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I am interested in the paleolithic raw diet, but how can you know whether the organ, and other meats are fresh enough to eat raw?
One finds out how fresh the raw meat is, simply by taste. When you first start eating raw meats, you will be hyper-sensitive re taste(due to previous acculturation to cooked meats)and likely avoid any raw meats that are more than 3 days old and you'll definitely be acutely aware of any slight aging of the meat. After some weeks/months on the diet, you will eventually get used to the taste of raw meats that have been left in the fridge for longer periods(eg:- 2 weeks) and, in the end, like many RPDers, you may well go on to sample raw meats aged for much, much longer periods, such as "high-meat". Long-term RPDers, while they usually eat relatively fresh raw meats, don't mind eating raw meats that have been aged for long periods as the latter foods are full of beneficial bacteria and are, funnily enough, easier to digest than fresh, raw meats.
Phobias re bacteria/parasites are the norm when starting this marvellous diet. I was no exception when I first started. At first, I would only eat raw meats that I'd bought that day or the day before, and I would douse my raw meats in all sorts of antiparasitical herbs and the like. In the end, much like everyone else I got over those phobias after realising I wasn't getting food-poisoning etc. Food-poisoning is only an issue if one is eating contaminated raw foods or eating unhealthy foods like grainfed meats - not an issue if you're eating organic/grassfed etc.. By contrast, food-poisoning from stored cooked foods is a real problem(I'm thinking in particular of canned foods which have been heated at very high temperatures and then left out for ages).
For further information on rawpalaeodiets, please read rawpaleodiet.com, and check the archives of rawpaleoforum and the rawpaleodiet yahoo group.
Cheers,
Geoff
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I can answer most questions on Raw Animal and Vegetable 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, it's a good idea to browse through GoodSamaritan's website, http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/ , and also to join the following two forums and read their message-archives :- rawpaleoforum.com and http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/
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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.
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No nutritional qualification(I don't believe in standard(misguided) nutritionist doctrine, so I don't feel the need). I simply rely on mine and many others' long-term experiences of raw, palaeolithic diets and I've read most of the books that are vaguely relevant to a raw-meat diet.
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