Article: Forget Your George Foreman: The Raw Food Diet Gains Popularity

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Forget Your George Foreman: The Raw Food Diet Gains Popularity

 

by Meredith Roberts

09/18/2007

 

 

Sixty three year old Linda Ramirez offers a new, ground breaking

cooking technique before an Earth Fare demo on Raw Foods Wednesday,

September 12 – “Stick your finger in it,” she says. “If its too hot

to put your finger in, its probably been cooked too much.”

 

Like Ramirez, Foodies across the nation are seizing their

thermometers as a relatively new eating and lifestyle trend, the raw

food diet, gains popularity. The emerging trend seeks to fill the

diet with enzyme-rich, organic foods, with the new magical number at

116 degrees.

 

Followers of the raw food movement believe that heating food above

the coveted 116 degree mark kills enzymes that assist in the

absorption and digestion of food. Without these enzymes the body

relies on its own metabolic enzymes for digestion, consuming energy

and often leaving diners to feel sluggish. Seventy five percent or

more of the diet must be made of raw or living food in order to

experience the health benefits that leave diners feeling lighter and

more energized.

 

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