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The Benefits of a Raw Diet

Posted on 6.25.08 at 7:37 pm

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The mention of a raw diet may throw some people for a loop because they don’t get the whole concept.Eating Greens They might conjure up images of people pulling a raw steak out of the package and eating it. The living foods or raw foods diet generally includes vegetarian/vegan foods but goes a step beyond and also eliminates cooked and processed foods. Raw foods have life giving enzymes that are destroyed during processing and cooking, rendering those foods toxic and hard to digest. A raw diet consists mainly of uncooked and unprocessed grains, vegetables, nuts, sprouts, fresh and dried fruits, seeds, beans, and seaweed. Raw diets also usually include a lot fresh juices and water. . And like I said, a raw food diet is usually also a vegan diet but some raw food enthusiasts will eat some meat products raw or rare and raw dairy such as milk and cheese.

 

Following a raw diet has many benefits such as increased energy levels. When you eat a diet high in raw foods your body digests and absorbs the foods at a more rapid rate. This is where the increase in energy comes from; that plus the fact you are consuming whole foods as opposed to cooked. Digestion is easier because raw foods still have their enzymes, which act as digestive catalysts. When we eat cooked food our bodies need to look within our own tissues for the enzymes required for digestion. In a sense we are giving our bodies only half the puzzle pieces and expecting them to manufacture the rest. It is no wonder our bodies become so stressed and we seem to age so fast.

 

Another benefit of following a raw diet is the fact that you are protecting your body from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, and more. When you cook foods the life force in them begins to take a serious nose dive and they are rendered unhealthy because the nutrition that they provided is depleted. Think about it…if you take a raw sunflower seed and a conventional one that has been pasteurized (or cooked) and plant them both in the ground what will happen? One will grow (the raw one) and one will rot and decompose. The raw seed has something the cooked one no longer has…LIFE.

 

Raw foods nourish and improve the body’s internal environment and enable the body to rid itself of unnecessary waste that tends to accumulate in a body trying to survive on cooked foods. The over abundance of nutrients found in raw foods helps to maintain a healthy body thus a healthy body has less chance of getting disease.

 

Yet another great advantage to eating raw is the clean up. You don’t have to worry about the grease in the pot that you had to soak overnight because of the caked on grime that just would not budge. And most of your kitchen scraps can go directly in the compost pile! That means less mess and waste for you.

 

The fact that following a raw diet is environmentally sound is a definite reason to say yes. The more raw food that one eats the less they are contributing to the food industry’s hoax that processed foods are healthy. Imagine if each person or even 60 percent of the country decided to follow a raw diet. The food industry would have to shut down or start again with truly all natural organic gardens, the number of trees and oils used for the production of paper and plastics used for packaging processed foods would slowly diminish, and there would be more oxygen due to the all the new orchards and gardens the Earth would have.

 

The advantages of a raw diet far outweigh those of a diet on all cooked foods. Even making 40 to 50% of your daily diet raw will truly help your body. The hype of a raw diet not being healthy is just not so and should never be a reason to deny yourself the opportunity to live life on a greater level through the benefits of a raw diet. Raw foods just RAWK!

 

Ready to get started? Here are some books you should check out:

Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko

12 Steps to Raw Food by Victoria Boutenko

Living on Live Food by Alissa Cohen

 

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One Response to “The Benefits of a Raw Diet”

  1. 3.31.09 at 7:19 am
    Best Diet comments:

    You raise some interessting points about dieting. Ther is a lot to learn about losing weight and the Every Other Day Diet is the system that works for many people. You can eat anything you like wiht it.

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