It was not painful, though it still wanted to be put up—but not as desperately , and it simply wanted mainly sleep 
for the first two weeks. I still had to work and walk at the farmer’s markets  and in our garden, resulting in more time on the foot this 
time, yet it hurt less and healed faster. At three weeks, my toe was what I would have considered completely healed be fore, as I could do everything I did before 
80/10/10 . That’s less than a third of the time it took the first time. Since I’m m ore active now than at any other time in my life, it took 
a few more weeks before I could do everything I was doing again—still le ss than half the time it took for a less-severe break that 
occurred before going low-fat raw vegan. My foot feels as good as new now an d doesn’t give me any trouble in any of my 
activities, even with the contortions and stresses I put it through i n the process. Nice. Now I Love to Exercise! The first thing that I noticed when switching from approximately 20% of  calories from fat to 10% or less was that I felt better. My 
body seemed to get down to deeper repair work. My legs suddenly felt lighter and st ronger, too, like they could jump really high 
more easily—and they wanted to, so I did. My husband was simultaneously am used and amazed. When I first started eating low-fat raw vegan, I used to have to get my  son or husband to carry the watermelons I got at the 
market. Now, not only do I carry them myself with ease, I can even carry t wo of them at a time—and they’re each twice as big, 
too! For the first time in my life I actually truly want  to exercise. I find myself looking for excuses to move my body, which is very 
foreign to me indeed. I had always been one to find excuses to sit where I was  and not exercise. Never before have I experienced 
looking forward to my free time in order to exercise! As a result, I’m sta rting to look more athletic. People now think I’m a dancer 
or a gymnast. I feel so physically adventurous now—loads more than I ever was bef ore. I’m no daredevil or anyth ing—I’m  not skydiving or 
bungee jumping—but I have become more athletic, and I’m willing  to try new things that require physical activity , purely for th e fun 
of it or just to see if I can. (It’s not hard to be more willing than I use d to be … heck, I wasn’t at all  willing before.) I’m no 
bodybuilder, although my body’s been building itself quite nicely . I have been gaining strength, endurance, and muscle weight whil e 
eating this way—once I got rid of most of my excess fat, that is. I discovered new physical abilities, as well. My balance, coordination, and de xterity dramatically improved somehow, even at 
the beginning, before I had been active much at all. My aerobic exercise  had always been limited by my breathing capacity, because 
I would lose my breath long before my muscles would get enough of a workout to work ou t my heart. Now, in retrospect and in comparison, it was like I had been running on dirty fu el when I exercised before. Suddenly, aerobic 
workouts felt so “clean” and “crisp.” I felt like I could go forever (but my  heart wasn’t used to it, so I took it gradually). I could 
breathe really deeply and not have that sick and dirty feeling at the  beginning. It was and still is great! Now when I’m exercising, I
feel happy and my body feels happy, which makes me happier, which gives me more  energy and motivation to keep exercising, 
which makes me even happier, and so on … I love it! I’ve never felt like thi s before. Until I was following Dr. Graham’s program for a while, I never was a ble to do full-on push ups, even though I used to 
bodybuild a bit in college and could do hundreds of bent-knee push-ups in various han d arrangements when doing martial arts in 
high school. I discovered that I could do a full push-up after eating this wa y for a time, and I worked on them to see how many I 
could do. I got up to 23 in a row before I moved onto something else. I later went back to push-ups, going airborne this time by quickly powering th e pushing so that at the top of my full push-up 
my hands and toes hop off the ground while keeping my full body tight and straig ht! I got up to 15 in a row before I got sidetracked 
with pull-ups. I got a pull-up/chin-up bar for myself and couldn’t even pull my self up enough to make a movement at first—as had been the 
case all my life. My husband showed me how to help myself with a step stool an d after a month, I could lift myself halfway up. Exciting! It wasn’t much longer before one day I pulled myself al l the way up—without the step stool. My chin was all the way 
above that bar on my own—not just above but high  above, so the bar was at my chest and my chin was above the door! Not long 
after that, I became hooked on Ashtanga yoga practice, so I haven’t c ontinued with the chin-ups much since. I’m having so much 
fun! I went surfing for the first time ever about a year into the 80/10/10  lifestyle. I did pretty darn well, especially for a then thirty- 
eight-year-old mom who had only ridden a skateboard a few times (for only a few  feet each time), a boogie board once, and a 
surfboard not at all. I stood up and rode the very first wave! I was catching l ittle waves on my own and riding after only about 45 
minutes. Cool! I belonged to a health club for a while about a year into 80/10/10  and was surprised to find myself, a petite 5'2", then 98- 
pound woman, lifting about the same weight or more than the businessmen t here, without effort. I was more surprised to find that 
some days I could just keep adding more and more weight, seemingly to no end. I woul d go with small increments, so on those 
days, I usually ended up getting tired from the number of reps before the wei ght ever got to be too heavy. Big guys were always there lifting tons of weight in order to build m ore muscle and get more “cut”…and then there’s little old 
me lifting relatively minute amounts of weight while my muscle s just burst out. I can actually feel my muscles growing during m y “off” 
time, and they don’t get sore if I eat fruit afterwards like Dr. Graham s uggests. It makes me feel bad for them—if only they would 
do their exercises properly and follow Dr. Graham’s program, they’ d get much better results for their time and effort. These days, I no longer go to the health club, as I’ve gotten more into bodyw eight exercises, Ashtanga yoga, aerial fabric, 
dance, and other things. I also have free weights at home and at work, if I dec ide that I want to use them. The machines are fun, but 
they aren’t “calling” me right now. This Is Eeeeeasy … 
I have found this way of eating is much, much, much easier, quicker, and mor e efficient than any other I’ve tried. Life itself has also 
become easier overall. Not only do I have greater peace of mind, increased phy sical abilities, increased energy, and greater health and happiness, but my personal needs are so much simpler and easier to meet t han before. I have more time and resources to spend 
on other things. My life is very full of activities and responsibiliti es, so this improvement really helps. I know that there is no way I could have done all that I have done and all that  I am doing, if I were still eating any other way. Since beginning Dr. Graham’s program, I started homeschooling my  gifted and dyslexic son with self-created custom curricula, 
started two corporations with my husband, organized a local branch of our chur ch, was ordained as one of the clergy, and 
counseled members of our congregation. I have also started a homeschooling  support group, a raw food support group, and 
organized regular raw food potlucks, all with corresponding websites. I am still doing all of these things now, and I am also writing two books, filmi ng a video/TV series, working on building up my 
fitness level, doing occasional work for long-standing clients from my ol d consultancy, and of course, continuing to maintain terrific 
and loving relationships with both my husband and my son. Now I find it much easier to go places for the day, or even a few days. I have le ss stuff to take with me. I no longer need to 
walk around with a water bottle on a shoulder strap so I always have wat er. I don’t even use it during the day now. I still drink 
water in the morning and after intense exercise, but I don’t find th e need for it otherwise. My body regulates its temperature better , 
so I don’t need to take as many clothing options with me when going out, eith er. Because of my autoimmune condition, I used to get sunburned almost in minu tes, at times even in the shade, whereas now I 
can stay in the sun without a burn  ten times longer than I used to. My skin is not tan yet, but it’s not pas ty anymore. I don’t need to 
desperately seek out the shade at the beach, or figure out which hat will  stay on and give me adequate protection. I can actually take 
walks on the beach without all the cover-up gear and  out of the shade. I only use a sun hat if I’m out in the full sun during midda y . For the first time, I can go to the farmer’s market in the afternoon wit hout a hat and no burn! My hair is just getting silkier and better looking—without shamp oo or conditioner! W ow! My skin, teeth, and nails have never 
looked or felt better either. Amazing, because while I brush and f loss my teeth and bathe daily with water, I haven’t used shampoo, 
conditioner, face soap, body soap, toothpaste, deodorant, makeup, lotion, sunscreen, bug repe llant, or anything but water on my 
body (except dish soap on my hands) for over two and a half years now. Funny—just some scrubbing and water. Who’d have 
thought? My skin has never been smoother or more lovely than it is now, and I am vir tually free of the acne that I’ve had ever since 
puberty . People comment frequently now on how my skin “glows,” how healt hy I look, and how pretty my hair is, wanting to touch 
it and do things with it. I haven’t had people wanting to do that with my  hair since I was a very young child. Eating this way requires little food preparation. All I have to do is put my  fruit for the day in a box, and maybe grab some 
salad and tomatoes if I don’t have enough at work already , and go. No need to slice , spread, arrange, layer, bag, or cook, transfer, 
clean, etc., as with cooked food. Of course, you can make the 80/10/10rv  food fancy enough for any gourmet undertaking if you 
want, but you don’t have to go through all that every day just to eat. If I don’t have enough with me or get caught out at mealtime, I can go int o practically any grocery store and get fruit. No more 
shakiness, spiciness, and low blood sugar if I have to skip or delay a meal. Inste ad I feel fine and still perform well mentally and 
physically until I refuel. If I know I’m going to have a busy day , I’ll throw some fruit and possibly  greens or celery in a blender with water in the 
morning before I leave, to take with me to drink while working. I take a bit of thi s, watered down, to Ashtanga as my sports drink 
and often drink the full smoothie afterwards on my drive back to work. I have a ble nder at work too, in case I decide to exercise or 
have a smoothie or dressing while there, as I am often at the office for ov er twelve hours at a time. But in truth, I rarely need or want 
to use it at work. I use less trash, and have more compost with which I can grow more food. At th e end of the day, I have only a salad bowl, 
occasionally a smoothie container, and a compost container to wash for the w hole day. You can do that with just water, too, if you 
do it right away. The day we got rid of our stove was such a wonderful day. It was such a freein g experience, and it made the whole kitchen 
seem so much cleaner somehow. I have no need for pots, pans, ovens, or other cooking a ppliances and accessories. In fact, I could 
get away without any food-preparation utensils or dishes at all if I w anted to. I don’t need spices, herbs, medications, vitamins, 
minerals, or other supplements, either. It’s just so much simpler a nd more natural—less expensive too. Finally, I’m at Peace 
Prior to going raw, I had been close to a nervous breakdown as a result of living  in a high state of stress for several years. I knew I 
needed to de-stress, but I couldn’t see how, without conditions changing i n my life. I couldn’t exercise or do other stress-relieving 
activities, because I would just feel like I was getting further beh ind on things, which would stress me out even more 
(counterproductive to say the least). Now I am far less prone to stress and emotional baggage issues. My emotions  are more even and at a higher level than 
before. I still attend to things, but I don’t feel stressed about them. I  feel too good to bother, actually . It is not my life that changed, 
it’s me. I simply am not as stressed about things anymore. In fact, I ha ve had even more stressful things happen in my life than 
before, yet I have felt less stressed during these times. It’s kind of hard to describe … I guess the best way is to say that I’m at peace, more so than ever before—at peace with 
who I am, who everyone else is, and with what is going on in my life and aroun d me. From my experience, good health truly is 
happiness and peace of mind. I just plain feel good, and it’s hard to get t oo down when you feel so darned good all the time, you 
know? My body tells me it wants to play, and I follow! Learning to Eat Enough Food 
Once I started on Dr. Graham’s program, I started really liking my food a gain. It is yummy , and I look forward to it. I don’t put off 
my meals until I get ravenous anymore. I used to be so disinterested in  and uninspired by my food that I’d wait until I was so hungry 
I would just grab whatever was closest and quickest—which was almos t never a healthy food choice. My body just wasn’t 
interested in the food I was giving it. Now that I’m providing health y food for my body , it loves my food, and so do I. 
