parasites

Question
What can I do to insure that any raw animal products (meats in particular) will not contain parasites. I have very compromised intestinal immunity, but need a raw diet that includes animal products to deal with health issues. I did not do well on a raw vegan diet alone, since I cannot digest nuts and fruits give me candida. Thanks!

Answer
Well, according to Sally Fallon, freezing all your meats for 14 days before eating them will do the trick re killing all parasites. I haven't come across any other ideas re preventing parasites, other than cooking, of course. There are, of course, a multitude of anti-parasite drugs easily obtainable from any local pharmacy, in the extreme unlikelihood that you ever got a parasite.

We RVAFers are highly sceptical, though, of the usual scares re bacteria/parasites, given all our experiences over the long-term. We are more believers in the Hygiene Hypothesis theory, which claims that bacteria/parasites are actually beneficial to human health:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis


HTH,

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