The name game

Last week my friend and I went to a raw foods preparation class. Somewhere between the nut pate and the chocolate nut ice cream pie, we were both dreaming of bonding with our bathroom commode. The other day I went to a raw ice cream social with my meetup group and in the midst of my stomach's revenge it occurred to me that any diet can be unhealthy. Everyone automatically assumes that if you're a vegetarian, a vegan, and especially a raw vegan you must be a health nut. Well, nothing could be further from the truth.
I have known many vegetarians who eat no vegetables, unless you categorize french fries, potato chips, and ketchup as vegetables. (Just to clarify- I don't!)
Then there are the vegans, and some of them take things a step further- they don't eat dip with their chips or drink milk in their coffee, but still no veggies.
So now we move on to the real radicals- the raw vegans. Now they must have a healthy diet, right? Well, the answer may shock and surprise, as it did me. The answer is a resounding "not necessarily".
Raw simply means not cooked, and vegan means no animal products. So eating a diet loaded with heavy nut pate's, rich desserts oozing with agave and maple syrup, and dehyrated grain snacks may be both raw and vegan, but healthy it's decidedly not.
So what do you call a person who actually eats vegetables? I think we should have a name of our own. How about "vegevore"? It sounds like some kind of prehistoric animal.
And what about those of us who take it even further and juice green vegetables, blend green smoothies, and eat sprouts and salads as our primary diet? "Salajuiceatarians"? That sounds like we've graduated with some kind of honor.
All I know is that it seems to me that a vegetarian should eat vegetables. If not, they should give the name back to it's rightful owners.
Maybe they could just call themselves "nomeatarians" or "nutaholics".