I've been thinking about some of the stuff that Steve Pavlina has said in his recent 30 day trial of eating completely raw. He mentioned that people on raw food diets have lower body temperatures, sometimes even a couple degrees cooler. So far in this trial (he's 17 days into it), his body temperature has dropped a whole degree and he's been feeling cold. He's had to turn up his thermostat and he's still cold all the time. I really wondered about this, as I figured that this would be a very healthy way to live.
All of a sudden I had a eureka moment! I'd been thinking about maybe the reason a number of different diets all work, is that our bodies are designed to slip into different modes. Suddenly I realized that the body temp drop isn't a flaw, its a benefit. For a person to naturally be eating only raw fruits and vegetables, they would be either in a very hot part of the world or in the hottest season of the year. Those are the conditions that make that food available. Their diet is a signal to the body to drop its temperature to better adapt to the current conditions.
No wonder it is harder to go vegetarian in the winter (I'm not sure if the body temp drop is a result of the vegetarianism or the raw food). The body would have a terrible time adapting to the current conditions because it would be getting signals that it is supposed to be responding to a hot environment.
This also infers that all those folks who sit around in summer time with their air conditioners cranked up and eating potatoes and grain and meat, are miserably hot and overweight because they are telling their bodies that it is wintertime or a cold climate and their bodies need to run warmer and store fat for insulation.
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