Re: FOOD--RAW Versus COOKED.
A lot of recipes on the raw food diet is fattening. Olive oil is extremely beneficial and I take 1/4 cup each night before sleeping with lemon juice instead of lecithin. It is natural and very, very good. Saying that, 1 cup of olive oil is 2000 calories.
Most recipe books do not state the real news on olive oil.
First Extra virgin olive oil goes rancid at 320 degrees so use this for salads and dipping.
Virgin olive oil is the one to cook with but only the cold pressed one.
See the news about Crisco having a light olive oil. This is awful and it is merely a light oil with a hint of olive flavor, a bad thing.
Avocado extremely good fat and good for you but Fuhrman says 2 oz, I believe.
Look at the diet book and you will see many high calorie recipes including many sugars and oils. What you have to do is improvise and ignore. Look only at the recipes that are extremely healthy and ignore all use of soy products, ooops debate here I am sure.
I might add also that the descent to raw should be gradual and not all in one day so your system can get use to the difference. Many complain of sickness so give up being raw but I found that a gradual raw diet is the best. Like one day, make one meal raw, two days later a little more. By the end of the week you are raw.
When I was first diagnosed with MS, I ate one meal a day and that meal was just a bit of cooked, like some black beans topped on a salad. To be well, go raw.
SARA