Raw Running

Just been for a four mile run in the snow raaaaaaa - it's lovely out there but very dark and icy. The last couple of weeks have been interesting - I've been experimenting with eating a mostly raw diet. The experiment has been made somewhat easier after reading 'Raw Energy - Eat Your Way to Radiant Health' Leslie & Susannah Kenton - they wrote the book back in 1985 (they must have been bang on it!) and was a culmination of several years of research. They're pretty out there with a few of their ideas but on whole they reveal some fascinating information.

The Protein Myth
It's been the mainline belief for an age that we need lots of Protein in our diets - meat especially. But as the authors point out, protein in made up of amino acids. We expend energy on breaking down the protein in meat into the amino acids and then use them to do funky stuff. If you cook or process meat (any protein food) then you actually render some proteins useless (and in some cases dangerous). Now, all raw plant food is rich in amino acids so the body does not need to spend energy converting it to what it needs - but if you cook it then you bugger it.

Check out this vid by Tim Van- I'm still researching this stuff and luckily the girls that wrote the book have referenced their sources.




Anyway, I'm trialling this Raw Living along with some full on training. Over the last few weeks I've been doing plenty of movnat style training along with running. The picture at the top shows what goes into my daily juice. So far.... I feel Fantastic!