Friday, March 9, 2012
I want to go on a raw food diet but I'm scared that I am going to lose a lot of weight. I am 5'3 and 115 pounds and I would like to stay that way. Is there a way I can maintain this weight on a raw diet?|||It's not a diet - it's more a way of life. If you eat a raw food diet only then you will be taking in a lot of nuts and to be quite honest the food I've eaten at raw food dinners has been amazing and nutrient packed! We have a restaurant by us who does raw food theme nights - Complete mexican nights and chinese food nights...it's insane! So there is a lot of food that you can eat on a raw food diet plus a lot of dessert you can eat as well. Plus you can eat more because you are digesting everything easier and you will be more hungry because the food goes through you so quickly.
Just learn how to do it right. Check out the guy at the site below - he doesn't look undernourished eh?|||Hi Liz-- When i was diagnosed with breast cancer 11 years ago I immediately changed my diet to all raw foods. I hadn't expected to lose weight but I immediately lost 10 pounds. I didn't want to lose any more at 110 pounds so I started eating more raw foods -- more calories and that did it. i still maintain the same weight today after these 11 years on raw foods at 108 pounds which is perfect for me at 5'5 1/2". BTW I'm in perfect health also from my raw food diet. Never sick, sleep 5 hours a night never have to worry about weight gian or loss, tons of energy and lots more. I eat greens, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Not a lot of nuts but occasionally in a nut crust from a raw apple pie and a handful of raw cashews now and then for example. I think it's all about the total calories as far as weight loss and gain goes. Nurse Sue|||A raw vegan diet is the most healthy diet that one can consume! When we are eating how nature intended us to eat (raw fruits, veggies, nuts.....), our bodies will balance itself out. You may lose some weight in the beginning especially if you are not used to eating that kind of food but as long as you are consuming enough calories and a variety of foods, you should be just fine. Good luck --- you are on your way to feeling the most amazing then you can imagine!|||it depends on what type of raw food like if you mean fruits and vegetables and cold cuts than you may lose a little bit of weight but raw meat is unhealthy and nasty i don't recommend it
The Raw Food Diet includes fruit, vegtables, cheese and meat. And run 5 miles everyday. I'm 5'2 and I weigh 150 pounds.
Please tell me a number not what I can do.|||It really depends on your calorie intake. You will most likely loose 2-3 pounds per week if you limit your calories by eating 100% raw foods, with a big emphasis on raw fruits and vegetables. In six weeks you could expect to lose between 12 and 18 pounds. Best of luck to you!
I'm looking to buy whole sale chicken wings for a company just making bone and raw food for dogs. Where can I get this either on the internet or locally in NJ?|||COSCO, sam's club or smart and final!!!|||omg COSCO! Wow I have never seen such a big back a chips in my life..|||well at nebraska we get that stuff at our local hy-vee|||costco or sam's club|||Smart and Final|||I'm sure your phone book has a bunch of wholesale food distributors in your area|||I think you just have to check in your phone book under wholesale meats. You would have to buy a large amount. That's how they give the discounts, based on the amount of your order. Talk to some of your local restaurant owners. They might help you out. They have nothing to lose in divulging their wholesalers.
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I would like imput from someone who has tried the vegan raw food diet....
I currently weigh 124 lbs 5' 2'' and I am wondering how fast OR how much can you lose weight with the vegan raw food diet?|||you need proteins you need proper food or you will be full of stretch marks|||That is up to your body metabolism as to how much and how quickly you can reduce weight.
Concentrate on How much and how to reduce weight. The time frame will automatically get answered once you focus your action plan.Include as much salad and fruits in your diet.
Drink lots of water throughout the day, especially before meal. Do not drink water in during meals. Always sit and have water.
If for any reason you have to eat outside, always have a glass full of water so that you are left with little space to eat. Order some soup and salad first and then some low calorie diet.
Take a small plate so that it looks full when filled with food and gives a psychological impression that you are having plenty of food.
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I'm looking at travel safety tips. I know these places are dangerous, especially cause of malaria, but "Avoid raw salads or unpeeled fruit". what for? e. coli?|||Probably more based on pest control chemicals, so even if it's the same fruits, the ones being exported are probably washed and cleaned more I'd assume.
A good clean is all they need I believe, but it's often faster and easier to peel than clean.|||My experience is : depends on what water it was washed with|||Actually, you are always supposed to wash your fruit before eating it if you plan to eat it unpeeled. Even in America, you should wash your fruit, because there are pesticides on it.
Keep in mind that safety tips tend to operate on the side of caution, so they'll tell you to "avoid eating x" to eliminate the possibility of getting ill from it, but the warnings are not always as urgent as they seem.
I am trying to switch to a raw diet but every recipe i find has lots of things in it that I don't know what are, and probably will not be able to find in my small town. I need tasty recipes using common food items.|||There's a book by Jennifer Cornbleet on easy raw recipes for one or two. Many vegan shopping sites do have raw items, and there's also a raw foods website, www.naturalzing.com. There's also a website called From Sad to Raw that has fairly simple raw recipes.|||This is a brand new Vegan book I think you'd really enjoy.
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|||buy a book called raw food, real world.
I have found the recioes to be easy and pronouncable!
good luck!|||here is a yummy dessert
Raw- Date Nut Torte
Base of Torte:
2 cups raisins
2 cups walnuts
Frosting:
1 cup dates, pitted and soaked
1/2 lemon, juiced
For Base:
In food processor, combine raisins and walnuts and blend until well blended and moist. (this will take a few min and you may see it forming a ball. Just make sure the raisins come out looking like a fudgey mixture and are not still grainy)
Remove from processor and mold onto a plate in a round circle about 1 1/2 in thick.
For Frosting:
In a food processor, combine dates and lemon juice until smooth and creamy.
Spread the frosting on top of the torte
Raw- Fudge Balls- These are to die for! They taste like fudge!
2 cups dates, pitted and soaked
2 cups almond butter
1/2 cup carob powder or raw carob powder
1. IN a food processor, blend the dates to a smooth paste.
2. Add the remaining ingredients and process until smooth.
3. Remove from processor and form into round balls.
Raw- Spicy Cucumber Peppadew Salad
serves 4 Active time:10min
my store has peppadews in the salad bar as well as in jars by the pickles.
1/2 cucumber, cut in 1/4 in dice
1/4 cup peppadews, cut into thin match like strips
1/2 of 10oz pkg matchstix carrots
2 Tbs basting oil
juice of 1 lemon (2-3 Tbs)
Salt and pepper to taste
Combine cucumber, peppadews, and carrots in medium bowl.
Add basting oil and lemon juice, toss to blend. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Raw- Strawberry - Banana Pie
ngredients:
1-1.5 cups soaked almonds
0.5 cups dates
1 tsp. cinnamon
0.5 tsp. nutmeg
0.25 cup orange juice
3 pints strawberries
4 bananas
0.125 cup fresh shredded coconut
Instructions
1. Freeze 2 pints of the strawberries and 2 bananas
2. Blend almonds, dates, cinnamon, nutmeg and orange juice in a food processor.
3. Form the blended mixture into a pie crust in a 9 inch pie dish.
4. Process the frozen fruit to a sorbet consistency in a Champion juicer using the blank plate.
5. Slice up the remaining strawberries and bananas.
6. Layer the sorbet and fruit slices over the pie crust.
7. Decorate with coconut.
Remarks on the recipe:
1) It's an excellent pie - I had a chance to eat some at an earlier meeting.
2) In step 4, you can use a blender instead of a Champion juicer. Just let the fruit thaw some before putting it in blender.
Raw Sweet Corn Salad w Avacado Dressing
1 large ear of raw sweet corn
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
1 large ripe tomato, diced
3 Tbs. parsley, minced (45 mil.)
1 celery stalk, diced
1/4 cup sweet red onion, chopped (60 mil.)
1 head leaf lettuce
1 ripe avocado
1 lemon, juiced
Wash all vegetables. Remove kernels of corn from cob, dice tomato,
dice celery, chop red pepper and onion, and mince the parsley.
Combine in a bowl, cover and set in refrigerator while preparing
avocado dressing.
Mash the avocado until smooth, add the lemon juice until a creamy
consistency is obtained.
Place leaf lettuce on a plate, spread with avocado mixture, top
with raw sweet corn salad.
Raw Tacos I call them Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1/2 of an avocado
3 slices green pepper
2 slices each red and yellow pepper
1 full slice of an onion
1/2 cup broccoli and cauliflower florets
pico de gallo
salsa
lemon juice
garlic powder
salt
3 pieces romaine, green leaf, or red leaf lettuce
Directions:
Mash the avocado in a bowl. Chop 1 slice of green pepper and half the onion slice and add these to the avocado. Season to taste with lemon juice, garlic powder, and salt, thus making raw guacamole. Cut the remaining peppers into long pieces.
To assemble, put a layer of guacamole down, followed by the pico, peppers, onion, broccoli, and cauliflower. Top with salsa and fold in the back and roll up sides.
Serves: 3
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Raw Tuna Fish
3 Cups Raw Walnuts
3 Tbsp Lemon Juice
3 Tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
3 Tsp Tamari
2 Cloves Garlic
Soak walnuts for at least 6 hours (you can put in the fridge in a jar overnite)
Drain walnuts completely
Put all into a Food Process - with the S-blade.
Scape sides down a few times
Until you get to the consistency you want
Add Parsley & Onions to it after it is done
Raw-Eggplant and Avocado Salad
(serves 4)
鈥?1 Large Eggplant
鈥?2 or 3 Ripe-But-Firm Ripe Avocados
鈥?2 garlic cloves, chopped finely
鈥?1/2 Red Onion, chopped finely
鈥?Juice of 3 Lemons
鈥?4 Tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
鈥?Dulse Flakes and Pepper to Taste
鈥?2 Tsp. Raw Honey
1. Pare and dice eggplant. Place in a deep bowl and immediately cover with cold water acidulated with juice of 1 lemon.
2. Whisk together: oil, garlic, dulse flakes, pepper and juice of 1 lemon. Set aside.
3. Peel and dice avocados. Place in bowl and toss immediately with juice of 1 lemon.
4. Drain eggplant and combine with avocados. Add chopped onion.
5. Whisk dressing again and add to mixture. Toss gently.
6. Set aside for about 15 minutes. Chill if desired.
7. Before serving, toss gently again and sprinkle with honey.|||I can pronounce carrots and green peppers pretty easily. Do you have a lisp or something?
You don't need weird foods or even recipes. Raw food means uncooked. Your basic salad without additives. My brother did a raw food diet for about 3 weeks to clear out his system while they tried to determine what he was allergic to. Everything came from his personal garden. His allergy turns out to be an additive that they spray on many grocery store foods to retain color.
it is known that "all raw-food" diets change eye color gradually over a few months.
but i dont think i can eat all raw food.
especially since im only a teen still living at home, its not exactly easy to make your parents change what they buy and cook [or not cook for that matter!]. and i just dont think i would be able to do it... i love cooked food! like chicken and pasta.. i could never become a vegetarian [which is basically what this diet is..] so how many raw things would i have to eat along with my meals [normal cooked ones like usual] in order for this eye color change to take affect?
i only want those who know about this to answer. i dont want to bother reading those who say "its impossible to change your eyecolor" because it isnt..
please can someone give me the answer i am looking for?
i would love to have more information on this!!
it is very interesting.
thank you all!!!!! :]|||Everything2.com said it takes a few months for the effects. But that you can get clarity in your vision within weeks. Hope this answers it for you. I enjoyed your question. I learned something new by researching this for you!|||Eats as much raw meat as you desire...all youre doing is making yourself sick...your eye color cannot be changed. No food you eat, no pill you take, no disease you catch can change it. Its part of your genetic structure. Only way to alter that is to completely destroy the structure and rebuild it, something which is impossible to do...|||I just read that in most cases the color of your eyes become "clearer", not a different color. I wouldn't go on an all raw food diet if you like a lot of cooked food.
why would you want to change your eye color anyways....stick to colored contacts|||Eating an all raw food diet will NOT change your eye color. Eye color is determined by your genetic makeup and pre determined upon conception. You can eat all the raw food you want and will never see your eye color change. Sorry to dissapoint you.|||Eye colour is determined by your genetic make up and not by what you eat. You could eat raw food for ever but it will not affect your eye colour at all. You're wasting your time with this one. Eat what you enjoy,.|||raw food vegan rite ere love, my eyes avent changed colour and even if it was possible ,i'm pretty sure you'd need to stick to raw foods without any cooked meals.....................ya|||TEN MINUTE
I enjoy (and prefer) raw nuts in my diet....do any of you out there know of a good website - perhaps that YOU have used - that offers raw nuts in many varieties?|||http://www.rawganique.com/Food-organic-n鈥?/a>
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I had a site that I remember having awesome prices, but I can't think of it.. i'll come back and edit if I happen to remember it.|||If you want to just go to the grocery store, they have them there. Trader Joe's has a large variety of raw nuts.|||Amazon|||www.naturalzing.com also has raw nuts. But you can also get raw nuts at most grocery stores, unless you are a strict raw foodist.
I am vegan. Previously life time vegetarian. lately I have been interested in the raw way of eating. I am thinking I eat majority of foods raw, and for dinner have cooked meal.
What was understanding/experience with eating raw foods.|||Raw food, especially fruit are a staple although I eat meat . My breakfast invariably includes a 5-fruit smoothie. A salad usually for lunch if at all and I normally don't eat dinner. Obviously I can't eat rice or wheat raw but most of the foods I eat are raw or lightly cooked. I am also fond of sashimi and other raw seafood though of course you are "excused" from that.
The food, especially fresh salad greens and fruits are better tasting because they retain all their natural flavor and texture often lost in cooking They are not soggy from being over boiled/steamed nor are they abnormally crisp from being fried. Try it, you'll like it.
Caveat: some plants can be toxic or can cause digestion problems when eaten raw. I don't know your personal taste preference so just do your own research. Good luck|||I had a hard time digesting raw veggies and fruits...I became bloated among other things. it was not pleasant.
I was always hungry! I didn't actually lose any weight either.
Edit: Just being honest. why rate me down for that?|||Do you mean raw meat or raw eggs. but i wouldnt eat anything raw really. but it just depends on what it is that is raw. i love cookie dough is that raw. well thanks . bye.
I would like to start them on a raw meat, raw vegetable, and oat diet that I make at home. How much should I feed my 12 wk springer spaniel pup and my 83 pound senior German shepherd. If you have other suggestions you would like to add that would be great!|||Any diet that gets a dog eating foods that are not filled with preservatives and other chemicals found in most commercial dog food is considered by most canine nutritionists as a step in the right direction. But the raw meat diets which are on the market today fall into the same trap as the all-breed/any-breed kibble and are being sold as "one diet GOOD for all dogs." Even though, in the National Research Council's book, Nutrient Requirements of Dogs,they show how one breed can have a different reaction to a single food source than another breed. There are breeds that have genetic predisposed allergies to beef. Some dog breeds have inherent allergies to fish or chicken. We know that the amino acid content of various meat sources are different and must be in the correct balance for the animal being fed so that the protein is bio-nutritive for that animal and not cause an allergenic reaction. Raw or cooked, you should not use a meat source that will cause the breed of dog you are feeding nutritional distress. It has been PROVEN that the differences in per kilogram nutritional requirements of the different breeds makes it impossible for any one diet, including a raw meat diet, to be nutritionally correct for all dogs.
The meat that we can buy at the store (the same meat you and I buy and cook before eating) is NOT the same as the meat that a wild animal eats from a natural kill. Commercial meat has been processed and exposed to many factors that make feeding it to our companion pets potentially harmful. If we could provide the same fresh raw meat that the ancestors of today's dog had access to 600,000 years ago, including the hot fresh guts - what wild animals still go for first in a kill - then it might be OK to feed them with that food source. Unfortunately, today's pet owners can't. Meat that is processed and sold through retailers has been exposed to a number of chemical agents. There are 72,00 chemicals now in use in the USA. Commercial meat, even "Organic meat", can be (and most likely is) exposed to most of these 72,00 chemicals. These MUST be destroyed by using heat to generate temperatures that will break them down.
Most companies selling their raw meat diets are promoting this type of diet with the claim that all domesticated dogs descended from the wolf. For years, scholars have debated the origins of today's domesticated dog. In 1787 John Hunter proposed: that since the dog produces fertile hybrids with both the wolf and the jackal, these three canids should be considered a single species. A different view on this was written about by Linnaeus in 1758. He concluded the dog to be a separate species based on the fact that it had physical characteristics unique to the Canis familiaris (domesticated dog).
|||Personally I wouldn't, there haven't been enough studies as the to appropriateness and health benefits vs risks of raw food diets. There has been a ton of controversy regarding these diets. I tried a raw food diet on my first border collie about 10+ years ago and her stomach couldn't handle it, I'm assuming that 's what you'll see with your older dog. My biggest concern currently would be possible health risks from bacteria that doesn't get cooked out. The natural argument imo assumes the dog is eating "fresh" heart still beating unprocessed meat. I would recommend a fresh grain fed/ free range cooked diet with lots of fresh non-toxic fruits and vegetables. We would cook a whole chicken weekly and toss in a wide assortment of veggies and make a stew then portion it out into storage containers then bulk cook rice and portion in out per dog and freeze wrap em in saran wrap every other week then heat it up when it was time to feed the dogs. Ask yourself, would I eat it? When I did the weekly cooking of the chicken, veggie rice stew we occasionally stole the dogs food when we were too lazy to cook for ourselves.|||For the raw meat I feed 2 to 3 percent of the ideal body weight.
For a 12 week pup it is a little different.
I would skip the unneeded grains and veggies. If you still want to feed veggies, then feed them in small amounts because they offer no nutritional value to the dog. If you want proof, feed a carrot and watch the poo for it. You will see carrot chunks in the poo.
Dont forget raw bones. You have to keep the calcium:phosporous ratio balanced.
This site can help you more with raw diets. www.bigdogsporch.com
I really want to do a raw food diet to help cleanse my body and shed about 10-15 pounds, but I don't know if it is safe to do this as I am on a high dose anti-depressant and a mood stabilizer. I am 5' 4" and about 145 lbs so 10-15 pounds is reasonable.|||My personal answer, having ate raw food for sometime now, is to always consult a doctor (one that has experience with raw food lifestyle), and take things slowly. I found that eating a wide variety of raw food has improved all sorts of health problems i've had- asthma, depression, and allergies. I would recommend a book called "Raw Food Detox Diet" by Natalia Rose. It is extremely informative, gives detailed information without being complicated, and tells you exactly what to do. Raw food is always going to be healthier and more nutritious than processed food because it is 100% real food. Best of luck to you on your quest for health!|||cleansing diets are, in general, kind of dangerous, although i'm not sure specifically about your meds. personally, i'd just work to exercise more (which will help mood anyway) and eliminate refined sugars and white breads/pastas from your diet. that should help with the 10 to 15 lbs, and you're less likely to gain it back.|||I doubt it, eating well shouldn't have bad effects on your mood even if you are on medication.
For example salmon, mackerel, pilchard?
Do dogs need any fruit or vegetables to be healthy when feeding a raw food diet?
|||Fruits and veggies are useless...I used to feed them, I cut them out, no noticeable difference except less gas. In my opinion, plant matter in a dog's diet is simply a filler. Fish is a great source of nutrients and Omegas. I don't feed raw fish though because of the risk of different intestinal parasites. I do feed canned salmon and mackerel occasionally, and I supplement with Salmon Oil daily for it's Omega 3 and 6. I wish there wasn't such a concern for parasites or I'd feed a lot more pork and fresh Salmon would probably be on the menu daily.
-edit- Some people feed raw fish anyway and make sure to have the vet test fecal exams on their checkup dates....that's fine I suppose...if you decide on raw fish? Make sure they don't have any spines, this may include you having to shear their fins off before feeding them to your dogs.
And to the person above me: That's a myth, dogs nor wolves eat the stomach contents of their prey items. The stomach wall is torn open and the contents shaken loose. The stomach itself is eaten, not the contents.|||Yes, fish can be included as part of a raw diet. Here's additional information on feeding raw fish: http://www.rawlearning.com/fish.html
As far as the fruits and vegetables, it depends on who you ask. Many people do not think they are necessary and do not feed them. Their dogs seem to do well. Many people do think they are necessary in smaller amounts and do feed them. Their dogs also seem to do well. I do add some cooked vegetables to my dogs' diets, but not large quantities.|||Yes, definitely, they are very healthy. Just start off a little bit at a time. When they get used to it a couple of times a week is ideal. Feed the fish whole, and don't worry about the bones, they should be fine as long as they are not cooked. However check with your local fish monger that the types of fish you are buying are all safe to eat raw, some aren't.
In regard to the answer above, I am sure that wolves do actually eat the whole carcass, including the stomach content and bones. In any case, feeding vegetables, as long as they're pureed, adds vitamins and nutrients to your dogs diet.|||Yes! They are excellent sources of omega 3 fatty acids!
just introduce them slowly. my dogs have been raw fed since June and they will still throw up fish. (so currently I give can mack or salmon)
Smelt is another good fish to try.
Dogs can not digest vegetables unless theyre cooked and pureed, so biologically, since they don't have the bodies made to eat veggies, they don't need to have them.
And fruit can upset the acid balance in a dog's stomach.
I have completely based my dog's diets off of what a dog or wolf in the wild would eat, and what their stomachs do best on. dogs have a fast digestive tract, so the veggies will go right through without the body absorbing any of the nutrients. In the wild, wolves disregard the stomach content (the partially digested vegetation) of their prey.
there is something called green tripe, which are the raw intestines. dogs love it. it's not needed to have a nutritionally complete raw diet, but including it is what a dog in nature would eat. some people opt to feed that instead of vegetables.
Tomorrow I begin my raw food diet (for medical reasons) but even though there is a wealth of information on the net, and tons of recipes, I still cannot grasp what I should eat on a daily basis.
Some of the recipes require many ingrediants (many of which I can't get in the UK) and ideally I would like simple, small meals and nothing complicated.
Can any raw foodist lend me a few tips on how to get started?
Thanks.. :-)|||Hi Peace! I cured myself of breast cancer more than 10 years ago when i started a raw food diet! Arthritis, fibromyalgia and a long list of everything else went away and I'm still in perfect health today and still eat all raw foods. You don't have to make a lot of recipes you can eat mostly a lot of fruits, veggies and huge salads. You can make applesauce in a food processor with 2 Fresh apples and there are a lot of simple things you can make. too hard to go into everything here but raw recipe books would help and you can pick out the raw recipes that are basic and don't require a lot of ingredients. many of the raw recipe books have simple recipes. The expensive books with the color photos are more complicated and have more ingredients but you can get simple easy raw recipes in many other books. Nurse Sue|||i wish i knew where to start too, i also think i would benefit more from raw food, i think you may get more luck by asking this same question in the vegetarian and vegans section, there are a few vegans who eat only raw vegetables and fruit.
What component of raw food kills bacteria?|||Enzymes. ( I'm referring to fruit and veggies.) They go after protein and bacteria are essentially protein. Unfortunately, enzymes seem to ignore mold. But that doesn't account for things like ground meat. Apparently no enzymes are present.
Cooking breaks down the enzymes and bacteria. That's good for the time being, but the minute the food has been exposed to serving plates, forks, etc, more bacteria are introduced.
Almost sounds like y' can't win!
PS: (Colon cleansing is a gimmick.)|||Eating certain raw mushrooms will kill bacteria, but normally you don't want to kill bacteria. That's a concept introduced and repeated by mass media advertising. You need to consume and retain some healthy bacteria in your body to maintain your own health.
You simply rise vegetables and fruits and sprouted beans and grains and eat the food whole. Humans ate that way for thousands of years without the need for an antibiotic spray or cooking everything. The anaerobic bacteria smells bad and you instinctively will avoid spoiled food.|||Not clear what you mean and am not a scientist.
Raw foods cleanse the body of toxins and helps loosen all old buildup in the colon to prevent disease.
Yogurt builds up the good bacteria in your stomach.
Chili peppers work as antibiotics & various foods have properties to kill bacteria.
The idea behind raw foods is to grow a strong immune system to fight off disease.
Hope this helps somehow
I want to feed raw but we have large dogs and can't afford for them to eat raw 7 days a week.
So I was wondering if I can give them a raw meal once or twice a week and their regular dry food for the rest of the week. Or will this mess up their digestive system?|||Yes that's absolutely fine. Don't listen to other posters about no raw meat. Dogs have stronger stomach acid than humans and also have different bacteria lining their intestines, so they're much less likely to suffer from salmonella, e coli, etc like humans do.
If you can afford it, try adding in a little bit of raw to their kibble each day so that their system stays used to it and it isn't such a shock when they suddenly have a raw meal one day out of seven. My dogs are fed kibble for all meals, but get some raw diet ingredients (meat, bones, etc) mixed in with their regular food so it doesn't upset their tummy. That way it's affordable but they're also getting the added benefit of a raw diet.
Note that feeding raw means you'll have to get your dogs dewormed more often than if they were just eating kibble.|||raw beef is good for your dog, although you should be careful about picking up their droppings, since you can still pick up the same illnesses, like E. Coli.
If you're not comfortable giving your dogs raw beef, you can cook it. you can keep the grease with it, or not, since it'll only change fat content and flavor, but nothing else really.
the nutritional values don't change between cooked and uncooked beef.|||It should be fine if they don't get the runs--a common side effect of diet changes. I had a large lab that lived 16 years on Purina. She wasn't fat, and ate 50# a month. I didn't give her much raw food except "healthy" table scraps.
Go to dogfoodadvisor.com. Foods are rated in 1-5 star levels. I'm now feeding my dog a 4 star food. She eats about 20# a month at around $1 a pound. She weighs about 40#. I still think she eats less of this better quality food than she would Purina or other 1-star foods.
I think you'll find that site interesting.|||If it's raw meat, DEFINITELY NO. But as for the other things, I'm not so sure. You could try asking your vet, or Google-ing the answer. I wish you the best of luck in your research!|||NEVER give a dog raw meat . But there is nothing wrong with giving him leftovers or that dry dog food that will set for about 10 minutes. _|||I feed my pugs raw in the morning then good quality kibble at night. My vet thinks they are just amazing, so I guess you can mix without problems.|||It depends what kind of raw food your gonna feed in your dog, some are bad/good for them.|||That's fine.|||I'm pretty sure that will be fine :)
I've just switched to raw - will nutritional yeast still be ok?|||well, foods that are grown in a home garden should be plentiful with b12, assuming that you don't wash the plants a lot before you eat them. as long as you eat them while they are still fairly 'dirty', you will be getting adequate amounts of vitamin b12. b12 doesn't actually come form animal products, it comes from most places where it is dirty and not sanitary. and the human body needs basically minute amounts anyway, in the course of a lifetime, you only need the equivalent of four grains of rice worth of b12. you should be able to get adequate amounts this way, but i guess the yeast would be ok as an alternative.|||My doctor told me that I had to take Vitamin B12 vitamins every day to supplement my diet. So nutritional yeast should be ok.|||I take an injection of B 12 once a month. You can purchase it in pill form at the store in the vitamin section. You should speak with a doctor before starting a raw diet. Also can do a web search to see which foods are highest in this.|||You could get it as a supplement or from more natural sources. I personally don't take any B12. I feel great so I guess I don't need it.
Maybe not now though lol|||It is true, dirt is the only way except pills or injections. You may call it micro-organisms if this sounds better.|||nutritional yeast isn't raw. The only raw food with B12 in it would be raw eggs from your own hen, but that's not vegan.
Vegetarian Society Info. Sheet - Vitamin B12
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/b12.html
I bought a book on raw food recipes, and it calls for raw almonds. Where do you buy raw almonds at?|||You can buy raw almonds at most health food stores. The difference is, if you planted a raw almond, it would sprout and grow, because it contains live enzymes. If you planted a roasted almond, it would do nothing, as the enzymes would have been killed off by the roasting (any temp over 107 degrees will destroy enzymes. Raw food is awesome-has everything needed to digest itself-makes it easier on the body|||they taste different
u buy them at the supermarket|||Raw nuts are shelled but not processed. Roasted nuts are baked and usually salted.
A decent health food store has raw nuts. Raw peanuts are canned by Planters.|||like any nuts, roasted generally liberates a really good flavor. i am pretty sure you can get raw almond slivers at wall mart...close to the baking supplys.|||Please don't buy into the "raw" food fad. They try to claim that you get all these enzymes and food hormones from the raw food, but that's just bogus. By the time the food goes through the acid bath that exists in your stomach, all the proteins (which is what enzymes and hormones are) are denatured, which is also what happens during cooking. The only thing that cooking destroys that your body doesn't are a few vitamins that are heat labile (destroyed by heat).
They have been fed kibble their whole life (started them off on Whiska's and as I looked up cat nutrition now have them on Innova EVO for the last year). They will not touch uncooked meat or the frozen raw you can buy at the petstore. Not even wet canned food. I had heard that raw was better for them so how do I make them eat it?|||Why do you think raw food is better for your cats? Is it better for you? Are there any board certified veterinary nutritionists telling you this is a good idea?
Have you heard of salmonella, trichinosis, toxoplasmosis, or any other of the nasty bacterial and parasitic infections you and your cat can get?
Look at the cats living outdoors eating raw meat as thier main diet? How long do they live? Now look at the cats living indoors eating a healthy, balanced veterinary approved diet. How long do they live?
Maybe your cat is turning his nose up at the raw meatn for a good reason. His instincts tell him raw meat can be dangerous. You should listen to him, even if you won't listen to professional advice.|||Start by cooking some chicken breast and shredding that and giving it to them for treats or on top of their food. When they are eating that, then just lightly pre-cook some (where its cooked on the outside but raw in the middle).
Then cut up some very small bites of raw and offer it and by that time they should be taking it.
Do the same with hamburger.|||There's different types of wet food.
There's the one that comes in chunky pieces of meat.
& theres the one that comes very soft and easy to chew.
If none of those work, try mixing a little bit with the kibble and see if they eat it.
Also, try different brands of food:
-Fancy Feast
-9 lives
-Meow Mix
Etc...|||Why would you want to do that? There are bacteria and parasites in raw food. If you want to get away from comercialy prepared food at least cook their food first.|||How old are your cats?
You'll first need to switch them to eating canned food. You cannot mix raw with dry as they digest at different rates and can cause infection.
