I was reading an interview with David Wolfe on fredericpatenaude.com and came across this info...thought it may be of help to someone here.
Raw vegan pregnancy
We have had many reports of women experiencing difficulties maintaining a raw vegan diet during pregnancy — as well as raising health children that way. Any comments on that? In your opinion, what would be the ideal nutrition for pregnant women and young children?
There are a lot of important nutritional qualities that need to be looked at during pregnancy. One is that you can’t just go on fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds and get through a pregnancy in a really proper way, in nearly all cases. But then, of course, there are some people who can, because their reserves are higher, or they produce more long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, or whatever metabolic reason. What we’ve got to look at more is the super-food category and experience, by the mother, before pregnancy with the entire spectrum of raw plant foods available.
When a woman gets pregnant, her body is going to go back to what she’s familiar when, to what’s known to her. For example, if a woman has been a raw-foodist for a year and only done a very limited thing, maybe a natural hygiene kind of raw-food diet, then if she gets pregnant she could get all these crazy cravings for all this exotic kind of stuff and old foods. That may be an uncontrollable thing because her body doesn’t have enough nutrition in that type of diet to actually carry a pregnancy all the way through. What would we do then? Well, we look at some of the super-foods, we look at long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, which is found in fish. Now where does the fish get it from? It gets it from algae. Well, you can grow algae that contains long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, and dry it and press the oil out of it, and get that pure, long-chain omega-3 fatty acid. I recommend that for pregnancy. That’s the main cause of post-partum depression — having all the omega-3 sucked out of the mother.
Of course you’ve got to look at highly-mineralized diet. 92-minerals wheatgrass is a technology that we have now, where you can grow wheatgrass with diluted ocean water, and that grass pulls in all minerals. And when you have that kind of thing, you have a complete mineral complement every single day. That’s a very powerful technology for a pregnancy, because in pregnancy there may be a specific desire for a certain mineral that might not be present in a standard, kind of raw vegan, natural hygiene diet, but could be in a 92-mineral wheatgrass drink. There are all kinds of things that are becoming available to us now that make it possible to work.
Actually, I’ve seen many successful raw pregnancies. But I don’t see many natural-hygiene raw vegan pregnancies, or when I do, the woman is very depleted from the whole situation when the baby is born or when the baby starts to be breast-fed.
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/interview-wolfe.html
Raw vegan pregnancy
We have had many reports of women experiencing difficulties maintaining a raw vegan diet during pregnancy — as well as raising health children that way. Any comments on that? In your opinion, what would be the ideal nutrition for pregnant women and young children?
There are a lot of important nutritional qualities that need to be looked at during pregnancy. One is that you can’t just go on fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds and get through a pregnancy in a really proper way, in nearly all cases. But then, of course, there are some people who can, because their reserves are higher, or they produce more long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, or whatever metabolic reason. What we’ve got to look at more is the super-food category and experience, by the mother, before pregnancy with the entire spectrum of raw plant foods available.
When a woman gets pregnant, her body is going to go back to what she’s familiar when, to what’s known to her. For example, if a woman has been a raw-foodist for a year and only done a very limited thing, maybe a natural hygiene kind of raw-food diet, then if she gets pregnant she could get all these crazy cravings for all this exotic kind of stuff and old foods. That may be an uncontrollable thing because her body doesn’t have enough nutrition in that type of diet to actually carry a pregnancy all the way through. What would we do then? Well, we look at some of the super-foods, we look at long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, which is found in fish. Now where does the fish get it from? It gets it from algae. Well, you can grow algae that contains long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, and dry it and press the oil out of it, and get that pure, long-chain omega-3 fatty acid. I recommend that for pregnancy. That’s the main cause of post-partum depression — having all the omega-3 sucked out of the mother.
Of course you’ve got to look at highly-mineralized diet. 92-minerals wheatgrass is a technology that we have now, where you can grow wheatgrass with diluted ocean water, and that grass pulls in all minerals. And when you have that kind of thing, you have a complete mineral complement every single day. That’s a very powerful technology for a pregnancy, because in pregnancy there may be a specific desire for a certain mineral that might not be present in a standard, kind of raw vegan, natural hygiene diet, but could be in a 92-mineral wheatgrass drink. There are all kinds of things that are becoming available to us now that make it possible to work.
Actually, I’ve seen many successful raw pregnancies. But I don’t see many natural-hygiene raw vegan pregnancies, or when I do, the woman is very depleted from the whole situation when the baby is born or when the baby starts to be breast-fed.
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/interview-wolfe.html
