Article: Imagination is a key ingredient in a raw foods diet

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Imagination is a key ingredient in a raw foods diet

 

By Jill Rosen, Baltimore Sun

04/01/09 08:50 AM

 

Some like it hot. Not rawists. Raw-diet proponents believe food is

best eaten as nature made it. That’s not boiled, not sauteed, not

baked or broiled or braised or steamed or grilled. Sadly, it’s not

even fried.

 

Anything that takes the temperature of food beyond 118 degrees, or

just a few degrees warmer than the warmth of your tongue, is verboten

for the raw, or living, foodist.

 

Though science tends to suppose otherwise, rawists—typically more

extreme vegetarians— believe fire saps food of its vital nutrients,

the vitamins and minerals that make it worth eating in the first place.

 

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