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Living Raw Food Diet
Are you wondering about the new living raw food
diet?
Living raw food is the next step in the trend toward vegetarianism
and veganism, as well as organic concerns. This diet has been
embraced by several celebrities, and there are restaurants catering
to raw foodists. There are also many raw food recipe books
available, as well as support groups and message boards galore for
raw foodists, people who eat a living raw food based diet.
Many find the living raw food diet compelling due to dramatic weight
loss stories, as well as a belief in a healthier lifestyle and body,
but this is not just your average diet. It is a lifestyle change.
Raw foodists point out that this is not necessarily a new diet, but
that many cultures a long time ago ate most of their food raw,
including Paleolithic man, and Eskimos. (No longer called Eskimos,
Eskimo means eater of raw food).
The living raw food diet is a diet consisting mostly of raw vegan
food, which includes raw fruits, raw vegetables, legumes, nuts, and
seeds. Many raw foodists think that the more their diet is made up
of raw food, the healthier their diet is, and the healthier they
will become. This can also be true for your pets – cats and dogs
have been found to benefit from living raw food diets, although cats
and dogs have very different digestive systems than people, so
obviously their diets should be very different from a diet meant for
human consumption.
The raw food movement is in itself divided up into groups of people.
Some will eat cooked food for a small percentage of their diet. Many
of these people are combinations of the following groups:
Living foodists: these people follow a diet in which their food is
made up of plant food in which the plant’s enzymes are still active,
such as sprouted seeds and nuts.
Juicarians: all of their food is in the form of home made juice
Some raw foodists will eat unpasteurized milk and some raw meats,
but this can be a concern as cooking is often necessary to kill any
unwanted bacteria. Temperatures need to be very high or very low to
kill these bacteria, and eating food raw is an infection risk.
Pasteurizing is a method of preserving milk, and unpasteurized milk
needs to be very fresh to be safe.
A small group of raw foodists will not eat food that has been
processed by a machine at all, including juicers, dehydrators,
blenders, and/or food processors. They believe in eating food in the
most natural state possible.
What are living foods?
By some definitions, raw foodist are also life foodists, but a more
specific definition implies that in living foods, the enzymes are
active, and are therefore considered living. It is the difference
between sprouted and unsprouted seeds or nuts (sprouted seeds or
nuts are living). Some people will only or mostly eat living foods,
believing in the health benefits of greater enzyme activity.
We Recommend:
The Raw Secrets
The most complete book on living on an optimal raw food diet for
better health.
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