Taking The Mystery Out Of The Raw Food Diet
What’s all the excitement about raw food diets? Well if your idea of a good meal is a vegetable laden salad and you relish the crisp textures of fresh fruit and the tastiness of nuts, you just might be interested in the lifestyle and health benefits of raw foodism.
Most people who decide to become a “raw foodist” try to ensure that at least 75% of their diet consists of raw, uncooked and unprocessed foods and 25% or less cooked food. A raw foodist typically adheres to this 75/25 breakdown with relative gusto because the belief is that improved health is linked to greater consumption of raw foods.
The old adage “you are what you eat” has taken on renewed significance with the raw food movement. Raw foodists believe that eating food that is raw or alive helps to create energy in the person digesting this food. Whereas consuming cooked or “dead” food offers less opportunity for the body to absorb vital nutrients and enzymes that can help the body to digest food.
Researchers have confirmed that food cooked above a certain temperature (generally above 112