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THE EXPERIENCE OF GABRIELA CRIADA AS CRUDIVEGANA
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Hello Gabriela. Thank you very much for joining me today.
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I'm really happy to be here.
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All right.
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We are here at the "Fruit Festival in Woodstock"
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And Gabriela and I, we were chatting about how she was raised as a raw vegan
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(both she and her brother)
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I thought that this would be a great opportunity to ...
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... share this experience with all of you
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to show you that this is the result of ...
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... someone who was raised as a raw vegan.
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Do you think you could tell me a bit about your experience?
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Yes, I was raised as a vegan.
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My mother is Karen Ranzi, author of two books on raw food,
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"Creating healthy children" and "Super fun recipes for the family"
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Actually, I do not remember that well.
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I should check that.
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And then, my mother got into veganism,
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and I had been investigating since before I was born.
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And then, I was a vegan maid until I was five,
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and then, about five years old, my mother became interested in raw food.
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Then, we changed our diet,
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and really, it was part of his personal path to health.
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And he converted us to our whole family ...
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... to be crudi. Then my brother, she and I became crudi.
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Then, from five to eight or twelve, I ate almost 100% raw.
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It was, really, a great moment of my life.
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In truth, I did not question anything,
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I only ate what my mother gave me.
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And I enjoyed it!
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And then when I was twelve and thirteen,
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I began to be very interested in what other people ate.
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You know, I was subjected to the pressure of wanting to fit in with my friends.
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And I started to explore a little more.
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We were educated at home,
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so I was not really exposed to the conventional ...
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... from an early age, and what everyone ate.
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Most of our friends were health conscious
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and half that respected that we ate raw food and vegetables,
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and they supported that.
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So, it was quite easy until then.
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But then, when I started moving in the world more for myself,
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I started to be exposed to all these different colors, flavors, textures ...
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Yes.
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... and everything that others ate, I really wanted to try everything.
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I could see the faces of my mother when I said "what is that? I want a little".
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And she was like thinking "I do not know if I should say no, or it's okay" ...
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Yes, because you were already a certain age ...
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... "or just this one"
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So, it's a kind of experimental moment, and ...
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... and I had to see my mother, a bit like I hated going back a little,
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and allow me to explore and experience
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and only see for myself how those foods made my body feel.
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When he grows up and starts making his own conscious choices,
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and want to explore, we should not ... (thinking about my son, it's my perspective)
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... it will be much healthier, like posture, to allow him to explore for himself.
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So you can go back to that on your own and not feel forced.
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Yes.
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Especially at that age.
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Because if your mother does not allow you to explore, she will feel really forced.
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I feel like I could rebel so much that I could never come back.
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Yes, definitely.
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Definitely, you can say, "no, no, no", up to a certain point,
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but your son is his own individual.
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And I had to see for myself
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and come to my own conclusions about how my body felt
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eating those meals.
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And then, as I grew up, I started to manage ...
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... and I simply rejected everything my mother said.
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I was like that teenage rebellion ...
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Yes.
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You know, beyond eating raw food or not,
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like many adolescent rebellions.
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To a certain extent to say "outside mom".
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Yes, "let me do what I want".
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And I went through that, I wanted to fit in with my friends,
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I started eating pizza, ice cream, I started eating lots of dairy ...
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One thing I should say about my mother, that I did not always appreciate at all,
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but now, looking back, it's that he kept his house vegan.
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She could not control what I ate when I was away,
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but she maintained the position of "our house is a vegan house".
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So, although at that time I was eating other things outside the house,
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whenever I was at home, she could still give me salads and fruits
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and that kind of thing.
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And it did not happen until I went to college
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That really was worth to me.
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"Well, I'm not in my mother's house anymore,"
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"I completely use my means"
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and "I'm with all these other guys",
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They were also in the same situation for the first time.
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And all the dietary decisions they were making.
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And then, I did what many of my friends did,
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I took alcohol, I smoked, and ...
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... and I ordered greasy Chinese food at dawn, like everyone else.
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And that's when I really noticed that my health was declining for the first time in my life.
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I believe that before, when I was twelve or thirteen, I did not feel it too much,
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because if I needed a pizza or something, the next day ...
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... I would not feel it, my body was young enough.
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I think ... And then, when I went to college,
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It was that unhealthy lifestyle day, day after day, day after day.
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Sure, because you were not going to mom's to eat healthy food ...
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Not quite.
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... as you did before.
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Before, it did not matter because I got up and my mother made me a green shake.
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Even though I did not always want it.
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And that's when I really made the connection by myself
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that you really are what you eat,
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and that how good you feel is going to depend on the food you put in your body.
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And in those moments I felt very grateful to have the base I had,
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and to know what I had to do to help me.
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Yes, I was just going to ask you if you're happy that your mother ...
