Comments on: The Great Raw Experiment: Day 1 http://thejuxtapositioning.com/2009/06/20/the-great-raw-experiment-day-1/ moving things around in my head Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://thejuxtapositioning.com/2009/06/20/the-great-raw-experiment-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 admin Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:53:28 +0000 http://thejuxtapositioning.com/?p=213#comment-1214 Ron, you said: "What is WANT?" Apparently want, for me, is potato chips and Oreos, understanding that "want" is a relative term. Sigh. Eating should not be so complex and require philosophical dissertation, or should it? (Next we discuss the word "should," which is a whole other can of beans.) Daniel, you're right, it's harrrrd, and mostly, I think, because I suddenly felt I was depriving myself of all those things I never eat anyway, so why now? I want clearer eyes. I have more energy on raw food, btw, at least for as many days as I managed. I'm biking and running and yoga-ing and hiking and it's great. Come to Washington for raw milk — I can buy it right in the organic grocery! Multiple locations! When I was in CO I got raw goat's milk, definitely an acquired taste, but for raw cow's milk in CO you have to buy part of a cow, which seems burdensome. Now I don't do much dairy at all. Especially not on raw days. Ron, you said: “What is WANT?” Apparently want, for me, is potato chips and Oreos, understanding that “want” is a relative term. Sigh. Eating should not be so complex and require philosophical dissertation, or should it? (Next we discuss the word “should,” which is a whole other can of beans.)

Daniel, you’re right, it’s harrrrd, and mostly, I think, because I suddenly felt I was depriving myself of all those things I never eat anyway, so why now? I want clearer eyes. I have more energy on raw food, btw, at least for as many days as I managed. I’m biking and running and yoga-ing and hiking and it’s great.

Come to Washington for raw milk — I can buy it right in the organic grocery! Multiple locations! When I was in CO I got raw goat’s milk, definitely an acquired taste, but for raw cow’s milk in CO you have to buy part of a cow, which seems burdensome. Now I don’t do much dairy at all. Especially not on raw days.

]]> By: Daniel http://thejuxtapositioning.com/2009/06/20/the-great-raw-experiment-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1205 Daniel Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:57:40 +0000 http://thejuxtapositioning.com/?p=213#comment-1205 "the smell of cooking food, like when walking or biking past a restaurant (especially foods with a lot of fat in them), seems unusually distasteful" I tried raw food for a while, and I remembered feeling the same way about most food. But I tried it without meat. I started looking at plants everywhere differently. I wanted to chew them. Prepare to lose weight. Your eyes get clearer. Some moles in my body started disappearing. No joke! Buy a dehydrator. But I could not hack it. A 50% martian body type does not help. It gets hard to ride your bike up a hill. Woody Harrelson has not been able to hack it completely either. Gandhi, who was very small, ended up drinking goat's milk. I personally think that raw milk is the key that's missing -- but it's really hard to get raw milk. When they pasteurize it, it's pretty much like cooking it. Later, Daniel “the smell of cooking food, like when walking or biking past a restaurant (especially foods with a lot of fat in them), seems unusually distasteful”

I tried raw food for a while, and I remembered feeling the same way about most food. But I tried it without meat. I started looking at plants everywhere differently. I wanted to chew them. Prepare to lose weight. Your eyes get clearer. Some moles in my body started disappearing. No joke! Buy a dehydrator.

But I could not hack it. A 50% martian body type does not help. It gets hard to ride your bike up a hill. Woody Harrelson has not been able to hack it completely either. Gandhi, who was very small, ended up drinking goat’s milk. I personally think that raw milk is the key that’s missing — but it’s really hard to get raw milk. When they pasteurize it, it’s pretty much like cooking it.

Later,

Daniel

]]> By: Ron http://thejuxtapositioning.com/2009/06/20/the-great-raw-experiment-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 Ron Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:27:01 +0000 http://thejuxtapositioning.com/?p=213#comment-1201 I think you are on to something when you say that the smell of cooking food (now) seems unusually distasteful. I would usually say to eat what you WANT to eat. But what is WANT? (not to get too philosophical here). How do we get through the many layers of HABIT to perhaps find out what we (simply?) want? It’s great that you explore and share. Maybe we’ll all find something new. Give us a shout from the “other side”. RV I think you are on to something when you say that the smell of cooking food (now) seems unusually distasteful. I would usually say to eat what you WANT to eat. But what is WANT? (not to get too philosophical here). How do we get through the many layers of HABIT to perhaps find out what we (simply?) want?

It’s great that you explore and share. Maybe we’ll all find something new. Give us a shout from the “other side”.

RV

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