>Kirt wrote:

>>I hear that Schmid's own diet is 50% veggies and 50% seafood
>> (mostly raw)>and that he eats seafood 3 times a day. Pretty interesting.
>>I may have to give that a go somewhere down the line and see if life
>> without fruit is worth living ;)

>Don't get me wrong, this is a diet which Schmid probably does great
>on & which gives him "health."  But there is no doubt that it is a
>diet which ages him faster & drastically raises the odds that he
>will develop cancer.  Life without fruit is markedly shorter than
>life with it, so I would not rush out to eat lots of protein.  Just
>because you might feel good on a diet does not mean that it is
>necessarily the best for you.

Again, have you satisfied yourself that the protiens in RAF are as bad for
you as whatever you are calling generic "protiens"?. He may be at risk, as
are the sea mammals today, of pollution-induced cancer, but I'm willing to
bet that the research you prize correlating animal consumption with
increased cancer rates is from denatured protiens (which we both agree are
problematic). I can bet this because, except for instinctos, there are very
few folks eating RAF and no cooked animal foods. And instinctos are the
only ones regulating that RAF intake according to sensory pleasure.

On the other hand, it may be that your quest for longevity is in opposition
to your biological yearnings. Was it Bob Avery who suggested that longevity
may be at odds with natural selection? What use it is evolution-wise for
adults to live beyond the age where their children have become independant
adults? From that vantage point we will likely never be in full agreement
on "health" since I want to know what my DNA-driven human nature is and
indulge it and you want to live as long as possible, which I have
absolutely no quarrel with! You can bury me!

Just out of curiousity, wouldn't an all-juice diet be best for you? Surely
there is less digestive energy used in consuming carrot juice than carrots?
On juice your body would more closely approach a fasting metabolism, no?
What do you make of Norman Walker living to, what was it, 109?

Cheers,
Kirt