I find it fairly easy to get enough calories now, but it took a while to get to t he level of eating this much. When I started out, I 
wasn’t eating enough calories, although I felt fine. I think my body just didn’t want that much food back then, because it wanted to 
clear out old stuff. I figured out that I was only eating as many calorie s as would support an 80-pound person, but I also realized I 
had some fat to live off of to help my transition. Over time, it did work out. Initially, I only lost weight because I had exces s fat. Eventually I lost most of the fat, gained some 
new muscle (and weight along with it), and gradually started eating  more calories naturally as my body adjusted to things. Currently, 
I probably eat more calories than some would think I should and many think I coul d. It works out anyway, as I am getting stronger, 
gaining weight while keeping a healthy body-fat level, and I am feeli ng quite well. Don’t Live a Little … Live a Lot! If you’re looking to save time and effort in finding what works, look no further . Dr. Graham’s method works. I used to “live a little” 
from passing pleasures like non-optimum food, sacrificing my hea lth and well-being in the process. Now I “live a lot.” I don’t feel 
badly about my food choices or feel like I’m giving up anything. I’m choosi ng better health and more lasting pleasure, and I am all 
the more happy as a result. I feel so much better and see so many resul ts that I am inspired to keep going and don’t want to go back 
to cooked food or even high-fat raw. The fleeting satisfaction just isn’ t worth the risk of losing all that I’ve gained. This raw stuff is amazing. Not raw any  way—but this low-fat vegan way—that’s what’s making the differe nce! The more I 
follow all of Dr. Graham’s recommendations (which incorporate other li festyle factors besides diet: exercise, rest, pure water, pure
air, sunshine, sleep, recreation, etc. ), the easier it is to stay on the 80/10/10  raw vegan diet, and the better I feel. In fact, eating this 
way has enabled me to joyfully and naturally make improvements in many  other areas of my life, which I was unable to do before, 
no matter how hard I tried. To sum it all up, I just feel so alive! I want to tell the world! It’s so simple, and it works so well! I feel like my  body is 
celebrating life on a cellular level—it is happy to be alive and w ants to move to celebrate. I gladly oblige. Happy happy , joy joy , 
happy happy, joy! Reading my praise of Dr. Graham and his program, you may not realize that I  am actually exceedingly cautious and 
conservative about recommending any products or services, as I take this  responsibility seriously. That said, I highly recommend that 
you read and reread this book as many times as necessary, until you are able  to try this program and discover for yourself just how 
life-enhancing it is. Give it a good chance though, and follow everythi ng as much as possible. Like any generic guideline, the program 
described in this book may need adjusting for your individual situation. The g eneral method has worked wonders for me. I 
wholeheartedly recommend a private consultation with Dr. Graham to cl arify or address special health issues, if you need to. You 
won’t be sorry . Janie has a website, www.ringlet.org , which documents her first six months of following Dr . Graham’ s program and 
includes a photo history of her as well. She is currently writing two 80/10/10  raw vegan-related books: Ready for Raw,  due 
out in Summer 2005, and A Fruit Lover’s Guide to Edible Fruit, to be released later. She also stars in a video/TV series on 
similar subjects due to be released in late 2005 or early 2006. Richard (“Ribs”) Friedland, Malibu, California 
I became a vegetarian in 1967, because I heard it would heighten my consciou sness. It all made sense to me right away, 
especially when I realized that the way I had been eating was contri buting to the death of innocent animals, and that I could eat in a 
way that might be healthier, raise my awareness, and not harm other c reatures that lived on the earth. I went through a lot of changes during the first four years on a vegeta rian diet. I ate a lot of junk food in the beginning, as long 
as it wasn’t meat, fish, or eggs, and that made it easy for me to stick with  the diet. Then I started to switch from regular commercial 
sweets to organic health-food sweets and organic goat’s milk ice cream . I tried macrobiotics in those years, which was interesting 
but very hard for me to stay on. Against the advice of three doctors who said they would put their reput ation on the line that I couldn’t survive for more than 
18 months, I became a fruitarian in 1971 for a lot of the same reasons that I became a vegetarian. I ate only raw fruit, which didn’t include nuts or seeds or dried, frozen, of dehydrated fruit. I followed this diet v ery strictly for eight years. I didn’t know anything about the fat content of the avocados and olives I pi cked and ate raw from the trees. (Y es, I did 
actually like the taste of one particular type of olive. If I allowed the s mooth green ones to ripen on the tree until they were black and 
shriveled, I enjoyed their taste and ate quite a few at a time). I also ha d never heard of food combining, so I generally mixed 
anything that was available on a given day. For example, I might eat av ocados, dates, tomatoes, and citrus within a few hours of 
each other, although I didn’t do that often. I read a few books about fruitarianism, like Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless-Diet Healing System,  and then I waited to see if I 
would have experiences like they described in the book: almost unlimited en ergy, and incredible strength and endurance. I did not 
get the results I was hoping for after eight years. I still had sinus  problems, along with gas and mucus. For the next couple years, I ate raw foods, with mostly fruit. I went to see a  lot of alternative doctors, including ayurvedic 
practitioners and others in the next few years. I had a lot of tests and a l ot of dental work done. A number of these alternative and 
ayurvedic doctors suggested very strongly that animal products would be be neficial for me, as well as spicier foods, because I was 
too yin or cold, and I needed yang, heating foods. I did try chicken, fish, and eggs, with cayenne pepper and very little f ruit, for about six months in the winter of 1985. I didn’t 
feel much worse when I ate those foods, but I really didn’t like the idea of  consuming innocent animals, and I didn’t feel stronger and 
healthier like all the doctors said I would. So I started eating sweet fru its again. In 1992 I met a Natural Hygienist who explained to me about food combining. I  bought Dr. Shelton’s book and started eating 
raw fruits and vegetables at certain times in certain combination s, as described in his book. I did this for about eight years until one night after eating some cher imoyas and capotes I woke up after about two hours of 
sleep and couldn’t fall back to sleep. I was very uncomfortable the wh ole night, trying to relax, massaging myself, and attempting to 
stretch. Finally , I did an enema at around 4 am and felt a little better . I couldn’t figure out what had caused this, and I thought it 
might be a fluke. Well, the same thing happened the next night. That was  much more difficult, because I only got an hour of sleep 
both nights, and I was exhausted. It was hard to think and figure out what to do n ext. I was eating all raw fruits and vegetables in combination, which inc luded daily nuts, seeds, and avocados, and I was eating a 
late last meal of sweet fruit around 10 pm, which was pretty close to when I  went to sleep. The main reason I ate that late was that I 
found it impossible to sleep if I didn’t. So I figured I would eat some raw swe et fruit, which was my favorite food. I didn’t sleep for 
four nights straight, and on the fourth night I started to panic. I calle d the paramedics and told them I might be having a heart attack. I couldn’t tell what was going on. They took me to St. John’s hospital, where I  was tested for hours. Doctors there finally told me 
that my heart and cholesterol were perfect. The only problem they could fi nd in all their extensive testing was that I had a B 12 
deficiency. I left St. John’s in the morning and went to the W estside Alternativ e Center, which did a lot more very expensive testing. The 
tests cost me as much as the hospital bills from St. John’s, which ca me to a few thousand dollars. After about a week, I received the 
results from the tests from the alternative clinic, and they said I  had a B 12 /folic acid deficiency. I took B 12  injections in my butt for a 
few days, and then they put me on folic acid supplements. I started asking everyone I knew for help and information, because I st ill didn’t know what had caused my inability to sleep. I 
also wasn’t sure what I should be eating, because I had been eati ng the same way for 20 years straight. I knew a 30-year raw food 
chiropractor who told me not to eat any sweet fruits and to get my B 12  from Standard Process Labs. I felt a lot better for a while. That chiropractor died in a bicycle accident, and I went back to eating swee t fruit. I tried different cleanses, including the Arise and Shine one-mont h cleanse, which I followed to the letter. I got really weak 
during the final week of the cleanse, where you don’t eat any food. I called t he company to ask about it, and they thought it was 
some type of parasite like candida. I went to a doctor, who said that I could send a st ool sample to the Great Smokies laboratory if 
I wanted to know for sure whether I had candida. The test results showed tha t I had two strains of candida at the highest level. All 
my symptoms made sense to the doctor, because she had recovered from candida an d had written a book about it. They say with candida that fruit feeds it, and I ate a lot of fruit. I went  on a long, expensive candida cleanse for six months and 
felt pretty lousy the whole time. I ate nothing sweet for six months, not  even carrots or lemons, and I had to rotate my foods every 
four days. I took a lot of supplements, including Super Garlic, Primal Defens e, some expensive flora from England, and many 
others. I had a really difficult time during those six months. I found it hard to ge t any work done, because all my symptoms had gotten 
more extreme. I was so uncomfortable. I stayed with it for the full six mon ths and then took another stool test, which showed that I 
