I have a 4year old pit bull and i wanna start feeding her raw, to help her gain weight, but im not sure what to feed her or what to mix, or how many times a day… Thanks for anyone who can help…

Some basics:

- A prey-model diet should consist of 80 percent muscle meat, 10 percent bone, and 10 percent organs.
- Start slow. Try one protein source (meaning one type of meat) for a whole week before trying a new source. Good first meats are chicken leg quarters, chicken breasts, big hunks of red meat, etcetera.
- The following are wonderful resources when learning raw: http://www.rawfed.com and the Raw Food Diet forum at http://www.dogster.com .

Good luck!

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There are a lot of foods to choose from these days and certainly there are some better than others. Do you know which foods are best for you? You are about to find out. We have scoured the earth to find out what are some of the best (and worst) foods for you to eat. The best foods provide health and longevity.

The worst will naturally do just the opposite. Let’s find out what you should and should not eat to promote health and wellness.

5 Best Raw Foods

Not all foods were made alike. Some foods are better than others. The foods that qualify as the best contain plenty of good ingredients. These include plenty of fiber, macro and micro nutrients. Are you curious to see what made our list?

1. Broccoli – This tasty vegetable has always been a favorite food. Why? It has plenty of vitamin C, which we all know is good for us. It also contains folic acid. You can eat it raw; just sprinkle a bit of lemon juice on it for a bit of tangy flavor.
2. Goji Berries – These heavenly berries contain plenty of antioxidants. Antioxidants help protect the body from various diseases, including cancer. It seems now more so than ever people are succumbing to diseases like chronic ailments and cancer, probably because they do not get enough antioxidants in their diet (although there are obviously many other reasons). Goji berries also contain beta carotene, iron, trace minerals, protein and amino acids. Unbelievable!
3. Maca – This plant should be one consumed by all raw food junkies. It contains fatty acids, vitamins, protein and other macro and micro nutrients. It helps to increase energy and many feel it helps boost one’s libido, no who can’t benefit from that! It may also boost fertility in women and men. Much like a radish, you can also buy this in powder form from many health food stores. The Maca plant also helps boost immunity to help improve one’s overall function. For individuals with high blood pressure, they may find their blood pressure stabilizes under the influence of the Maca plant.
4. Hemp Seed – For some time now raw foodists have known of the benefits of hemp seed. You can buy it in many forms including as oil. It contains an ideal amount of Omega 3 and 6, which is important for our overall health and wellness. It contains many trace elements and like many super foods help fight cancer. This is one food that doesn’t require germination.
5. Wheatgrass – Wheatgrass contains vitamins, minerals, and is a complete protein, Not many foods can boast of that! It is a natural detoxifier as well, helping the body eliminate unwanted substances naturally. Wheatgrass may also assist your body in digesting food as it contains almost 30 plant enzymes. Chlorophyll in wheatgrass is known to help strengthen the blood, so this food is optimal for raw food enthusiasts especially for those that may be prone to other disorders including anemia. Among its known “powers” including removing body odor or halitosis, although this is not a common problem among people that eat a raw food diet. Some people find that wheat grass helps them feel fuller so they don’t crave food. This may be a good supplement for people starting out on a raw food diet.

5 Worst Foods

Now that you know what to eat, let’s talk about what you should not eat. There are so many things that are bad and harmful these days, it is almost impossible to list them all. The list of the 5 worst foods is indeed difficult to narrow because there are so many in this fast-food, microwave dinner, candy, sugar coated supermarket world!

We have done our best so that you know what foods are most inappropriate for you. Here is that list…

1. Fried chicken from a fast food joint – This type of food is loaded with trans fat and typically does not contain any real nutritional value. Most servings contain well over 1,000 milligrams of sodium. Since you are only supposed to have about 2,000 milligrams (thereabouts) of sodium a day, you can see this is totally inappropriate, and that is a small serving.
2. Fast food ice cream – it may sound delicious, but many “chain” ice cream parlors offer ice cream that is loaded with fat and calories, and a lot of trans fat at that. Think of your favorite types of ice cream… hmmm. Ben & Jerry’s is one… Haagen-Dazs is another. A single scoop of ice cream can contain anywhere from 300 to 600 calories (one scoop!) and 11 to 20 grams of saturated fat. If you were to eat an entire tub of ice cream you could get as much as 1200 or more calories, an entire days worth for some raw foodists. Can you imagine that?
3. Twinkies – There is nothing healthy or worthwhile about these little yellow sponge cakes and yet they remain on the market decade after decade. Children love them and they send dozens of kids to the dentist year after year. If you have an addiction to them, please stop it. If you are smart, ban them from your house; Forbid your child from trying them. Tell your child why they are so useless. Try something better, like celery and peanut butter with carob. Really there are much more sensible and better tasting items to enjoy and you will get a lot more benefit from them.
4. Fried Potatoes – Especially the kind you get from certain fast food places that are loaded with salt. You take something that is generally healthy, soak it in fatty oil, not the healthy kind, and you dump about a thousand pounds of oil on it and call it healthy? Not likely. You are likely to ingest a lot more oil than anything else when you eat French fries from again, a fast food joint.
5. Nachos – Now, what possibly could you find healthy about eating nachos? The very name “nachos” implies poor health. You take a non-healthy food (nacho) meaning usually ‘salty chips’ and pile on a bunch of unhealthy substances. Usually this involves loading the chip with a large volume of fatty substances which may include some healthy substances (like avocado and tomato) and then a bunch of potential deadly substances (like fake cheese, sour cream and the like). Most people taste the salt in nachos and chase it down with equally unhealthy beverages including plenty of beer or much worse, mixed beverages. If you can avoid nachos, do!

