Pure Health & Nutrition E-Zine 07/21/2005 Welcome to a new issue of the Pure Health & Nutrition E-Zine, brought to you by Frédéric Patenaude. Whether you are a vegetarian, a vegan, a raw foodist, or just someone interested in finding out more about diet and nutrition, you will find in Pure Health and Nutrition: lots of food for thought and practical advice. To subscribe to this e-zine, go to: http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/newsletter.html In this issue: From the editor. Various Questions & Answers Highlights from the next issue. From the Editor Dear readers, I’m writing this in the middle of Canada’s most unexpected wave of heat, probably the hottest summer I can remember, watching my tomato plants grow by the second, and waiting for those amazing mangoes to ripen! For the first time in months and months, I missed a week of the Pure Health & Nutrition E-zine. As you may know, I’ve been busy organizing and orchestrating the Perfect Health Program, a series of 12 teleconferences I’m organizing with Dr. Graham. Today is our 5th evening in the series and all I can tell you is: wow! The clarity of knowledge that Dr. Graham is sharing with us is just amazing. To refresh your memory on the this event, go to: http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/perfecthealth.html If you’d like to jump in at the last minute and join us, just call me at: 1-888-214-1775, and I’ll arrange something for you. There’s a way that you can listen to any conference that you missed. So by next week, things will settle down a bit and I’ll be right back on schedule with the weekly Pure Health & Nutrition E-Zine! I can’t help to share with you that I’m preparing a book that will show you how you can make a living with your interest in nutrition and health... how to design the life you want with your passion for natural health! That’s coming soon in August. I have MANY more free articles, interviews, and recipes to come, so stay tuned! Now, a few announcements: 1- Back issues available! I’ve made available some of the back issues of this e-zine online. To read them now, go to: http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/purehealth/backissues.html 2- Please say “hi” to Tera Warner, my smiling customer service assistant! Tera is now working with me (some of you already got e-mails from her) helping me with my company Raw Vegan and my website http://www.fredericpatenaude.com I just wanted to give a quick announcement, and say that I’m extremely grateful to have met her and have the opportunity to work with her. She’ll be contributing and helping me in many projects and tasks related to my endeavors. I’ll be introducing her “officially” in my next e-zine, but now I just wanted to say: Tera is part of the team! Have you read my book “The Raw Secrets”? Would you like a *free* copy of my new recipe book “Instant Raw Sensations”? 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Here’s the deal: I would like you to offer you a free book or product of your choice (any in my catalog (except the Perfect Health Program), for yourself or a friend, in exchange for your positive “testimonial” on the The Raw Secrets, to help me in my marketing efforts. ---> If I decide to use your testimonial, I will contact you and give you a free book or product of your choice! To participate, go to: http://tinyurl.com/77hhc Note: this URL works best with Internet Explorer. Questions & Answers VARIOUS QUESTIONS ------------------------------------------------- What do you think about the health benefits of coconut oil, given the recent hype? ------------------------------------------------- Coconut oil is a concentrated, saturated fat. I've known a few people who got into trouble (liver problems, mainly), by over-consuming coconut oil. Coconut oil is a refined food, like refined sugar. It is pure, concentrated fat. Most people already eat too much fat in the first place, so I don't see the benefits in adding a *concentrated* fat like coconut oil to their diet. If you want to benefit from the nutrients in coconuts, do not consume the oil. Instead, consume WHOLE coconuts, young if possible. You'll get a food that is much more beneficial, much easier to digest, and cheaper too. ------------------------------------------------- Is cooked tomato paste all right, because I have heard that cooking tomatoes makes the lycopene more accessible? ------------------------------------------------- Lycopene is just one phyto-nutrient and there are thousands of them in food. It doesn't even make sense to start worrying about all those little phyto-chemicals. Just eat fruits and vegetables and you will get all the lycopene and other nutrients, that you could use. It doesn't make sense to eat cooked tomato paste (a refined food that comes from the factory) just to try to get an isolated, over-hyped nutrient. Instead, eat WHOLE tomatoes and do not even worry about the lycopene. You are getting plenty. Just watermelon or pink grapefruit has more lycopene than tomatoes. ------------------------------------------------- What's your stance on frozen foods? ------------------------------------------------- I do not recommend frozen foods, except on special occasions (frozen durian, etc.). When fresh food is available, we should choose it instead. Frozen food is damaged by the cold, but the main problem is that they are consumed cold. Eating frozen foods is the equivalent of putting an ice pack in the stomach! ------------------------------------------------- What ratio of fruit to vegetables do you consume throughout the day? ------------------------------------------------- Generally, I eat two meals of fruit and one meal of vegetables. ------------------------------------------------- What do you think about acai? ------------------------------------------------- Acai (pronounced A-SSA-I), is a fruit that grows in the tropical forests of Brazil. It's a fatty fruit, like the durian. When I was in Brazil, I had an acai smoothie many times. It's