Nicola, it just occurred to me that this topic should have been put in the Hot Topics forum, in the first place, as that's really the forum for discussing any alleged benefits of cooked-zero-carb/raw vegan/cooked-junk-food etc. diets.

*Forgot to add 1 other point:- I'm always deeply suspicious of anybody who claims 100% success on any diet, without any issues whatsoever. If they don't mention at least some setback  on their path to health, no matter how slight, or worse, as in the case of some others(not Charles) start making outrageous claims, such as the notion of being able to live forever on such-and-such-a-diet or become as strong as  Arnie without the need for any exercise whatsoever etc., then there's good reason to be think that a great deal of exaggeration is involved.

I would agree that there are some microscopic amounts in mineral-water, but I just don't view them as being an issue. Besides, from what I've read elsewhere on the subject, the mineral-water bottles have to be left out for years before it becomes an issue re contamination.

As for the environmental issue, I agree that importing mineral-water from very far away, like Fiji, is a bad idea, but I'd much rather be drinking mineral-water from more local areas(in my case, Wales and Scotland) is far preferable to drinking the fluoridated/chlorinated London tapwater - though tapwater-quality when I go abroad is so good in certain areas that I can drink that, instead, fortunately.

There are a few 1-litre glass bottles of mineral-water , found here and there, but, needless to say, there are no glass-bottle equivalents of the 5-litre mineral-water (plastic) bottles that I normally get. It would be hellish for me to lug heavy glass bottles all over the place.

Yes, water-retention is a big problem for those on carb-filled diets and cooking (and dairy-consumption, even raw dairy,makes things much  worse, as regards weight-gain/water-retention).

My new initiative is to target sites like Wiki-Answers to add proper answers to questions about raw meat diets. I would strongly encourage members to go to such sites, from time to time, and answer/edit answers there, as there's so much misinformation out there(1 current, rather stupid question being "why can animals eat raw meat and humans can't?"):-

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Special:Search&search=raw%2Bmeat

Somehow I doubt that the PH value goes down if one leave bottled water out there for years. As for the whole plastic issue, only a few RPDers give that any credence.

You could e-mail Aajonus at optimal@earthlink.net and ask him about it. In the process, you might even suggest him appearing on Youtube, perhaps!

That's pretty good - thanks edwin. Only drawback is that only us Moderators are the only ones who can see the actual youtube address via checking via the modify button. I suppose, though, that a youtube search under raw palaeo diet would find it.

Happy Birthday!

Hmmm... I thought my ears were ringing! Tyler is way ahead of me re posts. I'll have more time next month but I do check in daily to make sure things are running properly. I'm wondering what's happened to Lex though.

Youtube videos are a most excellent idea. Volunteers anyone?

Craig

Youtube videos would encourage many more members to join, especially if they were filled with intelligent, scientific-oriented explanations(ie no cultlike behaviour of the Raw Vegan kind). One of the 2 primary reasons for the lack of popularity of RAF diets is, simply, that there's so little info on them, online, so no one curious can find them(I mean I thought of raw-meat-diets as a last resort somewhere between my early- to-mid-20s, yet it took till I was 29, to find any reference, online, to Raw-Animal-Food Diets for Humans(as opposed to ones for animals)

Well,  I've done my bit as regards the Raw Foodism Wikipedia page etc., but what would really generate 100s, perhaps a 1,000 or 2,000, new members, with each successive media-surge, would be  interviews with a national newspaper or local TV-station by 1 or more RAFers in the English-speaking world. Look at all the publicity that was  generated by the RAF-eating Haigwoods appearing on that episode of the US TV-series version of WifeSwap.

(Please don't post on this thread, as this is an ongoing attempt to create a permanent sticky topic on the benefits of bacteria)


Bacteria-rich food has been a staple food of the Inuit who used the  bacteria within the "high-meat" they ate  to lift their spirits. Here's an article referring to a scientific study which goes into more detail on how this works:-


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1547346/Getting-dirty-could-prevent-depression.html



It's best to Google the term "hygiene hypothesis" which is the theory that
bacteria and parasites have several benefits(eg:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

)

 You'll then find numerous examples
of the benefits of bacteria all over the place. Here are some examples, along
with their shortened tinyurl links:-

(bacteria protect against diabetes type 1)

http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/breaking-news-all-topics/jdrf-funded-study-links-hygiene-hypothesis-to-diabetes-prevention_53765.html

http://tinyurl.com/5nuehs


(bacteria prevent bowel disease)

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL15665020080802

http://tinyurl.com/5oa6qe

(there's already plenty of evidence linking lack of exposure to bacteria to
asthma and other allergy-related illnesses:-


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12487209?dopt=AbstractPlus

http://tinyurl.com/5a8zyb


Info on the benefits of fermented foods:-

http://blog.sethroberts.net/the-unami-hypothesis-why-i-believe-fermented-foods-are-necessary-for-health/

I was forced to drink water with lemons squeezed into it beforehand, in Kenya. This is presumably an anti-insect technique(?) The stuff tasted foul, so I'd never do it again.

OK, if we're going to lift RAF diets out of obscurity, we are going to need more Youtube videos posted about us wonderful people. I strongly recommend that our members do so. At the moment, all we have are videos mostly criticising raw-meat diets, such as a couple made by a Raw Vegan fanatic.

Even better would be to get  Youtube videos of Aajonus or some Inuit/Eskimoes eating raw meats.

The idea that grassfed meat is always expensive is nonsense. I've managed to get hold of very cheap grassfed horsemeat in Italy, for example, which is FAR cheaper than the grainfed beef on offer, over there. Same here in the UK, I can get whole wild-hare carcasses, complete with organ-meats, inside(albeit headless), for 10-11 pounds each(13 pounds if I don't order them regularly, which is rare), a massive grassfed leg of mutton for 14-16 pounds sterling etc. Plus, as grainfed meat is inferior nutritionally, one has to eat more of it to get most of the right nutrients, though one would miss out on omega-3s, mostly.

What irks me, though, is that cooked-zero-carbers are following such highly artificial diets, yet frequently cite the Eskimos/Inuit as supposed proof that their diet  works, in the long-term. In fact, the Inuits followed a diet that was radically different from most cooked-zero-carbers - for one thing, they ate large amounts of organ-meats, ate much of their meats raw, and ate meats from wild-animals with much, much  higher levels of omega-3s than would be found in supermarket, grainfed meats.