Expert: RawPalaeoGuy - 4/26/2009

Question
Hi I wonder can you tell is it essential to include raw honey on the rpd? I found myself putting on fat very quickly using honey and also found myself getting ripped very quickly when when I cut it out and stuck with raw eggs, raw meat, nuts avocados,salads and raw milk.
Still I find it difficult to completely cut out coffee. Any tips?
Also any thoughts on the seriously bad smell from farts and stools through consuming lots of free range duck eggs. Does it cool off in time. As we speak my high meat is 5 weeks in the fridge waiting to be devoured. Will this cause similar effect? Many Thanks Zardoz

Answer
It's so difficult to give a right answer as most people come to this diet after suffering many (completely different) illnesses, so that they all react differently to specific raw foods. I, for example, cannot tolerate raw dairy at all and find it a hefty toxin in the long-term, while there are a few who seem to be able to get away with consuming raw dairy in vast amounts with no ill-effect.

As regards raw honey, many people, as with raw dairy, do not benefit from it in large amounts. Most tolerate it in small amounts, though. My advice is:- listen to your body. If raw honey is harming you in any way, cut it out of the diet completely. Raw honey is only an essential part of the Primal Diet but raw animal foodists in general should not limit themselves via rules and just follow what benefits them after prolonged experimentation. You might consider trying raw honeycomb(heather honeycomb is pretty good). I should add that when I first tried raw, liquid honey, I had awful issues with sugar-highs from it. After finding out that most so-called raw honey in the UK is actually pasteurised(the law in many countries allows honey to still be labelled raw even if it's been pasteurised/heated to c.80 degrees centigrade for a short while), I realised that I needed to get hold of raw honeycomb which not only is almost always raw(unless appearing inside a glass bottle)had far less of a negative effect on my body(though I still limit consumption of it).

Re coffee:- Coffee fouls up the adrenal glands etc, and is to be avoided like the plague. Why not compromise with  herbal teas? Ironically, real ale, which is unpasteurised fermented beer(also known as "cask-brewed beer"), is , technically, raw(and rich in bacteria), so even that would be  a better bet than coffee, IMO, if you can't handle the tea. You can get the real ale in many (up-market) supermarkets, these days. If the label says "bottle-conditioned", that means it's the genuine article. They usually have a special type of cork with metal strings around the bottle near the top to stop the gases from getting out. Real ale still has alcohol in it which is a toxin, but, in moderation,is, I suspect, better than coffee.

Re farts/free-range duck eggs:- I don't know. Only way to check is to give up on eggs and resume eating raw eggs at a later date(preferably eggs from different species such as chicken/geese/quail etc.) to see if you have a food-intolerance to eggs in general or duck eggs in particular etc.

Re high-meat:- I've never personally experienced increased farting from consuming high-meat nor have I heard of other high-meat-eaters farting as a result. However, like I said, everyone who comes to this diet invariably has totally different experiences with different individual foods etc., so that it's best to just keep on experimenting on oneself to see what works for you alone.

Geoff