Dear Meredith, I knew that name sounded familiar. I just finished reading your inaugural letter in the M2M; enjoyed it a lot. My sister Eileen is an artist too, and I was born in Boston (moved away at age 7). Sugarwise (and we're talking all natural fruit sugar here, not Ward's Dr. Pepper), the first thing I noticed was difficulty digesting concentrated protein foods, first bee pollen, then nuts/seeds. Stools became mushy and chronic flatulence developed. I then became vitamin B-12 depleted. If you decide to catch up on some of the M2M back issues, the whole saga is in there, starting with my debut issue, #8. If you want to cut down and don't want to start with a fast (the best way), then try eating non-sweet fruit like cukes or celery or lettuce first before your sweet fruit. I know this sounds like backwards food combining, but it worked for me (except when the fruit was melon). Also, every time you eat fruit, follow it with something slow-digesting like nuts, seeds, or grains (I prefer them soaked overnight and rinsed). Raw milk cheese (I assume you mean cow's milk?) would just be trading heart disease/atherosclerosis for pancreatitis, hyper-/ hypo-glycemia. Paavo Airola, who wrote the health diet book "Are You Confused?" and other health books was himself confused. He died at age 68 of a stroke brought on by regular consumption of raw goat's milk cheese, which is less lethal than raw cow's milk cheese. Yeah, I used to take liquid lecithin. It comes from soybeans. It goes rancid quickly, and if you keep it in the fridge, it solidifies and becomes impossible to pour. If I were to want lecithin nowadays for some reason or another, I'd just buy some soybeans, soak them overnight, rinse and eat. A very cheap and fresher way to get lecithin. Bland rutabaga? Interesting. My farm-fresh organic (biodynamic) rutabagas are kind of strong-tasting, sort of like radishes. Tongue eruptions are often a symptom of detox. They should go away eventually (or faster if you fast; that's why it's called fasting!). I no longer longer use toothpaste. What other animal does? It's just another commercial scam. I hope your toothpaste does not contain fluoride! I haven't looked for the G.I. on the Web yet, but I'll bet you could find it yourself by training a search engine on "glycemic index". Let me know what you find. There's also a chart in M2M#18 p64 of some foods.