Susan Reynolds stopped eating cooked meals seven years ago, hasn't looked back Susas Reynolds is 29 but says she is often mistaken for a teenager. SUSAN Reynolds' late teenage years were pretty typical: big nights on the town, Chinese takeaway and the occasional Macca's bender. Fast-forward, and the Susan of today is a different woman. After a sojourn to India as a university student at 21, she discovered yoga, which would become her passion and livelihood, and lead to a years-long devotion to raw food. Susan ate her last cooked meal seven years ago and hasn't looked back. She lives on a diet of raw nuts, seeds, beans, fruits and vegetables. And she feels great for it. Looks terrific too. "The benefits include [mental] clarity, positivity, health, energy, radiance and the ability to make choices," she told the Daily Mail . Other things people have commented on include smelling good, great skin and youthfulness. People say I look good for my age. I'm also emotionally balanced and happy. Nutrition experts in Australia have recently raised concerns about the so-called clean eating revolution, warning that the nutrients contained in banned foods such as meat and dairy products need to be replaced in other foods. Susan (left) has turned her love of raw food and yoga into a business with friend, Lorna. So what's it like to subsist entirely on uncooked food? Surely Susan craves hot chips every now and then, right? "I feel if you sort out the emotional attachment to cooked food you don't crave it any more," she explains. I focus on a very high liquid diet with lots of green juice, smoothies, soups and elixirs. I try to get as much leafy green veggies in to my diet as possible. I eat fruits for energy and sparingly eat fats from nuts, seeds and coconut. She's so dedicated to the movement, she even convinced her parents and boyfriend to sit down to an entirely raw Christmas feast last year. "I made a fruit platter for starters - they loved it," she says. We had raw mince pies made from nuts seeds and fruits for our sweet. I ate a giant salad with sprouted breads for my main course. Susan and a friend have turned their devotion to veganism and yoga into a business called Twist and Sprout, which runs health retreats for people who want to introduce a raw food diet into their own lives. 5am: Wake up, drink 750ml lemon water 6.30am to 8.30am: Yoga practice. 10am: A litre of green juice made from blending a whole lettuce, a bag of spinach and bunch of herbs. 11am to 4pm: Snacks, including whole fruit (figs, mangoes, berries etc.), raw chocolate, green juice, and superfoods such as bee pollen and berries. 6pm: Large salad and/or green soups, or another raw dish created from fruit and vegetables, soaked nuts and seeds depending on what she feels she needs that day.