Article: Raw foods find spot on Nashville's menu

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Raw foods find spot on Nashville's menu

Enthusiasts may not sell us on whole concept but do tempt us with

some tasty dishes

 

By Jim Myers, Staff Writer

Wednesday, 03/14/07

 

We are what we eat.

 

Not necessarily, says Laura Button. For her, we are, more important,

what our bodies can assimilate.

 

However, it's exactly what Button does eat, namely a 100 percent raw

food diet, that puts her on the leading local edge of a movement that

continues to creep out of shadows of the hippie fringes, inching

toward the light of greater public acceptance.

 

The majority of raw food enthusiasts hold fast to a true vegan diet

built around fresh, raw, organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and

grains. The principle argument against cooking is that when foods are

raised to temperatures above 118 degrees, the essential enzymes that

aid digestion are broken down. According to raw foodists, that makes

the body work harder and rely on its own enzymes to process foods

into components that it can readily harness. Reduced further, raw

foodists think in terms of net energy gains and losses.

 

 

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