The Rawtarian Community
The Rawtarian Community is one of the largest online raw food communities. In addition to this community forum, you can browse and search thousands of community recipes added by over 5000 talented Rawtarian Community members just like you!
Visit The Community
Comments
I have not seen one. I try to eat a variety. If I go to a restaurant/buffet, I pic fruits I don’t already have at home.
I have a green drink of blended parsley, green onions and celery in the morning. And at least every other day if not every day I eat seaweed salad with ev olive oil. The seaweed is nutrition and probably calorie dense.
Hi. I had the same problem. Check out Fitday.com—it’s free. They have a daily food journal you can enter in-which gives you “reports” as to what you are missing or taking in as far as calories and vitamins. My biggest problem in Calcium. They have pie charts that break down percentages of fats, carbs, etc. It was an excellent way to track any “diet” or excercise levels. Good luck.
I found this page really useful when I was starting out:
http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/raw_food.php
While some of it may be controversial / biased, the 2,000 calorie raw food list with nutritional break-down (at the bottom) was a useful ball-park idea for me to start with.
Thanks for all of the info. I have never really gotten serious about seeing if I am getting all of the right balance of nutrients. I figure there are people out there eating fast food and chips and I’m way better off than they are. I know certain seaweeds have calcium and sesame seeds do. I also read that people who take calcium supplements have more disfiguring deposits on their joints because it builds up. My grandmother had it and a friend of my moms who religiously gaged down huge amounts of calcium. They may have stronger bones but they’re fused together!
I think everyone here should look into this (eating as balanced a diet as possible) more so they can be as healthy as possible. I read from a link from this site on the acai berry being high in b12- that might be something to look into as well.
I read Sunfood Success Systems By David Wolfe and it gave me some useful advice. He said for a raw food diet we need a balance of sweet fruit, non sweet fruits, plant fats and leafy greens. I found that I do this pretty much as I eat intuitively. Personally I believe that if you are eating 100%raw food then you will be getting everything you need.
There is also the effect of transmutation o think about. This is when your body takes one substance and makes something totally new and different from it. This is how a giraffe can eat one type of leaf and build a whole body out of it. Transmutation only occurs when you eat raw food. Your body, when fed raw food can make everything it needs fom it. This is a new area of science currently being discovered.
When you eat 100% raw, you assililate 30% of your food, which is far more than anyone else.Cooked food eaters assimilate 1% of their food. Even 99% raw foodists only assimilate 3 % (Research by Victoria Boutenko). Go purely raw, 100% to get everything you need and feel great.
Zoe, that’s interesting information… only 1%. And even more shocking… 3% for 99% raw foodists. Does that mean if you go 100%, you don’t use dry spices?
I don’t think you’ll even know how many nutrients your getting… it all depends on the soil it was grown in. I’m not too sure on this… since I recently started learning about organic gardening.
I’m very surprised that more people don’t pay a lot of attention to the recommended daily intake for many vitamins, particularly considering the rather extreme nature of the diet. Raw foodist, while if done properly, are some of the healthiest people around, can also be putting themselves at rist without adequate knowledge and research. Here are some of the main ones. Women between the ages of 19 to 54 need 200mg folate, 2.0mg vitamin b12, 30g vitamin C, 7g vitamin e, 5-7mg iron, 1000mg calcium, and 45 g protein.
As far as I am concerned, the major potential issues for the raw food diet are B12, which is not found in any plant based product and is hence also a problem for vegans, calcium and iron.
Particularly for other posters who have been concerned about their muscle mass dropping after following this diet, your protein intake will be far too low to rebuild muscle. So while you will burn off the (probably minimal) calories eaten that day, you will not be building muscle.
My recommendation would be to everyone who follows this diet to keep a close eye on what they are consuming. Go for those nutrient dense foods – nuts, for example. And be careful, especially when exercising.
I agree with peachy_pie. I’m thrilled to have begun eating a raw food diet, but before I began eating raw my main source of protein was tofu (which I’m very glad to not be eating anymore) but also beans. I’ve been thinking about adding cooked beans to my diet on days that I’m exercising and am also wondering about a raw protein powder to add to smoothies. Does anyone know if there is such a product available. I know nuts are a great source of nutrients I just don’t want to start eating an all fat raw diet. And Zoe..that is very interesting information. Can you reccomend any other books that offer more information on raw nutrition?