Nieft / Secola wrote: > It is not uncommon for people who eat more raw fruit and veggies to > experience a "loosening" in digestion. If it doesn't settle down for you, > you may want to start experimenting with food combining--you just have to > find out what works for you in combination. Some people don't tolerate > fruit after other foods, RAF with fruit, or even RAF with veggies. Some > don't tolerate different fruits together. Etc. (Also, steamed veggies, like > the cole crops, are sometimes digested better than raw ones.) > I would be wary of considering every other symptom some sort of detox. > During times when I ate mostly fruits and veggies for a long time, I would > end up with chronic loose stools and poor/incomplete digestion. Our > alimentary canal may be better adapted to concentrated foods and lots and > lots of raw veggies may be more trouble than they ae worth. It is > interesting to me that many rawists who fast find that when they return to > fruit/veggies after a fast that their digestion is even more incomplete. If > they were "overloaded" on fruits/veggies before the fast and just give > themselves more of the same after the fast, maybe the body is trying to > tell them something. Who knows? My theory of the loose stools, is that with more raw fruits and veggies you get more Vitamin C intake. It is known that a lot of Vitamin C will cause loose stools. Does loose stools imply incomplete digestion or is there simply more water content in the stools? Does any one have any factual information about this. I am also interested in the gurgling. This happens to both me and my dog when we eat a meal that consists of nothing but raw steak. I do not know if this is a bad sign or not. Frank.