Raw Food Diet Eating With Logic I

There is a ton of information and controversy concerning the raw food diet online. We have the propagators, the persecutors, the passionate and the bewildered. Almost all of the chief persecutors zoom in from angles of nutritional deficiency, dissatisfaction with their food, body temperatures and laws of nature.

Before participating in a never ending war, and I really do not think it is wise or advisable to, let's examine what raw foods are about.

Raw foods make reference to fruits, vegetable, nuts & seeds which are uncooked, unadulterated with intact vitamins & minerals. They basically contain "life" in them ie. in the event that you plant them, they grow. After we heat a food beyond a particular temperature and process them with artificial ingredients, the "life" is removed plus some substances could even turn toxic.

If you plant the seeds from a fresh apple, you get an apple tree. If you plant the seeds from the packet of apple crisps, you obtain either nothing or mold. Does this make sense?

And, why is the world shifting towards higher consumption of organic produces? Because we have finally acknowledged the truth that long-term ingestion of pesticides, artificial fertilizers along with other farm chemicals is causing disease and death. We recognized that the addition of these chemicals are harmful to our bodies and planet earth.

We also start to see the need to preserve soil fertility for sustainable farming. So in retrospect, increasingly more countries are joining the awareness and encouraging consumption of organic produce by making them more available, granting subsidies and generating publicity.

Eating organic foods seem logical. Raw foods, may also be viewed in a similar fashion. 10 Amazing 80s Fashion Trends see them as a little less and a little more than organic foods. Why is it so?

They are just a little less because:

1) Raw foods make reference to only vegan foods, and

2) Not all organic foods are raw; like organic pasta, organic cereals etc, they are already heated/processed in some way.

And they are a bit more because they contain so much more! They are raw and living organic produces: meaning not merely are they free from harmful chemicals, in addition they contain the maximum level of health giving nutrients from Mother Nature. By consuming them in the least adulterated states - fresh and uncooked, does it seem logical for you that we are simply just getting the best out of these?

With this clear definition in mind, let's move on to nutritional deficiency. This is essentially the most debated about in the annals of nutrition. We don't even need to discuss protein deficiency because the protein myth has been busted a zillion times.

"The only protein-deficient diet may be the starvation diet!" by Dr D.Graham (raw foodist, writer of 80/10/10, and trainer of top notch Olympic athletes)

A more interesting area would be vitamins & mineral deficiencies.

First of all, we must be reminded that nutritional deficiencies can be prevalent in ANY diet, be it meat-based, all sorts of vegan, or raw vegan diets. T here is no standard benchmark to say that you will be deficient in certain nutrients in the event that you adopt a particular diet. Why? Because everybody is different. Person A & B can eat the same identical diet but depending on their body conditions, may experience different results.

For eg. research shows that when a group of calcium deficient individuals were put on a water-fast, their tests show that many of them were no more deficient in calcium following the fast. Since they did not ingest anything through the fast, they might not possibly have obtained it from food. It could just mean that calcium has been contained in their tissues which had been unabsorbed all along.

Those people had a problem with assimilation of calcium, instead of that with a deficient diet!

For people who experienced bad experiences eating raw foods, it might just mean they had assimilation, digestion as well as mental block problems. Do not underestimate the energy of the mind!

The next most typical problem heard from eating raw foods is about body temperatures. I'm lucky to live close to the equator, but I concur that to a certain degree, surviving in cold climates can be tricky for raw foodists.

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