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The Raw Diet Common Questions And Answers

By: Pam Smith1

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In a nutshell, what is a raw food diet?
The raw and living food diet (interchangeable with living foods) is a lifestyle and diet that promotes the consumption of unprocessed food, being not cooked in the least, or just heated really slowly at low temperatures (115 deg F is the accepted max), in hopes not to remove healthful nutrition or digestive enzymes. Raw foodism most often involves consuming mostly, if not all, pesticide free plant-based foods. Some raw foodists would consider the raw organic vegan diet to be the most health lifestyle on the planet.
What foods does a raw fooder consume?
Depending on the level or type of raw diet one wants to adhere to, raw diets generally include raw fruits, veggies, dark green veggies, herbs and spices, seaweeds like kelp, soaked nuts and seeds, as well as germinated nuts, seeds and grains.
Nuts and seeds are best to be soaked in order to activate digestive enzymes and to turn them from an acidic state to a more alkaline state.
In some cases, raw foodists will also drink green smoothies or green juices each day and sometimes solely as part of a juice or smoothie fast or as their lifestyle. Green smoothies are simply fruit smoothies combined with greens. Green juices or vegetable juices are simply veggies that have had the major part of their pulp removed which requires a juicer machine.
Some of the fore mentioned food can be lightly processed, and raw eaters mostly get joy from and have a preference for taking care of the processing themselves, in order to prepare foods like nut milks and butters, veggie and fruit bars and leathers, cured and dried vegetables or fruits, among others.
What potential benefits come from switching to raw foods?
Raw eaters have reported 1 or more of the following health claims after consuming a raw food or high raw foods diet: weight reduction, an uptake of energy, clearer skin, better digestion, toxic removal, sturdier immune system, and better overall health.
Also, fewer time is spent preparing foods and cleaning up is usually a lot speedier, dependent on how simplified or complicated you intend to go about it. It has been proven that less cash is often needed to be used on over the counter or prescribed medications. Smaller appliances, or no appliances, are used so less power usage is needed.
Where do living foodists get their iron, protein, B12 and calcium?
The short answer.. from the above discussed foods ;)
Fruits and vegetables, sprouts and grains all contain protein. Vegan weight lifters sometimes eat extra hemp hearts, which to some is considered the best source of protein in the plant kingdom (yet others consider yellow pea to be the best source, and others will often consume soy products to get their).
Same as for protein, greens, seeds, beans etc. are sources of calcium, and also iron (just ask Popeye if you doubt me).
B12 vitamin is up to much debate. Some say that there are algaes that contain B12 vitamin, others say nutritional yeast is a decent source, yet others suggest that B12 recycles itself in the colon for many years so there is some in the body in most cases. Some raw eaters will consume cooked/raw eggs as their source of Vitamin B12. Others will supplement. How I look at it is if my lab results don't show a deficiency (I check every 2 months) then I'm happy.

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