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By Richard Blackman

In the beginning there were many, many, many awkward moments and it was all my fault, after all, what was I really expecting the reaction to be but I just couldn’t keep my mouth shut or hold back my joy at finding renewed health and vitality, now you gotta see this from my point of view, I spent years blocked up and bloated and feeling like I was on a slow ride to hellsville, now all of a sudden I discover a way to undo all of that, so to say I was extremely excited is an understatement and I just thought that people close to me cared about enough to share in that excitement with me but instead I was made to feel like a nut case, an oddball, people tried to make me feel small just so they didn’t have to feel guilty for not doing what they knew they were supposed to be doing, LOOKING AFTER THEIR HEALTH.

I had become the health freak that people felt awkward around and the joke of the party at social gatherings to the point where I just quit going to them, but I was so happy that I was actually feeling better about myself that I couldn’t wait to share my new discovery to anyone that would show the slightest bit of interest, at first people would be polite, then comes the “well where do you get your protien from?” question in a sarcastic tone, as if they have already decided that your crazy and the thing is that it doesn’t matter what scientific evidence you answer back with, they still can’t get their heads around the fact that you would even dare go against the grain in such spectacular fashion, I’ve even had people fly into an all out rage at me just because I chose to eat a bunch of bananas around them, oh and don’t you ever dare eat an avocado in it’s natural state with no dressing, that’s just asking for trouble, it’s almost as if people see you as betraying the human race by not joining in on the mass suicide, infact while your patiently explaining the concept of Fruitarianism in their head they are busy thinking how niave and stupid you are.

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After the dust died down, the attacks and insults came thick and fast, especially when I was going through full blown detox and I wasn’t looking or feeling too good, I don’t know what it is about detoxing but people, even complete strangers seemed to think that they had the right to insult me to my face, it was like I was a magnet for insults, this is something I wasn’t fully prepared for, when I started all of this I never knew all my so called friends would look at me like I was some kind of traitor and desert me as if I had gone out of fashion or something, people were just looking for any excuse to critisize the Fruitarian lifestyle or put me down, just so they could prove that their lifestyle riddled with sickness and disease was the right way after all, this really hit me hard, on one hand, all I knew was that I had discovered something so fantastic that I could hardly contain myself and on the other hand I was learning fast that I couldn’t share my joy with anyone, I couldn’t share what had become so important to me…..my rejuvenation.

I continued on my path regardless and as well as having to deal with other peoples fears/issues, I was also starting to have moments of great irritability and anxiety and would catch myself verbally lashing out at people, which was not like me at all, I really couldn’t figure out why, until I accidently stumbled across this thing called detoxification while doing some more research on Fruitarianism, from what I had previously read about transitioning to the Fruitarian lifestyle, it really didn’t seem that much of an issue but being the organised type of guy I am, I figured that reading up and getting prepared, would be a good idea anyway, again what I read gave the impression that it would just be minor discomfort and I was real proud of myself for thinking a head and getting myself prepared and I figured with my strong will and go getter attitude, I could make the transition without any major problems or issues, after all, I did take the time to look up all the information I needed, I visited all the raw websites and read all the raw books, so I was done and ready to do this…RIGHT?

WRONG…Now I look back on it, nothing could possibly of prepared me for the hell I had got myself into, it was a nightmare both mentally and physically, trying to make sence of it all was a waste of time and just made things even worse, it really wasn’t like what I had read about at all and on top of that I was rapidly losing weight, I was also getting too tired to workout, I didn’t stress about it in the begining then after another couple of months people that knew me when I was much happier, bigger and more athletic looking started making comments, telling me that I was looking way too skinny, I ended up losing the few friends I had because I was no longer socially accepted, I wasn’t the athletic hunk that they had built me up to be, my self esteem went through the floor and I had great trouble dealing with the whole wieght loss issue.

