Tom’s Raw Foods Blog

First, the question…

Am I an 80/10/10 RV, low fat, high energy, high vitality, high health, rompin’ stompin’ Raw Vegan?

Or am I simply eating an all raw food diet?

To answer that question, let’s go back in time to the era of Martin Luther. He found one verse in the Bible that allegedly changed his entire outlook on his faith, started a new church in Europe, spawned revolutions, and ultimately changed history.

That verse?

“The Just Shall Live By Faith.” (Holy Bible, Romans 1:17)

There’s only one problem: Martin Luther got it wrong.

Yup. He was wrong. He was on the right track, though.

Actually, the statement in and of itself, when read literally, is accurate; it’s just not comprehensive enough for one simple reason:

The Unjust Live By Faith, Too.

Huh? Come again?

Yup. EVERYBODY lives by faith.

Why do you do what you do? Because, in doing those activities, you get the results you expect. Do something, get a reward (or an “outcome” might be a better way to state it). But you first must “do” before the “outcome” comes along. It’s never the other way around:

• Go to work, get a paycheck and vacation.
• Exercise and get stronger.
• Eat right and get healthier.

Of course, you say, what about the others? What about those who won’t eat right — who continue to keep all of those deep fried fast food toxic distribution centers in business? What about those whose exercise consists of waddling to the freezer during a commercial break to grab another pint of ice cream?

Good questions: let’s examine that issue.

Do they not have faith? Do they not change their lifestyle because they don’t think it will work? Not exactly…

The #1 reason I hear from people for not adapting the 80/10/10 lifestyle from who desperately want to improve their health and life is this: “Oh, I could never do that!”

I could never do that. Can’t — or won’t? Hey, I did it; (almost) anybody can do it (I hardly ever use absolutes).

So the issue is “won’t” in my book.

So why won’t they adapt a healthier lifestyle? Is it that they don’t believe the results that many are seeing right before their very eyes when they look at me? No, they believe — on a superficial level. They see that my life has changed.

I actually think that the answer to this dilemma lies within another verse from the Holy Bible on faith that doesn’t quite get as much mileage…

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” (Holy Bible, Hebrews 11:1)

Did you catch that? “Seen”. What exactly does that mean? Well, it’s quite possible that you can “look” at something but not “see” it. There’s no comprehension, no understanding. There’s no evidence, if you will, to prove that what you see actually happened.

And that’s why we have so many food related illnesses and deaths in our world.

Yes, people simply do not see the connection between what they eat and the diseases we get because most of that information is conveniently camouflaged and hidden from public view from those who stand to profit and manipulate.

Don’t believe me? Go back and do a quick study as to when some of our modern diseases came on the scene, then do a quick study to see when processed food and fast food became prominent. See a correlation? Most likely.

Granted, we’re all going to die some day, right? But I’d rather wear out than rust out, as one of my teachers once said, and to me, eating the wrong foods to the point that my body doesn’t function properly puts me in a good position to sit still — and that’s where the “rust” comes from. I’d much rather give myself a chance to wear out, thank you.

So the bottom line is that there’s not enough faith to change their lifestyle, nor is there enough faith to believe that their current lifestyle will result in one of our modern day diseases. There’s not enough faith for either a positive or a negative change — so people keep on plodding forward, lining up for burgers, fried chicken, pizza, and fries (don’t forget the diet cola!)…

So the bottom line is that we all really do live by faith; it’s just that most people have never taken the time to dig up the “evidence” of the things they don’t see so that they can have enough vision to change.

What a tragedy.

Moving on to the B12 part… Following some research I’ve done, I decided that the occasional B12 supplement was in order. I had last taken one back at the very beginning of my raw food transition period (I think it’s been at least two months since I took a supplement), so I went ahead and took some.

But I didn’t follow the good advice I’d read about vitamin B12, which is this:

* DON’T take the cyanocobalamin form (it’s derived from cyanide).
* DO take the sublingual form.

The only form I can find here locally is cyanocobalamin in 100 mg tablets, which is WAY over the RDA. What I did was take one of these 100 mg tablets and break it up into eight teeny-tiny pieces, then took just one.

It COMPLETELY messed me up. I haven’t lost any weight this week, I feel (yucky word alert!) bloated, gassy, and constipated, and I can’t wait until my body gets done processing this batch so that I can get back to normal.

That bottle gets discarded. Next time I think I’ll try the non-cyano, sublingual form. But it’s going to be a while; my research indicates that a person as old as I can probably go for several years without taking any.

So several years it is, unless somebody like Roger or Dr. Graham tells me otherwise.

And remember: Be nice to your bananas!

Smacznego,
Tom

P.S. — So I guess I am a raw vegan…