PCOS Messages for July, 2003: Re: RAW VEGAN DIET: I Now Ovulate Reugularly, Menstruate Regularly, and Am Losing Weight

Re: RAW VEGAN DIET: I Now Ovulate Reugularly, Menstruate Regularly, and Am Losing Weight

From: vegangirl (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:12:54 -0500 (CDT)

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in reply to Jen R. This is a little off topic as I don't have PCOS, but just wanted to verify Ireland in that I believe that a raw vegan diet is indeed healthy.

I too thought "how will I get protein, iron, EFA's etc" and the simple fact is that all of it is available in fruit and vegetables, sprouted grains and sprouted beans/legumes.

I have been a raw vegan for five years now, I am a triathlete and can bench press twice my body weight. I have 11% body fat. (compared to 25% six years ago). I am not "skinny" but strong, curvy and muscular.

I go to the doctor 4 x a year to get my blood work done and it's perfect. My doctor is bewildered but says I am the healthiest person he's ever seen. It IS HARD to transition to the diet, but once you're on it for a year or so I can guarantee you you will feel amazing and energetic. There IS a lot of eating to be done though. Every morning I eat a lot of fruit (amounts like an entire watermelon, 20 bananas, 15 apples...that sort of thing). It is necessary so that you CAN get all of the macro and micro nutrients, plus energy that we need.

I wish you luck on your quest to good health and curing your disease.

--
vegangirl

At Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jen wrote:
>
>At Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Ireland wrote:
>>
>>Just wanted to let you all know that I have been on a raw vegan diet (i
>>only eat raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, and seeds).  I have lost
>>weight, I ovulate regularly, and menstruate regularly.  This diet helps
>>your bpdy to heal itself.  I do not take drugs for my PCOS at all.  There
>>is this idea that PCOS is not our fault.  I now disagree.  I think that
>>it is we who eat cooked food, we cause our own disease.
>
>Just like any diet, if you can't stick to it, it's not worth doing.  And
>I really doubt that most of us could just eat raw fruits and vegetables
>for the rest or our lives.  I really don't know how healthy that is,
>anyway.  Are you sure you're getting all of the right nutrients? What
>about iron, protein, essential fatty acids, etc?
>
>Also, if cooked food was so bad, then everybody would be unhealthy.  As
>it is, only a small percentage of the population has PCOS.  We would
>have died out as a species if it was just diet.
>
>--
>Jen R.
>
>email welcome at: jennyred@nospam.ivillage.com
>(note: to send me an email, take out the "nospam." I put in
> my email address. That's in there for the spam-bots.)
>

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