alright, this is john kohler with okraw.com! today we have another exciting episode for you. and what we’re going to do today isactually one of my favorite style videos where i get to interview a bunch of my friends.and as a matter of fact, this one has over a dozen of my friends who have actually beeninto raw foods for quite a while. and i’m going to pose a question to them and hearall their answers. and you guys are going get to also hear their answers on a specificquestion. and the question that i’ll be asking them today is, ‘why do some raw foodistslook unhealthy?’ now, i know many of you guys might think that,you know, anybody could look unhealthy. but in particular, you know, a lot of people thinkthat raw foodists look unhealthy. and there
are many reasons for this. and that’s whyi’m making this video, you know, to let you guys know these reasons. i mean, one ofthe things that i think about why do raw foodists look unhealthy goes back to like a video oryou know, from 20/20, you know, on abc, john stossel, i don’t know how many of you guyshave seen that. i’ve been around the raw foods for a while. but basically, in the 20/20interview, john stossel interviewed this guy named johnny. and i’ll put a picture upof johnny right here. and if you look at johnny, he definitely doesn’t look healthy as araw foodist. sorry johnny. and everybody is on their healing journey, i will say that.but yeah, so i mean, this is what people think of it. and they think raw foodists are realskinny, thin, and just not healthy. so anyways,
let’s find out why some raw foodists lookunhealthy, according to a bunch of my friends. john: so now we’re here with megan elizabeth.you can learn about her at meganelizabeth.com or check her out on youtube at easytoberaw.she’s been into raw foods now for the last 6 years. and the question for megan todayis “why do raw foodists look unhealthy?†megan: why do raw foodists look unhealthy?i think we look pretty healthy. john: we do, but there are some people sayraw foodists are too skinny or look sick or whatever. megan: yeah. so, i think probably just notenough variety in their diet, not enough diversity of nutrients. they’re not checking theirnutrient levels, not doing blood tests, not
monitoring that stuff. and, you know, we don’tlive in a perfect world. we’re not living out in nature. so we do need to monitor thingsand we can’t just eat bananas and dates all day and think we’re going to look awesome,you know. we got to eat either greens or add some supplements in. and i think, you know,some people don’t eat enough too and they’re too thin, and that’s a big issue for a lotof people. and then some people eat too much. so it’s like really, you know, it’s almostlike cheeseball like, you know, to listen to your body but actually like that reallyafter you’ve been doing for a few years, you can’t do anything about that. john: so now we’re here with chris kendall.he’s been raw for about a decade now. you
could check him out at therawadvantage.com. and the question for chris today is, ‘chris, why do raw foodists, many of them look unhealthy?’ chris: well, i guess, you know, unhealthyis a relative term. unhealthy compared to whom, you know, and what raw foodists arewe talking about. because not all raw food diets are the same, and not everyone is inthe same place when they’re in the raw food diet, you know. just your first year intoa raw food diet and coming from your near death bed, you’re probably not going tobe looking amazing. you know, if you’re 10 years into a raw food diet and you’reeating a raw food diet that doesn’t support optimal health, you may not be looking thatgreat, you know. i’ve met severe, like severely
anorexic looking, big dark circles under theireyes, raw foodists that have been doing it for years but they’re just not eating thebest foods. next to that, you know, a raw food diet isn’t the panacea, is not everything.if you’re not getting enough sleep, if you’re a stressed out individual like, all conspiracytheories the world’s going to end, and i need 8 crystals , you know, you’re not goingto be feeling that good, right. so that’s like, it’s a lifestyle. and it’s a, it’sa gradient of, you know, how long you’ve been doing it, what you’re exactly doingand how balanced you are in all the other lifestyle aspects. the people that i’vebeen looking at, i’ve been studying nutrition for like 15 years, and i follow those peopleto gain the result i want. those people that
are long term, living and thriving on a simpleraw food diet are doing exactly that. they have a holistic lifestyle, they pay attentionto all the factors of health, and they’re eating really simple, low fat, high carbohydrateplant foods, tropical fruits, young tender green vegetables in the quantities that theyenjoy, as much as they possibly could desire, and they don’t get all ahead and worry aboutit all the time. john: so now we’re here with kristina carillo-bukram.she’s been in a fully raw, raw vegan diet for the last 9+ years now. and you can learnmore about her at fullyraw.com . today we’re going to ask her some questions, ‘why doraw foodists look unhealthy?’ kristina: i believe that raw foodists lookunhealthy for, i mean, i think this could
be several reasons. a- sometimes some peopledon’t eat enough and they get too thin, sometimes they overeat and they bloat up sothey don’t look as good as they could be, or they don’t work out, or some people don’tpractice great personal hygiene. and i think that when you do everything right like youhave glowing skin and you feel happy , you are complete, it just all around is a winwin beneficial situation. john: alright, so we’re here with dan mcdonald,the life regenerator. you want to check him for sure on youtube at www.youtube.com/liferegenerator. and he’s been into raw foods now for the last 14 years. and we’re just going to simplyask dan some question today, ‘what do raw foodists look unhealthy, dan?’
