Raw Diet - The food and benefits

Raw food diet is the method of consuming organic, unprocessed, and often fresh foods in the diet program. It's often called raw "foodism" or "rawism". In a raw diet generally raw plant foods are consumed. Based on the type of way of living and results preferred, raw food diets can include a variety of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds etc.
Let us look at the benefits of a raw food diet as the folks that follow a raw food diet believe it has numerous health benefits, such as:
• Increased vigor.
• Clearer skin.
• Weight loss.

1) The heat of cooking reduces vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and damages enzymes which help digestion. Organic foods are better quality; as a result you consume less to meet your nutritional needs.
2) Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is no need to add salt or spices that may upset your digestion.
3) Raw foods take not much preparation so you spend less time in the kitchen. Cleaning the dishes after a meal is a quite burdensome task. A raw diet saves you against this trouble.
4) Eating a diet of fresh foods can stop the development of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. It can help you evade common diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a wholesome body. It also deals with heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation to an extent.
5) It is environmentally good. Less carbon dioxide released in to the environment when all the cooking food reduces.
6) Consuming raw saves you money on food, pots and pans.

Precisely what and what not to eat:
The raw food diet consists primarily of plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds and nuts. Although foods are usually enjoyed close to their pure state, food can be processed for ease and variety.

See below for some common food items:-
•Fruits, Green leafy vegetables
•Seeds and nuts Sprouts
•Sprouted cereals
•Dried fruits
•Sprouted seeds
•Fresh herbs
•Raw spices
•Marine vegetables
•Fresh fruit or vegetable juices
•Also, raw eggs, fish and meat

Non-pasteurized or non-homogenized milk, yogurt and cheese can be consumed. The best food to take in a raw diet is fruit and vegetable juices and filtered water.

Some options to cook food: On the raw food diet, certain methods can be used to make meals more digestible and to add variety to the diet:-

Soaking and Sprouting - Cereals, nuts, seeds and small beans and legumes are soaked and sprouted. Juicing - Fruits and vegetables juices are very helpful. Pickling

Food to be avoided if on a raw diet:

Some organic beans can be eaten after they have been soaked and sprouted, but others are considered unsafe to eat, such as kidney beans and soya beans. Other than cooked food the other food items that are avoided include:
•Buckwheat greens
•Mushrooms
•Peas
•Potatoes
•Rhubarb leaves
Normally avoid food grown with pesticide sprays or made with chemical preservatives, additives, food color or food dye. Boiled water and beverages made from it are not consumed on a tight raw food diet.

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