I did an interview with Viktoras Kulvinskas (raw food expert and author)
a year or two ago, and asked him about the issue of people (men
especially!) who were concerned about having greater bulk.  Here is what
he had to say:

	"If you want to build body weight, what you do is, you do
strenuous exercise, the kind that will generate stress that forces your
body to develop new muscle mass in order to accommodate repeated stress.
You can do it through weight lifting, you can do it through isometrics;
there's an endless array of methods for stressing your muscle system. . .
 One can put on body weight on the program the way WE advocate it, which
is basically using sprouting grains with seeds.  That's the point where
people who are doing this live food nutrition go wrong -- they go flaky
on fruits and vegetables.  And that's a very inadequate diet, as far as
I'm concerned.  I wouldn't advocate that!"

MICHELE:  COULD YOU SAY A TINY BIT MORE ABOUT THAT?

Viktoras:  "Like what?"

MICHELE:  WELL, WHAT I'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT IS THAT GRAINS, EVEN RAW,
WILL SLOW A PERSON DOWN.

Viktoras:  "All they are doing is one single grain or two.  But when you
mix it like we are doing, it is totally tasty, digestible and I can eat
that stuff without any other additives."

MICHELE:  AND YOU DON'T REALLY NEED A RECIPE?  YOU CAN JUST THROW A BUNCH
TOGETHER?

Viktoras:  "That's correct.  We just use equal proportions [of about six
types of grain along with a few types of seeds]."

MICHELE:  SPROUT 'EM ALL A COUPLE DAYS PRETTY MUCH?

Viktoras:  "The only tricks to it is, there is one mixture like oat,
buckwheat and sunflower can be done alone.  You could include barley.
But oats, you don't want to sprout them.  Just soak them overnight.  And
you can do that with barley and buckwheat and sunflower, just soaking
them overnight.  And you always use very warm water on it, because
starches will not activate the digestive process.  It needs warm water to
start off, like 100-degree water.  It will cool down, but you need that
kind of warm water to initiate the digestive process.  And the oats that
are available in the marketplace, if you sprout them for even 24 hours
they tend to start souring."

MICHELE:  I TRIED SOAKING THE OATS FOR 48 HOURS, AND IT GOT SOUR.

Viktoras:  "If you do it just the way I told you, and just soak them
overnight and then in the afternoon you can eat them, and you can mix
buckwheat and sunflower with it at the same time, and then as far as all
the other ones, we soak a mixture of equal proportions, soak them overnight."

MICHELE:  YOU SOAK THEM SEPARATELY?

Viktoras:  No.  All together.

	No time to put more right now.  Let me know.  If anyone is
interested, I'll post more of this interview when I have time!