Good point that you made here Vicki: >Consider the fact that 99.999% of all living organisms on this planet are 100% >raw eaters -- are they all extreme too? It seems to me where "extreme" really comes onto the board in this game, is at that place where someone once upon a time, got the brilliant idea, that we should start putting fire to food. I mean come on, let's face it, cooking food is a human-designed perversion from nature. I don't recall the last time I saw Bambi sitting by the side of the river, boiling up a big fat pot of greens. Or a gorilla frying up some mangos. Or even a lion broiling its fresh caught Zebra. I refuse to get into the debate on eating raw meat versus not. Not my place to judge. BUT, the truth of the matter is, heating food does NOTHING to enhance its nutritional value. I've yet to see anyone disprove that fact. It seems logic and nature dictate for the best nutritive and non-toxic end result, that raw foods supply the highest, most ready supply of nutrients and enzymes for optimal healthy physiological conditions. I haven't seen talk about this one yet, but how about the blatant condition upon eating cooked food known as "leukocytosis?" (an increased proliferation of white blood cells) What about the cultures of people that eat a predominantly raw diet and claim longevity? (Hunzas, Vilcabambians, etc.) Since it can be easily demonstrated, very tangibly, that cooking food destroys its nutritve value and enzymatic activity, it seems that eating all raw, or predminantly is the best way to go. If anything is extreme, I would say that the fact that human beings can take any perfectly balanced situation, haromonious and symbiotic, and then put a twist on it contrary from the way it was meant to be, (cooking food, tearing down thousands of acres of rain forest, pushing pollution into the sky at tons per day, etc.) and expect to not have to eventually answer to the consequences, well now to me, THAT is *extreme." Just my nickel for the day. Cheers all, John