But as you look into it, you discover that it's extraordinarily difficult to survive on a raw food diet.

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Giancoli recommends people meet with a dietitian to develop a balanced eating plan before they embark on a raw food diet.

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The raw food diet completely transformed her life, she says.

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These people almost universally went from a cooked food, meat-centered diet and gave up their meat, their dairy products and their refined sugar and switched to a raw food vegetarian diet, and by simply changing diets their bodies were able to cure their cancer.

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She has just adopted a 4-month old puppy and plans to start him off on a diet of raw food and Goldstein's care.

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