water

Question
How much water do you drink?  and what kind?
I could not move my bowels good till I drank 2 glasses of wAter on an empty stomach this morning.
but I have been using up my raw butter, raw cream, raw cheese, fruit, vegetable juices and tuna.  I do not like the taste of tuna and salmon.
I can not get organic innards but will go to the meat market and get a marrow bone, pork kidney, heart till I find the oganic and a sauce.
Adele Walsh


Answer
I drink (on average) 1 litre and a half of mineral-water a day, more than I used to. When possible, I try to get hold of alkaline-mineral-water from pure natural springs(in my case that would mean a preferred PH value of c.7.4 to 8.4) but this isn't always possible, due to location etc. This sort of mineral-water is most like the water from streams/rivers etc. that our Palaeo ancestors would usually drink from.  I avoid drinking tap-water, when possible(except when abroad in rural areas where drinking-water is of much higher quality than in London)- this is because drinking tapwater, for some reason or other, seems to lower my appetite to a great extent.

Re dairy:- You may well be do perfectly fine with dairy. I should mention though that some RPDers have experienced constipation from raw dairy, raw cheese being the most common instigator of constipation re dairy products. Just a thought.

Re organic innards:- There are plenty of organic-food/grassfed-meat  directories for most countries, where you can order organic/grassfed organ-meats from various farms which have their contact-details listed therein - just search on those websites under your State's name/local area/postcode/zipcode  etc.. In the US, there's www.eatwild.com among a dozen others. If you are concerned re the cost of food delivered in this way, then here's a yahoo group re food for pets:-

http://tinyurl.com/2567wu


The food on offer from the above (American)website's, unsurprisingly, a lot cheaper than elsewhere, and a few raw-animal-foodists have used that group to find various local sources of "naturally-reared" meats and organ-meats which, while not organic, are of high enough quality - generally speaking, organ-meats from intensively-farmed animals are usually not recommended on a raw-animal-food diet, if other alternatives are available - Aajonus, at least, claims that toxins tend to get concentrated in the organ-meats - this would not be an issue with a healthy, organic-raised grassfed animal, of course.

Re taste:- It's always a good idea to keep looking around for new varieties of raw food, so as to stimulate those taste-buds - after all,it's always easier to carry on with a diet if you happen to like several of the foods in it. For example, early on in the diet, I hated the taste of raw chicken eggs(indeed, I still find them to be rather bland), but I looked around and (eventually) found, on occasion, things like raw duck/quail/goose eggs - similiarly, at first, I wasn't too keen on raw, ground beef so I would either eat it together with some raw egg(as steak-tartare) or I would go looking for unusual alternatives like goat-meat which, it turned out, I liked from the start, etc.



Geoff

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