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General Discussion / Re: Raw Paleo collaborative book
« on: January 16, 2012, 11:50:03 pm »
The book will probably want to have section on resources, as does the rawpaleodiet.com website. Another useful resource for those of us in the UK is: http://www.naturalfoodfinder.co.uk


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General Discussion / Re: Raw Paleo collaborative book
« on: January 16, 2012, 11:48:07 pm »
Here's a link to a very interesting article, "Nature and Variability of Human Food Consumption", by D.A.T. Southgate.

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/334/1270/281.full.pdf

Could be useful material for the book?

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Home at last!
« on: January 16, 2012, 04:02:09 am »
Tyler, I agree there is some preparation. Chopping up tough meats, shelling nuts, extracting marrow from bones, peeling fruits, peeling veggies, opening oysters, etc. are tasks we regularly must do. But by following this diet we are not committing ourselves to processing or preparing food beyond the minimum necessary to make it more convenient to get it into our mouths. I generally take an Instincto approach to food preparation.

There is a farmers market in Leeds city centre every second Sunday. On other Sundays the market is held a bit out of town and difficult for me to get to. The farmers market here provides a good source of grass-fed beef, pork, lamb and chicken, including organs. But other staples of the diet like fish, shellfish, raw nuts, raw honey, mutton, wild game meat, suet, bone marrow and organic fruit are not available at the markets, and sometimes even organic eggs and vegetables are nowhere to be seen. I get those things online but each supplier only does one or two of the items I'm looking for so I end up making many small orders and delivery is expensive. I'm never home during the day, so I usually have to collect from the depot which is miles out of town. I don't have much storage space and I prefer not to freeze, so it is a daily struggle to keep my supplies in stock.

High meat is one aspect of the diet I've not yet explored. I have eaten stuff that was sitting in the fridge for weeks but that's a bit different. I'm doing fine without the high meat but wouldn't mind trying. I've got some mason jars: do I just chop up the meat, place in the jar, cover and let sit in the fridge for several months, taking off the lid every week or so to air out the meat? Is there any more to it? Will it stink out my apartment?

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Home at last!
« on: January 16, 2012, 02:55:10 am »
Cherimoya, nice one, but you could also say that is one of the upsides of this diet! I  am quite fair and most of the hair on my body is vellus (short, fine, light-coloured, almost invisible) rather than terminal (thick, long, darker). I don't have enough growth to have a proper beard, and I'm twenty seven years old. Have there been many cases of significant increase in terminal hair resulting from a raw paleo diet?

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Home at last!
« on: January 16, 2012, 02:30:17 am »
Thanks goodsamaritan, I read your blogs regularly and they are very inspirational. You seem to be doing the most of all of us to actually spread information about this way of eating to the public at large. Has there been much interest from people in the Phillipines? I look forward to chatting with you more in the future.

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Exercise / Bodybuilding / Re: Active rest
« on: January 15, 2012, 07:31:07 am »
Inger,

you are probably exercising more than six muscles per workout. There over six-hundred muscles in the human body, if you attempt to exercise each one in isolation, it would take a very long time. Not even professional body-builder attempt this. Unless you're a bodybuilder, it is much more effective to do compound exercises instead of isolation exercises. Time is a limited resources so if you want to get the most results from your time in the gym it's best to pick compound exercises that work the body as an integrated system, the way were designed to move. You only need a few basic exercises. The squat (essentially pushing against the ground with your feet) works almost every muscle in your body if done correctly.

You don't have to worry about getting big muscles. Women's bodies do not normally produce enough testosterone to maintain large muscles. And if you did have high testosterone, it wouldn't matter what you do in the gym because you would have big muscles already. Even men with lots of testosterone have to follow special body-building routines and eat lots of carbs in order to increases their muscles beyond their normal size.

So give squatting a try - it's fun, it's gives the best bang for your buck in the gym and it does wonderful things for the derriere!

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Exercise / Bodybuilding / Re: Active rest
« on: January 15, 2012, 06:49:04 am »
PrimiFit,

Nice warm-up. I love to do dynamic stuff to warm-up on gym days. I also do dynamic stretching between sets when I rest 4-5 mins for strength training. Dynamic stretching doesn't interfere with my work-out like static stretching does. But static stretching is better for actually increasing range of motion and preventing injury so I do that at other times of the day, usually post work-out or in the evening at home.

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Welcoming Committee / Home at last!
« on: January 14, 2012, 08:15:59 pm »
Hello Everyone!

I am very glad to be here, making my first post on this forum. I have never participated in any forum before because I usually just read and learn, but I have benefited so much from reading this forum and from eating a raw paleo diet that I am compelled join you and seek more active membership in this little community.

I have tried numerous diets and ways of eating (incl. standard Irish diet; vegetarian; high grain, cooked vegan; high fruit, low fat vegan; high grain, low fat, moderate protein "balanced" cooked omnivorous diet; and cooked paleo diet) and they all had some negative effects and left me dissatisfied and searching for improvements. I discovered this forum back in April 2011 and began to transition to a raw paleo diet. Since moving to the UK in July I have been almost totally raw paleo. I have never felt or looked better. I have no health issues at all. I have never followed a single way of eating for such a long time without any negative effects. It is also a huge bonus to never have to think about food preparation - I don't blend, grind, mix, soak, dehydrate, or ferment any of my foods. I just can't be bothered. I just wash my produce and chop my meat and I'm ready to eat! I do not think I will ever have reason to change my way of eating again. I think I have found my true home here.

I have read a lot on this forum and would like to thank everyone here for sharing their knowledge and experiences. Particular thanks to Tyler who eased my fears about raw meat and answered my questions as Raw Paleo Guy over on allexperts.com.

The only problems with this diet are that it can be difficult, expensive and time-consuming to source high-quality foods, and many of the practices of this diet (such as mono-meals and eating raw animal foods) are stigmatized by our society. Especially in England, I find that if someone sees me eating something as simple as, say, seven oranges in one sitting, or two heads of lettuce with no dressing or other ingredients, they will think I am a freak. It's just not civilized, it's just not polite, it's not the done thing. That is why I am so glad to be a member of this forum and look forward to making friends with some like-minded people.

Best regards,

Mark

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