shedd aquarium: since they use alot in the raw recipes and such|||No, eating raw food is not bad unless it is raw meat in which case it may contain harmful bacteria or other pathogens. As for nuts they are fattening but then it depends how much exactly one eats. A dish with a lot of vegetables, lean meat and some nuts (and a little oil) is not fattening. Per 100 grams nuts have 600 calories, vegetables 20 - 40 (except potatoes which have 80), boiled rice 130, lean meats around 200 and oils 900.|||Calories are a meansure of energy. Energy from the foods you eat provide the power for your body. If you consume more calories than your body uses in activity, you will get fat, regardless of the source of those calories. Nuts are high in fats, fats are a dense (high) source of calories, so a small amount of nuts has more calories than a small amount of crackers, for example, because crackers are made of flour with little to no fat, and so are a light (low) source of calories. So if you eat a cup of nuts you would get more calories than if you ate a cup of cracker crumbs, and if you did not use those all of those calories, you would get fat--depending, again, on the energy you need for that day, and what else you ate as a source for your total daily calories. It's a basic equation. The type of food isn't the critical difference. There aren't some foods that make you fatter than others. It's how much you eat of what and how active you are. It's a basic mathematical equation that you can track and record and determine. What the type of food does affect is how full you feel after you consume the amount, and how statisfied you are in terms of enjoyment of the food. Generally with raw diets, you fill up on other things (veggies, fruits) and use the nuts in very small amounts for protein. Hope that helps.