I was used to being the big/athletic rugby player, fun loving, life and soul of the party and here I was now, exactly the opposite, a lot of my self esteem was tied up in looking and feeling athletic, after a while I got sick of people telling me I was looking like death and I quit the Fruitarian thing many times because of this, fortunatly for me my body had already made up it’s mind that it wasn’t gonna quit getting what it really needed just because of my addicted mind and made it clear that quitting wasn’t an option by drawing me even closer to fruits and as time went on my awareness of health issues grew and I decided that I wasn’t going to stop the Fruitarian thing and that I will learn to love the new me and maybe some day I could be what I wanted to be.

It was at that point that I learnt that the reason why I was losing so much wieght, basically we retain water to dilute the acidic pollution we are eating and once you stop eating that pollution and start getting it out of your system, you have no need to dilute it and my body was simply responding to the cleansing/removel of the acidic waste by letting go of all the retained water and unwanted fat that had accumilated over the years, so the more toxins that I got rid of, the more wieght I lost, so in actual fact on cooked foods I was walking around swollen, it wasn’t until I learnt all of this I became really comfortable with my wieght loss, after that, when people told me I needed to gain wieght I just laughed with pride knowing that it was all for a purpose.

It took me a while but I had to accept that I would probably be doing this Fruitarian thing on my own and inspite of the people around me but that was ok because for me it was all about doing it for myself and not to follow the crowd but there were still times when people offered me food out of pity because I looked so thin and I would slip up and say “no thanks…. I’m a Fruitarian” needless to say that I would have many awkward silences and moments where I would be the center of attention one minute then the butt of everyones jokes the next, throughout all of that I always held out hope and figured that if I could just carry on I would meet some like minded person that could completely understand me, someone I could confide in and share my difficult periods with but that person never showed up, I thought that I could find hope on the internet so I joined all the raw food forums that I could and faced even more hostility from the very people I thought would understand me.

The Raw foodist were no better than those eating the S.A.D. (standard American Diet) diet interms of the attacks I faced for being a Fruitarian and it used to hurt when they would tell me that as a Fruitarian my diet was lacking in the right nutrients and that I was crazy as well as stupid not to be eating greens, nuts and seeds for my protien, what made me laugh about their comments was we were all raised and even concieved on cooked foods and with no thoughts of nutrition what so ever we have all have spent the best part of our lives happily stuffing ourselves on cooked foods, which according to the raw foodists is supposed to be dead and void of all nutrients, I mean that’s the main selling point that raw vegans use to convert people, but all of a sudden as soon as they go raw they wanna gripe about not getting protien, they talked as if they had never spent their lives on cooked foods and I know for a fact that I certainly wasn’t counting the nutritional content of all the icecream, pizzas, cakes, chicken, beef, pork, Jamaican, Chinese,Indian, Mexican fast food, alcohol when I was stuffing them down my throat, so why be so picky now.

My Emotional floodgates

When my detox came, I really wasn’t prepared for my emotional floodgates to open up the way they did, even though I had read all the books written by the top raw guru’s, none of what they had to offer came anywhere close to what I actually experienced, they just offered poetic words and generalizations and before I could get a grip on myself, my thoughts were evil/foul, I had a real quick temper, my thought patterns were suddenly altered, depression had totally consumed me and my attitude was nothing but negative, I stopped doing everything because my motivation levels had hit the floor hard and couldn’t get back up.

I was also riddled with anxiety, I spent my entire time from then on lashing out at people, which really wasn’t me at all, on top of all of that I was constantly mentally and physicaly exhausted, as if someone had just flicked a switch, of course everybody thought I was crazy to continue on with this diet, nobody supported me at all and even though I still had faith in what I was doing, I was still totally overwhelmed, I believed every negative thing that was going on in my head to be true, it was impossible for me to tell the difference between fact or fiction at that time, I went from a happy go lucky guy that everyone wanted to be around to the exact opposite.

