The real paleo diet

[OakLeaf]

Yeah, that's how I feel about eating raw, too.

Raw foodies can be so preachy that it's hard to even find a cookbook that has more recipes than preaching. (Which is seriously part of the reason I don't do anything more than salads and smoothies at home ... while I do most of my cooked recipes from the internet, that's because I already have a foundation of techniques and ingredient properties. When I'm learning something entirely new I really prefer a paper cookbook.)

But I feel SO much better after a raw meal that I don't care about the theory.

But oh, that's "anecdotal," unscientific, and what my body is telling me couldn't possibly be true. I'd better listen to advertising from Monsanto, IBP and ADM about what food is good for me.



The other question is, "coming from what?" Now, I don't follow the "what do you eat" threads at all, so I may be completely wrong, but it seems to me that athletes of necessity, especially as we get past our impressionable youth, learn to turn down the volume of the advertising and listen more closely to our bodies - doing so is the only way we keep going over the long term. And yet, here are two of us in this thread who've made huge changes to our meat consumption to wind up in a similar place ... Shootingstar "really cut down my meat to 3-4 times per month (almost vegetarian)" ... while I massively INcreased my meat consumption to 3-4 times per month (more during a marathon buildup, and I consider it the farthest thing in the world from vegetarian).