Re: Too much misinformation in this thread about Raw

You are right.
Seriously after I read Victoria Boutenko's book I laughed at her.
She was on raw food for so many years and was not consuming greens.
How did she ever become an authority on raw foods in the first place.
Even after eating raw foods for years she and her family look unhealthy(they are still overweight and have loose bodies).

Victoria Boutenko was talking about green leafy vegetables like it was the discovery of the century.
Please all you people in the west take a look at ayurveda.
Raw foods has been curing people in ayurveda for centuries.
Only thing is that it is not so popular because ayurvedic herbs are equally effective and do the job(that is only curing diseases, it is in no way an effective substitute for a raw lifestyle)

Raw for 30 cures diabetes in 30 days, but a yoga teacher in my city cures diabetes for life in 18 days flat(with the help of pranayama and detox).

No there is no "gourmet" food. Just a big tub of around 15-2- vegetables(which includes lot of green leaves and sprouts) Lime and salt(and slight garnish, that is mustard seeds spluttered in oil with red dried chillies and some curry leaves which is added to the raw food after it has cooled down).

The problem with raw foodist is they want to hold to their "foods" Also they just go from Standard american diet to what I call a "Raw Standard american diet".
they go from unhealthy refined flower brownies to healthy raw brownies. But they dont realise that raw brownies is not going to give them the needed nutrition.

Also what is needed is just like there are tons of leafy vegetables, herbs spices in India which are recommended by ayurveda for places like america, you have to look at the Native american history and find out what were the vegetables and herbs growing then.
They have to be salvaged and then tested to see which one can be eaten raw.
because one has also to eat foods that are grown in the same area they live in.

I remember one ayurveda expert who used to say that you cannot prescribe for e.g. brahmi to every person in the world. In america there will be another herb that does the work of brahmi and will work better for the inhabitants of that area.
He used to say that he can recommended alternative is almost all parts of the world.
I never got around to asking him if there was some literature for this in ancient ayurvedic texts. Tweet