Raw Food
What is the Raw Food
Diet?
Have you started hearing about the Raw Food Diet? It's gaining
popularity and buzz, not just as a diet to lose weight, but a
diet for a long and healthy life. We eat so much in the way of
processed food that we don't even stop to think about what
we're putting into our bodies, and how far we've come
nutritionally from our ancestral, agrarian roots.
A raw food diet means consuming food in its natural,
unprocessed form. There are several common-sense rationales for
why this is a good idea. Processing and cooking food can take
so much of the basic nutritional value away.
Think of some of the conventional wisdom you've heard about
for years, such as: If you cook pasta just to the al dente (or
medium) stage, it will have more calories, yes, but it will
have more the nutritional value in it than if you cooked it to
a well-done stage. Or you probably remember hearing not to peel
carrots or potatoes too deeply, because most of the nutrients
and values are just under the surface.
The raw food
diet means eating unprocessed, uncooked, organic, whole foods,
such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, dried fruits,
seaweeds, etc. It means a diet that is at least 75%
uncooked!
Cooking takes out flavor and nutrition from vegetables and
fruits. A raw food diet means eating more the way our ancient
ancestors did. Our healthier, more fit ancestors. They cooked
very little, and certainly didn't cook or process fruits and
vegetables. They ate them RAW. Their water wasn't from a tap;
it was natural, spring water. Maybe they drank some coconut
milk on occasion.
Doesn't it just make sense that this is how our bodies were
meant to eat? It's a way of eating that's in harmony with the
planet and in harmony with our own metabolisms. Our bodies were
meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means
exercise, certainly, but it also means eating natural,
raw food that
require more energy to digest them.
More articles about raw
food
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- Raw Foods and Skin Health
Raw foods and skin health can't exist separately - when your body and skin are getting their essential nutrition with raw, uncooked foods, you'll look and feel your best, NATURALLY!
- Sun Tea Water and Skin
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- Raw Foods Less Water
When you start consuming more raw foods, with a higher fiber and moisture content, you may start to lose weight, and that can go a long way to reducing your blood sugars
- Processed Foods
Processed foods, with their high fat content are hard to digest - they take an enormous amount of the body’s energy to consume
- Vegetarian Compared to Raw Food
A raw foodist is a vegetarian, but one who generally is not going to cook his vegetables or fruits
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