The reason why I was so tired all the time was because my body was using everything it had to give me a total body overhaul, I knew nothing about cleansing at that time because I believed what the guru’s said about how amazing the body was and how you don’t need to use any artificial cleansing/flushing methods because the body could clean itself perfectly, yeah, that’s all very idealistic and all but the body was not designed to digest cooked food, especially in the amounts we eat in just one day nor was it designed to clean all the acidic waste/debris from cooked foods, if it was, then we wouldn’t be having the health problems we are having, so unfortunatly for me my toxins were just being re-absorbed.

I didn’t know what was going on or how to deal with this, all I knew was that I had to get through it, it got so bad that I got laid up in bed for 7 days with severe flu symptoms, it was a nightmare, pretty soon I built up a healthy resentment towards this Fruitarian diet, it was the cause of so much pain and confusion for me, because of the negative thinking I decided that I wasn’t happy doing it, for a start, I didn’t like the change that went on in me, it stopped me from being my old self, besides all that, I just wanted to eat bucket loads of pizza, fried chicken, fries, ice cream, etc, sooooo bad, all of a sudden, I started to justify the negative things people had said about me and how eating cooked food wasn’t so bad after all, I came to the conclusion that I would be so much happier just going back to how I had lived before, I decided to quit and forget about the whole Fruitarian thing for good.

The problem was that the cleansing process had already begun and unknown to me my body had already found what it was looking for, but I still went back to cooked food, I was happy for a week or two then my stomach got blocked up and bloated again, then I got mucusy and sick, I began feeling like an old man again, this would go on back and forth but the more I cleansed the worse I felt when I went back to cooked food and the more of an opportunity I had to look at how my emotions were controling my progress, each time I quit and went back, I learnt valuable lessons, but even then I still had to learn the hard way, I eventually came to the conclusion that getting off cooked food was like getting off of drugs, cigarettes or alcohol. what I found really helped me was writing down my goals and how I felt when I was on cooked food and it also helped to stay from stressful situations/people.

I always say that if you have any mental issues like depression, anxiety, etc, cleansing yourself will bring it to the surface, so be prepared for an emotional fight, a fight that may last years but it’s a fight that will get easier but please let me tell you this, YOUR NOT GOING TO BE A NICE PERSON OR HAVE A NICE TIME in the begining, you may have cut down on on your social activities for a while, stick fast to your goals/dreams and don’t let this society tell you any different.

Quitting the habit

My detox was whooping my butt big time and getting off cooked food was turning out to be way harder than I ever thought, I would try different ways to gradually wean myself off it but that just gave me a license to carry on eating it, so I would just end up going cold turkey, which usually meant that after a week I would be like a raging bull, I’d be foul, aggressive and hateful, then I would go head long into a massive binge to escape all the pain, confusion and torment.

As the years went by I learnt that I had to detach myself emotionaly if I was to stay sane and think outside of my self because at this point my brain was just mush but my main problem was still getting over my cooked food addiction, funny enough candy, meat wasn’t the hardest to quit like I was expecting it to be and after a very long struggle I had finally managed to get off of my biggest enemies, bread, cheese and pasta but after that I found that condiments and salt were the hardest of all to give up, for example when I had finally gone 100% Fruitarian I used to eat 6-12 avocados a day with some type of condiment, I allowed myself to do this because I felt it was doing me no harm, plus the dressing was organic and had natural ingrediants, you know the drill, but then after a while I started to notice that I’d get mad if anything got in the way of me getting this dressing on my avocados, this happened every so often and I recognised the intensity from my detox days, so I began to question if it was really the avocado I was wanting?

So I tried an experiment, I stopped using the condiments and whenever I craved an avocado, I ate it but without dressing,

Guess what!!?

I couldn’t even eat one whole avocado in one sitting and the funny thing is that I craved avocados like a big dog but without the dressing I couldn’t finish one but as soon as I allowed the dressing I could eat them all day, that just showed me that it wasn’t the avocado’s I was really after, so I quit the dressing and went through severe withdrawls for about 3 weeks then I was done, now I only eat avocados on rare occasions and without dressing.

