Is a Raw Vegan Diet healthful for diabetes and high blood pressure?

Is a raw vegan diet healthful over a long period of time, especially with diabetes and high blood pressure? I am trying to switch to a raw vegan diet, but my dietitian insists it is not healthful. Has anybody here tried it long-term, or know anybody who has? I'm wanting to lose a lot of weight, and I've been making a lot of salads, with cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, green bell peppers, celery, onions, carrots ... and then I pour on a bunch of vinegar and lemon juice. It's tasty, nutritious, and very low-calorie. It seems to be working for me, but my dietitian isn't happy. And I didn't even tell you what my primary care physician thinks about my decision to quit all my diabetes and blood pressure medications and just rely on a raw vegan diet instead of the meds ... except that I'm going to have to find another primary care physician.

He says it is not healthy 100% raw. Well did he say what percentage of raw is healthy??????????? No raw foods? What? He does not know. See site below from a group of people who eat 85% raw and 15% healthy cooked food and why. Read all the things that it has cured.

No animals in nature eat cooked food and they do not have these diseases. BUT pets eat cooked food and they get all these disease like cancer (Pottenger study-- mentioned on links page [5th link]). Is salt raw food. IT IS NOT FOOD. It makes hypertension worse. Cooked food needs salt. Raw food like watermelon does not need salt.

Also see the home page about weight loss. It explains that fruit is the healthiest food. Then see page on curing high blood pressure (hypertension). 4 ounces of salt taken with water will kill you dead. Tell your doctor to do it and prove that big mouth know-it-all whizkid wrong.

As long as you make sure your diet provides the correct amount of protein (tofu, soy) which, according to one non-vegan diet, is 3-4 oz per meal and 1-2 oz at each of 3 in between meal snacks per day for a relatively sedentary female, it will be ok. There are some nutrients that you may be missing by restricting some foods, so research that part of it carefully.

I have never been on a vegan diet, so I really cannot say how it will affect you.

Salad turns into sugar quick (not good) and also digests quick. I would suggest also eating a little low fat meat and some whole grain carbs with it. It's all about your blood/sugar tests.