still had candida albicans at the highest level. The doctor suggested t aking prescription drugs, and I started back on a diet with sweet 
fruits. I tried numerous other diets, supplements, and cleanses during the next  few years, until I heard Doug Graham and Rozi 
Gruben speak at an event called Raw Passion. Rozi talked about what happens t o the blood when we eat certain foods. Doug said 
that it isn’t the sugar in fruits, but rather the fat that peo ple with candida consume that inhibits the body’s ability to get th e sugar out 
of the blood. I didn’t know whether what they were saying was absolutely what was  happening with me, but I knew I liked both of them 
immediately. They seemed to have a lot of conviction about what they were  saying, and they definitely had done extensive research 
and discovered a lot of information. I started to reflect on my situation. No one, out of the many, many doctors I had c onsulted with over the years had helped me 
make any health improvements. I thought I was on the best diet I could t hink of, but I wasn’t feeling well. These two people looked 
very healthy. It seemed obvious they had extensive knowledge about healt h and had already worked with people in a similar 
situation to mine, with improvements. If I didn’t like the way it was wor king, I could always go back to the way I was eating now. I 
didn’t have anything to lose by cutting out fats except my illness . There wasn’t really much of a decision left to make. I started eliminating fat from my diet that very day , and I began exp eriencing some very heavy elimination. I didn’t eat any 
overt fats for six months, because I didn’t know about 80/10/10 , and I thought the idea was to eat as little fat as possible, so I did. This meant no avocado, olives, or durian, and of course no nuts or seeds. Also, I didn’t know about Doug’s V egSource board, so I went back to eating a ra w diet with fat in it. The elimination slowed 
way down. I ate that way for the next six months, even though I felt terr ible again, until I saw Doug speak at the Living Light House 
in Santa Monica. I got to ask him some questions, which he was very willin g to answer, and I cut the fat again. Except this time I ate 
an 811  diet, which meant that I ate a little fat once in a while. I had so many wonderful improvements, but I still didn’t have the full  health picture. So I saved up a little cash and had a 
private consultation with Dr. Graham. During the consultation, we sa t down face to face within two feet of each other. This was 
really helpful to me, because I got a sense of what he was all about. I found a  genuine, caring individual who was absolutely 
interested in improving my health. It was hard to imagine what he woul d come up with to help me, because I was following the diet 
to a T. At the time, I thought that was what it was all about. What I didn’t realize, is that diet is only one part of a healthy lifes tyle, and that you’re only as strong as your weakest link. Those were only words to me at the time, but after he found an aspect of my lif e that needed some work and I worked on it, my 
health improved dramatically. That means I felt better. What greate r gift could anyone give to me? I felt more energy, and I enjoyed 
living more. That’s the best gift you can get! One of the topics we covered in the consultation was Doug’s sports cam p, called Health and Fitness W eek. He thought it was 
important for me to attend, and he asked me what he could do to make it possible. I  didn’t see how I could ever work it out at the 
time, because I had just spent all my extra money on this consultation, a nd I had so little time. But I took a risk, because it seemed 
like I needed so much to happen. I told him all the conditions it would take to make it  possible for me to come, and he helped me 
work it all out! I was just amazed by the honesty, sincerity, knowledge, and de dication of this person standing right in front of me, 
along with his sincere desire to help me with my personal health issu es. I attended the sports camp, and it was the best thing I could have done. It was s o helpful and beneficial that I ended up signing 
up for the following year’s sports camp before I left. This was the jump-start I needed to get headed down the road to true health. If 
you can figure out any way to make the next camp, I recommend that you do it, wh atever it takes! I’ve been on the 80/10/10  diet for a year now and have had the most remarkable success with it! I ju st want to share this with 
people. When you start to feel really good after not feeling so good for a long tim e, you want to let other people know that they can 
feel better, too. People sometimes ask me what I typically eat in a day, so I will share it w ith you. I usually eat three meals a day, once in a 
while only two. I normally eat my breakfast at around 10 a.m. Yesterday (Apri l 2005), I ate 12 ounces of blueberries, 8 ounces of 
raspberries, 8 ounces of boysenberries, and about 4 green baskets of strawberrie s. I ate lunch at 2:30 p.m., which consisted of 6 
cherimoyas and 4 capotes. I ate supper at 7:30 p.m.—about 8 pickling cucum bers, 1½ heads of red butter lettuce, about 5 lbs. of 
tomatoes, and a couple of celery stalks. Today as I write, it’s 10:30 a.m. After I do my last set of 100 stomach crunches an d maybe some push-ups, I will eat 
breakfast, which will be 12 ounces of blueberries and about 4 or 5 basket s of strawberries. If I’m still hungry , I’ll eat a papaya. For 
lunch I will eat at least 4 or 5 more cherimoyas, because I already fel t them and they are perfectly ripe! I’ll also eat some capotes 
and 2 or 3 mangos. I’ll probably have a similar supper, but I might hav e some avocado if it ripens up or some sugar snap peas, 
depending on how I feel at suppertime and what exercise I’ve done today . The first benefit I noticed from 80/10/10  was that I didn’t feel spacey or bloated when I ate sweet fruit. That  was a great relief 
to me, because I loved to eat sweet fruits, but getting bloated and spacey made  it very difficult to work, exercise, or focus on 
projects. The next amazing benefit I experienced was that I started t o be able to exercise without all the pain and discomfort that 
had made it next to impossible for me to exercise more than one day a week. The pa in has improved to the point now that I can 
exercise every day, which is wonderful, because I get a lot of very good bene fits from exercising. The third improvement was that I 
didn’t need to eat late at night in order to fall asleep. This helped me not  to wake up as groggy and out of it in the morning. Now I 
can get going earlier and start doing things I need to do, like work or exercis e or take care of the kids. I’ve had other side benefits, 
like my body getting more toned and looking better. Also, being stronger overall  is nice, too. It’s hard to explain how much better my life is now as compared to the w ay it was before I was following 811 . It’s like I’m a 
new person who is not horribly sick with candida and whatever other problems I  might have had. Not only has my life improved tremendously, but I continue to get better daily. This is fantastic beyon d anything I could have imagined the day I first heard Doug 
and Rozi speak about food during the Raw Passion event. Not only have these two people dedicated their lives to sharing health wi th as many people as possible, but they have also 
identified some of the most important keys to achieving and maintaining  ideal health. If anyone is interested in health, they should start following the 811  way of life. I can’t imagine anything that a person could 
possibly do that would be anywhere near as important—or as helpful. 811  is a healthy way to live life, and there’s so much more to 
it than just diet. Food is only one part of the whole picture of health. One of the things that really impressed me about the 811  lifestyle is that emotional stability is considered just as importan t as 
diet or any other factor of healthful living. Emotional work has been the m ain focus of my life for the last 35 years. When I heard 
Rozi explain that we need to feel all our feelings no matter what they  are, I realized that she understood feelings in the same way I 
did, and I consider feelings to be what I know most about in the world. So there you have it: Doug and Rozi have developed a system of living that i ncorporates all of the important factors to achieve 
optimal health for human beings on this planet. I plan on following this li festyle and learning more and more about myself and about 
health every day. I wish everyone who reads my story the best of luck on the ir path to better health. Laurie Masters, San Jose, California 
During my first five or so years of eating a substantially raw diet, I  blew through at least one 32-ounce bottle of flax oil each 
month. I ate an avocado most every day and night, and I ate plenty of prepared nut  and seed dishes. For about a year, I brought an 
almond/raisin torte (with my special lemon-date-spearmint frostin g) to every raw potluck. Like my raw friends, I was eating a ton of fat and didn’t know it. I thought I wa s eating a fantastically healthful diet. I ate 
dishes like raw granola, oat groats blended with soaked almonds, or bananas and al mond butter for breakfast. These probably 
averaged 250 fat calories. Lunch was usually a salad with one avocado (and t hat addictive lemon/oil/Bragg/garlic dressing). Between my lunch and dinner salads, I would down ¼ cup of flax oil each and eve ry day … that’s 480 calories of pure fat right 
there! I often ate a second avocado at dinner, the two of them probably totaling  about 450 fat calories. The nut/seed concoctions I 
made for dinner (mock tuna, salmon nori, etc. ), contributed another 400 calories  of fat. That’s 1,580 calories of overt fat in my day . My total calories probably ran about 2,000 per day—which meant that I  was eating about 79% fat! WOW!! My “healthy” eating was somewhat legendary within my own little  world. Goodness! The salads I would concoct in the 
lunchroom at my Silicon V alley offices … It was the company joke. On the  way out to local restaurants for lunch each day , the 
analysts I worked with would take a field trip past the lunchroom to see w hat “shrubbery” Laurie was eating today! They called my 
salad bowl “the trough.” At 88 pounds and five feet tall (I’ve been t hat size since I was 14; it has nothing to do with raw food), I 
could pound down a lot of salad. Or at least it looked that way to mainstream eater s. 
