"The Raw Food Diet" William Harris, M.D.
| Founding member and resident
skeptic William Harris, M.D. starts off with some exercise tips, a 23,000
foot skydive, a night jump, and then launches into what humans really
should be eating. After a short metaphysical detour about Satan as the
universal image of evil (hint: he's got hooves, horns, red skin and a
tail), Bill enters the controversial realm of the raw vegan diet,
discussing six common claims of raw fooders and accepting five of them. He
has some wry remarks about beans, some happy thought about nuts, and a
couple of blenderized smoothie recipes. There's a discussion of salt
(sodium chloride) as a no-no particularly as you drift along with him into
the realm of advancing age, and a few words about the anti-oxidants in raw
pigmented fruits and vegetables, as age's last defense.
He winds up with a short bit about the ethical difference between slicing a tomato and slicing a sheep, and then shows the healthy vegan kids that Jack Norris, R.D. dug up in retort to a NY Times article "Death by Veganism." |
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A vegan for more than
40 years, William
Harris, M.D., is a founding
and current director of the
Vegetarian Society of Hawaii.
Prior to his retirement
he was an emergency
physician and the
director of the Kaiser Permanente
Vegetarian Lifestyle
Clinic. He received
his medical degree from
the University of California,
San Francisco and is
the author of The Scientific
Basis of Vegetarianism.
Retirement has allowed
Dr. Harris to maintain
and even increase
his physical activity. He
swims and does other
aerobic exercise daily and
continues to hone his
trampoline skills. He's
been an active pilot for
many years and a skydiver
with more than 800
jumps.
Filming and editing by Dr William Harris M.D.
on July 10, 2007 at Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse, Honolulu, Hawaii
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