raw food diet

So last night I'm settling down to watch The Daily Show on More4 (British digital channel that provides a refuge from the incessant Big Brother coverage on the other channel 4 stations), but find it's been replaced by a documentary on people who only eat raw fruit and vegetables. The remote's...

During my first semester of college, I had a professor who was.. well.. a hippy. Both in dress and attitude. He was a huge proponent of raw food dieting. The reason he gave was a vague and had to do with raw food having more enzymes that are cooked out of the food and lower its nutritional...

Has anyone else heard about this "raw foods" idea? I first read about it in the horrible magazine Vegetarian Times, and thought it sounded completely bogus. But I didn't think much of it because lots of stuff in that mag is completely bogus. Then, however, I saw an article in a recent Martha...