Raw Living Foods


Why Eat Raw Foods?

image

What is raw food?

Only humans and domesticated animals eat cooked and processed foods. The cooking and processing of food has become so common that most of us do not even consider questioning it. Raw food is plant-based, uncooked food - the way nature provides it to us.

Cooking means heating anything beyond about 116.6F. Why 116.F? At this temperature enzymes in food begin to be destroyed. It is easy to test whether you have breached this temperature threshold, if your finger can’t stand the heat, your food can’t either.

What are plant-based foods?

  • fruits
  • vegetables
  • nuts
  • seeds
  • herbs
  • flowers
  • leaves
  • seaweeds
  • superfoods
  • sprouts

When you look at what is done to food before it is eaten, you can only conclude that people believe nature has made a mistake. We get fresh, natural food and alter it. Mother nature does not need to be taught how to feed us. We need to realize that the Earth provides us with everything we need for our time here, and by tampering with what she provides, we compromise the quality of our food, health, and planet.

Why Eat Raw Foods?

Uncooked foods provide us with more nutrients. The cooking process has been shown to destroy nutrients. The higher the temperature, the more nutrients are destroyed. Low-temperature dehydration is the best method for warming or drying your food. Most food is cooked at well over 320F. At such high temperatures up to 80 percent of the nutritional value of food is lost and replaced with toxic waste.

Here is a summary of some of the research findings regarding cooking and its effect on food.

  • Heat-sensitive vitamins like vitamin C and the B vitamins, including B12, are destroyed.
  • Good fats become bad fats and eventually turn into trans fats, the higly toxic type of fat formed in baking and frying.
  • 50 percent or more of the bioavailability of minerals is lost when mineral-rich foods are cooked, and is replaced with toxic waste.
  • A known human carcinogen called acrylamide is formed in the high-temperature cooking of carbohydrates and protein.
  • When more than 50 percent of your meal (by weight) is cooked, your body experiences an increased white blood cell count. This means that your immune system has been activated to fight a potential threat: the unrecognizable food you just ate!
  • Cooking destroys the electrical charge of the cells of our food. Our cells in turn lose their charge and can’t function properly.
  • Red blood cells clump together and can’t efficiently carry oxygen or detoxify the body.

Because of the destruction of all enzymes, cooked food requires far more energy to digest. Animal foods, especially meat, are considered the most energetically draining to try and digest.

Cooking also increases the acid-forming nature of food. Our internal acid-alkaline balance is one of our primary health balances. If our bodies become too acidic, disease follows. If our bodies are alkaline, disease cannot take hold. We are not acidified just by food; stress, environmental toxins, medication, dehydration, and negative emotional states all have an acidic effect. Alkaline forming foods include green leaves, fruits, vegetables, herbs and sprouts.

What you are reading now is simply information. If you test out these concepts and practice the principles, you will have personal experience, which is knowledge. The benefits of eating a plant-based raw diet are many, but until you experience them for yourself they are just stories.

One of the most common benefits of going raw is a feeling of lightness and clarity. It’s as if a cloud lifts off the mind. Emotions become more stable; it becomes easy to smile for no apparent reason. A sense of anxiousness and uncertainty vanishes and is replaced by a calm, centered confidence and feeling of connectedness. On a physical level, many chronic conditions show remarkable improvement and true healing occurs. The quality of skin, nails, and hair improves. Recovery time for exercise greatly improves and stamina and strength increase. The body naturally and easily releases excess weight. You produce far less garbage at home and the so-called waste becomes compost, which continues the circle of life. Colds and flu become a thing of the past. Your body is able to adjust to changing seasonal temperatures more easily. You eat less food as hunger is truly satisfied - a feeling of being content. The list goes on and on.

Our potential for health and wellness is truly amazing. Act, experience, and know!

- Excerpt from Rawlicious by Peter and Beryn Daniel

(Source: rawlivingfoods)

  1. tao-dao reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  2. vegankh reblogged this from rawlivingfoods and added:
    I have felt the lightness and clarity. I am not fully raw, but I will surely continue to advance towards eating a higher...
  3. fit-four-life reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  4. out-ofmymind reblogged this from whatlucyate
  5. palegettinghealthy reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  6. snowpeasprout reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  7. raincityvegan reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  8. bananasandpeace reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  9. augustlove1993 reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  10. farmacy-vegan reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  11. vegetws reblogged this from rawlivingfoods
  12. elegantlyskinny reblogged this from thefatgirlslims
  13. l0n3ly-st4r reblogged this from shantichild
  14. ryanblanemays reblogged this from hippyveganchick and added:
    I’m increasingly curious to read this book.
  15. pastelekinesis reblogged this from fruit-power and added:
    I need this. Maybe once I figure out my IC safe foods I can have a go.
  16. hippyveganchick reblogged this from fruit-power
  17. fruit-power reblogged this from whatlucyate