Frederic Patenaude Raw Foods Diet

Let me tell you that I’ve had quite an adventure in Fiji so far! The trip started with a visit to an island called Nanuya Lailai, about five hours by boat from Nadi. On the way to that island, we passed the island where they shot the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks.

Being on Nanuya was quite something, as the island is so small I could run around it in 45 minutes! Nonetheless, it was beautiful there, and we even visited the cave where they shot the movie Blue Lagoon.

Being on such a small island can be an adventure, and that’s exactly what happened. A power surge occurred when they restored their generators and fried both of my computer adapters! So now I’m without computers for about a week, which is a mixed blessing…

I must say that the Fijians are some of the happiest and friendliest people I have met, and they seem to all have a wicked sense of humor! I will be back with a video update from Fiji as soon as I can get my computer up and running again, so this is just a quick update.

Last week I was featured on Kevin Gianni’s Great Health Debate, and since then it seems that now some people are more confused than ever about what to eat! Many are thinking of going back to meat or are afraid to go vegan because of what they heard from the different speakers.

I have to say that all of these concerns are valid and are fully answered in my new book Raw Food Contoversies, available at: http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/rawfoodcontoversies

I will also be back next week with my complete thoughts on the Debate.

In the meantime, check out this video that my friend Doug Graham, author of The 80/10/10 Diet, sent me:

Doug, now 57, is a proof of how incredibly fit you can become on a low-fat, fruit based diet.

Although I am not nearly as athletic as Doug, I have found that my fitness has really increased on this diet, something I never found possible on a diet filled with animal protein and fat.

Remember there’s always two sides to the same story!

If you haven’t read “Raw Food Controversies” yet, make sure you grab your copy while we’re still having the launch special. Go to:

http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/rawfoodcontoversies

Yours for heath and success,

Frederic

One Response to “Want To Be This Fit At 50? How Doug Graham Does It”

1. Janet says:

   February 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm

   Fred, I listened to you on the GHD with Kevin Gianni. I did think you presented many interesting rebuttals for the vegan community. I just want to say that I do believe that some people can be vegan and do really well. So far though I have not been one of them. You posted a blog title called “Adventures in Fiji, Are You Afraid of Going Vegan?”. I was a vegan…but I was not afraid. I gave it a really honest try and my body fell apart literally in 6 months from it. Now, I learned from you and others that some of what I had been doing (eating too much soy, but not nuts since I am allergic to most of them) was not correct so I stopped eating soy at all. But I still did not regain my strength and my female cycle was completely messed up. I decided to go back to some eggs initially but it still wasn’t enough to bring back my cycle properly. Only when I started adding some meat to my diet did things correct. I had a practitioner that used the QXCI/SCIO machine on me and we discovered why I wasn’t healthy as a vegan. I simply could not consume enough amino acids/protein in plant products in a day to meet my daily need of 60-80 grams of protein a day and the machine showed that my body was eating my muscles away to rebuild other parts of my body.

   Note: I do believe that certain plants have a good bit of protein in them but my practitioner mentioned to me that it was more of a feminine protein and not a masculine protein like meat was.

   It is simply not true that the high protein types need 20 grams a day like many of the vegetarian books say. I can see that for the As but not the Os (which I am). I can go for a time without meat but then I become very weak after a while.

   Since the GHD did not tell the blood type of the experts, I was wondering what is your blood type and if that also plays a part in your success as a vegan? Thanks.

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