This info is from this website: http://www.homevet.com/petcare/feedingyo…
* If your cat has been eating dry food on a free-choice basis, take up the food and establish a schedule of twice a day feedings. Leave the food down for 30 minutes. Once your cat is on a schedule you will notice that he is more enthusiastic about food.
* Cats prefer their food at “body temperature”, but do not warm the food more than once or twice as this will promote bacterial growth.
* Sprinkle a very small amount of tuna – or any other favorite treat (some cats do not like fish) - on the top of the canned food and then once they are eating this, start pressing it into the top of the new food. (The “light” tuna is better than the fancy white tuna because it has a stronger smell. Or, Trader Joe's makes a Cat Tuna that is very stinky!)
* Pour a small amount of the water from the tuna over the top of the canned food.
* Crush some dry food and sprinkle it on the top of the new food.
* If you have a multiple cat household, some cats like to eat alone so you may need to take these cats into a separate room and feed them canned food/tuna ‘meatballs' by hand. This worked for one of my stubborn, timid cats. In a quiet setting, he would eat from my hand and then, finally, from a bowl. I'm not sure who was being trained.
You want to completely eliminate dry food. Stick to canned and raw. Once cat is eating canned food with no problems, start to incorporate small bits of raw. Transition slowly by mixing in more raw and less canned. Eventually cat will be on completely raw food. I give canned as a treat to my cats about once or twice per week. My raw is purchased from http://mypetcarnivore.com Their food has only muscle meat, organ, bone and blood. This is all the cat needs except for 1 pill of 1000 mg Omega 3 fish oil for 1 feeding everyday.
Added info: I've been feeding raw since Jan '09. My cats aren't dead and I'm obviously not dead from handling raw meat. I am not a vegetarian/vegan. I eat meat. When I purchase meat from the store, it is not cooked, therefore it is raw. I am not sure why people think raw feeders all of a sudden become dumb and don't know how to wash their hands, the area the raw food touched and the cat's bowls everyday. You handle their raw food the same as you would handle your own raw food.
Cats in the wild die from natural predators, cars, antifreeze, humans, etc.; not raw food (that's just silly). Cats (and dogs) should be eating raw food as they are carnivores. Dogs are not omnivores, they are carnivores. Carnivores eat meat; raw meat. Cats and dogs digestive systems are shorter than humans, so even if there is bacteria in the raw food, it is not in their body long enough to do any damage or cause infection.
Also, do not cook the meat as you are cooking out all of the nutrients the cat needs. Raw bone is safe for cats (and dogs) to eat. Cooked bone is not safe for them to eat.|||I think that you ask the clerk that you can't fine any raw meat or food. implus they might like fish instad of meat.|||i am sure they won't resist to raw fish
I don't think that will be good idea unless you wish to visit toilet more often.
Only with a realistic weight loss plan, you will be able to achieve it easily.
In order to have ideal weight. few things to take note.
Calories and Weight
A pound of fat equals 3500 calories. To lose 1 pound a week you will need to expend 3500 more calories than you eat that week, whether through increased activity or
decreased eating or both. Losing 1-2 pounds of fat a week is a sensible goal
Healthy diet
- Take the stairs instead of the lift
- Keep walking whilst the escalator caries you up
- Walk or cycle instead of driving short distances
Diet
- Little salt - always read the label
- Aim to have five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables daily
5 Top Tips
1. Keep an accurate food diary
2. Set healthy and manageable goals
3. Ensure you make healthy choices within your routine
4. Be proud about your progress
5. Make a strong commitment towards lifelong changes
You might want to try Cactus Diet Plan, get more info from http://www.lossweight-zone.com|||bad idea.....
go to the gym and train hard and heavy|||good diet the rule is you can eat anythink u want as long as its not cooked but be carfel if u just slip back to ur old ways ull gain it back.dont freeze or cook foods just eat it raw good luck!|||Just another ridiculous fad. Losing weight is not rocket science -- it takes a well-balanced diet and exercise.|||I do a 80% raw foods diet (mostly because it's hard to get enough protein on a raw foods diet, unless you are really fond of dairy or nuts)...I like it a lot. It'd be tough to go totally raw, kooky things start to happen...I bought a book about it before trying it, so I suggest doing that too. Make sure you look at the recipes inside and that there are some you like! (for instance, if the author is, say, tahini-crazy and you hate tahini, then don't buy that book!)|||While I see the good in a raw foods diet, it's not something I would do. There is certainly more good in it than, say, some of the junk companies peddle as diet food and healthy. (Like Jell-o, 100 calorie packs, Lean Cuisine, stuff with corn syrup, and/or high fructose corn syrup, and/or high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, artificial and natural flavors of unknown sources and long words that look like chemicals.) I like warm food. To keep as many nutrients as possible in my frozen veggies, I steam them just until they're warm, sometimes, they're just thawed, which is fine.
I'm sure, though, that to those who eat nothing but raw foods it's not a "diet", but a lifestyle. (I'm vegan, which means it's a large part of whom I am, it's not a "diet" in the pop culture definition.)|||I would not go on a complete raw food diet to lose weight alone. It is good for cleansing the body, but not for a long term length of time. If you need to cleanse your body of toxins, you need to do some research of which foods to eat first, some are better than others. Then only stay on the complete raw food for only three months, then start having some broiled (not boiled) salmon. That is very good for protien.
Don't just start eating raw foods for the heck of it, find out what each is good for.
as most raw meat proteins have some degree of bacteria/virus or parasite how do you best prevent them from getting these infections from their diet? ie. Trichanosis from pork, parasite worms from fish etc.|||As Akitagrl said, human grade meat and freezing the meat is the best bet to ward off parasites. Freezing kills the bacteria and viruses. My vet said she has seen more studies showing cases for food born bacteria and viruses from processed dog foods than from people who feed raw. Granted, there is more research that could be done and this is by no means definative. The fact that YOU handle the food the dog eats directly from the butcher to your fridge to the dog I think is great.
I wish I could commit to feeding my dogs raw, but I am realistic with myself. I just don't have the time at this point in my life to buy, prepare, measure, etc with a raw diet. My dogs LOVE raw meaty bones when I give them.|||You freeze the meat rock hard for 30days and it kills parasites.
Dogs are not susceptible to salmonella and most of the other bugs they are likely to encounter in human grade meat. I rarely feed anything else, although occasionally my dog catches her own rabbit, and eats it up, every bit.
There is almost no risk of trichinosis in human grade pork these days; you need only be concerned if you are feeding wild pig or bear.|||Most meat don't have parasites, that's what the USDA inspection is supposed to eliminate. Getting human food grade meats that are FRESH, not sitting in the grocery meat section for 5 days, is key.
You can cook the meat, especially fish, and still get the full food value for the dog.|||If you are using human grade meats, that isn't really an issue. For fish and some wild game, I know people usually freeze for 3 months to kill any parasites in the meat.|||give him natural yoghurt may be twice a week or three times and with no suggar, i read that dogs dont get sick with raw food because its what they are supposed to eat|||Honestly, I don't do anything. Most of the meat I get is human grade so there's no concern there.
I am hopefully getting a cat (or two) in a few weeks, and I've been reading about raw food diets for cats. It seems like a great idea but I'm not sure I'll be able to afford it. Is it expensive to keep cats on a raw food diet? Also, is it necessary to shop at a butcher, or is supermarket meat okay for cats?|||Supermarket meat is perfectly fine.
As long as you have a freezer feeding raw is far, far less expensive than feeding the premium cat foods.
Watch for sales. Most grocery stores mail out sale flyers every week. Watch the flyers for good sales and stock up when meat is cheap. Stash it in the freezer and you're set.
Talk to the people in the meat department at your grocery store. They can get you deals and specials on things.
Meow Mix is one of the most disgustingly awful things you could ever feed a cat. Don't waste your money. If you're thinking kibble, go with Felidae, Natura, or Wellness.|||The most important thing is balance. I good balance is fresh meat (something like hamburger mince is good - just make sure it is not lean meat), tinned food and good quality dry food. Cats DO need to have roughage (ie. dry food) in their diet and the tinned food gives them something different as they like variety in their food. Our cats get a small handful of dry food in the morning and either mince or tinned food at night (they also like these two mixed together). Just be sure that they dry food and tinned food as no colouring added and minimal preservatives (preferable natural ones).
As far as the quality of the meat - it need to have around a 30% fat content which is why hamburger or pet mince is good) - it doesn't actually matte where you buy it as long as it fresh!|||Be sure to feed your kitties small enough cuts so that they won't choke on it. We like the Kirkland brand, which is sold at Costco, our cats thrive on it. Raw food for cats is basically meat, which doesn't need to be purchased as cat food. If it costs a lot I don't think you would be spending wisely. We also feed our kitties Whiskas pouch food, which is the same as canned but with less landfill. Treats for tartar control is also recommended.|||hold it. there are two types of raw food. prepared, and the one you make yourself. make it yourself and you may have to add taurine. depends on the meat you use.
I assume you are aware a raw diet is not just buy a hamburger and throw it at the cat.
as far as I know, raw is a lot more expensive.|||raw food diet is the best way to go but if you cannot afford it, try the best bet, meow mix. its not canned and disgusting like most cat foods. and its affordable.
My beautiful young fiancee has Leukemia. I take care of her all day. She's very frail and doesn't have much appetite right now. So I started making her a lot of fresh smoothies and vegetable juices. Should I put her on a completely Vegan or Raw Food diet to help treat her? Will it help? I need to do anything possible to nourish her body back to health so I'm considering anything to help treat her.|||I'd go with the cultural insight here, you don't want to deprive her of types of food, she needs all the nutrients she can get so her body can recover and maintain itself if she is vegetarian respect her wishes it might be manageable, but going all out vegan is extreme like a fundamentalist of vegetarianism. i don't see it helping unless you have magic vegan food, which there is none of sorry.|||I answered your question in AltMed, but you've asked more specific questions here so I'll answer again.
I was diagnosed with cancer almost seven years ago; I had, at the time, been a vegan for over 8 years (and a vegetarian for most of my life - an 'almost-vegan' for decades). Not only that, I was a juicing enthusiast - I had (have) three juicers, each more sophisticated than the last, and I started most days with green juice. My diet always included plenty of raw food.
None of this prevented a diagnosis sf aggressive cancer, none of it cured me, and I'm certainly not relying on it to prevent recurrence (I am still vegan).
I trust and hope that your fiancee is receiving treatment for her cancer. If she's having chemo, then whatever she feels she can eat and feels will make her feel better is the way to go.
Don't attempt to 'put her on' any kind of diet at all. Feeling under pressure to eat and drink things she doesn't want will make her feel worse.
Food does not cure or treat cancer. Encourage your fiancee to eat as healthy a diet as possible by preparing and offering tempting healthy meals, but she must make the choices about what she wants and will eat.
And as I said before, a healthy diet for a cancer patient is the same as a healthy diet for anyone else - there are no special 'cancer foods'.
My best wishes to you both|||Foods do not cause or cure cancer. A vegitarian diet will have no impact whatsoever on cancer cells.
Cancer patients need a well balanced diet that includes sufficient protein and calories. Vegetarian diets are notorious for causing problems through inadequate nutrition. Your finacee should consult with her doctor before making any significant changes to her diet. You don't want to put her life at risk.
Some friends have been advising me to avoid raw food because of the outbreak. But is it safe to eat salads and Subway sandwiches?|||The e coli outbreak hasn't been found in north america yet so you should be safe so long as you practice good hygiene.|||Its completly safe to eat raw vegtables just when your buying fruits or vegetables from the supermarket make sure you wash them off before eating them. You should only be worried about eating raw eggs and raw meat, only raw fish is semi safe to eat. The ecoli in food is not what you should be worried about, theres thousands of bacteria and viruses you could get from food but mainly raw meat. So salads and subway are 100% safe.
I would appreciate any type of store, juice bar, or restaurant that sells any type of 100% raw organic food.|||Whole Foods Market
5815 Wyoming Blvd Ne,
Albuquerque, NM 87109
(505) 856-0474
www.wholefoods.com
Whole Foods Market
11015 Menaul Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112
505.275.6660
Wild Oats Market
2103 Carlisle Blvd Ne,
Albuquerque, NM 87110
(505) 260-1366
www.wildoats.com
Keller's Farm Stores
6100 Coors Blvd Nw, #H,
Albuquerque, NM 87120
(505) 898-6121
www.kellersfarmstores.com|||Sunflower Market on Lomas and on the westside
Trader Joes on Paseo Del Norte
Whole Foods on Wyoming and Carlisle
you might want to google organic foods in ABQ and see what pops up.
I know that freezing, as with any process, alters molecular structure.
Obviously you couldn't heat it in the microwave but a raw food soup could be defrosted in the fridge, although it might take a couple of days to defrost.
Does anyone do this?
Is it advisable?|||It's ok to freeze raw food. For example, frozen bananas are excellent to use for smoothies and home-made ice-creams, without any dairy. I cut them into small chunks, freeze them and put them in the blender or food processor. Smoothies and ice-creams turn out very smoothly that way.
If you make raw soups and make a few portions at a time, you could freeze the soup for a few weeks. Take it out the night before the next day you'd like to eat it. Either in the fridge for a refreshing summer meal or let it defrost at room temperature.
Here is a great raw soup recipe: 1 avocado, 3-4 carrots, fresh cilantro, fresh or ground ginger, 2 cups of water.
Blend everything together and split into portions. Store in containers and put in the freezer.
Or try this raw dessert: Mix 1 Avocado, lemon or lime juice and for the crust, use 1-2 cups ground almonds and same amount of grated coconut. Place in food processor, spread on round tray and put avocado cream on top. Pre-cut into slices and store in freezer. Put slices out to defrost in advance, but ideally in the fridge and enjoy!
All the best!|||Raw food is fine to defrost in the fridge - just don't leave it for days and days. You know it is off when little bubbles start popping up :)|||...................NO!|||I think you don't Use freeze food this food not good taste.|||Yes freezing raw food is okay, good luck :)|||I freeze all my greens for my green smoothies and I'm a raw foodist.
Tuna fish, cottage cheese and salsa. I know it sounds gross but it is excellent. I thought the same thing til I tried it. The cottage cheese is more like a tofu it takes on the flavor of the salsa. Have a great day.|||how about turkey on whole wheat bread,low fat yogurt .low fat cottage cheese with fruit.|||A bowl of low sodium soup with half of a deli sandwich on wheat bread. For dessert have jello or pudding|||Many people ask me how they can slim down. I recommend that people eat right and exercise. However, if they would like a little "help", I suggest using natural Hoodia (it's important to note that not all Hoodia works well, even if the bottle says "pure" or "standard").
The Hoodia sold at http://tinyurl.com/y389on is in my opinion the best Hoodia on the market. It's pure, has no side effects, and they give you a free 15 day sample (there is a $7.99 shipping and handling charge, but they also give you free recipe and diet guides). Fantastic results have been seen with this particular Hoodia.
Is it the most healthy diet due to the fact that its based solely on fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed? I consume these things already, I don't follow the raw food diet, but I enhance my healthy diet with its elements. I enjoy non-fat yogurt, milk, kefir, cheeses, and free-range meats (beef, poultry, lamb, etc) in my diet. Is this best, or would it actually be more beneficial to go completely raw (health wise)?|||The raw food diet reverses disease....sounds healthy to me :)
Raw food diet cures type 2 diabetes in 30 days documentary>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUw9SaPL鈥?/a>|||It must cost you a fortune.
Many raw foods are very toxic. Potatoes have been mentioned already, how do you feel about beans? Don't forget the red queen paradox, you need to run twice as fast to stay in the same place. This also goes for plants and many plants have developed poisons to stop themselves being eaten - these are destroyed by cooking properly. Also cooking breaks down things like cellulose and makes the energy available to humans. This is one of the biggest advantages humans have over other animals.
What makes you think that non-fat yogurt is in any way natural? Along with the rest of your list. The only reason you can eat this diet is because you are wealthy and middle class. If you had to live on $1/day you would really be eating properly on veggies only.|||i wouldnt eat raw meat if this is what you mean if i have got this bit wrong then im sorry for misleading my self for not reading it properly but everything else you have listed is fine plus plenty of you can eat almost any thing raw wish i had you i wouldnt have to cook and you would be so cheap to look after im glad you are not faddy like some people are also liver is another good sorse for iron raw eggs are very good as i eat quite a lot hope this as helped you take care|||It's just another trendy diet. It's definitely better than the atkins diet, but that's as far as i am willing to go.
A good indication of how silly it is, is the fact that no legitimate currently active athlete follows an all raw food diet.|||I don't think so. Thats my opinion anyway.
How exactly do you eat raw dried beans???
Yuck?
Raw potatoes, ditto.
And some nutrients are not released until the food is cooked. Lycopene is a good example.
Tomatoes have a lot of it but only in the cooked tomato products.|||Ignore faddy 'fashion' diets; they spring up every few years just to sell a few books.
You seem to have a good, balanced diet already, I can't see why you need to change it.|||You're smart for trying to be proactive about your health. It looks like you're eating enough raw elements to be of great value. If you're eating other elements and they're not causing any problems then there's no reason to change.|||A mixed diet is the best. 70% of your diet should be raw.
I've be transitioning to Primal Dog Food patties. So far there have been no problems but I'm not convinced that raw is the right diet.|||when I fed raw, it was at home raw, not commercial raw. But I never had a problem, and i've never heard of anyone i know that feeds either having a problem. Raw's always been the best to go, even though vets love to say otherwise. Mostly because they don't trust people to do it right. That and they get loads of kickbacks from the dog food companies to fund their businesses and schools.|||Why not do regular raw food, instead of processed stuff?|||Raw food increases the risk of E. Coli, Salmonella, and other bacteria...
looking at their website. stay away from food that take care of all life stages.... this is one of those diets.
Your puppy has a different nutritional need than a dog that is 10yrs old.
Would you feed your 5 month old baby burger king or steak... or pop (soda?)|||Actually, a raw diet is the best thing you can do for your dog. It is disgusting, yes, but it is still the most natural.
When I trained a German Shepherd to be a Seeing Eye dog, they made her be on a raw food diet. This is because it is just what they need. Dogs were wild animals at one point. When they lived in the wild, they would hunt and this gave them everything they need.
Many dog foods have the a same ingredient that is found in AntiFreeze--another reason why raw food is the best. It is unprocessed and all natural.
Also, a raw food diet actually gives the dog smaller and firmer stools (which any pooper scooper would appreciate!).
You need to make sure that the Primal Dog Food patties are quality meat. I fed my dog turkey necks and other totally natural and unprocessed meat.
Again, it is disgusting, which is why the dog I own now is on a kibble diet, but in the long run it is better for your dog. Just make sure to do your research!|||I don't raw feed. But have read alot about it and it's very good. I'll stick with wellness food with raw bones, fruits a veggies for now. Good luck.|||Why go to all that expense? That stuff is incredibly expensive! I feed my dog from the grocery store and it's much easier.
I feed raw/prey model; my 50-pound shar-pei mix gets about 12oz a day, but when I have a gorge meal for her, like a turkey carcass that will take her 4-5 hours to eat, she won't be hungry or interested in food for 2-3 days.
In general, a dog is fed 2-3% of the ideal body weight each day. A puppy gets 2-3% of the ideal anticipated adult weight each day, divided into 4 meals.
The ideal diet should consist of approximately 80% raw meat, 10% raw edible bone, 5% raw liver, 5% other raw organs, the occasional egg, shell and all, raw.
NO veggies, NO fruit. Dogs cannot digest vegetables or fruits; they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. Look at cows: they have the enzyme, and they still need four stomachs and they have to eat the cellulose twice. Dogs have one stomach and a straight-and-simple digestive tract.
They also don't have flat-topped grinding molars: the dog's back teeth are carnassials, designed to scissor through meat and bone, to break up prey animal carcasses into chunks small enough to swallow.
NO grains; again, dogs can't digest cellulose, and the other ingredients are the primary cause of allergies and diabetes in dogs.
NO dairy; dogs are lactose intolerant: another digestive enzyme they don't have.
NO supplements other than a spoonful of deepsea fish body oil for the Omega-3 that corn-finished meat does not contain.
Chewing up raw meat takes work, as does chomping through the incidental bones. The exercise involved in handling Big Complicated Food (several days' worth), and in breaking up bones into swallowable chunks, keeps dogs teeth clean and satisfies a part of their brain that nothing else touches. These dogs are less hyper, friendlier... and a bit more inclined to protect their food: after all, this food is worth protecting!
I don't have a juicer or dehydrator. But any easy, tasty recipes would be appreciated. I'm getting quite bored of salad and celery.
What is your experience with raw food fasting? Anything in particular I should be looking out for?|||Carrots, celery, bananas, grapefruit,oranges, and salad. U can mix all these up in. Salad or eat them raw by themselves|||Make Gapacho. I eat this everyday, along with hummus. http://vegetarian.about.com/od/soupssala鈥?/a>
Here are some articles about raw and living foods - http://vegetarian.about.com/lr/raw_and_l鈥?/a>
Easy raw foods recipes -
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/beverage1鈥?/a>
I heard that some nuts are poisonous if unroasted. Is this true? Are there any raw foods that are dangerous or should avoid??|||I only purchase unroasted nuts (cashews, almonds, pistachios, pine nuts, Brazil nuts etc.) and have never had a problem.
Roasting nuts destroys the enzymes required to digest them.
What I assume you are referring to are cashews. The shell surrounding the raw cashew contains urushiol, a resin that can create significant skin rashes, and can be toxic when ingested.
Urushiol is the same chemical found in poison ivy, and it is present on the leaves of the cashew tree as well as in the raw cashew shell. It is removed during processing.|||The poison in unroasted nuts (e.g., cashews) is negligible compared to the destruction of nutritional value that occurs on heating food above 116 degrees F. Surely you must have noted the millions of people who have eaten cooked food and are dying on the streets.|||I think June has some serious issues. Anyways, I love your posts and I have no life either and I'm trying to kiss *** to get 10 points. I'm guessing chicken would be a raw food to avoid.
Some of the Raw Food diets for dogs are conflicting.
B.A.R.F. Suggests:
Garlic is nature's antibiotic and often called nature鈥檚 wonder drug. There is no doubt that garlic does confer some health advantages. Garlic has been found to have effective antimicrobial properties, inhibiting the growth of both bacteria and fungi. Garlic helps stabilize blood pressure and gives a good solid boost to the immune system, keeping at bay infections of various sorts particularly upper respiratory tract infections. Much of it's success is due to various compounds of sulfur. Garlic is a health building and disease preventing herb. It is rich in potassium, zinc, vitamins A and C, and selenium. It also contains calcium, manganese, copper, vitamin B1 and some iron.
Where as Raw Meaty Bones says:
Things to avoid:
Onions, garlic and chocolate 鈥?toxic to pets.
So my question is: Has anyone had any problems giving their dog/pet garlic? All of my dogs have eaten garlic and never experienced any problems.|||Garlic & onion contain sulfoxides and disulfides, which can damage red blood cells and cause anemia. Cats are more susceptible than dogs. Garlic is less toxic than onions. Dogs can be anemic and unless they get regular vet check ups & blood work owners would not even realize.
That said, many dog foods contain garlic. I do not know how much garlic a dog would have to eat for it to have an adverse affect.|||Garlic in moderation is fine, too much thins the blood and may cause anaemia.|||i asked the same question an its fine in moderation make sure you boil the garlic before you put it in the food. good luck.
ADD- i forgot to say i've been using it for a while now and no harm has come to my dogs they are very healthy.|||Garlic is like grapes/raisins, we don't know the toxic dose and you won't know they are toxic until the anemia is severe enough to cause symptoms or if screening blood work is ran at a wellness exam.
I want to try and incorporate more raw food into my eating. Does anyone know any good raw recipes that you have tried or heard of? Any websites would be helpful also! Thanks so much!|||Cucumber and Avocado Sushi
* 1 1/4 cups water
* 1 cup uncooked glutinous white rice (sushi rice)
* 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
* 1 pinch salt
* 4 sheets nori (dry seaweed)
* 1/2 cucumber, sliced into thin strips
* 1 avocado - peeled, pitted and sliced
1. Combine the water and rice in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, or until rice is tender and water has been absorbed. Remove from the heat and stir in the vinegar and a pinch of salt. Set aside to cool.
2. Cover a bamboo sushi mat with plastic wrap to keep the rice from sticking. Place a sheet of seaweed over the plastic. Use your hands to spread the rice evenly onto the sheet, leaving about 1/2 inch of seaweed empty at the bottom. Arrange strips of cucumber and avocado across the center of the rice. Lift the mat and roll over the vegetables once and press down. Unroll, then roll again towards the exposed end of the seaweed sheet to make a long roll. You may moisten with a little water to help seal. Set aside and continue with remaining nori sheets, rice and fillings.
3. Use a sharp wet knife to slice the rolls into 5 or 6 slices. Serve cut side up with your favorite sushi condiments.|||This is a brand new Vegan book I think you'd really enjoy.
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What do you mean by raw? As in fruits and veggies? Or grains? Or uncooked, healthy cereals mixed with other stuff like fruits and veggies?
Please, I will come back and check.
Just checked again after something reminded me of it. Okay, grains are good. There are plenty of grains besides wheat that are pretty healthy. I have a website about it. I, personally, love dried cherries, so you can put some grains and dried fruits into a bowl of grains. There are a few healthy cereals like cheerios and rice chex that you might like that you can put in a bowl. And there are nuts that are really tasty such as pecans, walnuts, um . . . there might be others that you like, too. Cashews are tasty, even lightly salted cashews. I am allergic so I didn't mention it right away. You could put some of those in. Make sure to only put a little cereal in if you even want to put any cereal in as they are loaded with carbs. I don't have any special mixes to tell you about. Just put in a lot of grains, throw in a little dried or fresh fruit, maybe some carrots or something, a handful or half a handful of cereal, and some nuts. It doesn't always have to be all together. You could go without the nuts or grains or something else.
My boyfriend and I were discussing the raw food diet (which he is on and I am not), he says there are so many benefits and hardly any side effects. I decided to look that up online, while I found thousands of sites saying what a wonderful diet this was, I did not find anything about side effects or people that should or should not be on it. In fact I found nothing negative at all!!! This is really hard for me to believe, so if you have been on this diet and had something negative, could you tell me your experience so I don't feel like I'm going crazy! Nothing works 100% of the time, right?|||If anything, ease into it. You have to give your immune system time to adjust to your new diet. Otherwise it will cause havok on your body.|||are you talking about the 'do not eat anything that has died' type of diet? The owner of my shop was on a diet like that and he said he has never had more energy than when he was on that diet...
personally, I like dead stuff! lol
that sounds exactly like the diet he was on....and I have to tell you we had an interesting argument about that because he calls it a form of a 'Vegan diet' where he eats nothing that has died...well you chop that poor broccolis head off of its stalk as it is growing and by gawd...you just killed it! (I just felt the need to voice that HA...not saying anything derogatory about your choice of diets :)
I mean like if you are bring a brown bag raw food or vegan lunch to work. And not just obvious things like whole apples, carrots and what not.|||Hummous and your fave veggies (celery, carrots, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, cucumber) and/or pita bread
Really fresh bread cucumber and tomato sandwiches w. mayo, salt and pepper
Tortilla chips, salsa and cheese to be microwaved (and other toppings of choice)
Soup, bread and butter
Caesar salad and garlic bread|||Flatbread ( pita, roti, chapati) rolled up with hummous, corn, and apple slices inside.
Brazil nuts and chickpea salad with garlic lemon and vinaegrette.
Brown rice and raw peas, raw papaya, tomatoes, cilantro and avocado.
Raw cashew and walnut granola- add oats, grated apple, raisins, and some water or juice, til lunchtime- it's supposed to soak overnight- this is a traditional raw BircherMuesli.
Nori rolls- take one piece of nori and fill pureed walnuts ( blend in a processor), miso paste and soaked chickpeas- to get a nice rich paste.
Spread into the nori, and add strip of cucumber, raw corn niblets, pepper, and roll the nori up, and cut into sushi.|||celery and nut butter/(almond,cashew----
almonds and kefir
bananas and p. butter
Not talking about raw-meat or anything, but like vegetables and fruits.
How effective is this diet? Will it last? Is it healthy? Would you recommend it?|||VERY AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDABLE!!!!!
Plus drink 12-15 glasses of water a day. NO CARBONATED DRINKS, COFFEE, TEA and SWEETS. Try this for 3 months only to see the result. For I lose weight from 75 kilos to 62 kilos. I am on my 4th year and 5 months and I am maintaining my weight from 56kilos to 59 kilos nowadays.
Cheers!!!!!!
Take care and GOD BLESS!!!!!|||If you have the money and time to go to your local farmers market...it is an extremely healthy way to eat. You will continue to need quality protein in your diet.
It will likely be difficult to eat only raw uncooked fruits and vegetables for every meal...but what ever you can eat is a bonus over processed foods and the like.
Locally grown organic seasonal foods are very healthy for everyone.
PS Buy a bottle of vegetable soap (available in most grocery stores in the veggie isle) and clean your food when you bring it home. Don't use dish soap.|||I cured my breast cancer, fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic sinus infections and a long lost of other ailments back in 1999 by going on a raw food diet. After all these years, I still eat 100% raw foods. I'm in perfect health still today. There is plenty of protein in raw foods. All plant foods have protein. I'm never sick, sleep a restful 5 hours a night and play lots of tennis, hike, work out, power walk etc., and still run a business 10-12 hours a day. Raw foods-- also called living foods are the healthiest foods on the planet -fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.They are loaded with phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals and enzymes whereas cooked food that has reached temperatures of 108 or more - damages a lot of the nutrients, not leaving a lot of nutrition left.I highly recommend eating raw foods - no matter if you eat 25% or 100% you will find a new energized, healthy life. The more the better though. Nurse Kindheart
I'm trying to become a raw foodist, but every time I eat raw for a couple days, my body starts to detoxify and I get headaches and feel like throwing up! I really want to become at least 70% raw, but don't want to always feel sick! Should I just tough it out?|||The fact that you're feeling sick isn't a good thing, and signifies that you're probably doing something wrong, like not eating a varied enough diet. I'm about 50-70% raw and have never, ever had this problem. |||Yes and drink water.|||You must make sure that you have enough fluids, juices and/or water.|||Ask your doctor first!
i've recently gone on this diet, and i know sushi is raw fish, but how an i make a certain one withought maybe the rice?|||Sashimi is sushi that is just raw fish. Some of the items commonly used in sashimi are tuna, salmon, mackerel or any other good fresh sushi grade fish. The most important thing about sushi is to find a good fish monger who will provide you with sushi grade fish. If you can't find that, I would stick with take out from your local sushi bar.