made by blending frozen acai with either honey or another sweetener. It's delicious, sustaining, etc. I didn't know that Acai was available in North America, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone found some sort of nutritional benefit in Acai and tried to cash on that by creating a supplement or some dried concoction. I would certainly not recommend that. If you want acai, go to Brazil, and try it there. There are benefits to ALL fruits and vegetables. We don't need anything exotic. QUESTION ABOUT HUNGER “I recently purchased and read "The Raw Secrets", and just have a couple of questions about hunger. One, I understand the difference now between true and false hunger, but, if the symptoms of false hunger are not hunger, what is my body trying to tell me when I experience those symptoms? Two, if one is above their ideal weight, is it possible or likely that if they eat only when hungry, they will consume few calories because their body won't signal hunger very often until they have reached their optimal weight? And my third question is this: I have been trying to eat a 90-100% raw food diet, and have been only combining foods that combine well. Yet, if I eat only when hungry, I only consume about 750 calories in a day. What is the cause of this and what should I do about it?” ANSWER: 1) Generally, the symptoms of false hunger occur as a consequence of wrong eating habits. 2) Yes, if one needs to lose weight, their body will not manifest true hunger as often. 3) It’s important to eat when hungry, but it doesn’t mean you have to wait until you are *ravenously* hungry. I avoid being negative here, but I think the idea is more to NOT eat when you are NOT hungry, rather than only eat when you are *extremely* hungry. Also, it is essential to engage in some form of physical activity during the day in order to “earn your food” and create true hunger! FAILURE TO THRIVE Dear Frederic, I have been studying raw foodism for some time and have moved in that direction significantly over the past few months. I would like to make the transfer to 100% raw, but run into situations I need to solve for myself. I can eat a balanced raw food diet for 3 to 4 days, and then about 6 in the evening of the last day, I will get the "gnaws" for something. I will try an avocado or some raw muselix or some almonds, trying to understand what that grinding restlessness is. Typically I will start my morning with a : 7:00 am Diced apple and 1/3 cup of muesli (sunflower seeds, flax seeds, almonds, raisins and oat bran) 9:00 am 1 Grapefruit 12:00 pm Fruit salad of tomato, avocado, cucumber, Greek olive, and dulse 3:00 pm Sun tea (peppermint) 5:00 pm Green salad, black olives, cauliflower, leaf lettuce, cucumber, with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. By 6:00 pm, I sometimes get the “gnawing.” It’s not hunger because I feel full but not satisfied. So, I begin this search for satisfaction. If I eventually have an apple fritter or bread, then I am satisfied (but I feel heavy and have a loss of energy and mental clarity). When it comes, it is strong. Sometimes I break down and have buttered popcorn with salt and that doesn’t do it either until the bread. Is this compulsive eating and I need to work with it that way? Is it a carb addiction? Is it an imbalance to my diet even though I have sweet fruit, fatty fruit and green veggies??? I am willing to face this issue head on. Do I need to walk thru this for a week or a month until this craving is broken? Do I need to juice fast to break through this block? Maybe prayer and scripture time to carry me beyond this ? I am just not sure how to approach this challenge, psychologically or physiologically or spiritually. Any suggestion to the evening "gnaws" would be helpful. I suspect that grapefruit would suppress this. It’s strange to have a full stomach and still be climbing the walls in restlessness for something else. Any insight you might and could share with me would be helpful. Obviously, being intellectually convinced of this lifestyle is not enough. I want to know how to embrace this without it always being a white-knuckle experience. What will be the price, I wonder? Sincerely, Woodman MY ANSWER: Dear Woodman, Thank you for writing. To respond to your questions, let me take some time to analyze your basic raw diet first. You say that you eat a balanced raw food diet. Well, I’ve been looking at it and to me it’s quite obvious why you have those cravings. Your basic diet is not something you can maintain in the long term. You are getting approximately 1000 calories a day, which would be enough for a sedentary 85-year old lady, but probably not for you! Also, your diet is over 60% fat (by calories), which seriously compromises your nutrition and health potential. This is not an emotional issue, or not “carb” addiction. You’ve simply been eating the wrong raw diet, and thus you’re body is doing the right thing by “requesting” more sustaining food! For a start, I would recommend replacing your lunch, which is currently a fatty vegetable salad, by a large fruit meal or fruit smoothie. Right now, you are seriously undereating carbohydrates and overeating fat. You are also undereating in general. The following resources will help you: 1- My book “The Raw Secrets” — Contains all the necessary information to get you started with a sustainable raw diet: http://www.therawsecrets.com 2- My course, “How to End Confusion About Nutrition”: Will help you understand the problems with fat and why your current diet is not sustainable. http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/endconfusion.html 3- My recipe book “Instant Raw Sensations”: Will give you the most essential recipes you need to get start. http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/instantraw.html 4- My bonus book “The Best Foods on the Planet”: Which contains easy-to-follow menu plans and more explanations on how to create a diet that works for you. 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