Dariusz ROZYCKI <[log in to unmask]>:
>Along the same lines, what exactly might a raw-fooder consider to be
>"safe" or relatively healthy and acceptable cooked foods?

Tom:
I wrote on this subject - it is in the archives. Try a search in March/April
of this year; look for some of these keywords: spice, overcook, leftover,
refined sugar, microwave.  Some of the above should help you locate the
article.

Note: forgive me for combining two resposes to Dariusz in 1 post, but I don't
want to "spend" two posts (our of 5 daily limit) responding.

Dariusz ROZYCKI <[log in to unmask]>:
>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?

>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.

Tom:
You can expect a transition anytime you change your diet in a major way.
It's not always weight loss - many people gain weight their first year
in college, even though they have only changed their SAD diet in minor
ways.

Look around you - people get habituated to real poisons, things that are a lot
worse than any cooked food: such poisons as tobacco, alcohol, heroin,
raw-food zealotry, crack cocaine. A bad diet can produce toxins, the removal
of which is an unpleasant process.  (I included zealotry on the list as it
produces mental toxins.) Giving up any of the poisons on the list above, will
entail withdrawal difficulties, and a cleansing process.

Regards,
Tom Billings
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