Citrus cooling agent

January 2, 2002

Doug, After a day of not eating five or

six citrus fruits, I am feeling warmer and more

energetic. Such is hardly an objective test but time will

tell. I now think that quantity has been my largest

error. The right foods need to be taken in the right

measure. Sitting at a table eating a pound of

spinach with a knife and fork looks outright loopy to

your average SADer. It calls to mind the perfect shape

of the hands and jaws for folding and munching

leaves. On avocados I find that at the city's

main vegetable market I can get them in quantity for

about 15% of the retail price which tends to be steep.

Roger's site is an encouragement. Dare I say that David

Wolfe is a younish man. Being in my fifties I have a

lifetime of unhealthy living to tidy up and the recovery

rate is slower. David Wolfe who appears to be in his

twenties has a much faster built-in recovery mechanism. In

our twenties, recovery from drinking a bottle of

whisky in an evening was no big deal. Now two glasses of

whisky would be more than I would contemplate. In fact I

never drink it - three glasses of wine are more than

enough. A young body will extract a lot more out of the

same food. I think also that as the transition into

the raw food diet evolves, the food processing of our

bodies alters. Thus things that did not work before

start to kick in. Thus extra circumspection is

required for the more advanced in age. The transition

period must be longer and mistakes and deviations are

punished the harder. Wolfe speaks of going for a week on

melons. I am still far from such antics. On the bright

side, I am slowly pulling uphill and that a huge

reward. Enough Peter

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