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Andrew's Raw Food Health
Transformation
The first half of my life was not a pleasant or
healthy one.
Before I found raw food health, I was very
overweight and prone to headaches that would leave
me writhing on the floor in pain. I suffered from
backaches and intestinal problems that left me
dreading my days.
Frequent colds and other illnesses plagued me,and I
was depressed and withdrawn because of my troubles.
I look back from where I am now and wish that
someone would have walked into my life, slapped me
across the face, and told me that there was a better
way.
I didn't know then that my "good" diet, or good by
the standards of the overweight, sick society we
live in, was not good at all. I looked at my thin
brother who ate far worse than I did and wondered
what was wrong with me.
 Was I cursed? Why
did I get these genes? I, like many people, just saw
myself as a collection of genetic misfortune. I
played sports, could run fast, and yet I was still
fat.
My diet was relatively good by American standards,
so why
was I overweight?
Discovering Raw Food
Health
The problem, I see clearly now, was not
my genes; they're serving me well enough today.
The problem was my lifestyle. The meat,
eggs, dairy,
processed food, caffeine,
and sedentary behavior was what was causing my
problems. All I needed to do was to bring myself in
line with nature's laws so raw food health could be
mine.
Side Crow
Since age 17,
I've gradually ratcheted up my health. I first
cut out junk food, greatly increased the amount of
fruits and vegetables I was eating, and started a
regular intense exercise routine. With only this my
5'11 frame dropped from 220 pounds to around 190. I
started to feel better, my headaches diminished, but
there was still a backbone
of disease in my life.
There was blood and pus in my stool, and I was
frequently constipated. I still had periodic
headaches, my energy levels were not that great, and
I still got sick two or three times a year.
By my sophomore year in college I had spent almost
two years reading up on the health benefits of a
vegan diet. Books like Professor Colin Campbell's
"The China Study," made it clear that animal protein
is a major cause for most of the western diseases of
affluence that affect us, namely cancer, heart
disease, obesity and type
two diabetes. That year I made the plunge and
cut out meat, dairy, and eggs and took up running
daily.
I dropped another 10 pounds and started to feel more
energy than I had before. I was now only rarely
sick, but my intestinal problems, which I'd
eventually find out were stemming from colitis,
actually got worse, probably because I had replaced
many of the animal protein calories in my diet with
grains,
which are high in gluten and problematic for the
body.
My Raw Success Story
I consulted with a number of cooked food vegan
doctors, but none could offer me a solution that
worked. Finally, I ran across a little pamplet
called "Grain Damage," by Dr. Douglas Graham, who
went on to publish The
80/10/10 Diet.
 I suddenly had my answers:
Cut out the cooked food and the unhealthy starches,
treat my body to delicious fruits and vegetables,
and all will be well.
Dr. Graham was right. Adopting a healthy raw food
diet cured my intestinal/Colitis problems within
months, gave me more energy than I had ever
experienced, and I haven't been ill since I adopted
the diet.
Today I'm a trim 159 pounds, 61 pounds lighter than
my all time high. My running stamina has easily
doubled, my mind is clearer than it ever has been,
and I just feel great. I have raw food health.
As a newspaper reporter, I'm used to writing
articles that inform, and I thought that maybe I
should try providing information for people
interested in curing disease and finding health
online. I hope to be that person that walks into
your life and gives you a refreshing slap across the
face, the same one that I was looking for all those
years ago.
I wish you sunshine and fruit my friends
-Andrew Perlot
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