>Small amounts of almonds and other nuts, combined with an avocado a
>day, are usually eaten for FAT, not for calories.

I eat eat quite a lot of fat and calory containing foods, i.e. nuts,
avocado, bananas etc. because I take hard exercises.
As I switched to predominantly raw vegan diet I first lost weight
a lot (and I`ve never been too fat).

I`d like
to buy all nuts and dried fruits from health food store, but I got them
much cheaper from "ordinary" shops. I`d like to know how are they treated.
I wouldn`t like to eat anything irradiated e.g. Do you think it is much
safer to buy my foods from health store? (In fact, I`d like to grow
all my foods myself.)

>Excessive eating is far more difficult on a raw foods or
>living foods diet.

I have noticed that some people talk about the same thing when
concerning concepts *live or living food* and *raw food*.

Mikko Nenonen says (in `Vegan Diet, Rich in Lactobacilli, *Living
Food*: Metabolic and Subjective Responses in Healthy Subjects and
in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.` - Kuopio University Publications
D. Medical Sciences 76):
"The fermentation and mechanical homogenization of many items
differentiates this diet (meaning living food) from other raw
vegetable diets."

What are those other variants of uncooked vegan diet?

And to Michael Clingman: thank you very very much for reviving
this list. That`s what I`ve been longing for!

And I come from the north-east of Finland, from
a village called Kuusamo (latitude 66 degrees and something
with 18 000 inhabitants).

Tiina Makela