I spent an ungodly amount of time in the kitchen each day, even buying a se cond food processor, blender, and juicer to keep 
in my office so that I could now also whip up mock tuna and other such concocti ons for lunch if I wanted … which did nothing for 
my caloronutrient ratio, let me tell you! I enjoyed my food (who wouldn’t, with all that fat and salt), and I enjoyed the a ttention I received (“Where is a tiny person 
like you putting all that FOOD!?”). But I had one problem: my longs tanding fatigue and lifelong recurring bronchial infections we re 
NOT getting any better than they were when I ate cooked food. It was maddeni ng! As a child, I recall having a cold at least once every two months. Without  fail, I’d get swollen glands a day or two before the 
full-on bronchial affront would begin. Next, I’d get a croupy cough, a  sore throat, and sometimes earaches. I’d always hope that the 
cold would stay in my head this time, but darned if it didn’t “go down to my lung s” every single time. These “colds” never lasted less 
than 8 or 10 days. I lived on antibiotics. Mom would have us stop them early when our sympt oms went away , so we could “save” some 
antibiotics. That way , we would have some on hand and wouldn’t have to wait f or a doctor’s appointment the next time. At the 
slightest indication of swollen glands, I’d pop the pills … “to nip it  in the bud,” you know? W e were smart consumers! It’s a wonder I got through school at all. I was often absent a full week of s chool in a month. I’d do my schoolwork from 
home, my bedroom desk stocked with antibiotics, throat lozenges, vitamin C, and ex pectorant cough syrup. I spent a good portion 
of each winter “under the vaporizer,” as we called it. The bedroom wall s and windows would be wet with condensation from the 
mentholated vaporizer steam mom used to try to keep me breathing. Somehow, though, I managed never to manifest a diagnosable disease … main ly just those incessant chest colds. They 
continued unabated through my young adult life. Chronically underslept  and overstressed, I worked ridiculously long hours at my 
college studies and at my jobs, living on adrenaline and working right  through my ongoing illnesses. I’d come to work with no voice. I’d take work home and work from bed. I’m quite sure I exhausted my body to a devas tating degree. By 1990, newly married and still working crazy hours as operations manager a t a small electronics company, I was diagnosed 
with Epstein-Barre virus. Regularly sick, and dragging myself to wor k each day, I continued the downward spiral of ignoring my 
body and pushing through the colds, flus, episodes of strep throat and bronchitis, a nd occasional cases of pneumonia. I remember nearly falling asleep on the road driving home from work just about eve ry day that summer. Sometimes I’d pull over and nap for 
awhile, but mostly I’d talk or sing or scream out loud, slap my own face, and blast the music while I drove, trying to push my 
exhausted body another 20 minutes until I could get home. In the eighties I worked for a wealthy stockbroker who took us on incentive bonus  trips to places like New Orleans, where 
we would eat at five-star restaurants night after night. I learn ed to love rich, gourmet foods and ate more than my share of prime rib 
and creamy risotto. After nine years of working for this broker and her hus band, I could no longer afford my own taste in food. Always interested in what I believed to be health and nutrition, howeve r, I tended more toward grilled vegetables and fish, 
rarely if ever eating fast food. I pored over magazines for “healthy”  recipes. At home I would broil oil-coated vegetables and pour 
them over corkscrew pasta topped with pine nuts and herbs, sure that I was ea ting a supremely healthful meal. Then at age 34 (1997), I learned about raw foods from Pam Masters, a light-fille d soul who taught hundreds of people in the 
San Francisco Bay Area to eat raw food and heal their bodies as she had done h erself. Pam shared with us dozens of hand-written 
recipes that she had learned to make at Hippocrates Health Institut e years before. W ow! This rich, salty , fatty “health food” was 
right up my alley! I loved  what I was learning, and my taste buds loved it even more. Yet it never added up: I ate all this healthy food but still had endless sev ere head colds. Instead of getting better, it seemed as 
if my colds were coming more frequently and were increasingly more vi rulent. They never lasted less than three weeks, usually 
dragging on a month or more at a time. I would lose my voice completely, every t ime. I would cough violently. I would still work 
right through it all. In the late 1990s, it seemed I spent more of the year wi th a cold than I spent feeling good. Finally one day in total desperation, I phoned Doug Graham in Florida. I still  have the audiotape of that phone conversation. W e were friends by then, so he knew of my history of chest colds … but I had n ever asked him for help, so he hadn’t laid it on the 
line to me. Now I was asking, and I was in tears. First, he asked me to list for h im what I ate on an average day. He listened 
patiently , then he told me what he tells nearly every raw fooders who c onsults with him: “Laurie, you’re eating way too much fat and 
not nearly  enough fruit.”  
Never having had a weight problem, I had no concept of how many calorie s or how much fat was in the foods I ate. I didn’t 
believe that my diet could be as full of fat as he claimed, but I started inv estigating. Over the past half-dozen years, I have delved 
deeply into caloronutrient calculations, verifying for myself the t remendous amounts of fat that raw fooders are eating. I learned that 
nuts and seeds average about 75% fat. (Who was the rocket scientist who told u s these were protein  foods?) This kind of 
information gave me motivation to make some serious changes! Now, I have learned to eat pretty darned close to an 80/10/10  diet (cooked and raw, not the rave version). A lot of people 
fall over when they hear the quantity of fruit I eat each day . Togethe r with my partner, Tim Trader, I buy bananas by the case—we 
go through about 250 a week. W e frequent farmer’s markets, and our kitchen coun ter is a beautiful cornucopia of dozens and 
dozens of colorful fresh fruits at all times. I start every day with a 12- banana smoothie to which I add about a pound of one or two 
other types of fruit: pears, strawberries, mangos, stone fruits … wh atever catches my eye. (Y es, all that plus a couple cups of 
distilled water does  fit into one Vita-Mix container; it makes nearly three quarts.) Or I ’ll eat a banana/celery smoothie, sometimes 
adding parsley or kale or cilantro or other greens to it. Most days I continue e ating fruit in the afternoon (grapes, mangos, 
watermelon, nectarines, etc.) and then eat a salad for dinner, usually  with cooked vegetables as well. I am working on incorporating 
more whole foods and fewer smoothies … but for now this is what works for me. My fat consumption has dwindled dramatically. These days when I eat at h ome, I eat about 2 avocados a week and virtually 
no nuts or seeds, except some ground flax on my salads. I am just not attracte d to heavy foods anymore. My salad dressing is often 
a Mexican salsa, or sometimes just fresh-squeezed orange juice or ble nded fruit. About once a month I blend fruit and nuts for 
dressing (six strawberries, one orange, and eight mac nuts, for example , or 2 oranges and 2 tablespoons of tahini). Rarely, I still 
have a salad with ½ tablespoon of olive oil, but a small bottle of oil thes e days would last me years. Here is a list of what I actually ate one day in July of 2004: 
 
 9 bananas (900 grams/32 ounces) 
 1 apple (200 grams/7 ounces) 
 4 khadrawy dates 
 2 navel oranges (200 grams/7 ounces) 
 16 strawberries (250 grams/9 ounces) 
 1 nectarine (120 grams/4.2 ounces) 
 3 figs (100 grams/3.5 ounces) 
 10 cherries (60 grams/2 ounces) 
 3 small tomatoes (250 grams, 8.5 ounces) 
 ½ large head of lettuce (225 grams/9 ounces) 
 a little cabbage (100 grams/3.5 ounces) 
 a few sugar snap peas (25 grams/1 ounce) 
 ½ ear of white corn (35 grams/1.25 ounces)  lemon juice 
 ½ tablespoon olive oil 
 
The verdict? 1,740 calories, 87% carbs, 6% protein, 7% fat. Not bad! At potlucks and other events (maybe six times per year), I still usuall y eat at least a small portion of those gut-bomb 
combinations I used to consume daily . I still enjoy the taste of the high -fat dishes, but they’re almost always far too heavy and salty 
for me anymore—which is no small statement, as salt for me has been  a lifetime addiction! Life is getting better and better. Slowly but surely I am learning to m ove this body. For decades, I used to think to myself with 
resignation that I would never feel good enough to exercise in this lif etime. I do have a lifetime of adrenal exhaustion to undo … so 
it’s not happening as quickly as I’d like. But the fact that I get motiva ted to move at all is an unforeseen miracle. I get lots and lots of sunshine. My skin never used to tan, but now it’s br own all summer long. I know that the sun is nature’s 
disinfectant and that the sun nourishes me. The toxins that cause s kin cancer live inside of acidic bodies filled with fat, and the sun 
merely draws the poisons to the surface, like a poultice … but resea rch shows that the sun does not cause cancer in people who eat 
a low-fat diet. Don’t let anyone tell you that it does. My colds are coming far less often now. In fact, the last one was two years  ago. This may not sound like a big thing, but for 
me it’s a miracle—and a direct result of my low-fat diet. Naturally , I always thought of myself as “perfectly healthy , except for thes e 
colds.” But the truth is, I spent a great deal of my life in misery , and I m issed out on lots of life. One more thing: since I’ve been raw, I keep nothing medicinal or sup plemental in my house, period. Except for a couple of 
daily vitamins I took as a kid, a bottle or two of Shaklee vitamins in my twenti es, and the enzyme tablets I bought in my first year of 
eating raw foods, I pretty much haven’t touched herbs, algaes, miner als, powdered greens, or other such refined, dehydrated, 
encapsulated nonfood items of any kind. Thankfully , that’s one part of the  high-fat raw regimen I managed to steer clear of! If I hadn’t learned about the low-fat (raw) vegan diet, I’m sure that  my forties would have been a downward spiral of 
evermore frequent, ever-worsening chronic illness. Instead, I have  a new life to look forward to. For me, whole-food 80/10/10  is 
the way to eat as Nature intended … it’s far easier, lighter, and heal thier than all those fatty , salty , dehydrated, taste bud-pleasing 
“transitional” foods I began this journey with. I am deeply grateful to Doug (and Rozi Gruben and Tim Trader) for helping me  learn how to eat high-fruit raw! Finally, after 
a lifetime of increasingly debilitating chest colds that lasted a m inimum of three weeks at a time and came three to six times a year, I 
am feeling better all the time…and even exercising! Yes!! All is, most certainly, well! Lisa Oborne, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
As a child, I spent numerous days in the hospital and often missed school due t o asthma and allergies, among other maladies. In an average year, I would miss 70 days of school. At age 12, a severe asthma a ttack put me in the hospital for more than a week, 
where I had to be in an oxygen tent. Even so, I turned blue many times. After leaving the hospital, I instinctively began changing my ea ting habits and I became a vegetarian. In my childhood years, 
cheese, eggs, and fish were the only “meats” I ate. This change in die t helped, and my health began to improve. I believed I was 
doing the best I could for my health. At age 24, I was in a major car accident. With no feeling in my body from the ne ck down, I was told by my doctor that I 
would be in a wheelchair, probably for the rest of my life. After he left th e room, something amazing happened: an electrical current 
came from within, starting in my head and working its way down to my toes. I i mmediately sat up and walked out of the hospital. This was the turning point in my life. I knew that my body was capable of ama zing things, although I did not know how or why. With 
new respect, I began to listen to my body’s messages. W anting to learn more about my body’s functions, and sensing that I ne eded to trust more fully in its capabilities, I began 
reading widely in the area of natural health. My curiosity only grew  the more I learned. I have since taken many classes/courses in 
Natural Hygiene, including those offered by Dr. Doug Graham and Dr. Robert  Sniadach. More than four years ago, after attempting to resolve some of my lingeri ng health problems, I went to a naturopath, who 
informed me that I had very weak kidneys and was a Type 2 diabetic. I could not unde rstand. I had changed my diet, I had been 
vegan for over 12 years at this time, and tried to live a simple life … what  more could I do? I did notice that I did not have a lot of 
energy, and although I slept nine to ten hours a night, I still woke up tire d. I decided I needed to take action. On December 1, 2000, I began a 30-day juice diet. It was not nearly as difficult as  I thought it would be. Upon completion of 
the 30 days, my kidneys had rebuilt themselves and the signs of diabetes wer e gone, as well as 30 pounds. That was an added 
bonus. Then I was faced with the question of what to do next. During my studie s, I had read a lot of books by Dr. Shelton, and I 
asked myself if the raw diet was for me. The response was a resounding “Y ES!”  
