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From:	Dr. Doug Graham (DrGraham.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: Dr D - Your thoughts
Date:	February 17, 2012 at 7:55 am PST

In Reply to: Dr D - Your thoughts posted by blissfully raw on February 17, 2012 at 5:07 am:

No, I know of no one who is successfully doing such a program.
Where are the calories coming from?
ALL the raw vegan people I have ever known who minimized fruits ended up eating cooked starches, at the very least, or else they also ended up going back to eating animal products. Look at all the raw leaders; at this point they almost all, to a person, openly admit to regularly eating cooked plants and animals. Many actually recommend it as part of their "raw" diet, somehow, though I cannot pretend to understand their reasoning, to be honest.

No, without sufficient fruit, there simply cannot be sufficient fuel to furnish the necessary requirements to thrive. Metabolism requires almost 1500 calories daily, activities of the day will average almost 500 more, and fitness activities could easily range from 500 to 1500 or even more.
How could one possibly get the requisite daily 2000-3500 calories on a diet of "fresh grown sprouts, greens, moderate amounts of fruit & a relatively small amount of fat?"

Not possible.
It might be possible to eat 200 calories from fresh sprouts, and 300 more calories from fresh vegetables.
If one eats 250 calories from fruit, and another 250 calories from fat, we have 1000 calories, 25% of them coming from fat. I wouldn't consider 25% a "relatively small amount of fat." Still, we're 1000-2500 calories short. At that rate, after losing 2 pounds a week or more, a person would not be thriving, at least not once their body fat levels dropped below desirable ranges.

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