Re: Confusion over the role of diet and parasites
It may be in part due to the fact that everyone is different, but also the overall content of a raw diet that includes meat is far superior to the Standard American Diet (SAD) which would include packaged foods and lots of simple carbs as well as more fats in the form of fried foods, lots of hidden dairy products which bring in hormones and drugs, etc., etc. A piece of raw meat is a far cry from a piece of fried meat slathered with mayonnaise (eggs and added oil) and cheese and stuck between two pieces of nutritionally void white bread. And for every bite of empty calorie, you give up the capacity for that much living food. Which is better, one bite of white bread, or one bite of fresh raw broccoli? Now multiply that throughout the day. . . .
As for me, I've just recently started raw; you couldn't get me to touch a piece of raw meat with a ten-foot pole. The last fish I ate was several years ago on a fishing boat where some of the fish was prepared on board, and I kid you not, there were worms (nematodes) floating in the stew.
I don't do worms.
There is a lot of conflicting literature to consider when choosing to go raw.