I tried the raw diet, beginning very simply. Not yet understanding the v ariety of ways that people eat raw, I ate a very low-fruit 
diet for more than 12 months, with a lot of greens and nuts & seeds. After about  six months, the initial energy I received from this 
new diet started to dwindle, and I was feeling very weak. I promised myself I  would do this for 12 months, so I continued, and 
unfortunately, my health did not improve at all. Everyone I saw asked me wh at was wrong with me. I looked very thin and my skin tone was grey. I had become a skinny fat person. I had dropped down to 116 lbs., but what I did not  know was that my body fat 
was over 35%. My muscle tone was terrible, and I did not have the energy to exe rcise. My asthma was getting worse, so even if I 
wanted to exercise I could not. One day, my husband was searching the Internet and discovered Dr. Doug Graham’s website. I signed up to attend Hea lthful 
Living  International’s first symposium in 2002. I tried to do Dr. D.’s diet based on wh at was on the W eb, immediately increasing my 
fruit consumption and dropping the quantity of nuts and seeds in my diet. Alt hough my energy started to pick up, my asthma 
symptoms were still there. I did not realize how much in my life would change after attending the s ymposium. I spoke one-on-one with Dr. D. and 
received a lot of fantastic advice. I immediately started putting his  advice into play and saw changes very quickly. Now my energy 
really started picking up. I got more productive sleep at night, and my skin ton e started to improve. It took until June of the following year for my asthma symptoms to be reduced t o the point that I no longer needed my meds, 
which I had been on for over 30 years. I finally had the energy to begin exerc ising, and my lungs were now able to handle the extra 
load. I began going to a gym and started bodybuilding. Still holding over 30% body  fat, I could not believe the strength I had … it 
was incredible! Needless to say, my progress was huge in a very short per iod of time. I put on 35 lbs. of muscle in less than one 
year and reduced my body fat by more than 10%. When I started on the 80/10/10  diet 12 months ago, my recovery time was approximately 2 weeks per body part. The we ight 
that I am lifting now has increased substantially, a minimum of 300% on a ny body part. My recovery time is now approximately 
three to five days per body part without overtraining. My plans now are to enter either a bodybuilding contest or a strongwoman compe tition. I want to have one more year of 
training before entering to improve my strength and muscle density. T his is somewhat amazing, coming from a person who, until I 
met Dr. D., was not able to do any exercise because of my illnesses and weaknesses. My exercise regimen now consists of weight training, martial art s, kickboxing, yoga, jogging with my dogs, and running at dog 
agility classes. Without Dr. D., I would never have been able to do any form of e xercise, let alone progressed to the level of amateur 
competition. Thank you, Dr. D. 
 
Ireland Lawrence, Mission Viejo, California 
At 22 years of age, I was up to 300 pounds and had to work hard to maintain that weight, spe ed walking six to nine miles a 
day and eating no more than 1,500 calories a day. I also had my hair falling out in  clumps, no menstruation, acne, and lethargy. In 
addition, I had autism, hyper dyslexia, and attention deficit disorder. I had to r ehearse my speech for hours to make a simple phone 
call and spontaneous speech was not something I could do. I had difficulty in s chool and stressed out over writing, often spending 
several hours on writing just one single paragraph. For my weight and hair loss, I went to doctors who told me to lose weight by exerc ising and going on a diet. I cut my calories 
down to 500 calories a day for a few months and lost a half pound a week. But I found it an  impractical lifestyle, as I felt depressed 
and even more lethargic. I was desperate for a useful solution. I started by going to the health-food store and reading every book they carrie d on diet. I found a short book on raw foods. It 
made sense to me, and the next day I began the diet. I had been a vegetarian f or about six years prior, but raw foods was much 
easier. At the time, I understood raw foods to be fruits and vegetables and gr eens that were not cooked. I went to the market and 
bought all the different fruits, celery, and coconuts. I put them all in a  bin in the refrigerator and ate whenever I was hungry. I lost five pounds the first day and twenty pounds the first month. I found tha t counting calories and undereating no longer 
worked; for the more I ate raw foods, the louder my body screamed when I was going a gainst it. Also, I could feel my body 
becoming worn out and exhausted. I stopped exercising and rested, taking sunba ths and slow walks during the day and attending 
class for five hours at night. I did this for about six months, at the end of wh ich I lost about 80 pounds, had regular periods, and no 
more acne. Then I transferred to a new university and led a stressful  lifestyle studying until late at night, living in a building full  of mold 
and lead paint, and drinking lots of orange juice, which I later learned was  pasteurized. The health improvements I noticed dwindled and I went to a doctor. I was diagnos ed with hypothyroidism, hypoglycemia, 
insulin resistance, and polycystic ovarian syndrome, which included c ysts all over my ovaries and no ovulation. These were all 
conditions I had prior to the raw foods diet, but they had been undiagnosed. The doctor r ecommended a low-carbohydrate diet. I 
decided to try a vegetarian version of it and did not feel much better. I stay ed on this for two years. I often thought about how great 
I felt on raw foods when I first tried it and wondered why that process stopped. Eventually , more raw food books came out, and I realized that the “fresh-s queezed” orange juice I had been drinking was 
pasteurized and may have adversely impacted my health, along with the  stress I was under. I decided to try raw foods again. The 
first several months I ate raw foods as before—fruits, vegetables , and greens. I noticed even more health improvements: I 
menstruated regularly, after three months the cysts on my ovaries  were gone, I began to ovulate, I had no clinical evidence of insulin 
resistance, and after a year, my thyroid was healthy and I lost five poun ds a month, getting down to 150 pounds. Reading and writing were no longer difficult, and I could speak without rehearsing. After I had spent about six months back into raw foods, the diet started to pick up in  popularity in my area. There was a 
family that came to town and gave a talk and dinner on raw foods. They include d nuts and seeds (which I previously did not include 
as raw foods) and gave recipes for foods like raw veggie burgers, raw un-choc olate cake, and raw ice cream made with spices, 
salt, honey , flavoring extracts, frozen fruits, and nut milks. They int roduced me to the “eat anything as long as it is raw” diet. Soon, I 
added all these items to my diet. I then hit a plateau where for about two yea rs, I noticed no health improvements, although my 
health did not deteriorate either. I started investigating what changes I could make to again experien ce health improvements. I began practicing Ashtanga yoga 
daily and noticed improvements in strength and vigor. Also, I did some consul tations with some of the raw foodists whose books I 
had read. One told me that my liver was severely damaged from all the wei ght I lost and that I needed to do 12 liver flushes with 1 
cup of olive oil and lemon juice. I did them but did not notice a difference. Another told me that fruit was causing my body to be taken over by fun gus, so I cut out all sweet fruit. I ate avocados—up to 
5 a day—as well as greens, sea weeds, and vegetables. I did that for one month , at which point I began to have bruises all over my 
body. I added low-sweet fruits for two months and did not get any more bruises but did n ot feel better either. Then I went back to the “eat anything as long as it is raw” diet. Soon af ter, I injured my back in yoga. I kept going to practice 
but made modifications. After a month, my back still had not healed. I added MSM, t hinking it was the missing link that would heal 
my back. I had what I thought was more energy and slept five hours a night, bu t I also had heart palpitations, and my back stayed 
the same. Eventually, I cut out the MSM and experienced mononucleosis. I think taki ng the MSM led to excess stimulation, resulting in a 
lack of sleep and subsequent weakened immune system; mono was one of the cons equences. I stopped taking the MSM and was 
so lethargic for months that walking upstairs was a big event. I st opped practicing yoga and I eventually recovered—both from the 
back injury and mono. I still did not feel right though. So I added raw dairy mainly in the form of ra w goat milk cheese, thinking I had some sort of 
protein deficiency. I became addicted to it and ate it every day for two months . I felt worse at this point but did not realize it. Then I 
went camping for a month. One morning, some wild turkeys were outside my tent eating breakfast . I opened my tent and said, “Good morning turkeys!” 
