These are various questions and comments to anyone who cares to read this... More on IE: Still stuck on those mental images of food; do any of the instinctos (geez, I wish I could just say "people") here know what they're next food will be just by visualizing it in their mind? It happens more and more often to me that I'll picture a food, then go smell it, taste it and eat it. It fails me somtimes, but works in most cases. Anyone else doing this? Or do you only know after smelling and tasting? In fact, which should be the most effective of senses in choosing the food? Smell, taste? Maybe the visual? Or is it necessarily a combination of all of them? How can you explain that I can visualize the food and be perfectly happy wiht it's smell and taste afterwards? To anyone who's having thoughts about (at least) giving your instincts a try in choosing your next food, consider all these things that the so-called [other] "diets" support, claim and advocate: Do *not*: - overeat - eat in certain combinations - eat heavy in the morning or eat only fruit (or nothing at all) since you're body is "eliminating" - eat too much before sleep (this one I'm having second thoughts on), I had 3 egg yolks a little after midnight last night, just because my body asked for them. It had *better* not to complain afterwards... :) - eat when you're not hungry - *not* eat when you are hungry (sorry, didn't plan my thing too well). The list goes on. There is probably a dozen or so more other such crucial things that most diets tell you to follow. Well, call me lucky but my own limited experience with IE has taken care of *all* of them, with no exception. How is this for a convincing argument: "exercise is good for you." We all know it is; question is "why?" Well, "because we have legs" is not a bad answer, but the reason why we have them is probably an even better answer. In other words, evolution (blablabla...) has decided so, and <put some DNA crap here, if you want>. Hmm... call me crazy, but after driving my car to get any food for as long as I own a car, I find it most natural to walk to the store to get my food now. In fact, the store is about 2km away, and I do it three times a day! There, I get more exercise than I need, without thinking about it (as it should be; exercise should have nothing to do with TV commercials or heavy interior walking machinery). Of course, I am just describing to you the effects of what *I think* good food, in good amounts (or eaten following your instincts) has on a human being like myself. I may or may not take all or some of these for granted some day (now I'm still a little excited about all this, I admit :) but until I do, it is news (and darn good one, too) to me, as it probably is to you if you're reading this newsgroup because (I think) your instincts have been telling you raw is good for ya. I think you really do owe it to yurself to at least try out your instincts on what you eat. More on human past, and human gentics: I wonder, is the actual lifespan of human beings (or any other species, for that matter) an issue of genetics? (likely) If so, is it considered an "advancement/improvement" to genetically increase this time-period in a species (like humans)? (likely) If so, has our lifespan increased with the years? *If* IE is how we should eat (assumption), then how would our current potential lifespan compare with that of our instinctively-eating ancestors? Surely, they didn't live for 120-140 years for most of them; which seems to be the current figure for the human lifespan's potential. Pardon the typos, this message took a little more time than I had free for it.