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Mice Experiments35 day Raw Diet On 1/9/83 through 2/15/83, I put six mice for a total of 35 days on a 100 % raw vegetarian diet consisting of raw fruits, green vegetables, nuts, seeds (sunflower and occasional hulled sesame), dried lentils, grains (mostly wheat and millet), plus raw tubers (potatoes and occasional yam). Nothing else was added. One of the mice gave birth to thirteen healthy babies. There were no deformities and no cannibalism, which at the time I attributed to the fresh greens (outer iceberg lettuce leaves and occasional carrot leaves). I concluded that humans could safely live on this unfired diet for almost three years - the 30:1 ratio of 35 days for mice being equivalent to 35 months for humans.
15 day Raw Diet On 4/2/84 through 4/17/84, I put one cage of mice on a 100% raw vegetarian diet for a total of fifteen days consisting of legumes (mung beans and lentils, soaked and sprouted), alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds, fresh corn on the cob, and vegetables (Savoy cabbage, Romaine lettuce, and carrot tops). They love all of the sprouts. They discard the skins of the sprout shoots. Their first preference is the mung, then the lentils which they love, and the sunflower. The alfalfa sprouts they like least. The mice are strong, happy, and have a ravenous appetite. All the mice seem to be in excellent health with excellent spirits and energy. I gave them some frozen corn on the cob. When I gave them wheat grass two times (seven inches) long, they didn't appear to be interested, since only two of them nibbled a little on it. Many mice look pregnant and most seem to be gaining more weight and getting plump. One mouse gave birth.
100% Raw Diet and Added Grains
Since I was concerned that the mice might be overeating of protein in order to get enough of the carbohydrates on this diet without grains (without counting the fresh corn, a diluted form of grains), and also because of their ravenous appetite which indicated to me that perhaps they needed more carbohydrates, to the above cage I added a grain for the first time, wheat soaked overnight arid very slightly sprouted. The fifteen days on this raw diet indicated that a human could safely live on this in an excellent weight loss diet and one that very possibly could reverse cancer (some cancer cases reversed on a 100% raw diet - see "Alternative Cancer Therapies" organization located in New York). I also gave them raw, soaked, hulled buckwheat groats (kasha), which they enjoyed. The mice are very alert, moving faster than before. Many males are chasing females, many of whom am now pregnant. I feed the mice two meals a day as follows:
(a) Beginning with Savoy cabbage, Romaine, carrot tops (alfalfa sprouts occasionally) followed by 1/2 plum tomato. Fifteen minutes later I give one handful each of both mung and lentil sprouts for about forty mice.
b) In the evening, I give the same vegetables again, followed by sunflower and wheat sprouts (two handfuls). Occasionally, I give them plain popcorn as a treat, which I make myself (they are wild about popcorn). The mice go wild for washed, granulated kelp, but seem disinterested in wheatgrass. I gave washed dulse leaves to two cages, but they liked the kelp better.
The man in the pet shop said that mice needed salt in their diet and if they didn't get it, they would cannibalize the others to get the salt from their blood. I gave kelp to avoid this. I gave raw, new white potato, which they wouldn't eat, but they like raw yams. The mice are very alert and move faster than those in the other cages. Some take flying leaps across the cage now. They have a tremendous appetite for sprouted or soaked legumes and grains, and they eat less vegetables.
A diet of raw soaked grains, lentils and vegetables On July 20, 1985, a fire was caused in my kitchen by a faulty appliance. When the firemen finished hosing the kitchen and cutting a hole in the roof; everything was in complete disorder. Fortunately, the heavy smoke was largely stopped by a wall which prevented it from killing the mice in an adjoining living room. I was happy to discover that no deaths had occured. Since my kitchen was out of order, I stopped all cooking and put all cages that were eating grains on a 100% raw diet consisting of raw grains (mostly wheat, etc.) which had been soaked overnight, and soaked or sprouted lentils, along with lettuce leaves and occasional carrot leaves - basically three to four foods. Now, it's almost three months later and all the cages getting the raw grains and lentils thrived very nicely. These three months or ninety days would equal ninety months or seven and a half years in a human equivalent. Therefore, it seems likely that humans should be able to live on raw, soaked overnight (24 hours) grains and legumes. Two mice in two of the cages are very fat and obese. At first I thought they were pregnant, but it's been too long this way. It's just plain obesity and this on a 100% raw diet almost exclusively for approximately seven and a half years in human equivalency. (For further discussion on the effects on successive generations of the 100% vegetarian diet, see In search of the Ultimate Diet by Stanley Bass, p.23-24.)Testing a 100 % raw vegetarian diet of lentil sprouts, sunflower sprouts, fresh corn, and greens (lettuce, carrot leaves, etc.) ...