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... if you're happy now that your mother raised you like a raw vegan,
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since you have gone through different stages and you could think "oh, mother".
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Yes.
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But now, how do you feel about it?
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I'm very grateful, now.
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You know, because I know how I felt eating that way.
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That's a gift, and I had it easy,
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Know what it feels like to eat clean at a young age.
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And not everyone has that.
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Children who are raised on a standard American diet,
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and then they are inclined to eat raw,
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That may be the first time in their lives that they feel that way.
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But I knew before how I could feel.
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Then I knew I wanted to go back to that,
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and in fact I had the tools to get back to that.
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I knew exactly what to do.
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And that's when I became vegan again ...
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You were also talking about not having emotional ties to unhealthy food
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that most of us have, because of the way we were raised.
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Totally. Yes, that's another thing that I'm super grateful for.
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I do not have that thing of
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"I'm sad, and depressed ... I need my plate of macaroni and cheese."
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Yes!
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I really do not have that.
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Whenever I'm like "down",
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I think "I have to go eat more fruit".
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Yes, really!
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Because I know that's what's going to make me feel better.
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Yes, and it's so amazing how happy your mother is that you and your brother
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have left ...
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Then, your brother eats according to the 80/10/10 diet again.
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And you keep yourself in a vegan lifestyle including lots of fruit.
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Is it like that?
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Yes, that is, mostly as the 80/10/10 diet and sometimes, in the winter,
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and I'm with my friends, I cook vegetable soup ...
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Yes Yes.
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...or something like that.
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Then, a vegan diet low in fat, almost raw.
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For you and your brother.
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And that is amazing.
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Yes.
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It is very good for me to experience talking with someone who was raised
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with a raw vegan diet,
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to then know more or less, not exactly what to expect, but have ideas
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and get into what to do when I grow up ... and I feel that it will come naturally
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once I realize that a certain age has arrived
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and some consciousness ... that if you ask for a certain food,
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it may be better to let him experience it.
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Definitely.
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And so simply he can eat his raw food by his own choice.
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He can return as you do now ...
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Exactly...
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... to your own choice that is not forced.
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... of course, it's not "because my mom says it, I eat it raw",
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but really I believe in that and I own my decision.
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And I think that kids have to go through "who am I?", "What do I eat?",
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"What makes me feel good?" They have to go through that process
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to learn for themselves.
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Clear.
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With mom outside the scene for a while.
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And people have it in different ways. Some people never went out,
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and they just know, "this is what I want" ...
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Like "Capi", without going any further.
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Yes, totally.
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He is incredible.
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Yes, he is amazing.
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It is in his position "I know that this is the right thing"
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and it remains firm.
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And there are other children who ...
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It is very good for them to step aside and experiment for themselves.
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I know, I can see ...
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... and I'm sure everyone will have noticed the same,
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that as parents it is very difficult to let go and see that.
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But we have to trust that we have given our children
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the best foundations we can.
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Right, that's all we can do.
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Everything you can do
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We simply give them a good foundation while we let them grow
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and then, we have to release them when the time comes.
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Yes, and...
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They are independent beings.
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... giving them all the information and all the knowledge ...
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... so they can make their own decisions.
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Yes, exactly.
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What's really important are the fundamentals,
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the basis that we give them to start with.
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In fact, you and Elvis had prolonged breastfeeding
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and they were fed such healthy food that their immune systems
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They were very healthy from the beginning, what a blessing.
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And it also has impact at a very deep level.
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As my mother wrote in her book "Creating healthy children",
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"What a woman eats when she's pregnant, it's called 'impression'",
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then, the child is "imprinted" a trace.
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And if the boy is eating fruits and vegetables,
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that is what you will naturally crave.
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But if mom is eating large amounts of food
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Unhealthy during pregnancy, that's what the child will want.
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And it's the same with drugs and alcohol.
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It is seen that children are more likely to be addicted
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if the mother behaved that way during pregnancy.
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Yes, totally.
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And that's right, that makes a big difference.
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And I think that that can give mothers a lot of hope
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in case your children move away, because if that was the basis they learned,
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there is where they will return.
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Because that's what they know, it's what they were raised,
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and where their beliefs and values come from.
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Because this is not just a diet ...
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It's just what I was going to say, it's much more than food.
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It's about respecting our children as individuals and ...
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... out of respect, I am giving you the healthiest food that respects your body.
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Well, thank you very much for chatting with me.
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Yes, thank you very much.
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I appreciate it a lot.
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It was a pleasure to meet you and your beautiful son.
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Thank you.
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Well, I'll let you go for your massage.
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The massage tent is here,
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at the "Fruit Festival in Woodstock".
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Good. Thank you. What is your dog's name?
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My dog's name is "Osha".
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Hi, "Osha."
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