The raw food diet has been creating a certain buzz and gaining followers. This diet is not just for weight loss, its popularity stems from the fact that this is a diet for health conscious people who want to live a long life.
People today eat way to much processed foods and unhealthy junk. Most of us never consider what it is exactly that we are consuming or whether its healthy or not. Our population as a whole has moved away from the traditional diet of our agrarian forefathers, to one of fast food and processed nutritionally deficient foods.
Consuming a raw food diet requires around 75% of your meals to be raw. This means consuming a diet of mainly uncooked organic whole foods. Primarily raw food diets consist of fresh fruit, dried fruit,vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and other unprocessed foods. Obesity is a modern problem, one that did not concern our ancestors much.
In the past humans were fitter then we are today. Our ancient ancestors rarely cooked anything but meat. Fruits and vegetables were eaten RAW. Even their water was pure, they drank right from untouched natural springs.
Eating food in its most natural state is the entire basis for the raw food diet. Cooking food drains away much of the nutritional value while eating processed foods pumps your body full of unhealthy chemicals – things our bodies are much better off with out such as hydrogenated oil or high fructose corn syrup.
One of the foundational thoughts of the raw food diet is that our bodies were designed to eat raw organic food. It represents eating food in a natural state that is symbiotic with the earth and aligns with the body’s own natural metabolism.
The human body needs to work to thrive. It’s how we are designed. The best way to achieve this is through exercise and eating raw foods; Foods that require much more energy to digest when in their natural state.