My two cents on the raw foods diet

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Hi,

The topic of raw foods is very interesting to me. At various times in

my life I've been on an all raw foods diet, I have friends who have

been all raw, I've tried Aajonos' raw animal foods diet, I've done

juice fasts, cleansing diets with all raw foods and

herbs/psyllium/bentonite to detoxify and I've hung out (in the past)

in the raw foods world. My experience and strong belief is that we are

individuals and that different diets work best for different people at

different times in their lives. I, for instance, and others with

carbohydrate sensitivites or yeast problems, really suffer on carrot

and other fruit juices and eating so much fruit. Experience with folks

I've known who have done all raw for a long time is that, for most

people, the diet eventually fails them in some way. At the same time I

do believe that for a lot of people that an all raw diet can be very

healing, but that for most people it is not a healthy diet for a

prolonged period of time.

Consider that the Ayurvedic system, that has been around for thousands

of years, leans heavily to cooked foods. So does traditional Chinese

medicine. I believe that any " clean " diet will heal cancer in some

people.

Also, regarding raw foods. A VERY large number of the people I know

who have done raw foods religiously and have endured it have become

very religious and rigid in their beliefs about diet, even to the

point of continuing a diet that was obviously failing them.

I do not in any way mean to discount anyone's successful long-term

experience with a raw foods diet. Most any diet will work well for

some people. To those of you who have been doing an all raw diet for

five or ten or more years and have radiant health I congratulate and

respect you deeply. It's not an easy diet to follow.

Regarding raw animal foods, I do believe that adding animal foods to

an all raw diet makes it much healthier and sustainable. What I don't

like about Aajonus' approach is that there is ZERO science and ZERO

documentation of the supposed research he did to validate his

approach. Clearly Aajonus is one of the people who thrives with a raw

animal food diet and would probably die with any other diet. I don't

make the leap of faith, though, that therefore raw animal foods is the

perfect diet for every living human.

I do believe that many of us would benefit from more raw foods than we

currently eat. I myself am drawn to raw green juices, raw animal

foods, fermented foods and soaked nuts.

I highly recommend that everyone read as many articles as you can in

http://www.beyondveg.com/. It helped me very much to see how an

extreme diet came from old patterns of obsession and perfectionism.

Sol