dan: well, a lot of raw foodists got intoraw foods because they were so beat up. i’m one of them, you know. i was just in roughshape, you know. all the things that i’ve done in my past. and so a lot of us come toit from a place of being ill. and to totally, deeply regenerate the constitution and thebody, you know, it can take a while to really dig deep and regenerate and activate somedna which brings more youth in, and a fullness into the system. but a lot of times, thereisn’t a complete regeneration and healing. so a lot of the lines and crevices on theface that were there from the life previous, they just stay around. there’s also manyother reasons, not enough sleep, too much stress. our environments are pretty harsh,you know, they’re just, there’s, the fresh
air is absolutely key. low stress levels,the nervous system just being taxed left and right in our modern world and technology andyou know, 9 to 5, and the kids got to go to school, you got jobs, you got all kinds ofstuff going on. and we live by the clock in our society instead of by our own internalnatural flow. so there’s just a lot working against us as human beings. so that’s whyi really recommend being gentle and compassionate towards people and non-judgmental. becauseyou never really know until you walk a mile in a man’s shoe, you know what i mean. john: so now we’re with ronnie, which ishalf of the ronnie and minh team. you can learn more about them at ubraw.com . he’sbeen into raw foods for the last 14 years.
‘why do some raw foodists look unhealthy,ron?’ ronnie: i think that looks are very deceiving.because i’ve met some people that appeared to be obese that are really light on theirfeet and can move around like an athlete. i’ve met some people that are really thinand trim that get winded after short amount of times. so, i try not to go by looks, otherthan skin tone, clarity of their eyes, and you know, a little bit deeper than that. butas far as like the physical appearance, i try to stay away from that because looks canbe very deceiving as to who is healthy and who is not healthy. but i personally havefound that most of the people that i know, like yourself, who are raw foodists and havebeen raw foodists long term, and have gone
from maybe starting a, what i would call aconventional or standard raw food diet full of a lot of or too much dehydrated, too muchconcentrated and isolated foods and have progressed to where they’re eating just a lot of wholefoods, apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, melons, things that you can just pick up and eat.most of the people that i know that do that, that are eating that kind of a diet look likeyou or me, their skin tone looks good, their color looks good, they’ve got fire in theirvoice, they’ve got a twinkle in their eyes. john: so now we’re with dr rick dina, who’sbeen into raw foods for the last 27 years. you can learn more about him at rawfoodeducation.com. ‘why do some raw foodists look unhealthy?’ dr rick: ah, why do raw foodists look unhealthy?that’s one of the questions that we teach
our students in our advanced educator course,had an answer. so i’ve heard this, good question and good answer hundred of times.maybe not hundreds. probably 70, 80, 100 times or so. alright, now first of all, it dependson what your definition of unhealthy is. so, first of all, two thirds and growing, literally,of americans are overweight or obese. i know when i was, you know, kids are mean. wheni was a kid in the 70s in elementary school, people would pick on the fat kid, cause thereweren’t that many fat kids and they were weird. today people pick on the skinny kidbecause everyone’s so damn fat, the skinny kid who is healthy looks abnormal. and thenpeople say that’s unhealthy, you’re anorexic. they might be extremely healthy. so, somevegetarians though, might get too skinny.