Is there a supplier in Tucson that caters to people feeding raw diets? Or should I just buy the stuff from my local grocery store? Anyone else in Tucson doing raw diet?|||Here you go-
The Tucson Raw Feeders Co-op
http://www.tucsonraw.com/
cathy@tucsonraw.com
Tucson Raw was founded in September of 2002 by less than a dozen members.
We worked together to make feeding raw foods to our animals cost efficient and convenient.
Since then we have grown to over 200 members and have access to 27 different items on a monthly basis.|||Here's a Yahoo Group for raw feeders in Phoenix & Tucson. If you apply to join the group, they probably can point you towards suppliers, feeding info. etc.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/RedAn鈥?/a>|||Look on the Natures Variety web site for a store that stocks their food. It's a great food and very easy to feed raw with it.
How do you get all of your proper vitamins and nutrients if you only eat certain foods and you don't eat meats?|||First we only eat meat of vegetarian animals not meat eating animals like lion, tigers and jackels. So a cow gets all her nutrition from plant foods. See site below on why a raw food diet is healthy and nobody on it will be overweight.
Below explains how Americans eat too much protein and it is killing them. Then go to page on NATURAL HEALING and see how all sorts of problems like depression have been cured with an 85% raw diet (15% cooked foods).
http://www.phifoundation.org|||Raw food diets are by far the more popular diets now with great results. There are many plans which may be suitable.
http://www.detox-diet-plan.com
http://www.antioxidantvitaminsite.com/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrCd6wgd鈥?/a>
I read somewhere that a raw carrot was easier for us to digest than
a cooked carrot. Is this true?
Has anyone read up on this?|||Cooked foods are easier to digest than raw foods.
Some people have digestion problems with raw foods that give them stomach cramps and a lot of bloating and gas but cooked foods give them no problems at all.
Cooked carrots are easier to digest and absorb than raw carrots.
I have a 9 year old dog with skin problems (been to every vet...all I get is ointment and shampoo that only provides temporary relief) and I heard a raw diet might be good.
Anyone who can tell me more about this diet and if it's safe to introduce to an older dog? Thanks!|||Yes. The good thing is they like it and it seems to be good for them. The bad part is the expense, the amount of time making it up almost daily, and it is hard to travel with. If your dog is having skin problems, check with the vet and make sure it isn't a food allergy. The raw diet has whole foods and allergies can occur. Many are meat based and that is the main allergen. Consult a vet first to rule that out. Then research a good diet that works for you and the dog. It is a commitment.|||I feed a raw diet, and raise a breed that can be prone to skin problems, allergies and vaccinosis/immune problems.
Advantages:
Better nutrition, complete control of the ingredients, amazing health, coat, muscle tone, etc, provides some sort of mental exercise they seem to need, better dental health, and so many more things.
Disadvantages:
Time and expense and you need to do some research.
I feel the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages in the long run. Although you see immediate effects, I know of breeders that are on their third generation of raw fed dogs, and they just keep getting healthier, not to mention increasing length and quality of life of their first and second generation dogs.|||Raw is the healthiest food you can feed your dogs. Dogs digestive systems are not designed to eat grains. dogs are carnivores.
Email me your email address and ill send you my diet.
My brothers girlfriend feeds her dogs only raw meat and they say that its best for dogs but her dogs are big hunting dogs and i have chihuahuas is it still good for the small breeds?
What is the best thing to feed chihuahuas?|||Of course you can feed a Chihuahua raw! I feed both my Siberian Huskies and my Chihuahua "Prey Model Raw". You have to know what you're doing though. It's not just as simple as tossing raw meat in a dish. You have to make it balanced. When feeding Prey Model Raw, you feed 80% muscle meat, 10% bone, and 10% organs, 5% of the organs need to be liver. You can balance this out over a week.
All of my dogs are thriving on this diet and are healthier than ever. I believe it's the best diet for any dog, unless of course the dog has a weak immune system.
You can feed any raw meats. My dogs get lamb, pork, venison, goat, bison, rabbit, etc. A few tips I have is you can always use supplements if you're worried about your dog missing out on vital vitamins and minerals. I use the brand Nupro and they have a supplement specifically for small dogs. It's most likely not needed because prey model raw is balanced but it just makes me feel better to use it. I also give my dogs salmon oil a couple times a week just to help with skin and coat. I only use Nupro a few times a week too.
Here's a site that has everything posted about Prey Model Raw.
https://www.dogster.com/forums/Raw_Food_鈥?/a>
It's a lot easier than it looks once you get the hang of it and how much to feed.|||I mostly do chicken wings (raw), for my dog and my daughters chihuahua. I cook for my dogs too-which is pretty cheap since I make up quite a bit and freeze it in containers.
mutton,cooked rice can you please help me something healthy food for him please i hace 2 tortoise one is male n one female both small|||High protein foods like chicken and fish can cause growth problems that deform its shell. If they are raw, these foods introduce and encourage the growth of food poisoning bacteria in the tortoise's quarters.
The right foods for your tortoise depends on its species since these animals are often specialists and you have to know what kind you have to feed it properly. The link below will show you how to identify what kind of tortoise you have and then how to feed and care for it.|||I wanna buy t tortoise. frm where did u got that?
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Okay, so I'm looking into becoming a rawist, or a raw foodist, however you want to say it. And I'm wondering, what can I eat for protein? Can I eat tofu? Are there any raw foods that are naturally low in carbs and high in protein?|||Bean sprouts , avocado , hemp seed,nuts , gojie berries,figs ,green veggies,sprouted nuts and seeds,spirulian/blue green algae,mushrooms and maca.This raw foods are very high source of protein.|||Mostly nuts and seeds, (uncooked or sun-cooked) beans and whole grains, and vegetables. You can't eat tofu, because it has been processed and cooked. |||Raw foodists get plenty of protein from plants.I should know, I am one and am currently training for a marathon. Science shows that the benefits of additional protein stop when you're consuming more than eight percent of your calories from protein. Most people recommend that you get at least 10 percent for a margin of safety, which is fine.
For information on raw food and plant protein, check out:
http://www.raw-food-health.net/Vegetable鈥?/a>|||Starred because it is useful, going to check the website posted above. Thanks!
Okay ive been on a raw food diet and taking an herb for a medical condition that I have for 2 days, let me just say I feel amazing, my question is, are unsalted peanuts considered a raw food, I can eat tuna but is eating tuna out of the can okay even tho it has a bit of salt in eat, im kinda confused on that part.. please help|||The raw food diet is a diet based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed.
Tuna is not part of this diet. It depends on the peanuts are they processed?
Good luck!|||A raw food diet consists of foods not heated above 110 F. The peanuts are OK as long as they are not roasted. Canned tuna is cooked. What KIND of raw foods diet are you on? Is this something your doctor recommended? There are different kinds of raw food diets.|||tuna from the can isn't raw, but you could go out and have sashimi. Raw means uncooked........ Again, sushi has rice in it, which is COOKED. Repeat: RAW MEANS UNCOOKED
i know the basics, like raw foods... lunch meats... eggs not cooked fully... and fish...
but is there anything else that we need to avoid...
like I was told that I can't eat chinese food... is this true???
|||you should avoid fish only if it is red meat, white meat tuna and talapia and mai-mai are good sources of protein. the problem with red meat fish is that the mercury levels in the fish is what turns it red. chinese food is fine just no raw fish. but eat what you want your baby to grow up to eat. i ate all kinds of fruits and vegetables while i was pregnant and even as babies they preferred the veggies to the deserts. they are noe 3 and 6 and still eat their vegetables before they eat the meat, and they prefer cinn.applesauce to a piece of cake.|||im not so sure about the lunch meats? my dr didn't say anything about that... plus i think lunch meat like turkey is fully cooked and then shaved off for packing... i think that should be okay... i was just told to stay away from as you said raw meats and limited sodas and tea...|||You can eat chinese food,but do it very rarely being that the food is known to be very greasy. Avoid eating foods that contain too much salt, sugar, & pork. Drink lots of water and eat fruits and veggies.|||You can eat raw veggies, and fish(in moderation) if its cooked. As long as you go to a reputable Chinese restaurant and don't eat sushi then you are fine. |||I would avoid certain fish with contain a lot of mercury and also, nuts and peanut butter - i believe it can cause the baby to develop allergies.
I'm new to the Colorado Springs area and have 2 border collie pups on a raw diet. Does anyone know any good places to find good quality raw food in the area? I'm especially interested in somewhere that will grind chicken backs. Also, any holistic vet recommendations would be much appreciated. Thank you!|||I would check out the websites of the most popular raw foods because they usually have a store search on them.
http://www.naturesvariety.com/locator
http://www.natureslogic.com/locations/
http://www.bravorawdiet.com/bravoretaile鈥?/a>
http://www.primalpetfoods.com/locator/in鈥?/a>
http://www.sojos.com/retailers/directory鈥?/a>
http://www.stellaandchewys.com/site/stor鈥?/a>
http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/stores/s鈥?/a>
I don't know if all of these are sold in Colorado Springs, but you can check it out. I'm sure once you go to these stores, they will have more resources for you.
Good luck!|||I just checked and it looks like there might be some co-op groups in Colorado (we have them in California)
There was a link for the Rocky Mountain Raw feeders group, but the link did not work.
Check out this link it has links for Colorado Support for Raw Feeding, vets that support raw feeding etc.
http://www.iboxboxers.com/rawdiet.html
Here is a link to the Colorado Raw feeders group on Yahoo
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Color鈥?/a>
I've been looking into the whole raw food craze, but one thing I can't get my head around is why raw-foodies don't eat raw seafood (like sushi) or "raw" dairy (ie, unpasterized). At one of the top raw foods restaurants in NYC, they cook with honey - so it's probably not an issue of these foods not being vegan. Anyone know?|||i asked my raw foodie friend and she doesnt eat seafood because shes Ovo Lacto Vegan..meaning she doesnt eat anything that had to die to prodcue your meal. Honey is bees bi product. But sushi is a dead being. about the milk, i have never even heard of unpasturized milk. She didn't say anthing about it either...|||The reason for pasteurization is to kill bacteria in milk products. So I wouldn't eat any unpasteurized dairy products.
However I am not sure what their issue with sushi would be. I personally don't like sushi but that is my taste not that I am worried about bacteria.|||Sushi is good, but when I think of raw seafood, I picture clear shrimp, green lobsters, fish filets that are translucent. I do eat raw clams and oysters. Raw eggs are okay in egg nog or with suki yaki. As far as unpasteurized milk products, there is no reason to chance the bacteria. My mother got tuberculosis from unpasteurized milk. I know the herds are checked today. Brucellosis comes from milk too, and the herds are checked.|||It's probably because most raw foodists are vegetarian (though not vegan), and seafood is NOT a vegetarian food, coming as it does from animals.
please gimme some names of the brand, going to switch my dog from orijen to raw. since i've heard so much good things about the raw. but im not too good with the kitchen skills and not sure if i can get my dogs all the nutrition they need if im gonna fix it myself.|||Well orijen is a very good dog food, it has all the nutrients a dog needs but always remember that every dog is an individual and has some nutrients deficiencies. Have a visit to the vet and ask her to tell you what vitamin deficiencies your dog has and give him the supplements for those vitamins.
Good dog food choices are ZiwiPeak, Acana Grain free, Nature's Variety Instinct, Before Grain, Wellness CORE, Earth Born Holistic Grain free, EVO and Canidae Grain free pure.
All of these brands are excellent for dogs.
GOOD LUCK!!!......:)|||The raw dog food diet is really an appealing way to care for your pet dog. But if you have never heard of this before, chances are your pet has always been fed dog food or you have even taken the task of letting them eat some leftovers or homemade dog food. In this case, it is strongly advised that you ease your pet into this raw food diet instead of immediately changing their meals into raw ones. They might respond to it positively so its best to change their eating habits one meal at a time. This would allow them to develop the needed enzymes for digesting raw food particles.
Do not feed your dog bones, especially cooked bones. Fragments can become lodged in the digestive tract. Canines in the wild who eat bones have the benefit of consuming hair and hide too, which have been found to 鈥榩ad鈥?the bone fragments and aid in their passing.|||Hello: You name it,I have tried it:)o... I like Oma's Pride raw chubs, in 2 lb. or 5 lb. Comes in a lot of flavors. Your dealer will give you info on it. Bravo is a excellant Raw also. You have to also see what is available in your area. My boy now does not like Raw. I feed Taste of the Wild, grain free. I do put chicken necks on top, chopped up, at times or a bit of hamburg.
like, maybe not for me cause im too old, but just hypothetically, is it possible for humans to be immune to the negative effects of eating raw food like chicken?
like, if they've eaten it since their birth?|||cooked food is tastier and gets digested easier and has less bacteria and microbes, raw food is tasty in some cases and it's digested though it has more bacteria and microbes you can get the energy from it.|||Yeah i think so, same reasons how homeless people who eat from bins dont get ill where their bodies have got immune against the bacterias.|||Yes But you will get sick (possibly) your body will get immune to Raw Foods. Like how your body can be immune to diseases!!!!|||NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!鈥? That's just stuipd plain stuipd NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!鈥? you can not
I need to buy a book on the Raw Food Diet but dont know which one is best.|||Once you have mastered the basics all these Raw / Living foods books are fundamentally the same.
I have a number of them which I no longer really even look at - you can get far more resources online you don't actually need to buy books on the subject.
Listed below are two of the best sites:
1) Goneraw.com for recipes - complete with illustrations and cooking instructions. (This site alone contains many more recipes than any of the books).
2) living-foods.com. This also contains lots of recipes but also the detailed information on the health benefits of eating a raw diet that all the raw food books also contain.
Incidentally if you are looking for a RAW food restaurant in London, SAF is the best known - they have one on Shoreditch High Street and another within Whole Foods Market on Kensington High Street. They also run cookery classes from time to time.|||go with the phrase RAW VEGAN RECIPES to the search box of the following websites:
amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com
and barnes and noble at http://www.bn.com|||while not totally raw, ''the thrive diet'' by brandin brazier is excellent. it introduced me to hemp milk (a great source of omega 3 and 6), the green smoothie and ''superfoods'' such as spirulina, chlorella and maca.
best of luck
http://www.amazon.com/Thrive-Optimal-Per鈥?/a>|||The 80/10/10 diet by dr douglas graham tops them all
There are some very unhealthy flaws with some theorys of raw food dieting..dr graham is very logical and clear and the diet he presents is not restrictive and is definitly the healthiest raw diet there is.
So I'm looking at commercial raw diets and I notice one has 11% protein, high quality kibble has 29%-41% , and dehydrated has about 21-29%.
Why would a raw diet, containing the most meat have the least percentage of protein??
Help?|||Possibly, .... maybe the kibble had to have protien supplements added and/or maybe it's made for "high calorie- working-type dogs"? I'm sorry I don't quite know-- it may have to do with the concentration (remember raw-raw isn't dehydrated and has a high water content) / ingredients/ quality/ brand/ age group? Most likely it may have to do with the water content (concentration and mass ratio)??
I have been eating really unhealthily since the summer started, and it makes me tired and bloated. I wanted to try a raw fruits and vegetables diet.. Has anyone ever tired it? How does it work? Is it healthy? Feedback please!!|||A completely raw food diet is NOT advisable at all. Most raw foods have anti-nutrients in them and are best eaten after cooking. The trick is to not over cook your food. A good example of this is broccoli that has lots of goitrogens in it and if you eat it raw, it will affect your thyroid gland negatively. If you cook it under 191 degrees F for less than 30 minutes you will get rid of the goitrogen problem and break down the fiber in it and it will be far more digestible for you. If you steam it for a couple minutes, you will find it is far more nutritious for you. What happens if you cook it too long at a high temperature is something called digestive leukocytosis and this is a reaction in your blood where the chemistry actually changes and is not a good thing.
Some foods like milk should not be heated, but drunk raw. The problem is that you should not drink pasteurized milk you get from the store because it comes from very sick cows they are feeding grains like corn. This makes the cow sick and the milk sick as well. You need to get milk from GRASS FED cows and drink it raw.
Most fruits should not be cooked or heated, but eaten raw. Making soups from vegetables is an excellent way to get your vegetables & minerals. Just don't heat the soup too hot for too long.
It's also important to realize that your digestion needs to be in good working order as well. Plant foods are digested in the small intestine and rely on your pancreas to be in good shape to provide good enzymes. Your stomach is where proteins are first digested using hydrochloric acid to break them down into smaller amino acid complexes and then the pancreas provides protease to break the proteins down further.
Plant eating animals do NOT have hydrochloric acid in their stomachs, but just before the small intestine they have a gland that produces HCL to sanitize the food before entering the small intestine. Humans and all meat eating animals have HCL produced in the stomach to sanitize and break down proteins like meat, primarily. Plant eating animals are much more efficient at eating plant foods than humans. Look at the old dried grass cows can eat and remain very healthy. If a human tried to do that, they would not survive.
There are many reasons for becoming tired and bloated, but it all has to do with digestion. I suggest you find a good certified nutritional therapist that can help you develop a good eating plan that fits your goals of what you want to accomplish.
good luck to you|||Eat LOTS of fruits and vegetables per day, and maybe a few nuts and seeds here and there. Fruits are the most digestible food around for mankind, and vegetables only come in second in digestion compared to fruits.
So one banana per meal is not going to cut it. 4-6 bananas in a meal is better.
If you don't eat enough fruits on the diet, you will lose muscle and you will get anorexic. That is why it is SO important to eat 4-6 fruits per meal, 3 meals daily. Eat when you are hungry
Don't fill too much up on any kind of berry, because they are extremely low in calories. You need high calorie fruits like apples, bananas, oranges, melons, mangos, peaches, pears.
Don't forget protein from green leaves like spinach, kale, swiss chard, romaine lettuce, parsley, cilantro. Cucumbers are good for skin, carrots for eyes. Almost a pound a day of fresh salad is good to keep you healthy
In order to fill up on any kind of berry or vegetable, you would need 5 pounds of that kind of berry or vegetable to sustain you. We are not herbivores, but frugivores-which means we are supposed to mainly eat fruit.
Yes I have tried it, for 5 days. I couldn't afford it though, it was just too much. The thing is you can either eat a lot of nuts, or you can eat a lot of fruits. Its either one of them to be a staple food. Vegetables are too low in calories to be a staple food. So it is important to have all three kinds of food groups in your diet, but fruits or nuts as your staple food.
The first day was very easy. Instead of going to the bathroom 1 time per day like I normally do, you would go 4 to 5 times per day with the raw food diet. It makes your bowel movements better, and your overall health better. Fruits have the highest vibrational energy out of all three food groups, so they are the path to healing/consciousness/spirituality.
DO NOT eat raw potatoes like I did, they are toxic, no matter cooked or uncooked. I tried having them on raw food diet to be the staple food, but they made my bowels look like crap after I went to the bathroom.
Do people who are on this diet actually prefer eating cold food vs. warm?
Why can鈥檛 raw meats/fish be included in this diet? I am obviously talking theoretically about safe raw meat free of diseased bacteria. Vegetables can contain poisons from the environment just as likely as an animals meat can contain harmful bacteria鈥檚, so given this theory 鈥?why is meat and fish left out of this lifestyle?|||I know of raw foodists who eat raw fish, honey, raw egg, and raw dairy products. So, no, they are not vegan or vegetarian. I don't think people who eat like this comprise the majority of raw foodists, however. I try to incorporate a lot of raw foods into my diet, but it's hard when traveling to do it healthily, and I don't feel it's necessary for me to have a 100% raw diet anyway. I have had some really excellent dishes at raw food restaurants, including the best strawberry cream pie I can ever imagine eating (restaurant in Bangkok). I didn't notice or care that my meal wasn't hot. It was more room temperature than cold, anyway. Think about it: you probably eat plenty of cold foods already. Salads, fruits, etc. It's a very nice way to eat in summer.|||Let me ask you this question... how much raw meat are you willing to eat? I'm not saying that sashimi and steak tartare is bad or anything, but I don't think anyone would be willing to eat that ALL the time, or say... raw chicken, or eggs, liver, bacon, whatever. Not all raw meat is safe to eat, and the majority of meat/seafood that people have access to in supermarkets and their local fishmonger isn't of raw eating quality... especially fish. Vegetables are A LOT safer to eat raw than meat is, and the poisons that you're talking about are usually from pesticides and such, not fron the veggies themselves. People just generally don't eat raw meat to such an extent. And some people go on a raw food diet because they feel its healthier for them. With a raw food diet, you don't neccessarily eat everything raw, just mostly. It's the individiuals choice how much raw food they eat. And some foods just taste better cold. Like milk... I hate warm milk. Some people eat cold pizza or chinese food (I'm just using examples here). I know I wouldn't want hot salad... would you? So maybe some people like eating cold food. So with all that being said, I don't think the raw food diet HAS to be vegetarian/vegan, it just makes a lot of sense for it to be that way, and it should be pretty obvious that there are a lot of people who practice that lifestyle. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted your question.
And if you're worried about the poisons in veggies, go to your locak farmer's market and I bet you 100 to 1 there will be someone there selling all natural and organic fruits and veggies... and everything at farmer's markets is way cheaper than a supermarket anyway.|||Vegan means just that. No meat. Cooked or otherwise.|||I'm on a easy diet to follow it's a liquid diet Beer.|||I eat meat cooked, thank you. It's good for you, and it's fun to hunt it and kill it.|||Because vegans are too narrow-minded and they like the smell of their farts.
My coworker is a raw food vegetarian, and he's been stressed out recently with financial concerns. I thought getting some relaxing organic green tea for him would be nice, but on the package it said that the tea is "pan-fired" which leads me to believe it has been "cooked." Can a raw food vegetarian drink tea? If not, what other relaxing things could I get him?|||i think he would prefer white...less processed
Black tea has been fully fermented during processing, and green has not been fermented at all. Oolong teas are somewhere in the middle. So what is 'white tea'?
Well, just like those other teas, white tea come from the Camellia sinensis plant. But the leaves are picked and harvested before the leaves open fully, when the buds are still covered by fine white hair. Hence the name. White tea is scarcer than the other traditional teas, and quite a bit more expensive.
White tea is similar to green tea, in that it's undergone very little processing and no fermentation. But there is a noticable difference in taste. Most green teas have a distinctive 'grassy' taste to them, but white tea does not. The flavour is described as light, and sweet. You should steep white tea in water that is below the boiling point.|||he can drink tea it does not contain animal fat|||yes, tea is good for you|||of course he can take tea.... why not....|||yes ....he can drink tea ....and tea is usually not cooked .....soo yaa tea would be a good idea .|||Oraganic all natural tea ..yes|||Tea absolutely does not contain any animal products. It is wholly plant based and one of the best beverages for vegans and vegetarians. It also doesn't need to be organic to be non-animal based. Any kind of tea is wonderful. I'd stick to the real teas and avoid the herbals, since you really don't know what you are getting with those flavored teas. Here's something I found interesting on tea processing.
Sophisticated Firing
The long history of Chinese green tea affords it time to experiment and develop many processing techniques.
Unlike black tea, Chinese green tea is made with minimal processing. A process - called firing - applies heat to kill the enzymes and halt the oxidation, or fermentation.
Traditionally, the Chinese uses three firing methods: steaming, pan-frying and baking.
Steaming is widely used in China until the 16th century. Steamed leaves and their liquor have an attractive green colour and are a beauty to behold.
Early Gong Cha were made by steaming. Japanese monk Kobo Daishi learnt this when he visited China in A.D. 804 and introduced tea drinking to Japan with the Chinese tea seeds he brought back.
Today, most Japanese green tea is made using the steaming method.
Pan-frying was later preferred over steaming for two reasons: it is quicker to pan-fry than to steam, and it stimulates an intense chestnuty aroma and flavor.
Today, pan-frying is the most popular firing method in China.
Baking can be done using either charcoal or electric oven. It is preferred over pan-frying when it is important to preserve the shape and texture of the tea, such as when making floral infused green tea.
Baked green tea usually have a floral or fruity favor, and because it is less manipulated than pan-fried green tea, its tiny white hairs are often left intact.
Many Chinese green tea are produced using combinations of pan-frying and baking, allowing the advantages of each method to be exploited.|||Yes, tea is fine he can drink all he likes.|||what a good friend you are! If he is 100 percent raw, he won't drink tea (the heat from the water destroys enzymes. If he is like most raw foodies, on an 80/10/10 diet, he will drink a tea such as chamomile or mint, which is made from dehydrated plants and herbs. I suggest a nice mint or chamomile, which can be bought in bulk at most healthfood stores.|||i don't know., i think they can
for those saying why not
it's because it's heated to boil, and its kinda like cooking the tea, so it might be considered cooked food
and it takes energy to make tea, so some might not take it|||Tea is really not cooked, only heated. However, the darker tea brands have been "so to speak" cooked during their processing. I would use a natural light or white tea. The less heated the more natural it would be. Tell him to drink all he wants; even hot tea.|||Some living and raw foodists will drink SUN TEA, which is tea brewed by the power of the Sun. Teas that contain boiling water are not considered raw. Many teas that are purchased in the store may have been processed at temperatures above 118 degrees. The best way is to grow your own herbs and dry them at a low temperature, and use them for sun teas.
So I would say try getting him some herbs to make his own sun tea plus it can be relaxing to grow your own herbs.|||Tea is very good all kind especially green tea.|||Yes if the water does not come to a complete boil.
The temp for raw food must be under 110 degrees.
The tea itself must also be fresh and either dehydrated or sun dried with the same temperature restrictions.|||Tea is fine. I drink it all day long.|||yes|||matcha tea isn't cooked, its dryed... thou kinda hard 2 get in america
I want to lose 20lbs this summer and I heard this diet is really good. I'm a health nut but I have a bad obsession with fasting so I wanted to try a diet that is healthy and light but will make me lose weight pretty fast and cleanse my insides XD
I read a few books on it and it seems to be like a miracle diet, especially for those who carry it out through life, but anybody with personal experience? how much did you lose how fast?|||Most people who go on the raw foods diet do so to cope with health problems- one of which is obesity, true, but the diet requires such a complete change in lifestyle that it certainly wouldn't be the easiest way to lose a mere 20 pounds.
I lost about 25 pounds in the first two months I was raw. I slowly gained about 10 of it back, and my weight has held steady for the last four years. I'm 5'5" and I weigh 115#.|||It is in fact a miracle diet. It'll do everything for you that you just mentioned. I only ate an exclusively raw food diet for 3 or 4 months and lost over 30 pounds. I felt better than ever and it was a culinary adventure.
I am just starting out and hope to get answers from anyone who is actually a raw foodist. I believe dried beans are extremely cheap and I would really appreciate it if you shared a few recipes with me whether with beans or not..as long as they are cheap! I will go shopping tomorrow so what should I put on my shopping list??|||carrots, celery, onions, (depends on what part of the country you live in)...don't do the liquid thing..not healthy for you..but, the veggies are fine...also, broccoli, cauliflower, most anything that you get in the vegetable dept. you can eat raw...
Beans..yes, good protein, and extremely cheap...if you like will send you a few recipes when you answer...they are delicious...promise...|||Fruits, fresh and dried. Nuts.|||celery dip in yougart --apples raw ----carrot mayo & lemon juice 3 pk sugar sub--splenda----i put some splenda and cinnamon on the apples cause i do not like them plain use less then 1/4 teaspoon to your meals of salt lot of tea with splenda ----- any raw veg turnip ---it is hard good luck|||If you cook the beans, then it's not following the raw food diet. Soaking them might work, but that will take a while.|||the cheapest.. hmm.. ur arm>>>?
I have decided to eat a majority of my meals raw. I feel better in a way, but it is sooo time consuming, especially with all the other stuff I have going on in my life right now; home with my 6 month old baby boy, for one. I just want to know if there is any tips out there to make it easier, and less expensive. Nuts are the most expensive part, and besides that its all organic. I appreciate any GOOD answers.|||you,d better learn to chew your food a lot! most people just wolf down food. this will not work! you will get diarrhea, and lose most of the nutrient value if you don,t masticate well. you also need a lot of water to digest these uncooked foods. at least 64 oz. per day! if you,re going to do this. don,t go cheap.
I've started a new diet and its basically large amounts of raw fruit, veggies, and a bit of meat here and there. And I've noticed my stomach has been rumbling and my anus exploding with gas here and there. Anyone else notice this?|||Jen D is right about the decaying meat still in your system and increased amounts of plant fiber. I just became a raw vegan a few weeks ago and during the second week I had A LOT of gas. Now that my body has acclimated I barely have any gas. I don't know if thats because of the raw vegan diet or just because I sprout my beans.You should try sprouting your beans and seeds, sprouting releases some of the gases so when you consume them the gas will not be a problem. |||Changing to a highly plant diet causes a cleansing effect which can last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Basically, your body is pushing out build-up that has developed from high fatty foods, meat, or foods high in cholesterol. This is normal and while it is annoying it is a healthy part of the transition.|||It is likely a combination of the decaying meat and the increase in fiber.
Vegetarians, fruitarians and raw foodists do not eat meat.
I hear trolls frequently have that "exploding anus" problem.|||The products you eat are gas producers of methane and sulfides. Naturally you get a reaction with hcl in your gut. Believe me, anyone around you will notice.|||No. Funny thing is since I became a vegan I don't fart much and when I do it doesn't smell at all. Seriously, I eat A LOT of beans, too. Creepy...|||NO... REALLY?
how about that..
YOU do realize that yahoo answers has an INDEX where you can research your query before you post it?
this question has been asked way too many times.
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Is it possible to be healthy on a raw food diet? I've been considering going vegan for some time now, and everything I've read about the raw food diet has been incredible (as far as the benefits go). I'm already slim, and I don't want to lose too much weight, however. Can I go on raw food diet and still keep my weight in a healthy range?|||In, some cases, nope. People whose diets is solely on eating raw foods increase the risk of food poisoning and increased risk of food-borne illness.
