Article: Raw foodists tout benefits for health, environment

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Raw foodists tout benefits for health, environment

 

Hunter Riley

1/21/09

 

Good news, raw foodists: the group Your Radical Health Albuquerque

meets once or twice a month at ever-changing locations.

 

You can keep up with their meeting places at Meetup.com/abqraw to

share raw food recipes and eat raw food dishes together.

 

Raw foods are classified as uncooked and unprocessed foods. Nothing

can be heated above 120 degrees.

 

Organizer and UNM student Kaylee Tejeda said eating raw food takes

more time and planning than school sometimes. Anyone is welcome to

attend and is encouraged to bring a raw food dish, or a $5 donation.

 

Tejeda said reducing his carbon footprint was his motivation to try

eating raw. Tejeda said eating raw food cut costs on many levels such

as energy used to cook, prepare and keep food fresh.

 

" It's interesting to think that our No. 1 use of energy consumption,

even more than transportation, is cooking our food, " he said. " The No.

1 thing we put in our landfills is food packaging. So if you're eating

raw food, such as bananas on a bunch, you've eliminated both of those. "

 

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