>Zephyr: How did you eat before becoming an instinctive raw eater? >From ages 0 to 19 I ate the SAD, with very little raw fruits or vegetables, plenty of fast food and pizza. At 19 I became a vegetarian, but I was eating out of the university cafeteria. I was a pasta vegetarian. At age 21 I moved to Eugene, Oregon and got a job picking (a.k.a. eating) raspberries; I also started to eat more organic food, especially almond butter and honey on organic bread sandwiches and tomato, sprout, and lettuce sandwiches. Then in July I read Severen Schaeffer's book, I went 100% instincto, and was blessed by Eugene's alley's of semi-wild plums, blackberries, pears, apples, cherries, and more, and working on an organic farm to forage for around 90% of my food for that whole summer. It took me until November 1991 to stop eating processed foods and I've eaten %100 "instincto" except during the trichinosis where I was drinking organic juice and smoothies with medication and pills. That probably answers your question, Zephyr