that’s because they’re not eating enoughcalories. maybe they’re not absorbing their food well. maybe they need to address somethingelse and put a little extra weight on. maybe they need to work out and put some muscleon. depends what the case may be. so some legitimate answers though. some vegetariansare truly unhealthy. now, vegetarian vegan or raw, those terms, those definitions, tellpeople more about what someone doesn’t eat compared to what they do eat. so you couldbe a vegetarian that eats fruits and vegetables or you could be a vegetarian that eats processedfoods and cheese and butter and eggs. so some vegetarians eat a lot of fresh food and they’repretty healthy as a result. other vegetarians eat a lot of junk food and they’re not healthyas a result. so whether you’re paleo, omnivore,
vegan, vegetarian, raw, there are healthychoices and there are unhealthy choices. so it totally depends on what the person is doing.don't think they are unhealthy just because they’re lean. that may very well be perfectlyhealthy and good. john: so now we’re with tim van order. he’sbeen into a raw foods diet since 2004. so that’s like 10 years at this point. i admiretim, look up to him a lot. you can learn more about him and his work at www.runningraw.comor his youtube channel runningraw. ‘why do raw foodists look unhealthy?’ tim: why do raw foodists look unhealthy? becausewe are. we are unhealthy and i’ll tell you why we’re unhealthy. because according tothe american medical association, the definition
of health is the absence of observable disease.not the absence of disease but the absence of observable disease. that’s the actualdefinition of health, right. so there are plenty of people walking around and we lookat them and we know they’ve got some disease. maybe they’re carrying a lot of extra weightor we could see it in their skin or we could see it in their eyes. and if they don’thave observable disease, then they’re healthy. so i don’t want to be healthy. that’snot my goal. my goal is to find what’s above zero. like if no disease is zero, you know,cancer and heart disease are down here like minus 50 alright. the absence of observabledisease, that’s probably like a minus 8. you don’t have heart disease yet that’saffecting you, you probably have something,
you just don’t know it, you’re a minus8. so absence of disease, zero, yay, i’m at zero, woohoo. dude, i want be a 50 john: i want to be at a 100 man tim: a 125, right. i want to experience likepower and ease and just abundant physical energy and mental energy as i move throughlife. so if the definition of health is way down there, i am unhealthy. i’m in a completelydifferent place. so. but if you’re asking me why raw foodists look unhealthy. becausewe don’t look like regular people, because most of us are thin and lean. and that’snot normal anymore. alright. and, oh for instance, okay, like, people say wow you look anorexicbecause you have like no fat on your face.
i’m an elite endurance athlete. i trainridiculous amounts of hours. find an elite endurance athlete that has a lot of fat ontheir face, it doesn’t exist. i’m not anorexic, right. it’s just that i’m anathlete. but number two, a lot of the people that moved to a raw food diet came from aplace of sickness. so they’re bringing whatever challenge they had with them in their lifeprior to that, they’re bringing that into the diet. so you’re seeing people that maybehas significant challenge in their life. maybe when they were born their mother was a smoker,and that affected their bone structure and affected their skin and affected their teethor whatever. a lot of us have challenges, physical challenges that can’t be overcomebecause they happen during our development,
and led to illness throughout our life. sowhen we come to the diet to try to heal, we still have those markers of previous illness.so i think that’s what a lot of people think, well you’ll look sick. well, maybe we wereall sick, and we came to the diet to get better. maybe we still look, some people still maylook unhealthy, but now they actually are. but the physical markers don’t change. john: right tim: like once your face is formed, that’sit, it is formed. a raw food diet is not going to change the structure of your face. i tried,but look. john: so now we’re with nomi shannon, alsoknown as the raw gourmet. she’s been into
raw foods now for the last 27 years , andthis lady, this young lady is nearly 71. nearly 71 just in a few months now. she’s lookingreally great. you can too if you eat raw foods. so, but, you can learn more about her at www.rawgourmet.com. the question for nomi today is, ‘why do some raw foodists look unhealthy?’ nomi: that’s not your question, is it? somebodyelse asked other people , that’s that. and i haven’t noticed that in you john: i mean, there’s all kinds of people,they’re on all kind of different raw foods diets and, you know, how they look could bevery different, and everybody has different life experiences.
