Jo: > For me, this led to a dangerous > denial of new information. And maybe unneeded suffering and stagnation >over > the years. Who knows? In any case, I urge you, Wes, to keep your >options > open as you've already declared as your intention. And sharply monitor >any > resistance to new ideas based on your current beliefs. My problem with Wes' proclamations has nothing to with concerns over his own personal diet. He should feel free to eat whatever he likes, and defend it in the most distorted ways he might enjoy. What I don't care for is insisting that his diet - or anyones else's favorite diet - is THE right diet for any other person. His insistence that raw vegan foods are the superior food choices for everyone else, or even anyone else, is uninformed, and just silly. He's young, but that does not mean he should be excused from consideration of facts which do not fit with his current ideology. Many young people that I know, three-, six-, twelve-, and sixteen-year-olds, are intelligent, wide-reaching thinkers, and make good use of others' experience to help draw conclusions about life. Young Wes is not interested in hearing any information that does not support his latest "religion." He just wants everyone else to eat like him, I guess so he can feel sure that he's making the right decision about what he's eating these days. Love, Liza [log in to unmask] (Liza May)