B12 levels on Hallelujah Diet

[Guest guest]

Jeffrey Novick, MS, RD, Senior Nutritionist at the Pritikin Clinic

in Florida, himself a raw foods vegan, informed me this morning

that there are some studies of clinical blood values on vegans

following natural hygiene diets, and that deficiencies have been

reported for unsupplemented vegans, both on Natural Hygiene diets

AND on the " Hallelujah Diet " .

 

Have listmembers found any systematic data -- not opinions --

in this area?

 

This would imply that, apart from the worldview predispositions

towards following hygienic-style diets, the experiences of the

followers of unsupplemented " Hallelujah Diet " diets and the

natural hygiene style diets, as well as unsupplemented macrobiotic

diets, have some significant biochemical and health parallels.

 

I wonder if the suggestion of nutrition supplementation, and its

significant as an " intervention " of some artificiality, alters the

nature of the rationale or the justification for the diet.

 

Maynard S. Clark