nomi: well, you and i are at an event rightnow that, there’s about 14 or 15 hundred raw fooders. and i haven’t really noticedanyone that looks any, that stands out as looking unhealthy. some are very thin, andthat might equate to some people as being too thin or gaunt. i mean, there are a fewpeople who are very very thin. but they don’t have that pallid look or pale or anything.so i guess i can’t answer the question because i haven’t found the raw foodists i knowto be unhealthy looking. so, i guess i have no real response. john: alright, great. john: so now we’re with lou corona. he’sbeen into raw living foods now for the last
41 years. it’s definitely a long time. youcould learn more about lou at www.loucorona.com . and the question i have for lou today is,‘why do raw foodists or some raw foodists look unhealthy?’ lou: well, you see , there’s a total downloadthat we got going of communication. if that is not being, in other words if, if they’renot thinking powerfully, if they’re not in this place of love, and if they don’thave the real strong connection with the vibe, you know, and had to listen to it. and i , whati’m truly trying to say here is that some people are still involved judging, criticizing,condemning, ridiculing themselves and also others. so when we really kill others, whenwe judge and condemn others, it actually creates
a negative effect on our own bodies, on ourown little baby cells, which causes degeneration of the cells. does that make any sense ? john: oh absolutely lou: okay. so, when i learned to love andforgive and accept and anoint people with love, and recognize that every single oneof us are brilliant and a genius and creative and really special and amazing, every oneof us are, no matter good, bad and ugly, no matter what we say and do. i also understandthat people say and do things a lot of times because they don’t know any better. theyonly do what they know, you know. so that’s why it’s been said, forgive those for whatthey don’t know, right. so, another thing,
some people become very militant, like aboutcertain things and certain ways of living and being. i’m not about all that. and i’mnot here to force or pressure or try to convert anybody to anything. the idea of what is hereand what my purpose is, is just to remind all those i come in contact with how incredible,how amazing and how wonderful they are. each one of us are. and, because we‘re all brilliantand we’re all creative and amazing and we have so much potential, it’s infinite, amazingpotential we have. so the last mentor came into my life, when he offered download thepipe my first time was 3 minutes. it took everything i had to do 3 minutes. but 10 dayslater i was up to 10 minutes. and it wasn’t because i physically got stronger, it’sjust i got more tapped in here. i got tapped
in to that infinite potential that lies withinus. all of a sudden it grew further and further and further, like that ended up i would beon that later. but i’m just saying that as we get our thinking in a powerful place,we come from a very powerful perspective that life is so precious and that no matter whatwe experienced, no matter what we attract into our lives, it’s for us to learn fromthat and grow and evolve from that. and so no longer shall we judge and criticize andcondemn anybody for anything that’s happened to us. now we take responsibility. we createand we manifest our future, knowing where to go. and also two, a lot of people misusethe elements. we’re supposed to embrace the sun, breathe the air, drink the good waterand grow in ourselves. some people abuse the
elements. and that can also cause a lot ofdestructive aging to the body as well. and also, the third principle, a lot of peopleare not doing enough stimulation of the lymphatic system, so it gets very sluggish. so justbecause you eat raw foods doesn’t mean you’re going to be healthy, because sometimes theraw foods is not always enzyme rich or maybe it hasn’t been cultured or the seeds haven’tbeen soaked or germinated. because i’ve seen a lot of people that eat raw foods. theyjust eat raw nuts and raw seeds and raw fruits and vegetables, but they don’t do anythingto stimulate the lymphatic system or not enough. and also, eating raw foods, raw gourmet foodsand all that, a lot of it is not enzyme activated, and is very hard to digest in that way. byeating raw nuts and raw seeds, it’s almost
like eating cooked food. it’s actually harderto digest in that way compared to when you soak them. so i’d rather see people soaktheir seeds before they eat it. but if they don’t germinate even after you soak them,like a lot of your nuts do not germinate. almonds do, but macadamias don’t. brazilnuts, pine nuts, walnuts, pecans as an example, they don’t do that. they don’t germinateeven if you soak them, because they’ve already been pulled out of their shell. once you pullthem out of the shell they won’t germinate. but what you can do is soak them overnightand then culturize them. blend it up into a cream, put a littlelactoprobiotic to itand it culturizes and becomes enzyme active and predigested and then it’s easy for thebody to absorb it and utilize it. so that
makes sense? john: yeah, sure lou: okay, that’s, those are the reasonswhy i find why people are aging faster then and losing their strength and power and agingfast, even in the raw food lifestyle. because they’re not eating living food. they’renot taking the time to make sure the seeds are soaked and germinated or activated orcultured and that kind of thing. that’s a big important part, i think. so it’s justa, it’s a tie in of the different four principles that we talked about. these four basic principles.if this is not in place, if this is not in place and you’re not putting live food intoyou, you’re not doing something to stimulate
