People getting sick on raw food? -Link-, we should write in to the paper ;);)...

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Permalink Reply by Erin on June 18, 2008 at 10:33pm

I wonder if ancestry has something to do with fruit tolerance? Maybe people who's ancestors hail from the more equatorial regions have bodies that haven't gotten so far away from handling fruit well. I'm northern and eastern european- not huge fruit areas.
I notice that I don't feel the best with bananas, but great with berries and stone fruit. And lots of greens! I also feel ok with grains. I know you're Swedish, buddhababy, and Suvine has such pretty tan skin- I'm guessing she's not so northern, lol! Maybe this is a key?

Permalink Reply by John Coleman on June 19, 2008 at 2:52pm

high fat intake increases insulin resistance, so maybe that explains your findings

Permalink Reply by Zoe on June 19, 2008 at 7:28am

Well I am confused. The article is about Holly Paige who is well known in raw food circles here in the UK. She used to run Funky Raw with Rob, and she gives raw food classes and demos all over the UK, and she runs an online shop here:
http://www.oceanwavevibrations.com/

and blog here http://www.rawcuisine.co.uk/

But she and her kids have never been vegan, I can always remember reading bits of her blog and even emailing her at one stage about asking why they ate dairy.
And she also doesn't advocate a 100% raw vegan diet, they have always eaten cooked food too.
From reading her blog and looking at her shop you will see that she is very much into superfoods, supplements and psychedellics.
It is sad that people never do this fully, never go 100% raw and then blame the raw food when they get ill or feel like crap.
I can't understand why she has spent years promoting raw and she is still promoting raw, when she doesn't believe in it and doesn't know how to do it successfully.

Permalink Reply by nycgrrl on June 19, 2008 at 7:49am

i have to agree with this. if it's your business, for pete's sake, then you should be doing it all the way unless you're very explicit about it, like natalia rose, and if you're getting sick on whatever you're eating, you should look at EVERYTHING you're eating, or not eating, and not just blame raw.

Permalink Reply by Funky Raw Rob on June 19, 2008 at 9:09am

She is very explicit about the diet she is promoting now, and she isn't getting sick on her current raw diet.

Here's her "What we eat" page: http://www.rawcuisine.co.uk/ideas-about-food/what-we-eat/

Permalink Reply by Funky Raw Rob on June 19, 2008 at 9:12am

Holly has been into raw for a very long time, it says in the article "They had been raw vegans for three years", this was long before she started her blog.

Raw doesn't mean raw vegan. What makes you think she "doesn't believe in" raw? I don't want to speak for Holly, but I'm pretty sure that she completely believes in raw and eats a mostly raw diet, it's raw vegan that she doesn't believe in.

Hope this clarifies things a little.

Rob

Permalink Reply by Holly Paige on June 19, 2008 at 2:30pm

Hi Zoe!!!
we were vegan between 2001 and 2004 but by the time we spoke we were established in raw vegetarian diet that included raw dairy
i don't advocate any particular kind of diet - i just share what works for us - we have been all raw nearly all the time just not all vegan!
we are doing raw succesfully if you mean eating our food raw and being healthy and happy
we are just not vegan!!!!!!!!
and not trying to be......
i am not really promoting anything
i just like writing about my views and experiences and run an online shop
each to their own!!!!!

Permalink Reply by John Coleman on June 19, 2008 at 2:47pm

Though most genes are the same from one person to the next there are many variations in immune system due immune systems ability to mutate quickly.

Some people have a latex allergy, and this or other allergic reactions may explain intollerance to bananas.

Permalink Reply by Richard on June 19, 2008 at 7:32am

so meao, what are you going to tell your parents-certainly started a great discussion!

Permalink Reply by Ardesmond on June 19, 2008 at 8:52am

Zoe thanks for saying that, I thought I was seeing things when I started to read her blog. So now things are a little bit more clear to me.

Permalink Reply by Holly Paige on June 19, 2008 at 2:09pm

i eat just about everything raw - i use few herbs that have been heat treated - that's all
this has been the case for years with a very occasional exception (away from home etc and i mean occasional!!!)
it's all on my website, open and honest!

Permalink Reply by Chris Carlton on June 19, 2008 at 3:19pm

a few other things (according to your website) you eat that are not raw.

ayahuasca, rooibosch tea, miso and he shou wu

My question to you Holly is why... Why participate in this article? OK I get it you are not Pro-Vegan and do not pretend to be. Cool, That's fine, you certainly don't need my approval. But articles like these do as much to scare people away from Raw as they do Raw Vegan.

How many people who are searching for a health answer saw your article and will now avoid anything like it. They will avoid not only Raw Vegan but also Raw Omnivore as well. You do seem to believe in what you are eating, you do have 2 raw websites after all. Why feed the Beast?

The anti-self-cure media just eats this stuff up because stories of 'freaks' who 'buck the trend' and fail make all the SADies feel better and sell a lot of papers. Why do you help them and help water down the Raw message? It's not like your kids had Cancer or something but there are many kids with cancer who could do with a change of diet. What about them? Let 'em have Chemo! I guess huh?

Lovebows,
Chris

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