raw foods: Is it the most healthy diet due to the fact that you are basing your diet on fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed? I consume these things already but I have some non-fat yogurt, milk, and free-range meats (beef, poultry, lamb, etc) in my diet also. Is this best, or would it actually be more beneficial to go raw?|||Best to not just listen to anyone else and follow your body. If something effects you a bit adversly, then totally cut it out of your diet. Then your body vibration will improve and the next item, that didn't effect you before will start to effect you a bit. So cut that out also. Follow this path along deleting as you get sensitive and you will end up on the ideal diet for yourself, if you do it diligently I did and ended up on raw food for three years ,and have been a vegan sportsman for 36 more years now [57 years young now] I love and feel great on green smoothies [green veg from garden, mango and apple fresh juice, spiralina, a few walnuts, and dates if you like .definitely gives you a positive lift. l am going to start a green smoothie club here. Enjoy the process.|||Ditch the meat and you'll really notice how just the plant foods provide much more sustained energy and make you feel much more vibrant and sharp. You're probably not getting all the benefits that you can get from the plant foods because your body still has to work hard digesting the meat and dealing with all the bacteria when it starts to putrefy in the gut. Meat doesn't provide anything you can't already get from the other things you eat. If you already consume so many different plant foods, it would be easy for you to make the change, just make sure you're replacing the calories you would consume from meat with more veggies and fruit. Dairy is mucus producing and also doesn't provide anything you can't get from plant foods. Yep, vegan/raw vegan are the best diets for anyone. Here's an excerpt from The Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs: "There is a sodium coating covering the entire inside wall of the stomach, which, if it remains intact, will prevent the digestive juices from digesting the stomach itself. However, when any form of flesh food enters the stomach, the meat attracts the sodium in the same way as the walls of the stomach. Some of the sodium is drawn from the walls and gathers around the meat, thus preventing the digestion of the meat in the stomach and at the same time depleting the sodium on the walls of the stomach."|||Raw vegetables contain mostly water and cellulose (indigestible plant fiber) which provides roughage that all digestive systems require. However, since much of the vitamins are contained in the cellulose (which isn't digestible), it is good to cook many of the vegetables we eat because cooking breaks down the fiber in cellulose and releases the vitamins and minerals in a form that the body can digest. So to make sure you are eating a healthful diet include 3 or 4 portions of cooked vegetables a day and at least one green salad. Lightly steaming vegetables until they are tender but not overcooked is best.|||Raw fruits and vegetables are good because they contain more vitamins. However, that amount is very slight. I really wouldn't worry too much about it. Humans have been cooking there food for tens of thousands of years, and were still the #1 species.. I wouldn't go overboard. It sounds to me like your diet is very healthy as it is!|||You could start by omitting dairy products from your diet, then the meat, then the fish, etc. Doing it all at once it might be difficult to make sure you were getting all the necessary nutrients, but it wouldn't be impossible.|||It seems like it would take up a lot of time to prepare it all and isn't that convenient. Also, the people who get into it seem to be obsessive and perfectionists.|||No - it's just another fad. Your present diet sounds fine, and moderation is always the key to a healthy way of life.|||Yes................ Or may be|||not at all, its a silly fad thats EXTREMELY hard to follow