im a fan of the vegan info that dr mcdougall puts out there, big fan. very appreciative. going vegan is easy, just like raw. you just gotta eat enough cals to support your lifestyle, whatever your diet is.
811 is natures design. no cooking in nature, no fires to warm up and no clothing. humans are a specie specific design, ie all animals in that specie eat the same. ie a yellow fin tuna off shore australia feeds on sardines. a yellowfin tuna off the atlantic of scotland feeds on sardines..
put any human on fruit diet like dr doug graham writes in his 811 book and they will THRIVE. any human!!! no celiacs, no bloating, no phytic acid reactions and no cooked food created toxins like denatured proteins, rancid fats and caramelised carbs. no msg, salt or oil..TOO EASY!!
ive been 100% raw vegan since 10/10/05. i used to have chronic fatigue, chron's disease etc and that really improved going high raw vegan, but when i went to dr doug grahams health and fitness week and really learned how to eat properly and afterwards i switched to low fat raw vegan aka 811, thats when i really started kick'n ass with my health and vitality!!
im winning 24hr solo mountain bike races, running marathons, dont own a car ie ride a bike and currently training muay thai in thailand and have some ultra marathons coming up in australia. i dont know anyone else in the vegan community that rides a bike as far as i can. and i dont know any vegan runners that can run marathon as fast as michael arnstein (another elite athlete that doug coaches) and none of us are using any stimulants, hormones, caffiene etc, so thats gotta count for something eh?
im a big fan of eating locally. when in australia i eat 100% australian. when in thailand, i eat 100% thai. when in north america i do the best i can do. but i can always get fruit. when peeps talk about not doing raw cos of imported organic bananas..thats just an excuse fueled by personal fears about a diet based on fruits. why are people scared? cos its fear of the unknown..
so my tip is get the book
www.foodnsport.com and give it a fair go. if you aint setting personal bests as an athlete or single mother or really sick person, then i will eat my bamboo bicycle! lol!
another great book doug has written is 'nutrition and athletic performance'. is there a better book written on sports nutrition for the layperson or even nutrition scientist? even an 8 year old could understand that book...
seriously, learn how to eat enough calories from fruit and what that looks like in volume of your fav fruits.
i eat up to 70 bananas a day and my girlfriend is 100% raw vegan too and rode across australia,, solo and fruit powered. so there is thriving examples out there.
instead of doing food prep and washing dishes, id rather be doing something more constructive.
remember, the biggest destruction of forrests is the meat and dairy industry..the second biggest destruction of forrests is for cooking firewood..china, india, indonesia, bangladesh....all these nations could be doing the fruit gig like we where thousands of years ago..
for me grains are an animal rights crime. where is the diversity in a wheat field? but go visit an organic mango plantation or durian orchard..
i have and i highly recomend peeps do the same.
dont just eat local, lets be vocal of how much fuel we waste on cooking food to make the inedible 'edible'...
above all, let the truth be known, even if it may hurt us or overwhelm us..and always remember that life is meant to be SWEET!!!
im a vegan and i cycle solo up to 515km in a day..