The Raw Food Diet

Start off with about 70 or 80 per cent raw foods in your diet. Have fruit and salads throughout the day and a cooked vegetable meal with a salad in the evening. This way you're not jumping in straight away but allowing yourself the changeover, both physically and emotionally.

Then, when you're ready, you can just have one cooked meal per week and then one a month and then eventually go raw 100 per cent.

Delicious recipes. To kick-start, look no further than Raw: The Uncook Book (HarperCollins; £25.00) co-authored by Juliano Brotman who's Raw restaurant in California and innovative recipes have propelled him to celebrity status in the US.

Make sushi with raw vegetables and sheets of seaweed, plus plenty of smoothies and salads. Not only will your taste buds be satisfied but Juliano's presentation of his dishes will certainly wet your appetite.