Welcome to SoAlive.biz

Here are a few articles to get the ball rolling for the new site. More will be posted later after further review.

• Palaeolithic Nutrition? - Draft of an article critical of this new diet cult
• Encephalisation And Diet Explained - Article deflating the idea that meat eating made us evolve big heads
• Beyond Polemics - Article critical of the misologistic Tom Billings and his pseudoscience

• Biblio - List of most of the scientific material I have read

Discussion Boards

• Forum - A progressive Natural Hygiene discussion forum

My position on veganism and eating raw: It is my belief that a raw vegan diet is optimal for human health. It is not my belief that a vegan diet is appropriate for everyone, or that a raw diet is practical under all conditions. A raw food diet can be expensive, restrictive and deficient, and it takes planning and experience to get right. People have lived in good health into old age as vegans, and for this reason it seems excessive to strip the seas of fish which other animals need to survive, and cruel to slaughter millions of animals per hour, for a diet which (perhaps) for most people isn't necessary, and is probably very harmful. Raw food vegans should obtain an effective source of vitamin B12, eat heartily of a variety of foods and ensure they meet their calcium needs.

"...cooking renders food pasty, so that it sticks to the teeth, and undergoes acid fermentation. Furthermore, the cooking of food greatly diminishes the need for use of the teeth; and thus tends to diminish the circulation of blood to the jaws and teeth, and to produce under -development of the maxillary and contiguous bones—thus leading to contracted dental arches, and to malocclusion and impaction of the teeth, with complications of great seriousness."
- Forbes, E. B., The Ohio Journal of Science. Vol. 33, No.5 (September, 1933), 389-406