Guest guest Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 10 Advantages to Eating Raw (Adapted from an article by Susan Jorg) There are hundreds of 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. 4. When you are eating raw there's little chance of burns. 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. 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 immune system and a healthy immune system resists disease. 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. Trees and oil reserves could be saved without the need for the paper and plastics used in packaging processed foods. There would also be less carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when all the cooking stopped, and more oxygen produced from all the new orchards and gardens. One recent study showed that, of the animals raised for food consumption in the US, the greenhouse gasses released by these animals annually is greater than the greenhouse gasses produced by all of the cars and trucks in the country.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. Staying Inspired, Dr. Jim Carey, PhD (computers), Raw Living Foods AdvocateTorch-Bearer for Dr. Ann Wigmore Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Home Study Program: chiDiet.com Green, online version: RawLife.org Remain Focused and Good Health to You Elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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