I’m often asked why I choose to live on a mostly raw diet. When I began to understand that life creates life, it made the raw transition an easy one. Enzymes, which are present in live vegan foods, fuel the human body with nutrients that are almost completely devoid in cooked foods.
Since eating a roughly 80 per cent raw diet I have loads of energy, my skin has much better tone, my thinking is clear and I simply feel great.
Here’s are some basics:
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While I’m on the subject of healthy skin, I thought I’d include a post about my aversion to sunscreens. I don’t wear them and never will.
I stopped using sunblock the moment I stopped being a beauty editor a few years ago. A combination of gut feeling and research told me what I was being told to “protect” my skin with was little more than a poison (and poisonous it is).
You see, the sun is a life-giver. Without it, we’d be on our way out. The amount of sun we can tolerate depends on various factors from skin type to foods we include in our diet. But somewhere along the way, we’ve been told to fear the sun. Cover up and slather up the marketing hype tells us, and we’ll be doing a great job of protecting ourselves from that nasty cancer-causing ball or fire in the sky.
So why, was my question, had the skin cancer rates skyrocketed? Why were we being told to suddenly be scared of the very thing that gives life to the planet and everything on it? Dollars of course. Scare the masses and they’ll buy the product.
Here’s an excerpt from Natural News:
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I don’t have a strong stomach. I’ve never been able to watch more than 10 minutes of docos such as Meet Your Meat (see video below) or Earthlings.
So to switch on the television today and be confronted by cows being slaughtered on a British show called Kill It, Cook It, Eat It, I was immediately sickened — yet intrigued — to see exactly what the message of the show would be.
A group of men and women were brought to see the slaughter process, from viewing the live animal to watching the cows throats being slashed (courtesy of “Steve the Slaughterman”) and finally to the flesh served up on a plate before them (sliced and diced by “John the Butcher”).
I agree with the aim of the show, which is to connect people with the animal they’re eating, and then gauge their reactions to see if they will still eat the meat once they’ve seen how it gets to their plate. Yet I think the show missed two critical steps.
1) The audience briefly saw the animals through glass and didn’t get to personally interact and connect with them;
2) No one participated in the killing themselves.
Despite seeing heads being sliced off and gallons of blood loss (which I saw through tear-soaked, hand-covered eyes), the slaughtering was done at the hands of others, therefore removing any of the participants from the real process.
Of course, you can be certain the volunteer line for something like that would be shorter than a queue to buy ice in Antarctica. But I strongly believe if we want to eat animals, we should be prepared to kill them ourselves (and do so consciously).
Chef Ed Baines was one of the onlookers, who, despite working with meat, had never witnessed a slaughter.
“Before it began I told myself I’d happily give up eating beef if it disturbs me,” he said. “I was initially sad, but once the head was cut off, it became beef.”
Some other quotes from Kill It, Cook It, Eat It:
“It was fine at first. Seeing the cow kicking put me off. I will now think about where beef comes from.”
“I could sense death, so couldn’t see the process.”
“The guys who were going through the whole process had such wonderful craftsmanship.”
“The meat is wobbly because rigamortis hasn’t set in yet. When it does it’s firmer to work with.”
Dr Oz has dished up just the medicine for rotund Rocco, a cowboy whose diet of animals and junk food has put him on death’s door.
What is the medicine that is Rocco’s only hope? To follow a vegan diet.
A scan of the cowboy’s plaque-jammed heart, which resembles that of an 85 year old’s, shocked him so much that he’s giving up animal products to save his life.
“I can’t look back, I’ve gotta look forward,” Rocco told Dr Oz. “I’ll make the best out of a bad situation.”
While Dr Oz did well highlighting what many of us know (eating animals and animal-derived products is a death sentence), he misses the point by introducing meat back into Rocco’s diet during week four of the 28-day challenge he set for the cowboy.
The doc also recommends Rocco eat soy products, but should have mentioned soy needs to be fermented before consuming.
Despite these two not-so-wise recommendations, Dr Oz has put the attention squarely on the overwhelming benefits of a vegan diet — and that can only be a huge positive for people, animals and the planet.
Watch the show here…
