Liza,

> Furthermore - I'd want to know what else you "changed" at that
> time..... Did you start to take better care of yourself in general?
> Did you get more sleep? Did you become resolute about taking charge
> of your life? Did you change excercise habits? Did you change a job,
> or clean up a relationship, or forgive someone important, or clean
> out your garage and closets? Did you stop partying and staying out
> late at night and drinking and smoking? Did you get rid of stress in
> some important way? And as far as diet - did you ELIMINATE something
> you had been eating a lot of, that could possibly have been the
> culprit?

Valid points, but if you have deeply-lodged plaques or cancers in the
bowel, all the determination in the world, or modest fiddling with the
cooked foods or even stopping all junk foods and refined sugar, won't
remove them. Raw plant foods and some herbs or Cassia can do it
though.

Liza, you seem to belittle the benefits of raw foods just as much to
the extreme as JR excessively touts them as a guarantee of health.
None
of this is to say that 100% raw vegan is the best long-term diet, at
all (although I also can't discount a few individuals being able to
make it work very well for years, and short term at least, certainly
can be wonderful for certain conditions as with Mark - where a similar
diet mostly cooked just does not have the same effects).

Regarding your quote that upset Mark initially - you cited anecdotes
for
your position that raw foods versus cooked makes little difference -
well,
here is one: I have had OBVIOUS benefits now lasting a year,
especially at
an energetic level, from eating a lot more raw foods (about 80% raw
right
now). Little else important has changed in my life BTW.

Thanks for listening, Paul