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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: Vegetables Overrated?
« on: August 18, 2017, 01:53:12 am »
Speaking of listening to your body, my body is telling me either it doesn't like raw eggs, or it's had too many eggs recently, I ate 6 raw eggs yesterday, and 6 cooked eggs the day before.
I've been having a lot of gas lately.
Today I had one raw egg and immediately my stomach became inflamed with gas.
Next week I'm going to eat less raw eggs and see if it's the quantity or the rawness that's bugging me.
Perhaps there's an adjustment period for raw foods?
Or maybe some raw foods don't work for some people at some times?

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: excluding raw veg
« on: August 17, 2017, 11:44:49 am »
Most of the raw vegetables I eat are in the form of dried and powdered herbs. I drink around 5 raw organ meat smoothies a day and put a tablespoon or two of various herbs and spices, amino acids and minerals in them. I eat a lot of fruit. Most of the actual vegetables I consume are in reality fruits like tomatoes cucumbers and zuchini. These days I been eating a ton of watermelon. Don't know what I'm going to do when it's not on sale anymore. Don't really have any ratios. I just eat what I crave as long as it's good for me.
That makes sense, except for personally I wouldn't eat a lot of herbs and spices from my research and experience, while it may make the raw meat more palatable, I don't think it's good for digestion and can be mildly toxic.
I prefer plain or minimally, naturally seasoned food occasionally, not much into supplements either.
Eating fruits or culinary vegetables such as cucumber, tomato and zucchini makes more sense than eating say raw broccoli or asparagus as the former are easier on the system.
What cuts of meat do you recommend?
I tried raw lamb shoulder tonight, I should've guessed that it would be tough, given that it is the shoulder.
How's raw rib steak?
Is all raw red meat hard on the digestion?

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: excluding raw veg
« on: August 17, 2017, 11:35:08 am »
Well, my view, though some people disagree, is that vegetables usually contain antinutrients in them to discourage animals from eating them, unlike with fruits. So, those vegetables that taste OK or fine likely have fewer antinutrients in them, while vegetables that taste foul or bland, such as broccoli or kale, have higher antinutrients in them and should be avoided.

Palaeo peoples had a vast variety of diet and likely did not avoid the veg, especially when faced with famine etc. That said, I think fermented vegetables are probably a very good idea. I eat raw sauerkraut often, even though the, er,  stools tend to be quite large soon after,  as a result.
Agreed, I think our prehistoric ancestors likely ate at least a little bit of everything available to them, all or mostly raw and unprocessed, thou what was available to them depended on which tribe, and where they were situated.
If you're going to go raw, it probably makes sense not to exclude any food group you can eat raw and unprocessed, with the possible exception of dairy, which wouldn't've been available to our paleolithic ancestors, but at the same time, some food groups are more digestible, palatable, nutritious and less anti-nutritious than others.
It'd probably be best to eat more eggs, fish, fruit and meat, and less veg on a raw diet, and exclusively or mostly veg that's very agreeable to our digestive system.

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: Vegetables Overrated?
« on: August 17, 2017, 11:22:46 am »
That makes sense.

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: excluding raw veg
« on: August 15, 2017, 11:17:04 pm »
I tend to agree, I can trust my instincts more now that I'm eating more natural and raw.
My senses are telling me broccoli is bland, useless, and my reason is telling me it's more chewing, swallowing, gas and possibly constipation than it's worth.
Sweet potatoes don't seem that great either, I'm either going to eliminate them from my diet, or eat very little of them, or cook them, while continuing to eat everything else raw.
But I did enjoy the parsnips raw, they taste better raw than cooked surprisingly, I'm not sure how hard they are to digest as I had them around the time I ate the broccoli which's difficult to digest, I'd like to have them on their own.
Right I'm sure every tribe had vegetables, some more than others, because some are tasty, nutritious, with few toxins, and are good to snack on, and hard times would have occasionally compelled us to eat vegetables that weren't so tasty, or nutritious, and had some toxins.
I'm probably going to either increase my fruit and animal intake, and decrease my veg, or I'm going to cook some of my veg, while continuing to eat everything else raw.
I'm not committed to eating raw, it's just something I'm experimenting with, trying to be pragmatic with it, if and when it works, I'll do it, but if something is terrible raw, I'm either going to cook it, reduce intake or eliminate it from my diet.
So far I'm enjoying parsnips and fish raw more than I'm enjoying them cooked, eggs are kind of iffy, and broccoli and sweet potato is definitely better cooked.

