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[45] NHS health products AUTUMN 2017 True Natural Health | P1 Interview with ‘Raw Aussie Athlete’ Grant Campbell BY ROGER FRENCH Grant Campbell calls himself the ‘Raw the 100 km ‘Oxfam Trailwalker Sydney’. I phenomenal feats of endurance? Aussie Athlete’. Born in Orange NSW, he was delighted to finish, but found myself GRANT: All my runs are fuelled by fruit now lives on the Central Coast of NSW. unable to run for a full week afterwards – alone, which also provides much of my feeling extremely stiff, sore and ‘broken’. Grant’s outstanding and inspiring water. achievement is that he has become an ROGER: What prompted your second big In the Great North Walk race, I consumed accomplished ultra-marathon runner, change, going all raw? despite struggling with even short runs over 14,500 calories by eating 17 kg of before changing to a plant-only diet. His GRANT: After six years on a plant-only mangoes, 50 dates and 2 heads of celery, physical capability jumped dramatically diet, I made a decision to go all-raw, having spread over the duration of the race. when he advanced to all-raw eating. studied the work of Dr Douglas Graham, On a normal day I eat around 3,500 calories author of The 80/10/10 Diet, which simply in two meals. The first meal consists of one After leaving a 15-year career with IBM describes how to succeed on a low-fat to pursue his passions, today Grant type of juicy fruit, which varies seasonally diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, with no between favourites such as persimmon, coordinates lifestyle adventure retreats, salt, grain or oil. lectures, writes books, runs an inspiring figs, custard apples, bananas, mangoes YouTube channel, volunteers as a surf I began running much greater distances, and watermelon. The second meal lifesaver, and is a life coach. In February at higher speeds, and with recoveries that includes as much fruit as I care for, along 2017, Grant turned 44. were five times faster than before going with a large salad including foods such raw. I run all my races in toe socks and as lettuce, celery, cucumber, tomato and ROGER: How was your health in your ‘Vibram FiveFingers’ minimalist footwear zucchini. I love dressing my salads with a early life? – just skins with no arch support or thick blend of fruit and vegetables such as GRANT: I was plagued with health cushioning at all. mango with tomato, zucchini with tomato and tahini, or raspberries with celery. problems. My life was often dominated ROGER: What are some of the most by chronic asthma and allergies. Grass, demanding runs that you have done? ROGER: Along with your fitness, what are dust, cat hair and bee stings would cause your other rewards – both physical and rashes, sinus inflammation, wheezing, GRANT: Since going raw vegan, I have mental – now? swellings and other symptoms. run more than 60 ultra-marathons, which are typically 100 km or more. The longest GRANT: I am able to train consistently, In 1998, a friend shared his experience include: without injury, and recover from races after of going vegan, and how eating animal nothing more than a good night’s sleep.