Jean-Louis:
> Now, I am in the process of recovery :-) In fact, last week, as I had
> a party with indian food, I was curious to taste it, so I ate 20% cooked
> and 80% salad. And as for the cooked part, I only took a small portion of
> whatever *smelled* good (yes, that's it: some instincto habits are
> useful, even when eating cooked food!).

How can you call them "useful" when every instinto knows they simply
don't work with cooked foods, Jean-Louis?

> I should say that my eating behavior was hardly unnoticed, and after
> several meals with friends, refusing pizzas and potato chips, smelling
> fruits, refusing unripe bananas and peaches, eating a whole iceberg
> lettuce and drinking raw eggs, they finally asked me whether I eat raw
> (to which I responded that I eat "mostly raw", which is in a sense
> true since I eat about 99.5% raw). [others sometimes ask me if I am a
> vegetarian, and I answer that I am not, but I don't need animal food
> at each meal, which is true too]

Did you end up explaining the term "insitncto" to everyone present?  Were
they interested?  Did you "convert" anyone?  :)

> The problem I still haven't resolved is the excessive amount of time >
>spent eating, thinking about eating, etc... But in a sense, I think > that
>all successful raw-fooders have to go through that stage at > first,
>because if we dind't spend enough time thinking about food, > we would be
>likely to be victims of numerous problems (physical and > mental), of
>dogmas, myths, etc... > > > Best wishes, > > Jean-Louis >

Food and eating are the driving forces in nature, for each and every
living creature lacking the intelligence to question its instincts yet at
the same time having enough of the latter to know better than
not to follow them.  Of course, instincts don't directly translate or
relate to intelligence, but it seems the more of the latter is present,
the less there is of the former.

Food has been the main occupation and concern of man for AGES.  There is
nothing more natural than thinking about it, and nothing more unnatural than
not thinking about it.