saturday morning. I was looking for raw milk and raw butter. They said they had those but only in their head office, not in the outlets such as Market Market. Good for me, Antipolo is nearer.

The way to get there is via Ortigas extension. At the end of Ortigas extension, turn left going up the mountain of Antipolo and drive up for some 10 minutes. On your right you will see Beverly Hills Village. Ask the guard for Rizal Dairy Farms. He will tell you to go straight until you see 7th Avenue. Turn right. After 5 intersections you will arrive at Magnolia street, you turn left. The last house on the left is Rizal Dairy Farms. The small green gate is the entrance to the office which has the doorbell.

The address of Rizal Diary Farms is

#5 Magnolia Drive

Beverly Hills Subdivision

Taytay, Rizal 1920

Philippines

Telephone numbers: +63-2-660-2197 / +63-2-669-8177

You must call before you drive up. Raw milk is not always available. And Raw butter has to be ordered and made for a few days.

Rizal Diary Farms is more than just milk.  They have butter, cheese, yogurt and a lot of other products in the organic category.

They also have a catering company called Petra’s Naturally – accepts private and corporate catering & offers South Beach Diet Food Order Services.