They did not answer. They just ignored me. It occurred to me that I am not her e for their purposes, and they are not here for mine. I 
thought about goats and the goat cheese I was eating and decided not to eat it  any more. I went two days without eating it. I was 
craving it though, so I had some. I watched my mood change as anger and hatre d engulfed my body. I realized the impact eating the 
goat cheese had. After that, I made a commitment not to eat it anymore. It  took several weeks until I no longer thought about it. I started to read the VegSource website where Dr. Graham has a discuss ion board. I had lurked there before. I even tried 
eating lots of fruit and low fat, but I felt groggy and addicted to fruit when  I did that. But this time I kept lurking and reading. Eventually , I read a post where Dr. Graham talked about chasing your f ruits with greens. Then I realized a change I could make— 
eating more greens. Until then, my greens consisted of the salad I ate  each week and the occasional glass of green juice. But I was 
not eating green leafy vegetables regularly . Also, I thought gre ens had to be kale, collards, dandelion—dark greens—otherwise they 
were not nutritious; but I did not care for the taste of them. I gave Dr. Graham’s 80/10/10  raw vegan diet a try. I began eating fruit and following it with mild gr eens like celery or 
romaine. I started with a leaf or stick and worked up to two bunches of celery an d/or two heads of romaine each day, along with a 
very large quantity (at least a dozen) of one or two types of fruit each day . Also, I cut out all supplements, spices, oils, frozen fruit, 
juices, salt, dehydrated foods, raw dairy, honey, green powders, and seaweeds. I st arted losing weight again. I began craving 
movement again and took up running and went back to practicing yoga. Most days I  now average two hours of yoga, one hour of 
pranayama, 1 hour of running, and 25 to 50 handstands. I also started to let go of bottled-up emotions. Now, they just flow out. I think tha t when I was eating heavier raw foods and 
spices and juices, there were a lot of emotions like anger and hurt that w ere right at the surface, but they kept getting shoved down 
with the foods I was eating. Now there is a channel opened for them to freel y float out. I no longer overeat or binge on foods. I am in touch with my body and feel full and know  what my body needs. For example, 
shortly after I began running, I pulled a muscle in my back on the right s ide. I could not roll over on that side. I knew that if I rested, 
it would heal. I did that and after two days, it was back to normal. There was a ti me when I would have ignored my body and gone 
running anyway, but my body speaks so loudly now, it is hard to go against it and ef fortless to work with it. I have been following Dr. Graham’s 80/10/10  raw vegan lifestyle guidelines for four months now and have noticed mor e 
improvements in those four months than in four years on the “eat anyt hing as long as it is raw” diet. The simplicity of the raw food 
diet is what was first attractive. After reading a simple book on raw foods , I instinctively followed a plan similar to the 80/10/10  raw 
vegan diet. It is only when I read more books and listened to others that I veer ed from what I knew worked for me and stopped 
doing what I knew was useful to me. I have learned that if given the right conditions, my body will let me know  what it needs and the key is to go with what I know 
works and tune out all the chatter—both my own and that of others. Dr. Graham  is the only example I have come across in the raw food movement of what works for the long term. Roen Horn, Sacramento, California 
Looking back, I definitely could have avoided a lot of troubles if I had known about the  80/10/10  diet at the start of my raw 
journey. At age 15, I became convinced by my brother and also Internet sites  I visited, that fruitarianism was the ultimate ideal, 
because it avoided “killing the plant.” I had already advanced through  the stages of vegetarianism and veganism, which had caused 
me to lose some weight. After becoming a fruitarian, I immediately st arted to lose more weight, and I was already very thin! My mother was concerned and sent me to get a checkup. From that point on, becaus e of my low weight (111 lbs. at 6'1" tall), 
the doctor’s scary threats of antipsychotic drugs and hospitalizati on lingered over me. I was scheduled for weekly checkups to 
ensure that I gained weight—or else! Believe it or not, my psychologist told me that I was mentally ill/ob sessive compulsive, because I wouldn’t eat hot dogs, 
hamburgers, ice cream, donuts, etc. like “normal kids.” He also ignorantly  claimed that no one eating only nuts, seeds, fruits and 
vegetables could possibly sustain his life, and that I would die from malnu trition if I persisted! Furthermore, he said that if I would not 
take his word for it, I was “delusional.”  
With the pressure from both the doctors and my mother, I gave up my raw fruit arian diet. I began eating a cooked diet that 
included a lot of grain dishes, such as spaghetti, couscous, and rice, but I in sisted on taking my oatmeal raw. This heavy-grain diet 
caused me to be the most constipated I’ve been in my entire life, an d it exacerbated my acne problem. It did, however, increase my 
weight from 111 to 125 lbs. Fed up with the loss of control over my diet, I decided that I would once again eat  only raw fruits, vegetable fruits, nuts, and 
seeds. Doing so, I felt better, but again I began losing weight. So I started t o trick my mom and the doctors with weights on my 
ankles and in my pants. Admittedly , I wasn’t concerned that this cha nge caused my weight to drop to 107 lbs., because I felt great, 
was strong, and my blood tests came out fine. In fact, fruitarians were te lling me that I had  to lose weight to “detox.” After this 
phase, they insisted that the weight would naturally come back on the sa me diet. Well, as you will see as this story progresses, I nearly starved mysel f to death waiting nine months for that to happen, and I 
don’t recommend it! I loved avocados, so I often ate meals of them. I did not know better, and as a result, I  continued to break out and was 
extremely constipated, even as a raw fruitarian. Here I was, on what I  thought to be the ultimate diet, still contending with many 
health challenges. Even though I stopped eating cooked grains, which I as sumed were to blame for my problems, and despite eating 
a ton of fruit, my bowel movements were infrequent, very small, hard as roc ks, and painful to pass. It was so bad that many times I 
had to strain to get anything to come out! I was confused, thinking that a r aw diet should be the last thing to cause constipation. Later I would discover that not all raw diets are the same, and the varia tions certainly produce different results. It wasn’t long until the weights were discovered.
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        It was not painful, though it still wanted to be put up—but not as desperately, and it simply wanted mainly sleep 
for the first two weeks. I still had to work and walk at the farmer’s markets  and in our garden, resulting in more time on the foot this 
time, yet it hurt less and healed faster. At three weeks, my toe was what I would have considered completely healed be fore, as I could do everything I did before 
80/10/10. That’s less than a third of the time it took the first time. Since I’m m ore active now than at any other time in my life, it took 
a few more weeks before I could do everything I was doing again—still le ss than half the time it took for a less-severe break that 
occurred before going low-fat raw vegan. My foot feels as good as new now an d doesn’t give me any trouble in any of my 
activities, even with the contortions and stresses I put it through i n the process. Nice. Now I Love to Exercise. The first thing that I noticed when switching from approximately 20% of  calories from fat to 10% or less was that I felt better. My 
body seemed to get down to deeper repair work. My legs suddenly felt lighter and st ronger, too, like they could jump really high 
more easily—and they wanted to, so I did. My husband was simultaneously am used and amazed. When I first started eating low-fat raw vegan, I used to have to get my  son or husband to carry the watermelons I got at the 
market. Now, not only do I carry them myself with ease, I can even carry t wo of them at a time—and they’re each twice as big, 
too. For the first time in my life I actually truly want  to exercise. I find myself looking for excuses to move my body, which is very 
foreign to me indeed. I had always been one to find excuses to sit where I was  and not exercise. Never before have I experienced 
looking forward to my free time in order to exercise. As a result, I’m sta rting to look more athletic. People now think I’m a dancer 
or a gymnast. I feel so physically adventurous now—loads more than I ever was bef ore. I’m no daredevil or anyth ing—I’m  not skydiving or 
bungee jumping—but I have become more athletic, and I’m willing  to try new things that require physical activity, purely for th e fun 
of it or just to see if I can. (It’s not hard to be more willing than I use d to be … heck, I wasn’t at all  willing before. ) I’m no 
bodybuilder, although my body’s been building itself quite nicely. I have been gaining strength, endurance, and muscle weight whil e 
eating this way—once I got rid of most of my excess fat, that is. I discovered new physical abilities, as well. My balance, coordination, and de xterity dramatically improved somehow, even at 
the beginning, before I had been active much at all. My aerobic exercise  had always been limited by my breathing capacity, because 
I would lose my breath long before my muscles would get enough of a workout to work ou t my heart. Now, in retrospect and in comparison, it was like I had been running on dirty fu el when I exercised before. Suddenly, aerobic 
workouts felt so “clean” and “crisp. ” I felt like I could go forever (but my  heart wasn’t used to it, so I took it gradually). I could 
breathe really deeply and not have that sick and dirty feeling at the  beginning. It was and still is great. Now when I’m exercising, I
feel happy and my body feels happy, which makes me happier, which gives me more  energy and motivation to keep exercising, 
which makes me even happier, and so on … I love it. I’ve never felt like thi s before. Until I was following Dr. Graham’s program for a while, I never was a ble to do full-on push ups, even though I used to 
bodybuild a bit in college and could do hundreds of bent-knee push-ups in various han d arrangements when doing martial arts in 
high school. I discovered that I could do a full push-up after eating this wa y for a time, and I worked on them to see how many I 
could do. I got up to 23 in a row before I moved onto something else. I later went back to push-ups, going airborne this time by quickly powering th e pushing so that at the top of my full push-up 
my hands and toes hop off the ground while keeping my full body tight and straig ht. I got up to 15 in a row before I got sidetracked 
with pull-ups. I got a pull-up/chin-up bar for myself and couldn’t even pull my self up enough to make a movement at first—as had been the 
case all my life. My husband showed me how to help myself with a step stool an d after a month, I could lift myself halfway up. Exciting. It wasn’t much longer before one day I pulled myself al l the way up—without the step stool. My chin was all the way 
above that bar on my own—not just above but high  above, so the bar was at my chest and my chin was above the door. Not long 
after that, I became hooked on Ashtanga yoga practice, so I haven’t c ontinued with the chin-ups much since. I’m having so much 
fun. I went surfing for the first time ever about a year into the 80/10/10  lifestyle. I did pretty darn well, especially for a then thirty- 
eight-year-old mom who had only ridden a skateboard a few times (for only a few  feet each time), a boogie board once, and a 
surfboard not at all. I stood up and rode the very first wave. I was catching l ittle waves on my own and riding after only about 45 
minutes. Cool. I belonged to a health club for a while about a year into 80/10/10  and was surprised to find myself, a petite 5'2", then 98- 
pound woman, lifting about the same weight or more than the businessmen t here, without effort. I was more surprised to find that 
some days I could just keep adding more and more weight, seemingly to no end. I woul d go with small increments, so on those 
