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By ilove2work
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.
Those of you not familiar with the latest on weightloss now
have at least a basic understanding. But there's more to
come.
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 foods that require more energy to
digest them.
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