Natural Diet = Health; Fads & Drugs mostly = Sickness

My intuition tells me that having to take vitamins or supplements in conjunction with a certain diet demonstrates that a particular diet is not sufficient. For example, the lack of Vitamin B12 in the vegan appears to be the downfall of the vegan diet to me; if you can’t survive without B12 pills, then how can the vegan diet be the ideal way to eat? I’m not against taking vitamins but it seems that eating less of one thing to eat more from a jar from the drugstore defeats the purpose of the diet

I stuck around… and have implemented your suggestions (from all your videos and your book!) into my life with liberatingly empowering results. Thanks, Loren!

@earthe1 I tried the raw vegan diet at length a couple times in the past. I personally feel it is sort of a mild form of fasting - great benefits to mental clarity and detox, but many/most people may not be taking in enough nutrition to sustain it IMO. Some people do sustain it and claim great benefits while others clearly have deficiencies and drop it. My main feeling is to follow your intuition and be honest with yourself on any diet (or anything) rather than follow dogma.

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Its a myth that you can create trans fats simply by heating vegetable oils, simply is not possible. When trans fats are created in a factory temperatures are reached that are impossible to reach in your own kitchen (as they they use high pressures to achieve this) also a catylist in the form of nickle is used. But everything else you said is gold, heating unprocesed oils such as extra virgin olive oil would however oxidise (decrease antioxidants) it and negate its enzyme content.

I want ice cream! My ancestors ate ice cream! Ok, at least my mom and dad and grandparents did.

Another superb vid.

I love your videos! Thanks for sharing your insight : )

@CelticReject manuka honey comes from bees which feed on the manuka plant

What is your opinion on a Raw Food Diet? Fresh organic fruits and veggies with little unroasted nuts and seeds along with only water to drink. No dairy, meat, grains, beans, sugar and very little pink salt.

Although I agree that root veggies are important in traditional diets (sweet potatoes in New Guinea, potatoes in Peru), you can’t ignore the importance of whole grains throughout recorded history. Civilization as we know it is possible because of the ability to grow, harvest and store grains. The oldest recorded history is probably the Vedas of India, going back atleast 5 thousand years which clearly instruct on a grain, vegetable, and dairy based diet. Prehistorical accounts are speculative.

@lorax2013 Life expectancy from the age of 5, eliminating infant mortality skews, also displays the same pattern. Technology has enabled us to vacinate against infectious disease, ease physical trauma, and understand the human body and its dietary needs.

greasy food is a bad thing, but we fucking need it

Your comments around a traditional diet are a good reminder that we must step back and look at what worked in the big picture. The generations that came before us have synthesized the best foods and recipes that worked for what was available to their area and was the healthiest for them. The ease and taste of processed foods must be the reason we are turning from traditional foods. I do have a question, do you consume alcohol at all?

Sorry, this is beside the point of the video.
But why do you have ads in your videos?
Haven’t you already retired?

@jdbrown371 Yeah it’s sad that the word organic has become such marketing crap because food that is grown without chemical pesticides, antibiotics, etc is actually more nutritious (not to mention the lack of poisons), but going “industrial organic” or “grocery store organic” is A) NOT the answer; and B) very expensive.

Eating local as much as possible is the way to go for many reasons biological, economical, moral, etc.

People just need to care and know more about their food.

It is difficult and expensive to switch all food intake to organic and traditional foods! Our grocery bill has easily doubled, for a family of 4 we eat almost exclusively organic produce and traditionally raised meat/milk/eggs with no additives from ‘green’ farms. We are healthy, feel great, rarely get sick, kids are smart and alert… Like it is said, we are what we eat, so it baffles me that most people insist on going cheap for groceries and spend their money on junk instead.

I agree with most of what you say. Fresh unprocessed food FTW!

But I wouldn’t equal 100K’s of people during 1000’s of years with scientic data, nor would I suggest that the diet of one traditionally people is automatically suitable for everybody elsewhere.
If a diet seems to work for people in a certain region that may just mean that those who couldn’t cope with it, withered away and those who thrived on it survived best. Applying such a diet on people in another region may not work well.

@CelticReject Raw honey is probebly more expensive but you only need a little in your diet so it will last.

@lorax2013 I see. Many thanks lorax2013. I live in the UK, but I’ll contact a local bee keeping group and ask their advice regarding getting some raw honey. Thanks again. CR.

you seem like a good person. trustworthy and enlightened

If I change my diet will I get an amazing hairdo like yours??

@CelticReject Most honey sold in stores is heated during the extraction process. This destroys the enzymes. In Ayurvedic medicine there is supposedly a statement to the effect, “uncooked honey is a cure-all & cooked honey is a poison.” Unfortunately the terms “raw” & “natural” don’t mean anything legally in the US, so with honey you need to actually contact the provider and determine if it was heated during extraction - or buy honey still in the comb.

@yarco8000 When you look at the reasons for low life expectancy in native cultures it is generally: high infant mortality (infant mortality of 50% gives a life expectancy of 40 years even if everyone else lives to 80 years) also a lot of infectious disease and physical trauma. Once they reach old age, however, native people generally have better health and don’t die of heart disease, cancer, & dementia as often as we do.

what do you think about the raw food diet/