Interview with David Wolfe, co-author of Nature’s First Law: The Raw Food Diet
by Bob Avery (www.living-foods.com the largest community on the net dedicated to educating the world about the power of living and raw foods)
Q: Who is David Wolfe? How old are you? How were you educated and what do you do for a living?
A: I am co-author of the controversial new book Nature’s First Law: The Raw-Food Diet. I have also recorded an audio cassette series entitled “The Systemless System Of Success.” I have been around the Sun 27 times! I have degrees in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering and Political Science. I have studied at many different institutions including Oxford University. I concluded my formal education with a law degree from the University of San Diego. I am co-founder of Nature’s First Law, a raw-food organization based in San Diego that hosts events and distributes an enormous selection of Raw-Food Diet books, videos, and audio tapes worldwide. I co-founded the group three years ago with my partners Stephen Arlin and RC Dini. Our goal is to bring The Raw-Food Diet to a mass audience. We are currently engaged in a massive multi-media campaign to bring this message to the world. We can be reached in the United States at 1-800-205-2350. I host seminars around the country and my goal is to become the greatest promoter of The Raw Food Diet in the history of the world.
Q: Do you eat 100% raw foods?
A: I’ve been eating 100% raw plant foods exclusively for about 3 years now. There is magic to a 100% raw diet that is indescribable. Everything keeps getting better; my life has improved in every way and in every direction many times over. Raw food is FUN! Cooked food is dead, lifeless, and boring. No amount of cooked food is ever benign. Nietzsche said, “God is dead.” We say, “Cooked food is poison!”
Q: What inspired you to become a raw-foodist?
A: A 100% Raw-Food Diet is the greatest secret in the world today. What we eat deeply and radically affects the way we think, feel, and behave. It radically affects the entire life process of planet Earth. 90% of the Earth’s abundance is being burned up in the kitchen fire. Ann Wigmore did a study which demonstrated that 83% of the food’s nutritional value is lost in the process of cooking. That means that 83% of the TIME, LABOR, and RESOURCES that went into creating that food are destroyed by cooking. This idea affects everything! It affects all agriculture, all politics, all business, all economics, all over the world! The global impact of humanity’s eating habits prompted me to dedicate myself to this message of physical and planetary rejuvenation. A 100% raw plant food diet IS the greatest discovery in the history of the world. It is THE path that will lead humanity out of the present chaos into a bountiful future.
I have always been health conscious, being the son of two medical doctors. I saw ill people my whole life and naturally wanted to avoid going down the same path. So, I stopped taking medicine at 10 years old against my parents’ wishes, and stopped dairy products at 19. Then I gradually cut out the dead animal muscle (meat) and was a vegan for a time, until exposed to the raw-food idea by reading Bircher-Benner’s Nutritional Diseases that was in our home library. After that, I became a raw-foodist overnight.
Q: What is your current height and weight? What changes have you noticed, both subjectively and objectively, pro and con, since before you went raw? Can you give us any data on personal biomarkers, like pulse rate, body temperature, vital lung capacity, various blood parameters pre- and post-raw?
A: I am 6 feet tall, 155 pounds. The changes I’ve noticed are so intriguing, it’s tough to put into words! The only way I can describe it is that a 100% raw plant food diet liberates your natural self, mentally, emotional, spiritually, AND physically. I don’t look anything like I used to. I definitely understand now how cooked food blocks natural beauty and hinders the true manifestation of what we can be. I can’t say there are any cons to what I have experienced. In terms of biomarkers: I’ve always had low blood pressure which hasn’t changed from before raw to after raw. My body temperature is about 1.8 degrees lower than it used to be! My vital lung capacity has increased dramatically. I really agree with Joe Alexander when he mentions in his book Blatant Raw-Foodist Propaganda that the lungs and digestive organs work in a tandem sort of way. When one is overburdened the other is not able to function properly. I have been doing at least 30 deep breaths every day for about 6 years now and I discovered one day after doing 100% raw-food for a few years, that I was suddenly a diaphragm breather–I had such a tough time with chest breathing and the problem just one day disappeared. I went to have my blood viewed under a microscope/television setup a few months ago, and the guy could not get a sample of blood to drip from my finger.
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