Nice looking desktop, Craig.
I've been a linux user since 1998 (I'm a network administrator)
I installed Ubuntu on the computers of my employees.
Did you get Ubuntu pre-installed on your computer?

My cramping problems are getting worse!

I have read that it is a mineral deficiency. I suspect I eat too much muscles (especially pork) which is not a good source of minerals today.

I plan to eat more organs, seafood, and add some unrefined salt.

What do you think I can do to improve my condition ?
I have some magnesium chloride, should I take some?

Thank's for you help!

Have you read Aajonus Vonderplanitz?
Try green juicing to give you extra minerals.
Have you done any detoxing yet?
Have you done any fasting?

I'm very interested in adding the use of a refractometer to measure the nutrition in the fruits and vegetables that we buy.  This is a tool they say that will quantitatively directly measure how nutritious your fruits and vegetables are by use of the BRIX scale.

I just bought a refractometer on ebay.  It should arrive next week.  Thought it would be fun to discuss our readings and experiences on this thread.  This is all new to me so the more experience people, please chime in.

This link goes to a wonderful page explaining this industrial technology and simple tool.

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/refractometer.htm

should we be taking supplements if so which ones ?

i feel supplementing with Vitamin C, Cal/MG isnt a bad idea?

i know Aajonus  is against supplements, correct?

what are your thoughts on this.

In my experience, supplements are no match for real raw nutritious, organic, wild food.
And supplements are potentially polluting to the body.
I feel that if you need supplements, your diet is no good, your food sources are not nutritious.

atis:
http://www.stuartxchange.org/Atis.html

guavas: (bayabas)
http://www.stuartxchange.org/Bayabas.html

santol:
http://www.stuartxchange.org/Santol.html

Balimbing:
http://www.stuartxchange.org/Balimbing.html

Aratilis:
http://www.stuartxchange.org/Aratiles.html

Durian:
http://www.stuartxchange.org/Durian.html

All the fruits have a unique taste.  The taste is as the fruit is named.

Durian smells bad to most people, but it always smelled really good to me and those who love it.  The taste is absolutely great and it is something we save up money for because Durian is expensive in Manila.  But it is cheap in the south where it is grown like Davao City.

The vegan guru David Wolf describes durian this way in his book:

"Ideal Foods

Good, fresh durian must be one of the most incredible edibles on Earth. Once, the editor of Nature’s First Law radical raw-food magazine Just Eat An Apple, Fred Patenaude, and I were passing by an Asian market in San Diego, we stopped in and, sure enough, they had fresh, ripe, durian! I bought the ripest durian available. In the car, Fred and I split the durian. It was ambrosia. The taste was so light, so subtle, so powerful that it immediately sent us into an altered state. While we ate, I told a story to Fred. Afterward, I looked over and Fred had not heard a word I said. He was in outer space. I could not reach him – he did not want to be reached. That is the power of the durian!

The durian fruit of southeast Asia contains incredible fat and sugar, putting us right at the midpoint between the two. Added with green-leafy foods, we can live on durian alone, at least for some time. A raw-foodist once told me he believed durian and raw cannabis constituted humanity’s most natural foods. I thought that was interesting."

I think Thailand makes the best durians, I tasted some thai durian when I was in jakarta indonesia and people were all lined up in that store that had a big sign announcing: "Thai Monthok Durian for Sale!"

No favorites.
Each one has a distinct flavor.
I follow my appetite and buy what I'm craving for.
Variety is needed.

I live in the Philippines and the fruits are abundant, grown organic and wild.
This is why I can eat a lot of fruit safely.
Just google on Philippine fruits or check out flickr.
In season now are atis, green indian mango, watermelon, melons, santol, avocados, guavas, yellow mangoes just finished, next month come the durians and always in season are papayas, pineapples, 4 different bananas and coconuts and there are other lesser known, wild and non-commercial fruit like balimbing and aratilis.

Since we are an archipelago we have lots of ocean fish, many types.  This is why my diet is more wai diet.  But I added beef, goat and some chicken for variety.

We don't buy imported fruit because they are likely sprayed, chemicalized, irradiated, etc.  I suggest you buy local fruits too.  If I were in the USA, I wouldnt buy Philippine mangoes, coconuts, bananas or pineapples.  I would get sick from the pollution, the pesticides and chemicals they put in those for-export fruits.

I'm not into eating molds in fruit.
Even during my fruitarian months.
I subscribe to Hulda Clark's opinion that molds are toxic.

The raw goat kidneys I get taste great!
Highly recommended.

The raw goat liver I get has strong flavor.  Not as wonderful as the kidneys, but it has its own unique taste.

The raw chicken liver I get tastes great too.  So much different from the goat's.

Of course, the little finger sized fish I eat come with all its innards and head.  We call them dilis.

I'm into raw paleo because I'm trying to optimize my body, improve my look, improve my performance.  Those tribes cooking food have to cook their food and that's not optimal.  I want optimal.  I do know as most raw foodists have experienced, that it takes me just half the amount of raw animal foods to make me feel full compared to cooked.  And cooked food makes me too full and sleepy, but that doesn't happen with raw food.

Cooked food is so so.  Raw food is optimal.  We are educated enough today to make the optimal choice.

I stumbled upon a movie trailer http://tinyurl.com/foodmatters

Looks like a high class production.  Looks like a raw food promoting movie.  Anyone watched it?  Bought the DVD? 

I tried raw vegan before for 2 months, more on the vegs than fruits.  Raw vegan doesn't taste good at all.  I did like the fruit times.  The raw vegan I did was 1 kind of fruit in the morning, raw vegan mix at lunch with fatty extra virgin olive oil or freshly squeezed coconut milk then 1 kind of fruit in the evening.  I felt good.  But I was getting too skinny.

I went on raw fruitarian for 2 months.  It tasted better, but I was getting too skinny and felt cold and I live in a tropical country.

I added raw egg yolks, then raw fish (wai diet) and I felt much better, no more feeling cold, started gaining weight and felt stronger.  And the food tastes great.  Food tastes better and more satisfying on high raw fat.  I added raw beef and raw goat internal organs sometimes and I feel much better.

Raw paleo has more variety, I can swing to more fruits or more animal food whichever I feel like, the food tastes great, so it is sustainable and easy to do.   I look better and feel better.

I subscribe to wai's theory that we don't need plants.  I subscribe to aajonus theory that to get nutrients from the plants, just juice them and get rid of the indigestible cellulose.  I subscribe to the theory that we don't need the fiber myth to make our bowels move.  Fats and fruit do a better job.  I'm only saying this based on my personal experience.

Hi,

Please share your fasting advice and experience.
I am aware that several of us here are into fasting from time to time as a tool for health.
Today, I'm just finishing a 3 day orange juice fast.

I know some are into water fasts.

What other fasts and how often do you fast or advice to fast?