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: excluding raw veg
« on: August 15, 2017, 10:11:57 am »
Some veg is a lot easier and tastier to eat than others.
I didn't like cooked broccoli very much to begin with, and raw broccoli is just as bad or worse.
On the other hand, raw sweet potato is alright, and I'm really enjoying this raw parsnip I'm having right now, althou it's a little spicy oddly enough, raw parsnip.

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / excluding raw veg
« on: August 15, 2017, 10:09:02 am »
Is there much point in eating raw veg, or would you be better off just eating raw eggs, fish, meat and fruit?
Seems like veg, particularly raw veg is more of a supplementary food, or starvation food, like if you have nothing better to eat, than an essential food on a raw omnivore diet, like it's just a lot of chewing, farting, for little flavor, nutrients.
What's the right fruit, veg, nut/seed, egg, meat ratio to eat in your opinions?

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Vegetables Overrated?
« on: August 15, 2017, 09:24:01 am »
Is there much point in even eating raw veg, or would you be better off just eating raw eggs, fish, meat and fruit?
Seems like veg, particularly raw veg is more of a supplementary food, or a starvation food, like if you have nothing else better to eat, than an essential food on a raw omnivore diet.
Seems like it's just a lot of chewing, gas, and little flavor.
What's the right fruit, veg, nut/seed, egg, meat ratio to eat in your opinion?

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Raw Vegetarian Paleo
« on: August 15, 2017, 07:57:19 am »
I've been flirting with the Paleo diet for several years now, I've never done it all the way for more than a few weeks.
Typically I would do Paleo, but on the weekends, I'd eat some junk food (cookies, cake...), and on the weekdays, I'd supplement it with beans, corn, potatoes or rice, but not wheat and dairy.
Now I'm thinking of going Paleo 100%.
I'm thinking of doing it a bit differently thou, I'm thinking of doing a raw vegetarian version of it, where I eat everything raw, and only eat eggs and fish (but no shellfish) for protein, no mammals or poultry, and definitely no dairy, as that wouldn't be Paleo.

The first time I ate raw egg was yesterday, I had just one.
The taste was nice, and I was only a bit put off by the texture, I have a strong stomach.
Today I had 3 raw eggs so far, plan on having 3 more.
I also had raw fish today, I'm used to eating raw fish as sushi and sashimi, so it didn't bother me at all, I enjoyed both the taste and texture, in fact it was a lot easier to chew raw than cooked.
The sweet potato however was a lot harder to eat, the flavor and texture wasn't bad, not nearly as good as when cooked, but there's a hell of a lot more chewing involved, felt like a cow yesterday and today.
So far I don't feel sick, but we'll see how the day progresses.

The reasons why I'm doing this is because I think I'll be healthier eating a diet as close to nature as I can get, or at least I won't be any worse, or so I believe.
I believe frying things up in butter and oil, even if it's coconut or olive is unhealthy, that refined fats as I call them are unhealthy, and while I could boil things, boiling doesn't add flavor, if anything it detracts, so I might as well just go raw.
I'm also somewhat of a minimalist, cooking and cleaning dishes costs money, it also impacts the environment, I want to reduce my carbon footprint as much as I can, but not willing to live in the jungle just yet *laughs.

As far as I know, eggs and fish are usually safe to eat raw, as for red meat, I may eat it raw one day, but not today, I want to pace myself, see how my body does eating raw eggs and fish everyday, that's already a tremendous change, and as for shellfish, pork and chicken, I will probably never eat them raw, as I view them as unclean (I'm irreligious, just I'm under the impression you're far more likely to be poisoned from eating these animals than eating eggs, fish or even red meat.

I could reduce my carbon footprint even more by becoming a vegan, but I'm not going to, because I believe veganism is an unhealthy diet, based on my research, however I may consider never eating red meat again, since you can probably obtain everything your body needs without supplements from eating eggs and fish, and have less of an environmental impact.
That being said, I love red meat, not sure how I'll like it raw, so we'll see how that goes, it's doubtful all my decisions could be based on purely objective criteria, I am human after all, I have to have some enjoyment, so I imagine I'll occasionally cheat here and there, I rarely do anything 100%.

In terms of calories, I'm planning on consuming about 800 in fruit, 800 in veg, 400 in eggs and 400 in fish daily, and maybe a few nuts/seeds.
I'm a 5'11, 190 pound male.

*Lastly I'm aware eating fish isn't exactly vegetarian.

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