Back then I used to think that the world had suddenly been taken over by jerks and they were not shy in telling me what they thought I looked like, I soon realised that if I was going to tell the world what I was doing I was going to have to make sure this was what I really wanted to do, over time I grew to be more confident about being a Fruitarian and when it came to being social I didn’t care about turning down other peoples food or hurting peoples feelings, don’t get me wrong I was never disrespectful I just valued my health more than their acceptance and it just was not worth disrupting my hard work for fleeting moments of stimulation eating cooked foods or to please others, I just ate my raw fruits and loved it, things stayed like this for a while, so of course I would become the main topic of conversation.

As the years went by I had gotten used to all the comments and had built up a strong wall of resistance, now, even though I’m ok with being a Fruitarian I don’t feel the need to broadcast it to every body anymore, I just feel great in the skin I’m in, I don’t tell anyone what I’m doing and I don’t try to convert anyone, I just please myself and eat fruits, I’m so proud of my choice, I learnt that when you walk with confidence no one will question you, now I’m working out and in shape I’ve learnt that a lot of people don’t have the guts to insult me or question me to my face anymore and this has been the key for me, overcoming the emotional detox and getting active was the key that unlocked the door but these realisations are personal to each individual and here’s some more advice with regards to declining cooked food, DON’T BE AFRAID TO HURT PEOPLE’S FEELINGS BECAUSE WHEN THE SHOES ON THE OTHER FOOT THEY WON’T BE SCARED TO HURT YOURS!!!!!!

My biggest victory

Now after all these years I feel like I’ve overcome my major hurdles now and I feel that I can speak about my own experience with added confidence knowing that it is my own truth and no one can take that away from me or dispute me, I know now that no one can tell me that they have the secrets to the fruitarian lifestyle, I now know that all your personal secrets are inside you and it’s up to you to take time to learn about yourself, I learnt that going Fruitarian is essentially just a matter of going back to nature and getting in tune with your body, as time goes by you’ll see that going Fruitarian will automaticaly solve a multitude of modern health issues without you having to know any “secrets” or need any self proclaimed guru, nature will just simply take it’s course.

It’s amazing the difference it makes to your body when you stop eating cooked food and clear all that toxic waste/debris out of your intestines, I found that my fitness levels are so much better, I’m actually motivated to be active and exercise instead of feeling drugged up and lethargic like I did on cooked foods and my body thrives now I’m 100% Fruitarian, even though it’s completely true, I’m not going to wax lyrical about how great being a Fruitarian is and tell you that the Fruitarian lifestyle is absolutley amazing and my energy levels are through the roof, I’m not going to tell you that because it’s so easy for me to say that now I’m past my transitional/detoxification period and never mention the times where I struggled so desperatly to even get through a day or the times when I cursed the day I ever discovered Fruitarianism.

I’m aware of how much of a false impression it gives to people just starting out when you just mention the happy stuff because I was one of those people that listened to others waxing lyrical about going raw and I ended up paying the price, nobody told me how hard it really was and none of the raw gurus had it right either, but one thing I will say is that as hard as it was for me, every minute was worth it, don’t expect it to be an overnight process because it’s not and it will take a dedicated individual to get through it, you’ll will mess up on the way for sure but the message I want to leave you with is that no matter what, you get right back to eating raw foods until it becomes a habit, no matter how long it takes.

Breaking away from societies addictions was the best choice I ever made and I will never go back, my skin from head to toe has transformed from rough and tough to soft and silky, I don’t get colds or flu’s anymore, I don’t feel the aches and pains I used to have, my body has gone to it’s natural shape and I’m no longer bloated and constipated, I’m more at one with my body and my biggest victory of all is that I’m no longer a slave to my/societies addictions, my thoughts are clearer and more positive, don’t get me wrong it’s not all happy, happy, joy, joy, the world is still what it is and people still do bad things but at times it can get pretty close!

