Geoff:
>.  This list is the greatest!

I love this list, too! :-)

Tiina

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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:56:08 -0700
From: Nieft / Secola <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Back on 100% raw :-)

Christian writes:

>In 1996, after about two and a half year on 100% raw food (ca. 70-80% fruits
>including lots of avocado) I noticed that my health was not inproving
>further (as it did in the beginning) but rather getting worse.

<snip fascinating story!>

>To avoid the problems I had on my high-fruit raw diet before I made
>the following changes:
>- I reduced the fruit intake to 30% (without avos...)
>- I increased the fresh greens (difficult to get now in winter)
>- I eat a raw egg yolk daily
>- Blended salads according to Dr. Bass.
>A representative meal order may be:

>Apples in the morning, maybe followed by some nuts.
>A vegetable meal for lunch (carrots, topinambur, celery, cabbage,...)
>and then some avos.
>A blended salad with lots of greens (spinach, lettuce) in the evening,
>then the egg yolk.

Sounds like incredibly intelligent approach!

>If I do not thrive on it on the long run, I think I must have a closer
>look to RAFs beside eggs :-(

Your open mind will serve you well--looks like it already has! I'm very
curious about your cooked veggie experimenting. Like myself you have
eshewed the cooked veggies in preference to all-raw, but given the "stops"
you reported with low temp cooked veggies, might you one day experiment
with them and the rest raw, or does it seem "unnecessary" as long as raw
veggies are tasting acceptable, or as long as you are satisfied all-raw?
Might not rawists have thrown the baby (cooked veggies) out with the
bathwater (everything else cooked)?

And to make sure I understand: the steamed veggies had no "stop" for you?

If you have another heavy detox on your regime, you might want to try some
casse, which often helps the detox along lickety split from the colon...;)
I'm not sure anyone who isn't all-raw would benefit as much from casse but
as you're all-raw, you might keep it in mind...

>Hopefully I have not bored everybody with this long posting.

Hardly!!

Cheers,
Kirt

PS How's that snail-eating kid you reported on doing these days?