Raw food diet

Cafe Society
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My Nutrition teacher was a raw food vegan and a cook for a raw food vegan restaurant in San Francisco.

I’ve never been one for strict veganism (the kind where people are vegan because they don’t like animal cruelty) but she’d go on about it every day. So many chemicals in meat and carcinogens in cooked food! It got really old, really fast.

One time, I accidentally said I like Thousand Island dressing on my salad.

Anyway, I’m still with most of you. It’s a neat idea and would be fun to implement into your diet, but I don’t see the point in banning a huge group of food for no real reason. People have been cooking food forever and they’re doing just fine.

I imagine nuts are very important for a raw food diet. They’re packed with calories.

I do have two questions though.

Is tofu considered raw food?

And how does cooking something, like beans, increase the calorie content? Well, I guess it doesn’t increase the content, just makes it easier to harvest. Is that about right?

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Er, what? I’ve personally known a whole bunch of sanctimonious vegans & vegetarians. Known a bunch of sanctimonious meat eaters, too.

While I give the authors of the Veganomicon credit for keeping that tone largely out of the book, they still have a nice little section in there about how we should all be patient with the non-vegans. “They’re all going to be like us one day, they just don’t know it yet.”