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