Thoughts On Eating A Mainly Or Fully Raw Food Diet

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Thoughts On Eating A Mainly Or Fully Raw Food Diet

Some health-conscious people feel that consuming a diet of mainly or even totally raw foods is the best way to go. Here are some of my thoughts on the issue.

This article was first written and published on another website in 2008.


Thoughts on Raw Food Lifestyle and Eating Raw

A raw food lifestyle – the consumption of only or mainly raw foods and its corresponding health effects – is an issue which has been gaining prominence.

A raw foodist consumes mainly a diet of raw food, i.e. food which is neither processed nor cooked; usually, this would form at least three-quarters of his overall diet. The stricter a raw diet is, the higher the proportion of raw foods it must contain; correspondingly, it is believed that this increases the health benefits of such a diet.

Communities of raw foodists exist today, much in the same way that vegetarian groups, for example, share their common diet choice.

They believe that going on a raw food diet not only promotes good health, but also helps in weight loss, disease prevention, and even the curing of many dangerous illnesses, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Some proponents of the raw food lifestyle have stood up and stated that a diet containing only raw fruits and vegetables is the ideal human diet. Besides these foods, other raw foods include nuts, seeds, sprouts and juices.

So, then, does a raw food lifestyle – eating a raw food diet – make sense?


Raw in the jungle

When I ponder such issues, I like to take a look at nature, and see how things are done out there, so-to-speak.

Taking a look at the wild, one thing is quite obvious – we human beings are the only animals which actually cook our food. All other animals consume their food – whether plants or other organisms – in its natural and so-called ‘raw’ form.

What is interesting here is that, animals in the wild which undertake a largely natural and raw food lifestyle generally do not get serious degenerative conditions like cancer and kidney disease.

On the other hand, humans eat cooked food and suffer from widespread chronic diseases, almost of epidemic proportions.

Further, animals which humans look after – domesticated pets as well as animals which live in zoos, which also eat the processed and cooked foods that humans eat, do get cancer and other degenerative diseases.

Of course, there could be several reasons for this. But these are still clues we could use, aren’t they?


Man‘s history of raw and cooked food

Looking at historical documentation, it is very much unclear exactly when Man started to use fire to cook his food. Some put it at thousands of years ago; some say it was much, much longer ago. Available evidence has largely been inconclusive.

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