Hi Karen,

> not me--the rawfood movement is actually killing people.  just read

WOW, that's going to get you a response on a raw food group. Can you
back
that up with evidence? The SAD is certainly killing people since most
people
are victims of cancer, heart disease or other diseases caused by a
poor
diet.

> beyondveg.com to see what I'm talking
> about--the Paleodiet goes back 2.5 million years (the eating of cooked meat,
> veg and some  fruit--i.e. the

The china-Oxford-Cornell study - the largest study ever undertaken I
believe
into the effect of diet on health found that animal products in the
diet -
even small amounts are linked to disease. Also, we share over 98% of
genes
with our primate relatives, can our optimum diet be so different?

> hunter-gatherer diet is superior) and the current rawfood and fruitarian
> fad is scooping up many youth into its ideological diet
> --which does not serve man's evolutionary needs.  I was
> fruitarian rawfood for twenty
> years and my  health was ruined--all my teeth fell out etc--and many
> twenty-year rawfoodists are reporting
> similar maladies from living on ideology rather than evolutionary needs.

I respect your experience here but what exactly were you eating for 20
years? Just fruit? Greens? Veg? Nuts? Seeds? etc. Can you expand on
your
diet for us please.

Cheers
Mike.