raw foods: I am hoping to become a raw foods vegan because I have heard that it is very healthy and I'm already a vegan so it won't be too large of a change. I just want to know where to start. I went onto amazon and searched for raw foods vegan books and was overwhelmed. Can someone please recommend a book or two that will get me started and possibly some resources that will teach me about the health aspects of this diet? I want to learn what I need to be eating on a daily basis in order to stay healthy on this diet. Thanks in advance everyone.|||Yes, raw vegan diets are optimal. I've tried many different things...I used to eat meat, then became vegetarian, became vegan later, and have been raw for 8 months now. I've never had better health and energy. For everyone who is skeptical...I just recently had my blood work done and got my results yesterday...all of my nutrient levels are great. And I don't do any supplements or vitamins. It's all from fruits, veggies, greens, and seeds/nuts. Two books I highly recommend are Ani Phyo's Raw Kitchen book and Alissa Cohen's book (I think it's called Living on Live Foods). Alissa's book is over 400 pages of recipes, stories, food info, etc. I'd also recommend you join her raw vegan online board at www.rawfoodtalk.com/index.php. There you can connect with people who are new at raw all the way to people who have been raw 20+ years. It's a great place to have questions answered and to find great recipes. Good luck!! PS Of course you could do any diet wrong. You could be unhealthy eating raw foods by eating pinenuts all day. It's all about variety...this is to the person who posted earlier. Our digestive system is clearly meant to handle vegetation and not meat. Carnivores and omnivores have very differently built systems than that of ours. Ours most resemble apes, who eat all vegetation with the exception of bugs :)|||Don't bother, for your own health's sake. A vegan diet is unhealthy and unnatural. A raw food vegan diet is even worse. Some foods are indigestible and/or toxic unless cooked - not only animal foods, but plant foods as well.