The Two Sides of the Raw Food Movement

As with the standard American diet, the diet philosophies in the natural health world can be confusing, especially when the promoters of the raw-food diet haven't even agreed with each other on what really constitutes the raw food diet. For example, there's the Hippocrates program, which proposes a diet consisting mainly of sprouts, vegetables and very little fruit. There's the Rainbow Green Diet, which eliminates fruit for a while and focuses on vegetables, seaweeds, spirulina and other "green" foods.