O.K.  I just finished reading Stefansson's book, "Cancer: Disease of Civilization?" and have decided to include more raw foods in my diet.  I'm going to start with veggies.

I read a few years ago (no reference) that of the three types of vegetables in the grocery store - fresh, canned and frozen - that frozen retains the most nutrients, especially if the veg didn't need to travel far from the field to where it got frozen. 

Fresh produce in the grocery store, on the other hand, has often spent days on the back of a truck and then more time in the market then on another truck to the grocery store where it sits for days in the produce section. 

Canned vegetables contain almost no "life" energy. 

So, what do you advise me to do when looking for raw veg?  When the local farmers market closes down and I'm stuck with hunting and gathering in the grocery store, should I buy frozen veg, thaw them and eat them without cooking?  Would that be more nutritous than grocery store "fresh" produce?

BTW, celery is grown in this part of W. Michigan.  For years I've seen huge, open trucks hauling celery from the fields.  The trucks appear to be diesel - they have stacks that spew out great gobs of black smoke right over the uncovered celery!  My dad insists that you can smell diesel fuel on some of the celery in the stores and we wonder why at least a tarp isn't thrown over the celery...  yuk.

Kath