Kevin: So, Dr. Doug Graham. I would like to welcome you.
Dr. Graham: Thank you. It 's a pleasure. Truly a pleasure.
Kevin: If you can not know exactly who she is, probably, very few, why not just go a short presentation of who you are and where we came from.
Dr. Graham: I'm Dr. Doug Graham. They are basically Doug Graham. I have a health lover for 40 years. Not by choice at first, but I was on a firmStage on the beach on day one, I was 16 years and is the concept of my health so much that I could not deny. I've tried. I tried to ignore. I stood on the pier for an hour, and I'm not saying that God has spoken to me or something, but could not the concept of my head that had to be the health of my pursuit. I had to decide a type of medicine, which eventually made to pursue chiropractic, and then eventually got my doctorate and hygienistsan occupational hygienist. So I am a doctor of health and a doctor of chiropractic.
I have my degree in sports science, physical education and health and nutrition. I worked as a gymnast for many, many years, both high school and college, teaching gymnastics and then as a professional coach in gymnastics and trampoline. I trained a number of national champions in the trampoline.
While I go out of chiropractic college in 1983 I worked to help peoplerestored to health, do not really pay that much attention had to chiropractic, although I have a private practice for 20 years. I have my training in nutrition, I was interested in the Class 7 when my health teacher in the 7th class just caught my ad. I really do not know why he did it, but it did. And since then I have only pursued the diet.
So I went to college vegetarian, vegan, and left shortly after college, when I was in my mid 20sswitch, which is now being considered a raw diet. We do not really have that name for them at that time. But by the time I was 30 I was already looking for an all raw vegan and talked to all leaders on how to do it, all five of them. It pursued them, and she said. "We know nothing about being a vegan athlete, we know how to help patients heal." I said, 'Yeah, I figured out how to do that too. Limit your intake of calories and plenty of rest and theirSick people get it. But how can athletes improve their performance? "And I asked around and finally, the only answer I are congruent, and the only logical answer I got was," raw foods, raw foods, raw foods. Watch raw foods. You will see a performance improvement athletic. "
I followed the sports science behind it, has found that when the president and began principles, nutrition and sports science at the end raw vegan diet onon 80/10/10 in 1986, but not really characterize the expression, almost 15 years later. It 'was during this period that I understand the declaration began on the development and application of terminology, so I have a clear program, enough people would know why this particular application of the work of some raw foods' old gentleman so well, the world class athletes , people trying to recover his health, persons with any health condition, people who are already healthy, butwant to feel better? Why does it take to operate at a calorie intake? And most of all because it is a kind of special diet, which is good for our species, and therefore just as clearly and individually for each person, because we all have preferences.
So it's a growth process, a whole growth process, a learning process. I did it with the sickest of the sick fun, and well east of the shaft, the strongest form, and help them improve. In essence, whatWhat I do is help people improve their health so they can do what they do otherwise at a higher level.
Kevin. So let's start right. There is much to cover. I want to start learning. Who are you to learn more? And you also mentioned the first off-camera that the first new food movement is far from that in reality is much bigger than it is now. And so, explain that and explain that you learned from it and then summed up as what you have learned whatThey have now.
Dr. Graham: It 's a good question. I believe in mentoring. They are at the foot of some of the great masters of the world of health, hygiene, sports science knows I am fortunate to have good teachers in the raw food movement, but also natural. I count as my friends all leaders and learn a lot from each of them as I can. But they are also more than willing to go back in time to read. I was with a gift, an avid reader and an increase ratherfast reader, I can cover a wide field. So I away food back in the welcome letter, with regard to the science of raw food, raw food philosophy and the art of Raw. And I would count all the early writers, at least, teachers in some degree. I sat at the feet of Dr. Keki Sidhwa for quite a long time and had to explain to me, part of the history of the movement first. He is now involved in almost 60 years, very quietly, over in England. And certainlyfelt tremendous amount of great influence, Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano, whose specialty is cell physiology, but also because 20 years, a crude Fooder for 20 years, almost 80, and are counted as a good friend. But I have so much I can, really studied over the years and reading, just learn again and again and enjoy the fact that the results keep coming.
Yes, the first movement is much larger than 100 years ago than today. It 'came and went in a flash, if the "germs" wordwas introduced. And the doctors were able to scare the population of raw food and says "everything. Cook Cook your tomatoes before you eat, you cook your apples before eating bacteria .." And it's interesting that people fall for something like this when they know full well that he would never, ever eat a tomato that was ugly when she was raw. You can feel it. If you touch and feel bad, and smells and stinks, and when it comesHistorically, these indications will look before you eat and hopefully you will see that it is in color or texture or something. But even if you pass this and you do it in your mouth, spit it properly and go, 'Oh, this is bad. "But when we cook tomatoes, and put the bad tomatoes in tomato sauce, and put it on something else, you must eat very probably wrong. It is here that he comes to the expression". It must have been something I ate "While inThey eat whole, fresh, ripe, organic plant materials, just as they came from the tree of life or bad food or bush not get the information past those first. So do you really need to have need of food, the same concern about germs, that when you cook, you cook dinner. You can bad food, and present it as if it was good.
