In this article, Rick Dina shares on two main raw feed camp philosophies and the pluses and minuses of each. Rick Dina has been a raw foodist for over 20 years. Rick is a chiropractor and teaches a series called The Science of Raw Nutrition as well.

Kevin: All right. Let’s close this out by talking with regards to the dissimilar raw feed philosophies and I don’t want to say which ones are the best, but what are a heap of of the plusses and minuses of each one.

Rick: That’s a great question because so a heap of people get excessively affected emotionally when it comes to raw feed but then as they commence to get into it more they detect that there’s two indispensable camps which in some ways are diametrically opposed to each other and it’s in truth tough to recognise incisively what to do. On the one hand you’ve got the natural hygiene camp which is one of the conventional raw feed camps that says you will have to eat a great deal of fruit, a few vegetables and there’s a whole other lifestyle doctrine that goes along with that. Whereas there’s the other side, the Hippocrates, Anne Wigmore-type side and other folks that advertize that, that in truth look down on fruit. People just don’t know what to do. They argue with each other and there’s the classic debates. The hygiene persons say, “You guys eat too much fat.” “No we don’t. You’re eating too much fruit it’s feeding yeast and candida and causing cancer.” And all this other stuff.

I personally think that there are plusses and minuses to both approaches. My personal diet, I cited my typical day earlier, I just fundamentally eat fruit and greens all for the duration of the day and have a big salad with a heap of nut and seed-based dressing in the evening. That, for me at least, seems to work genuinely well. Now what I do agree with on the natural hygiene side is that if you’re eating for the most part sprouts and vegetables, we talked regarding before that vegetables have on intermediate regarding 100 calories per pound, now as enthused as you might be when it comes to raw feed you might get 4 pounds of vegetables in you per day, perchance 5. It takes regarding a pound to fill up your stomach. So that’s 4 or 500 calories. Most humans need 1800 or 2000, if you’re active 3, 4, 5,000 calories. So you need

to eat a great deal of things that are more calorically dense. Fruit on intermediate has when it comes to 300 calories per pound. Bananas are a little less watery, a little richer, outstanding to make banana ice cream out of, they have in regards to 400 calories per pound. So eating fruit is a way to supply more calories. If you’re not eating much fruit then and you’re staying all raw what you’re left with is either things from the dehydrator or nuts and seeds and avocados and things that are high in fat. So if you may only get in regards to 400 calories from vegetables and you need to eat 2,000, most of the rest of that is coming from fat. So I do agree with the natural hygiene camp on that view that if you’re totally avoiding fruit but staying all raw, if you get sufficient calories you just end up with the majority of your calories from fat. Even though it’s unsaturated, it’s protective, it’s more salubrious fat, there’s numerous necessary fats, in my personal experiment and from what I’ve seen from personal experience from what I’ve seen with some other people over the years, they’re just not sentiment as critical and vibrant and healthful and lively as they could eating that much fat. Even healthful fat is harder to digest than protein and carbohydrates.

The Hippocrates camp I’ll agree with a lot of of their criticisms toward natural hygiene. Greens and sprouts are so important, not only lettuce and celery but we need to eating kale and collards and bokchoy and a lot of of the grasses and the algaes are genuinely essential to add to our diet. I would agree with that. Greens are the star of the show. Greens equated to fruit calorie for calorie are far more solid homogeneous inorgani substance rich. They’re an splendid source of necessary fatty acids. They supply chlorophyll which has a number of beneficial effects in our bodies. And those are all actually essential things.

So I think a combining of eating a reasonable amount of fruit to get sufficient calories without eating too much fat is a good idea. I think you want to eat a large total and lots of greens. And if you want to juice your greens to get more greens in your system I think that’s great. The natural hygiene camp would say, “Well, we don’t have juicers in nature that’s not natural.” Well, we don’t live in a perfective world and we need to take the world the way it is and do the best we may to be as healthful as possible.

So I don’t think we ought to be affrighted of fat, but I don’t think we ought to be afraid of fruit either. We may get moderate amounts of each. Some fruits, lots of vegetables, a large total of greens, a few avocados and nuts and seeds. For most humans that seems to be a beauteous good balanced plan.

Kevin: What in regards to supplementation? I recognise natural hygienists–

Rick: Are actually down on it.

Kevin: Does Hippocrates talk with regards to supplementation?

Rick: They do. The Hippocrates camp they all tend to agree that vitamin B12 supplements are important. They’re up on the current research. I think that’s in truth commendable. They’re very much in usual into all the green feed type supplements – the grasses, the algaes and those type of things. I think a lot of those are beneficial but I do have to say sometimes, in my opinion, people get so into “I’ve got to take this supplement for this and this supplement for this,” and it gets real complicated, whereas I may be grateful for the hygiene point of view that says, “Look, if you live as healthfully as possible you’re not going to need to have all those complications.”

So what I do is I do take a B12 supplement and I use Vitamineral Green and once in a while some type of algae or seaweed or something. That seems to be working gorgeous well for me. I’m not versus supplements but I think that supplements must be just that, supplemental, to supplement a healthful diet program. Don’t be a supplementarian and eat a few things on the side. [laughs]

Kevin: Things like systemic enzymes and digestive enzymes, is that something that you think is important?

Rick: I think digestive enzymes may be very helpful. Clearly when we cook our feed we deactivate the enzymes and then our body has to make it is own enzymes and as Dr. Edward Howe and others have hypothesized that draws upon our metabolic enzymes. I do think it makes sense when you eat galore cooked feed to use galore digestive enzymes to help replace what will have to be there in the feed in the primary place. Even if someone’s eating a real dense raw meal – a bunch of stuff from the dehydrator, a bunch of oil – I think digestive enzymes may support in that regard as well. There’s a great deal of cooked meals that are posing no difficulty to digest than a great deal of raw meals, depending on what the choice is. Steamed vegetables are posing no difficulty to digest than a coconut pie.

Kevin: Or a raw lasagna.

Rick: I might have one enzyme tablet with the steamed vegetables and three or four with the raw pie. I do think they may be helpful. I ran out of my supply a few years ago and haven’t substituted it yet but I think if you have them around they may be beneficial.

Kevin: You’ve been doing raw feed for 20 a great deal of odd years now.

Rick: Twenty-one.

Kevin: What do you think is the key to success?

Rick: The key to success I think is applying all the principles of health and not just diet. What I always say is raw versus cooked is one issue in your diet and diet is one issue in overall health. The key I think is just eating principally fresh fruits and vegetables, whether you like more fruit or more greens, depending on which camp you prefer, that will have to be the foundation. You want to make sure that you get sufficient sleep. You want to make sure you have a positive attitude. You’ve got to move the body and get a good deal of exercise whether it’s running, soccer, the gym, biking, whatsoever you enjoy, walking. And just attempting to keep all that in balance.

If there’s one key to nutrition I would say it’s light eating, focusing on fresh, water-rich, fiber-rich fruits and vegetables. The less energy your body has to use for digestion the more you’re going to have available for cleansing, healing, repairing and vitality.

Kevin: Great. Well Rick, thank you for being on the program. I be grateful for it.

Rick: All right. Very good. I cherished being here.

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