raw foods: Is it the most healthy diet due to the fact that its based solely on fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed? I consume these things already, I don't follow the raw food diet, but I enhance my healthy diet with its elements. I enjoy non-fat yogurt, milk, kefir, cheeses, and free-range meats (beef, poultry, lamb, etc) in my diet. Is this best, or would it actually be more beneficial to go completely raw (health wise)?|||The raw food diet reverses disease....sounds healthy to me :) Raw food diet cures type 2 diabetes in 30 days documentary>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUw9SaPL鈥?/a>|||It must cost you a fortune. Many raw foods are very toxic. Potatoes have been mentioned already, how do you feel about beans? Don't forget the red queen paradox, you need to run twice as fast to stay in the same place. This also goes for plants and many plants have developed poisons to stop themselves being eaten - these are destroyed by cooking properly. Also cooking breaks down things like cellulose and makes the energy available to humans. This is one of the biggest advantages humans have over other animals. What makes you think that non-fat yogurt is in any way natural? Along with the rest of your list. The only reason you can eat this diet is because you are wealthy and middle class. If you had to live on $1/day you would really be eating properly on veggies only.|||i wouldnt eat raw meat if this is what you mean if i have got this bit wrong then im sorry for misleading my self for not reading it properly but everything else you have listed is fine plus plenty of you can eat almost any thing raw wish i had you i wouldnt have to cook and you would be so cheap to look after im glad you are not faddy like some people are also liver is another good sorse for iron raw eggs are very good as i eat quite a lot hope this as helped you take care|||It's just another trendy diet. It's definitely better than the atkins diet, but that's as far as i am willing to go. A good indication of how silly it is, is the fact that no legitimate currently active athlete follows an all raw food diet.|||I don't think so. Thats my opinion anyway. How exactly do you eat raw dried beans??? Yuck? Raw potatoes, ditto. And some nutrients are not released until the food is cooked. Lycopene is a good example. Tomatoes have a lot of it but only in the cooked tomato products.|||Ignore faddy 'fashion' diets; they spring up every few years just to sell a few books. You seem to have a good, balanced diet already, I can't see why you need to change it.|||You're smart for trying to be proactive about your health. It looks like you're eating enough raw elements to be of great value. If you're eating other elements and they're not causing any problems then there's no reason to change.|||A mixed diet is the best. 70% of your diet should be raw.