The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it
would protect them from parasites. Since then this practice of
cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now
considered an art. The average meal generally doesn't include
many raw elements, except for the leafy green salad. Here we'll
consider 10 benefits of eating raw food.
However, the advantages of eating raw foods bring nature’s
intentions into focus. When I speak of eating raw I'm referring to
fruit, nuts, and vegetables, which taste good to the majority of
humankind in their basic simplicity direct from tree, bush or vine.
I realize it isn’t easy to simply abandon thousands of years of
tradition and revert back to 100% raw food. Margaret Mead once
said, “It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his
diet.” So to the point, here are the benefits of fresh, whole raw
foods, which may lead you to find a greater place for them in your
diet. It's never all or nothing
1. Raw foods are better quality, therefore you eat less to
satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking
depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and
destroys enzymes which benefit digestion. As your
percentage of raw foods increases you feel satisfied and
have more energy on smaller meals because raw food
has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet
your body’s needs.
2. Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is
no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments
that can irritate your digestion system or over stimulate
your nervous system.
3. Raw foods take very little preparation so you spend less
time in the kitchen. Even a child of 5 or 6 can prepare
most items for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This gives
children a sense of self-esteem and independence, not to
mention the break it gives Mom or Dad.
4. When you eat raw there’s little chance of burns, unless
you’re in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun toolong. Just think! No burns to your tongue, the roof of your
mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires.
5. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked-on oils
or crusty messes. And any inedible parts go directly to the
compost pile.
6. Eating a diet of raw foods can reverse or stop the
advance of many chronic diseases, including heart
disease and cancer. Remember, cooking creates free
radicals, which are the major cause of cancer. When you
lower the number of free radicals your cells are
bombarded with, you lower your risk of cancer.
7. A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such
as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a healthy
body with better defenses to prevent the intrusion of
disease.
8. Heartburn, gas, indigestion, and constipation can become
things of the past. As long as you combine raw food
properly, you will soon reach a level where you no longer
suffer from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.
9. Eating raw is environmentally sound. With humanity on a
diet of raw foods, the food industry would close up shop
and take up organic gardening. This would save us
enormous amounts of natural resources used to produce
power for these industries. Nuclear power would be
clearly unnecessary. And think of how many trees and oil
reserves could be saved without the need for the paper
and plastics used in packaging our processed foods.
There would also be less pollutants released into the
atmosphere when all the cooking stopped and more
oxygen produced from all the new orchards and gardens,
thus helping to slow global warming.
10. Eating raw saves you money — on food, vitamins, pots
and pans, appliances, doctor bills, drugs, and health
insurance. So don’t waste your food, yourself, and our
planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and
vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are brimming
with life and have the ability to transmit their life force
directly to you.
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