the lymph, you know, then you’re going toage. it’s the bottomline. also two, if raw food people are not taking some powerful enzymesto compensate, and they’re not, it’s whether they’re using some of their own enzyme potentialto digest the raw food that they’re eating, they’re using more than they’re making.so they become enzyme deficient, which will cause aging, premature aging, in itself also. john: so now we’re with karen ranzi. she’sbeen into raw foods for nearly 20 years now. you can learn more about her at www.superhealthychildren.com. the question i have for karen today is, ‘why do some raw foodists look unhealthy?’ karen: i think that one can live an extremelyhaphazard raw food diet, raw food lifestyle,
and i mean, i know that i did in the firstyears. and, you know, one thing is eating way too much nuts. and i’ve seen peoplegain a lot of weight. and then, you know, some people come from a place of wanting tolose weight and have been told that they will with the raw food lifestyle. but if they’restill eating loads of oil and loads of avocado and nuts, they’re not going to be able tolose the weight. so that’s one thing. and then, we’re eating on the raw food diet,there’s a lot of foods that are considered raw that are not raw at all. and they’reactually, in my opinion, quite toxic. an example being like agave, which is really no betterthan high fructose corn syrup, and that’s in a lot of the dessert recipes. so, i mean,we can’t expect to feel good. i listened
to a lot of misinformation when i first started,such as i went to a meeting where they said that we don’t need to brush our teeth, youknow. that this food is so cleansing. i remember being told that apple and celery clean yourteeth. and strawberries. and so we ate a lot of that, my kids and i. and oh wow, monthslater, all of a sudden, you know, we were still brushing but i was very relaxed withit. so it was many times that we just, oh we’re eating a lot of celery today. andwe got a little cavities and we had to deal with dental problems. so, you must reallyknow what you’re doing when you go into this. it’s not like just go to the storeand get some packaged raw food. like just because it says raw on it, does not mean thatit’s healthy food. you know, i would stick
with fresh, pure, organic, and like what youteach john, staying as close to nature as possible and getting as much greens, goingto your local organic farmer, having a garden, sprouting, those are the ways to get reallygood true nutrition. john: alright, thank you john: so now we’re with don bennett d.a.s.he’s been into a raw foods, fruit based diet for over 20 years now. he has definitelya wealth of knowledge and we want to tap some of that knowledge. you’re going to wantto check him out at his website www.health101.org . why do raw foodists look unhealthy? don: well, if they’re just starting a rawfood diet, then yeah they can look unhealthy
because they’re coming from an unhealthydiet. but the other reason is, lets see they are looking healthy and they’ve been doinga raw food diet for many years, and they’re starting to go downhill in some respect, they’restarting to unhealthy in some respect. there’s obviously a reason for it. the reasons i foundis that they’re eating foods that are nutritionally insufficient, they haven’t paid attentionto d and b12 because they were getting it in their old diet because it was fortifiedin their old diet that by mandate. so now they’re eating a raw foods diet. and youdon’t get d or b12 from food normally. so now they go downhill in d and b12 and theycan look horrible from that after a while. so there are reasons for it, but it’s neverever the full, the healthiest of the raw food
diets. it’s something else. john: so now we’re here with dr samuel mielcarski.he’s been into the raw foods for the last 15 years, and you can learn more about drsam at www.drsampt.com and we’re going to ask him a simple question today, ‘why doraw foodists look so unhealthy?’ dr sam: really? i think, i think raw foodists,some raw foodists look unhealthy because their health overall is out of balance. it’s not,it’s very interesting, this is a great question john because this happens all the time. somebodygoes raw, changes to the raw food, does really well for a while, then for some reason theythink being raw, specially raw vegan makes you impervious to everything on the, you know,in the world. start to let go of those other
factors that we keep coming back to, likegetting enough exercise, enough sleep, loving relationships, fresh air, and it’s an overall,overall their health is suffering. unfortunately what happens is the people around them startto, of course, attack the diet, see that crazy diet, it’s not working, look at you, youdon’t look healthy. the person who’s being attacked is like, no i’ll prove it to you.so they start to push harder on a diet, one more avocado, one less avocado, one more bananasmoothie, whatever it takes. and it doesn’t work because you’re trying to make up forlack of something by implementing more of another good thing. and that’s the americanmentality. well, if i do more of this one healthy thing it will make up for a lack ofthese other healthy things. no it won’t.