By Richard Blackman

Unfortunatly even when it comes down to health, people don’t want to be told what to do, especially if they enjoy doing it, I’ve known people that are dying from cancer but will not quit smoking, I’ve known people that are dying from liver damage but will not stop drinking alcohol or taking drugs, I can understand that nobody wants some stranger telling them that the way they, their family and everybody they know have been living is all wrong, I’m sure I’d be defensive too if someone said that about going Fruitarianism, wait a minute, they do, ha,ha, that’s why the majority of people that stay raw are people that are having great success with curing themselves of illness and people that are getting active and in shape and are mentaly strong enough to ignore the fears and negativity of others.

It’s a real shame but it usually takes a serious illness to wake some people up but such is the nature of our society, We think that we are raised to think that we can eat whatever we want and there are no consequences, as far as the average joe/jane knows we eat cooked food and it simply comes out the other end and we simply view getting sick as a totally unrelated issue, infact many of us think that we get sick because of a change in the weather.

To make matters worse, pride gets in the way and people don’t want to think that after all this time by choosing to eat cook food they have infact been commiting slow suicide and that their choices could be responsible for causing damage to their own and the health of their loved ones, especially if there’s children involved, it’s embarrassing for people to think that they have been fooled by the food industry into thinking that cooked food is anything but healthy and nutritious and if there’s one thing I’ve leant is that cooked food never gives, it always takes, so while you may be thinking that your getting away with it so far, it’s going to bring you down, maybe not now or tomorrow but it will bring you down eventually way before your time.

So as you can imagine, when a Fruitarian starts running off at the mouth about the dangers of cooked foods, it doesn’t take long before a million and one angry people rush to defend their position on why they eat cooked foods and why cooked foods are good for humans in general, even if they know that what you are saying makes perfect sense, just the mere thought of having to give up their cooked foods strikes fear right down to their very core, just like it would if you told an alcoholic, smoker or drug addict to quit their drug of choice.

Well I’m not here to say that everyone should suddenly give up their favourite cooked treats and stop eating cooked foods and I’m not going to act as if I don’t know the pleasures of eating cooked foods either because believe me, I’ve had the pizzas, the hamburgers, the ice creams, fast foods, slow foods, whole foods, any foods, I always loved cooked foods, one of the perks of eating cooked foods is that it briefly satisfied a lot of my emotional issues, if I was stressed, I ate cooked food, if I was upset, I ate cooked food, if I was happy, I ate cooked food and it seems that you also have certain food outlets to go to for certain emotions/celebrations too, so food was a huge comforter for me and I loved the gratification and over all bulky feeling it would bring, I always felt like I was big and strong on cooked foods but that was just a false sense of security, the interesting thing is that fruits was never an option, I just never wanted it and never ate it, the food industry has always done a good job making sure people like me keep coming back for more, my issue is that eating cooked food has it’s consequences that we need to be aware of so we can make our choices wisely.

One of the realities I face now as a Fruitarian and as a parent is that it’s like I’m always on the outside looking in and I get to see how we as humans have strayed so far from nature that we can eat the burnt, baked, boiled, fried body parts of dead animals heavily disguised in salt, sauces and spices, consume vast amounts of dairy products and fast foods such as pizzas, burgers, fried chicken, condiments, candies, ice creams with crazy flavours and wash it all down with sodas, concentrated fruit juices, cows milk, etc and think that this is all perfectly normal.

But check this out, here comes the funny part, we even manufacture and duplicate fake versions of all the above that is supposed to be so unhealthy, so vegans don’t miss out on destroying their bodies/health too and Vegans are falling for it hook, line and sinker, think about it, if meat is supposed to be so bad, why would you want to eat a fake version of it?

It’s such a shame because a lot of vegans think that they are escaping poor health just because they “eat clean” eat soy or tofu products, cooked vegetables and other whole foods thinking that it’s going to be good for them but that’s just not true, take soy for example, how can one product such as soy beans be made into so many different items such as fake ice cream, fake cheese, fake turkey, fake beef, fake bacon, fake yogurt, fake milk, fake hotdogs, fake chicken, etc,etc,etc, I’ll tell you how, flavouring and a heck of a lot of processing, that’s how.

