Raw Food Diet Eating With Logic I

There is really a ton of information and controversy concerning the raw food diet online. We've the propagators, the persecutors, the passionate and the bewildered. A lot of the chief persecutors zoom in from angles of nutritional deficiency, dissatisfaction making use of their food, body temperatures and laws of nature.

Before participating in a constant war, and I do not think it is wise or advisable to, let's examine what raw foods are all about.

Raw foods make reference to fruits, vegetable, nuts & seeds which are uncooked, unadulterated with intact vitamins & minerals. They basically contain "life" inside 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 may even turn toxic.

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

And, why is the planet shifting towards higher usage of organic produces? Because we've finally acknowledged the point that long-term ingestion of pesticides, artificial fertilizers along with other farm chemicals is causing disease and death. We recognized that the addition of the chemicals are bad for our bodies and planet earth.

We also see the need to preserve soil fertility for sustainable farming. So in retrospect, more and more countries are joining the awareness and encouraging usage 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. I see them as just a little less and a bit more than organic foods. Why is it so?

They are a little less because:

1) Raw foods refer to only vegan foods, and

2) Not all organic foods are raw; like organic pasta, organic cereals etc, these are already heated/processed for some reason.

And they are a little more because they contain so much more! They're raw and living organic produces: meaning not merely are they free of harmful chemicals, in addition they contain the maximum quantity of health giving nutrients from Mother Nature. By consuming them whatsoever adulterated states - fresh and uncooked, does it seem logical to you that we are simply obtaining the best out of them?

With this clear definition at heart, let's move ahead to nutritional deficiency. That is probably the most debated about in the history of nutrition. We don't even need to talk about protein deficiency as the protein myth has been busted a zillion times.

"The only protein-deficient diet is 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 will be vitamins & mineral deficiencies.

First of all, we should be reminded that nutritional deficiencies can be prevalent in ANY diet, be it meat-based, all sorts of vegan, or raw vegan diets. There is absolutely no standard benchmark to state that you will be deficient using 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 has shown that when several calcium deficient individuals were placed on a water-fast, their tests show that some of them were no more deficient in calcium following the fast. Since they did not ingest anything during the fast, they could not possibly have obtained it from food. It could just imply that calcium has been contained in their tissues which had been unabsorbed all along.

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

For people who experienced bad experiences eating raw foods, it could just mean that they had assimilation, digestion or even mental block problems. Usually 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 near the equator, but I concur that to a certain extent, living in cold climates can be tricky for raw foodists.

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