this is what we always talk about. the chainis only strong as it’s weakest link and your chain of health is only as strong asit’s weakest link. so that’s why raw foodists, some raw foodists don’t look healthy, justlike a lot of americans in general don’t look healthy, not just raw foodists. becauseall raw health is not balanced. john: so now we’re with one of the godfathersof the whole living foods movement here in the us. he actually wrote a book, survivalin the 21st century, that’s like a classic, and i’m glad to have him on the show, youknow. he’s pretty hard to get a hold of these days. and he’s been doing a raw, enzymatic,live food, vegan diet now for the last 50 years! so he’s been doing this stuff a longtime. he definitely knows his stuff. if you
want to learn more about viktoras kulvinskasyou can check him out at www.viktoras.org . so the question i have for viktoras todayis, ‘why do raw foodists look unhealthy?’ viktoras: why you’re, you’re insultingme john: i’m not viktoras: i think you’re a mess yourself. john: but a lot of common people like johnstossel actually called you unhealthy and you’re my viktoras: how can you do this? you watch thatshow? you should not. you know what i told people to write it and what a great show anda great job he did for helping people to get
clear on raw foodism and how dangerous, itcould be to your health. and i said doc but now why don’t you bring in also some ofthe beefed up athletes and those who have not been challenged by all kind of healthproblems and take a look at their body physique, because they eat how many of the meat eaterscan do 600 pushups in an hour? well, even myself , i did on my valentine’s day 400pushups and i’m in my late 70s, and kind of a skinny little rut. but i was a body builder.show them on the back cover of the book. just to let them know that i’m not always skinny john: yeah, there is viktoras in his youngeryears right there viktoras: 60, not many years
john: he’s still young at heart viktoras: and i was also quite a beast withtriple chins. i was also an anorexic poster child, you know. that’s called shape shifting.you can do it all in this life. and, so, why do they look so unhealthy? well, you knowwhy? because most of the people who get into raw foodism are sick with incurable diseasesand they are walking zombies now. they’re alive still, in spite of that interventionthey had by the medical community, in spite of all the other things. but now, we got totake a look at some individuals like dr gabriel cousens. he never was sick. does he look everunhealthy or bad? john: no
viktoras: i don’t know. he looks like ahunk. what a bugger. dr brian clements, never been sick. alright he’s been a little onthe heavy side when he was a musician, but never sick. oh my god, he’s a regular gorillaover there, i wouldn’t want to mess with him. so, the ones, many of us who are intothe raw foodism, raw foodism saved our lives. john: yeah viktoras: we were very sickly. and as a result,some of us don’t look as good. but that is not necessarily that you are sick. andbasically you get into this program, you’re going to be sickly all your life. that isnot the case. and so, i’ll give you an example, one of my very dearest cousin, she’s aboutmy age, she had at 60 breast cancer, got into
this lifestyle, she loved it, exercised likecrazy, did all the supplements and not too many, mostly enzymes and blue-green algaeand systemic enzymes, digestive, and you know, little green juices and some small meals.well, meditated, read heavy books to exercise her mind. well, in her, this time of age,she doesn’t go out with guys, they go out with her. in their 30s and 40s, guys are tryingto date her. now, you know, how many of the meat eating gals in their late 70s are gettinghit on by 30 year old guys? unless they’re billionaires of course. then so then theyshow off together. they’re not after your pants, they’re after your bucks. john: alright viktoras, that was an excellentanswer. thank you
john: today we’re with matt monarch. he’sbeen into a raw foods diet for the last 17 years and you can learn more about him andhis internet online super store at www.therawfoodworld.com . the question for matt today is, ‘why doraw foodists look unhealthy?’ matt: you think i look unhealthy? john: i’m just saying, why do raw foodistslook unhealthy? matt: you’re a raw foodist too john: i know matt: you look pretty healthy. john: i know, i would say so. but a lot ofnormal people think raw foodists are too skinny,
they look messed up, i mean, whatever matt: well, i mean, one reason i think thatcould be is because everyone in the planet today is overweight and obese, stuff likethat. so, when i went raw, people like who knew me before, when they saw me, they thoughti looked emaciated because they were used to the old me. but then i got this, like iwas walking the streets of new york in the beginning stages and this woman offered mea business card to see if i was interested in modeling. so it’s like, you know, what’sreally going on here. but also, you know, i mean, many raw foodists, maybe they’renot, i don’t want to say there’s a right or wrong way to do it, but maybe they’rejust not getting the nutrients they need,
you know. i’m, you know, a big proponentof vegetables juices and stuff like that. so, i think that’s pretty important. john: cool. so what do you guys think of theepisode? you guys made it to the end, you heard all the reasons of all my friends onwhy some raw foodists may look unhealthy. and i think they’re all valid. i actuallykind of liked dr rick dina’s answer the best. really polished. and now i’m going to go ahead and sharewith you guys my ideas on why some raw foodists look unhealthy. number one reason is because people are judgmental.and this is kind of unfortunate, you know.
