> Mark:
> In the book Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda there is a letter from
> a Darlene Evans who says she is living on a diet of 100% fruit.  She
> says her love of dates kept her from perishing in the cold.  To
> maintain body temperature, she says, 10% of the diet in summer and
> 40% in winter should be dried fruit.
>
> As one who is having trouble staying as warm as I would like even in the
> springtime, I would be interested in any reactions to her statement.

When I first read it, many years ago, my reaction was one of interest.
Later, when I went raw myself, I found that --for me-- it was a load
of rubbish.  I find that when I'm eating 100% raw*, the less dried
food I eat, the easier it is for me to withstand extremes of
temperature.  And I had always been one who had difficulties in that
area. It is when I'm eating less than 85% raw or so that I seem to get
too cold or too hot easily.  Dried fruit doesn't seem to help.  My
overall opinion of her statement is that it is too much of a
generalization.

*(I eat little dried fruit when eating 100% raw anyway, because store-
bought dried fruit is usually subjected to pretty high temperatures,
so I eat only home-dried fruit during those times.)

Carol