Raw Food Diet, the Natural Way!

Now let's see how raw food diet can make areturns 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 tooand 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 easysaying, "trying to slim down, take diet cola instead
digestion has taken off with a big bang andof 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 thehave to help it in its work. The natural healing
benefits of detoxing the body by eating such asforce within each one of us is the greatest force
unprocessed vegetables, nuts, fruits, and evenin 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 ofHippocrates, Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)
whatever kind of heat. It is grounded based onWe are what we eat. Over time, our bodies build
the belief that eating more uncooked food willup poisons and store waste from food that is not
reduce the amount of digestive enzymes yourfully eliminated, leading to health problems weight
body has to produce. Unprocessed natural foodsgain, a degeneration of the organs, a slowing of
are in their best natural state with the enzymesthe metabolism and premature aging. Food, by
left intact. Enzymes are needed to perform manyitself, 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 offoods can give our body the raw materials it
enzyme can result in vitamin and mineralneeds to detoxify, to create energy, and to
deficiencies. In cooking, part of the food nutritionrebuild. When a detox process is enabled via
which includes the enzymes and amino acids iseating raw foods, the pressure placed on the
destroyed. Furthermore, the more food is cookedlymphatic system, the blood, brain, organs and the
and processed and the higher the temperatureentire body is reduced. It enables the body to
that food is cooked, the more difficult it is toflush purge out the toxins and put us back on the
digest and metabolize. Cooked food not onlyroad toward greater energy, clearer skin and
passes through the digestive tract more slowlyshinier hair, and a slimmer body.
than raw food, it also tends to ferment, and