I have been using supermarket canned coconut cream in small quantities. This post got me thinking about it. Raw is better. I found this recipe and will try it. Freezing in ice cube trays seems like a good idea. I think a regular blender or food processor would work?

http://www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4

I have been hearing a lot about the lipids in coconuts being very good for us.

I am more interested in the nutrition. I believe the body will respond beautifully to food that meets its core needs. The internal organs have huge amounts of nutrients compared to the muscles.

I shot a rabbit a week ago. I butchered it immediately. The liver was fantastic warm (I cut out the little purple sac). My ex-wife once cooked beef kidneys that smelled so bad I had to leave the house. The raw rabbit kidneys tasted mild and great. I was unsure about the lungs and stomach, and did not eat them. The heart was very good raw and warm. I did not try to get to the brain. I am learning about the other parts that may be too small to consider on a rabbit but that might be large on a cow.

The rabbit muscle was tough and tasteless, even after aging a couple days. Rabbits have a very very low muscle fat content.

I find lots of internet information on internal organs but they usually cook them to death.

Intestines are/were used for sausage casings. Most is synthetic now.

So much of the knowledge of hunter & gatherer & fisher culture has been lost. What wild plants and insects are good for me? Bad for me? How do I eat a buffalo?

Sea plants ...

Seafood...

 

These are some things I have done to go raw:

Put warmed ground meat in a wrap or taco. Warming it to about 100' does not cook it. Or mix it in salads or other foods you normally eat.

I chop liver and warm it with spices and diced onion. It's quite good. I also do this with brains.

Raw eggs in smoothies every morning. The high Omega 3 kind.

Dry the meat at 100' in a good dehydrator. Use your favorite spices. I seems to make the meat more palatable and socially acceptable. I cut it into bite size chunks and snack on it all day. I like to dry it just half way but have trouble with mold, even when it is refrigerated. I am going to experiment with freezing meal size portions.

Eat as much raw seafood as you can afford. Sushimi and ceviche. 

A great book is "Traditional Foods are Your Best Medicine" by Ronald Schmid.

I agree with Lex. In my area wild salmon is less expensive than the farm raised. Kansas, USA.

I guess I am lucky to live in Kansas. The grassfed beef here has plenty of fat. The cows just stand around all day eating clovers and grasses and get fat. A lot of farmers are getting into the business because the demand is growing. I can now get grassfed from two different sources at the local supermarket.

I suggest you try to find some goose and or brains. Geese can survive on a grass diet. Beef brains are hard to get because of mad cow, but if you find a local producer you might get lucky.

I am glad to hear about the milk.

I agree that the benefits of eating fish outweigh the risks. My point is that if a woman is pregnant she should avoid high risk species. It is only 9 months and there are a thousand other species of fish to eat. Why risk even a very remote possibility? The fetus can not choose.

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/reprints/mercury.html

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg.html

There is evidence that paleos were catching large catfish with barbed sticks.

They have found sites where there were mountains of clam and oyster shells. Stuff you can get when the tide goes out or digging in the sand seems reasonable.

The fish with the most mercury are high on the food chain like swordfish and shark which would have been very hard to catch.

Pregnant women and young children should avoid mercury and fish from contaminated rivers!!!!

I think we would have eaten a lot of fish catching creatures like seals, penguins, and seabirds with their eggs.

I tried raw milk home made yogurt recently and it was fantastic. It was from grass only fed cow. It is hard to find grass only dairy here in the winter. Rich and creamy.

I just made some raw goat milk yogurt and kefir. It is runny but good. The goats were grain fed. The farmer said goats are browsers and it's hard to raise dairy goats without grain.

I drink some every morning. I believe in symbiotics. The bacteria digest the lactose also.

