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Originally Posted by Harrison
Thanks Jim and Bebe...
I met folks from the Hippocrates Health Institute (let food be your medicine) last week when I presented at the Annie Appleseed conference. This place is really whole body medicine.
Here's a an except from a 1996 article from them:
"...Today people want to go beyond health, to find happiness. If you are ill, you should be on a 100% raw food diet, for 1.5+ years. Approx. 97% of people who go on the Hippocrates diet get well within 1.5 years, 3% need longer. Hippocrates has blood profiles done, at beginning and end of their stay at Hippocrates, for all visitors. They are building a data base for study.
If you are well, you can eat 75% by weight raw foods, mostly greens a...."
Living and Raw Foods: Brian Clement Lecture notes
Can you imagine how much discipline this takes? I've been trying and evolving for a few years now, it's hard work! But it's better than having diseases! |
I find it doesn't take as much discipline as one might think. PLANNING? Yes. Foresight? Yes. But discipline? If you only have those good foods in your house, and cook (or prepare raw) all the time, it is easy.
Of course, my son, who thought he was "helping" very sweetly make me a gluten free pizza and some GF french bread and cheese for lunch today after I fell asleep on the couch. I ate it, because, how sweet! But I feel like crap after.
FYI, not everyone does well on a 100% raw diet. I have tried it a number of times and every single time I have gotten sick, and gained weight! I add in a little grass-fed beef, and BLAMMO! Energy, and the weight drops off.
Further FYI, if you want o flush out your system, drink three glasses of water every day before anything else passes through your lips. It works wonders!