Jean-Claude wrote: >> The asociality of eating a different diet have not been an issue for me, >> may be because i always have been the only instincto around. I go to >> restaurant with families or friends, i participate to potlucks, went to >> weddings etc... i just bring my food and found no resisance from >> either my friends , family, or restaurants staff ( quite the opposite in fact they >> often go out of their way to accomadate my needs, bring plates and forks... ) Well, yes, I agree that being 100% raw is not necessarily incompatible with having a normal social life, but you must admit that doing so is sometimes inconvenient: -people always ask questions the first time ("don't you like the food?", or "are you vegetarian?", etc). -It may happen that someone invites you unexpectedly to come at his/her place and have dinner. If you have no time to buy food, then you have to refuse. -One does not always plan in advance whether to go or not to the restaurant. If a friend suggests to do so and you haven't brought food, then you have to refuse. -One does not always have time to go shopping, like when travelling abroad for professional reasons. Depending on the person, these inconvenients are more or less well accepted. Seignalet's diet may not be "perfect", but seems a good compromise. He says that 50% of the patients that consult him eventually give up the diet, but those who keep it get high success rates (let's say 80%), so the net result is about 40%. If he had asked his patients to follow a strict instincto diet, then probably much less people would be willing or able to pursue it, and therefore the net success rate would be much lower. In short, a diet which is not strict enough won't be efficient, while a diet which is too strict may be difficult to follow (psychologically, socially, financially) and thus have a high defection rate. The best, from the physician's point of view, is to find the "ideal" balance in order to heal as many people as possible. Those who have followed his mostly raw regimen for a year with success are of course free to try and refine it if they feel it useful or necessary. --Jean-Louis Tu <[log in to unmask]>