I recommend you not drink any raw milk, eggs, and shellfish!! There is no nutritional advantages of a raw diet.
Kidney beans, including sprouts, are toxic when raw, due to the chemical phytohaemagglutinin.i also suggest you to go to stores like virginraw it is Los Angeles|||Yes but as with any other diet no one diet fits all. Raw food included. In fact if you follow macrobiotics it states that only people who live in cold climates and of a certain constitutional type can benefit from it. Its main basis is that heat over 116F can denature enzymes that help you digest food. for more information i suggest u to see this site u can find raw and organic food from there www.virginraw.com
I'm always thinking about the idea of "absolute health"...there has to be some diet out there that is the best possible diet for a human...we have dog food figured out; the same food every day and they get all they need! Why isn't there "human food"?
So, I wonder if raw food is the most natural and healthy way to eat. It sounds good on paper, but what do you think?|||Hi! Allow me to share with you my experience with "going raw"...
I also think about what is IDEAL when it comes to health and nutrition, too. My curiosity and research led me to where I am now.
I became a vegetarian initially because it really does NOT seem very natural to me to eat meat or animal products. Read this article by Milton Mills and really think about some of the reasons he gives.:
http://www.all-creatures.org/mhvs/nl-200鈥?/a>
My husband and spent all night talking about those exact things one night right before we made the decision to go veg. We had already gotten rid of a lot of chemicals from our lives and were trying to get a little closer to how we felt Nature intended us to treat our bodies; after really thinking about whether we're naturally suited to eat animal products we thought going veg made sense.
I spent a lot of time reading different sites and browsing recipe books at the bookstore the first few months. I kept seeing stuff about "raw vegans" and I was really drawn to the idea of raw food. I kept buying raw recipe books and reading about all the experiences of people who have gone raw. It really did sound too good to be true! Again, though, it made sense to me. It just doesn't seem like Nature would intend for us to cook most of our food. I really respect the incredibly complex way that Nature manages to make everything work together so perfectly and I believe that (most)food in its natural state is perfect. Cooking it and adding chemicals to it...it all makes it not perfect anymore. We see this when we boil food and it loses so much of its nutrients to the water or when we heat food and it loses all the enzymes that Nature had to have put there for a reason. I read SO much stuff about raw foods before actually giving it a try. Honestly, I didn't think I could do it. But little things kept gnawing at me, like all the bizarre and elaborate recipes you could do with raw foods (not the most natural way to eat, but the next best thing - some of the recipes just looked so FUN) and things like photos of blood after eating raw food and then after eating cooked food (white blood cells en masse as if our bodies attack cooked food like it was poison!) and all the descriptions from raw foodists about how they GLOWED and had all this energy and were becoming more beautiful and more healthy every day. I was too intrigued and had to give it a shot.
I went completely raw right away and stayed that way for about a month. Within the first week I noticed a big change in my overall attitude and energy level. People were commenting on what a good mood I was in. By the end of the month I was seeing that GLOW other raw foodists talked about and my husband even said my eyes sparkled. I felt fantastic. My food was digesting better than ever (I never really thought about digestion until I did it RIGHT and noticed the difference) and I had a whole new appreciation for the tastes and textures of food on a different level. I would say the whole experience touched me on several levels. Do you ever have experiences that just click with you as "right"? So, of course I stayed 100% raw, right? No! Can you believe it? The fact is, it was a lot of work the way I was doing it. I like to prepare complex meals and so I was doing a lot of recipes that involved blending and dehydrating and there were a lot of experiments that turned out awful. I travel a good deal and just didn't prepare as much as I should; eating at restaurants gets old when there's really nothing but salads for you on the menu. My husband was really losing patience with the food I was preparing, too. And we DO get addicted to certain kinds of foods: comfort foods, snacks like popcorn at the movies, real cookies, nice, hot soups. You don't realize how we associate so many different foods with different things in our lives until you do something drastic like go completely raw. Anyway, it got to be a lot of work and wasn't as satisfying as I'd like for me on an emotional level. I started eating soaked and cooked beans more and more often and eventually I found excuses to add more cooked food to my diet until I got to where I am now, which is about 50-75% raw depending on the day. I am a little disappointed in myself because I like to think I can do anything I put my mind to and I KNOW in my heart that raw foods CAN do amazing things for our bodies and health if we consistently make them a large part of our diet. I am going through an especially busy time in my life right now and I keep telling myself that when things calm down a bit I'm going to be better and smarter about my diet. I wish I could have stuck with it all the way, but, alas, no one is perfect. We can try to be, though, and I think a raw diet is a pretty good thing to aim for.|||Maybe not the absolute but it is pretty healthy but it depends on the foods you eat and how much you eat of it because some foods you can handle raw a few times but then they can go bad or get you sick if you don't eat them raw anymore and it depends on the area you live in because there are different foods you would need in that area to live a healthy life.|||no absolutes in health. you are mortal, get used to it. and as for having dog food figured out, dogs still chase squirrels, you know what i mean? But that all being said, raw food is definitely very good for you in a number of ways, i think you are probably best off with a varied diet that features a lot of raw food than an all raw food diet.|||It does sound good on paper. But what about meats (we are omnivores, after all) - you have to cook meats to kill bacteria that are harmful to us. So who would want to eat nothing but raw fruits and veggies all their lives? And even dairy products are "cooked" in essence when they pasteurize them. They could also contain harmful bacteria without this. I don't think the human species has a strong enough immune system to ward off some of the bacteria in our foods.|||I think the raw food diet is all it's said to be. I have experimented with it on and off for 10 years and the difference is amazing. Check out www. rawfamily.com - I spent a lot of quality time with this family and they are absolutely 100% for real. It is the only cure for diabetes (which I am borderline on) and many other diseases that doctors say are incurable. The only part of it that sucks is that it is EXPENSIVE. You have to be willing to spend about $250 or more a month per person - and that was (and still is) the hardest obstacle for me. Also you have to really focus on green drinks - not just fruit and gourmet stuff like too many people think - and actually dog food isn't perfect nutrition - there's actually a raw food diet for dogs too - google some info on the "BARF" diet (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food, or Bones and Raw Food diet for dogs). Oh - and to Holley who posted before me - the raw food diet does not include meat or dairy - just nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, and a few other things.... but not animal products.|||no|||we totaly do not have dog food figured out! commercial dog foods range from excelent quality (natura brand, natures recipie, solid gold brand, etc) to absolute rubbish (ol-roy brand, dog chow, pedigree brand etc). the human diet is FAR more complex than the canine diet....
as to raw foods, in certain repects there are benefits to eating foods raw, (veggies, fruits, herbs, etc) and many other foods that should be or MUST be cooked. avoid any guru who promises you "absolute health" he or she is lying or a fool.|||It isn't.That is fallacious.A healthy,balanced diet
is what we all require,not just completely this or that.
With respect to you,the only people that I've heard insisting that eating ALL raw foods only
are usually hippie types(most often their description),who only balance it with illicit drugs.|||No. I don't think it's the perfect diet. However, it's a GREAT way to detox if you do it for a week to a month at a time. I think a whole foods diet is probably the healthiest.|||Without a doubt it's an important part. But health requires vigilance in other areas as well. A raw vege diet with a variety of other nutrient sources like beans (and even some meats like chicken breast, pork loin and whitefish) helps you cover the nutrition bases. Exercise is equally important. No matter what your diet is, a sedentary lifestyle is going to make you unhealthy.
Note: For some people exercise is a difficult hurdle to leap. Trust me when I say that when you get off of your butt and exercise you will feel better and have more energy for the rest of that very first day. You will sleep better too. As you ease yourself into a better diet team that up with easing into an exercise regimen. I promise you will feel better.
I want to know if any of the raw food advocates can find actual scientific evidence from studies which proves that feeding a raw diet is better for dogs than feeding high-quality kibble? I'm asking for actual research studies with the information from reputable universities, etc.
I don't want any hearsay. I want real, documented facts. If you can provide it, I'll stop telling people not to feed raw. But I'm still not feeding it to my dogs.|||Check with Cornell Unv. and their canine nutrition reports...several yrs ago now they did not feel any food on the market was good for a dog based on wild dog eating habits and lab results from testing....|||Hi there...
Unfortunately, actual scientific evidence that raw feeding is better than kibble does not exist. Very few, if any, studies have been done on the subject of raw feeding dogs. If you think about it, who would fund such studies? certainly not the dog food companies. If studies were done and they showed conclusively that raw WAS healthier in the long term, could you imagine (in terms of profits especially) the deep trouble the food companies would be in...
IMO, you shouldn't be telling people not to feed raw as it is entirely their own choice. I personally feed partly raw and my dogs enjoy the benefits. I aim for half raw/half kibble as I like the convenience of kibble but also appreciate the benefits of raw...as a result, my dogs teeth are dazzling, their poops are less frequent, they hardly smell doggy at all and most importantly, they LOVE their meals (even my two fussy eaters eat with enthusiasm) and they are getting food that is biologically appropriate for them.
Trickster|||As someone has said, who is going to fund this? Certainly not the dog food manufacturers, that's for sure. The only evidence you are going to get is anecdotal. (Like my dogs fed raw for 13 years.........no illnesses whatsoever in that time.) But since dogs have *exactly* the same digestive system as the wolf and wild dog, it surely follows that a raw diet is the best? Dogs fed raw have a high immune system, and don't fall ill with salmonella, etc., and therefore it is safe to feed raw meat. I personally would be interested in scientific evidence to show that kibble is better than raw. Considering that the dog food manufacturers have had years to perfect their food, why can't they get it right? Why are foods being recalled because they are *killing* dogs with kidney failure?
It's your decision whether you don't feed raw or not. As for your decision to tell people *not* to feed raw....where is *your* evidence? The evidence that ordinary people have is in front of their eyes........bad teeth, smelly coat, skin problems, allergies, hot spots, arthritis, etc., etc. If anyone wants to know how to feed a balanced raw diet, you will be made welcome on the list below.|||The BARF or 'Raw foods' diet isn’t as good as most advocates claim it is. It is however better than ALL dry food you can buy at wal-mart or other similar stores. Wal-mart bought food isn’t human grade, so it is often made with spoiled meat, dead on arrival animals, and always from the scraps left over (example: snout, hooves, etc). By feeding your dog Fresh foods they contain more nutrients than Kibble. There are Plenty of Human grade dry dog foods out there that are more nutritionally sound than raw food, but they still don’t offer the variety of a raw diet (assuming you do rotate what you feed). BARF carries some risks of it own, like salmonella that you don’t hear about. I can do the exact same study and come up with as many different answers as I hire scientists to read the data, so Studies won’t help you here.
Just go with the basics that have been proven:
Processed food is worse for you than fresh
Home grown is better than store bought
Anything frozen, thawed, and cooked will lose nutrients.
So for Maximum “nutritional” value a freshly killed farm raised, hand feed, cow eaten raw will have the most nutrients. Does this mean its better for you…..Maybe? It just has the potential for being better. I would rather lose a small amount of “nutrients” (that really wont matter at the end of the day) for the benefits of time, effort, and energy it would take to gain a handful of vitamins by eating raw.|||Hi, I switched my 11 year old girl over. Her teeth actually become totally white, her gums stopped bleeding, her fur become softer and her dandruff went away, and she became as energetic as she had been five years before.
I also feed by puppies BARF and they have never had any health issues at all. I guess scientifically I;m not prepared to answer, however,
what is right about ground up food, that has fillers, often times by products, preservitives, all ground up, baked, stored in a bag in a wharehouse for how long? then on a store shelf for how long?
that just isn't the way dogs or cats were intended to eat, by nature!|||Joseph Wakshlag, professor of clinical nutrition at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, N.Y., was cited as saying that uncooked meat can harbor harmful bacteria, such as salmonella, and for that reason, veterinarians usually don't advocate a raw food diet.
Wakshlag was further cited as saying he's aware of only one study that analyzed the pros and cons of feeding dogs a raw food diet. And that study concluded that "fresh diets are pretty much OK." Ultimately, it's up to the owner to decide what to feed a pet.
If raw diets were proven better and commercial diets were proven harmful, there would be a tremendous backlash against the pet food industries and the veterinary profession that is so entrenched with it. Legal rammifications would be a highly probable option: people suing vets for recommending a product that harms their pets; people suing the pet food companies for creating a harmful product without warning consumers of its dangers, for falsely advertising that product as healthy, and for lying and covering up the information that indicated otherwise; and vets suing the universities for providing an inadequate, faulty education. Thousands of people would be laid off, a multi-billion dollar industry would crumble, hundreds of veterinarians would find themselves jobless, and society would no longer have an 'acceptable' outlet for disposing of its dead, dying, and diseased meat, its grain waste, and the some 40% of euthanized pets that find their way into rendering plants and kibble, barbituates and all (Lonsdale, T. 2001. Raw Meaty Bones.; Martin, A. Foods Pets Die For.). All of this is what they have to lose if the results of a raw diet study reflect unfavorably on commercial foods. Can one see the incentive in never performing or publishing a proper study that objectively looks at raw diets and their effects on the overall health of the dog?
Now, since you carry the title of Top Expert... Why don't you do a little research and read some literature on this matter?
www.rawmeatybones.com
www.rawfed.com/myths
www.rawlearning.com|||I ask you to follow the same challange. Find real scientic proof it is better to feed them high quality kibble that has been processed with preservatives. Anyway here is a website that compared KIBBLE since that is what you feel you should feed your dog. Read the first page where it states raw is better, then you can compare kibble to your hearts content.
Have you ever tried or known who has ever tried the diet?
I'm very curious about it and I have read a lot of positive things about it.
What are some ways to transition?
Do you think it's a load of bull?|||I do know someone who did it. They did it for the health benefits rather than weight loss.
They said they felt better, but I am afraid they became a 'raw' bore! It's ALL they talk about! She still looks quite large, so I don't know whatelse she is eating behind the scenes.
I don't know all that much about it, but I do wonder whether you would get all the nutrients you need from this kind of diet. Good luck though.|||I'm not much for diets and i hate salads but I can eat the vegetables in a salad separately. Just watch what you eat though because a lot of stuff is cooked because of the bacteria inside or on it could harm you. Also, don't stifle yourself with a boring diet get creative!|||nope it works . you lose 10 pounds in a week. for me , i accomplished it in 5 days
and it's a good thing I naturally love fruits/vegetables, and nuts.
I am just getting started on my new diet with lots of raw foods. I still cook some of my veggies and just wonder if its OK to still eat fish?|||A raw diet must consist of at leat 80% raw foods, so you could only include cooked fish and veggies in 20% of your diet, which usually translates to about one meal (or just main course) per day. Also, most raw foodist are also vegan/vegetarian but there are few raw foodists out there who will eat raw meat like fish, or consumed unpasturized dairy products.|||It's going great so far. I did have a small set back, but I'm back on track now! lol Report Abuse
|||Congratulations on starting a raw diet! In answer to your questions, it is really up to you. If you choose to be raw vegetarian or raw vegan then no, that cannot include fish.
I know there are some raw foodists out there who eat raw fish. I personally choose not to eat fish because of of cruelty and overfishing issues - and I'm of the opinion that fish is not healthy, but there is a lot of conflicting info on the subject from both sides.
A raw foodist does not eat any cooked food at all, but you can be what is called "high raw" which means roughly 80% (mostly) raw.
The reason why some people might want to be 100% raw is that it facilitates the detox process, but if you choose to be high raw then that's very healthy too. Probably the healthiest non-raw meal you can have is steamed veggies as part of a green salad. If you can find Essene bread in a local shop I'd highly recommend it - it's not raw but it's made from sprouted grain and very healthy - much more so than regular wholegrain bread.|||Of course it's okay to eat fish. Just don't overcook them, I hate it when I do it can ruin a good meal. It's the same when the chef over does Pork chops it just needlessly dries them out.|||Wrong section.
I am just curious if anyone can tell me when I can start feeding raw foods to my 1 yr old son. Mainly I am looking at fruit obviously because he only has sooo many teeth and I know they are more tender. I also know of choking hazzards and stuff like that...I just wanna know when would be a good time to feed him raw fruit mainly!! Thanks!|||mine is 11 months and been eating raw fruits and veggies for over a month now. i just cut them into pea size pieces and watch while she eats. she loves cherries and cucumbers.|||He should do great with raw fruits! Strawberries and Bananas are obviously very soft but I would watch out for Grapes and Apples when you first give them to him. The skin or peeling can be tough to chew with such few and tiny teeth... As for veggies I would try thinly cut carrot sticks or possibly broccoli or cauliflower. If you want to you could try steamed veggies, they may help adjust your son adjust to the change in texture. Also my nephew just started eating solids and the first thing we gave him was actually a fruit and yogurt parfait at McDonald's. It is perfect because it has creamy yogurt, soft fruit, and crunchy granola. I hope he enjoys the new selection! good luck!|||my doc advises that we avoid raw carrots, whole blueberries, corn, and whole grapes until 2 years -- choking hazards. but ruby eats tons of raw fruits and vegetables (she is 14 months but was eating all of this at one year). her faves: green grapes which i cut into quarters, chopped raw tomato, whole apples, cubes of canteloupe, cubes of watermelon (not bite size for the melon but larger so that they can hold and bite), raw cucumber slices, halves of raw strawberries, halves of blueberries, and chunks of peeled nectarines.|||You could of been feeding him raw fruits and veggies for months now.
Start today. At one year, there really isn't anything that he can't eat. Watermelon, melon, blueberries, etc are good soft fruits to start with.
At a year, my daughter was eating everything...including celery, carrots and apples.|||go ahead, just be carefull with sitrus fruits and strawberries, and keep an eye on him
a lot of things are good and healthy, but only if not overdoing it, even water can be leathal if you drink too much
its much healthier then some who feed em chocolate, another thing you can try is actualy dried bread, just to gnaw on for itchy teeths|||fruits are usually easy to chew so if he has teeth you can go ahead and give them to him now. cut in small pieces. as for vegetables you can give him baby carrots he will naw on them. and pees and green beans are easy to eat well when cooked of course|||You would have to keep a really good eye on him, but go ahead and try now. My niece would eat raw carrots with only her gums (no teeth). She's 6 yearsold now and LOVES her veggies. She would chose to eat raw veggies over chips and cheesies!!
I am going to feed my dog raw food,should I feed my cat raw too? How would I go about it? What do other cat owners give thiers?|||You will find far better health going for a raw food diet, but you need to follow recipes so you get the right euantities of things in it, it's not all that complex. And there's y70% less UTI's by going that way as well.|||Cats, like dogs, have a higher tolerance for the kind of baterial load that raw meat carries; that's why they're less likely to get sick than if a human ate raw meat. So yes, you can give your cat raw food, too. Raw chicken cut up into little bits is fine; my cat eats everything, so he eats some of the dog's raw beef as well.
Uncooked chicken bones (thigh) is okay for cats, too, since it won't splinter (like cooked bones). Your dog should get only raw beef bones and no pork.
Don't give a dog raw fish, though.|||I wouldn't, but I don't have the time to do the research on the food.
I also don't want to have to educate my cat sitters on the safe handling of kitty's diet.
Kitty sleeps on my bed, sits on my work desk, lies on me, says scratch me by the butt lifter...
Way to much risk involved in my opinion.
Kibble I can leave out if I'm going to be late or away over night.
BARF (Bones And Raw Food) requires timed feedings, safe handling, cold storage.|||yes raw diets for cats are wonderful if you take the time to research and do it right. unlike dogs, cats need taurine to survive. you'll need to purchase a commerical supplement powder or feed organ meats (hearts are good here) to make sure your cat is getting taurine. here's a great website about cat nutrition and why dry food is bad. click on "what cats should eat"
www.littlebigcat.com
here's a link to a great user-friendly website on how to make your own raw food for your cat. see the section on home made diets for information at the first link and the raw diet recipe on the second link
http://www.britishmists.com/feeding.html
http://www.britishmists.com/food.html
also, here's a site with a step by step guide to raw food diets for cats
www.catnutrition.org|||My vets recommended a mixture. Definitely raw chicken necks for their teeth, then some vegetables (I just give cat grass) apparently in the wild they get veg from the stomach of their prey so its natural.
I don't give mine raw, I just wouldn't trust it enough.|||it's not advisable to give cat raw food, it's best to feed them with cats dried food/can food and if you are really not sure pls consult the nearest vet, good luck.
I want to put my pit pup on a raw food diet. She is 3 months and highly active.
How much money would it take? And how do I transition her into it?|||I hate to disagree with Kathleen as an experienced poster but I would say the opposite.
Firstly I raw feed and really don't find it expensive at all as long as you source your food well. I feed each rottweiler for about 拢1.25 per day - maybe 拢1.50 with extra goodies like free range eggs etc.
As for transitioning then if the pup has already come this far on kibble then I would swith gradually. Totally agree about the different digestion rates for sure but what it does is puts a strain on the pancreas, however if only in the short term while transitioning then it should be ok. Everything I've read on swapping for a young pup as this is, is to transition. Just helped a girl from here do exactly the same with her 8 week old rottie as she just swapped straight over and the dog got the runs badly. Took her back a step and the dog was fine.
So how I would recommend is chicken as the only raw meat for a week or two, and start adding a bit to the kibble at each meal. No runs then keep increasing - any sign of runs then slow down.
Best of luck and do research as variety of animal and cut of meat is important. Do add each protein source gradually and keep beef until last.|||You need to do a lot more research on it. Yes, it's largely the way dogs would eat in the wild. However, in a natural setting, dogs are actually omnivores. They usually eat the stomach of their prey first, thus taking in everything that the prey animal had eaten as well. If you feed her nothing but meat, she'll lose out on nutrients. You should also know that since raw diets for dogs have started growing in popularity, there has been a distinct surge in cases of food poisoning and salmonella in dogs. Modern slaughterhouses are not sanitary so meat is very often contaminated. Cooking kills those contaminants, but if you're not cooking your dog's meat... she's more than likely going to get sick.|||I'm not sure how much it would cost, but I do know that when switching foods with a dog, if one day he eats one type of food, then the next a totally different type, he will have diarrhea.
So the first day with the new diet, give him 1/4 of the new food, and the rest what he's been eating, keep it like this for two days, then 1/2 new, 1/2 old; keep it like this for about two days too. Then 1/4 old, 3/4 new, for about three days. Then all new.|||It's expensive. You have to fast the dog for 24 hours in order to clear the digestive tract of all traces of commercial dog food. This will prevent a blockage since the two different foods digest at different rates.|||It's,actually as cheap as grocery store kibble in the US. I recommend this guy's book. http://healthydogforlife.com/ Other good sites are http://drpitcairn.com/ http://thenaturallyhealthydog.com/ http://barfworld.com/ http://rawmeatybones.com/
I am moving to Brisbane in Australia in a month and I'd like to know if there are any raw food restaurants.|||there are good japanese stores in Brisbane but its kinda expensive. The best way if you wanna really enjoy yourself is to go on a tourist fishing boat and they will help you catch clams and let you eat them raw (after cleaning it of course)
Well, I have two syrian hamsters and my female, Tonks, has gotten very over weight. I would like to feed her and my male, Neville, a raw food diet. I already give them tofu and wheat germ and the occasional teaspoon of soy milk, but I want to cut out the seed mix completely. Any suggestions of what I might feed them? I don't mind preparation and I don't have anything against giving them meat. Thanks!|||In general animals are better of when feed with raw food. It is their natural diet. Animals in captivity can become ill when fed with cooked food diet.
Check out here for more info:
http://www.hamsterific.com/nutrition.cfm|||I don't know about a raw food diet, however I was able to find this recipe for organic hamster food that you can make yourself. It seems that it would be much better than a commercial food simply because you can control what goes in, AND it's freshly made.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4423636_make-own鈥?/a>|||try giving it fresh fruits and veggies. i give my hamsters a grape or carrot or a piece of strawberry every 2 days. sunflower seeds are high in oil so and that makes hamsters fatter.
and why. whats the best ones. thanks|||There is no "Best ones" simply eat what sounds good to you.
And for some people it's not a diet. It's a lifestyle. Just be sure you don't not eat.
I also kinda eat mostly raw foods. I had a craving for
cucumbers. So, I ate cucumbers till I no longer wanted them.
Smoothies are really good on the "diet".
When you eat like this, you should be creative!
And now, I don't have a craving for anything.
One thing you should know is you won't eat as
much because your body will be getting enough nutrients.
Also, if you have been eating the normal
american diet you should be aware your body will begin to detox.
Hope this helps! If you need more details let me know!|||If your talking about meats.. NOO!!! NOT SAFE!!
But raw foods.. ya there isn't really the best ones.. ITS UP TO YOU!!
Hope I helped:))|||Steak Tartare is delicious.|||fruits and veggies are very health. Low calories.
Im 5'7 150 LBS im trying to get down to 130 by november. i saw this lady on t.v juss wanted to kno if any1 has tried this diet. i dont wanna invest time in somethin that doesnt work.|||Oh, in my case, there's no need for me to go on diet :) All you have to do is simply get rid of carbonated drinks, sweets, spicy, fatty and salty food. Then eat only friuts and vegetables. Then drink 10-15 glasses of water everyday. This is so effective. Try it!
I lose weight from 75kilos to 63 kilos in 3 months and I am still doing it for a year now and I am just maintaining my weight from 63kilos-60kilos.
Have a nice day and GOD BLESS :)
are there any experienced raw foodies out there to give me some advice?|||Simple, the act of cooking kills EVERYTHING, not just germs. In general, it dries it out and kills even the nutrients. Once you cook something it's "dead food" if you will. The main advantage of cooked food is that it kills bacteria, and makes very chewy meats much more manageable and easy to masticate. It also sucks out all the nutrients though... Sushi and raw vegetable are a great source of nutrients. My recommendation is that you eat what you like (within reason you know, still pretty healthy) and take supplements. That's my gameplan.|||once i tried raw carrots on salad, I didn't like it, but i know its good for you. Susie|||it depends which type of food. if u like sushi, raw food is good. n if u like vegie, it also go0d . u can add mayo or souce salad ot make it much better. :)|||ya myself.i take my breakfast only on that format
Ok so I see alot of people starting to go for the raw diet for thier dogs. Now what im wondering is do you still give them treats like milkbone treats anymore? Or can they only have raw meat and thats it....then what happens if you cant give them a treat and your trying to crate train them?|||Dehydrated liver or heart pieces are what the majority of my raw feeding pals uses for treats as well as bully sticks <don't ask> dried animal tendons etc. There are a whole host off things you can use for treats that aren't milkbones etc.
Most raw feeders don't use commercial treats because just like kibble they contain things your dogs don't need.
As for people going on about germs - Only a concern if you are using meat packing company package meat or you have AWFUL food handling skills that would get you fired from a restaurant.
How to handle germs
separate cutting board and knife for dog food
Feed your dog in one spot or outside. Lay down a towel or plastic mat under the bowl.
Do NOT allow the dog to wander with its food.
Wash your hands(DUH)
Wash anything the dog has eaten on after all food is gone.
If need be wipe down your dogs face.
Vets - about 1 in 10/1 in 20 vets are actually raw friendly or pro raw. Most pro raw vets feed raw themselves. Vets know what they are taught - Kibble by the kibble company. Ask anyone who actually feeds raw and has a supportive vet. People go on about kibble like its been there since day one. It hasn't. Dog food used to be from HORSE MEAT on a regular basis. When Cat food was first started it KILLED most cats because there wasn't enough Taurine. Cooking destroys tuarine and because of that they have to add it back in.
As far as crate training goes - I know plenty of people who have done it without the use of treats.|||Feeding raw is a great thing. Dogs were not designed to eat grains, corn, and soy. You may supplement with natural treats for the vitamins they will not get from the raw. You have to know what you are doing though in order to feed raw.|||Keep a pocket full of raw chicken livers for treats.
Just kidding.
My Gs lives on chicken quarters ,need hearts,liver, eggs.
They will still eat your treats.
Raw is best. No dog smell,leaner and healthier,compact turds,
As inexpensive as the bag|||The way a dog's body is designed, there is more beneficial bacteria and enzymes in their stomach and intestines to kill the bacterias that would make us sick in the raw meat. The same if you've ever watched a cat catch a wild bird. Our animals we're born to eat raw meat, and we have conditioned them to eat dog food, just as some dog food companies have tried to optimize a dogs diet. So, in that respect, they can also eat a milkbone or training treat and be okay just like if they ate a kibble dinner. Most dogs, however, prefer raw meat to any dog treat.
As for my furry family: my guys love raw. They see the chicken package come out of the freezer, and even the cats get starry eyed waiting for their portions. I give it as an extra to a grainless dog kibble, simply for convenience, so it's not something they always have, but about once a week or so, or when I find a good deal on meat. The thing with a whole raw diet is that you need to also make some dietary supplements in there because store bought meat is not always the same as a wild caught meat.|||Bacteria? Really? Can't you naysayers come up with something better than that argument? The only bacteria issues would be not cleaning up after they eat, or not washing YOUR hands after handling the meat. You use the same precautions with feeding your dogs as you would feeding your children.
For the person who said their vet said "i wouldn't do that" is because he won't get a commission off promoting a raw diet. he won't get paid when your dog doesn't need their teeth cleaned. he won't get paid for cancer treatments. he won't get paid when your dog doesn't need that special kibble the he only sells..
wake up people - vet's are in the business to make money, and only hand full actually care about the well being of animals.
For training treats, I use freeze dried liver or red barn. For tracking I'll use red barn. I won't give my dogs milk bones or anything like that - they don't need it, plus they know it's crap and would refuse it if they had a choice.|||Raw food was WONDERFUL! My Ollie's teeth are still immaculate, his breath never got to be stinky, his poops are itty bitty, hard, and they turn white and dissolve into the ground within days, and most of all his coat is so soft and beautiful now. It takes him about a year to build up enough doggie oils to really need another bath.
