>Axel,
>
>One possibility to consider is that when you eat cooked or junk food, you
>stop the elimination or detoxification process which occurs during a raw
>diet or fast.  So naturally you will feel better when you return to junk
>eating, because the toxins are no longer being released into your
>bloodstream.  Instead they remain in your body to give you more serious
>problems down the road.   This makes intuitive sense to me. I cannot state
>with absolute certainty this is what happening, however, because I don't
>feel I have come close to detoxing sufficiently myself. I've haven't been
>able to stay 100% raw for more than two months, and I've never managed
>more than a three-day fast.

i would like to reinforce this proposition, because appearance or
disappearance of symptoms are hardly meaningfull when one switch back
and forth between cooked or raw. it is easy to attribuate to one the
effect of whithdrawal" backfiring "of the second.
when i have been sober for years of cooked food, and i had a relapse
because of emotionnal circonstances,  that was clear that cooked food
was not making me feel better but worse. Spinning out to a point where
the  body have to switch from elimination mood (its 1st choice in
keeping homeostasis)  to storage mood when the elimination organs get
overwhelmed.
jean-claude

>But my limited experience with raw veganism has been positive.  Shortly
>after beginning this diet, my body spontaneously expelled a cancerous
>bladder polyp (which I didn't even know I had).  After a few more months
>of raw eating I had conventional tests which showed me to be cancer free.
>
>Like you, I don't want to eat meat, and though I respect those who feel
>they need it, I am listening to my inner voice which tells me to take
>another path.  I've eaten raw cheese on occasion, but though it is
>filling and >satisfying, I can tell the next day that it is clogging up
>my system. At this time I feel that what is doing the most for my
>health and overall >well-being is raw fruits, vegetables, sprouts, nuts
>and seeds (with maybe some raw grains) and at least one green juice a
>day.  I also want to start doing some longer (1-2 week) fasts when
>circumstances permit.
>Mark