The Nurturers

We can always recognise more truth about nutrition..




Read two books on body types recently, The Body Code by Jay Cooper, and Dr Abravanel's Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan. I'm always reading nutrition books to see what wisdom lurks within (or not!). These two books rest on a similar premise, that we all fall broadly into four hormonal types, thyroid, gonadal, adrenal and pituitary (the Body Code refers to them as communicator, nurturer, warrior and visionary).


Interestingly both books highlight the nurturer/gonadal type as the ones most suited to a plant-based high water content way of eating (in the long term), but including small amounts of animal foods such as fish and non-fat dairy. Gonads (women only for this type, the other three types include men) are larger from the waist down and narrower from the waist up i.e. pear-shaped. 

The material could help you customise a raw diet that supports your health. I'm aware that some raw vegans have b12 issues, teeth issues, particularly teeth issues and others (which can be linked to lack of nutrients that can only be found in quality animal foods like B12, Vit D etc). This will affect certain body types more than others so do be aware. Raw (unpasteurised) dairy is a great way to get that extra vital nutrition and stay 100% raw if you want. If that's not available or you don't want to go there, check out wholefood supplementation (with your nutritionist/health support). I can recommend New Chapter Organics available through Iherb.com and at Planet Organic and Wholefoods. Pricey but effective, ethical and totally food based so your body recognises it as food, and can take what's needed. No chemical weird stuff.


What is your body type?


 


The Body Code: A Personal Wellness And Weight Loss Plan At The World Famous Green Valley Spa


Dr. Abravanel's Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan

Reasons to go Raw

Before I go into some of the reasons why I think going raw is a good idea.. techie update!! I'm going to have to burn a new food as the Feedburner one seems to be in the ether somewhere. I'll do that later today. I will also post again tomorrow, so if you don't receive anything please come back and re-subscribe!! And thank-you to those who are following me!!

These are some of the three top benefits of going raw,

Increasing awareness

You become more aware of yourself, all aspects! You come out of hiding so to speak. If you've got a lot of anger suddenly it comes surging out (there is also a side of this that is linked to B12 deficiency but that's for another post). If you are unhappy with some part of your life there it is staring you in the face demanding your involvement. I know I became so much aware of what I was eating, why I was eating and so on. Emotional eating is often brought to light as well. I was able to conquer emotional eating through eating wholly raw. There is only so much fruit, veg or even nuts one can be interesting in eating regardless of how much distraction is required! The beauty of increasing awareness is the ability to choose.

Immediate health results

Eating nutrient-rich, high water food can help you see immediate health results that motivate you on to your bigger vision. These signs of vibrancy include more energy, better sleep, clearer skin, shedding excess fat/weight and more intangible things like increased hope, starting to dream big and feeling you have something to contribute.

Sensitivity to your own intuition

When you start to unravel habits that have been causing you to live small and to supress your emotions (as opposed to transforming or expressing them), within a life of taking responsibility for your life and what you want to see, things change! You start to get in touch with yourself, to hear yourself, to experience synchronicities and see next steps. This is why going raw can be such an addictive phenomenon, and seen as the panacea for everything. ;)

Tomorrow I will be posting on whether I think raw vegan is the perfect 'diet' for mankind!

ps
made some lovely green juice at the weekend combining pineapple and spinach (and diluting with water). Pineapples have the active enzyme, bromelain that benefits the human body in a number of ways including,

reducing swelling and inflammation
loosening old matter in the gut and accumulated mucus in the respiratory tract
helping with a sluggish immune system
helping with digestion ... and much more.

It is brilliant for doing a cleanse, and I like to have this juice at the end of a period of fasting to help sweep out the toxins and old food debris!

Happy New Year!!

Yes I know, we're practically in March and I remember to catch up with my two readers!! Only joking I think there are three!! Actually I got an email from a kind soul passing on a video about raw choc, but I think I may have scared him off when I said raw choc doesn't really float my boat so the video kinda went over my head. Never mind back to two readers!

What's been happening? Well I had a lovely long break over Christmas which was blissful. Had a break from food which sounds weird but was also blissful. Of course we need to eat but it is liberating to step out of that for a time for rest and regeneration. We're talking healthy and intentional here, not eating disorder! I've been writing content but when there is something doing with that I'll let you know. And the snow was beautiful .........

What am I eating at the moment? Fruit until late afternoon mainly bananas or Thompson grapes or green smoothie with baby spinach, mango and pears. Also sometimes munch on apples and pears. I like that these are local but don't get myself in a bind about it. A small salad late afternoon dk green leaves, beetroot and avocado for the last month, and now replaced the beetroot with celery because I felt like it. In the evening tends to be either vegetable juice and sprouted bread from the Sunnyvale range, or lightly steamed sweet potato, broccoli etc on a bed of fresh greens with whatever herbs and spices I like with a touch of coconut oil, and nutritional yeast. At the weekends I have raw oat groats which I really like either with almond milk I've made from sprouting almonds or just with water and a bit of raw honey. I don't have any negative effects and it fills me up for the whole day. Initially I ground them into a coarse flour and added liquid and now I soak the groats and then process them in the Blendtech with the liquid. But both ways suit.

This week I soaked some wheatberries and then ground the sprouted seeds in the Cuisinart, spread on a tray and made hunza style or essene flat bread in the oven. How cool. Tastes nothing like bread. Very chewy so teaches you to 'fletcherise' i.e. masticate food properly!

I found this recipe on Wed and literally went home and rescued my soaking wheatberries. First try no less! There is something incredibly pleasurable about seeing a seed sprout. I just find deep sense of gratitude welling up when I eat without having to consciously think to give thanks.
http://earthstar.newlibertyvillage.com/essenebread.htm and also found one which literally lets the dough air-dry. Hope to try that too.

Earthstar has some thought-provoking articles so worth a browse....

I Eat Raw

I started eating raw about four and a half years ago, when I started eating vegan. Although at the time I didn't realise I was eating 'raw' or 'high raw' and the significance for my health. More about how I came to eat a vegan type diet will come later....

My main reason for getting this blog started is to be able to talk about health, raw food etc without boring my friends silly! I love everything to do with health and wholeness. I will record what I eat daily. It helps me keep a log that I can track over time and hopefully it will be of help and interest to you.

Sat Sept 22 2007
Exercise: Went for run and pushups
Food: Canteloupe milk smoothie, just delicious creamy and sweet without the cow stuff! - a whole melon and no added water. I put in a tablespoon of raw honey (optional).

Early afternoon, a lot of organic Deglet Noor dates, a pineapple and strawberry smoothie. Deglet Noor dates are my favourite so far. They are a little bit nutty and not too sweet. I find Medjools very sweet, same with Halawis although I can eat them. Look forward to trying some other varieties.

Early evening, we were on the road, so made the most of it. I had packed a little salad of baby leaves, fresh tomato and avocado but by that time was ravenous and needed some urgent additions. Picked up some antipasti, sun-blushed tomatoes, mushrooms, and an edamame/greens salad from EAT, mixed everything up and then ate it all up! Felt deliciously full but light at the same time.

Had some more dates later at home with, lots of water and lemon.