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The above point on food combining especially fruit and starches is one of many important rules of thumb in these transitions towards purer diet and detoxing. Citrus and grain is perhaps the worst of combinings, second only to citrus and milk. When I was a kid. the morning TV commercials would show a combination of cold cereal with milk, OJ, toast and butter. The commercial would say "with milk and juice to make it complete." My researchings have suggested the near deadliness of such common mixtures. Amazingly people do survive the norm for quite awhile.
An oldschool authority towards the beginning of the last century Prof. Arnold Ehret gave a good visualizable and experimentable teaching on food combining. He said to take the food that a person would eat in a day and put into a pot with a lid. (Perhaps cereal, bread, mashed potatoes, butter, milk, meat, dessert, etc) Then heat it to about 100 degrees (mimicking the body's 98.6 degrees). Leave it slow cooking overnight and the next morning examine the contents of the pot. This should reveal much.
He also pointed out such things as how you can have say a banana sitting on the refrigerator for a few days and it just continues ripening but a cooked food you wouldn't dare set out for a few days, because it is, immediately upon being cooked, decomposing.
Not wanting to be longwinded, but my root recommendation is study and research those who lived the lifestyle for a long period of time, starting with some of the oldschool. Terminology is a lot more confusing for most people now and it is harder to arrive at key foundational rules of thumb in a world that codes it's ignorance with vague wordage like vitamin thus and so, and amino acids, and such and such minerals, and blood types, and etc. that one would have to spend years to memorize, only to be in a bigger set of contradicting paradoxes than ever.
Set long range goals/ideals, and short range goals, and make concise steps into the direction you want to go towards. Enjoy the journey as well. "Cold turkey" (obviously not a vegan or raw foodist phrase), or rapid transition, more likely than not gives a bad association with the lifestyle. I would say that most negative reports about raw food comes from poor beginnings and led to false starts and finally regret and resentment. "I did the raw food thing before but it didn't work for me..." Again, study and concise steps is what I would recommend.
Finally, going from one diet and/or lifestyle to another is really going from one intake to another intake. Most people already suffer from excessive intake as it is. When does the "intaking" take a break? The best way to deal/heal the intake of the past is periodic fasting. Breaking the fasts to better intakes then we did previous to our fasts seems to be a practical way to gradually transist from the intake of mostly dead substances into the reality of intake of mostly living substances. People hop diets all the time, but rarely deal with the past intakes. Wise fasting is the surest way to deal with the past stuff as we head towards a saner and healthier future for ourselves. Again, study and guidance is important. So much work and experience has been gone into by others that there is no need for anyone to jump into anything blindly or haphazardly.
Yet one does not need to be a quantum physicist or a biologist to grok that you cannot get life from dead matter. Live food is lifegiving and facilitating. Eventually live/life will overcome the dead...Peace be the journey.
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