And a good rule of thumb, if you go to a vet, and he's got Iams stacked up on his walls, and then recomments Iams... maybe not the best idea.|||I LOVE the Raw Diet because it has saved and drastically improved my dogs life. He has been 4oo times healthier on the Raw Diet and he no longer has many of the health problems he had on kibble. I would never feed him milkbones but he still gets treats just healthy ones like Meat Jerky from Wellness. Freeze Dried meats from Natures Variety or fresh chicken or liver pieces. They can have anything that any dog on any diet can. The Raw Diet is just a healthier and more natural way of caring for your dog. There is nothing out there that says the dog can not eat just this or that.|||I believe ALL dog food is sh*t in a bag. Yes, premium foods are better. But why do we feel that cooked oats and vegetables are species appropriate for a carnivore? They AREN'T. Not only that, but the simple process of cooking food puts it in a state where it is not recognized by the dog's body as a natural source of food. This causes the body to have to work even harder to digest it. Years and years of this organ overdrive can lead to premature liver and pancreas problems.
Dogs are designed to get 75% of their water intake from the food they eat. Once again, because dry food is DRY, it puts the kidney into overtime to digest and process it. Can lead to premature kidney problems. Not only that, but most dogs do not truly drink enough water, because dogs were never meant to drink so much water.
I have fed a prey model raw diet for almost two years now. 80-90% meat AND bones, and 10-20% organ meat. It models the prey animals a wild wolf or dog would eat. NO vegetables and NO supplements.
Dogs are carnivores. End of discussion. This IGNORANT myth that they are omnivores was largely promoted by dog food companies to promote the use of cheap grains in their foods. Dogs have the same exact digestive system as wolves. Wolves do NOT graze and forage on grasses and berries. Wolves do NOT eat the stomach content of prey animals. They shake the stomach out and eat the lining only. Many TOP wolf experts have spend decades studying the eating habits of wolves, and ALL of them have agreed with this.
I do not like mixing raw food with kibble. Dogs are meant to digest meat extremely fast to avoid bacterial build up in their intestines. However, because kibble is so hard to digest, it moves through their system at a much slower rate. Raw can actually get caught behind this kibble, and cause problems.
That being said, I do feed my dog milk bones. My dog gets a milk bone every morning. I go to the store, and I buy him any treats I want to buy him. If I go through a drive through and he is in the car, I'll buy him a plain hamburger. Whatever we eat at night, he usually gets to lick to plates clean after wards. I feel that he gets the best diet possible and he gets daily exercise, so he is allowed to splurge every now and then. Almost everything is fine in moderation.
EDIT: Vets are IDIOTS when it comes to nutrition. They receive VERY little nutritional training. I have done the same nutritional courses a vet would take, and they are all sponsored by dog food companies. Big surprise.
Dogs are MEANT to handle bacteria. Their stomachs are 5 times stronger then ours (acid). Think about all the studies done that show our houses are filled with bacteria. There is ecoli EVERYWHERE. We don't walk around licking everything. But how much stuff does your dog put in his mouth?
Dogs eat SH*T. Every dog at one point in it's life has eaten sh*t. And you're really worried about a piece of chicken straight from the fridge?
Here's another little fact for you: EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL (Including us) HAS ECOLI IN OUR SYSTEMS! *gasp*. It's a natural flora in our intestines that actually aids in digestion. It's only when this flora gets into new surroundings that it can cause problems.
Bacteria will NOT kill your dog. If raw meat was so dangerous, then carnivores would simply die out. Humans in modern civilization are WAY too fearful. We have EXTREMELY weak immune systems because of all the precautions we take to protect ourselves. We are very susceptible to many things that other cultures aren't, and other species definitely aren't.|||I have read a lot of 鈾ove鈾?is a German Shepherd Dog
postings and she is not consistent and she is going to school for veterinary hmmmmmmmmmmmm but she calls vets idiots . I have done the same nutritional courses a vet would take, and they are all NOT sponsored by dog food companies. Mine was not. Please check out the studies and compare for yourself|||I don't like feeding anything raw to them. Too many germs that can seriously injure or kill my babies. I would say no to that. Hope this helps!!|||Everybody keeps telling me how great it is, even (some) people here on Yahoo Answers who I trust A LOT when it comes to dog care. But it sounds a little bit sinister to me...
My vet - another person who I totally rely on - didn't tell me a round no, but gave me a look that said "If I was you, I wouldn't do that". The deal is that yes, it is healthier, because dogs were bred to eat meat, not dog food, but it's also a bit risky because germs can kill your dog...
Maybe it's just the way you prepare it, but I dunno how it works and I'm very happy feeding Purina to my dog (and cats)!
So as you can see... I know nothing on this branch. ah ah|||you know what?.. hmm. im going to be a vet one day and i know alot of stuff about animals atm so yeahh. um well raw meat is perfect for them! especially onces with bones because its perfect for there teeth but remeber that you should give the dog 2 cups of dog biscuts in the morning and then later on when you feed the dog give it raw meat.. because can food makes there poo really runny... maybe before you go to bed give the dogs 1 and half cup of biscuts..and exersice everyday.. and your dog will be healthy as a horse.. okay i hope i helped you :)
I'm trying to create a raw vegan bread, some ingredients might be useful, a raw flour, flax seeds, etc, I may have to experiment though, if noone has any experience in this field.|||Crackers, Breads & Cereals
Apricot-Almond Honey Bread
Buckwheat Cereal
Cinnamon Date Bread
Flat Bread
Flax Crackers
Muesli
Oat Bran Cereal
Pumpkin Bread
Rye Crackers
Sprouted Oatmeal
Raw Oatmeal
Essene Bread
Winter buckwheat breakfast
Bell Pepper Crackers
Basil Crackers
Italian Bread
Chick Pea Bread
Almond Wafers
maggi|||you can have bread, it's just that you'd need to prepare it in a dehydrator.
try recipes at
goneraw.com
thesunnyrawkitchen.blogspot.com
vegweb.com
living-foods.com
or see what's up at your local library. there may be some raw food "uncook" books there for you to check out. dr. gabriel cousens has some pretty great bread recipes, so does alissa cohen and many other raw food chefs.
good luck, and stay rawkin',
n.
|||Ezechiel bread can be found in the frozen section of most stores now. It is sprouted bread. I also used to make seed bread and chips. Do you have a dehydrator? You will need one to make them.
I would try to google sprouted bread and you will find some other info including recipes! Ezechiel is so easy and tasty though!
Here's to being a Passion Parent!
Christine Hiebel
Raw for 3 years 100% and vegan 36 years also.|||no bloating in my body no aching bloated gassy intestines, for me this is huge.
Thre way my body digests so quick and easy, feels very calm but very infused with ready-to-go energy but never hyper.
har to describe to non raw people. Mental clarity and free feeling of total calmness with power.
Yes, i do also feel a little smug,,,
there is literally no diet better for health, it makes ONLY 100% sense to eat raw, so this is why the smug..but hard to convinCe people they will feel so good.
I partly ket it up for healing reasons- always bloated and gassy from cooked veg. So this change is just like a gift! It helps mentally too knowing that Im eating the only food in the world that can literally be called the healthiest.|||it will probably improve your life but slightly. Most likely you wont notice the improvements. There are just vitamins in raw food that cooked foods don't contain. If your are trying to improve your life it is not a good idea. There are a lot of better ways to improve your life like working out and developing conversation skills.
I've been reading a lot about eating a raw food diet, and
i find a lot of what i read interesting--but wonder about the claims made that our bodies do better on raw food than cooked. If anyone has any conclusive scientific information
about it, i'd like to hear about it.|||You should eat 80% of all your vegetables in the raw form. Cooking them cooks the nutrients out|||yes|||I think it depends on how the food is cooked. Some cooking methods cook the nutrients out of food.
I want information. I dont want to buy some raw energy bars or suplements. And I dont want to pay $10 for some stupid e-book.|||i think this is the best without being too overly commercial: http://www.rawfoodchat.com/
lot's of recipes, product reviews, and links.
here's another one: http://www.living-foods.com/
a few too many ugly adds for my taste and it states "Membership is FREE for a limited time." but plenty of free recipes and articles are offered without requiring registration.|||I just found quite a few websites with info. Here's a basic one:
http://nov55.com/hea/food.html|||http://www.alissacohen.com/index.html
They have a fantastic community & message boards. Live journals, pictures, progress, recipes. . . you name it - - its on here and its free. Good luck!
Do you just buy like a couple pounds of raw, unseasoned pork/beef/lamb/chicken from the butcher and feed the appropriate amount to your dog every meal time? How do you prepare it? How do you cut it? Specific directions?|||No, no. It's much more complicated than that. Feeding just raw muscle meat will end in nutritional deficiencies. It involves feeding a balance of raw muscle meat, raw organ meat, and raw meaty bones.
Read up:
http://www.rawfed.com/ (RawFed)
http://www.rawlearning.com/ (Jane Anderson's Raw Learning Site)
http://rawfeddogs.net/ (Raw Fed Dogs)
http://www.rawmeatybones.com/ (Raw Meaty Bones)
http://rawfed.com/myths/preymodel.html (Raw Prey Model Diet Vs. BARF Diet)
http://community.livejournal.com/rawdogs鈥?/a> (Raw Dogs Livejournal Community, excellent raw feeding information on the profile page and overall helpful community for raw feeding questions)
http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html (Myths About Raw Feeding)
Darksong~|||it means you ar feeding your dog food that is healthier and more natural then any dried or canned food. basically you feed your dog raw meat and veggies mixed with specific suppliments. some people think your dog can get sick or get worms from doing this. this just is not true at all. vets will deny raw diet the reason they do this has been argued manny times before but again raw diet is the best thing you can feed your dogs besides they were made to eat raw meat naturally if your dog gets lose or even if a dog is just a stray they will more likely eat road kill or hunt their own meat then get food from anywhere else. see we were once able to eat raw meat but over time we started cooking our food because we discovered fire so our bodies gradually lost the ability to clean out bacteria found in raw meat and actually if someone eats too much raw meat their appendix may burst.|||I'm just now learning about feeding raw food to my dogs and have found a lot of information on a dog food forum. You can ask questions there, and they will answer pretty quickly. They will tell you how much food your dog needs each day (it goes by the weight of the dog) and what kinds of food to give it. It's really pretty interesting.|||You buy meat from a butcher, bones and all. There are certain amounts of things you need. Like X% of bone and Y% of meat and then a bit veggies and organs and all that stuff. I don't know much about it but there is a lot you need to know before you start it.
Do a lot of research or try to find a mentor. Good luck :)|||check out sites for BARF (Biologically appropriate raw food) there are many sites on the net and you may even find a Yahoo Group that addresses this type of feeding for dogs.|||Check out this link. It is a starter for beginners in feeding RAW diets & has many other links for additional info.
http://www.rawlearning.com/
You can start by clicking on the FAQ link.|||Stuff that isn't dried food.
And that's pretty moist.
I'm considering the raw food diet. I'd like some useful information about it especially if you have tried it yourself. I'm not trying to lose weight. I just think I'll feel healthier on a raw food diet.|||I tried the raw food diet a few months back and really didn't get on with it at all, basically because of the level of veggies.
I moved over to the peleolithic diet and love every minute of it. Still eating raw veggies and fruit BUT only upto 90g of carbohydrate grams per day (not weight but carb g).
I have listed a great resourse I use every week in the box below, it's great for virtually every aspect of health and fitness. Today's was blowing the lid off detox scams, which work and which dont.|||You can get better nutrition from raw greens but you also need some cooked. As cooking releases some nutrition you cannot get from raw and raw provides some nutrition that you just can't get from cooked. If you have to do without one it would be the cooked.
However you must cook most beans and grains in order to digest them unless you pick them fresh off the plant while they are in their milky state and not in their hard ripened state. And yes the milky state of like wheat is much more nutritious than at almost any other time.
As far as fruits are concerned - raw is the most nutritious.
God bless you.
I feed my dog a mix of a little kibble with a raw food diet which consists of venison, chicken and egg. I was just wondering what other people used for their dogs and what you thought about the diet. It works well with my dogs and I don't have any weight problems and they have great coats. They really love the raw over the kibble that is for sure. It is a little time consuming to get everything ready for them as I have 8 dogs but I think it is worth it in the long run.|||I feed raw. So I obviously like it.
I would not suggest feeding kibble and raw together.as dogs digest each differently. if you want to do half raw half kibble. I would do one raw meal a day and 1 kibble a day.
I keep Orijen dog kibble around in case I forget to thaw a frozen meal. Also use it for his treat ball.
I use chicken (main meat source), Turkey(2-4 times a week) and some form of fish 2 times a week) every week. along With organs every few days, and eggs every FEW days.
Dog kibble i only 60 or so years old.
So technically raw it has been around much longer.
My dog doesn't well on dog food. he gets loose runny stools (he has been on everything from 6 star gourmet food (orijen, taste of the wild welness ETC) to lowest junk possible such as ol roy or kibbles and bits, Purina ETC.
RAW is the only way keeps a shiny Lovely coat,firm small tools. his teeth are remarkable my vet can not believe a 6.5 year old dog still has pearly white teeth not a sign of tarter, and I hae never bushed them.|||Raw is better than the dry kibble, because One you know whats going into your dog, Two you can split the dogs meals better, Three its a cheaper way of feeding your dog. Dog kibble these days have stuff in it that will make you vomit by hearing it.|||Well I usually mix some kibble with either some chicken or plain rice or doggie-safe vegetables... It's a healthy and fairly cheaper way =)) My husky likes it =))|||WAY more trouble & expense & effort for any "perceived" benefits.|||I think it's the best diet you could give a dog. I plan to feed my next dog on exclusively on raw.|||You are doing the right thing 100%, good for you. Raw meat etc is a dogs natural food, out in the wild dogs eat raw food, eg chickens, rabbits etc...., if your dog got lost out in the wild, his hunting instincts would kick in and he would start looking for raw food, it is only natural for dogs. At least with raw food you know that no additives, preservatives and salt have not been added, which commercially prepared foods have added to them, causing various types of health problems in some dogs. Believe me the extra work is worth it. IIt is also good that you are including a small about of kibble in their diet, as it includes some vitamins that raw meats don't have. For ease of digestion, mix a bit of water with the dry kibble 15 mins before feeding to soften it up and don't forget to include some raw grated vegies. I successfully raced Greyhounds on this type of feeding regime with fantastic results health and race recovery wise.|||I think its a fad that has no scientific research/nutrition behind it.
I have had dogs-dozens and dozens of dogs over the last 40+ years and they all had long healthy lives fed ---Commercial Dog food.
The dog food industry has spent years and millions of dollars on research.
Until the Raw food industry does the same I will stick to commercial dog food.
Why would you feed any kibble if Raw is such a perfect diet though|||I have two 11 year old dogs that even the vet cannot believe that they are that old. They are the perfect weight for their size. I have fed them kibble 99% of that time, occasionally giving them a few pieces of leftover chicken or steak. I am against giving dogs much human food of any kind.
Raw food for pets?|||First you should know that you should NEVER give an animal a cooked bone, it can splinter in their throat and kill them. Raw bones are great for them, and their teeth.
Dogs eat more vegetables in their diet than cats, make sure you have a balanced diet for each.
The problem with raw food is the amount of time required for just one meal, I suggest buying raw food meals to start out to make sure they have a balanced diet in the beginning. In fact, unless you are going to be a die hard raw food feeder, then only use these types of meals- or supplement your kibble meal with meat & veggies. Just look at these page for instructions on making raw meals.
http://www.pet-grub.com/part3/
Try the websites below for places that sell prepackaged raw food meals.
And there is no problem with feeding raw food to cats and dogs as long as you don't let it spoil- and you have an already have a dog/cat with a healthy immune system. Their bodies can deal with Salmonella. Whole prey (mice/quail for cats) should be frozen first- (- although my cat always eat the mice in my backyard and he has not gotten sick...) this kills any parasites that can spread to your pet.
Your pet will definitely LOVE the food better. Not only will they have texture in their food (image always having hard cereal or oatmeal to eat) but you can add much more variety.
Research BARF (Bones And Raw Food Diet).|||i tried it, and i honestly dont think its a good idea. thats why we cook our food cause its the better thing to do. we wouldnt eat raw meat, so why give it to our animals right?|||Dogs are not strictly carnivores and have more sensitive stomachs. I don't recommend it. But cats are carnivores and can eat raw meat. I feed mine hamburger and steak all the time.|||i wouldn't give a dog or cat raw food as it could get a very bad disease|||Feeding raw food can be dangerous. I have one cat and one dog, and I cook homemade fresh foods for them. I follow the recipes in these books
Woofing it Down (for my dog)
Lapping it Up (for my cat)
If you feed a raw diet you are risking your animals severe sickness or death. Cooking the food removes the risk and diease. I wasn't sure about cooking or raw until I read both of these books, and than followed up the advice in them with some research of my own. I highly recommend a homemade diet, but one that is cooked. Both of my pets are doing well on these diets.|||This is a great question and you should do your research very carefully! Everyone is going to have their opinion but that does not mean it is the right food for your dog. I just lost my seven year old German Shepherd to cancer and that is when I went searching for the cause. I came across a website on the internet that shocked me into disbelief that I probably had poisoned my dog to death and didn't even know it. Most dog foods are loaded with hidden poisons and other obscenities I still have a hard time grasping. I am going to give you the website address so you can read this report and learn what is really in commercial dog foods and you can make an educated decision like I did on which dog food to buy! I wish you all the best!
www.realdogfoodcomparisons.com
my nutritionist has put me on a raw food diet because I am approaching morbid obesity and choloesterol is high. Im gung ho about it and determined. just wondering how long it would take for noticeable weight loss ?|||I didn't have a detox past about 4 days and it wasn't bad for me... after that... If you are big like you say... all the roughage that you will be eating will clean you out quickly, which will amount to more than you think. After that it will begin to rapidly drop your weight as you lose... it may go through a stationary period after you lose some weight for a week or so while your body adjusts, but stick with it and it will net you massive loss quickly... good luck.|||6lbs. first week & 3 to 5 each of the next 12 weeks. Total = 46lbs.
Luved it had energy to spare but there was some detoxing.|||Depends how much you weigh to begin with. I would say 3-9 months.|||It's really going to depend on your own body but since you have a lot of weight to lose, it will go quickly. Even if it doesn't go quickly, it will definitely go, as your body starts to alkalize and normalize. After a short while you won't find it difficult, your body will start craving raw foods.
I am a small framed person and even I lost 0.5 kg every two days when I started raw. That's 3lbs a week.
You can expect to lose at least that, and then some.
Of course, adding exercise will go a long way to helping you reach your goals.|||You should gradually work into it as you will detoxify and feel kind of lousy if you go too fast, best way to look at it and go with it is to make it your lifestyle rather than a diet
that is one healthy way to live as raw food is full of enzymes (living food)
avocado and hummus and beans and rice will cut down cholesterol big time and it should take about six weeks to show any major loss of weight~I'm sure you were told to drink plenty of good water (renews cells, cleanses,etc:)
in no time you will be a new person and feel so alive|||Good for you! I have seen some websites that show GREAT results for weight loss on raw vegan diets. Here's the most jaw-dropping I've seen (click on Angela's before and after page - incredible results!: http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/befor鈥?/a>
When I went veg I thought losing a bit of weight would be a bonus, but I've actually gained about 5 pounds. I keep picking up raw recipe books and reading all these sites and thinking I might give it a try for a week or so and see how I like it, but I have yet to take the plunge. I'm certainly intrigued, though.
I have heard it's tough at first, but I'm sure it gets easier once you start feeling the healthy results. There are some raw forums out there that I bet would really help you with inspiration and any questions you have as you go along. I know VeggieBoards.Com has one, but I don't know if that particular section is all that active.
Best of luck!|||raw food is not good for you , you should try the 6 week body makeover diet . i lost a pound a day on it
after the dessert (raw food pie) has been in the freezer for 4-6 hours and we eat some... where does the rest of the dessert go? back in the freezer or can i keep in the refrigerator?|||Make sure you wrap it real good so it won't get freezer burn and return it to the freezer.|||If you want it to stay frozen keep it in the Freezer!|||I'd put it back in freezer.
Raw food diet of fruit and vegetables only, drinking about 1.5litres of water a day and not eating any processed foods whatsoever. I have cut out coffee but wondering if it is alright to drink tea, as in black tea or herbal teas??|||Yes, They are fine, Tea is rich in antioxidants. Eating only fruit and veg isn't really a healthy diet though.. You need meats of some kind, Theres nothing unhealthy about eating 3 small meals with boiled potatoes/Rice with some fish or red meat, You need iron in your diet or you will become anemic.|||LOL. I do green juices and try to eat 80% raw food. Seems like a lot of the others aren't even on a raw diet.
If you are trying to be 100% raw, then you can have herbal teas. There are some recipes I've seen for mint/rosemary tea, stuff like that. You steep the herbs to make a tea.
I'm 80% so I allow myself to have regular tea sometimes. It all depends on how raw you want to go. It's a personal thing. :)
If you want to get an idea of what I do, I have a blog at: http://www.bjaysblog.blogspot.com|||Actually, you don't have to diet per se to lose weight, the sole diet which definitely delivered for me is wu-yi tea, it can be seen in the resource box underneath, they have a few free trials in stock, it has been featured in Reader's Digest and CNN. I melted away twenty pounds, it definitely does work!|||yes. Definitely. Drink more water. Like 2.5 liters. Better for you!. 1.5 is minimum.|||if ur trying to detox urself then u should stick to green tea. black tea has caffeine in it which can send ur blood sugar levels up and make you crave more food. which ur probably craving anyway being on such a strict diet!|||Its up to you! Depends on your raw motivation. Are you part of any raw groups or forums? some of them and are very informative and supportive|||Only if the tea is raw.|||Yes.
I know that veggies have more nutrients when raw but that's all I know. I am vegan but I'm not sure about the raw food thing...|||I started eating raw quite by accident -- I just did not cook, but ate what I called a "progressive salad" - I would prepare a salad on a base of chopped cabbage, and eat what I wanted then put what was left in the refrigerator. Each day, I would add something to the mix, until I finally ate the whole bowl by the end of the week.
I eat raw vegetables and fruit, as well as raw nuts and seeds, and sprouts. This does not mean only salads -- I grind things up and make pates, soups, casseroles, desserts, and other things. I also drink smoothies.|||You basically just answered your own question. When your eating veggies, they help your body a lot because of how high they are in ceratain vitamins and nutrients. When you boil or cook them, most of those all-important nutrients are lost leaving you with a great-tasting, but less nutricous meal.
Example: You eat a raw carrot and it gives your body certain nutrients that help obtain greater vision. But shaving off the skin (which is where most of the nutrients are) or boiling them, will leave you with a tastier (in theory) meal, but won't help nearly as much|||its easier to digest.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
I bought raw food, and they wouldn't touch it.|||Yeah, it's rarely that easy. If you bought commercial raw food, I know it's expensive so don't give up just yet.
Here are some tips:
You can try putting a smear of food on his nose or mouth. That'll cause him to lick it. If he likes it, he may try more.
Bribes. Crush some kibble and sprinkle it over the top. Try fish or liver flakes, parmesan cheese, a drop of soy sauce, meaty baby food (with no added onion or garlic), whatever it takes. If there's a canned food your cat ADORES, try mixing the raw with it or just smearing some canned over the raw. That's what I'm doing right now to get my second cat to eat raw.
You can run the food (in a container of course) under hot or warm water or even nuke it for a few seconds to bring it to "mouse body temperature." This may also release the scent and that may draw the cat in.
Don't try starving the cat into submission. That could ultimately be fatal. You may want to cut back a bit on the regular food so that hunger may encourage him to eat, but don't force the issue. As he starts eating more canned, you will decrease the amount of kibble he's getting. But just be sure that he gets enough to eat every day.
If you've got a kibble junky on your hands, it might be easier to first convert him or her to canned food, and then try the raw. This has been a tried and true method for many including myself. Once the cats are happily eating canned food, start slipping a bit of meat into it. Just a speck to start with. Gradually increase that amount. If the cat balks, back down a bit but keep at it.
|||mix it with their regular food, if possible.|||What do you mean raw food? If it's like chicken try cutting it up a little!|||It should be cut in small pieces and mixed with some veggies www.pet-grub.com If they still don't like it, introduce it slowly mixed into their regular food.|||I really suggest you cook. Cooking it would avoid your cat getting sick ( it will kill any bacteria in it).|||some pet stores sell it frozen with other nutrients inside of it for cats. She might like that better. Otherwise, if it is like liver, try frying it very lightly as the texture is gross when raw.|||That's the problem in a nutshell. When cats are weaned their mothers teach them what is safe to eat and what is not. So cats who have eaten canned or dry food most of their lives can be very difficult to change to food in another form.
When I started eight years ago that was the only food that was offered. The first day no one ate, the second day three cats ate the food. They had been used to eating canned food so the consistency was similar to the raw ground meat preparation. Two never would (they had never had anything except dry food in their lives).
When one cat developed bladder cancer at age eleven I just insisted that he eat it and it took a week or so before he would eat more than a very small amount in a day. Now at 13 he eats a normal amount as do the other cats. He gets some dry food a few times a week in "treat" quantities.
You can go to the site: http://www.felineinstincts.com and contact Felice who makes the supplement powder I use. She is vastly experienced in cats making the transition to raw and will gladly offer you some suggestions.
I also belong to the Yahoo group WholeCatHealth where the members are feeding raw or in the process of making the transition. You can get a lot of support from the members and tips on how to do it.
I was talking a few weeks ago to Gail Pope who is the director of the Brighthaven Sanctuary in Sonoma, CA. Her cats have a raw meat diet. She said that cats LOVE colostrum which is a product you can get in capsule form from a health foods store. She uses it with her ailing cats. When you use it therapeutically it is NOT given with food. And Gail said that the cats ADORE it. So maybe sprinking some of that on the food would get them to eat it even though they wouldn't be getting the benefits from the colostrum as such. When given with food it is just digested along with the food and doesn't have the health benefit if given between meals.|||We alway's cook any fish we give them... that we buy are are on their sell by date but we won't eat it or somthing... just under the grill for 15 minutes or so and put it in their bowels|||Raw feeding is the practice of feeding domestic cats a diet primarily of uncooked meat, edible bones, and organs.
Supporters of raw feeding believe that the natural diet an animal in the wild has evolved to consume is what it is most adapted to.They try to mimic a similar diet for their domestic companion with the belief that a balanced raw diet has the benefits of giving the animal a healthier coat, cleaner teeth and breath, reduced stool volume and odor, and better overall health.
While the scientific community contend that no studies have been done to support the numerous beneficial claims of a raw diet, raw feeders feel that the burden of proof to show that commercial diets are superior and safer than raw diets rest on pet food manufacturers and veterinarians.
However there are some best raw Cat- foods such as >>>> http://www.agritura.com/index.php/cat/c3鈥?/a>|||You have to build your cat up into eating raw because your cat doesn't understand that it's food. I'm assuming you have always fed manufacted foods, so that's all your cat knows is safe. Go slow and work at it with your cat.
You can also find some great tips here.
http://www.catinfo.org/#Transitioning_Dr鈥?/a>
Though they address transitions dry food addicts to canned, they also apply to raw. I also recommend you go ahead and read that whole site because it is a fantastic source of information!
Im average weight but i just need to lose those last 10 pounds. I am on the atkins diet now and i have only lost about 3 pounds. I was thinking of doing the raw food diet, except i would eat meat on it and ezekiel bread once in a while.
Can someone who is average weight and needs to lose 10 pounds, lose the weight on a raw food diet?|||Fresh vegetables are better than cooked or canned vegetables. Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the vitamins in them. And canned vegetables too are processed and are not nearly half as good as fresh vegetables. When you buy your vegetables it would be a good thing to see if the label says that it is pesticide free.|||Drink a glass of water before you start the meal. Water naturally needs some space so that you feel fuller without actually having to stuff yourself.
Choose fresh fruit to processed fruits. Processed and canned fruits do not have as much fiber as fresh fruit and processed and canned fruits are nearly always sweetened.|||Stay away from fried things. Fried things are an absolute no-no. The more fried things that you avoid, the lesser weight you will gain. Fried things are called so because they are fried in oil or fat. And even if the external oil is drained away, there is still a lot of hidden oil in it so stay away from it.|||Count the calories as you eat. It鈥檚 a good idea to have an idea of the calories that most food items have. If it is a packed thing then the label is sure to have the calories that the substance has.
I want to start a Raw Food Diet to see if I can feel any benefits from it and to test my willpower. Does anyone know any good sources of protein on a raw food diet? Or any good recipe ideas?
Thank you very much!|||A raw food diet is very good for you, however to just jump into eating nothing but raw can have some grave effects on your body if you are not aware of the pitfalls. Eating nothing but raw food with NO meat, will leave you vitamin B-12 deficient and since it is stored in the liver, it takes some time to see the effects of this. If you will notice, most people eating only raw food look placid and not totally healthy. You need fat and animal fat is what we were designed to eat. The problem is that the typical animal fat you get from grain fed animals is very bad for you. Grain feeding animals is much cheaper and profit is king over health in America. Grass fed dairy cows, for instance, live 4 times longer than grain fed cows. This is because cows are a big fermentation vat and feeding them grains does what it does to people, makes them inflamed and sick, so they give them antibiotics. Those drugs destroy the intestinal bacteria in cows, just like they do in humans and you get bad bacteria fermenting in the "vat" causing the cows to be sick. The fat then runs through the meat (marbling) and that is where the toxins are stored. Yes, it's more tender, but devastates your health. So there is a good arguement for eating raw. The problem is that you need that animal fat to be truly healthy. So, the best thing is to get and only eat GRASS FED ANIMALS, like the primitive people did.
Eating raw food puts a burden on your kidneys and if they are strong, there is no problem, however, if you are like most Americans, your kidneys are NOT strong due to all the toxic build up in your body from eating the SAD diet (standard American diet). So you want those kidneys to be strong or you could create a very serious problem for your health. The best rule of thumb is to eat 50% raw food and the rest cooked, but not cooking it on high heat. I use water to cook grass fed hamburger in a skillet and it works great. That way, the temperature never exceeds a high temperature like you get in using oil.
When cooking a grass fed steak, like New York, cook it for about an hour using 6 brickets and the steak placed to the side of the burning brickets, that way, the temperature is not too high and it cooks very tender and juicy. You only need to heat the outside of a piece of meat because that is where the bacteria are, not the inside, unless it is hamburger where it is all mixed up. The fat from grass fed animals is on the outside of the meat, not in it like grain fed animals. The fat is good for you and contains lots of omega 3 fatty acids and is balanced with more omega 3 than salmon if the grass fed cows are not "finished" before slaughter. The contain lots of CLA, vitamin E and K as well and loaded with minerals that nourish your body.
