Rex, I enjoyed your June 6 reply to Tom Billings.  His tone, you said,
reminded you of /Mystical Diets/ author Jack Raso.  Once a "true believer,"
Raso "lost faith" and returned to AMA orthodoxy.  He now debunks fringe
systems from Ayurveda to Natural Hygiene.

Some of his criticisms are valid, and we can count on Tom and Kirt --
reformed idealists like Raso himself -- to keep us honest, reminding us of
the excesses of "dietary extremists" like Arnold Ehret, Herbert Shelton,
and Guy-Claude Burger.

But let's not be too hard on those guys.  For all their undeniable
excesses, where would we be without them?  Who among us, without their
charismatic, paradigm-busting zeal, would ever have broken free of the
dietary mainstream?

C.