Do’s and Don’ts: Raw Food Diet. Any tips?
I was reading and have watched some tv coverage on the raw food diet and was intrigued for many reasons. I def want to give it a good try and since it is summer, i figured what better time to have easy access to fresh fruits and veggies.If there are any raw food dieters please share some tips, food ideas, maybe a basic shopping list, what to DEF stay away from (dairy? cheese? milk?) symptoms to expect, etc.
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Wash all your produce. NEVER consume un-pasteurized milk or other dairy. DO NOT buy the expensive "organic" labeled food—FDA laws are too lax. Grow your own whenever possible. Rule # 1: the closer a food is to it’s fresh state, the healthier it is. The brighter a food’s color, the better it is for you.
cinderallami is misinformed, and means raw meat.
If you go on raw diet see that you you also have your daily food in a contentful manner.but staying away frpm dairy products will only make you suffer cause if you’re a veggie this is the only food providing you good nutrition.Extra diet will make you suffer from a geat loss of hair,your skin turning black etc. etc.
It’s very good for the body!!!!
don’t eat any kind of raw food because you may get sick from it.
I have participated in lab studies of this concept. Although not yet to publishable stages,the preliminary findings are interesting. To put it simply, raw food proponents seem to realize only half the story to nutrition. Here’s what I mean:
The claim is that cooking removes nutrients from food, and this is true. It also breaks down fiber and converts many toxins into harmless byproducts. The process of cooking, in most cases, seems to allow more nutrients to actually be gained from the food.
Look at it this way. If you eat raw food, you have 100% of the nutrition availible. With the aspects of food that make it difficult to digest (fiber, etc.), and the toxins that leach nutrients from the system, you will get maybe half of that initial amount of nutrients (this is an arbitrary estimate, there are to many examples). If you cook your food, you may lose 30% of the nutirents, but you absorb virtually all of what is left. So cooking produces an actual (roughly) 20% gain (you also get more calories, see below).
There are also strange discussions about enzymes being destroyed by cooking, etc. Guess what; the pepsin and protease in the digestive system breaks all of these emzymes down before they enter the body anyway, so even raw food provides nothing that is being claimed here.
There is now a growing body of research, based on the same nutrient argument above (especially the calories), suggesting that cooking and not meat eating was responsible for the development of the human brain. (see source below)