Thanks Jim and Bebe...
I met folks from the Hippocrates Health Institute (let food be your medicine) last week when I presented at the Annie Appleseed conference. This place is really whole body medicine.
Here's a an except from a 1996 article from them:
"...Today people want to go beyond health, to find happiness. If you are ill, you should be on a 100% raw food diet, for 1.5+ years. Approx. 97% of people who go on the Hippocrates diet get well within 1.5 years, 3% need longer. Hippocrates has blood profiles done, at beginning and end of their stay at Hippocrates, for all visitors. They are building a data base for study.
If you are well, you can eat 75% by weight raw foods, mostly greens a...."
Living and Raw Foods: Brian Clement Lecture notes
I actually disagree with some of the points the author makes, but I like that he accentuates enzymes -- a crucial point many people miss. Only live food brings that energy we need to live and heal. but this is a '96 article....way ahead of the pack.
Can you imagine how much daily discipline this takes? I've been trying and evolving for a few years now and I know it's hard work! But it's better than having diseases! It's all good.