Yeah by going Vegan you may not get as sick as quick as you would if you were eating cheap sodas, junk foods and meats but in my opinion and experience cooked Vegan foods just gets you sick slower but it will get you every bit as sick as every other joe/jane doe eventually, at the end of the day cooked food is cooked food and it’s effects are universal!

Well some people have told me that:

“Well if cooked food was so bad, how comes we have so many world class athletes on it then,”

Well my answer to that is because we also have so many stimulants and supplements, most world class athletes or even regular athletes take some kind of perfomance enhancing stimulant/drug or supplement in some way, shape or form, also when you think about it even the cooked food/meats you eat have growth hormones and stimulants in it.

Now I say ” if cooked food is so good for you, why is it that when you try to quit it, you have to go through the whole detox and transitioning thing, yet with raw produce you can quit it without even giving it a second thought,”

I also hear this one too:

“The whole world eats cooked food everday, I eat it and it comes out the other end, what’s the problem?”

Yeah, that’s right for most people they can eat whatever they like and it will simply come out the other end but that does not happen without any effect to your body, cooked foods cause allergies, significant auto-immune reactions and ultimately you end up getting sick with some disease because your so clogged up that you end up poisoning your whole system, you may not feel any changes or get sick straight away but the bottom line is this, continously giving your body foods that will produce acidic, toxifying waste matter is a form of Suicide by Self-Poisoning, over the years, stored toxins, bacteria, worms, and parasites turn into a thick mucus containing dead cell tissues which then lines the walls of the colon. This mucus eventually shuts down of the active, cells in your digestive tract, whose function is to absorb nutrients into the body.

For some people not pooping out that old food which they ate 4 or 5 days ago is perfectly normal, but what they don’t realise is that during the cooking process the majority of the water is taken out, so all that lovely steam and that great smell you see coming out of the cooking pot is the oxygen and water from your food going out the window, eating cooked foods is de-hydrating to your body which can cause constipation, this happens because your poop is often dry and gets hard because all the fluid is re-absorbed because it spends so much time in the colon.

Here’s some stats:

According to the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons, about 80% of people suffer from Constipation.

The National Institute of Health published the survey showing 4.5 million Americans are constipated.

In the U.S. there are 2.5 million doctor visits each year from people complaining of constipation.

Nearly 800 million dollars are spent each year on laxatives.

Constipation is the slowing down of the time it takes for food to be moved through the colon, which is usually called the “TRANSIT TIME”. with our diet of processed foods lacking enzymes and natural fibers, and heavy on sugar, and with less physical exercise, the TRANSIT TIME of food through the digestive tract can take up to 70 hours now think about this, that’s just one meal, most of us have several meals in one day, plus snacks.

A person suffering from irregularity and constipation can be carrying 40 pounds or more of old fecal matter in their colon!

There’s no two ways about it, wherever we like it or not, processed man made food is denatured and void of nutrients, now don’t get me wrong now, it looks good and is manufactured to taste great but the reality is that if we eat man made foods foods it will wear down our bodies. we must come to terms with the fact that nature has already provided us with the foods full of the nutrients we need, if you don’t think this is true just look in the hospitals and the world around you, also continue to eat it and watch yourself gradually deteriorate and age rapidly and thanks to the food industry cooked food also has addictive ingrediants so any chance of quitting is very low and if you don’t believe that then try going without it for a week, then try to go without fruit for a week, you will probably find that you can easily go for a week, a month, even a whole year without fruit but you’ll really struggle to go even a day without cooked food, not because we need the nutrition but because we are addicted in some way shape or form.

Here’s what actually happens to food when it’s cooked

1). The food’s life force is greatly depleted or destroyed.

2). The structure and nutrient makeup of the food is altered from its original state.

3). Nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc.) are depleted, destroyed, and altered.

4). Up to 50% of the protein is coagulated. Much of this is rendered unusable.

5). The water content of the food is decreased. The natural structure of the water is also changed.

