What are your first hand benifits you have experienced from eating raw or vegan and from juicing.

I usually have dark circles under my eyes from years of allergies, I've noticed from juicing a lot of greens spinach, kale and brocolli twice a day they have completely gone away.

That's great!

I've been eating more veggies and I feel healthier.

I noticed I poop a lot more Not sure if that's good or bad since I've always been pretty regular.

I incorporate the following in my breakfast each day: chia seeds, cannabis seed, cannabis oil. raw coconut oil, cacoa nibs,dried goji berries, chlorella, raw honey.

And that's all your essentials combined and more

I gives me so much energy and it has a very good effect on the skin.

MacDaddy said:

ZombieKitten said:

MacDaddy said:

I incorporate the following in my breakfast each day: chia seeds, cannabis seed, cannabis oil. raw coconut oil, cacoa nibs,dried goji berries, chlorella, raw honey.

And that's all your essentials combined and more

I gives me so much energy and it has a very good effect on the skin.

I am going to have that when you make me breakfast next time I come to Amsterdam and stay at your place

You're always more than welcome!

MacDaddy said:

I incorporate the following in my breakfast each day: chia seeds, cannabis seed, cannabis oil. raw coconut oil, cacoa nibs,dried goji berries, chlorella, raw honey.

And that's all your essentials combined and more

I gives me so much energy and it has a very good effect on the skin.

how do you eat that? measurement etc.

Cuddles said:

MacDaddy said:

I incorporate the following in my breakfast each day: chia seeds, cannabis seed, cannabis oil. raw coconut oil, cacoa nibs,dried goji berries, chlorella, raw honey.

And that's all your essentials combined and more

I gives me so much energy and it has a very good effect on the skin.

how do you eat that? measurement etc.

I also want to know. And how'd you even think to combine these things?

I get daily use out of my blender, but I’m probably not too imaginative with it. Kale and frozen bananas are constants (I really like the crunch I get from blended kale), and I rotate in with that a fairly standard mix of berries, nuts, fruits and vegetables. I prefer the result to be firm, so I usually just add a touch of plain yogurt (no water or anything else to dilute).

Regarding raw diets – i’ll preface by saying i’m not out to start a debate or derail the thread, and I wouldn’t claim to know enough on the topic to have a debate on it anyway, but I did recently read a book that touched on it: Catching Fire – How Cooking Made Us Human. The book mainly focuses on the role cooked food may have played in skull, tooth, brain & social evolution (it’s very interesting if highly speculative in areas, & completely worth a read), but it does devote a section near the beginning to the raw food diet, mainly focusing on two raw food studies conducted in Germany.

The results were very positive for cholesterol & triglycerides, but there were some very negative consequences found – 30% rate of loss of menstruation for women under 45 with higher rates for those with more strict adherence to the diet, some dietary deficiencies, and high rates of subjects being underweight. That seems to be attributable to raw foods being more difficult to digest, resulting in a larger proportion of the food going to feed the bacteria lower in the digestive tract, & less being absorbed by your body. Some of that energy apparently can be gained back by processing the foods in other ways than cooking (grinding, pounding, blending) – a different form of expending energy from cooking, but still ways to make the food easier to digest.

At the least, I think that stands as an interesting counterargument to the claims of some raw food advocates that the diet increases your energy. All that said (& this is just me speculating), perhaps there's a role for the diet for overweight people who are trying to reduce calories, though based on the studies I'm not sure you could make a case for the diet being a permanent state.

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Cuddles said:

MacDaddy said:

I incorporate the following in my breakfast each day: chia seeds, cannabis seed, cannabis oil. raw coconut oil, cacoa nibs,dried goji berries, chlorella, raw honey.

And that's all your essentials combined and more

I gives me so much energy and it has a very good effect on the skin.

how do you eat that? measurement etc.

I mostly add a handful of dried goji berries to my oates while it's slowly cooking, grind some cinnamon.

When ready add 2 teaspoons of both cannbis seeds and chia seeds and 1 tablespoon of cannabis oil. Mix and eat.

The rest I usually add to a shake/smoothy: 1 teaspoon of chlorrella powder, handful of cacoa nibs, two teaspoons of raw, unprocessed honey, organic yoghurt, and two pieces of fruit, mostly banana's and kiwi's.

Raw virgin coconut oil (makes sure its raw/organic/extra virgin) you can use it to cook with, as a spread or just eat it plain (is what I do: 3 teaspoons a day) or add it to the oats, it'll melt immediately. But i really prefer to eat it directly, it's got a very nice taste and texture.

Here are a few links with more information on the ingredients I mentioned:

Top 5 healing super foods

10 best food sources of antioxidants

Eating cannabis seeds

I'm not doing raw eating, but I'm back on the smoothie bandwagon after going off the rails, nutrition-wise, this winter. Just after a few days of it, I already feel a hundred times better.

I have allergies to wheat, corn and oats that affect the complexion of my skin. Since I started juicing earlier this year, it's not nearly as severe. And I have way more energy in the morning. It's like drinking a cup of coffee.

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I LOVE eAting raw.

NDRU said:

I'm more of a smoothies guy (I don't have a juicer). Smoothies don't give you the concentrated nutrition of juice, butt you get all the fiber. I notice it improves my mood, too

i ve been doing more protien shakes recently which keep me so full i forget to eat but fruit and veggie smoothies don't seem to doo much for me. i end up eating the seaweed out of the package which tastes better imo. ii guess it depends on what kind of smoothies youre making.

does anyone have a receipe for smotthies skin stuff. for the first time in my life my skin has gone crazy in the last 6 months or so and it looks like i may have roseacea or something like.

thanks

Tittypants said:

I LOVE eAting raw.

You leave KidaDynamite out of this!

I've been fully vegan for four months now and perhaps the biggest impact for me is that I have much more energy throughout the day. My job requires a lot of walking, carrying heavy things, dealing with machinery, so the energy boost I get from a vegan diet is appreciated. I feel cleaner, lighter, and stronger, even though I have lost weight.

Alej said:

I've been fully vegan for four months now and perhaps the biggest impact for me is that I have much more energy throughout the day. My job requires a lot of walking, carrying heavy things, dealing with machinery, so the energy boost I get from a vegan diet is appreciated. I feel cleaner, lighter, and stronger, even though I have lost weight.

I've been vegan since 2009 and this is one of the things I noticed very soon afterwards also.

Militant said:

Alej said:

I've been fully vegan for four months now and perhaps the biggest impact for me is that I have much more energy throughout the day. My job requires a lot of walking, carrying heavy things, dealing with machinery, so the energy boost I get from a vegan diet is appreciated. I feel cleaner, lighter, and stronger, even though I have lost weight.

I've been vegan since 2009 and this is one of the things I noticed very soon afterwards also.

It's awesome. The hardest part for me is dealing with people who think that being vegan will lead to my death.

Alej said:

Militant said:

I've been vegan since 2009 and this is one of the things I noticed very soon afterwards also.

It's awesome. The hardest part for me is dealing with people who think that being vegan will lead to my death.

I just tell them about people like Mac Danzig, the mixed martial arts champion who is vegan. They soon shut up

kewlschool said:

Tittypants said:

I LOVE eAting raw.

You leave KidaDynamite out of this!

OMG

Can you eat raw Kale????

Militant said:

Alej said:

It's awesome. The hardest part for me is dealing with people who think that being vegan will lead to my death.

I just tell them about people like Mac Danzig, the mixed martial arts champion who is vegan. They soon shut up

You're lucky, people at work still believe that I have an eating disorder.