A raw carnivorous diet. Finding the right food is always a challenge, and this is why this group is here. It offers lots of information about Aajonus Vonderplanitz, founder of The Primal Diet, whose research over the last 35 years is truly invaluable to many people whose lives have literally been saved as a result of following this very natural way of living. Here are some partial transcripts for
Aajonus' TV interview: "You may have heard of the raw food diet, but the raw meat diet? While The Doctors do not endorse it, Aajonus, 61, claims eating raw meat, poultry and eggs saved his life. The diet consists of uncooked and unprocessed raw food and advocates claim that the benefits include improved digestion, better weight management and nutritional value, and reduced risk of disease. Proponents of the diet contend that raw foods contain enzymes which are said to act as catalysts to regulate the digestive process in the body and that cooking the food degrades those enzymes. Aajonus says that cancer brought him to the verge of death when he was 20. He also struggled with juvenile diabetes and angina pectoris when he was a teenager and says he had 300 heart attacks by the time he was 22. His cancer resurfaced 10 years later and Aajonus says he felt fighting it again would be difficult. He was told that eating any uncooked food would kill him, so he began doing just that. “I ate the raw meat to kill myself,” he says. “And it did just the opposite. It invigorated me for the first time in my life. I didn’t have to worry about my obsession with eating.”
Aajonus buys his raw meats from specialty stores, and eats that plus one fruit a day. He also drinks vegetable juice.
“All the respect to you and what you’re doing,” Dr. Travis says. “But I do not recommend this to anyone at home. A raw meat diet runs the risk of so many bad things, like salmonella, among others.
“I’m not saying this diet for you isn’t a wonderful thing,” Dr. Travis continues. “But this is a dangerous diet for your average person. In the E.R. I have taken care of people who have almost died from eating raw chicken.”
Dr. Lisa warns that eating raw meats during pregnancy can cause birth defects. Aajonus' comment:
Neither Dr. Travis nor Dr. Lisa have any scientific evidence of their claims to raw food contamination causing disease, including birth defects. Over 120 babies have been born to women eating predominantly the "taboo" foods without any incident of birth defect. In fact, babies born on this diet are extremely intelligent and can hold up their heads within hours after birth. Over 1000 children eat raw meats, eggs and milk without any disease and are much healthier and smarter. On the Show, I [Aajonus] asked the doctors how many people they observed eating raw meats and, of course, they had no answer because they have not studied even one person eating raw meat, eggs and milk. I told them that I had observed about 25,000. Again, they gave no intelligent response. Each of the doctors on the panel spoke from their fear-perspective rather than from experience and knowledge. I pointed out to them but it was cut from the show that they studied disease and drugs only and know nothing about health and nutrition. I asked them, how then were they qualified to make comments and judgments about diets, nutrition or anything regarding health. Again, they resorted to their stock answers of I have seen. But the truth is, they have not seen. Just because a laboratory test reveals salmonella, does not mean that it cause any disease. In fact, we have 1,600
families of salmonella in our noses. Before we became regular bathers, 6,000 families of salmonella used to eat the dead cells from our bodies so that we would not be itching and peeling all of the time. All natural bacteria are beneficial. Many helps us digest and many are janitors. They do not cause disease. As I stated on the show, harmful bacteria result from processing food and the bacteria gets sick the same as people get sick and their toxic waste products cause irritation and sometime vomit and diarrhea. Also, I stated on the show that University of California, Davis did tests with raw milk and when they spike it with 5 different bacteria believed to grow and cause diseases in raw milk, bacteria did not grow. When the introduced the same bacteria into pasteurized milk, it grew profusely, rapidly."