days, I usually ended up getting tired from the number of reps before the wei ght ever got to be too heavy. Big guys were always there lifting tons of weight in order to build m ore muscle and get more “cut”…and then there’s little old 
me lifting relatively minute amounts of weight while my muscle s just burst out. I can actually feel my muscles growing during m y “off” 
time, and they don’t get sore if I eat fruit afterwards like Dr. Graham s uggests. It makes me feel bad for them—if only they would 
do their exercises properly and follow Dr. Graham’s program, they’ d get much better results for their time and effort. These days, I no longer go to the health club, as I’ve gotten more into bodyw eight exercises, Ashtanga yoga, aerial fabric, 
dance, and other things. I also have free weights at home and at work, if I dec ide that I want to use them. The machines are fun, but 
they aren’t “calling” me right now. This Is Eeeeeasy … 
I have found this way of eating is much, much, much easier, quicker, and mor e efficient than any other I’ve tried. Life itself has also 
become easier overall. Not only do I have greater peace of mind, increased phy sical abilities, increased energy, and greater health and happiness, but my personal needs are so much simpler and easier to meet t han before. I have more time and resources to spend 
on other things. My life is very full of activities and responsibiliti es, so this improvement really helps. I know that there is no way I could have done all that I have done and all that  I am doing, if I were still eating any other way. Since beginning Dr. Graham’s program, I started homeschooling my  gifted and dyslexic son with self-created custom curricula, 
started two corporations with my husband, organized a local branch of our chur ch, was ordained as one of the clergy, and 
counseled members of our congregation. I have also started a homeschooling  support group, a raw food support group, and 
organized regular raw food potlucks, all with corresponding websites. I am still doing all of these things now, and I am also writing two books, filmi ng a video/TV series, working on building up my 
fitness level, doing occasional work for long-standing clients from my ol d consultancy, and of course, continuing to maintain terrific 
and loving relationships with both my husband and my son. Now I find it much easier to go places for the day, or even a few days. I have le ss stuff to take with me. I no longer need to 
walk around with a water bottle on a shoulder strap so I always have wat er. I don’t even use it during the day now. I still drink 
water in the morning and after intense exercise, but I don’t find th e need for it otherwise. My body regulates its temperature better, 
so I don’t need to take as many clothing options with me when going out, eith er. Because of my autoimmune condition, I used to get sunburned almost in minu tes, at times even in the shade, whereas now I 
can stay in the sun without a burn  ten times longer than I used to. My skin is not tan yet, but it’s not pas ty anymore. I don’t need to 
desperately seek out the shade at the beach, or figure out which hat will  stay on and give me adequate protection. I can actually take 
walks on the beach without all the cover-up gear and  out of the shade. I only use a sun hat if I’m out in the full sun during midda y. For the first time, I can go to the farmer’s market in the afternoon wit hout a hat and no burn. My hair is just getting silkier and better looking—without shamp oo or conditioner. W ow. My skin, teeth, and nails have never 
looked or felt better either. Amazing, because while I brush and f loss my teeth and bathe daily with water, I haven’t used shampoo, 
conditioner, face soap, body soap, toothpaste, deodorant, makeup, lotion, sunscreen, bug repe llant, or anything but water on my 
body (except dish soap on my hands) for over two and a half years now. Funny—just some scrubbing and water. Who’d have 
thought. My skin has never been smoother or more lovely than it is now, and I am vir tually free of the acne that I’ve had ever since 
puberty. People comment frequently now on how my skin “glows,” how healt hy I look, and how pretty my hair is, wanting to touch 
it and do things with it. I haven’t had people wanting to do that with my  hair since I was a very young child. Eating this way requires little food preparation. All I have to do is put my  fruit for the day in a box, and maybe grab some 
salad and tomatoes if I don’t have enough at work already, and go. No need to slice, spread, arrange, layer, bag, or cook, transfer, 
clean, etc. , as with cooked food. Of course, you can make the 80/10/10rv  food fancy enough for any gourmet undertaking if you 
want, but you don’t have to go through all that every day just to eat. If I don’t have enough with me or get caught out at mealtime, I can go int o practically any grocery store and get fruit. No more 
shakiness, spiciness, and low blood sugar if I have to skip or delay a meal. Inste ad I feel fine and still perform well mentally and 
physically until I refuel. If I know I’m going to have a busy day, I’ll throw some fruit and possibly  greens or celery in a blender with water in the 
morning before I leave, to take with me to drink while working. I take a bit of thi s, watered down, to Ashtanga as my sports drink 
and often drink the full smoothie afterwards on my drive back to work. I have a ble nder at work too, in case I decide to exercise or 
have a smoothie or dressing while there, as I am often at the office for ov er twelve hours at a time. But in truth, I rarely need or want 
to use it at work. I use less trash, and have more compost with which I can grow more food. At th e end of the day, I have only a salad bowl, 
occasionally a smoothie container, and a compost container to wash for the w hole day. You can do that with just water, too, if you 
do it right away. The day we got rid of our stove was such a wonderful day. It was such a freein g experience, and it made the whole kitchen 
seem so much cleaner somehow. I have no need for pots, pans, ovens, or other cooking a ppliances and accessories. In fact, I could 
get away without any food-preparation utensils or dishes at all if I w anted to. I don’t need spices, herbs, medications, vitamins, 
minerals, or other supplements, either. It’s just so much simpler a nd more natural—less expensive too. Finally, I’m at Peace 
Prior to going raw, I had been close to a nervous breakdown as a result of living  in a high state of stress for several years. I knew I 
needed to de-stress, but I couldn’t see how, without conditions changing i n my life. I couldn’t exercise or do other stress-relieving 
activities, because I would just feel like I was getting further beh ind on things, which would stress me out even more 
(counterproductive to say the least). Now I am far less prone to stress and emotional baggage issues. My emotions  are more even and at a higher level than 
before. I still attend to things, but I don’t feel stressed about them. I  feel too good to bother, actually. It is not my life that changed, 
it’s me. I simply am not as stressed about things anymore. In fact, I ha ve had even more stressful things happen in my life than 
before, yet I have felt less stressed during these times. It’s kind of hard to describe … I guess the best way is to say that I’m at peace, more so than ever before—at peace with 
who I am, who everyone else is, and with what is going on in my life and aroun d me. From my experience, good health truly is 
happiness and peace of mind. I just plain feel good, and it’s hard to get t oo down when you feel so darned good all the time, you 
know. My body tells me it wants to play, and I follow. Learning to Eat Enough Food 
Once I started on Dr. Graham’s program, I started really liking my food a gain. It is yummy, and I look forward to it. I don’t put off 
my meals until I get ravenous anymore. I used to be so disinterested in  and uninspired by my food that I’d wait until I was so hungry 
I would just grab whatever was closest and quickest—which was almos t never a healthy food choice. My body just wasn’t 
interested in the food I was giving it. Now that I’m providing health y food for my body, it loves my food, and so do I. I find it fairly easy to get enough calories now, but it took a while to get to t he level of eating this much. When I started out, I 
wasn’t eating enough calories, although I felt fine. I think my body just didn’t want that much food back then, because it wanted to 
clear out old stuff. I figured out that I was only eating as many calorie s as would support an 80-pound person, but I also realized I 
had some fat to live off of to help my transition. Over time, it did work out. Initially, I only lost weight because I had exces s fat. Eventually I lost most of the fat, gained some 
new muscle (and weight along with it), and gradually started eating  more calories naturally as my body adjusted to things. Currently, 
I probably eat more calories than some would think I should and many think I coul d. It works out anyway, as I am getting stronger, 
gaining weight while keeping a healthy body-fat level, and I am feeli ng quite well. Don’t Live a Little … Live a Lot. If you’re looking to save time and effort in finding what works, look no further. Dr. Graham’s method works. I used to “live a little” 
from passing pleasures like non-optimum food, sacrificing my hea lth and well-being in the process. Now I “live a lot. ” I don’t feel 
badly about my food choices or feel like I’m giving up anything. I’m choosi ng better health and more lasting pleasure, and I am all 
the more happy as a result. I feel so much better and see so many resul ts that I am inspired to keep going and don’t want to go back 
to cooked food or even high-fat raw. The fleeting satisfaction just isn’ t worth the risk of losing all that I’ve gained. This raw stuff is amazing. Not raw any  way—but this low-fat vegan way—that’s what’s making the differe nce. The more I 
follow all of Dr. Graham’s recommendations (which incorporate other li festyle factors besides diet: exercise, rest, pure water, pure
air, sunshine, sleep, recreation, etc. ), the easier it is to stay on the 80/10/10  raw vegan diet, and the better I feel. In fact, eating this 
way has enabled me to joyfully and naturally make improvements in many  other areas of my life, which I was unable to do before, 
no matter how hard I tried. To sum it all up, I just feel so alive. I want to tell the world. It’s so simple, and it works so well. I feel like my  body is 
celebrating life on a cellular level—it is happy to be alive and w ants to move to celebrate. I gladly oblige. Happy happy, joy joy, 
happy happy, joy. Reading my praise of Dr. Graham and his program, you may not realize that I  am actually exceedingly cautious and 
conservative about recommending any products or services, as I take this  responsibility seriously. That said, I highly recommend that 
you read and reread this book as many times as necessary, until you are able  to try this program and discover for yourself just how 
life-enhancing it is. Give it a good chance though, and follow everythi ng as much as possible. Like any generic guideline, the program 
described in this book may need adjusting for your individual situation. The g eneral method has worked wonders for me. I 
wholeheartedly recommend a private consultation with Dr. Graham to cl arify or address special health issues, if you need to. You 
won’t be sorry. Janie has a website, www. ringlet. org, which documents her first six months of following Dr. Graham’ s program and 
includes a photo history of her as well. She is currently writing two 80/10/10  raw vegan-related books: Ready for Raw,  due 
out in Summer 2005, and A Fruit Lover’s Guide to Edible Fruit, to be released later. She also stars in a video/TV series on 
similar subjects due to be released in late 2005 or early 2006. Richard (“Ribs”) Friedland, Malibu, California 
I became a vegetarian in 1967, because I heard it would heighten my consciou sness. It all made sense to me right away, 
especially when I realized that the way I had been eating was contri buting to the death of innocent animals, and that I could eat in a 
way that might be healthier, raise my awareness, and not harm other c reatures that lived on the earth. I went through a lot of changes during the first four years on a vegeta rian diet. I ate a lot of junk food in the beginning, as long 
