Up until recently, I have been very low on fat intake in my diet because of my experience. Then, I started eating raw egg yolks and pork belly/uncured bacon and.. I found a missing piece of the puzzle for me.

I finally realize how important animal fats are. If my body really needed something, I know the most important thing was these animal fats (especially the cholesterol).

Organic down to earth Buddism can be a way to spiritual liberation, but I have become sceptical of the way that Buddhism became standardized and regulated within the Chinese dynasties over the centuries since Buddha had lived. There are lost tribes of people who lived a completely different version of Buddhism. There were nomadic groups of people who followed the Buddhas teachings long before budism ever entered China. There is evidence that blond haired blue eyed wandering Nordic tribes had their own form of budism that was much more free living, but they were to busy living the good life to right sutras or live as monks. So the free living Buddhist tribes faded away while the empire of China created a more repressive buttoned down version for their subjects to live under,  that most people consider the only authentic form of Budism. Buddha himself lived a life that is far different from his modern day followers, so those who follow the words of the sutras without living as he had lived are not experiencing the enlightenment he spoke of.  In my far out openion

I was told by a mainland Chinese that the concept of vegetarianism basically doesn't exist in mainland China. I don't know about Taiwan as it is a very different culture than China.

the thing as with the other thread, is that even if cooking causes detriments, eating those foods that more or less should be cooked might provide nutrients that a diet which excludes those foods (greens, herbs, mushrooms etc...) does. Its possible that even if paleo peoples didn't eat these things, they achieved this nutrtion through their better quality foods and that these nutrients might be missing in even raw plant food of today without cooking/processing. If one could prove conclusively that these nutrients are helpful, it would very well balance out the damaging problems of cooking. Its certainly possible/debateable.

raw unpolished and non heat dried rice, soaked 48 hours