Sources:

http://www.realmilk.com/where2.html#ks

www.westonaprice.org

The Weston A. Price Foundation
PMB 106-380
4200 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington DC 20016
Phone: (202) 363-4394
Fax: (202) 363-4396


Here are additional online resources:

Raw Milk Powerpoint Presentation:
http://www.realmilk.com/ppt/index.html

Short Film: “The Whole Truth About Milk” by Organic Pastures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHcyAH0rOPE&feature=related

Short Film: "The Meatrix"
http://www.themeatrix.com/

Short Film: "The Meatrix 2"
http://www.themeatrix2.com/

Short Film: "Store Wars"
http://www.storewars.org/

Short Film: "Greening the Desert"
The Ultimate in Local, Sustainable Agriculture: Geoff Lawton's Permaculture
http://permaculture.org.au/category/geoff-lawton/

Acres U.S.A.
A Voice for Eco-Agriculture
http://www.acresusa.com/

American Grassfed Assn. Recipe Page
Features Recipes for Beef, Bison, Goat, Lamb, Pork,
Poultry, & Dairy
http://www.americangrassfed.org/recipe_main_page.htm

Apitherapy Raw Honey from Honey Gardens
Raw Honey Products and Information
http://honeygardens.com/

Article: A SIMPLE CHANGE IN MINDSET - Learning to Maximize the Use of Your Real Milk and Cream Pasteurized milk doesn’t sour, it rots.  But naturally soured raw milk and cream are highly useful and nutritious items. In fact, it can be argued that the soured versions are even more healthful than the “fresh from the cow variety” due to the higher level of enzymes and friendly bacteria present.
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/maximize_rawmilk.html


Article: Is Your Honey Really Raw?
http://www.zianet.com/sunmountain/rawhny.htm

Chelsea Green Publishing
The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living
http://www.chelseagreen.com/

Cholesterol and Health - A WAPF Chapter Leader’s site focused on cholesterol
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/

David Suzuki Foundation - "Solutions Are in Our
Nature"
Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the
natural world that sustains us.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

Eat Wild
The #1 Site for Grass-Fed Food & Facts
http://www.eatwild.com

Fankhauser's Cheese Page
Recommended Site for Cheesemaking
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Cheese.html

Fieldstone Organic Farm
Good Raw Milk information:
http://www.fieldstoneorganicfarm.com/educational/milk_information.htm

Fourfold Path to Healing
Dr. Thomas Cowan's website (he wrote a companion book to Sally Fallon's "Nourishing Traditions")
http://www.fourfoldhealing.com/

Local Harvest
Find your local food growers!
http://www.localharvest.org/

New Trends Publishing
Important Books on Diet & Health
http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/

Nourishing Connections (Colorado)
The Colorado WAP Chapter -- a good resource
http://wss.nourishingconnections.org

Nourishing Our Children
http://www.nourishingourchildren.org/

“Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston A. Price - The Book - Free on the internet!
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html

Organic Consumers Association
Campaigning for Health, Justice, and Sustainability
http://www.organicconsumers.org/

Radiant Life Company
Excellent Information & Products.  The section on “Traditional Wisdom” is a very good summary of Dr. Price’s research, and includes some of the remarkable photos from his book.
http://www.radiantlifecatalog.com/

Real Milk - A Campaign for Real Milk
Learn the TRUTH about natural dairy products
http://www.realmilk.com/

Really Raw Honey
"http://www.reallyrawhoney.com/

Remineralize the Earth
Towards a sustainable agriculture, forestry, and climate
http://www.remineralize.org/

Soy Information from WAPF
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtsoy.html  (also do a search for “soy” on the site)

Wild Fermentation
Sandor Elix Katz's Site (author of "Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture
Foods")
http://www.wildfermentation.com/

Wise Food Ways
Jessica Prentice's website (author of "Full Moon Feast")
http://www.wisefoodways.com/

Information about Fluoride:
http://tinyurl.com/293krb

Information about re-mineralization & healing of teeth:
http://constantstateofflux.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/tooth-regeneration/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XPCOGSnjP5w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5HWms5CvHZk
Note:  there are three parts to this, and Ramiel Nagel also has a website and a book:
Website:  http://www.curetoothdecay.com/
Book:  Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition by Ramiel Nagel



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http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/

http://cooking.glassbrian.com/

http://nourishedkitchen.com/

Well, you won't find a specific rawpalaeo book, as such. Apart from anything else, most rawpalaeos just eat foods on their own without usually using recipes.

