Many of us see articles every week in newspapers, magazines or TV telling us about the benefits of raw foods for our health and well-being. No matter how you consume it, in salads or as a delicious smoothie, the experts all agree that raw food is healthy and full of great nutrients.
What many people don't realise is the importance of food to their immune system and general body function. Raw food has many of the essential ingredients for a long and healthy life. Here are some reasons for you to add more raw food to your diet.
Increased Enzyme levels.
All our cells need enzymes to kick-start all the essential functions they undertake such as fighting off disease. Cooking food often destroys these enzymes. Eating it raw allows them to both help you digest your food and enter your body and encourage the best possible efficiency in organ function.
Reduced Mold
Cooked vegetables you put in the fridge for a day or two can start growing mold. This is at the very least a bit of a challenge to the good, healthy bacteria in your gut when you eat the older veg. Fresh fruit and veg avoids this potential problem.
Less Washing
If you're not preparing and cooking food, then usually you have less to wash up. With raw uncooked food you usually just wash your knives and perhaps juicer if you take smoothies but that's all.
Improved nutritional Intake
Eating fresh fruit and vegetables maximises your nutrient intake. Chewing, unlike cooking destroys nothing! Even a short, light steam breaks down and destroys some nutrients. Longer cooking times breaks down even more.
Decreased potential toxicity
As well as breaking down nutrients, cooking can also produce some unpleasant chemicals, which are potentially harmful. For example at high temperatures many vegetable oils break down. If the cooking temperature used for meat is too extreme harmful, potentially toxic metabolites are formed which can damage your cells.
Immune System Boosted.
Quite a few people have found after switching to a diet containing far more raw food hat their on-going long tern medical problems have eased. This is probably a combination of reasons for this. Cutting out processed food and intensively farmed meat reduces the amount of chemicals your taking on board. Eating more raw food dramatically increases the nutrients you need for far better immune system and general body functioning.
Can bring on healing.
Switching to an all-raw food diet has enabled some people to heal themselves from chronic diseases and degenerative conditions of all kinds. This is likely due to two factors: one, cutting out processed foods and carcinogenic factory-farmed meat from the diet; and two, getting a fuller supply of much-needed nutrients and enzymes in their system.
So there you have it. It is entirely within your own control to eat more fresh, raw food and really boost your health and well-being. It costs less than processed food and you'll feel so much better in just a few days.
What many people don't realise is the importance of food to their immune system and general body function. Raw food has many of the essential ingredients for a long and healthy life. Here are some reasons for you to add more raw food to your diet.
Increased Enzyme levels.
All our cells need enzymes to kick-start all the essential functions they undertake such as fighting off disease. Cooking food often destroys these enzymes. Eating it raw allows them to both help you digest your food and enter your body and encourage the best possible efficiency in organ function.
Reduced Mold
Cooked vegetables you put in the fridge for a day or two can start growing mold. This is at the very least a bit of a challenge to the good, healthy bacteria in your gut when you eat the older veg. Fresh fruit and veg avoids this potential problem.
Less Washing
If you're not preparing and cooking food, then usually you have less to wash up. With raw uncooked food you usually just wash your knives and perhaps juicer if you take smoothies but that's all.
Improved nutritional Intake
Eating fresh fruit and vegetables maximises your nutrient intake. Chewing, unlike cooking destroys nothing! Even a short, light steam breaks down and destroys some nutrients. Longer cooking times breaks down even more.
Decreased potential toxicity
As well as breaking down nutrients, cooking can also produce some unpleasant chemicals, which are potentially harmful. For example at high temperatures many vegetable oils break down. If the cooking temperature used for meat is too extreme harmful, potentially toxic metabolites are formed which can damage your cells.
Immune System Boosted.
Quite a few people have found after switching to a diet containing far more raw food hat their on-going long tern medical problems have eased. This is probably a combination of reasons for this. Cutting out processed food and intensively farmed meat reduces the amount of chemicals your taking on board. Eating more raw food dramatically increases the nutrients you need for far better immune system and general body functioning.
Can bring on healing.
Switching to an all-raw food diet has enabled some people to heal themselves from chronic diseases and degenerative conditions of all kinds. This is likely due to two factors: one, cutting out processed foods and carcinogenic factory-farmed meat from the diet; and two, getting a fuller supply of much-needed nutrients and enzymes in their system.
So there you have it. It is entirely within your own control to eat more fresh, raw food and really boost your health and well-being. It costs less than processed food and you'll feel so much better in just a few days.
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