Frederic Patenaude Raw Foods Diet

Here in Rome we spent the day checking out some of the famous ancient sights such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Roman Forum.

Being at the Colosseum and imagining all the brutal battles that used to take place here got me thinking, while people don’t necessarily fight to the death for sport anymore, they sure act like they would for their beliefs.

Imagine raw foodists going head to head against one another battling for total dominion over the raw food scene.  Who is right and who is wrong? The information going around in the raw food movement now is the same as when I started over 14 years ago. It hasn’t changed. Some people are perpetuating some misinformation and hype while others send mixed messages with good intentions.

Who should you believe?

Check out my video below:

PS: I had sun in my face, hence the sunglasses…

I’m in Venice right now. No, not Venice, California, but Venice, Italy! Check out the video below for cool information on what it’s like to travel throughout Europe as a vegetarian, vegan or raw-foodist, and some tips I’ve found along the way that worked.

This is the second part of the interview with Albert Mosséri, where he goes into more details about the diet he recommends. The second video that follows is one where I offer more clarifications about what Mosséri has explained.

If you’d like to ask some questions to Mr. Mosséri, you can write them in the comment and I will send them over to him, for a possible future inclusion in the ezine.

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I first discovered Natural Hygiene and the raw food diet in 1996, when I came across the writings of Albert Mosséri, an Egyptian-born, French hygienist who has written more than 25 books and supervised over 4000 fasts in his career.

I just got a chance to finally meet him in person in France. Mosséri is now 85, but still took some time to meet me and answer my questions in this interview. The second part will be coming soon.

I’m in Iceland right now! (More videos and photos coming soon…). Check out this video interview from 2008’s Amazing Rawkathon Series by Kevin Gianni.

What’s the biggest mistake made in the raw movement (HINT: It’s not just the fat)?

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Before I move on to today’s video, I have a quick update for you.

I’m currently in Hawaii with my wife Veronica for our honeymoon. We’re spending the first part of our trip in Honolulu and then we get to visit two more islands, Kauai and Maui, in that order.

Hawaii is a special place and I’m so glad to be back here and be able to enjoy it and experience it fully. I’ll have a ton of new videos that we recorded here to share with you soon!

If all goes well, next week I should be launching my brand-new book “The Raw Food Coach” which features over 147 Questions and Answers on the raw food diet.

Every day for the past 12 years — ever since I started promoting a high-raw diet, I’ve been receiving honest questions from my readers from all around the world who are concerned about their health, and want to make sense out of this mess.

For example, here are some of the questions I’ve been receiving on a regular basis:

Should we worry about candida and diabetes when eating so much fruit?

What should we think of raw cacao, goji berries, or other superfoods?

How can we get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D and other critical nutrients on the raw food diet?

Who should you believe?

The only way to clear the confusion and design a program that works for you and gives you the health and energy you’ve always been after is to get carefully-researched information.

This is why I am releasing a brand-new book, which includes 147 questions and answers on the raw food diet, covering everything you need to know. Expect the book to be released next week if all goes well!

For today, I have a great interview with Paul Nison, author of several books on the raw food diet, on blood testing.

My question for you today is: do you believe blood testing is important for vegans and raw foodists?

Last month in Costa Rica, we had the pleasure to have Kevin Gianni and his wife Annemarie come visit us for a couple of weeks.  Kevin and Annamarie run Renegade Health, one of the biggest sites on the topic of raw food and health.

For the full 50-minute  interview, go to www.rawveganmentorclub.com

In the full interview, Kevin gave his specific techniques for overcoming stress, his point of view on the low fat raw vegan diet, and more! If you’re not already a Raw Vegan Mentor Club member, click here to find out how to become one and get over $1200 in bonus gifts.

What else is new?

Next week, I am releasing a brand-new book, featuring over 147 Questions and Answers on the raw food diet! Stay tuned for that.

The first time I heard of “raw water”, I must honestly say that the first thing that went to my mind is “Are you kidding me? Do they really think people are that stupid?”

In the video below, you’ll see me debunk claims made about raw water, a new product being promoted in the raw food movement.

Keep in mind that I’m not saying that their water is bad, or that there wasn’t any genuine efforts put into this. I just think that it’s not worth the $6-10 a bottle they are asking for, and that the claims made to promote are downright wrong. What do you think? Let me know below and feel free to pass this video along to your friends.

Interview With Dr. Graham, Part 2

NOTE: The best way to get started with the 80-10-10 Diet is with the Perfect Health Program. It contains over 12 hours of information and interviews with me and Dr. Graham on the 80-10-10 Diet, and more!

As you probably know, there are many different possible approaches to the raw-food diet. The most popular approaches focus heavily on nuts, seeds, avocados, “superfoods”, supplements, etc. — while forgetting about the most important aspects of the diet: fruits and vegetables.

I call this, the “high-fat raw diet” or the “hollywood raw diet!”

Why? Because it’s very common as a fad with Hollywood stars, and because of this undereating of fruits and vegetables, most raw-foodists end up consuming very large quantities of fat — often 50 or 60% (or more) of total calories.

The idea of “eating anything raw, as long as it’s raw” simply doesn’t work. I tried it for many years, ever since I first started on the raw food diet in 1996, and it never worked. I’ve been saying this since 2002, when my book “The Raw Secrets” was published and exposed the common fallacies in the raw food movement.

What’s the solution?

Making fruit the most essential part of the diet (in terms of total calories), while eating enough green vegetables to insure sufficient mineral intake, is one of the keys to success.

I call this diet the “low-fat raw diet” or the “fruit-based raw diet”.

The champion of this approach at the moment is Dr. Doug Graham, with his book “The 80-10-10 Diet”.

You’re probably familiar with the approach, and if you haven’t read the book, I highly recommend that you do so. Instead of trying to tell more about it myself, I did a little interview with Dr. Graham itself, check out it below.

Note: You might have to jack up the volume because the insects were pretty loud by the jungle in Costa Rica, where I interviewed Doug!

In my next post, I will tell you where my philosophy is slightly different than Doug’s. I have a few different opinions when in comes to:

1) Vitamin B12 supplementation

2) Steamed vegetables vs. high-fat raw meals

3) The actual percentage of fats in the diet

4) Calories

Stay tuned for that!

NOTE: The best way to get started with the 80-10-10 Diet is with the Perfect Health Program. It contains over 12 hours of information and interviews with me and Dr. Graham on the 80-10-10 Diet, and more!