Four years ago I got a digestive sickness with a temporary case of mild jaundice which resolved without treatment. In parallel, I was treating myself with a vitamin B complex for vertigo.
Some time later, I saw an acupuncturist and after profiling my diet, he strongly recommended leafy green vegetables like kale and spinach. I took his advice since I was getting to middle age and wanted to be "healthy," and everyone knows that to be healthy you have to eat salad. I started eating two medium-sized raw salads a day, and soon I stopped having to take vitamin B (which spinach contains a lot of). But over a year ago, even with my salad habit, the vertigo returned. So either the spinach I eat doesn't actually have the vitamin B anymore even though I always buy organic (because of soil depletion) or my body can't absorb it in its raw state. I now have been eating salad for four years and I haven't been able to stop taking supplements (especially vitamin B and magnesium). So what's the point of eating salad, I wondered recently.
Then I asked myself, "Why do I believe that salads are healthy?" The answer that came back to me: "Because the media and doctors always say so." That concerned me since we know here the media and medicine have been corrupted.
Most of the popular salads you know by name weren't invented until the early 20th century (at the time heart attacks started to go up and vegetable oil consumption increased). If you go to Wikipedia, they will say raw salads have been eaten since ancient times, but how frequently? Also, the word "salad" has changed. Look at this 1845 recipe of "chicken salad" and tell me how many vegetables you encounter:
The Good Housekeeper (1839)
The Virginia Housewife (1838)
There is a huge list of old cookbooks available to browse through (very cool). The recipes in the old cookbooks would give modern doctors a heart attack. According to the modern standard, they are "not healthy." But heart attacks didn't start happening until the early 20th century, and cancer rates were also lower back then.
The truth is that I'm in a nutrient deficient state concerning vitamins even though I eat a lot of (raw) vegetables with olive oil. I haven't been able to reduce my supplement intake even though I'm targeting vegetable that have minerals I need, and I don't feel any healthier than before. Have I been duped by raw salad?
Some time later, I saw an acupuncturist and after profiling my diet, he strongly recommended leafy green vegetables like kale and spinach. I took his advice since I was getting to middle age and wanted to be "healthy," and everyone knows that to be healthy you have to eat salad. I started eating two medium-sized raw salads a day, and soon I stopped having to take vitamin B (which spinach contains a lot of). But over a year ago, even with my salad habit, the vertigo returned. So either the spinach I eat doesn't actually have the vitamin B anymore even though I always buy organic (because of soil depletion) or my body can't absorb it in its raw state. I now have been eating salad for four years and I haven't been able to stop taking supplements (especially vitamin B and magnesium). So what's the point of eating salad, I wondered recently.
Then I asked myself, "Why do I believe that salads are healthy?" The answer that came back to me: "Because the media and doctors always say so." That concerned me since we know here the media and medicine have been corrupted.
Most of the popular salads you know by name weren't invented until the early 20th century (at the time heart attacks started to go up and vegetable oil consumption increased). If you go to Wikipedia, they will say raw salads have been eaten since ancient times, but how frequently? Also, the word "salad" has changed. Look at this 1845 recipe of "chicken salad" and tell me how many vegetables you encounter:
If you look at cookbooks over 100 years old, there is not a raw salad section like there are in modern cookbooks. The vegetables are almost always cooked, even if the recipe has the word "salad". Here are two examples:2 large chickens, boiled
6 hard-boiled eggs
4 uncooked egg-yolks
4 tablespoonfuls lemon juice
1/4 teaspoonful cayenne pepper
6 stalks celery
2 teaspoonfuls mustard
1 teaspoonful salt
4 tablespoonfuls vinegar
6 tablespoonfuls milk
1 pint bottle olive oil [2 cups!]
Chop the chicken, white and dark meat, not too fine, being careful to remove every bit of skin and not to use hard or gristly parts. parts. Cut up the celery and chop the hard-boiled eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Make a dressing of the rest of the ingredients by mixing the egg yolks, mustard, salt and pepper together until smooth and thick, drop in the oil a little at a time, then add vinegar, lemon juice and lastly, milk. Just before you are ready to serve mix all the ingredients together and mix with the dressing."
The Good Housekeeper (1839)
The Virginia Housewife (1838)
There is a huge list of old cookbooks available to browse through (very cool). The recipes in the old cookbooks would give modern doctors a heart attack. According to the modern standard, they are "not healthy." But heart attacks didn't start happening until the early 20th century, and cancer rates were also lower back then.
Source: Think Raw Veggies are Always Best? Think AgainA good rule of thumb when considering the best way to consume your veggies is to remember the letter that Dr. Weston A. Price wrote to his nieces and nephews in 1934. In this letter, he strongly urged them to eat their vegetables cooked in butter. His research found that the bulkiness (fiber) of raw vegetables interfered with the human body’s ability to extract minerals from them via the digestive process.
The truth is that I'm in a nutrient deficient state concerning vitamins even though I eat a lot of (raw) vegetables with olive oil. I haven't been able to reduce my supplement intake even though I'm targeting vegetable that have minerals I need, and I don't feel any healthier than before. Have I been duped by raw salad?