Loren:
>I know many people who similarly have reduced their daily caloric needs
>to very limited amounts.
>
>I have one friend who after 5 years on a strictly raw vegan diet, now eats
>one small meal every 4 or 5 days.  She appears to be perfectly healthy, has
>abundant energy, and show no signs of any problems.  She has been eating
>this way (or not eating, this way) for over a year.

Tom:
There is a thread re: calories over on the bulletin board of the
living-foods.com website. In that thread, a nutritionist who works
with and analyzes the diets of a clientele that includes many
raw-fooders, reports that, based on the analysis of the diets of
many raw fooders, a raw fooder must eat the standard calorie amount
to avoid weight loss.

Loren:
>You need not believe anything I, or anyone else, says.  Your own
>experience is the key.  If you continue to eat larger quantities of
>food, your metabolism will stay high to burn it, and you'll continue
>to need larger quantities of food.
>
>In every one of dozens of animal studies done, animals that are
>"undernourished" live up to twice as long as the "normally" fed animals.

Tom:
The biochemisty of starvation is well-researched. The human body does
indeed
change in starvation; however there are lower limits (long-term) to
energy intake - and these limits are far above the 1000 calories you
claim.

In the second paragraph above, you are being vague about calorie
restriction. Yes, calorie restriction increases lifespan. But actual
starvation is ultimately fatal.

Loren:
>Our beliefs are creative things, and control our reality.  You may want to
>ask yourself whether you are limiting yourself by the beliefs you have
>chosen to embrace.

Tom:
Your beliefs don't make you immune to the laws of physics. Neither
does
eating fruit make you immune to the laws of physics.