Have you been hearing about the Raw Food Diet? It is 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.
A raw food diet means consuming food in its natural, unprocessed form. There are several common-sense reasons 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 of 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 and the way nature intended us to (before fire was invented). They cooked very few items, 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 definitely would explain why our bodies reject the foods we put into it (bad odorous gas, harsh movements, indigestion, heart burn and more symptoms explain it). It’s the only way of eating that’s allows harmony with the planet and harmony with our own body. Allowing our Metabolism to work the way it’s supposed to work, were meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means exercise too, our ancestors didn’t start out driving cars, or even riding horses, we started out walking every where, but it also means eating natural, raw foods that require more energy to digest them, resulting in giving us more energy to do the things we love.
This type of diet is also the way to go with pets.
Comments
I didn't realize pets should have a raw foods lifestyle.
I did not know that the longer you cook pasta the more calories it has.
I didn't realize that cooking pasta just til al dente meant more calories, but more nutrition as well.
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