Don't take this wrong. I'm not trying to be mean or tactless but in my humble opinion-ONLY in California (no offense Alonzo). What about the pollution-heavy metals, parasites etc. in raw fish? Reasonable amounts of lean meat are not only harmless but important in any diet. If you want to substitute fish for chicken, mutton, lean beef and pork-fine. Raw doesn't appeal to me (and is risky, I think) but to each their own. A strict vegetarian diet however makes it very difficult to obtain certain nutrients. I was on a vegetarian diet for over a year. The only benefit I found was that I did loose some weight.
Our teeth are not (despite all the vegan and PETA literature to the contrary) indicative of a herbivorous past. Evidence suggests that for most of our history our diets were based much more on meat than plants. For example, 40,000 years ago Cro-Magnon man was not eating steamed asparagus and pita bread (or PETA bread). To quote one handy reference he "lived primarily on large game such as horses, deer and oxen which he killed in abundance" (and cooked, by the way). However the meat they were eating was much leaner in the form of wild game, (and more recently range-raised critters), which is probably healthier than a nice rib-eye steak is today. The "putrefying in the body stuff" is, pardon the expression, balogna. Ask any QUALIFIED MD or gastroenterologist. It does sell a lot of systemic "cleansers" and other junk that americans buy by the bushel. (Colonic, anyone?)
My neurologist, in fact, asked if I was vegetarian as he was going to suggest eating more protein if I was. I have nothing against vegetarians if that trips your trigger but I get impatient with the suggestion that it is the "natural" diet for homo sapiens. I think the Spartan philosophy of all things in moderation is best when it somes to questions of diet, supplements etc.
As for magnets, they may have one possible benefit-the placebo effect (which is a real benefit when it occurs and may actually work for many on this board).