Protein sources from raw food is generally done by combining foods because each food has some amino acids that others don't and by combining them, you come close to creating a "complete" protein. Many vegans and vegetarians rely on SOY as a complete protein, but when the do this, they get all kins of booby prizes and become less healthy. SOY is not a good food, unless it is fermented and the bacteria get the booby prizes. Soy will cause males to lose 1/2 of their sperm count, make man boobs from the phytoestrogens, and their metabolism will slow down due to the goitrogens in soy. Soy is loaded with the heavy metal, Aluminum that also greatly affects the thyroid gland. In fact, SOY is a nitrogen fixing plant that is good for putting nitrogen into the soil to help other plants grow better, but it also is used to remove the Aluminum and when you eat it, you get the booby prize.
There are some very good books on raw foods that are excellent. A good thing to do is go to a RAW FOOD RESTAURANT and look at their menu and then get a Raw Food Cookbook and get creative.
As part of that process, you will want to eat lots of fermented foods and drinks. Kombucha, homemade kefir from RAW MILK of grass fed cows, sauerkraut, fermented vegetables are all foods that will boost your immune system and help you become more healthy.
EDIT: "Boreus" you are wrong about the amount of protein a person needs because it is relatively easy to calculate. There is an average amount that has been accepted as a general rule that fits most people: 40% carbs, 30% fats, and 30% proteins. The issue is not really the amount of protein, but the "completeness" of the protein. Your body has a "utilization curve" for protein based on the amount of each amino acid combination in a complete protein. Eggs are used as the standard for this. All other proteins are compared to the "curve" found in eggs. A good example of this is the combination of beans and corn. Both of these foods have different amounts of amino acids and when combined, they closely can match what is found in eggs relative to the levels of each amino acid level. So by combining these two items, you get a pretty good complete protein.
A person can get very good complete protein by eating 1 whole egg per day. Eating just the whites is NOT GOOD SCIENCE. It is dumb and being promoted by ignorant people who believe the cholesterol in eggs is bad for you. If you eat just the whites, you create a protein deficiency in your body and are not getting the other 1/2 amino acid compliment found in the yolk. The yolk contains all the minerals as well.
If you eat an amount of protein that your body cannot use, your body converts that protein into saturated fat that feeds your heart and is used in the body in many places. To demonize saturated fat the way it is being done comes from the dogma created by the ego maniac Ancel Keys from his now refuted and totally wrong "lipid hypothesis" that saturated fat somehow causes heart disease.
good luck to you|||First off, there is no consensus on just how much protein a person needs.
Basically sprouts can be a healthy option for you.
Here are some references:
34 vegetables highest in protein:
http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articl鈥?/a>
Fruits highest in protein:
http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articl鈥?/a>
Seeds and nuts lowest in calories (protein amounts are listed):
http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articl鈥?/a>|||Nuts
Seeds
Beans
Legumes
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/popularh鈥?/a>
See article above for more information on this. This diet is typically a low protein diet anyway. Hope this helps.|||Raw meat, raw eggs, raw milk, sashimi?
Nuts have a good amount of protein in them, so give that a try.|||Sushi or Steak Tartar, both are raw meat dishes with a lot of protein.
I want to start a Raw Food Diet to see if I can feel any benefits from it and to test my willpower. Does anyone know any good sources of protein on a raw food diet? Or any good recipe ideas?
Thank you very much!|||Raw foodists eat so many nuts (and things made out of nuts, like burgers, sauces, milk and cookies) that lack of protein is not a concern.
Good recipes for a beginner can be found in Jennifer Cornbleet's "Raw Food Made Easy."
In response to a previous answer- tofu and soy sauce are not raw foods.|||Hi Jasmine,
Congrat on deciding to give Raw Food Diet a try!
My best recommendation to you is tofu. I know that lots of people find tofu less than appetizing (though I hope you're not one of them), but that's largely due to the fact that they're not aware of the versatility and history of food creation with soy.
The one recipe I can give you that is simple to make involves using silken tofu:
* Purchase a box of silken tofu from your local supermarket. Carefully remove the tofu from the package, and dice the tofu in half-cubic-inch sizes. Place the tofu on a dish or shallow bowl. Be sure to drain the liquid (no rinsing required).
* Use regular or low-sodium soy sauce (preferably by Kikkoman) and drizzle on top of the dish of tofu to desired amount.
* Chop fresh green onions (scallion) and cilantro (if you like) and sprinkle on top of the tofu.
That's it!
There are literally hundreds of dishes the Asians can create with tofu, ranging from salty dishes, soups, appetizers and even snacks and deserts. They also come in various physical forms, either in original white tofu or fried, puffed, or pressed (not sure if I've named them all). Although not all of them can be eaten raw of course, but the variety and the great flavors they yield may be worth your while to explore!
Good luck with your new diet regime! I hope I helped a little bit.
Rachel ^_+|||Tofu is not raw, most of the time.
Here is an article on raw vegan sources of protein, explained by raw vegan athletes and celebrities:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article鈥?/a>
Also, leafy greens are a dense source of amino acids:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article鈥?/a>
I agree about Jennifer Cornbleet's book. You might want to read this for more info:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article鈥?/a>|||From almost everything you eat.|||nuts, beans and seeds. I would just take your favorites and make a trail mix out of them.|||flax seeds!!
they contain protein and more omega 3 than fish!!|||der eat nuts or beans
I want to start eating better and I know that eating more raw food will help. The thing is I am not sure how to start such a program. Any help will be appreciated!|||well normally it takes about a week until the body get ready of the bad stuff, normally you have to take juices, vegies, natural food, no fried, home style food is the best, also until you body digest system starts working normally, you have to drink lots of water, flush the system. You start to feel the difference, and also depends on your system and how well you stick to the diet.|||Christians cook there food before eating it.|||Go for raw spring rolls (often called "fresh spring rolls"). Generally, these have prawns or chicken in them (and that might be no bad thing as an occasional 'treat' or 'protein fix' in the diet)... otherwise, you'll need some spring roll wrappers from the supermarket (boxes of seven-to-ten, fantastic list of ingredients on the back that says "Ingredients: rice flour" - that's simple and to the point, isn't it?!). Then fill them with chopped carrot, bamboo shoot, beansprout, spring onion / salad onion, cucumber and sesame seed, a bit of hoi sin sauce if your regime will allow, and wrap them up. Dip in soy sauce (again, if regime will allow). Yummmmeeeee.|||I started mine by getting several Raw Food Diet books from the Library.
Here are 2 very good Websites for people wanting to do RAW Foods.
http://www.thegardendiet.com/
http://www.hacres.com/home/home.asp
Slaint茅 (Gaelic, means to Your Health)|||Thats a good question. Start with different ways of preparing vegetables and store them in cling film in the fridge and when ever you feel hungry or are going to prepare a meal you will have more inspiration. It worked with me. Then I started out with Cottage Cheese and Grated Carrot, then I tried Bamboo Sprouts with Mushrooms and Cheese, then Kidney Beans with Pease Pudding and Fromais Fraise, then Pasta with Beetroot and Cabbage.
I started researching the BARF diet after my dog got sick and I have decided to stop or at least start weaning my dog Bob off of store bought dog food.
The comments I'm finding are mixed, while a large amount say it is a good idea there are a handful that say it's not healthy.
Is it? Would Bob, my two year old (almost three) Westie be healthier on a raw food diet or would I be doing him more harm?|||Feeding raw is the natural way for a dog to eat. Think about it - commercial dog food is a relatively new invention; people have had dogs as pets for hundreds of years before there was dog food.
As long as you're researching it and feeding it correctly, its absolutely healthy. Even vets are on board with feeding raw now - my vet's office sells raw food.|||My Crested has been on a raw diet for over a month now.
He has white teeth, and I have not brushed his teeth since starting the diet.. chewing on the raw meat and bones has removed 5 years worth of plaque.
His skin is in the best shape its ever been. He's had fair skin to begin with, but Im not finding the ussual blackheads. The skin eruptions he ussually gets on his feet and neck have lessesned, he also licks at his feet less.
Stools are firm, he gets loose stools easily.
As long as you've researched to learn how to balance the diet, a raw diet is the healthiest thing you can feed your dog.|||Put it this way: anatomically, dogs have not changed much since the days before they were domesticated. Their insides are very similar to that of wolves. In the wild, do you think that dogs would eat commerical dog food? Of course not. All a dog needs to be healthy is raw meat, plain and simple. You know exactly what they are getting - no additives, corn, soya, etc. I would definitely encourage it.|||As long as you are feeding a good complete and balanced diet, raw feeding is very healthy for your dog. Especially if you are having certain potentially diet-related problems with your dog. (you would be amazed how many 'normal' health problems dogs have are related to diet) Your dogs size and/or breed really don't make a whole lot of difference other than requiring you match your dogs portions to his size. I personally prefer prey model diets to BARF, but I think both are a big step up from kibble.
This is one of those things that you really will never get an official answer on. Even among vets there is a huge amount of disagreement as to what diets are the best. Much of it is due to lack of education on nutrition, and some simply out of hesitation because raw meat would make US sick (though we know that dogs and humans are NOT created equal). In the end, it's a decision you have to make for you and your dog and see how it works for you.|||I personally dont feed raw...its just not for me, Im a vegetarian so its a little tough for me to deal with that amount of raw meat, but, it is healthy for your dog. Just make sure you do your research very well so you know exactly how much and what to feed your little guy.|||He may be suffering from allergy symptoms. Try the food "Blue Buffalo," the food contains the least allergens possible, and is ultra-digestible.
Excellent potency in vegetable and fruit content and has worked wonders in my dogs.|||Natures Variety has a raw diet that's good and easy to use.Look at their web site and you can get coupons.|||I don't feed raw, but if I did I would feed prey model diet, and not BARF. Starring for my contacts that feed raw.|||Gee cute the way you are going one would think you are against raw feeding.
1. The digestive tracts of dogs have NOT changed through domestication and suddenly rendered them unable to process raw meat, bones and organs or even made them omnivores either for that matter. Dogs still have the same short guts and ph levels needed for consuming and eating the raw diet
2. Sickness and death huh? Then explain why there are TONS of dog, cat and even ferret breeders who have had MULTI generations of animals on this diet and ALL have died well into the life expectancies of their breeds if not live longer? Explain why there are more and more litters of pups who never have and never will be on kibble and are perfectly healthy.
3. Wrong again on the vets. Not only are there vets who recommend and encourage people to feed raw but there are vets who do it themselves. Nutrition is not a required course in vet school.
4. Disease/Germs - the same proper food handling skills we use in our own food are applied here. And again animal vs human - their stomachs are NOT like ours and never will be. Their threshold for things like e coli and salmonella are much higher. Someone's home is only at risk if they keep a dirty house and live like pigs. Clean habits make for healthy people AND animals
To the op - yes you can feed your dog raw. If he's healthy now there is NO reason not to switch to raw especially if his illness was kibble related.
Most people aren't vets, think of dogs in human terms, and honestly have NO clue about raw feeding to begin with. Here are some links for you to check out, mostly prey model though as IMO dogs do not need plant matter in their diet beyond the occasional treat.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Rawfe鈥?/a>
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawCh鈥?/a>
http://www.rawfeddogs.net/
http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html
http://www.mypetcarnivore.com/rawfeeding鈥?/a>
http://rawdiettruth.blogspot.com/
http://www.topdog.ie/index.php?pageid=ra鈥?/a>
Winnie here looks like she is at death's door doesn't she?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muuHxpMCL鈥?/a>|||Any uncooked food contains bacteria such as salmonella, e.coli, etc. any uncooked food is harmful to either human or pet. We cannot compare wild animals such as wolves to our pets! Canidae Grain-Free and Taste of the Wild are the most recommended dog foods
The raw diet is okay for a wolf, coyote, fox or other wild dog. But thousands of years of domestication has changed the digestive system of the dog. they are at risk of getting sick from the same bacteria we are such as the ones i mentioned
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Most of those people, when they did mention raw diets to their veterinarians, got a lecture about the dangers of homemade diets and raw foods in particular. A lot of vets think it's impossible to make a homemade meal for a dog or cat without a PhD in nutrition and a food laboratory in the garage. And a raw diet? Given the amount of bacteria in raw meat, they say, that's a recipe for sickness and death for your pets.
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Im going to go on a raw food diet, and i know lots of people lose weight on it, but i was just wondering if you can get actually skinny on it. All of the before and after pictures I've looked at show people who've lost a lot of weight, but none of them are *skinny*. Help please?|||I know lots of skinny people that are on a raw food diet. Though, they do it for political or health reasons, not for losing weight. They are also physically active, so they are skinny, but muscular. I'd say if any diet would help you get "skinny", this would be it. Remember to drink lots of water, and please do some research about nutritional requirements before doing it. If you become very tired, you may be anemic, and you should watch for this, especially if you've never done a vegetarian/vegan diet before.|||If you are looking to be anorexic, this is not the way. If you are looking to be healthy, this diet combined with proper exercise can achieve the goal of mind and body perfection.
Stay away from raw gluten products.
Anything below 10% body fat is ridiculous and unhealthy|||its all about hte ammount of calories you consume... raw food diets are healthy though, they offer maximum nutrients for what you consume.
I have 2 five months old cats. I have them on a raw food diet. i give them chicken mixed with wiskers satchets in the morning and kangaroo meat mixed at nite and give then biscuits during the day. I have read heaps of good things about raw food|||Yes! Feeding cats raw is the ONLY diet they should be fed! I feed my cats only a raw diet and they are soooooo healthy!
Heres' some websites that back up raw feeding!
http://www.catinfo.org/
http://www.catnutrition.org/
http://www.rawfedcats.org/
http://www.felinespride.com/
http://www.felinefuture.com/
http://www.felineinstincts.com/index.htm鈥?/a>
http://www.raisingcatsnaturally.com/
http://www.blakkatz.com/index.html
http://www.holisticat.com/
http://goldcoastragdolls.com/MyOwnCatFoo鈥?/a>
http://www.mypetcarnivore.com/rawfeeding鈥?/a>|||Yes it is my cat had it for all its life and died when it was 18 (longer than cats live) also make sure it has milk and water|||I think feeding raw raw food to kitties is a good thing, I would be concerned about the age of the kittens - Young kittens will not have the immune system to fight off bacteria and virus that grow on raw cat food, although I suspect 5 mth old kittens will have a healthy immune system, and you shouldn't have to worry.
As for being healthy or not, I think that it is very healthy. Cats are carnivores, eating their food raw and having only vegetable matter found in the stomach of a mouse or bird. You might want to consider adding chunks of raw meat to your cats diet, After observing my two cats eat a piece of raw beef, I noticed that the way a cat chews raw meat looks like it will clean teeth. The vet also said my cats teeth were very clean.
I've read lots of stories about how a changing to a raw diet cured things such as diabetes, Kidney problems, stomach problems. I don't think this is a much researched area in the vet field (no money, its all tied up with big pet food companies like purina), and I know that there are a lot of vets totally against it.
On another note, be very careful if you have children or young kids running around. You don't want them getting salmonella, or e-coli.|||if you are feeding raw for more than 20% of the diet then it needs to be properly supplemented. You can buy a commercial product from a high end pet store or you can make your own. See www.catinfo.org for more info including a recipe (but not for kangaroo) and for more detailed www.holisticat.com|||Er, cats only eat raw food? Why are you cooking your cats food?
Just go to the pet store and by rodents meant for snakes and things like that. Maybe keep a fish tank with tasty fish. Cats should not eat chicken, or really anything that is too big for them to catch in the wild.
However they are natural hunters, and IMHO it is the most healthy thing a cat can do to eat prey that it has caught itself. Sure they can get worms or whatever, but that's natural and you can just have it dewormed if it becomes a problem. However, a HEALTHY, fit outdoor hunter kitty should not need to worry, as their bodies are meant to deal with such things.|||I wouldn't feed your cats raw meat, your cats can get worms or salmonella. It's OK to feed your cat cooked meat once and a while for a nice little treat.|||I would like to start feeding my cats a raw diet. Commercial cat food has grains, vegetable and fruits which cats do not need. Right now I am looking around for a grinder that can handle the bones. Just do a search on BARF for recipes. (bones and raw food)|||If you're careful and do it right, it's OK - but not nearly as beneficial as the cultists would have you believe.|||not sure, but wild cats eat raw food.|||It's a great idea but you cannot do it the way you are. it needs to be specially prepared as cats have different needs then humans. On another note, there is never a reason to feed dry food and it shouldn't be fed.
Here is how to make and prepare a raw diet
http://www.catinfo.org/makingcatfood.htm
http://www.mousabilities.com/cats/food/h鈥?/a>|||I would not give your cat raw food. You could cook it as in boiling chicken, or broil some fish with nothing on it. Do not give your cat milk that you drink. It is homogenised and can make your cat sick. If you want to give it milk you can get queens milk from your pet store. I would consult a animal doc before feeding raw meat to your cat.|||raw food is not a good idea
Hi guys,
Since the beginning of 2012 I have been on a 90% raw food diet. It has prooved to be an easily maintained diet and I feel amazing BUT...I'm curious to know from the raw veterans...what are your best combinations and how do you get majority of your proteins? THANKS in advance.|||COmbos- flame grapes and walnuts. Just saying...amazing.
Lentils, split peas ( yellow and green) soaked for a few days, make into a curry with walnuts and sweet potato, or just plain.
Avocado, black bean ( soak them), corn pea and spinach salad, with whatever dressing.
Almond and chocolate tarte- use raw cocoa, almond meal, agave, dates and avocado for the filling, oatmeal and walnut flour for the crust.
Raw Gado Gado- an authetic raw salad from Indonesia, cauliflour, cabbage, red onion, carrot, garlic, with a peanut soysauce and chili.
I've been eating this way 20 years. Went into it reluctantly ( was in a situation with no really cooking or access to cooked food and was easier to just eat good food for a month ) then woke up third day feeling as I have never felt before and had to admit, daim. I now know how a human body is actually designed to feel, as it sound like you are now aware of, but no way would I have done it on my own accord or if I'd been thinking too much.
Protein and iron are easy to get- soaked beans, sprouted foods like bean sprouts, radish, cover alfalfa, broccoli sprouts and all the sprouting the beans do when soaking- full of nutrients like that. Soynuts, spirulina, wakame, nori, all have iron, protein, calcium.|||Dead animal can be created quite easily.|||Lawl, typical american overweight.|||cucumber, carrot
I'm trying to halt some health conditions that I feel have been caused or aggravated by following the S.A.D. for the better part of my 49 years. Psoriasis, visceral obesity, hypertension (but oddly, only October-March, yearly), and diabetes-type 2 are my immediate concerns. About 10 years ago, I tried to go 100% vegetarian, but achieved only about 90%, stopping at lacto-ovo with 0% soy. My dairy is limited to that which is present in processed foods (e.g., store-bought baked goods and frozen entrees) and half-n-half in an occasional cup of decaf coffee. And, in an effort to lose some of my excess weight, I've recently learned about and am trying a raw & living food diet (RALF--a terrible but spot-on acronym)...but, I have some reservations.
1. I am gluten sensitive...reactive but not a full-blown celiac.
2. I wear dentures, meaning nuts & seeds must be ground almost to flour for comfortable consumption.
3. Some raw veggies, such as carrots, cauliflower & broccoli, present chewing discomfort (see #2 above), unless they're liquefied, prepared very finely, or dehydrated & ground.
4. And last but not least, no matter how many green shakes & salads and whole fruits I consume, I'm always left with an overwhelming craving for "bad-carb" comfort foods...like potatoes, pasta, breads, and far worse, cookies or crackers.
So, can you please recommend some good- or low-carb RALF options?
(BTW, I do take gymnema daily, but it only curbs the carb cravings; it does not eliminate them.)|||What you are craving is not carbs, but probably fat. I find avocado's, durian and olives to be very satisfying when I get that craving. Fatty vegetables are the bridge from the S.A.D. to a raw-food vegan lifestyle!|||Glad I could help! Any information I can provide to beginning raw foodists is my goal! :) Report Abuse
|||Uh...nuts and seeds do not contain ANY carbs.
Sprouted rice would be a good thing for you to eat, since it's a carb but also gluten-free. Fresh fruits are also a source of carbs (sugar).|||Eat five or six small meals or snacks a day instead of three large meals. A 1999 South African study found that when men ate parts of their morning meal at intervals over five hours, they consumed almost 30 percent fewer calories at lunch than when they ate a single breakfast. Other studies show that even if you eat the same number of calories distributed this way, your body releases less insulin, which keeps blood sugar steady and helps control hunger.
Like Salmonella and others?
Even if you are vegan and on a raw food diet, the manure used to grow that food could be contaminated with salmonella or that mad cow disease, right?|||I would say you are no more or no less susceptible.
With all the recalls, most was foods that most EVERYONE eats raw.
the last few well publicized recalls were all produce.
Even the one in Europe was cucumbers.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/01鈥?/a>
A while back it was spinach at one point, green onions at some point and even tomatoes.
Peanut butter as well.
http://pediatrics.about.com/b/2011/04/06鈥?/a>
http://www.newsday.com/business/green-on鈥?/a>
http://peanutrecall.com/
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2011/鈥?/a>
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/04/23/c鈥?/a>
http://pediatrics.about.com/b/2011/03/23鈥?/a>
Each one of these links is for a different vegetable or fruit by the way, not several articles on the same item.
Scary huh?
Especially when you realize that both salmonella and e-coli can be killed in the cooking process.
While meat and eggs gets the reputation thanks to vegans, vegetarians and fear mongers, produce has just as many or more problems.
Colleen, meat companies don't go around 'dumping crap" on veggie fields unless they are asked to and well rotted manure is an acceptible, non chemical form of fertilizer. Would you prefer chemical fertilizer over natural?? you cannot have it both ways.
And Salmonella is also caused by produce workers who do not wash their hands after using the bathroom, or rats living in the warehouses and fields where produce is grown or stored or birds flying over head. Ditto with e-coli by the way which lives naturally in the intestinal tracts of many humans and animals. You cannot blame ONLY meat producers...|||Salmonella is a direct cause of the meat industry. Salmonella is an enteric bacterium, which means that it lives in the intestinal tracts of humans and other animals, including birds. Salmonella bacteria are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces or foods that have been handled by infected food service workers who have practised poor personal hygiene. Contaminated foods usually look and smell normal. Contaminated foods are often of animal origin, such as beef, poultry, milk, or eggs, but all foods, including vegetables, may become contaminated. Many raw foods of animal origin are frequently contaminated, but thorough cooking kills Salmonella.
So, if the meat industry stopped dumping crap on our crops, chances are salmonella in food would be practically non existent. Until then, raw foodists may be at a risk if they eat raw fruits and vegetables from non trustworthy sources.|||Not more susceptible to salmonella since cooking doesn't necessarily kill it. Not at all susceptible to mad cow disease (in humans this is called vCJD) since it is caused by prions which are in the meat and not on plants etc unless you eat a plant with some meat on it.
However there are some pathogens which are more likely to be eaten on raw foods, bacteria and fungi etc. But it's important to note that these are typically only harmful if you have an immune disorder and by exposure to pathogens you actually strengthen your immune system (when the exposure is too small to actually make you sick). So pathogens are one thing I doubt raw foodies will be more likely to experience...|||Never thought of that. I'm never sick. Except when I eat at a bad restaurant ( thanks to the local taco for making three day old guac still on the menu).
I do find I repel diseases, colds, flu and stomach bugs a lot more. And I don't get food borne diseases from tainted peanut paste and cheese and other processed food issues that a lot of my friends do- a stomach flu will go round, and I don't get it. Etc.
As far as the recent melon deaths go, anyone could have got that. Same for most salad based raw items.|||Not mad cow disease. That's a brain prion disease. To get it, you have to basically eat some of an infected animal's brain or nervous system. But, yes, several dangerous pathogens, including salmonella, can be killed with proper cooking. Recently we have had two big outbreaks that killed lots of people. Not from meat, but from fresh veggies and fruit (cantaloupe and sprouts). Several years ago the USDA really cracked down on meat processing and, while there are often meat recalls, very few people actually get sick or die anymore. The FDA hasn't done nearly as good a job with fruits and veggies.
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/salm鈥?/a>
I'm 92lbs and my weight is always stable. Recently I've discovered a raw food diet and I felt unbelievably good after staying on it for 3 days, that I want to incorporate it into my normal diet (pescitarian). I'm just worried that I might lose weight on it, which I can't really afford to do.|||If you eat the same amount of calories, it should be stable. Taking in lots of raw nuts, which I understand to be raw food's main source of protein, have lots of fat too.
Are you going to keep eating milk and the like? (I dunno it its considered raw... sorry :))|||hello, if you keep you calories up your body wont lose weight if it doesnt need to on health foods. look at alot of raw foodists...alot of them are not skinny. its all about the calorie intake. it doesnt matter what its coming from:) by the way if you wanna add on some weight when you are looking a bit to thin drink smoothies. i have a great link to raw food smoothies. check it out:)http://www.greensmoothiequeen.com/gogree鈥?/a>|||Fruits and nuts are an important part of the raw food diet and are both good sources of calories. If you eat the same number of calories as before you would maintain your weight.|||Yeah, look at all the garbage those people eat.
LONG years I have been on a raw food diet. Uncooked grains, raw nuts, veggies, fruit, raw venison, salmon, other fish and even beef. I haven't eaten a cooked meal in who knows how long. My doctor is in AWE and doesn't know what to say to me. Is it BAD to eat this way? I feel so healthy and energetic all the time and aside from my chest and my backside, the rest of my body has fat at about 2 percentile. It's just the way I've been. I didn't find out I was stinkin 4 months pregnant til last night, I am not showing at ALL and I exercised like crazy like I always do and have been fine except for my blood sugar, while is totally messing my head and my nerves up! Doc says my diet isn't causing my blood sugar to do that, he said it's "genetics", but how the heck do I know? Parents arent around.. My bf is consoling and everything but my blood sugar is so bad I don't want him to TOUCH me. He's my housewife and I work ALL day, 12 hour days. I work long days and eat a raw diet,am I hurting fetus?|||The baby will take the nutrients that it needs from your body, so no, you are not hurting him/her............ if your concerned take vitamins. If a raw diet is what your body is used to then continue it unless your Dr. says otherwise. Relax and enjoy being pregnant!|||When you are pregnant you definitley need to cook the meat and fish. The veggies, etc are fine, but even like the deli meats and stuff have to be heated because they can cause listeria, and raw meat can cause toxoplasmosis.|||I would suggest you follow doctors orders on this he is the one examining you and knows your history. I would think they would be worried about e-coli or salmonela eating raw meat and such.
Best of luck to you|||You definitely need to listen to your doctor on this one hun. You can't eat that way when you're pregnant. You can easily get any type of food poisoning that could kill your unborn child. Things that don't hurt you physically, CAN hurt your baby, so you need to avoid any uncooked food.|||I call bull ****!!! stop asking questions about pregnancy stay with the dog section its more your speed. your sob stories suck anybody who is a health buff would now that raw meat isn't good for them never mind a growing baby.|||WHOA! You need to see a specialist in diabetes ASAP! Sounds like you have gestational diabetes. If it's not your food that's messing you up, it's now your pregnancy.
The erratic blood sugars will do more damage to your baby than eating raw foods. Raw meats might lead to parasites, think e coli, salmonella and amoebas, whatever, but gestational diabetes DEFINITELY creates a risk of birth defects and a higher chance your kid will eventually be diabetic.
I just watched a documentary on going on a raw food diet, and from what I saw it's supposed to make you feel a LOT better, but how would you go about starting this diet without spending TOO much money?|||Fresh produce can be costly, especially in winter when a lot of things are imported. You'll have to compare prices in the stores and markets in your area to find the best buys.
Lots of help online, some may link to local groups:
I'm thinking of trying a raw food diet for my dog for the first time. I understand that dogs are much more resistant than humans when it comes to parasites and bacteria which may be in the raw meat. What are some precautions that I can take? I heard soaking the meet in apple cider vinegar for a bit will take care of any parasites, etc. Thanks.|||You don't have to soak it in anything. I just wash the dog and cats meat like I do mine. Run it under cold water for a few seconds. After they are done eating you can wipe up their area with 50%white vinegar and 50% water. My dog with a sensitive stomach has never had a problem with bacteria. We tested apple cider vinegar for riding of ecoli bacteria in my biology lab and it did very poorly and if you were to use apple cider vinegar you want it to be raw and organic.
EDIT: Vets hardly know anything about dogs diets and raw chicken, pork, beef, fish, bison, lamp, goat etc can be fed with no problem. The bones clean the teeth without brushing. Their is no risk with raw unless you don't feed it correctly.|||No need to soak the meat in apple cider vinegar or anything else. Just utilize safe food handling practices.
Keep meat properly refrigerated. Wash meat under cool water before packaging or preparing. Freeze meat for long-term use. Thaw meat properly in the refrigerator, or allow to thaw in cool to warm water. Wash hands, bowls, utensils, and counters with warm soapy water to prevent the spread of germs. Keep feeding areas clean; a vinegar and water solution is a cheap, safe, and effective cleaner.
I've been feeding raw for over a year now, and neither me or my dogs have become sick from Salmonella, E. coli, or any other food-borne illness. And as long as you follow safe food handling practices, you and yours won't either.
Also, in case you hadn't seen these links before, here are some great raw-feeding resources:
http://www.rawmeatybones.com/petowners/w鈥?/a>
http://www.rawmeatybones.com/diet/exp-di鈥?/a>
http://www.ukrmb.co.uk/images/ww.pdf
http://www.rawfed.com/myths/
http://preymodelraw.com/how-to-get-start鈥?/a>
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfe鈥?/a>
http://dogfoodchat.com/forum/raw-feeding鈥?/a>
Hope that helps! Good luck!|||Check out this site:
www.dogfoodchat.com
Log onto the forum there and go to the raw feeding section.
You will find all you need to know about feeding raw. When you get time, trawl through the archives because you will find a whole lot of info to help you.
Re meat, I freeze pork for 2 weeks to kill any parasites and I do that with organs as well.|||You've heard a lot of things that are frankly wrong. (sorry, but its true). I'm not so worried about parasites, more the bacterial load.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwB-w5ImP鈥?/a> for a more detailed discussion.|||No need to soak it in anything.
