Raw-Food Drama: Is Thor Raw? Who Cares?

On June 14, 2005, The San Diego Union-Tribune released a favorable article on the happenings of popular raw-food company Nature's First Law.

The article titled "Raw-food fervor starting to sprout" contained a photo (see right) of Nature's First Law founders, David Wolfe and Thor Bazler, aka Stephen Arlin. The photo, seemingly normal, has become the hottest topic of discussion over at the rawfood.com forums.

So hot in fact, that it has been reported that a few rawfood.com forum users have been banned for commenting on Thor weight. True or not, the attention has initiated a response from Thor himself.

If we're loosing you, the question at hand is - What the heck is Thor Bazler eating?

Why all the attention? Thor Bazler, formerly know as Stephen Arlin, is the author of the popular guide to raw-food & body building titled Raw Power. Not to mention the co-founder of the company responsible for Raw-Food 2.0*. With us now? The popular author of a raw-food-body-building guide isn't looking so raw.

Our take? Who cares? There is too much abundance in the world of raw-foods. Anyways, David Wolfe still looks good!

*I'd also like to add, on a personal note, that I'm very thankful for all the work that David & Thor have done. This weblog, other companies, various books are here because NFL took a chance and started something out of the back of their car trunk.

Comments

[Lita]

There are far too many raw ymmies out there! Raw cocoa, nuts, agave, dates and the like. You can create some pretty high calorie stuff with raw ingredients. I am afraid you can't eat raw chocolate to your hearts contnet and not gain weight! Maybe Thors been eating too much raw goodies!! Or it could just be a really bad picture!

[Rake]

Looks like he went back to cooked food. Perhaps the golden arches. lol

[karen kellock]

This is a very important topic--to minimize it forms too much internal discrepancy and contradiction with the promises of a rawfood diet. Raw food is supposed to be about health which is automatically reflected in APPEARANCE. Rawfood is propounded as the way for models and actresses to maintain their beauty. David wrote a book on beauty--so why would this topic not be important? The rawfood moguls must LOOK THE PART to prove their own promises of the diet. These two men look too broad in the face, usually indicating junk food or too many starches.

[Daniel]

Did you know that outgassed chemicals from monitors, computers, and modems contain endocrine disruptors? I know raw or not, I always seemed to start turning into a fat blob when I'm on the computer a lot or watching TV a lot.

maybe he's just sensitive to computers. I got a bunch of info here about it:

http://www.rawair.net/info.html

i think computer outgas ruins the raw food diet for some people, including myself.

[JP Hasselmeier]

I discovered veganism in mid 80's, and raw foods in 1990. Having been a bodybuilder and athlete myself, I considered Arlin an authority. David told me himself that the last he heard of Stephen is that he went off to Idaho, but didn't know why. Was he eating different up there in that rugged country?