AboutRawPalaeoGuy Expertise I can answer most questions on Raw Animal Food Diets such as the Primal Diet, an organic, raw-meat-based diet and a number of similiar all-raw or partially raw Paleolithic diets, such as the Instincto, Weston-Price, Neanderthin, Paleo and Stefansson Diets. Can also offer advice on
how to resist social pressure to eat cooked foods etc. For further info on Raw-Animal-Food diets, feel free to browse through this website:-
http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/
Experience I have been 8 years on a 99%+ raw version of the Palaeolithic Diet and experienced numerous health benefits as a result, being fully recovered from my previous symptoms from my cooked-food days. My own individualised raw, paleolithic diet routine is mostly based on Aajonus Vonderplanitz's Primal Diet(ie 99% raw, usage of "high-meat",no processed supplements, using primarily naturally-reared, organic or wild sources of raw foods) but, for personal reasons, I have also been, to some extent, influenced by ideas from:- Instincto(ie:- taste/instinct,no raw dairy/no raw veggie juice), Weston-Price(eg: preferring grassfed meat to grainfed meat, incorporating a wide variety of raw organ-meats into my diet along with the usual muscle-meats, and Vilhjalmur Stefansson(high-fat diet, pretty high proportion of (raw) animal food), but also eating some raw carbohydrates such as raw organic/wild fruit/veg/honeycomb etc.). I'm also a firm believer in the feast-and-famine idea (ie Intermittent Fasting) as regards boosting one's energy levels, and giving my body a rest from constant digestion.
Organizations Rawpaleodiet Community(Comprising rawpaleoforum , rawpaleodiet yahoo group and the rawpaleodiet.com website among others).
Publications Allexperts and Rawpaleodiet.com
Education/Credentials BA(German) 3rd; No nutritional qualification(I don't believe in standard(misguided) nutritonist doctrine, so I don't feel the need).
Question Hi
Thank you for your previous answer to my question on gaining weight, it's much better than the answers I've receieved from everyone else I've talked to.
As per your question, yes I have passed the initial adaptation stages. I wouldn;t say i feel like hell - i have plenty of energy and usually feel great, but when I think about how underweight I am, it can really dampen my mood, not to mention the fact that I find it quite difficult to gain muscle.
After reading fiber menace, I'm quite skeptical of eating too many raw fruits/veggies - are there any low fiber ones I can have? What do you think of cooked white rice, perhaps with bone broth to help digestion? I've read that Frances M Pottenger discovered that health is only maintained when cooked foods are eaten with gelatin rich bone broth.
What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks again for your help
Answer Even white rice has fibre.Here's a standard table, among several others online, showing you which raw fruits, such as bananas, melons and oranges etc. you can still eat if you're keen on a low fibre diet:-
The key point seems to be that you can still drink raw veggie-juices and raw fruit-juices(except prune juice) , so getting extra carbs without the fibre, as long as you remove any pulp, beforehand.
If you're on a limited mostly-cooked diet, then I suppose bone-broths would be helpful re extra nutrients, but they are simply not necessary on a rawpalaeodiet as long as one has access to good-quality raw(grassfed/organic- or naturally-reared-) muscle-meats as well as some raw organ-meats(organ-meats are particularly high in nutrients).
If you want to improve digestion, then a high-quality probiotic supplement(such as "EM"(Effective Microorganisms) products) is the answer(and/or a good-quality enzyme supplement, perhaps as well?). Bone broths or rice won't help in any way with digestion, if anything they'll make things worse, in the long run.
