i didn't eat meat for 6 years (1998-2004), but my motto was fish and eggs, but nothing with legs.

nowadays, after prepping to live and travel abroad for a couple years, i've eased up a bit. i will eat meat if i am a guest and it is being served. i will try exotic local dishes, just to experience the wholeness of others' experiences. if i'm eating family style in a restaurant, i will eat meat. if i'm around my midwestern relatives, i eat what they eat (unfortunately purging a bit later). when people assume i don't eat meat, i correct them, and say i eat about 80% alkaline and 20% acid, or 75% raw vegan and 25% other stuff. all in all, it's going to be a lifelong dance of finding that balance of diet and exercise for vitality, and emotional, physical, spiritual well-being.

in my class the other night, the subject came up of this kind of diet that juicing/fasting/raw foods promotes. IF a person is weak constitutionally, or as a compromised immune system, this kind of diet can make them very sick. they will not be able to digest or absorb what they should be getting, and would best get it in a soup form (slow cooked, drinking the mineral rich broth). also, i'm a blood type O, and supposedly would do very poorly on a non-flesh eating diet...type A's can thrive on being vegan...so if something works well for you, cut others a little slack and realize different bodies require different sustanance...So, a note to self, please be mindful who you suggest cleansing to...it may be that they need to do a series of liver/gallbladder flushes and colonics first before undertaking a detox of any magnitude. or all those salads could just be building a cold damp intestinal tract when what they need is fire in the belly....i mostly recommend people do their own research, and make up their own minds about what makes sense to them, what feels right to them, but to keep searching for answers through the scientific method (trial and error). don't believe anything you read or hear, especially if its promoting the sale of some product or service. find your own rhythm and answers, the power to heal yourself lies in your hands. also this process doesn't take place overnight...for me it's been a gradual replacement of bad stuff with "good" stuff...years and years of experimenting and reading and talking to other people. i honor whatever path you are on to move your body towards the highest good. don't be too hard on yourselves for slipping...it's just a part of the process.
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* have positive motives for your diet * avoid the poisons of obsession, hate, fear, ego, zealotry * raw/living foods - an excellent diet, but a terrible religion. Don't make it your religion! It can be incorporated into your spirituality if you wish, but don't make it more important than your spiritual path. * It is better to be a cooked food eater with a healthy emotional/mental relationship to food, than to be a raw fooder who has an UNhealthy emotional/mental relationship to food. However, best of all is to be a raw fooder who has a healthy emotional/mental relationship with food.

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www.godsdirectcontact.com/veget...ng.htm