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Article: Some dietitians skeptical about the raw food diet
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- Courier-News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2003
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In the meat-eating Midwest, the raw diet -- eating only uncooked plant life -- is just starting to gain steam. In fact, until recently, Mary Carol MacDonald, manager of nutrition and diabetes services at Provena St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin, had not heard of it.
Dawn Jackson first learned about the raw food diet movement more than three years ago while she was living in a region known for its trendiness, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M.
Jackson is a registered dietitian at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association and thinks "we're still at the very tip of the trend." Now that movie stars such as Demi Moore are on the diet, she expects ...