Check these sites out to help you with your research. You need to know what you are doing before attempting the prey model raw diet.
http://www.rawlearning.com
http://www.rawfeddogs.net
http://www.rawmeatybones.com
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfe鈥?/a>|||You don't need to do anything. Just give them the meat. If you really worry about parasites you can freeze the meat for 3 weeks to kill anything.
And like cavy slave said, vets are not nutritionists, they are doctors.|||it can be complicated to change the diet of your dog from dog food to a raw food diet, i suggest that you ask a vet about this, try http://bit.ly/c6qYat - online vets that are ready to assist you in 5-15minutes. hope it helps!|||The best thing that i found was Eating the right foods. I found a book that helped me.|||buy from only certified companys, slowly transition dog to it. It will build resistance. Hope this helps!|||Chicken & Pork are more dangerous then Beef, Why risk your dogs on a raw diet? Its actually bad for thier teeth (so I have been told by a vet) because no one really brushes thier dogs teeth.
Raw mince is ok but I woulnt give anything else raw to my dogs, Some types of worms can potentially be in the meat.
Soaking it in vinegar? would your still eat it after that?
You might as well boil the meat that way its at least half cooked.
I'm really interested in the health benefits of doing a mostly raw diet ( I read that even 75% raw is still considered a raw diet). Is there any books or sources that were invaluable when you made your dietary changes? Any tips or advice for a newbie? I'd be particularly interested in any kind of websites with a support chat or meal plans, also any books or other sources that are helpful.|||The best books to start with are "Raw Food Made Easy" by Jennifer Cornbleet- which has great recipes that do not require special equipment like a high speed juicer, dehydrator, or spiral slicer, and "The Complete Book of Raw Food" by Lori Baird and Julie Rodwell which is full of resources, nutritional info, and basic recipes.
Best advice? Consume fat. Keep a supply of avocados and raw nuts on hand for when you get cravings.
And find a supplier of Lara Bars. You won't believe how good they are!
Find your staples, and make them frequently- for me that includes flax seed tostadas & guacamole, cashew ranch dressing and baby carrots, and frozen bananas for smoothies and ice cream.
Good Websites:
Sunfood Nutrition-
http://eat.rawfood.com/index.php?flag=3&鈥?/a>
Rhio's Raw Energy -
http://www.rawfoodinfo.com/
Living and Raw Foods -
http://www.rawfoodsupport.com/|||A good tip is to keep healthy foods stocked up.
Fruits, vegetables and nuts are essential must haves. A raw vegan diet includes raw vegetables and fruits, nuts and nut pastes, grain and legume sprouts, seeds, plant oils, sea vegetables, herbs, and fresh juices.
Why not make your own delicious, health boosting smoothies?|||Raw dairy will keep your hair from falling out
Also seaweed
Otherwise in a few months you'll be losing fistfuls of hair in the shower
Avoid alcohol OMG one sip will make you so hungover after all the detox
Carbs (pasta,bread,rice) you'll be sensitive so if you cheat on a raw diet with these foods you'll likely crash (sleep)
Raw vegan food is tasty
food prep takes a while
eat a lot of food
watch your gums, too much fruit will make them recede = painful|||You'll need to be able to store the produce if you can't make shopping a part of your daily or biweekly routine. That became a problem for me, and gets in the way of my efforts.
Good luck. I saw a difference in my energy level. I never gave up meat, but cut back a great deal. I think it is worth the effort.|||www.RuthannRusso.com
www.rawfoods.com
www.rawfoodrightnow.com
www.rawfoodbook.com/index.html
rawfoodlife.com|||The juicer and smoothie route is a great start.
Good luck!|||my advice to you is to buy a juicer and a dehydrater, they come in handy.|||Organic Food Bar has some raw bars and a protein kind that is 80% raw. They are really good!
http://organicfoodbar.com
I'm vegan for the animals sake and don't know why people decide to go raw. I'm guessing it's for religious reasons, but IDK.|||There are so many benefits to eating raw foods. When you do not cook foods past a certain temperature ( 115 f.) you do not kill the living enzymes. That is why the raw food lifestyle is also called the " Living Food" life style. Here is a bunch of articles on how being raw helps with your beauty, health, energy, aging, weight loss, and over all happiness! If you are already a vegan, you should try raw for a week, just to see, you will be addicted to your new found energy! Have a Rawesome day!
http://www.rawpeople.com/index.php?optio鈥?/a>|||Usually, it's for health reason. There are some enzymes and nutrients that are destroyed by heat. Raw folks want to get those intact, so they don't cook their food. There are some environmental benefits, namely the fact that most raw vegans prefer organic food (and a good handful try to eat local as well) for the boost in nutrients.|||why does everything have to be for religioius reasons? why do you come up with this assumption?
i'm raw because it makes me feel and look terrific!....|||I'm a raw vegan because I believe that it was our natural diet ( there weren't stoves, ovens or microwaves in the Garden of Eden). I love the way it makes me feel. Not just physically but emotionally, it clears my mind, it opens my consciousness. Exercise seems easier, and more fluent, I feel more centered. If you haven't gone raw, you won't know what I mean, but it just feels right.
:)|||Health. I attempted to go raw vegan(more specifically, 80/10/10 raw vegan) and I still am. It's been tough, because I have 0 will power and don't know how to deal with stress. o.0
I really want to go 80/10/10, and this time have it be permanent. I could eat all the delicious fruit I wanted and still drop weight very quickly(lost a lot of water weight at first because i cut out salt and fruit and vegetables are so water rich), and like people have said, I felt so much better.|||the feeling is wonderful. I have been vegetarian all my life ( yes all my life) ,and still over weight, I became a raw vegan 3 weeks ago and it incredible feeling, a lot of my skin problems are gone. I never felt so energetic before. I am loosing weight and eat a lot of food. loving it|||I've heard people say that it feels more natural to them. Personally, though I like some things raw, I really enjoy cooking and baking, and in general, hot food...|||why do people decide to go vegan?
because they don't know any better
I am new to the world of the raw food lifestyle and am having a hard time finding recipes that I like aside from plain fruits and veggies. Can anyone suggest some good raw food recipes??? (no nuts please.)|||http://www.fromsadtoraw.com/RawRecipes.h鈥?/a>
i highly recommend the book "raw food made easy for one or two people" by jennifer cornbleet. it's full of very quick and easy recipes.|||This is a brand new Vegan book I think you'd really enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/118-Degr鈥?/a> Report Abuse
|||Are you looking for raw vegan recipes? Or just raw recipes (including meat)? The first poster had some good ones with raw meat. This is a really good website with TONS of ideas of raw vegan food!
www.goneraw.com
I suggest you give that a try!|||http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/|||LMAO!!!
Never eat raw ground beef!!|||RAW HAMBURGER SANDWICH
Raw lean ground hamburger
Hamburger buns
Chunk of raw onion
Mayonnaise (Miracle Whip)
Pepper
Salt
Buy the leanest, best looking package of hamburger you can find. Fresh ground. Make into a pattie about 1/4 pound. Put on hamburger bun with mayonnaise on both sides of bun and lots of salt and pepper. Top with chunk of raw onion. Don't be afraid! Try it! Drink with Half and Half!
or
RAW POTATO DUMPLINGS
6 raw potatoes, grated
Egg
1 tsp. salt
Flour to make a firm dough
Have boiling water ready to drop them in and boil until centers are cooked, about 15 minutes. You may use half amount of boiled potatoes and half amount of raw potatoes.
or
RAW VEGETABLE PIZZA
2 pkg. refrigerated crescent rolls
1 c. sour cream
1 c. mayonnaise
1 pkg. Hidden Valley dressing
Choice of any or all grated raw carrots
Sliced cucumbers
Sliced zucchini squash
Broccoli
Tomato
Mushrooms
Pea pods
Mix together sour cream, mayonnaise and dressing. Flatten rolls into bottom of cookie sheet and prick with fork. Bake per directions (approximately 5-10 minutes). Cool. Spread with above mixture. Top with raw vegetables. Chill. Serve in 4 inch squares.
ENJOY!
Should I feed the at separate times also? My little one likes to hog the bowl. Does it take the same amount of time to work it's way through the body as regular dry kibble since raw food is supposed to be absorbed more into he dogs body?|||Raw fed dogs can eat between 1 and 2 times a day. However, with puppies and small dogs, more frequent meals are better, as they are more susceptible to hypoglycemia.
Separate feeding is always best.|||They can share two meals a day, but then the puppy needs a couple snacks in between.|||feed them at the same time but in different rooms
We just came back from a camping trip. Raw meat was stored in a cooler. A six year old got into the ice in the cooler and ate a piece. I don't know if raw meat fluid was floating or not but what should we look for in the child for symptoms of raw meat infections. And how long might it take for symptoms to manifest. The cooler held hamburger and chicken.|||2-4 days for symptoms to develop, depending on the organism. Diarrhea would be main symptom.
I would like to know if I should change my dogs diet to raw since he has really bad allergies?|||my mom did that with her dog and it worked like a charm. the downside: your dog will smell SOOOO bad.|||It depends on what is causing the allergy, Many dogs that go raw do exceptionally well getting rid of a host of allergies and have their behaviour change for the better.
The important thing if you are going to do this is to make sure that you do so with a canine nutritionist. The balance is the part that needs to be tweeked based on individual animal and that can take a bit of time. Most vets don't recommend this diet as a lot of people do not take care in getting proper meat sources and handle the meat sources incorrectly.
Best of luck! Hope your pup feels better|||Do you know what the cause of it is? It is important to determine why your dog is suffering from Allergic Dermatitis. If you are unsure of what is possible, this link could be a helpful read:
http://www.thepetcenter.com/gen/itch.htm鈥?/a>
(This site however, is solely dependent on veterinary opinion. Having dealt with very murderous and close-minded vets, so to speak, I have come to the understanding that you should research and evaluate their opinions yourself before relying on them to make choices for you.)
If the allergy is food induced, there is a test that can be done through a veterinarian, (there should be no risk there) which involves finding out specific ingredients your dog may not be responding well to...it may be worth it to find out what exactly it is.
Many dogs don't handle grains very well, so depending on what the source is, yes, raw food can help alleviate the problem. There are other benefits to the raw diet that ought to be considered too. Please note that the majority of vets do not support raw feeding. (You're going to have to do some research in this method of feeding yourself, if you haven't done so already.) Bathing less frequently, or refraining from doing anything that might further stimulate your dog's skin should bring some relief from the itching.
I hope he feels better soon!|||Yes, it is GREAT for dogs with allergies, not only because you eliminate all the fillers in commercial dog food, but you can feed one thing at a time and determine exactly what your dog is allergic to.
Here are some sites to help get you started.
http://www.rawfeddogs.net/
http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html|||Do you know if the allergies are food related? What does your vet recommend? I wouldn't change anything until he gets tested for type of allergy. You could do more harm than good.
I started about two weeks ago, I am doing between 50- 80 percent raw, and for the last few days especially my poo has been dark and crumbly looking. I know it is not coming all out either. I am not passing gas really much, and I feel bloated and nasty. It is very uncomfortable. Could this be the stuff that was stuck in my intestine? Whats going on?|||Yes, it probably is some intestinal residue, but it could also be the 50% of cooked food- especially if you eat a lot of processed foods.
When one is completely raw (after detox, which takes about thirty days)
bowel movements are generally large, light in color, close to odorless, and they float. They may still be crumbly, since they are not at all dense.|||Raw food can affect different people in various ways.
The digestive system requires heat to process what we eat.
If we eat a lot of cold raw food, we put out the fire, so to speak, and it can interfere with our normal processes.
It takes time to adjust to the raw foods, so introduce this slowly. Always start a meal with some hot herbal tea or other warm drink, or you can have a cup of soup. This gets the stomach ready to digest.
Raw food all the time makes the body cold, and the digestion slow.
Alternate simple steamed veggies or soups with your raw dishes.
There is a system of health called Ayurveda which explains these ideas in detail.
It is normal when starting the raw foods diet to pass unusual stools. The stuff that has laid there undisturbed gets stirred up and pushed out by the quantity of roughage you are taking in..
A simple suggestion is to include some cooked brown rice in your diet everyday. It helps remove this stuff quicker, and normalizes peristaltic action.
After a few weeks your poo should start to regain normalcy, though it may be larger and float more.
Good Luck|||I agree with Jen it's some intestinal residue.
There is a lot of talk and books on the raw food diet. I have read a book and watched some DVD's. I really want to try it. Has anyone had success in actually feeling better and getting more energy. I just want to know if it actually works and if we really can live healthy without cook foods.|||Yes, the raw diet is great. I've been on it for about 6 years. I'm not totally raw, I do eat some cooked food once in a while, but I eat about 75% raw and feel pretty good.
Here's a site I found with lots of raw and mostly raw recipes:|||I haven't tried it but do have a few suggestions if you do decide on it. I don't doubt that a raw food diet is healthy & beneficial.
Highly nutritious foods you should con: sprouts, spirulina, paprika, coconut oil & milk, garlic, brewers yeast, raw almonds & chia seeds.
Paprika - 1 Tablespoon = 20 cal = 71% DV Vit.A - 8% DV Vit.C - 10% DV Vit.E - 14% DV Vit.B6 - 9% DV Iron & others way too many to list.
Brewer's Yeast Powder - Two tblspns. provide a whole lot of nutrition! 158% RDA Chromium - 90% Selenium - 88% B2 - 80% B1 - 50% Copper - 50% Niacin - 40% B6 & others way too many to list. It tastes peanutty to me. I have been adding it to sesame butter, a lil raw honey, coconut cream & coconut oil, powdered whey and tastes like peanut butter to me!
Chia seeds sound so expensive but 1# will make 10# food - Amazon.com has couple lbs. for $16 shipped to you. I buy in bulk (24#) from getchia.com for $6# with free shipping.
Chia seeds - 3.5 oz is nearly 500 calories, half calories from fat (high in Omega3 fatty acids) 38g fiber 151%DV & 16grams of COMPLETE protein for 6grams carbs & 63% DV Calcium - 95% Phosphorus - 23% Zinc - 9% Copper - 108% Manganese.
Faux tapioca - 2 cups of water, 5 scoops of low carb whey protein powder, stir together & add cup of chia seeds, after they have started to absorb the water, add in 2 cans of coconut milk & sweetener if you like and mix it all in. Can be eaten after an hour but will be better tomorrow. Cream a pkg. of cream cheese into a can of pumpkin and add to the faux tapioca for an even more nutritious pumpkin pie pudding.
Raw nuts are living and full of the energy of life and should be capable of building a tree. Roasted nuts are dead & they may still provide some nutrients, but none can compare to the nutrients and enzymes from a live food.
Unfortunately, raw does not necessarily mean living.
For example - Commercially sold almonds are now required to be pasteurized turning a live food into a dead one. You can not sprout an almond that has been irradiated. I buy my almonds direct from growers off ebay. I get 20# for less than $3# including shipping.
April 6, 2007 - Small-scale farmers, retailers, and consumers are outraged over a new federal regulation that will require all almonds grown in California to be sterilized with various “pasteurization” techniques. The rule, which the USDA quietly developed in response to outbreaks of Salmonella in 2001 and 2004, traced to raw almonds, mandates that all almonds undergo a sterilization process that includes chemical and/or high-temperature treatments.
The only exemption to these new regulations will be ... small-scale growers who can sell truly raw almonds but only direct to the public
Almonds- 3.5oz - 575 cal - 72% calories from fat for 10gram carb & 26% DV Calcium - 48% Phosphorus - 21% Zinc - 50% Copper - 114% Manganese - 4% Selenium - 67% Magnesium - 21% Iron - 14% Thiamin - 60% B2 Riboflavin - 17% B3 Niacin - 7% Vit.B6 - 12% Folate - 5% Vit.B5.- 131% Vit.E - Potassium 20%
I am planning to switch my cats to a raw food diet. one of my cats has severe allergies (32 of them to be exact). I have done some extensive reading about the raw diet and it says to add healthy power to each meal. There are many ingredients in this mixture, one of which is yeast. My cat is allergic to yeast so I cannot include this in the mixture. Is there something else I can use that has the same nutritional value? Or is it ok to simply omit it from the recipe without causing any kind of nutritional deficiency?|||Check out: http://www.felineinstincts.com I use that supplement powder and salmon oil with my cats raw meat and have done so for eight years. There is no yeast in it.|||Never heard of "healthy powder" and I've been feeding raw with suppliments for years now.
I personally feed a ground Raw Meat, Bones and Organ based diet to my cats and they are incredibly healthy on it. I HIGHLY recommend it. While scary at first, once I got the hang of it and felt comfortable with it it's a snap to prepare.
Cats are obligate carnivores after all and must derive ALL their nutrients from meat based sources. They are unable to absorb them from any other source. Despite thousands of years of domestication they remain strictly carnivorous. True and honest meat eaters and that is what they need most. Protein from meat!
If you are interested in feeding a raw diet some great places to start learning are http://www.catinfo.org/ , http://www.catnutrition.org/ , and http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/ .
If you would like to try raw with your cats and don鈥檛 want to get all technical about it but want to try a trusted, time tested and balanced raw diet you can order from http://www.felinespride.com/products/cat鈥?/a> . I purchased this myself when I first started and my cats loved it!
Another premade Raw you can try is Natures Varity. I personally have never used this but know many people that do and it鈥檚 pretty easy to find http://www.naturesvariety.com/content.la鈥?/a>
Here's a bunch of websites to help you learn what you need to know.
www.catinfo.org/
www.catnutrition.org/
www.rawfedcats.org/
www.felinespride.com/
www.felinefuture.com/
www.felineinstincts.com/
www.raisingcatsnaturally.com/
www.blakkatz.com/
www.holisticat.com/
http://www.goldcoastragdolls.com/MyOwnCa鈥?/a>
I am living in a country at the moment that does not have prefrozen/prepared raw dog food (which is what I am used to giving my dog), so now I feed my dog raw chicken, raw beef, tripe and cow bones that I get from the local butcher. Is there anything I should be adding to make sure he gets all of his nutrients and stays super healthy?|||All dogs need is Raw meat, edible bones, and organs to be ultra healthy! Here is a guidline to follow when feeding raw:
80% meat (chicken, pork, beef, deer, fresh water fish, whatever you can find! A variety is good, but make sure you're dog gets more red meats than the others)
10% bones - The bones must be edible though, like pork or chicken bones (bones are only unsafe for a dog to eat if they're COOKED because they can splinter) Dense bones, like cow bones, are actually not very good to give your dog, because they can chip they're teeth on them. Only give your dog bones that they can consume.
10% organs - This includes liver, kidneys, heart, etc. Liver has the most nutrients tho, so make sure that at least half of the organs you give your dog is liver!
That's all that you're dog needs :) Dogs are carnivores and don't have any need for veggies, grains, etc. They get all the nutrients they need from organs and meat. Tripe is alright to feed your dog every now and then. And so is raw eggs (egg shell and all), but only once in awhile, not every day. If you're dog's coat isn't as great as it should be, or his skin is dry, he could be lacking in Omega-3's, so you could fish oil supplements for him.
Good luck to you and your dog, and Kudos to you for feeding him an appropriate diet!
EDIT: You should consider checking out this Yahoo! Group for raw feeders of cats and dogs. I'm a member, and the people there are really knowledgeable and helpful. I learned ALOT from them! The site is posted below.|||It all depends on what you want to do. Some people make a veggie glop to go with the raw food. Using pretty much any veggies and you can add your supplements into that. Good supplements include, fish oil or flax seed oil, vitamin c, and vitamin e. Veggies shouldn't be more than 10%, and I personally will only be using enough to give supplements when I start raw with my dog.|||If you read the BARF books they will advise you that you need to add Veg pulp, mixed up of different veg, the same with fruit and then adding in eggs, cottage cheese or pro-biotic plain yoghurt.
Fish also as well.
Though not at the same time, they give you the amount a day of what you should be feeding to make it balanced.|||Raw fish and eggs would be the other things I would add... but ONLY if the raw fish there is parasite free OR if you can freeze it to kill any parasites.
I wish I had an easy supply of good green tripe!! (I envy you!)
Oh.. chicken feet are great sources of natural glucosamine.|||Vegetable/fruit (well rippened) and pureed.
Yogurt (natural)
Omega acids (3-6-9)
I guess it all depends on the way and shape your dog poops.|||I have heard that RAW GREEN tripe is actually supposed to be completely nutritious in and of itself (recent Whole Dog Journal article).|||how about some rice
I'm going to start the raw food diet on new years and was wondering how much is too much nuts? A lot of my recipes are for raw desserts or raw fruit based recipes so they call for nuts in almost every recipe. I want to lose weight that's why I'm doing this diet but would I lose weight if I consumed nuts all day since they're high in healthy fat, but still fat? Thanx.|||EVERYTHING in moderation!|||I tried eating raw vegan for awhile, but I did it improperly by consuming too many raw nuts, and it was bad for my digestion and made me feel bad accordingly. Eat a majority of fruits, greens, and vegetables and a minority of nuts and seeds--that's what works best for me. A green smoothie is good for filling you up.|||Hello
Yes, and above all its not normal to eat so many nuts. Instead, think of what a horse, giraffe, elephant eats - they eat plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs etc.|||geg|||Nuts are great in moderation but I don't think you're meant to eat more than about a small handful in a day.
And what type of foods did you eat? How long did it take? Are you a girl or boy? Thanks so much!!!
oh also what type of exercise did you do?|||ive never done it "raw" but ive been on a complete veggie/fruits diet. i cant remember how much i lost but it was the best diet because i lost more than anyother time and it really cleans out your system of all the bad foods and chemicals. sorry im not of more help|||Hi,
I'm girl and had lose up 8 lbs in 1 weeks time with the diet food plan recommended in this site.
http://www.my-improvement.com/
Is it the most healthy diet due to the fact that you are basing your diet on fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed? I consume these things already but I have some non-fat yogurt, milk, and free-range meats (beef, poultry, lamb, etc) in my diet also. Is this best, or would it actually be more beneficial to go raw?|||Best to not just listen to anyone else and follow your body. If something effects you a bit adversly, then totally cut it out of your diet.
Then your body vibration will improve and the next item, that didn't effect you before will start to effect you a bit. So cut that out also.
Follow this path along deleting as you get sensitive and you will end up on the ideal diet for yourself, if you do it diligently
I did and ended up on raw food for three years ,and have been a vegan sportsman for 36 more years now [57 years young now]
I love and feel great on green smoothies [green veg from garden, mango and apple fresh juice, spiralina, a few walnuts, and dates if you like .definitely gives you a positive lift. l am going to start a green smoothie club here.
Enjoy the process.|||Ditch the meat and you'll really notice how just the plant foods provide much more sustained energy and make you feel much more vibrant and sharp. You're probably not getting all the benefits that you can get from the plant foods because your body still has to work hard digesting the meat and dealing with all the bacteria when it starts to putrefy in the gut.
Meat doesn't provide anything you can't already get from the other things you eat. If you already consume so many different plant foods, it would be easy for you to make the change, just make sure you're replacing the calories you would consume from meat with more veggies and fruit. Dairy is mucus producing and also doesn't provide anything you can't get from plant foods. Yep, vegan/raw vegan are the best diets for anyone.
Here's an excerpt from The Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs:
"There is a sodium coating covering the entire inside wall of the stomach, which, if it remains intact, will prevent the digestive juices from digesting the stomach itself. However, when any form of flesh food enters the stomach, the meat
attracts the sodium in the same way as the walls of the stomach. Some of the sodium is drawn from the walls and gathers around the meat, thus preventing the digestion of the meat in the stomach and at the same time depleting the sodium on the walls of the stomach."|||Raw vegetables contain mostly water and cellulose (indigestible plant fiber) which provides roughage that all digestive systems require. However, since much of the vitamins are contained in the cellulose (which isn't digestible), it is good to cook many of the vegetables we eat because cooking breaks down the fiber in cellulose and releases the vitamins and minerals in a form that the body can digest. So to make sure you are eating a healthful diet include 3 or 4 portions of cooked vegetables a day and at least one green salad. Lightly steaming vegetables until they are tender but not overcooked is best.|||Raw fruits and vegetables are good because they contain more vitamins. However, that amount is very slight. I really wouldn't worry too much about it. Humans have been cooking there food for tens of thousands of years, and were still the #1 species.. I wouldn't go overboard. It sounds to me like your diet is very healthy as it is!|||You could start by omitting dairy products from your diet, then the meat, then the fish, etc.
Doing it all at once it might be difficult to make sure you were getting all the necessary nutrients, but it wouldn't be impossible.|||It seems like it would take up a lot of time to prepare it all and isn't that convenient. Also, the people who get into it seem to be obsessive and perfectionists.|||No - it's just another fad. Your present diet sounds fine, and moderation is always the key to a healthy way of life.|||Yes................
Or may be|||not at all, its a silly fad thats EXTREMELY hard to follow
My husband and I are both obese and need to lose 80-100 pounds each. A friend recommended a raw food diet, where you eat as much as you want without having to cook. Does anyone know where I can get info on how to begin, any supplements/vitamins that would be necessary (or how to get everything our bodies need from this type of eating), without me having to order a book?|||I've been eating strictly raw for about a year, and it's great!
Here are a few websites to get you started:
http://www.rawfoodbootcamp.com/
http://www.rawfoodsupport.com/
http://www.rawfood.com/
The first thing you will likely encounter is lists of equipment you need, and books you need to purchase...
Don't worry about that at first, just eat all the raw fruits and vegetables you want, limiting the avocados.
Juice is great if you have a juicer- otherwise it has been pasteurized. (cooked)
When you feel the need for something more (or you're on the verge of ordering a pizza...) go for an avocado or some raw cashews.
When you're ready, "The Complete Book of Raw Food" is a good basic to start with.|||Library under vegetarian diets or raw diets.You can also goggle "vegetarian diets and alot comes up"or raw diet.|||Watch it. You might be tempted to cheat (m&ms are not considered raw food - trust me, I've been there, and am still reminding myself). I don't know what you've been eating before, but I can almost guarantee it's gonna be hard. How about a scaled-down version, like one-raw-meal-a-day or -a-week where it's do-able?
Because I changed my eating habits from a typical American fast-food junkie to an organic near vegetarian almost a year ago, and I still can't resist the binge temptations, I get really hungry and reach for organic ice cream thinking I'm being a good girl, when in fact I should rethink my habits.
I'm thinking of changing to raw food, but going to be a long, slow process, especially in the winter when I crave a good soup or bowl of chili. I'm going to try fresh fruit only for breakfast, a huge array of veggies for lunch, and experiment for dinner, probably going 75 raw and 25% cooked.
Watch the raw animal products - I wouldn't eat them, only occasionally raw cheese, but I do admire those who can stomach 100% raw food.
Good luck and if you get discouraged, there are so many other wonderful ideas in the veggie/vegan/organic/naturalist websites, and in the veg/vegan section here also.|||i started a similar diet with "green foods":
"What’s So Miraculous About Green Foods?
In today’s world, “eating right” is becoming more and more difficult. Given the over-processing of foods and current depletive farming practices, we are deprived of many of the vitamins and nutrients our body needs for a well functioning immune system and the energy to get us through the day."
I wanted to eat just fruits and veggies maybe yogurt as well but I need a little more research into it. What is a Raw food diet? Do I need to take a vitamin or something?
Can I make Fruit Smoothies using fruit and ice?|||raw food is basically anything that's not cooked, grilled, baked, etc.
it can't have any oil in it, and it's actually very good, because most raw foods have very few or no fat at all, and low calories, as well as vitamins ..
yes, you can make fruit smoothies .. you actually have plenty of options, and it's a great way to lose weight. Best of luck.|||We call food raw if it is:
鈥?Uncooked - never heated above 42 C/118 F degrees.
鈥?Unprocessed - as fresh (and wild) as possible.
鈥?Organic - no irradiation, preservatives, pesticides.
To start Raw Food Diet, eat mostly fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and super foods. I love vegetable juices and smoothies. To make things easy and quick, I juice and blend a lot. Fruit and ice for smoothies is ok, so you could enjoy them more.
Adding a little bit of cooked food to a raw food diet doesn't work well, because acid is then produced in the stomach, and it is bad for raw food. Acid and raw food tend to create indigestion. However, they can be separated by eating raw food in the mornings and then cooked food later. Start with raw fruit first, then later raw vegetables, and then later cooked food.
Fruits and vegetables digest through different processes when raw. Eat fruit in the morning and vegetables later.
Vitamins that you should take :
vitamin B - but no more than 20 mg/day.
Vitamin D, copper and zinc - but take only small quantities.
Other multivitamins are optional. But these above are required more because plant material is very low in these minerals compared to meat.
Hope that help. Good Luck :)|||You need some carbohydrates or those fruits and vegetables are going to be rough on your GI tract. A multivitamin is always a good thing to take, regardless of dieting.
Try a slice of bread with your fruits, veggies, and yogurt. :)|||The Raw food diet is a great way to gain optimum health. It gives your body the energy it needs and elevates mood. The best way to start a raw food diet is to learn all you can about it. Most people transition into this way of eating slowly so they don't fall backwards. It depends on where you are starting from. If you eat processed foods, meats, dairy, eggs, caffeine, food like this, then I suggest you begin by taking out all processed foods, sugar, gluten and dairy. then once you have been able to take those out of your diet, start decreasing your consumption of meat and eggs. Even if you take out one animal at a time or restrict your meat consumption to twice a week. Be gentle on yourself and don't punish yourself if you slip up. If you already have these foods out of your diet, then start experimenting with raw food recipes. When I started, I tried recipes that reminded me of cooked food, like zucchini spaghetti. It was so fun trying new ways of making food that I was absolutely amazed at how delicious the food was. I also started drinking smoothies in the morning, and eventually green drinks. Make sure you are getting lots of greens in your smoothies/juice, and start off with more fruit at first before you get used to the taste. ( I found that over time my taste became more sensitive, and I didn't need as much fruit because I could taste the sweetness of the vegetables.) Make sure you get a variety of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and seeds, making smoothies and juice ensures you are getting alot of nutrients into your system and it's easier for your body to digest. I sometimes feel tempted by cravings but I like to immerse myself in positive information about the raw food diet, people who are living this way and keeping my house stocked with fresh produce. Check out some of the links below for a headstart on your raw food education and some motivation. Good luck!
