What Is The Raw Food Diet?
Have you started out hearing about the Raw Food Diet? It’s gaining popularity and buzz, not just as a diet to slim down, but a diet for a long and healthy life. We take in so much in the manner of processed food that we fail to think about what we’re consuming, 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.
Or you probably remember reading not to peel carrots or potatoes too deeply, because most of the nutrients and values are just under the surface.The uncooked food diet means eating unprocessed, uncooked, organic, whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, dried fruits, seaweeds, etc.
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 supposed to work, and need to work to be successful. That means train, certainly, but it also means eating natural, raw foods that require more energy to digest them.
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