Dr. Doug Graham - Author of the 80-10-10 Diet
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Raw Food Diet - Dr. Doug Graham Discusses the Common Issues and How to Succeed with Raw Food
In this excerpt, Dr. Doug Graham discusses some of the common issues with the raw food diet and how he brought a 36 year old NBA basketball player to the top of his game. This is an excerpt from Dr. Doug Graham's interview for the Raw Summit, a complete interview encyclopedia of cutting edge living and raw food knowledge. You can find the complete transcripts and audios at www.RawSummitArchives.com. Raw Food World Summit Interview Excerpt with Dr. Doug Graham, creator of the 80-10-10 Diet Kevin Gianni: Hi everyone! This is Kevin Gianni, optimal health expert, and I'd like to welcome you to another very special Raw Summit Teleseminar, which can be found online at www.RawSummitArchives.com. The purpose of the raw summit is to pass along cutting edge information about raw and living food technology for you to reach optimal health, wellness, and success. Today, I have a fantastic guest on the line. He is an author, a lifetime athlete, and a 27-year raw fooder. He has also been an adviser to world-class athletes and trainers from all around the globe. He has worked professionally with top performers in almost every sport and every field of entertainment including notables such as tennis legend Martina Navratilova, Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Mark Victor Hansen, and actress Demi Moore. Today, we are going to talk about the new distinctions he has made about the raw food lifestyles. So, Dr. Doug Graham, I want to welcome you to the Raw Summit. Doug Graham: Thank you! Thank you, Kevin. It is a pleasure to be here with you. Kevin: Great! So, why don't we get into it and let's start with a little bit of a landscape of your history and why you are here now. Doug: You know I always find this a funny question and I know people are fascinated and it's one of the most boring parts for me. It's a funny world isn't it? You never know exactly what it is that is going to be meaningful to somebody else. I was a sick child. I was physically sick, I was an athlete, but I went every week to the allergy doctor for years and years for "shots". I had every childhood disease at a very early age and I was a sick child. I never left the house without a pack of tissues in my pocket. It never occurred to me that I was a sick child because I was an athlete. But I was always looking for a way to improve my athletic performance, it just seemed there must be an edge I could gain over the competition, somehow. So, I started looking into food at a fairly early age. My family was very open- minded about food and we went on many diet because my mother especially, was trying to control her weight. Whatever diet she went on, the family went on. Eventually, she discovered Weight Watchers and succeeded with that. The whole family went on Weight Watchers and I was just still approaching my teens. By my mid-teens I was making wholesale dietary changes, to attempt to eat more healthfully. I had coaches in grammar school, health classes, and high school health classes telling me to eat my fruits and vegetables. I was a health and Phys Ed major in college and the teachers all touted the health benefits of fruits and vegetables. And by the time I was in college, I was eating as a vegetarian and noticed small improvements. After a few years of vegetarian, eventually the concept of vegan came to me. I was exposed to it. Before the internet, you know, these things came a little more slowly that they do now. Kevin: Absolutely Doug: So, I did the vegan experiment and literally decided I would try it for a month to see if I liked it and I tried it for a month and at the end of 2 weeks, the changes were so profound. I could breathe better, I could run better. I found myself thinking more clearly. I was sleeping less and having more energy. And you know what? At the end of two weeks I was sold for life right then and there. Well vegan did not last long. To be quite honest, every time I thought I had arrived, it was a shock because it wasn't where I was going. There was more. I bumped into a gentleman and I still stay in touch with him, who started explaining to me some of the benefits of raw food. And although I swore up and down that he was an absolute nutcase at the time, you know, you know you cannot get the thought out of your head once it is in. Kevin: That is the truth. Doug: I started eating more raw, and more raw and more raw. By the late seventies, I was eating a high percentage of raw diet which essentially was the raw diet back then and I got in touch with the various people who were promoting raw food. At the time, there were really only five major leaders in the raw movement and I contacted them and asked them about it, and all of them said the same thing about it. They said, look, we know how to get sick people well but helping athletes perform is really not our thing. So, it was reinvent the wheel, and reinvent the wheel over and over again. And I went through what maybe the world's slowest transition into the raw food diet. Because I did not want to go there, it was just the results were inarguable. I did not want to go there. I like all my food and it took me a long time to realize that essentially, I'm in a relationship with food. And that what ended up happening was that I loved all food, but all food did not love me back. And I much prefer to be in relationships with people who love me as much as I love them. Those are the most rewarding relationships. And so, gradually, I came to the realization that I was going to have to make some decisions about my food based on how much the food loved me. How did it make me feel? Did I want to wake up the next morning feeling like I have been in a train wreck? Did I want to ache in my joints, or be congested in my head? Or did I just want to feel fantastic all the time. Eventually, I committed to what was called an all-raw diet and failed miserably for seven years on the all-raw diet. Kevin: Really?
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