I'm not a raw foodist* (although I would love to be one; but at the moment I lack what it takes and I won't adopt the label until I am 100% there (if ever)), but I thought this article would interest people in this thread.

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=8736

*The longest I have been "raw" is about 3 months when all I consumed was self-made fruit/vegetable juice and water (and I've never felt better than during that time).

Thanks for the article, Kurm.

Great article! Check this out:

From: Karen Joy (c-24-21-83-59.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Subject: Broken bones - encouraging experience
Date: April 22, 2005 at 7:34 am PST

I'm 23 years old and I've been a raw vegan for over 4 years, and 8:1:1
for 2+ of those. I've enjoyed great health and great energy in that time, and as time passes
any nagging doubts I have about this lifestyle progressively fade. Up until recently, I've
still always had a few little (unwarranted) insecurities about my choices, but a recent
experience I'd like to share has wiped them all clean. This is the way to go.

10 weeks ago I was hit by a car while riding my bike. I took off the
car's sideview mirror with my shoulder and found myself in quite a bit of pain. Many friends
(clearly not natural hygienists!) advised me to take lots of ibuprofen to keep the swelling
down, but I ingested nothing but my usual fruits and vegetables and took a few hot baths to
help relax the muscles and ease the pain. After 5 days I finally got it X-rayed and
found out I'd broken my collarbone about a half-inch from the shoulder joint, and that when
the clavicle is fractured in that spot it often requires surgery to fix properly. I kept my arm
in the sling given to me by the doctor for about a week and a half and kept it as stable as I
felt like it needed to be. Subsequent X-rays showed that it was healing quite well; I had full
range of motion and was back to running 2 weeks after the accident, and back on the bike 4
weeks afterwards. I felt no pain whatsoever after about the 5th week.

Yesterday I had it X-rayed for the first time since the 4th week, and
was told that it's completely healed. The doctor had originally predicted up to 4 months
to recover; it's been two and a half.

I don't feel like this was any sort of miracle-healing,
supernatural-powers-of-raw experience. I've read and heard plenty of testimonials of such
things, of which I am still skeptical. Breaking a bone is a big thing for the body to recover
from. The doctors are not baffled over my progress, because it still took time to heal, as well
it should. But they did say I healed "quicker than most." It is clear to me that my efficient
recovery is equally the result of diet as well as an active, athletic lifestyle.

What this did teach me is that any concern I'd had that healthy bones
and muscle are hard to maintain on this diet, left over from years of societal deception as
well as from observing plenty of very unhealthy raw foodists, is totally unnecessary, and
that there is indeed an optimally healthy way to be raw. This is it.

...And as for my friends, they're all commenting on how "lucky" I am.
Sigh. Funny how if I had healed poorly it would have been because of the kooky way I eat,
but a flawless, enviable recovery? That's due to luck.