We recently posted about the appearance of Dr. Oz on Oprah.
The comments and emails have been coming in, as people are excited about raw food appearing on national television. OK, so it wasn't quite blatant raw foodist propaganda, but they did talk about raw fruits and vegetables. Most importantly Dr. Oz and Oprah talked about how significant a change in cholesterol can be made by eating raw fruits and vegetables.
During the show, Dr. Oz showed clips of a group of individuals who recently spent 12 days inside a British zoo, eating 11 pounds a day full of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. The purpose of the experiment was to determine if eating fresh, unprocessed raw food could give health benefits to people, especially when it comes to lowering cholesterol.
That part of the Oprah show was so interesting, we went searching on the Internet to find that video clip, and found that this experiment was broadcast on the BBC on a show called The Truth About Food.
One of the main questions we have received was regarding the specifics of the diet used in this experiment.
What did they actually eat?
We do not know what was the exact daily menu, and we do not know the specific amounts of each type of food. Gathered from the video, and from this screen capture, but this is our best estimate of what they ate:
- During the video the narrator mentions that each individual ate 11 pounds of raw fruits and vegetables a day.
- One of the participants previously had a high salt intake in their foods, and was given one raw, brine cured olive a day.
- According to the image above, there is a wide variety of produce.
Here is a list of fruits, vegetables, and nuts that we noticed during the video: - one ripe melon
- 6-7 carrots with tops (did they eat the carrot greens we do not know)
- green peppers
- 1 cup of mushrooms
- 3 stalks of broccoli
- 1 pint of raspberries
- 2 bananas
- 1 cucumber
- 1 cup of radishes
- 2 cups of strawberries
- and about one handful of various nuts.
- At one part of the video they appear to be eating about 3-4 cups of cilantro/coriander.
If you want to find out more about this show, you can contact the BBC directly by clicking here. We emailed the BBC, but we did not hear back from them.
Simply go over to the Truth About Food's website and you can watch the entire video!
Watch the entire "Primitive" Diet Experiment video
~ Heidi and Justin S.
P.S. Want more Truth About Food videos? Watch more clips here!
4 comments:
hi there! Nice blog! My friend told me about this show and what eating raw does for you, I missed it as well but have done ALOT of research on eating raw since then, and now I have decided to go completely raw vegan. :)
I am trying to keep everything simple right now with what I eat, and then once I get a food proccessor and learn more from the cook book I just got,rawvolution, i'll start messing around, do you know any simple breakfast, lunch, dinner menus? Let me know if you do, i'd love some advice!! Thank you :)
Hi! You can view these shows on the Discovery Health network. At least they have the same titles as the BBC episodes.
http://health.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=62.14514.115588.29953.1
I've got them on my DVR but haven't had a chance to view them yet. I'm looking forward to it. :)
Hey, I posted this same video last week! ;) The results are impressive, and the light-hearted format is just right for sharing with questioning friends and family.
Hi - there wa a lot more stuff about this on the bbc when they originally broadcast it :-)
The one olive a day was what everyone in the experiement got - it was the amount of salt that they actually needed :-) The diet was about a third leafy greens, and a quarter fruit, with the rest from across the vegetable and seed/nut range. They didn't supplement with anything (inc. B12) as it was for a short duration, but the nutritionist who designed the diet had made sure that as long as they ate everything they were given they would be eating a perfectly balanced diet (and even when so far as to mention the ticks and insects that a primate would eat and how *that* and any dirt eaten would be how they got their b12.
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