04-15-2009, 01:27 PM
Certainly lots of people are healthy despite a "non-ideal" diet. Anything in moderation is ok.
Organic bananas don't use pesticides and aren't genetically modified. I agree that pesticides and GMO are bad, and that goes for ALL GMO foods, not just bananas. Grains, veggies, apples, soup, pizza, etc.
Agriculture in general is a mono-culture that goes against the principle of nature. In the paleolithic age humans ate bananas off the tree and didn't grow crops -- not gardens, not fields.
I mean your reason for rejecting bananas basically apply to ALL human food and there is no reason for you to single out bananas. Bananas are basically the 2nd healthiest source of calories in the world, after mangoes in fact which are the #1 best source of calories in the world.
It's not necessary to feel threatened by this "ideal" diet. Humans do not vary that much when it comes to diet... physically speaking all humans have the same nutritional needs. Where humans differ is in social needs and emotional needs. People are very very attached to their food choices, people don't want to feel like they have been doing less-than-perfect. This kind of fear of non-perfection is unnecessary.
There are no mistakes, and any distortion in the human diet should not be seen as an evil. Most people are not in a position to adopt the ideal diet. You have to pick your battles.. it takes a lot of work and effort to adopt an ideal diet and sometimes it is simply not feasible due to other engagements.
So anyway I totally understand (and expect) that most people who read my writing here today are not going to adopt it. For most people it is simply not practical.
However, there is no need to deny the fact that this is indeed the best way to nourish the body. The 80/10/10 raw diet has been confirmed over and over again by every possible source:
- Channeling by David Wilcock
- Channeling by Edgar Cayce
- Testimony of the Yogi-Saints from India
- Scientific evidence and research
- Countless personal experience and studies done by nutritionists and involved people.
I suggest that perfectionism causes anxiety and should be abandoned. Instead, we should all recognize that we are perpetually imperfect and we should smile at our imperfection, accept it and forgive it, and then direct the will where we feel inspired to direct it.
As Ra says, "Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and direction of the will: this is the path of the disciplined personality."
What I get out of your post fairyfarmgirl is a defensiveness that, IMO, is based on the feeling like you're being attacked. I'm not attacking you, I think the fact you spend time thinking about nutrition makes you conscientious and a trailblazer.
In my life I'm also a trailblazer, and since I don't have a family to worry about, since I don't have significant economic challenges, I'm able to spend a lot of my free time seeking out the cutting edge. I present this information in the spirit of giving, not in the spirit of attack or condemnation.
I myself don't even follow this perfect diet 100% of the time -- I know first hand how hard it is. But it's something to keep in mind, something to aim for.
There is no need to feel guilty, and no need to feel defensive. Baby steps are the best steps....whether those steps are towards being more loving, being more disciplined, or something simple and relatively trivial like eating more nutritious food.
Baby steps are always the best steps
Organic bananas don't use pesticides and aren't genetically modified. I agree that pesticides and GMO are bad, and that goes for ALL GMO foods, not just bananas. Grains, veggies, apples, soup, pizza, etc.
Agriculture in general is a mono-culture that goes against the principle of nature. In the paleolithic age humans ate bananas off the tree and didn't grow crops -- not gardens, not fields.
I mean your reason for rejecting bananas basically apply to ALL human food and there is no reason for you to single out bananas. Bananas are basically the 2nd healthiest source of calories in the world, after mangoes in fact which are the #1 best source of calories in the world.
It's not necessary to feel threatened by this "ideal" diet. Humans do not vary that much when it comes to diet... physically speaking all humans have the same nutritional needs. Where humans differ is in social needs and emotional needs. People are very very attached to their food choices, people don't want to feel like they have been doing less-than-perfect. This kind of fear of non-perfection is unnecessary.
There are no mistakes, and any distortion in the human diet should not be seen as an evil. Most people are not in a position to adopt the ideal diet. You have to pick your battles.. it takes a lot of work and effort to adopt an ideal diet and sometimes it is simply not feasible due to other engagements.
So anyway I totally understand (and expect) that most people who read my writing here today are not going to adopt it. For most people it is simply not practical.
However, there is no need to deny the fact that this is indeed the best way to nourish the body. The 80/10/10 raw diet has been confirmed over and over again by every possible source:
- Channeling by David Wilcock
- Channeling by Edgar Cayce
- Testimony of the Yogi-Saints from India
- Scientific evidence and research
- Countless personal experience and studies done by nutritionists and involved people.
I suggest that perfectionism causes anxiety and should be abandoned. Instead, we should all recognize that we are perpetually imperfect and we should smile at our imperfection, accept it and forgive it, and then direct the will where we feel inspired to direct it.
As Ra says, "Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and direction of the will: this is the path of the disciplined personality."
What I get out of your post fairyfarmgirl is a defensiveness that, IMO, is based on the feeling like you're being attacked. I'm not attacking you, I think the fact you spend time thinking about nutrition makes you conscientious and a trailblazer.
In my life I'm also a trailblazer, and since I don't have a family to worry about, since I don't have significant economic challenges, I'm able to spend a lot of my free time seeking out the cutting edge. I present this information in the spirit of giving, not in the spirit of attack or condemnation.
I myself don't even follow this perfect diet 100% of the time -- I know first hand how hard it is. But it's something to keep in mind, something to aim for.
There is no need to feel guilty, and no need to feel defensive. Baby steps are the best steps....whether those steps are towards being more loving, being more disciplined, or something simple and relatively trivial like eating more nutritious food.
Baby steps are always the best steps