Hi everyone
Been trying for ages to gain weight and mass. Other than weight training, what kind of food should I be consuming to gain weight (as close to vegetarian of raw food diet). How about frequency and quantity? Thank you!|||Without weight training?
Well, exercise of some kind will do the trick.
You mean muscle weight, correct?
There are raw bodybuilders out there.
Vegan bodybuilders too.
Basically, work your muscles and they will enlarge, no matter what your diet is. Look at the working class of some poorer nations. They are often ripped with large muscles from throwing 100lb bags of grain onto trucks all day or working in the fields. They don't eat a special diet for that. It's called work. Only rich countries have these things called gyms and weight rooms where people literally do not get enough exercise during the day that they need to go do some in their free time.
Most of these guys are hooked on that stupid old protein myth, but take a look anyway:
http://www.veganbodybuilding.org/
This place too:
http://www.veganfitness.net/|||Add more tampu (spelling) into your diet, it has like 35% protein and is made from mushrooms. Eat more nuts and avocados can have a very high percentage of fat.|||I would suggest weight training and protein first...
but if thats not an option at all, then carbs i guess. normal un-toasted muesli should have a few calories in it. fat too, avocados.|||Raw!? Seriously??? Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Anyhoo...
Go for very high protein foods, whatever that is you can eat.....maybe nuts and such? Don't carb starve either...
Other than that, I have no suggestions. Good luck.|||This is a good website on how to gain weight http://www.gainingweight.info/
I just got a 7 week old kitten and started him on the regular cat chow. But after visiting a pet food store was persuaded into trying a Raw food diet simular the the BARF diet. He seems to like it but I am conserned about feeding my kitten raw meat! They told me at the pet store that grains were bad for cats because they weren't able to diggest them. I'm very confused can anyone shed some light?|||This is absolutely correct, and GOOD FOR YOU (and your pet store) for considering this.
It sounds as if you're purchasing a raw food? True raw is really best, but if you're using something like Nature's Variety that's quite good as well.
The reason this is true is because cats are obligate carnivores. That means they are designed to and are required to eat diets high in meat-based proteins. Also high in fat, but not as high as the protein. Any grains they ingest are minor, few and far between - anything that might be found in a mouse's stomach, but they are not necessary.
In other words, the mouse is the perfect food for cats, and the raw diet attempts to recreate that by providing meat, organs and bones.
I've collected a lot of articles that will tell you the same thing in much more detail - but still easy to process.
You can learn more too by joining any or all of the raw food groups on Yahoo.
EDIT: Cats don't eat raw meat in the wild because they don't know how to cook as someone suggested. I've never heard anything so silly! Cats' digestive tracts are much shorter than humans. This is why they're able to eat raw meat and not suffer from the same bacteria humans would if they did the same. That doesn't mean your cat can eat rotten meat - you still want to take care with it - but it's much safer for them.|||Just in support of Ken's and Rune's postings I will add that my cats have had a raw meat diet (also some canned) for over seven years now. The benefits are really great and it is so easy to get a kitten to take to it.
I have always gotten my meat from a local butcher - chicken and turkey that has no hormones or antibiotics in it. I mix up a "meatloaf" with two lbs of ground meat, raw liver and a supplement powder. Then I freeze that in muffin tins which I transfer to a gallon plastic bag and then take out a "muffin" to thaw for meals.|||I'd never feed my animals raw meat of any kind. Kittens need "kitten food." Call your vet anytime you have a questions about diet, etc.|||I have no objection on feeding your cat human food (chicken, fish, egg, yoghurt, etc.) other than teh fact that you may not feed him all the nutrients that he needs (it is true that cats don't need many carbs, but they do need some substances from plants too). BUT I wouldn't feed the food raw, just cooked or boiled with no spices or salts. The reason is that raw meat has many bacteria, such as salmonella, trichinia and toxoplasma, which can be bad for your kitten and for you (especially toxoplasma is multiplied in cats if they eat raw food or rats and then it can pass to humans and it is a threat to pregnant women). So, although people may say that cats in nature would eat raw meat, well, so would we, but we choose to cook it to avoid diseases. Cats in the wild would live less due to the diseases anyway.|||Yes a raw diet is very good for your cat. See the link below.|||Human food is not good for your cat.
Raw meat has worms and samonella and e-coli. Raw eggs has samonella.
http://bellaonline.com/article/art1723
petconnection.com "Foods to Avoid"
http://www.cat-world.com.au/FeedingFish.鈥?/a>
Cats should not eat human food because the foods that we eat would not be good for them. Some foods a very dangerous for them to eat and they could get very sick from them. When people say that cats eat raw meat that is like tigers and lions and others LARGE CATS not cats you find in the Home.|||raw food is tonnes better i feed my 3 on raw and they re thriving tho i did loadsa research first so id stick to raw xx|||Raw food is very bad for cats, expecally for growing kittens. i would sugest purina cat food for kittens which is provided at many cat/pet stores. Mixes of soft and dry food is also good for kittens. Here is a website on kitten food.
http://www.catchow.com/home_milestones_k鈥?/a>
Good luck!|||I am amazed at the advice you have gotten and you are very lucky. Grains are not good for cats and most cat foods contain them. Cats are obligate carnivores. A raw food diet if prepared properly is fine. High quality canned foods like wellness and merrick although containing some grains are human quality, low carb and are also fine. As far as I am concerned, dry food should be illegal. It is killing and causing many different disease in many cats yet the vets keep promoting it because the scientists that WORK FOR the pet food companies tell them what is good and bad. If they only read their own published articles and look at the rise in diabetes and kidney disease amoung others in conjunction with the rise of consumptions in dry foods.
Please read about cat nutrtion. This site also tells you how to make your own raw food
http://www.catinfo.org/
http://www.catinfo.org/#Home-Prepared_Di鈥?/a>
I am wanting to try the raw food diet, but I am unsure of how I would get enough daily calories. have you tried the raw food diet? How did you get your calories? How many calories should I shoot for?|||Nuts, seeds, sometimes glutin if it is OK with your system, and
perhaps tofu and certainly brown rice can go along with the
raw food. Too much raw food is apparently weakening to
the valve from the small to large intestine. Due to our
stress, bad eating habits, too much acid in diet etc.,
too much raw can 'grate' on it. But by having say organic
brown rice and lots of raw veg's with some grated nuts,
or else another time grated coconut, will make it fine.
We do this partly. We certainly like it, feels clean.|||The truth is when your body adapted with raw food diet you will feel more energized.
* I have tried raw food diet, and stick with it. But once a week I do have my free all you can eat days. :)
*How did you get your calories?
From raw food of course :)
* How many calories?
This is very dependant on your weight, habit and body needs. It will be long to explain here.
This might help
http://bestreviewonly.com/digital-produc鈥?/a>
If you find it unhelpful, feel free to contact the writer
I am going to start making a raw food diet for my newly adopted rescue dog. She is a jackapoo, not very active, but is a service dog in training, so she works everyday... How much of my 70%-80% meat, 30%-20% vegetable mixture should I give her? I would prefer ounces or pounds please.|||stay with hamster kidu, h r u?|||100USD, I think.
I started the diet last night and am just figuring out what foods I can and cant eat.. So, can I have yoghurt?|||Yogurt is made from growing certain types of bacteria in milk. I don't know the details of a raw food diet, but I'd guess that it would be difficult to find a yogurt made with raw milk because you'd grow the nasty bacteria, too. So if you're allowed to drink pasteurized milk, you should be ok. There are also coconut milk yogurts and soy yogurts. Soy would definitely be processed, and the coconut yogurts (at least what I've seen) have lactic acid added to them, and I can't imagine you can get that without processing something. I could be wrong about that.|||Hope you aren't planning on eating any meat!
My boyfriend cant eat raw fruits or veggies. What exactly is that food allergy called is it common. He gets really sick within 30 min of eating them.|||oral allergy syndrome. It is cross reactivity to pollens.
good info is available at: http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/divisio鈥?/a>
and
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/a鈥?/a>|||I agree with busybee2. I used to have it also. Just getting the juice of raw fruits or vegetables made me break out in a rash. I also had bad pollen allergies. After being on allergy desensitation shots for five years for my pollen allergies, my allergy to raw fruits and vegetables went away! Does your boyfriend have hayfever too?|||food allergy occur when the immune system mount an attack by the proteis in food
the immnoglobulins are making a dfense then ( as a wall ) so will have many symptoms related to allergy made through the histamine reaction
The great majority of food allergies are triggered by certain proteins in : -
- eggs - strawberry
- choclate - fish
I am always tired and I was thinking about going raw anyway. Will it help boost my energy levels? What other benefits have you seen on this diet?|||Yes, because you are getting more enzymes and food digests faster, so you're using less energy for digestion.
There are many reasons why a raw food diet is beneficial.
*Weight loss.
*Clearer skin.
*Mental clarity.
Raw chocolate is a great way to get a boost of sustained energy, and what I mean by that, is with caffeine you'll get a rush of energy but then it leaves you tired and you may even get depressed.
Raw chocolate is processed differently than other chocolate. it contains all the oil and goodness it normally has.
Here are some websites that have information on raw food.
http://www.rawreform.com/
http://www.naked-chocolate.com/
http://www.purelydelicious.net/
http://www.sunfood.com/b2c/ecom/ecomEnduser/default/home.aspx|||A raw food diet is said to help boost energy and make you feel revitalised. Nuts will give you lots of energy as they are high in calories. Nuts also provide vitamins and minerals that help counteract tiredness, such as iron.
Despite what the other answerer said, please avoid coffee. It gives you an instant feeling of exhilaration and energy, yes, but it drains your adrenal glands leaving you feeling even more tired. If your lethargy ensues, see a health professional.|||Everyone that I have ever known who was on a successful steady raw food diet was cranky, inpatient and nervous. If you're tired all the time, try assessing you diet. See what you are eating that makes you most tired. Starches perhaps? Or maybe sweet things like fruits?
Try doing a slight cleanse for a couple of days first. Or just try increasing your raw food amount like replacing one meal a day for a rich salad.
If adding more raw food to your diet doesn't help try doing a fast for two or three days of just juice. Or if that doesn't appeal to you find a fast that works for you. Ir might clear out your system and clean out the problem. Though not likely in such a short time if it is a major problem.
You might also just be anemic, fatigue is a sign of anemia, buy an iron supplement in liquid form if that is the case. If not then assess your overall lifestyle. Are you getting enough fresh air? Are you sleeping well? Are you under stress and it's your mood that's weighing you down?
Drink lots and I mean LOTS of water, if you aren't already. To clear things out and keep you hydrated, the summer's heat might be making you weak.
Good Luck and feel well!|||You will need to try it to see if it is for you. It all depends on the reason for why you are always tired, which can be from alot of things.
Going raw is a nice way to start to detox your body. When you start to get all the stored toxins out of their hiding places in your body and they begin to flow into your blood stream, you might have "flu" like symptoms that should pass in a week or so (headaches are not uncommon with detox).
Once you are detoxed, then the raw food nutrients can start to increase deficiencies you might be having, and then energy will increase too.
Raw diets can also help you repair any digestive problems you might also have.|||Its a very good thing and yes it will give you energy if you dont bog down your body with things like high fructose corn syrup, sucrose, maltose, artificial flavor and color, and even avoid a lot of yeast. They make a complete protein bread and tortillas called Ezekiel 4:9, it is available at health food stores i have seen the tortillas at my grocery store.|||Don't know about energy, but it sure will give you gas!
Try B complex for energy. Walmart has a spritz bottle of B complex for about $2. The other thing could be lack of iron in your diet. If you have low back pain and fatigue, that is a good clue you do not have enough iron. The energy drinks are loaded with sugar and caffein which will make you crash sooner or later.|||If you want more energy try eating/cooking with Virgin Coconut Oil, and taking Bee Pollen/Propolis.
Both of these natural products boost energy levels and have many other benefits like boost immune system and are good for skin, hair and overall health|||Depends on your body type and what you eat. Raw foods can help your energy levels since you would feel more refreshed.|||if you want that good, like eat sashimi every day,he...hee..ee|||umm drink coffee or an energy drink and take vitamins. Going raw is like food poisoning waiting to happen =P
Hi
I'm interested in eating raw foods and I want to know how I can identify if my tahini is raw or heated? If it's raw is it thicker and if it's heated is it liquidy? Can you tell a difference or do they have no difference at all?
Thank you!|||Tahini is made from toasted sesame seeds unless it is labeled raw. There are some raw versions made for people on diets like yours but most is made from toasted sesame seeds|||its been heat treated (pasturized) unless it says organic/raw on it|||Tahini is ground up sesame seeds... it's not cooked.|||if its cooked you don't get food poisoning... if its raw you do... simples
Most of the time raw foods are more beneficial than cooked but I just read that cooked shiitake have "more health benefits" than raw. What benefits does cooking bring out? Thanks!|||The cell walls of mushrooms are made of chitin. Humans are not able to digest this derivative of cellulose, and therefore mushrooms are cooked to help you digest it. Also, there mushrooms may be contaminated with dirt and other materials.
That being said, many recommend eating one raw shiitake a day for health. You do lose some vitamins and enzymes in the cooking process.
You should be careful to identify and recognize differences between mushrooms, because some types of mushrooms must be cooked to avoid poisons that are removed during the cooking process.
Shiitakes produce many times the flavor of common white button mushrooms with protein (18%), potassium, niacin and B vitamins, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. They are antiviral, lower cholesterol, boost immunity, and help regulate blood pressure. Derivatives have been used to fight "cancer, AIDS, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibrocystic breast disease, and other conditions with impressive results."
"Researchers S. Suzuki and Oshima found that a raw shiitake eaten daily for one week lowered serum cholesterol by 12%."|||coz they taste like cardboard raw!! lol dont know the health benefits tho.
Is it safe?
Is he old enough he is about 7 months old and weighs 13lbs.
How do I start him on a raw food diet? he eats only dry food
What sorts of raw food can I give him?|||Do research on raw diets.
If you are not certain how to provide a nutritionally sound raw diet on your own, then start off with a frozen raw pre-made diet from a natural pet food store.
You can likely find a raw feeder group here on Yahoo for dog owners.|||raw meat|||if i were you i would consult a professional before doing anything. you wouldn't want him to get sick. better pet food stores have good selections of high quality, natural foods if that's the way you're looking to go.
I have two wonderful cats, one is just over a year old, the other is seven years old. I am ready to start feeding them a raw food diet, but after having them both on strictly kibble diet all of their life, I am unsure as to what I should start them on. I have had people recommend chicken necks and wings, but I was wondering if anything else would be good. I would like to stay mostly in one protein source, at least at first.
Any ideas?|||That might be a good start. Since they are used to crunching on kibble - if you chop necks and wings into very small pieces they might try it.
Those items are good and are NOT a properly balanced diet for cats so you have some things to learn there. You can try to see if they will eat a quality canned food such as Wellness. They may not recognise ANY meat as food.
There is a Yahoo group called Whole Cat Health and I would suggest you join it. The members are feeding raw or converting their cats to raw. The list owner is very knowledgable about cat nutrition.
I have been feeding a raw diet for eight years now. I use a supplement powder I get from Feline Instincts with ground chicken and ground turkey. Felice is the owner of the company and very supportive to her customers in helping them make the conversion.|||give em raw food|||the only problem would be the sudden switch upsetting the stomachs. and maybe mouth hurting from not using muscles and teeth for so long.
i would just start adding small amounts of raw food, slowly adding more raw and less kibble, for about a month.
they should be fine.
any signs of diarrhea or vomiting, cut back on the raw for a week.
they are designed for raw, they will adjust very quickly.
i do not fed raw, i would google for more advice.
mine are indoor/outdoor, they catch their own raw food.|||raw organic liver is one of the best source of protein, iron... and it is better that it is organic, just try serving them some raw food in maybe another plate beside there food or add some in there kibble food so they will know what it is and get use to eating it.|||Try these websites:
http://www.catnutrition.org/faq.php
http://pet-nutrition.suite101.com/articl鈥?/a>
Some recipes:
http://www.sahjasiamese.com/feeding/feed鈥?/a>
http://www.catnutrition.org/recipes.php
And you should talk to your vet as well.|||My first suggestion is never stay in 1 protein! Cats are very adaptable by nature, and if your going raw do it all the way! You should stay on 1 protein for now since they have never had raw before, but then switch afterwards. More then likely after sticking with raw, your 1yo will be able to have a mixture of proteins at once!
It is dangerous to mix kibble and raw in the same feeding, just as some background info. Raw is digested much quicker then kibble, and raw shouldn't linger in the system.
Staying on 1 protein can make the cats immune to the benefits or even allergic to it. Proteins should be rotated every 3-5 months, and there are many to chose from! Chicken, duck, quail, turkey, beef, lamb, venison, rabbit, kangaroo, shrimp, sardine, crab, lobster, mackerel, tuna, salmon, whitefish, etc!
Obviously, avoid what your cat does not do well on. For instance, my kitten does not do very well with Beef. Beef is a very tough meat, most small dogs and some cats can have a hard time with it. But she does fabulous on lamb. You'll know if your cat does bad on it by how often they poop.
The raw that your talking about is a good but expensive way to do it, going to the local grocery store for food. Pet food companies actually make raw diets like Nature's Variety, Bravo, Wysong, and Primal. Nature's Variety even has raw on their kibble foods!
As far as how to start, start by hiding tiny bits of raw around the house, so the cats think they have hunted it. Or you could use it as a training treat, making them stand for it, or calling them and rewarding them for coming when you called (I'm doing it with my kitten for safety reasons). Find a kibble food that is the same protein as the raw your using, and feed them a small amount of raw at night. Very Important: make sure that before feeding raw, your kitty has gone #2! Raw needs to move through the digestive tract to not cause problems, and this is how you'll know what agrees with your kitty best! And, before feeding kitty again, make sure they have gone #2 again. It's gross, and time consuming, but once they are completely switched over you'll be glad you have done it.|||Others have given great suggestions but I wouldn't encourage you to hide raw around your house since it would be unsanitary to have raw meat around and not clean immediately afterward with hot, soapy water. It's just not sanitary. Anyway, probably to make the transition easier, you should probably switch the cats to a canned diet so they can become use to eating soft, chewy food rather than crunchy, dry food. Many cats eagerly eat canned food so it shouldn't be a problem. First, if you're leaving dry available all day, cut it down to 2-4 times per day, so they can get out of the habit of having food 24/7. Once feeding them on a schedule, feed one meal dry and the next canned, then dry, then canned. Eventually switch entirely to canned. AvoDerm Select Cuts is a canned food I would recommend for a short period of time. It is strictly meat and vitamins/nutrients. It doesn't have all of that unnecessary veggies/fruit. I say short period because Select Cuts only come in 3 flavors, 2 of which are fish. Cats shouldn't be eating too much fish during the week. Fish should be about 3 times per week or less. If you feed mainly the Chicken canned, the cats will become bored of it. Buy a month's worth of canned. Keep them on the canned for 2 full weeks, then start adding some raw to the chicken. I use mypetcarnivore.com whose supplier is Taylor Pond Farms. Another answerer led me to Taylor, but did warn me that they have had customer complaints in the past on receiving food that was already thawed. I haven't had any problems since I've been a customer. I chose them because they grind up the whole carcass, (if chicken, the entire body is ground excluding feathers) so this way the cat is getting the meat, bones and organs. All of which play their part in your cats health. Also this company doesn't add unnecessary veggies/fruit. You will have to add fish oil to the food. Make sure you do a somewhat slow transition by feeding. Each cat has their own taste. My cat accepted the turkey rather quickly, but chicken took a short while longer. I still haven't tried rabbit, fish, cornish hens, duck, or lamb. Good luck!
Edit: Another company would be Rad Cat Raw Diet. They would be my second choice as they do add a small amount of veggies and/or fruit to their frozen recipe.
I have been doing a lot of research and I do believe the raw food diet is the healthiest diet. I have decided to just stick with the raw food diet. I mean, I still want to do a lot of juicing, but not exclusively. I want to include whole raw fruits and vegetables in my diet as well. I think this diet is the original diet of humans before we became corrupt and started eating the corpses of other beings (gross!).|||I have done some research into the raw food diet before answering your question and yes it sounds like a healthy diet.
It also recommends this diet for people who:
Want the easiest way to remove fat from diet
Want the easiest way to lose weight
Have an eating disorder
If you want to live off a raw food diet then go ahead, eat what you like, I really don't care.
But you say that that fruit and veg is the original diet of humans. You are wrong and as I unlike you are able to quote my sources, here it is
In scientific circles it was always assumed that the first people ate meat, says paleontologist John de Vos from the Naturalis museum in Leiden, the Netherlands. But two years ago, sound scientific evidence for this claim was found.
In fossil remains of the Australopithecus Africanus, the predecessor of man, researchers found carbon compounds that relate directly to meat consumption. This puts an end to all the stories that prehistoric man lived off fruits and vegetables.
Eating meat is a natural condition of man. The first human tools were knives to scrape the meat off bones. 'That doesn't surprise me at all, says De Vos. 'We know that apes, such as chimpanzees also eat meat on occasion.' Neanderthal man, one of the prehistoric men that didn't survive, had a diet that consisted almost exclusively of meat.
http://www.animalfreedom.org/english/col鈥?/a>
And btw calling people sheep is not very accurate and doesn't pass as insulting, as I have sheep and and obviously know a lot more about them than you do about them.
As you seem to upset the vegan community on here more than anyone else I actually believe now that you are not a vegan and are deliberately asking these questions for entertainment value only. You enjoy upsetting vegans with your questions and know that they will also bring the meateaters in as well hoping to cause even more discord between the two. You prove this by the content of your questions.|||Do you realise that because you are seriously mistreating your digestive tract you risk severe problems in later life?
Perhaps you would care to list your sources for this research you have been doing, rather than make blase statements.|||I really don't fully agree, but this is really interesting. In some ways it makes a lot of sense, but in some ways it does not. Yes, it is probably healthier in that it is not genetically modified, added to or depleted. This diet does not have strange additive and man created poisonous altercations. My concern with this diet is that people used to not live for so long and got ill more easily and one factor was malnutrition. There are many diseases from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. In general a nice balanced diet is healthy. It is really important to be cautious of what you consume and not blindly put the fork to your mouth. Awareness is not bliss when it come to healthy eating because we realize how limited our options really are.|||We believe whatever we are told?
Why don't we believe you then?
Perhaps its because we have minds of our own.
You only have the bottle to say the most stupid and inane things when you can hide behind the anonimity of these pages.
Why don't you phuque off and only come back when you have something sensible to say.|||Yes it can be very healthful if you have a good digestion...|||no. ashly, we are meant to be OMNIVORS, not carnivors or herbavors. we have canines for tearing juicy meat and molars for crushing plants. do what you want, as long as you stop spreading lies like "we were never meant to eat meat", cause we were.|||A diet is only as healthy as you make it.|||I know I'll get the exact details wrong here but I do believe the very first corruption of man (if you believe in the bible) involved a large, red, juicy....
apple? Or was it a steak? Nope, pretty sure it was an apple. That would be a particularly vegan corruption wouldn't it. Would love to hear how Ashley would twist that little factoid around.
Would probably go something along the lines of "woman trying to show man the path to veganism".|||speaking of sheep a raw food diet is an excellent diet for sheep or cows or horses........etc but as a human at the top of the food chain I find meat a necessary and enjoyable part of my diet, but thanks for your concern|||I agree . . .and that's why I love Steak Tartar with capers and onions on rusks and a good red wine.|||If that was the case, then why did the 'original' man as you call it, drive herds of buffalo, and mammoth off cliffs to kill and slaughter them, then take their skins for clothing, and use the meat to dry it and eat it? Seeing as how we were all vegetarian as you put it. I think history will prove you wrong again Ashley.
I'm glad I can make you laugh, beacause I laugh everyday at your insane rantings.|||Ashley, do the world a favour and binge out on a diet of raw green potatoes, raw aubergine, raw kidney beans, raw tapioca root and raw rhubarb.
Let us all know how you get on.
(Actually, just in case you really ARE the retard you appear, instead of just a silly little girl trying to wind everyone up, DO NOT eat the above raw - they all contain toxins and / or anti-nutritional compounds, which is why man evolved cooking as a means of preparing safe foods. But I'm sure you're the expert on that too)|||Oh-no... the blind leading the blind? That could be dangerous. I hope we can stay out of traffic. Moving cars can be hazardous to your health.|||Some foods need to be cooked to increase the bioavailability of the nutrients.
Overcooking can destroy nutrients. You need to learn to cook things to maximize their nutrient value.
I don't think that raw foods are going to do you a lot of harm - but neither is properly cooking your food. Humans have been cooking their food since the discovery of fire!
I'm a vegetarian - I cook a lot. I make most things from scratch and don't eat processed foods. I think this approach is healthy and probably as healthy as eating raw foods.
Good luck to you!|||I'm not sure if you are correct, but my guess is you might be. I eat meat (mostly turkey, salmon, and shrimp), but I respect your views on this matter. I think you just need to make sure you are getting enough protein. I wouldn't subject any children to this diet without thoroughly checking with a doctor and nutrition expert, though. They may need milk and milk products, or other foods that you may not want to consume.|||Your thinking is flawed here. The only reason man ever ate raw meat was that they did not know any better. By that i mean neanderthal man.|||Who cares?? If you want to eat raw food then go ahead... again, just another rant.
I'm a vegan but I can fully appreciate the fact that if our ancestors didn't hunt for meat our brains wouldn't have evolved and we would be extinct by now. Luckily we don't have to do that now and some of us can reason the negative effects of eating meat but that's no reason to call our ancestors 'corrupt'. Jesus, you're so bloody ignorant.
Go and eat raw vegetables, go and live on juices, go and eat mud for all I care.
Why must you come on here and preach your lifestyle to everyone?? No one cares!|||From all the books, online resources and people with personal testimonies praising the raw vegan food diet, I also agree it has to be the healthiest! I am not currently raw, but want to be in the near future!|||It's true that raw fruits and vegetables have more vitamins. We started cooking foods for a reason though. Raw vegetables are not as easily digested. Cooking actually help release some of the vitamins and make it accesible. I'm not sure which gives more vitamins to the body. I think for some nutrients, it's a net increase, while others it's a lost when cooked. The other reason we cook food , is to kill pathogens. It's even worse, now with factory farming. One contaminated lettuce can contaminate an entire lot of lettuce. By the way, how are you going to get proteins. I guess nuts, but try eatting a raw bean. Even shuckies aren't that pallatable raw. I guess you can eat spouts. If your a vegetarian, You shouldn't worry about maximizing your vitamins. In some coutries, they do compromise. They would put the vegetable in a boiling water for a quick dip. It would kill the bacterias on the surface, while the inside would be still raw. I strongly suggest you do this for green onions.|||OK, whatever Ashley.
Seriously, come back when you've actually done something you keep saying you'll do for a month and have some real experiences to share. Your failure to progress as a "whatever you want to call yourself" is really really really boooooorrrriiiinnnngggggg.
At minimum, do some research and come up with something newly offending and somewhat interesting to post, cos while flatulence, milking bulls & picking corn out of your poo was funny for a while, now it's boooooooorrrriiiinnnnngggggggg.
BTW, punctuating your all your sentences with, gross, immoral, moron, corrupt, hatemonger, murder, racists etc... and PETA "shock tactics", doesn't work anymore. It's called desensitization.
BOOOOO, boring.
Added: Still bbbooooooooorrrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg鈥?Well, I don't see anyone following the Ashley sheep.... BOOOOO, oh I meant BAAAAAAAaaaaa|||no.|||I think we should all have a bit of everything in our diet, in proportion obviously. Eat lots of fruit & veg, drink plenty water, and always have a breakfast are things I try to live by. Your main meal of the day should comprise of veg, protein & carbohydrates - you should probabaly have more veg & protein than carbs though.
All these diet fads are ridiculous in my opinion, yes they might help you loose weight really quickly, but it damages your body in the long run and to loose weight so quickly is just not sustainable. Which I think sucks, especially when you've got a tub of ben&jerrys in the freezer!|||you mean like eating raw meat? sometimes that's bad for your stomache, it could make you throw up a lot if you're not used to it.
If a person were feeding chicken wings and nothing else (which I know, shouldn't be the only food they eat, but I'm experimenting with food sensitivities, so at the moment they're getting one thing).
I know it varies by dog, etc., but if you could guess, I'd be grateful. (I mean, people who have experience feeding raw food could guess...)|||Around 8 ounces. Or 0.5lbs.
What you do is take the dogs weight, multiply it by 2 to 3 percent and then go from there. Sometimes the dogs looks a little chucky and you lower the amount, sometimes you raise the amount because the dog is getting skinny.
It is kind of a guestimate. You really have to go off the dog after you start feeding raw.
You want to feed chicken wings, but you will need to add a little organ in there as well. The dividing up is 80% muscle meat, 10% bone and 10% organ(half of which has to be liver, I just feed 10% liver).
It is just a guide above, but it is the general balance you want to get with feeding raw prey model.|||Just raw chicken wings eh, I guess it depends on how active the dog is and the breed you are feeding.
In response to the person who claims to be a veterinary technician. I really do not understand why you people have a problem with raw chicken. Dogs eat birds in the wild and besides which, it is the wings that are an excellent tool for cleaning the teeth. If you have a cat, you provide one raw chicken wing a week and it prevents a lot of dental trouble. A dog on a raw diet should benefit equally from eating chicken wings, as it also provides natural nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
Chicken bones are fairly soft and pose no danger to either a dog or a cat. Humans from other cultures eat cooked chicken bones.|||Although I am not accurately able to answer this question nor give you the answer you are most likely looking for; please heed this warning..You should NOT feed dogs raw chicken wings. Here are 2 solid reasons I know why from my 20 years of experience:
1. Uncooked chicken carries a harmful bacteria called salmonella. The only way ot can be removed from chicken is to be cooked out of it. This bacteria will reek havoc with your dog's intestinal track; causing vomiting, diarrhea and pain..
2. Animals should not eat chicken bones because when chewed they splinter and fall apart. They then can be swallowed and can cause tearing & shredding in the intestinal tract & stomach.Splintering happens in Pork & chicken bones..
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