If you really miss some of these unhealthy foods you can find a much healthier raw food alternative. You fancy some ice cream, make your own with frozen bananas and raw chocolate. You fancy some nachos, make your own with vegetable chips. Trust me, there aren’t any resources lacking out there to be healthier.

If you are running out of ideas, check out our new recipe page or get busy in the kitchen with our Chop-To-Impress Gourmet cookbook.

Sincerely yours,

Omid

Omid Jaffari
http://www.articlesbase.com/wellness-articles/5-best-and-worst-foods-to-eat-710666.html

We’re going to be switching our dogs to a raw food diet, and I was wondering what kind of raw foods are best.

Prey model diet. 80% raw meat, 10% raw bone, 5% live, 5% other organs. Just about any kind of meat you can find is great. You want to start with one protein source though. Most people use chicken. Feed chicken for at least a week and then begin adding new meats one at a time to the dogs’ diet. I also feed green tripe, whole raw eggs, and fish oil.

Here’s a great page with some basic info: http://www.rawfed.com/myths/feedraw.html

ADD: Yeah I found the tuna pretty amusing too. That isn’t one I’ve heard before.

ADD: Firstly, if you’re feeding a correctly balanced raw diet, there is no need for dog food. If you do choose to feed dog food in addition to raw, they should never be fed at the same time because kibble and raw meat digest and different rates. This could cause an upset stomach.

Secondly, chicken bones are excellent. My dogs get 95% of their bone content from chicken bones. Raw chicken bones do *not* splinter because they are soft and flexible. They’re actually about the safest bones you can feed. Cooked chicken bones are another story. A dog should never be fed cooked bones of any kind.

Thirdly, your dog will not get ring worm from raw meat. That is ridiculous. There should be definitely be red meat such as steak in a raw diet and it is no more dangerous for a dog than kibble.

Eating raw meat is NOT the reason wolves live shorter lives than domestic dogs. The wolf (and the dog) is perfectly built to handle raw meat. The reason wolves don’t live as long is because they live in the wild. It’s not the pampered life of a house pet with regular meals every day, trips to the vet when they’re sick, and balanced diets with all the needed nutrients. Wolves have to deal with weather, food shortages, and illness that domestic dogs are sheltered from.

Whether or not you wish to believe it, the foods that you are eating could actually be causing the gastric acid reflux that you are suffering from. There are foods that are recommended for those that are suffering from this condition and also foods that should be avoided at all costs as these could be the ones that are making it worse or even causing it in the first place!

The gastric acid reflux has been studied in some detail yet the foods are only common contributing factors, some of which have been investigated and some that haven’t. The foods are potential factors to the gastric acid reflux and each one will depend on the sufferers themselves.

Among the foods that should be avoided are:

• High acidity fruits - These can include tomatoes, cranberries, grapefruits, lemons and oranges. Alongside the fruits themselves, products of these should be avoided such as the fresh fruit juices that you can get as these can also be rather high in acidity causes the gastric acid reflux to become worse.

• Vegetables such as raw onions, French fries and mashed potatoes have also been reported to make the gastric acid reflux unpleasant to deal with.

• Meat such as chicken nuggets, Buffalo wings, minced or ground beef and sirloin steaks.

• Dairy produce including ice cream, milk shakes, sour cream and cottage cheese.

• Various drinks such as coffee and other caffeinated substances, alcohol and fizzy pop.

• Chocolate products and other sweets including brownies, cookies, doughnuts and corn or potato chips.

Even though these food and food products have been renowned for cause gastric acid reflux to many people or at least making it worse for those who already suffer from it, they are generally individual to each particularized victim of the condition.

Working out the foods that you can and cannot eat with regards to gastric acid reflux and tends to rely on a system of trial and error. For the first few weeks after you have been diagnosed with this condition, keep a food diary of everything that you eat.

Note down the days on which you feel the symptoms of gastric acid reflux or whether they have become particularly worsened on some days more than others. By doing this, you can look back and see which foods are typical of the days on which you experience the worse symptoms.

After a few weeks of monitoring the foods that you are eating and the days that the symptoms of the gastric acid reflux are considered to be more unpleasant you can work out the foods that are causing the condition or at least worsening it.