6). Toxic substances and cooked “byproducts” are created.

7). When eaten, waste material is created, which has a clogs up the body and messes up the natural eliminative processes of the body.

8). The enzymes in raw foods are destroyed at temperatures as low as 118 degrees fahrenheit.

9). Eating enzyme dead food places a burden on other organs which eventually exhausts these organs.

10). It takes more energy to digest cooked foods.

11). Compremises the immune system due to having to handle the amounts of toxins and toxic by-products.

12). After a cooked meal, there is a rush of white blood cells to the digestive tract, leaving the rest of the body unprotected by the immune system.

13). Tendency towards obesity through overeating. Because the cells don’t get enough nutrients they are so to speak “always hungry” and hence “demand” more food. Cooked food is also less likely to be properly metabolized, which is another factor in excess weight gain.

Whose to Blame?

In this day and age the food industry has managed to make the flesh of dead animals and cooked food in general look and taste great and have made an art form out of marketing their pizza, fried chicken, burgers but to be fair, we cannot put all the blame on them because we do have a choice but first we need to wake up to what’s really going on with our food before we can make that choice, in the effort to look like they care the fast food companies even tell us that if we cut down on fast food everything will be alright but for me cooked food is cooked food.

We the public need to look to ourselves and how we are treating our bodies, after all, as I said earlier, we are the ones with the choice, we are the ones that decide what we put in our mouths and what we need to stay away from, all you gotta do is just check out any super store, especially in the poor nieghbourhoods and you’ll find people buying up all the cheap chemically loaded “no name brand” foods, without even batting an eyelid.

Over the generations we’ve learnt to be great scientists, our kitchens are our very own labs stocked up with all kinds of ingredients, ready to make up a tasty concoction that serves no nutritional purpose what so ever, if you don’t think this is true, try eating a steak or any cooked meal with no salt/seasoning and no condiments. the way I see it is that you can make anything taste good if you put enough sugar on it.

As I said before, I’m not here to tell anyone to not eat cooked foods or that they are wrong for doing it because we all have choices, after all, I was raised on rice and beans and eating cooked food was just natural, your talking about someone that loved eating cooked food so much that I could eat anyone under the table, eating raw foods never even came up until I started seeing that my body was getting really sick, I used cooked food to comfort me when I was stressed, angry, sad or just plain bored, I was your classic addict and that’s how the food industry wants it!!!

I spent the early part of my life eating meat, rice, breads, veggies, whole foods and junk foods, then spent about five years as a vegan eating all kinds of foods from vegan junkfoods to whole foods like rice, veggies, breads, soy products and yeah it all tasted great but none the less was doing a lot of damage to my body both mentally and physically, I tried every way under the sun to quit cooked foods but failed each time, I tried to cut cooked foods gradually but that just gave me the excuse to keep on eating the stuff, which is the main reason I quit so many times when I first started out, I eventualy sat my self down for the last time and asked myself if this Fruitarian thing was what I wanted, I decided that going Fruitarian was what I wanted and needed to do for my health and going 100% was the key to experiencing real/natural health and then bit the bullet and went cold turkey!

Trying to give up cooked foods was a nightmare, I was like a crack addict but then I knew that I had to stop doing what I had always done and not quit, after I got through it I experienced a great sence of well being and vitality, I saw changes in me both mentally and physically that I only dreamed off, yes it was extremely tough and at times felt like torture and on top of that I had no support, not even from Raw Vegans but that just made me a stronger person and every minute was worth it.

Which is exactly why I can say what I say because I’ve been there, not just once but many times……it doesn’t matter how you wanna put it cooked food is cooked food and vegan or not it’s not good for your health. So yeah while your “bulking up” it’s cool to boast about how many burrito’s and how much other crap you can eat at one sitting, spare a thought for what’s really going on internaly when you burden your body in such a way, think about where all the additives, chemicals, fats, etc are being stored and instead of overworking and exhausting your internal organs by stuffing yourself with dead food, try helping your body and give it what it needs to regenerate and heal.