Why does Leslie advocates a 50%-75% raw food diet as in Raw Energy, if raw foods are so good for you wouldnt it be better to eat 100% raw foods?
Raw foods are highly eliminative and this is a major reason they are so powerful in detoxifying and healing the body. But the body needs also a good supply of protein and according to oriental medicine some cooked foods as well or the spleen energy becomes weakened. There are probably a million other reasons too. However, what Leslie can tell you is that she, herself and her family and many others who have experimented with an all raw diet over a long period of time generally find it a little ungrounding (so that you get powerful spiritual energies but cant sometimes bring them into being to live them out in a practical way on the planet). They have also found that eventually the body begins to get weaker. This is the reason why Raw Energy advocates about 50% – 75% of your foods raw. Some of the foods you might wish to include in your diet, Leslie suggests, are carbohydrates such as brown rice and baked potatoes. Protein such as tofu or free range eggs, fish, or chicken. You might also
