The Raw Food Solution with Paul Nison by Boyd Martin

Transitioning

Paul has written three books. His first, The Raw Life presents practical, easy and smart ways to incorporate raw foods into a cooked diet, and how to transition to 100% raw. He has interviewed dozens of long-time raw foodists, who divulge their strategies and ways of thinking about eating.

Making the transition to raw food also takes some self-reflection and an awareness of habitual patterns. "I find that people eat too much sugar, too much fat, too much protein and too little green food," says Paul. "Then they switch to a vegetarian diet, but keep doing the same thing, and keep running into the same problems. Then they switch to a raw diet, but continue to eat too much sugar and too much fat and too little green food, and they run into the same health problems."

Variety is the key to consistency in any diet, and raw fooding is no exception. Cravings for such things as pizza, lasagna, ice cream, pies, and candy can, amazingly enough, be mimicked with raw, uncooked foods. "There is such an amazing variety of raw foods, but people aren't aware of it," says Paul. "People need to get a raw food recipe book and make some recipes. Anything you can make on a cooked food diet, you can eat on a raw food diet. You can make raw food pizzas, you can make raw food hamburgers, raw food pies. You can make lasagna--you can make everything with raw foods."

Lately Paul has been traveling the world to experience new cultures and exotic fruits, and although he travels to native climes, most exotic fruits and vegetables are available in America. "There are so many kinds of fruits in this world, you could eat one different fruit every day for the rest of your life and not come close to tasting all the fruits of the world. We get most of them in this country. They don't grow here, but we get them here. People have to open up their horizons and shop at Asian markets or Latin groceries and see the different types of foods that are out there."

Just going to Safeway and rummaging around in the produce section, isn't going to fully accomplish shopping goals for raw fooding. Several factors come into play, as Paul points out: "The most important thing when eating raw food, is we want it to be the highest quality possible. That would be raw, fresh, ripe and organic. Now, it's very easy in today's world to get raw and organic. Ripe and fresh is another story. You've got to work really hard to find where we can get ripe and fresh foods. But raw and organic is everywhere. Organic is so important because it's a high quality food, and when it's not, it's a low quality food. Some of the dirtiest water we can get comes from un-organic fruits and vegetables." Paul recommends searching the internet for resources in local areas, as well as hooking up with raw food groups that are springing up everywhere.

Raw fooding is basically anti-technological. ""We don't need anything other than our fingers. We don't even need utensils when we're eating raw, uncooked vegetables and fruits," notes Paul. "However, there are some things that will make things easier, but they're not definitely needed. A good blender, a juicer, a knife and a cutting board, are the four things I would highly recommend."

Food isn't everything...

In his travels, Paul has heard it all when it comes to symptoms, diseases and conditions people want to heal by raw fooding. "Probably the most popular problem is problems with Candida, which is actually one of the major causes of more severe health problems," declares Paul. "Everything from cancer to arthritis, to chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes--the raw food diet will heal every disease out there that is caused by diet. But, a person won't necessarily stay healed if they're only going to look to food for the answer. There are spiritual ways to heal, also. For example, if a person is eating the best diet in the world, but they're holding on to bitterness, and they're not forgiving other people for things, they could very well get some diseases. Vice versa, somebody could eat badly, and have that down and be healthy. There are many factors other than just food that affect our health, but we don't have to worry about food when we eat raw food."

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BIO:

Boyd is the webmaster of www.subtleenergysolutions.com and the newsletter writer for that site. He enjoys a wide range of experience both in the ways of the internet, alternative health, environmental issues, and in freelance writing. An active, professional drummer, Boyd performs in the Portland area with several area blues and R&B bands. Boyd is also an avid, daily practicing Bikram Yoga student.

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