However, Aajonus Vonderplanitz's book "The Recipe for living without disease"

This book sells for about $30 used or new at Amazon. Is it worth the price?

The subject was poop. Kind of got off track.

We are what we eat. We can be magnificent or degenerates.

Eat well my friends.

Where do you get your evidence for this?  Most of what I've read has humans developing in the open plains and grasslands of the African Continent and then migrating into the middle east (what is now Iraq and Iran) and spreading both east into India and Asia, and west into Europe from there.  The American continent was supposedly populated through migration of a land bridge linking what is now Alaska and Russia in much more recent times.  The "islands" and tropics were populated rather recently from a historical perspective from Asia as well, supposedly through the use of primitive boats and rafts.

This view seems to be fairly well supported through the dating of archeological finds in the various areas.  There is nothing that I've found anywhere that suggests that humans spent most of their early development in tropical areas - in fact, quite the opposite - we started in grasslands and plains where there would have been little in the way of fruit, but herds of wild grass eating animals plentiful.

Lex

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

I consider human evolution to encompass a 4 billion year period. Like most people who believe in evolution you consider it to have started about 2 million years ago when Hominini that looked similar to modern humans moved out of Africa.

When making nutrition choices I pay particular attention to the period since mammals evolved 256 million years ago and especially since primates 65 million years ago. I pay no attention to the period since civilization started about 4 thousand years ago other than to avoid the foods humans have manipulated since then.

In the book "Evolving Health" author Boaz shows how closely we are linked the the life forms we co-evolved with. We are still using much of the same cellular metabolism that evolved 2 billion years ago. Many of our molecular, cellular, and system breakdowns are diet related to specific periods in our evolution. During my embryonic development in my mother's womb I had a tail and gills. We all did.

In the book "The Evolution Diet" author Morse details how our evolved oral and digestive physiology is omnivore. We may have relied more on meat when we moved from Africa, but we kept our herbivore advantages.

   

I currently believe that most of our evolution occurred in tropical areas like the Philippines where Goodsamaratin lives, but the soils were less depleted and the landscape, plants, and animals less abused by humans. Fruits and vegetables were abundant year round and our ancestors new when and where they were in their prime. Tender shoots and sprouts were always available as were a huge variety of fruits, insects, and meat creatures.

It was much much later that we migrated to harsher climates and groups of people became adapted to their new surroundings. I don't know if I am a member of which group and if so I don't know if I possess the recent adapted gene. Weston Price studied people who migrated recently and their "traditional" diets evolved since civilization developed agriculture and animal husbandry. I do agree that traditional diets are vastly superior and much less damaging than the "civilized" diets that were invented in the last hundred+ years, which is what Price was comparing them to.

In the book Pottinger's Cats they note that cats living in the wild on their natural hunted diet were healthier that cats fed a raw diet. The raw fed cats were healthy, but the cooked food cats died out in two or three generations.

I think there might be pockets of tropical paradise where I could go out and survive, but certainly not in this northern climate, and certainly not without a tribe of people to gather seeds, berries, and nuts in season to store; and hunt with.

I have read a lot of books on this topic in a short period and am uncertain of my time lines. I am still reviewing. But right now I'm going back about a million years minimum. We have been evolving with bacteria for billions of years. At one time we were like bacteria. There is a much bigger picture here.

I was most impressed by a book titled "Evolving Health" by Boaz. A human fetus develops similar to evolution. The modern world is making us sick. Most of it is diet related.