By doing this you can communicate with your doctor or other medical professional to better come up with a plan or diet that will successfully eliminate the gastric acid reflux from your life without the need for long term medication which can cause adverse side effects or interfere with other medication that you may be taking alongside it.

Alvin Hopkinson is a leading health researcher in the area of natural remedies and acid reflux cure. Discover how you can get rid of your acid reflux for good using proven home remedies, all without using harmful medications or drugs. Visit his site now at http://www.refluxremoval.com

Alvin Hopkinson
http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/the-foods-that-can-cause-gastric-acid-reflux-what-are-the-foods-you-should-avoid-730162.html

Whether or not you wish to believe it, the foods that you are eating could actually be causing the gastric acid reflux that you are suffering from. There are foods that are recommended for those that are suffering from this condition and also foods that should be avoided at all costs as these could be the ones that are making it worse or even causing it in the first place!

The gastric acid reflux has been studied in some detail yet the foods are only common contributing factors, some of which have been investigated and some that haven’t. The foods are potential factors to the gastric acid reflux and each one will depend on the sufferers themselves.

Among the foods that should be avoided are:

• High acidity fruits - These can include tomatoes, cranberries, grapefruits, lemons and oranges. Alongside the fruits themselves, products of these should be avoided such as the fresh fruit juices that you can get as these can also be rather high in acidity causes the gastric acid reflux to become worse.

• Vegetables such as raw onions, French fries and mashed potatoes have also been reported to make the gastric acid reflux unpleasant to deal with.

• Meat such as chicken nuggets, Buffalo wings, minced or ground beef and sirloin steaks.

• Dairy produce including ice cream, milk shakes, sour cream and cottage cheese.

• Various drinks such as coffee and other caffeinated substances, alcohol and fizzy pop.

• Chocolate products and other sweets including brownies, cookies, doughnuts and corn or potato chips.

Even though these food and food products have been renowned for cause gastric acid reflux to many people or at least making it worse for those who already suffer from it, they are generally individual to each particularized victim of the condition.

Working out the foods that you can and cannot eat with regards to gastric acid reflux and tends to rely on a system of trial and error. For the first few weeks after you have been diagnosed with this condition, keep a food diary of everything that you eat.

Note down the days on which you feel the symptoms of gastric acid reflux or whether they have become particularly worsened on some days more than others. By doing this, you can look back and see which foods are typical of the days on which you experience the worse symptoms.

After a few weeks of monitoring the foods that you are eating and the days that the symptoms of the gastric acid reflux are considered to be more unpleasant you can work out the foods that are causing the condition or at least worsening it.

By doing this you can communicate with your doctor or other medical professional to better come up with a plan or diet that will successfully eliminate the gastric acid reflux from your life without the need for long term medication which can cause adverse side effects or interfere with other medication that you may be taking alongside it.

Alvin Hopkinson is a leading health researcher in the area of natural remedies and acid reflux cure. Discover how you can get rid of your acid reflux for good using proven home remedies, all without using harmful medications or drugs. Visit his site now at http://www.refluxremoval.com

Alvin Hopkinson
http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/the-foods-that-can-cause-gastric-acid-reflux-what-are-the-foods-you-should-avoid-730162.html

I have this habit of drinking the brine out of tins of hotdogs and the viniger in jars of cockles and mussles.
I love eating raw veg as i am preparing it and i’m also quite partial to un cooked black pudding.

What about you lot?

i love eating raw bacon and sausages and black pudding ( it does’nt have to be cooked) i’ve also eaten scorpion, rat, bat, sea urchin, sea slug (vile), cow eyes, human semen, human brown waste, human piss and placenta. also stuffing mix, straight from the box. bogies from the nose and the white creamy stuff from around my mates dick.

I don’t want to spend money on raw yeast or organic yeast if I don’t have to, I still have plenty of baking yeast, is this harmful when using the raw foods diet?

No its not harmful at all.

I see a lot of the square black models, the Excalibur? Is there a big difference between that and the old school round ones? I was going to get a round one because they are less expensive, just making sure it has a thermostat, will this work for raw food cooking?

My family uses this one, we are about 80% Raw and it is perfect for us!

http://rawpeople.com/store/dehydrators/good4u-dehydrators-6-trays.html

Hope I helped you on your raw journey!

I don’t know if it is possible to become a vegetarian because I am having trouble giving up meat. I know it is going to be harder to become vegan! I would like to go all the way and go raw. Any body know how I can get some help? I have tried the recipes on the internet, but nothing comes out right. I go to a raw market but the only have it is only on Sat., and it is $8.00 lb to eat at the raw bar. My stuff never tastes like theirs! I went raw for 3 weeks and felt like a million dollars!
Please tell me why I gained weight on the raw diet. I thought I’d lose weight. Thank you in advance!

Try some DVD & books. I’ve put up 3 sites that are very good & teach…
http://www.thegardendiet.com/
http://www.rawfamily.com/
http://www.therawfoodworld.com/