RAWvolution

[windex]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z3xOU2tLl7g

You've been lied to your whole life.

[receive]

"there's no meat in these biceps"

^ yea, we can tell

[receive]

and the 98lb guy claiming to have a 400-500lb squat and dead, doing a messy elbow lever to demonstrate his strength.

[compleks]

Right.

So the diet consists of eating only raw foods?

Without passing judgment on the actual diet, that video felt like the cheesiest bit of propaganda I've seen in a long time.

[jan]

Hahaha.

I wanna post, going "so, I supplement with all kinds of shit." *insert sampler*


... He's saying you should only eat fruits? Hahaha wtf.

[Ernest]

http://www.markusrothkranz.com/go_raw_now/go_raw_now.html

'Forget pills and fads... say goodbye to illness, disease, weight gain, wrinkles, hair loss, and ageing!

It would seem, gentlemen, that the philosopher's stone has been discovered.

[Steve]

One of the reasons humans evolved intelligence was so they could do things like cook food to improve their nutrition

[mr popular]

One of the reasons humans evolved into the intelligent, brain-oriented creatures we are is from an increase of meat in the diet of earlier primate ancestors.

In fact I'm eating an entire baked chicken while I type this. Maybe if I was eating a papaya instead I'd have gigantic 13 inch biceps like the guy in that video.

I would love to see one of these twiggy people biting into a raw (pesticide-ridden..) apple with their canines.

[Steve]

I didn't bother watching the video but meat can be raw also

[compleks]

Oh, and no shit those people all lost weight on this diet.

[jan]

NO MEAT IN THESE BICEPS!

[Ashtar]

Say goodbye to ageing? I have to watch just to see her say this.

I'm probably the hugest anti-aging advocate, and I hate the phrase because no one ever uses it right.

[Casper]

OH MY GOD RAW FOOD CAN CURE AIDS!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kitosho]

The only scientifically validated nutritional practice that can increase lifespan and improve long-range health is caloric restriction


i would personally bet that there's a lot to be gained from a general preponderance of animal based foods in the diet as well, esp. grass fed with an abundance of marine oils/fatty, cold-water fish

[Ashtar]

I know high EFA consumption has been linked to all sorts of benefits like intelligence, strength, sexual potency, etc. but has it actually been shown to extend lifespan?

People keep hyping how it skyrockets the metabolism and that is exactly the opposite intention of caloric restriction.

[Kitosho]

It hasn't been experimentally verified to increase lifespan but i can guarantee that it will

[mr popular]

Who the fuck wants to live past 50??

[receive]

People keep hyping how it skyrockets the metabolism and that is exactly the opposite intention of caloric restriction.

I don't know if that's a seriously reported effect, is it?. The kind of thing magazines might write, but I haven't heard anything about it really increasing "metabolism".
I haven't looked for such reports, though.

[Bentinho]

those testimonial peoples diets probably sucked ass anyway.. if most people ate a platefull of vegies and fruits and had some protein a couple times a day instead of McDonalds for every meal... gee i wonder how theyd feel after a couple weeks.

[Ashtar]

It hasn't been experimentally verified to increase lifespan but i can guarantee that it will
But how?
Who the fuck wants to live past 50??
Me. Also: Orochimaru.
those testimonial peoples diets probably sucked ass anyway.. if most people ate a platefull of vegies and fruits and had some protein a couple times a day instead of McDonalds for every meal... gee i wonder how theyd feel after a couple weeks.
They have controls in science studies for EFAs to eliminate testing biases like this.

[frika]

to be fair, raw diets can work for people who have to do it.

my roommates stepdad had kidney failure and therefore really could not process a lot of food. That was 10 years ago and hes still really healthy.

He just eats shitloads of Kale, avocado, EFA oils and broccoli.

Iäm not saying I condone a single one of those whacked out fucks in that video but just saying that it can work and can be healthy depending on your goals.

[Ashtar]

No one's saying raw food is unhealthy, just that the advocates are usually dumbasses who overhype it.