Pathetic Fudists are noticing us

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Their latest crock: 'orthorexia nervosa'. Twenty

years from now, we'll hardly have aged and they'll all

be dead or on the operating table, still muttering

about how crazy WE are. <br><br>Besides meal-times

themselves, the considerable time my wife & I spend on food

(storage, inventorying, shopping, but minus cooking) is a

matter of self-reliance, not obsession. I took two days

of raw food with me on a recent airline trip, and

felt smugly superior to everyone around me. For longer

trips, I'll just get a miniature battery-powered

refrigerator. (That really ought to put them in a tizzy!) Now

in my 17th month of 100% raw, life is vivid, my IQ

is at an all-time high, and my 56-year old bod feels

like a new car.<br><br>MY food habits are quite the

opposite of nervous. I don't feel guilty about the

occasional chocolate dessert, since it's under 1%. If I do

eat too much junk, my stomach is now alive enough to

tell me off, so I don't need to have my conscience or

self-discipline involved. ANY kind of cooked food defiles the

body, but that doesn't stop me from the chocolate

tidbit or glass of wine, as long as I'm in the

fruit-eating part of the day, rather than during the 4-6 hrs

after my main meal, when digestion must be left alone.

I don't need iron self-control for my diet, just

self-awareness.<br><br>Once you count all the hours it takes a huge

work-force to process, package, and deliver all that

death-laden artificial food, and the huge industrial plant

backing them up, their use of 'obsession' sounds more

like the dirty black pot calling the kettle black,

when the kettle is actually clean and shiny. THEIR

obsession is societal rather than personal, encompassing

not only the food-processing industry, restaurants,

supermarkets (except the produce section), & cookbook

publishers (TV programs too), but also the entire

weight-watching industry, and of course, 90% of the medical and

pharmaceutical establishments. The gall of them to diagnose US

as obsessive! They sicken steadily from a multitude

of food-caused ailments and afflictions, and then

die like flies at half their natural lifespan, but

woe to him or her who secedes from their sick

empire.<br><br>How sweeping to lump us raw-foodists in with all the

benighted food-mistake-ists. I suppose they would classify

my love of barefooting as just another fetish!

<br><br>Finally, friends, note how the 'good doctor' just HAD to

put down any association of food with spiritual

values. That was the most telling (and damning) thing he

said. But don't worry: there may be more of them, but

they're dying at a far higher rate. Maybe in their next

reincarnations they'll be into raw food.