TEN ADVANTAGES OF EATING RAW

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TEN ADVANTAGES OF EATING RAW JoAnn Guest Oct 13, 2005 16:38 PDT

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The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would

protect them from certain diseases. Since then this practice of cooking

has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art.

 

Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements, except for the

leafy green salad.

 

One advantage of eating raw is that it brings Nature’s intentions into

focus. When I speak of eating raw I am 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, there are 10 advantages to a diet of fresh, whole raw

fruits, vegetables, and nuts, which may lead you to find a greater place

for them in your diet.

 

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 other organs.

 

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 are eating raw there’s little chance of burns, unless you’re

in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun too long. Just think!

No burns to tongues, 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 and a healthy body

will not become diseased.

 

8. As long as you combine raw food properly according to the rules of

Natural Hygiene, you will soon reach a level where you no longer suffer

from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.

 

9. It 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 carbon dioxide released in to the atmosphere

when all the cooking stopped and more oxygen produced from all the new

orchards and gardens, thus helping to reverse the Greenhouse Effect.

 

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.

 

Susan Jorg, Estacada, OR

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JoAnn Guest

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