Raw food gurus who are not raw

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Permalink Reply by Rawgreengoddess on September 17, 2009 at 6:57am

ha ha dont know how Michael Phelps does it....hats off, i would be in a freakn obese coma ,berk!

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Permalink Reply by Abhi - ThisVeryMoment on September 17, 2009 at 8:26am

There is a "real reason" why a lot of the sports & fitness community feel the need for
eggs, meat, fish etc.

For a moment take off that vegan & raw hat.. step out of the box

Why you may ask?

Because meat, chicken, fish & poultry do provide extremely high amounts of strength as per Ayurveda. But thats not end all be all. The come with major negatives as well.

So if you're a fisherman on a pacific island, or an eskimo in the Tundras or a Warrior in a jungle foraging, hunting then its different ball game.

"Extract from Ayurveda Encyclopedia"

Animal Products
Meat & Fish
Energetics: Sweet/warm/sweet V- PK+ tamasic
Indications: Meat is the most nourishing food, ex-
cellent for debility, convalescence, lowering high
Váyu
Contraindications: Most potentially deranging food,
breeds toxins or áma, feeds infections, fevers, tu-
mors, dulls the mind and senses, reduces love and
compassion
Long term effects: Creates bad karma (the higher
evolved the animal, the worse the karma) Red meat
of a cow is the most negative karma. Poultry yields
less bad karma, fish even less, shellfish the least,
eggs only very slightly.
The Vedic texts (¤hastras) state that it is accept-
able to take the life of an animal in two instances:
if it is your job, i.e., fisherman; and if one is weak
and it is needed to preserve or save a human life.
Further, meat acts like a drug, inducing energy
to get well, but it does not nourish and rebuild the
subtler tissues
Non-organic animal products are full of hor-
mones, antibiotics, chemicals. The animals are
often diseased and treated badly. Thus, when these
products are eaten, the chemicals are ingested and
affect one’s health Organs (i.e., liver) are very nour-
ishing to their respective organs, but produce low
tissue quality and dull the mind Bones and bone
soup nourish marrow but are heavy, causing toxic
blood
Preparation: Cooked properly with digestive
spices, raw or not completely cooked áma+ and
aggravates blood Salt softens and tenderizes, MSG
has many adverse effects
Soups and stews are easier to tolerate
Deep fried are more aggravating
Canned very tamasic
Combinations: Do not combine well with other
foods, especially milk, bread, or potatoes. Milk is
very toxic (mixing milk to nourish a young animal
with flesh of one slaughtered)
Season: Avoid in summer due to its warm energy,
morning and evening (Kapha times), better for those
in high altitudes or northern latitudes.

Antidotes: Raw vegetables, leafy greens, vegetable
juices, bitter herbs (i.e., aloe gel) may somewhat
antidote meat

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Permalink Reply by Amy on September 17, 2009 at 8:28am

I LOVE this response! Amazing.

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Permalink Reply by Abhi - ThisVeryMoment on September 17, 2009 at 3:37pm

Meat has its reason for being minimally consumed in extreme cases.

Neither has the consumption been minimal, nor the cases extreme.

There are vegetarian replacements for all the meat related issues also, probably without the negative characters of meat. But there is no 1 for 1 exact replacement.
But, as I said before.. Ayurveda does not discount anything on Dogma.

Points:

- Meat gives animal strength - i.e. Also adds animal like effects & energies into you. Probably why a lot of americans are the way they are. (Should've seen this video I saw on FB today).

- Raw Food gives high prana & air / space: i.e. decreases fire, warmth & grounding as well. That needs to be balanced.

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Permalink Reply by Lorra on September 18, 2009 at 6:54am

interested in this video you mention! link?

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Permalink Reply by YogaBrudder on September 17, 2009 at 10:47am

Boy, Ab, I'd love to read a fun translation of this. Ha-ha.

Yours, Yog

or

YourYog

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Permalink Reply by Abhi - ThisVeryMoment on September 17, 2009 at 3:41pm

:) Elaborate? I wrote some more above.

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Permalink Reply by Pontus Kristensson on September 18, 2009 at 5:18am

I like the approach, and just like Campbell wrote (China Study), the best "food" to build human flesh is - yes - human flesh. It contains every molecule needed and in the right porportions. Second up is red meat. The good thing (perhaps for athletes and warriors) is fast growth. Thou on the negative side are the wasteproducts that follows (Robert Young), sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, uric acid and nitric acid plus a wide range of other pleomorphic organisms (some , all waste products from the metabolic functions of the body and always present (in higher or lower quantities). These waste products are acids and therefor disease creating... Animal protein is a good way to faster growth, yet I wonder how great the need of this fast growth is for most people.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on September 17, 2009 at 10:38am

I heard it on this forum a few months ago, or maybe last year, from someone who said they know him. And also on a different forum.

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Permalink Reply by Vampirella on September 17, 2009 at 10:41am

Really what did that person say, and who was it?

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on September 17, 2009 at 10:44am

they said he eats cream cheese with bagels. Now and then. Don't remember who it was.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on September 17, 2009 at 10:59am

erin knows more about it than I do, see her comment a few pages back...

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