Wed, Jul-16-08, 08:53
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,160
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Plan: Weston A. Price, GFCF
Stats: 165/133/132
BF:?/12.7%/?
Progress: 97%
Location: Philadelphia
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When I started eating more raw meat, I made myself some "Laab Isaan" - a recipe in Nourishing Traditions. It's a (Vietmanese?) dish that involves raw ground beef, hot peppers, scallions, cilantro, lemon juice and fish sauce. I got pretty bad diarrhea after that. Someone suggested that my calcium intake was too low - calcium helps you digest meat, I believe.
Since then I've been careful to get more calcium - lots of bone broth, eating chicken bones occasionally, thoroughly cooking greens and draining the water, and getting more of the calcium-absorption helpers - Vitamin C (sauerkraut and kimchi are great sources), saturated fat and Vitamin D. I don't know what it is exactly, but now I can eat raw hamburger with impunity. I try to limit the hot peppers, though, and only eat them when they're fermented. Sometimes I get constipated, but increasing my fat intake usually helps with that.
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