as it wasn’t meat, fish, or eggs, and that made it easy for me to stick with  the diet. Then I started to switch from regular commercial 
sweets to organic health-food sweets and organic goat’s milk ice cream. I tried macrobiotics in those years, which was interesting 
but very hard for me to stay on. Against the advice of three doctors who said they would put their reput ation on the line that I couldn’t survive for more than 
18 months, I became a fruitarian in 1971 for a lot of the same reasons that I became a vegetarian. I ate only raw fruit, which didn’t include nuts or seeds or dried, frozen, of dehydrated fruit. I followed this diet v ery strictly for eight years. I didn’t know anything about the fat content of the avocados and olives I pi cked and ate raw from the trees. (Y es, I did 
actually like the taste of one particular type of olive. If I allowed the s mooth green ones to ripen on the tree until they were black and 
shriveled, I enjoyed their taste and ate quite a few at a time). I also ha d never heard of food combining, so I generally mixed 
anything that was available on a given day. For example, I might eat av ocados, dates, tomatoes, and citrus within a few hours of 
each other, although I didn’t do that often. I read a few books about fruitarianism, like Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless-Diet Healing System,  and then I waited to see if I 
would have experiences like they described in the book: almost unlimited en ergy, and incredible strength and endurance. I did not 
get the results I was hoping for after eight years. I still had sinus  problems, along with gas and mucus. For the next couple years, I ate raw foods, with mostly fruit. I went to see a  lot of alternative doctors, including ayurvedic 
practitioners and others in the next few years. I had a lot of tests and a l ot of dental work done. A number of these alternative and 
ayurvedic doctors suggested very strongly that animal products would be be neficial for me, as well as spicier foods, because I was 
too yin or cold, and I needed yang, heating foods. I did try chicken, fish, and eggs, with cayenne pepper and very little f ruit, for about six months in the winter of 1985. I didn’t 
feel much worse when I ate those foods, but I really didn’t like the idea of  consuming innocent animals, and I didn’t feel stronger and 
healthier like all the doctors said I would. So I started eating sweet fru its again. In 1992 I met a Natural Hygienist who explained to me about food combining. I  bought Dr. Shelton’s book and started eating 
raw fruits and vegetables at certain times in certain combination s, as described in his book. I did this for about eight years until one night after eating some cher imoyas and capotes I woke up after about two hours of 
sleep and couldn’t fall back to sleep. I was very uncomfortable the wh ole night, trying to relax, massaging myself, and attempting to 
stretch. Finally, I did an enema at around 4 am and felt a little better. I couldn’t figure out what had caused this, and I thought it 
might be a fluke. Well, the same thing happened the next night. That was  much more difficult, because I only got an hour of sleep 
both nights, and I was exhausted. It was hard to think and figure out what to do n ext. I was eating all raw fruits and vegetables in combination, which inc luded daily nuts, seeds, and avocados, and I was eating a 
late last meal of sweet fruit around 10 pm, which was pretty close to when I  went to sleep. The main reason I ate that late was that I 
found it impossible to sleep if I didn’t. So I figured I would eat some raw swe et fruit, which was my favorite food. I didn’t sleep for 
four nights straight, and on the fourth night I started to panic. I calle d the paramedics and told them I might be having a heart attack. I couldn’t tell what was going on. They took me to St. John’s hospital, where I  was tested for hours. Doctors there finally told me 
that my heart and cholesterol were perfect. The only problem they could fi nd in all their extensive testing was that I had a B 12 
deficiency. I left St. John’s in the morning and went to the W estside Alternativ e Center, which did a lot more very expensive testing. The 
tests cost me as much as the hospital bills from St. John’s, which ca me to a few thousand dollars. After about a week, I received the 
results from the tests from the alternative clinic, and they said I  had a B 12 /folic acid deficiency. I took B 12  injections in my butt for a 
few days, and then they put me on folic acid supplements. I started asking everyone I knew for help and information, because I st ill didn’t know what had caused my inability to sleep. I 
also wasn’t sure what I should be eating, because I had been eati ng the same way for 20 years straight. I knew a 30-year raw food 
chiropractor who told me not to eat any sweet fruits and to get my B 12  from Standard Process Labs. I felt a lot better for a while. That chiropractor died in a bicycle accident, and I went back to eating swee t fruit. I tried different cleanses, including the Arise and Shine one-mont h cleanse, which I followed to the letter. I got really weak 
during the final week of the cleanse, where you don’t eat any food. I called t he company to ask about it, and they thought it was 
some type of parasite like candida. I went to a doctor, who said that I could send a st ool sample to the Great Smokies laboratory if 
I wanted to know for sure whether I had candida. The test results showed tha t I had two strains of candida at the highest level. All 
my symptoms made sense to the doctor, because she had recovered from candida an d had written a book about it. They say with candida that fruit feeds it, and I ate a lot of fruit. I went  on a long, expensive candida cleanse for six months and 
felt pretty lousy the whole time. I ate nothing sweet for six months, not  even carrots or lemons, and I had to rotate my foods every 
four days. I took a lot of supplements, including Super Garlic, Primal Defens e, some expensive flora from England, and many 
others. I had a really difficult time during those six months. I found it hard to ge t any work done, because all my symptoms had gotten 
more extreme. I was so uncomfortable. I stayed with it for the full six mon ths and then took another stool test, which showed that I 
still had candida albicans at the highest level. The doctor suggested t aking prescription drugs, and I started back on a diet with sweet 
fruits. I tried numerous other diets, supplements, and cleanses during the next  few years, until I heard Doug Graham and Rozi 
Gruben speak at an event called Raw Passion. Rozi talked about what happens t o the blood when we eat certain foods. Doug said 
that it isn’t the sugar in fruits, but rather the fat that peo ple with candida consume that inhibits the body’s ability to get th e sugar out 
of the blood. I didn’t know whether what they were saying was absolutely what was  happening with me, but I knew I liked both of them 
immediately. They seemed to have a lot of conviction about what they were  saying, and they definitely had done extensive research 
and discovered a lot of information. I started to reflect on my situation. No one, out of the many, many doctors I had c onsulted with over the years had helped me 
make any health improvements. I thought I was on the best diet I could t hink of, but I wasn’t feeling well. These two people looked 
very healthy. It seemed obvious they had extensive knowledge about healt h and had already worked with people in a similar 
situation to mine, with improvements. If I didn’t like the way it was wor king, I could always go back to the way I was eating now. I 
didn’t have anything to lose by cutting out fats except my illness. There wasn’t really much of a decision left to make. I started eliminating fat from my diet that very day, and I began exp eriencing some very heavy elimination. I didn’t eat any 
overt fats for six months, because I didn’t know about 80/10/10, and I thought the idea was to eat as little fat as possible, so I did. This meant no avocado, olives, or durian, and of course no nuts or seeds. Also, I didn’t know about Doug’s V egSource board, so I went back to eating a ra w diet with fat in it. The elimination slowed 
way down. I ate that way for the next six months, even though I felt terr ible again, until I saw Doug speak at the Living Light House 
in Santa Monica. I got to ask him some questions, which he was very willin g to answer, and I cut the fat again. Except this time I ate 
an 811  diet, which meant that I ate a little fat once in a while. I had so many wonderful improvements, but I still didn’t have the full  health picture. So I saved up a little cash and had a 
private consultation with Dr. Graham. During the consultation, we sa t down face to face within two feet of each other. This was 
really helpful to me, because I got a sense of what he was all about. I found a  genuine, caring individual who was absolutely 
interested in improving my health. It was hard to imagine what he woul d come up with to help me, because I was following the diet 
to a T. At the time, I thought that was what it was all about. What I didn’t realize, is that diet is only one part of a healthy lifes tyle, and that you’re only as strong as your weakest link. Those were only words to me at the time, but after he found an aspect of my lif e that needed some work and I worked on it, my 
health improved dramatically. That means I felt better. What greate r gift could anyone give to me. I felt more energy, and I enjoyed 
living more. That’s the best gift you can get. One of the topics we covered in the consultation was Doug’s sports cam p, called Health and Fitness W eek. He thought it was 
important for me to attend, and he asked me what he could do to make it possible. I  didn’t see how I could ever work it out at the 
time, because I had just spent all my extra money on this consultation, a nd I had so little time. But I took a risk, because it seemed 
like I needed so much to happen. I told him all the conditions it would take to make it  possible for me to come, and he helped me 
work it all out. I was just amazed by the honesty, sincerity, knowledge, and de dication of this person standing right in front of me, 
along with his sincere desire to help me with my personal health issu es. I attended the sports camp, and it was the best thing I could have done. It was s o helpful and beneficial that I ended up signing 
up for the following year’s sports camp before I left. This was the jump-start I needed to get headed down the road to true health. If 
you can figure out any way to make the next camp, I recommend that you do it, wh atever it takes. I’ve been on the 80/10/10  diet for a year now and have had the most remarkable success with it. I ju st want to share this with 
people. When you start to feel really good after not feeling so good for a long tim e, you want to let other people know that they can 
feel better, too. People sometimes ask me what I typically eat in a day, so I will share it w ith you. I usually eat three meals a day, once in a 
while only two. I normally eat my breakfast at around 10 a. m. Yesterday (Apri l 2005), I ate 12 ounces of blueberries, 8 ounces of 
raspberries, 8 ounces of boysenberries, and about 4 green baskets of strawberrie s. I ate lunch at 2:30 p.
The author's toe was fully healed within 2 weeks, and they experienced significant improvements in their overall health and well-being.
What was the author's initial experience after switching to a low-fat raw vegan diet?
The author's physical abilities improved dramatically, allowing them to engage in activities they previously couldn't, such as surfing, weightlifting, and yoga.
How did the author's physical abilities change after adopting the 80/10/10 diet?
The author initially didn't experience significant improvements, but after adjusting their diet to focus on low-fat raw veganism, they noticed rapid and significant changes in their health.
What was the author's initial experience with the 80/10/10 diet, and how did they adjust?
The author had a B12 deficiency, and their candida issues were not resolved by their previous diet. They also had a history of chronic illnesses, including asthma, bronchitis, and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
What was the author's experience with candida and other health issues?
The author experienced a significant improvement in their overall well-being, including increased energy, improved physical abilities, and a sense of peace and happiness.
What was the author's experience with the 80/10/10 diet, and how did it impact their life?