Reply #17: Thanks. I was wondering if somebody noticed that

[lolly]

I know someone who, for a couple years, spent most of her time obsessing about food. She was involved in the raw food movement, which had extensive (and as far as I could tell, arbitrary) rules about foods. She couldn't eat anything that had ever been exposed to a certain temperature (I think it was about 170 d. )for example. Why that number? I don't know. And it was the same for all food groups, as if boiling vegetables was the same as baking bread.

She missed family holidays and dinners because she didn't want to be tempted by cooked food.

She spent hundreds of dollars attending monthly seminars on the raw food lifestyle.

She also had 2 kids and a husband who wouldn't eat most of the stuff she fixed, so they ended up eating cereal and snack foods or going out to fast food while she ate her sprouted beans.