I don't consider dried fruits to be raw foods, and I don't recommend their consumption, except in exceptional circumstances, when fresh fruit is not available. Exceptional circumstances would be for example, a trip to Antarctica, an extended hike in the forest, or crossing the Sahara desert. Then you can bring some dried fruit along and eat it.
Dried fruits are addictive and most people have a tendency to overeat them. This has bad consequences: gas, indigestion, frequent urination, digestive discomforts, cravings, and disturbed sleep. Dried fruits also keep to the teeth and encourage cavities. Many people have ruined their teeth with the consumption of raisins, dates, dried figs, etc. In my case, it had been certainly one of the major causes of the cavities I acquired while on the raw food diet.
If you are craving dried fruit, it's just due to the fact that you are not eating enough fruit to meet your caloric needs. When you begin eating more fresh fruit, all your cravings for dried fruit will go away. In fact, if you are craving anything sweet (apart from fresh fruit), you are simply not eating enough fruit.
The date is a dried fruit, but it has not been dried artificially. It has dried naturally on the plant. For that reason, I still classify it as a dried fruit. Dates are renowned since the junk food of the raw-foodist. Most people tend to overeat them. Overeating dates means eating more than five to ten dates at once. Because dates are extremely concentrated in sugar, they'll cause the same problems as eating too much dried fruit. For that reason, I do not recommend dates regularly.
I buy dates only a few times a year, at the height from the season, when I will find a certain type of juicy date in the markets. Those dates are only available a few weeks annually, max. Other than then, I do not buy them so I won't get tempted.
Frozen fruits aren't completely "raw", but the freezing process preserves most nutrients. The main problem with frozen "raw" foods is that they are eaten cold, which is the equivalent of putting an ice pack inside the stomach. It's almost certain to cause indigestion, and also the regular consumption of cold, frozen fruits can negatively affect the state of the bacterial flora and result in a vitamin B12 deficiency.
Frozen fruit can be very useful when you live in the North much like me. Throughout the winter, I use frozen berries (especially wild blueberries). They're really good in smoothies and allow some extra variety.
However, I recommend thawing frozen fruits before with them, or at least not make a meal out of them. For instance, you could make a banana smoothie with fresh bananas and some frozen berries. That way, the entire meal is not frozen. But it's still best to wait a couple of hours and let the frozen fruits thaw.
That humans need to drink the milk of another animal, after being weaned using their own mothers, is definitely an idea so bizarre that celebrate me smile. This concept is not based on anything scientific. Rather, it is the spawn of a well-planned, well-executed, decades-long propaganda campaign through the dairy industry. Cow's milk naturally carries powerful growth hormones that are deeply disturbing to the human body. Commercial milk can also be loaded with antibiotics, bacteria, pesticides, and cholesterol. It takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese, so this cornucopia of toxic elements is even more concentrated in cheese than in plain milk.
Unlike the propaganda, drinking milk won't prevent osteoporosis. The 1995 Harvard Nurses' Health Study, conducted on more than 75,000 women, showed that those getting much of their calcium from milk experience more fractures than others drinking little or no milk.
Another study done in 1994 in Sydney, Australia, showed much the same thing - higher consumption of dairy products was related to increased fracture risk. People who consumed the most dairy products doubled their risk of hip fracture, than others who ate fewer milk products. Other studies have shown that high protein consumption is associated with an increased incidence of osteoporosis.
Animal milk is perfect for that animal's young, and not for humans. All species stop drinking milk following a certain age, and we are no exception. But the milk industry tries to convince us that cow's milk is "nature's perfect food", and that we should never be weaned! It is indeed a perfect food - for baby cows!
Nonetheless, raw goat's or cow's milk can be useful in the case of women who cannot nurse of sufficient length, for whatever reason, or if the milk produced by the mother isn't adequate. Vegan mothers who give soy milk to their children are mistaken. Soymilk cannot replace real milk for growing children, because it is lacking in too many essential nutrients.
Adults cannot digest milk well because the enzymes that digest milk stop being produced following the age of seven or eight. Drinking milk past that age can lead to health problems.
When it is fermented and clabbered (like yogurt or kefir), milk is much more digestible. Natural hygienists have often used natural yogurt when patients couldn't digest nuts well. I contemplate it to be a borderline, or compromise food. It was once part of my diet, and it never made me sick or caused any problems, like other dairy foods did. I phased yogurt from my regular diet at some point, but occasionally I will have some yogurt.
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