Hmm..I dunno. I dont know very many raw food people in real life so I cant say an opinion on someone being 100% raw. I tried it for awhile, but I didnt really feel the need to be 100% raw, I dont think there is anything wrong with cooking, and I love hot comfort food! I dont know, I have nothing but respect for raw people, but I prefer the best of both worlds myself. Like when I eat eggs, I love boiling them just for a moment or two, so they get hot and the white cooks, but the yolk stays raw. Its the best!

If there is any truth to this article, and I'm not suggesting there isn't, but if there is, then the writing - doom for us all by way of what we eat, is pretty clearly on the wall. If plants have evolved to be as inherently dangerous as you say the article claims, what then are the alternatives? Did the article offer alternative solutions to eating these plants they say are tainted, or did it only focus on the tainted plants? Did the article offer any information that talks of how the danger in these plants can be lessened or offset....perhaps by cooking mixing with animal products or other spices? (animal-animal, not human animal) How about factory refining, does this portend to offset the inherent dangers to a significant degree? Did the article make any distinction between the alleged danger plants have evolved when it comes to them being eaten by lower animals versus those that are said to be higher animals? This would seem to portend doom for the lower animals as well us higher human ones....perhaps we are all fated to go the way of the Dodo.

"In all honesty, everybody that I have ever seen that has ever been a raw foodie for many many years looks absolutely TERRIBLE."

Would you please put this into perspective that has some meaning to it, like, how many everybody's have you seen that have ever been eating raw food for many many years? 1? 10? 100? 1000? Maybe you live where raw foodies are common, but around these parts, they are either more rare than Dodos or are being kept in captivity and not allowed to wonder around in the public where I might be able to see them. What do they look like exactly? What are the telltale signs that are the queues to you to say - yep, there's another terrible looking raw foodie - ?

In the same vein, I take it that you are referring to what people look like on the outside, like, how they dress, the condition of their skin, hair, body tone, overweight or underweight, body language and other outward appearances covering up what is really going on inside the person? This of course leaves the question - what do they look like on the inside? What do raw foodies look like on the inside especially in comparisson with people who've been on the typical mainstream diet for many many years? You might need to dust off your Sigmoidoscope and perhaps Endoscope to get closer to a good answer, but it seems a fair one to consider.

You need to meet the raw fruitarians.
Or the raw paleolithics.
Or the raw fruitarian + raw animal people.

These peoples see vegetables as second class food and avoid grains, beans totally
I see their photos all around the internet and these people are the most beautiful. See the before and after photos.

We don't need to eat vegetables.

Yup... I actually follow the Paleolithic Diet.... and I call it the living foods diet. I only eat foods that are alive... I also eat like 90% fruit and like 10% vegetables and sprouts... except for a couple raw eggs each day which I put in my smoothies for breakfast. I never get sick when everyone else gets the flu or other illness'. I always feel awesome... and my body works great with it so I stick with it.

I also feel that some people should eat meat... the eat right for your blood type says that type A people should be vegetarians... where as type o should eat meat.

As for phytochemicals... I thought they were actually good for us.

Yes it could be true but not the fault of Raw food, But actually fault with "RAW gourmet food"
When they are trying to replicate cooked food, they narrow down their options. They end up consuming just a fraction of the raw foods that can be consumed.
End up with dangerous deficiencies.
The health benefits they get in the first years is more of not consuming junk, Than from consuming raw food.
Most of them do not consume greens and sprouts, but just go on eating eggplant parmesan(raw and vegan) where almost nutriontionless vegetable like eggplant is dehydrate for more than 12 hours.(you call that food)
Read my comment here in detail
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1505986

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