| Now let's see how raw food diet can make a | | | | back into the body, making it more difficult |
| difference... | | | | for the food to absorb and work on the |
| | | | regeneration of cells. The worst types of |
| After all the huge craze about counting | | | | foods are those that contain artificial |
| calories, the fad of jumping on the soy diet | | | | sweeteners and colourings, a truth that not |
| bandwagon, and the nutritional phobias about | | | | everyone knows, as very often you would hear |
| too much or too little fat, protein or | | | | some people saying, "trying to slim down, |
| carbohydrates in diets, today, the raw food | | | | take diet cola instead of regular cola, |
| diet which promises fast and easy digestion | | | | replace table sugar with artificial |
| has taken off with a big bang and started a | | | | sweeteners in your food..." |
| huge eating trend. Celebrities, restaurants, | | | | |
| food manufacturers, and lifestyle books and | | | | "Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just |
| magazines are extolling and touting the | | | | have to help it in its work. The natural |
| benefits of detoxing the body by eating such | | | | healing force within each one of us is the |
| as unprocessed vegetables, nuts, fruits, and | | | | greatest force in getting well. Our food |
| even honey. | | | | should be our medicine. Our medicine should |
| | | | be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is |
| Raw food diet advocates no cooking, no | | | | to feed your sickness." Hippocrates, Greek |
| frying, no baking, no grilling, no steaming, | | | | physician (460 BC - 377 BC) |
| no application of whatever kind of heat. It | | | | |
| is grounded based on the belief that eating | | | | We are what we eat. Over time, our bodies |
| more uncooked food will reduce the amount of | | | | build up poisons and store waste from food |
| digestive enzymes your body has to produce. | | | | that is not fully eliminated, leading to |
| Unprocessed natural foods are in their best | | | | health problems weight gain, a degeneration |
| natural state with the enzymes left intact. | | | | of the organs, a slowing of the metabolism |
| Enzymes are needed to perform many functions | | | | and premature aging. Food, by itself, has no |
| in the body including digestion, assimilation | | | | healing power, but our body has an incredible |
| and elimination of food. A lack of enzyme can | | | | capacity for recovery. Uncooked, natural |
| result in vitamin and mineral deficiencies. | | | | foods can give our body the raw materials it |
| In cooking, part of the food nutrition which | | | | needs to detoxify, to create energy, and to |
| includes the enzymes and amino acids is | | | | rebuild. When a detox process is enabled via |
| destroyed. Furthermore, the more food is | | | | eating raw foods, the pressure placed on the |
| cooked and processed and the higher the | | | | lymphatic system, the blood, brain, organs |
| temperature that food is cooked, the more | | | | and the entire body is reduced. It enables |
| difficult it is to digest and metabolize. | | | | the body to flush purge out the toxins and |
| Cooked food not only passes through the | | | | put us back on the road toward greater |
| digestive tract more slowly than raw food, it | | | | energy, clearer skin and shinier hair, and a |
| also tends to ferment, and returns poisons | | | | slimmer body. |