The Diet

I've considered a lot of raw diets. I'm very dubious of anything that requires dehydrated foods or supplements in order to make it work. The most solid raw diet I've found is Doctor Doug Graham's 80/10/10 diet. He's got a website, a forum, and a book.

The gist of it is mostly raw fruit, a big raw salad every day, and either no overt fats or very little (raw nuts and seeds and fatty fruits). The percentages work out to 80% carbs, 10% protein, 10% fat. If you've got questions, Doctor Graham is great about helping people on his forum. I'll be leaving out the overt fats and taking it easy on the greens, as I'm only planning on making this a short trip, which I'll eventually return to.

The problems with this type of diet, as I see it, are:

1) The Price: You're going to pay a lot of money of groceries on this diet. Some thing of interest however are the notable elimination of most medical costs, as most diseases won't touch you on this diet if followed properly, and the elimination of all junk food costs, vending machine costs, and "The latte factor."

2) Social Problems: Society revolves around food. There's no way around it. You're going to face social stigma if you tell people you're not going to eat their nicely prepared meal, or not join them at a restaurant (other than to eat salad). A lot of buisness and family functions also revolve around food.

3) Depending on how unhealthy your diet has been in the past, you may experience some unpleasant physical cleansing functions are you body clears out all the crap. This is generally called "detoxification."