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What is the 80-10-10 Diet? Interview with Doug Graham
Filed under 80-10-10 and Low Fat Raw, Raw Vegan Video Blog by Frederic Patenaude
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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!
16 Responses to “What is the 80-10-10 Diet? Interview with Doug Graham”
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Go Doug and Fred! “Raw fruits and vegetables are the original healthfood”. Can’t go wrong with that! Thanks for the interview Fred. Makes me miss Costa Rica.
I have the perfect health program too, its packed with good info!
Happy Day!
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diane says:
Its a shame ,the video kept cutting out ,did not hear any of it,can you do it over or fix it some how?
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Frederic Patenaude says:
It’s actually working, may be your computer or YouTube. Try again
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I have been raw for about 8 years now, and I don’t prefer the high fat content diet that is so popular with many raw foodies.
I LOVE the 80/10/10 diet, and it certainly works best for me
.and of course, 100% organic.
Thanks so much for posting this video interview.
Thank you also for teaching people how to treat themselves & Earth better!Aloha, Heather (Lalita)
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Excellent interview! It’s always a joy to see Dr. Graham speak; I learn something new each time. And I’m another one who has listened to the Perfect Health Program multiple times. I can’t recommend it highly enough!
It really is true how popular 80/10/10 is today. Just two years ago, any mention of a low fat, high fruit diet on any mainstream raw food forum was met with laughter or just downright meanness. Today, I see more and more people not only interested, but making the switch. I think people are just so sick of all the false, exaggerated promises of the mainstream raw movement and just want a program that works…which 80/10/10 does!
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Luciana says:
Did I hear it wrong or did he say that muscular distrophy is caused by high protein diet? Whooa! That’s a genetic disorder! And how would you explain native peoples, like the eskimos, that live on a 90% meat and fat diet and have virtually 0% cancer and diabetes rates?
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I think he was talking about conditions that are aggravated by a meat-based diet. As for the eskimos, it’s been shown they have a very short lifespan. There are other factors that contributed to their robust health.
Here I quote Dr. John Mc Dougall:
Because many hunter-gatherer societies obtained most of their calories from the fat of meat does not mean meat is the ideal diet for modern people. Almost every scientist readily admits that the composition of wild game available to our ancestors was far different from the grain-fed domesticated high-fat meat people eat these days. Furthermore, even if humans have been eating meat for centuries, it has not been with the ease that wealthy Westerners acquire it today. Without refrigeration and other means of preserving meat in a near fresh state, consumption was limited to within a few days of the kill – until the meat spoiled. (With the advent of fire people learned to preserve meat by smoking it.)
During difficult times meat provided more benefits than harms, but in a society where food is plentiful and life is physically easy, meat can become a serious health hazard. A traditional Arctic Eskimo, living in a subfreezing climate, could expend 6000 calories and more a day just to keep warm and hunt for food. The high-fat animal food sources – fish, walrus, whale, and seal – from his local environment were the most practical means of meeting the demands of those rigorous surroundings. Modern Eskimos living in heated houses and driving around in their climate-controlled SUVs, still consuming a high-meat diet, have become some of the fattest and sickest people on earth.
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Hi Frederic,
Thank you for your answer.
Pls don’t get me wrong: I’m a raw vegan myself. But there’s so much conflicting information out there about what the “right” diet is, and then Dr Graham speaks about “species-specific” diet… I just think that things are not just as simple as that… There’s more that we don’t know than what we know, imho.
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Michael says:
Hi Frederic!
About native eating. I saw a very interesting video on the renegade health show # 515 with dr. j.e. williams who himself travelled to those tribes for over 25 years and told things that he found. Maybe that is interesting for you Frederic?
best wishes
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Dr. Williams points out some very interesting facts. I’ve always said that native people are healthy because of factors OTHER than diets. People always assume diet is everything, but it’s not. Like Dr. Williams said, native people are adapted to their natural environment in a way we can never hope to be. I believe the laws of nature apply to human being as a whole, but each particular tribe has learned to survive in its own way. You could try to live on a 90% meat diet like the Eskimos and find out how true that is. You are not living under their extreme circumstances so this diet would have no benefit to you.
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Thanks again for bringing us examples of people that live what they “eat”. I am so glad to have someone else speak out for raw authentic nutrition that our bodies were designed to utilize. Food, raw or not has become a big event, when it is no more than re-fuelling your body with the CORRECT FUEL! Can you image getting all worked up about re-fuelling your car as we do about re-fuelling our bodies? Here at Suede Hills Organic Farm our motto is K.I.S.S.(keep it simple sweetheart!) Fruits and veggies are just that, simple, great tasting and nutritious real food! Keep up the good work!
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lola says:
thanks so much for stating we don’t need so much protein! I am so sick of that question “how do you get your protein?” like that is the only true requirement.
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donna says:
Has anyone done 80-10-10 on a cruise? I am leaving on one soon been on 25 on the sad diet.I am 62 female been 80-10-10- 16 mo. did not transition went coldturkey, have read the book and met doug. I especially wanted ideas on salads at night since I won’t be able to blens dressings. I think I can get my hands on enough fruit and maybe bring some onboard when I leave ship. I will be in Mexico.Any help on this would be appreciated.
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You should be okay they generally have big buffet tables, guacamole, etc. If you own our Raw Health Starter Kit there’s actually an article about called “Raw Cruising” which is quite interesting, in the Just Eat An Apple compilation of magazines.
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Wim says:
Have I missed the post where you talk about your different opinion on B12, steamed vegetables, fat percentage and calories? I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere. It was supposed to be the next post, but the next post is part 2 of the interview, without any text.
Looking forward to knowing what your opinion is on these issues, because I don’t completely agree with Doug Graham on them neither.
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The second part that you’re referring to, with my opinion on those topics has not been published yet. Probably next week or so, stay tuned!
