Dick Gregory wrote a book back in 1973 called "Dick Gregory's Natural
Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature."  It details his
weight loss from 280 pounds down to 97 pounds (!!!) at the time of
publication of this book, his  transition to vegetarianism and then to a
raw vegan diet, and his various fasts.

L'shalom,

Marishka

Todd Moody wrote:

> For what it's worth, Dick Gregory recently came to this campus
> and gave a talk.  For those who may not know who he is, Dick
> Gregory started as a rather fat stand-up comic back in the 1960s,
> but morphed into a social activist, and a also a person with
> definite ideas about nutrition, etc.