[greyman]

Hi geekchic9,
I personally don't feel pushed by Steve that raw food diet is the best, and I also don't feel he isn't open-minded about diets. He stated clearly that it is an experiment he is doing on himself.

It seems to me, that what you did to yourself is to tailor your personal diet around your health problems and now you call this a best diet for you. But it may be that you just *fixated* your current health condition with medications and high-protein diet.

While with the raw food, I suppose, your body would start cleaning, so what seems to you as "this diet is not suitable for me" was maybe just a detox of your body, which will make you feel uncomfortable, because that would actually *change* your health condition. But if you are satisfied with your state as it is now, you of course don't have a reason to change it.

My experience
My father is also a fan of raw food diet (he is about "90% raw"), and he also prefers the "lots of fruit" alternative. I can testify that his health condition improved a lot - his diabetes and overweight disappeared after a few years and now he is pills-free and more energetic.

But on the downside, he became a bit fanatical about persuading others to go to raw diet, which produced the opposite effect and is a bit annoying sometimes. ;-) But anyway, I am happy that raw food diet helped him.