>>Can anyone explain why there would be any kind of a malfunction within
>>the body (in my case - and most commonly, I suppose - this involves
>>weight loss and muscle loss, and the general feeling of fatigue and
>>weakness) when it is going through such a transition period?
>>Is it purely a consequence of a detox taking place (ie: blood carrying
>>toxic materials and thus preventing certain organs form functioning
>>normally)?  How does this explain the weight loss? which usually implies
>>insufficient energy to maintain the body.  Which should in turn simply
>>translate into an insufficient food intake.  Is this the case?

>>I suppose the basic idea is that years of cooked foods did end up
>>damaging the body in one way or another.  If there is truly a
>>detoxification of some sort taking place when one changes to an all-raw
>>diet, then the freeing up of the foreign substances could explain the
>>fatigue; the weight loss remains a mystery to me however.

>>And overall, why would there need to be a transition period of any kind
>>if an all-raw diet is something we were intended to live on to begin with?

I think loss of bulk/weight is the toxic/rubbish content being excreted.
I guess loss of energy has to do with the level of nutrition, because it
seems to me that its difficult to just "eat raw" satisfactorily.  There are so many
opinions of what to do. ND its a new way of eating,  it seems to take time for the\
senses to learnto  "read" the situations.

>>Some people make it sound as if our bodies were meant to live on cooked
>>foods and need to go through the proper sequence of modifications (and
>>certain - thank God - minor health problems) to adopt to an all-raw diet; I
>>thought it was the other way around; that's why we have whole nations of
>>sick people eating cooked foods - because their bodies never did adopt to
>>the latter.

The body did adapt to cooked food, and sickness is part of the adaptations
result.  For me it has been quite frustrating, I just wanted to start eating raw, and
everything would be great !
What helps, if you have the inclination and opportunity, is to include some
of the power foods in your diet:
 fresh barley-grass juice ( or dehydrated at least )
  fresh carrot juice as much of these as you can manage, and keep up light exercise,
 walking etc.

I don;t know if you are trying 100% raw, or what your approach is, so I
won;t comment further.

keep ;>) - at least a bit?
Lynton.