What is a raw food diet? A raw food diet means primarily eating unprocessed, uncooked, organic, whole foods, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and legumes. Further a raw food diet means eating food that is at least 75% uncooked. A raw food diet is not only a good way to lose weight, but also an excellent diet for living a long and healthy life.

A raw food diet involves consuming food in its natural, unprocessed form. Processing and cooking food can rob it of much of its basic nutritional value in addition to leeching out taste. Which do you think is better for you and tastes better? Crisp raw fruits and vegetables or limp, overcooked, mushy food?

Doesn’t it just make sense that this is how our bodies were meant to eat? It’s a way of eating that’s in harmony with our metabolism. Our bodies were meant to work, and be efficient. That means exercise, certainly, but it also means eating natural, raw foods that require more energy to digest them.

A food dehydrator can be an important part of a raw food diet. A food dehydrator uses hot air to dehydrate food. Raw foodists dehydrate and warm food at temperatures below 116 degrees Fahrenheit so that vital food enzymes are not destroyed and nutrient loss is minimized.

Published 2/4/2011 12:00:00 AM

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