DAY 4 Raw Challenge - WHY EAT RAW? and WHAT SHOULD I EAT?

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This information was taken directly from Alissa Cohen's Book Living

on Live, which I reccommend. peas Skai

 

 

WHY RAW FOOD? By Alissa Cohen

 

What we eat deeply and radically affects the way we think, feel, and

behave. WE are what we eat and we eat what we are. Food affects

every aspect of our being. Food is the physical foundation of our

body. If the foundation is unstable, all that is built upon it will

be unstable. Everything you physically are was once the air you

breathed, the water you drank, and the food you ate. The colloidal

mineral structure of your body is built out of the foods you have

eaten. If there is an alteration in the food, then it is reflected

in the look and function of the body. Improve your food choices and

you dramatically improve the foundation upon which your body is built.

 

Cooking food over temperatures of 112 destroys all enzymes. This is

a problem because life itself depends on enzymes. We need enzymes

for every living bodily function: walking, talking, and breathing.

As we age, our bodies' natural source of enzymes becomes depleted.

We need to replenish this source through the foods we eat. If we do

not do this – if we continue to cook away the enzymes in our food –

then we eventually begin to use our own natural enzymes reserves.

Meanwhile the cooking process makes it more difficult for our bodies

to break up and digest the food we eat. The food begins to become

stored in our bodies as toxins, leading to all sorts of disease.

 

 

WHAT ARE YOU ALLOWED TO EAT ON THE RAW FOOD CHALLENGE?

 

Raw and living food consists of uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts,

seeds, and sprouted grains. These foods are not processed, heated,

cooked or altered in any way. They are nothing more than whole foods

in their natural state. You can eat any raw fruits, vegetables,

nuts, or seeds. If you sprout grains and beans, you can eat those

too.

 

Here is a partial listing of what we are allowed to eat within the

next 21 days. You will see that this list is filled with so much

variety you will never get bored:

 

Fresh Fruit and Fruit Juices:

Apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, blackberries, blueberries,

cantaloupes, cherimoyas, cherries, coconuts, cucumbers, dates,

durian, figs, grapefruit, grapes, kiwis, lemons, limes, mangoes,

melons, nectarines, oranges, papayas, peaches, pears, persimmon,

pineapples, plums, sapotes, strawberries, tomatoes, tropical fruits,

zucchini.

These are all fresh, ripe, raw and hopefully organic. No fruits that

come in a can or jar: they are not raw.

 

 

 

Fresh Vegetables and Vegetable Juices:

Beets, Bok Choy, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery root, celery,

chives, collards, corn, dandelion, eggplant, endive, escarole,

fennel, garlic, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuces, mushrooms, mustard

greens, okra, olives, onions, parsley, parsnips, peas, peppers,

radishes, sorrel, spinach, sprouts, squash, swiss chard, turnips,

watercress.

These must also be fresh, ripe, raw, and hopefully organic. Do not

eat any vegetables that come in a can or a jar: they are not raw.

 

Nuts and Seeds:

Raw and Unsalted Only!

Almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, filberts, flaxseeds, hazelnuts,

macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, sesame

seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts.

 

Sprouts:

Barley, buckwheat, chickpeas, lentils, mung, quinoa, rye, wheat

 

Dried Fruits:

No Sugar or Sulfates

Apples, apricots, bananas, dates, figs, pears, prunes, raisins

 

Seaweed:

Raw not toasted

Dulse, Hijiki, Kelp, Nori, Wakame

 

Other Foods:

 

Cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, raw honey,

raw carob powder, Braggs Liquid Aminos, nama shoyu, sea salt, spices

and herbs, raw tahini, raw almond butter and other raw nut butters