A topic was opened up on the Raw Paleolothic Diet Forum about Raw Vegan vs. Raw Paleolithic Diet. I contributed my opinion on this issue. Maybe it will help you with your search for the best diet for you.
In my research, if we are talking some millions of years ago, our human ancestors must have been fruigivores with a little meat every now and then. (Paleolithic times… 3-6 million years ago? )
Gradually, humans ate larger amounts of meat. (Paleolithic times… 1 million years ago?)
When the ice ages hit, those that survived, humans evolved / adapted, our ancestors to eat mostly meat. (Paleolithic times… hundreds of thousands of years ago?)
After the last ice age, human population exploded as humans are adapted to eat BOTH fruits AND meat…. NOT vegetation… not leaves… not vegetables. (Paleolithic times 20,000 to 12,000 years ago?)
It was the invention of AGRICULTURE in the neolithic age that pushed people to eat GRAIN and VEGETABLES because these were the low cost, easy to grow items available. (Beginning neolithic times 10,000 years ago and until today)
I believe the raw vegan movement is misleading… most raw vegans eat more fruits and nuts in the first place rather than vegetation. My raw vegan teacher was advocating a 2/3 fruit and 1/3 prepared vegetation diet. I liked eating the 2/3 fruit but the 1/3 prepared vegetation was a pain to prepare and not tasty.
I find fruit tasty and filling if it is fatty fruit like durian, coconuts, avocado.
I find raw meat tasty and filling.
I see raw vegetation as herbs / medicine.
What I use for curing people is raw ripe / unripe fruit, raw organic / wild fatty meat, and juiced raw organic / wild vegetation / herbs. Of course you read this too in Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ books on the Primal Diet.
http://www.rawpaleoforum.com/hot-topics/raw-vegans-vs-raw-paleo/msg4907/#msg4907
For the benefit of those who have just tuned into this blog, I do not believe humans as a species have adapted fully to agriculture which was introduced 10,000 years ago. And most certainly not to processed food / manufactured food introduced in the last 50 years.
My practical observation is what diet CURES people? Raw Fruits and Raw Meat, with herbs as aids, helpers, medicine. This has led me to the conclusion that the raw paleolithic diet is the original, nature optimized diet for humans… find your variation, proportion within the raw paleolithic diet and be healed.