Comments on: Do’s and Don’ts: Raw Food Diet. Any tips? http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm Raw Foods Guide and Reviews | Questions and Answers Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cope_acetic http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1734 cope_acetic Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:54:02 +0000 http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm#comment-1734 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. 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.

]]> By: Kray http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1735 Kray Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:54:02 +0000 http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm#comment-1735 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. 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.

]]> By: june26 http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1732 june26 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:54:02 +0000 http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm#comment-1732 It's very good for the body!!!! It’s very good for the body!!!!

]]> By: cinderellamirage http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1733 cinderellamirage Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:54:02 +0000 http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm#comment-1733 don't eat any kind of raw food because you may get sick from it. don’t eat any kind of raw food because you may get sick from it.

]]> By: neil s http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1731 neil s Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:54:02 +0000 http://rawfoodistguide.com/dos-and-donts-raw-food-diet-any-tips.htm#comment-1731 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) 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)

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