Seeking more knowledge and understanding of nutrition, Sam began to read. After studying the works of T. Colin Campbell and Douglas N. Graham, as well as trying a variety of diets, he found that a low-fat raw vegan diet worked well for him. He was very intrigued by what he was learning as well as the diet’s ability to provide him with benefits that surpassed anything he’d previously experienced in terms of maintaining a low body fat percentage, building muscle mass, and not succumbing to the illnesses that plagued he classmates at school or his family at home. Sam graduated with a B.A. from Indiana University where he evaluated the evidence put forth by Campbell and Graham in conjunction with the claim of bioanthropologist Richard Wrangham who said that "Humans...need cooked food" to survive. His individualized major was titled "An Evolutionary Perspective On Human Diet". He is currently a PhD student in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Florida.
Sam has been following a low-fat raw vegan dietary program since March 1, 2008.
