Anyone? Not me, I'm more than sure of that. However I most definitely would like to live the rest of my time here in this body feeling vibrant, healthy, sexy, happy, well balanced (ish), ready to dance, laugh and love. Really, what I'm trying to say I guess is to feel as good as I possibly can. I would argue that we're wasting an opportunity not to.
Each day is precious, none of us know what is around the corner (OK well maybe some clever intuitive magic types do but definitely not me) and each day is one that we'll never get back. So we could moan about how bad things are or we could get on and make them better.
Which was part of my motivation behind changing my diet. The other thing I became conscious of was that if I was told I was so unhealthy my time was more limited than I'd believed - how would I eat to try (and live) to change that. Both questions led me to where I am today. Day 12 of my high carb, low fat raw vegan diet. And I LOVE it! I've just had my dinner which was 2 mangoes, 2 oranges and a banana. It was fabulous. I started the day with a 4 banana, 4 cup spinach and cup of strawberries smoothie. It too was fabulous. And in between I snuck in a cucumber soup and large greens (and reds, pinks and orange) salad at lunch (both soooooo tasty!)
I struggle to see why or even how I ate meat previously when there is so much available nutrition in the fruits and veggies out there. I can't imagine the satisfaction I used to get from drinking a glass of milk. Both seem crazy and so far removed from my current life.
The more I read about LFRV diets the more it makes absolute sense to me and seems to work in harmony so well with the teachings of Hahnemann* around diet (how come more than 200 years later we're still stuck on the same thing....?), and with my work on a day to day basis. To feed the body what it needs, craves even (sugar from fruits), and to listen to yourself have to be far more aligned with our true purpose than any other way of eating.
I wish you a life filled with love to listen, laugh, learn, to discover, do and desire.
Em x
*Hahnemann for non Homeopathic readers was the founder of Homeopathy and the following is from his Organon of Medicine:
Stanza 266 a
Substances belonging to the animal and vegetable kingdoms possess their medicinal qualities
most perfectly in their raw state. (1)
(1) All crude animal and vegetable substances have a greater or less amount of medicinal power, and are capable of altering man's health, each in its own peculiar way. Those plants and animals used by the most enlightened nations as food have this advantage over all others, that they contain a larger amount of nutritious constituents; and they differ from the others in this, that their medicinal powers in their raw state are either not very great in themselves, or are diminished by the culinary processes they are subjected to in cooking for domestic use, by the expression of the pernicious juice (like the cassava root of South America), by fermentation (of the rye-flour in the dough for making bread, sour-crout prepared without vinegar and pickled gherkins), by smoking and by the action of heat (in boiling, stewing, toasting, roasting, baking), whereby the medicinal parts of many of these substances are in part destroyed and dissipated. By the addition of salt (pickling) and vinegar (sauces, salads) animal and vegetable substances certainly lose much of their injurious medicinal qualities, but other disadvantages result from these additions.
But even those plants that possess most medicinal power lose that in part or completely by such processes. By perfect dissication all the roots of the various kinds of iris, of the horseradish, of the different species of arum and of the peonies lose almost all their medicinal virtue. The juice of the most virulent plants often becomes an inert, pitch-like mass, from the heat employed in preparing the ordinary extracts. By merely standing a long time, the expressed juice of the most deadly plants becomes quite powerless; even at a moderate atmospheric temperature is rapidly takes on the vinous fermentation (and thereby loses much of its medicinal power), and immediately thereafter the acetous and putrid fermentation, whereby it is deprived of all its peculiar medicinal properties; the fecula that is then deposited, if well washed, is quite innocuous, like ordinary starch. By the transudation that takes place when a number of green plants are laid one above the other, the greatest part of their medicinal properties is lost.
