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Re: RAW VEGAN DIET: I Now Ovulate Reugularly, Menstruate Regularly, and
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:08:50 -0600 (CST)
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! O:-)))
At Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Renee wrote:
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>Ireland wrote:
>>
>> Second, I disagree that people eating cooked food are healthy. All
>> cooked food people including children experience disease even if it is a
>> cold or flu. As people age they experience more and more health
>> problems. For example, 50% of all people in the US get heart disease
>> and 10% get type II diabetes mellitus, 1 in 8 women get breast cancer,
>> etc. This is not a sign of cooked food eater being healthy.
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>And people eating a raw diet don't get colds? Ever? Or cancer or other other
>diseases? They're embodiments of perfect health their whole lives? I doubt it.
>
>> Third, I do contend that PCOS is a disease. However, PCOS like all
>> diseases is caused by eating cooked food. Animals don't eat cooked food
>> unless they find human food or unless they are house pets and these
>> house pets do get diseases, because guess what?? They eat cooked food.
>> Animals in the wild when not exposed to toxicity produced by humans do
>> not get disease.
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>Animals in the wild do get diseases. Rabies, for example. A squirrel or
>racoon or other animal in the middle of the woods with no people around still
>gets ill. Not all animals die of old age or trauma/attack. Where is your
>support for the claim that all disease is caused by cooked food? That's a
>pretty strong statement to make without support (more than a chapter in a book
>by raw-food-activists---where is their support?). There are many animal
>illnesses. Why do whales beach themselves. The manatee die off? The list
>goes on.
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>> It may sound weird to us who grew up eating things we can't pronounce
>> (read the ingredients list of any processed food item and compare your
>> reaction to canned peaches verses a fresh one) and calling it food, that
>> a raw food diet can heal disease and restore the vitality but it is also
>> the way humans ate before fire was discovered.
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>You're right. There are many chemicals in our foods. But, processed food is
>very different than cooked food. You can't use the argument of one to support
>the other.
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>> To me at least, it is empowering to know that my disease is my
>> responsibilty, so I no longer have to wait for someone else such as a
>> doctor to treat me.
>
>You are absolutely right! It is your responsibility. It's all our
>responsibilites. We can't blame anyone else. We are need to learn about our
>condition (which everyone on this list does), and act to address it (again, we
>all are). You found that the raw foods helps. I'm happy for you. I just
>don't buy all your claims. But I'm glad you feel good.
>
>Reneex
>
>--
>Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
>
>---
>
>Don't follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.
> --Zen saying
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