As an eco-raw food chef and author, folks often ask me what I eat. I'll show you here what I ate yesterday, and you'll see it's hardly carrot sticks and celery. I think I eat a lot more than most people do, and I'm super active. I live in Los Angeles, CA, and this is my food diary from August 25th. It's easy to eat healthy everyday.
I'll get these recipes onto my website: www.AniPhyo.com, just incase you're inspired to see for yourself how delicious nutritious food can be. You won't miss the wheat, gluten, refined sugar, dairy, or guilt. Plus, eating this way helps us tread lightly on our planet, while keeping us looking and feeling our best.
8am: Breakfast
Antioxidant Superfood Smoothie
Made with Navitas Natural's Tropical Blend (packed with antioxidants from blueberry, acai, mangosteen), sprouted flax seed powder, coconut oil, maca, chia seed, and strawberries.
Antioxidants help us fight aging effects of free radicals. Flax is packed with good for us omegas, coconut oil has been shown to help us loose weight, and chia keeps our body well hydrated, and our skin moist and supple.
10am: Mid Morning Snack
2 plums
2 peaches
1pm: Lunch
Kelp Noodles in Pistachio Pesto
Kelp is a sea vegetable rich in minerals. It's high in iodine to work with our thyroid to balance our metabolism.
My pesto is made with pistachio for protein, avocado for good fat and creamy goodness, and lemon juice for vitamin C and antioxidants. Great for our skin and hair.
4pm: Afternoon Snack
1/2 cup dried Mulberries and Golden Berries
These berries are both packed with antioxidants, vitamins A, C, B, and are a great source of protein. A healthy low sugar sweet snack.
7.30pm: Dinner
Sunflower Cheeze Stuffed Anaheim Chilies with Chocolate Mole Sauce
I call my dairy free cheeses 'cheeze', with the Z. This rich cheeze is made by processing sunflower seeds and lemon juice with a hint of garlic and sea salt. My Mole Sauce is made by blending tomatoes with raw chocolate powder.
Peach Cobbler
My cobbler crust is made with protein packed pecans and is whole fruit sweetened with dates. No flour, butter, eggs here! Just fresh organic whole food goodness all fresh from the local farmer's market here in SoCal.
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You really are better off cooking vegetables, especially leaves, to render these defenses harmless.
I do not think a purely raw diet makes sense for most people, but I think incorporating more raw foods into our daily diets can help prevent the onset of disease. I would like to keep us all from reaching the point in our health care when western medicine says it has nothing left to offer us to make us better. It is at this point (receiving the diagnosis of metastatic disease) that many people choose to go "all raw all the time." With a strict raw diet (and macrobiotic diets as well), many people have cured themselves of incurable diseases like metastatic cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis... the list goes on.
So, here's to our health and enjoying all the fresh foods that we have comfortable, easy access to! Ani Pyo's foods and recipes are quick, delicious and easily accessible, and V. Boutenko has marvelous green smoothie ideas -- both are great, delicious ways to incoroporate fresh foods into our daily diets. As always, the best way to decide what is best for your body is to try things out for yourself.
It is not entirely clear why this is, but I like Mrs. Boutenko's (raw food author) theory about protein digestion. Proteins are broken down in the body to be used as their smaller pieces -- amino acids. Raw foods contain free amino acids so your body does not have do the work of breaking down the proteins. Also, most pigmented foods (dark fruits and vegetables) are very high in anti-oxidants, which may be damaged in cooking, and anti-oxidants help keep us young and healthy in many ways. Heat also is a different sort of transformer than is acid from the stomach, especially high heat. Mrs. Boutenko (in 12 Steps to Raw Foods) mentions the formation of AGE's (advanced glycoxidation end products) in cooked foods, which tend to cause general degeneration of organ and vascular tissues. The list of theories goes on and on...
Why not decide for yourself? Why not do your own experiment? Try eating raw foods or add green smoothies to your current diet (per Victoria Boutenko's book Green for Life) religiously for a few months - you and others will comment on the change in your appearance and energy levels...
Premise of raw food diet alleges cooked food destroys enzymes College level coursework in chemistry digestive juice hydrochloric acid has PH of 2 equal PH of vinegar Digestive hydrochloric acid destroy 100% of enzymes in due to PH level 2 hydrchloric acid
blows apart premise of raw diet
Enzyme production created by amine eat adequate amount of protein creates BILLION enzymes
Miso soup kombucha sauerkraut naturally fermented pickles have tons of enzymes
whole grain is rich w/ B Vitamin complex creates tons of enzyme
Certified organic grass fed pastured dairy organic kefir yogurt are enzyme rich
Raw fooders against whole grains view it "toxic" wheat barley were first crop in history If whole grains were "toxic" as raw fooders allege human race would have gone extinct
Raw fooders say cooked food has no nutritents causes cancer/degenerative diseases human race ate cooked food hundreds of thousands of years would have gone extinct if cooked food had no nutrients and "toxic"
Raw food diet huge emphasis on tropical foods Violation of Natural Law eat food grown outside biome we live in Ship tropical food thousands of miles from far away tropical climates is HUGE waste billions of gallons of oil energy Ship tropical foods to America creates carbon footprint global warming gas pollution
not holistic tropical foods in American biome
Ecologically responsible is LOCAVORE Localtarian eat local grown food by LOCAL organic farmer eat 100 miles of biome you live in
>blows apart premise of raw diet
hey college person, is it possible that your strawman argument is not valid?
is it possible that most raw fooders that know what they're talking about don't use the enzyme argument?
blows your argument away.
>Raw fooders against whole grains view it "toxic" wheat barley were first crop in history If whole grains were "toxic" as raw fooders allege human race would have gone extinct
try this on...
if coca cola and pizza were toxic then the human race would have gone extinct.
there goes your argument number 2.
>Raw fooders say cooked food has no nutritents causes cancer/degenerative diseases human race ate cooked food hundreds of thousands of years would have gone extinct if cooked food had no nutrients and "toxic"
1. not NO nutrients. the nutrients are damaged.
2. humans don't eat ALL cooked food
3. your black/white thinking is incorrect. if X means humans would have gone extinct is a false argument.
>Raw food diet huge emphasis on tropical foods... blah blah blah
what do zoo keepers feed the animals in their zoo? local foods?
no.
species appropriate food from their natural environment.
>Ecologically responsible is LOCAVORE Localtarian eat ...
hard for me to live on leaves.