i mean, i took a class in college, psychologyor whatever, and the teacher in the room, he had this cloud hanging from the ceilingwith a word on it. and the one word was judgement. and i never knew what that meant until oneday in his lesson plan he talked about suspending your judgement. because people are just sodamn judgmental. he’s too skinny, he’s too fat, he’s on a healthy diet but he doesn’tlook good, all kinds of crazy stuff. we’re just too judgmental. so i want to encourageyou guys to just relax on the judgments. and, you know, people, let people do whatever theywant to do, you know, as long as it’s not harming anybody and keep your judgments toyourself. i mean, the world will be a much better place if people were just nicer toeach other, right. and stop being so judgmental.
and just being living with love and compassion. so my second reason why some raw foodistsmay look unhealthy are what kind of, dr rick dina said is reference range. this is veryimportant. if 70% of americans who are, you know, standard american diet eaters and evensome vegans and vegetarians, are overweight or obese. then when you get somebody on theflip side, that’s maybe skinnier than normal but still in a healthy bmi, body mass index,they’re considered skinny and they’re considered unhealthy cause you don’t gotany meat on you, right. so, i mean, most people, in my opinion and according to the statistics,and the statistics don’t lie, 70% of americans are either overweight or obese. so tryingto compare somebody that’s, you know, actually
at a decent height, weight and thinness, andthinking they’re unhealthy just because they don’t weigh enough, that’s completelyfalse. so my third reason why some raw foodists maylook unhealthy is because most raw foodists just didn’t get a wild hair and decidedto eat raw foods one day, maybe a small percent of you guys watching did. but for the majorityof people into raw foods, that i have talked to personally, they got into it because ofa health crisis. they got into it because of their failing health, because what theywere doing, their diet and lifestyle, were not working for them. so they came to an unhealthyplace. and now they’re working their way out of the hole. so they’re already comingform being unhealthy. and just because you’ve
been on raw foods for a week doesn’t meanyour whole life is going to change, doesn’t mean you’re going to instantly look healthy.you know, for me on my journey, this is my 20th year doing this. i think i look prettyhealthy myself, but i know that i still have a ways to go. i mean, trying to undo damagefrom many years of maybe not doing the right thing doesn’t happen overnight. and everybodyis constantly working on their own journey in their own timeframe, right. so i want youguys to cut people a break because most people into raw foods actually came from a sick placedue to the standard diet. so my fourth reason why some raw foodistsmay look unhealthy is because not all raw food diets are created equal. you could bea raw junk foodist. you could buy packaged
raw foods out the store and gobble that downall day, you know. in my opinion, just doing that is not healthy. you could be a raw foodiststhat eats at gourmet raw food restaurants or just at raw food restaurants all the time.and, you know, you’re going to be healthier than maybe a standard american, but that’sstill not optimally healthy in my opinion. you know, most raw food restaurants have,you know, far too many nuts and seeds, oil and fats, and processed, and unauthorizedfoods, right. i mean, you could be a raw foodist who eats high fat, who eats low fat, who doesn’teat greens, who eats lot of greens, i mean, there’s so many different factors in rawfoods and not all the diets are created equal, you know. i mean, i found the diet that worksfor me that i like to advocate, which is,
you know, a mid fruit diet. so i’ll havelike, you know, moderate amounts of fruits but still lots of greens and some amountsof fat like lower, i like to consider myself low fat. and, you know, everybody needs tofind the specific raw food diet that works for them. and that’s super important, youknow. and i encourage you guys to experiment, and, you know, one of the things that i havecome to learn is that the higher quality food that you eat, the healthier you will be. andunfortunately if you’re just buying your food at the grocery store, you know, conventionalfood, even organic foods, it’s not as healthy as it can be, you know. people can surviveon that stuff. but if you truly want to thrive, i do encourage you guys to start growing yourown food.
