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Because I've been in the raw community for 20 years, I know several people who followed this 80/10/10 diet long term and ended up with severe health problems. Once they are sick it is very hard for them to get better because they have a cult-like belief in the "truth" that the 80/10/10 diet is they only path to health. They have been brainwashed into thinking that fats are deadly, that 1/2 an avocado is an excessive amount of fat, that nuts and seeds are bad, all oils are bad and that coconut will kill you because it's saturated fat. Ultimately they get malnutrition due to lack of protein and fat, leading to osteoporosis, tooth loss, hair loss and hormone deficiency. They walk around looking like corpses, but they're afraid to break the dietary rules Doug has set for them even when they are very ill. It's like an eating disorder cult. Very bad news. I also agree with the other posters who say Doug's books contain little or no actual science. He spouts "facts" like saying that complete protein is a myth, which is absurd, because your body can not make essential amino acids (that is why they are called "essential"). Not getting a full complement of amino acids is one of the reasons people on this diet get malnutrition. Or his paranoid insistence that saturated fats are dangerous; it seems clear he does not read the research on this topic, or he would know that much of what he says has been disproven in recent years. Or his statement of the "fact" that a woman should have a BMI of 13-15, which is actually in the anorexia range. Very dangerous and sad for the women who believe what he says. This diet can work well as a detox diet for relatively short periods of time. It makes you feel energized in the short term. But it is not healthy for a lifetime.