so another reason, along with all raw fooddiets are not created equal, is that some raw food diet styles may encourage nutritionaldeficiencies, right. if you’re lacking eating certain foods, you might get nutritional deficiencies.many raw food diets, in my opinion, lack in vitamin b12. so you need to be taking a b12supplement in my opinion, and i do take a b12 supplement. also many raw food diets mightbe lacking in vitamin d if you’re not out in the sun and your body is mostly naked,you know, and if you live in, you know, near the equator you’d probably be getting enough.but if you live north or south of the equator, too far, you just might not be making enoughvitamin d. so nutritional deficiencies can play a role if you’re not taking, you know,nutritional supplements and/or green powders
and other things. and some people might notjust even believe in them because they want to eat whole foods dammit. alright. my fifth reason why some raw foodists maylook unhealthy is because raw foods is not the panacea, as dr sam said. food is onlyone component of the many components of health, right. we want to make sure we get fresh air.we want to make sure we get enough sleep. we want to make sure we stay properly hydrated.we want to make sure that we are in good state of mind and thinking positive thoughts andalways, you know, not a, not a, you know, whatever person that worries too much, right.we want to get enough exercise. we want to, you know, have a good emotional stable, andwe want to be in loving relationships, you
know, have some dogs, have some pets, youknow, touch them, it could make you feel better. i mean, so, so health encompasses a wholelisted view of many different things besides just the diet. and i’ve met plenty of rawfoodists, trust me, they may have the diet down but they’re missing a lot of theseother things, right. so, you want to really become holistic inyour approach and get enough sleep, drink enough water, you know, get enough exerciseand do the other things and all the other components of health, so that you can be trulyhealthy. because if you’re not, you might be a raw foodist who looks unhealthy. my sixth and final reason why some raw foodistsmay look unhealthy, in my opinion, are because
some people were just dealt bad genes, right.i mean, i’m sure you guys always know, specially you guys that eat junk food, i have my grandmaand my grandpa he’s 92 years old, he smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day and he drinkscoke and eats meat and does all this stuff, and he looks healthy. the other thing is,you know, you got to have a proper range of what healthy looks like at 92, in my opinion.but that’s the other thing, you know. some people just have rock solid genes, and nomatter what diet they, what they throw at them, you could look healthy. and, you know,some other people unfortunately, the have a bad set of genes, and no matter what youeat or what you do, you may not look at healthy as you could, just based on your genetics.i mean, in my opinion, you know, lot of the
gene pools that happen in these days, becausepeople have been living on, you know, a highly processed food diet and not traditional dietsfor several generations at this point, you know, things are creeping up, and the genesare kinda getting worse instead of getting better. so if you have good genes, more powerto you. and we need to bring the genes back in and bring healthy genes back in, the wayto do that, in my opinion, is by eating a healthy whole food, you know, vegetarian,vegan, plant based, you know, predominantly raw if not all raw, diet, right. so yeah,your genes may affect how you look. so, i mean, and there’s probably other waysthat i could get into, but these are just some of the top ways that i could think ofoff the top of my head to share with you guys.
and i want to encourage you guys, you know,if you are on this health journey and are a raw foodist who doesn’t look healthy,you know, please take some of the considerations that me and my friends talked about in toyour, you know, lifestyle and make adjustments and changes. as long as you’re breathing,it’s never too late to make changes. and that’s why i do these videos so that youguys could be healthier in the end than you were before watching my videos. because igive you guys a lot of information, access to a lot of different other people, my friendsthat have been doing this for a long time, besides just me, to give you guys ideas and,you know, create some motivation, which hopefully will cause some perspiration when you putsome of these ideas into action.
if you guys enjoyed this video format, heyplease give me a thumbs up to let me know. i’ll do more videos interviewing my friendson a variety of topics so that you guys can improve your raw foods lifestyle. also besure to subscribe right down below for future and upcoming episodes. i have a lot of episodesin the works and a lot of them are going to be really cool. and also be sure to checkmy past episodes. i have, you know, at least a dozen episodes now interviewing all my friendsin this style format where we go over a lot of the more controversial topics in raw foods.and for those of you guys that are watching and made it to the end that are not into rawfoods and, you know, kind of thinking that all raw foodists look unhealthy, well we don’tall look unhealthy, you know. there’s many
different, you know, factors that may playinto consideration for health, and just because you’re raw doesn’t mean you got all yourshit worked out, right. and so, hopefully after, you know, people that are doing itlonger, got more of their stuff worked out than somebody just doing it two weeks. sothat’s what i like to think about. and i always want to encourage you guys to improve.even if you’re eating a standard american diet now, you could always eat more fruitsand vegetables, more plant foods, decrease the amount of processed foods, junk foods,low nutritional content foods, as well as the animal products, you know. and you couldstart looking healthier today. and a matter of fact, you know, one of the things they’vedone studies on and that proves eating more
fresh fruits and vegetables will cause youto get this raw glow that actually will have you look more attractive. so if you don’thave that raw glow or look healthy, maybe you’re just simply not eating enough fruitsand vegetables. with that, this is john kohler with okraw.com . we’ll see you next time,and until then remember- keep eating your fresh fruits and vegetables, they’re alwaysthe best.