Effects that have been reported by Raw foodists

• Clarity of mind
• More energy
• Less sleep needed
• No more colds and flu
• Clearer skin
• Individual common ailments disappear
• Diabetes can be cured
• Feel younger, look younger
• More physical strength
• More hydration, softer skin
• Lose weight if you need to, gain weight if you need to.

A little more

The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases. It is not easy to simply abandon thousands of years of tradition and revert back to 100% raw food. But actually, we've only really been cooking most of our food for the last couple of hundred years. In fact Louis Pasteur put the fear of germs into conscious circulation and since then, we have been killing our perfectly designed food before consuming it. he admitted on  his deathbed, he was wrong about germs and that he came to realise that it wasn't germs that caused disease, but that germs would thrive in a toxic environment. Since then this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art. Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements, except for the leafy green salad.

One advantage of eating raw is that it brings Nature's intentions into focus. Raw and whole  means fruit, nuts, and vegetables that taste good to the majority of humankind in their basic simplicity direct from tree, bush, or vine.

Here are some more reasons to eat more fresh wholesome, organic, raw food

1. Raw foods are better quality; therefore, you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes that benefit digestion. As your percentage of raw foods increases, you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fibre to meet your body's needs.
    
2. Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen. Even a child of 5 or 6 can prepare most items for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This gives children a sense of self-esteem and independence. It's easy and it's fun.
    
3. Raw foods have more flavour than a single food that is cooked, so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestive system or over stimulate other organs.  These condiments can take years to pass through your body.
    
4. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked oils or crusty messes, greasy pots and pans. And any inedible parts go directly to the compost pile.
    
5. Eating a diet of raw foods can reverse or stop the advance of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Remember, cooking creates free radicals, which are the major cause of cancer. When you lower the number of free radicals your cells are bombarded with, you lower your risk of cancer.
    
6. Raw foods maintain a healthy body and a healthy body will not become diseased. . A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc.
    
7. As long as you combine raw food properly according to the rules of Natural Hygiene, you will soon reach a level where you no longer suffer from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.
    
8. It is environmentally sound. With humanity on a diet of raw foods, the food industry would close up shop and take up organic gardening. This would save us enormous amounts of natural resources used to produce power for these industries. Many trees and oil reserves could be saved without the need for the paper and plastics used in packaging our processed foods. There would also be less carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when all the cooking stopped. More oxygen would be produced from all the new orchards and gardens, thus helping to reverse the Greenhouse Effect. Vegetables also take a fraction of the water that meat products need.
    
9. Eating raw saves you money on food, vitamins, pots and pans, doctor bills, drugs, health insurance, make up and hair colours.
    
10. By adopting a Raw Lifestyle, you instantly drop an entire range of foods that are not doing your system any good - coffee, tea, milk, pastries, biscuits, dead bread, overcooked dead food (even if it was the most delicious thing you ever tasted) you learn to eat for nutrition instead of taste and buy organic foods realising even though they are more expensive you are getting way more nutrients for your money than you ever did buying supermarket produce.

So don't waste your food, yourself, and our planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are brimming with life and have the ability to transmit their life force directly to you.

Adapted from an article by Susan Jorg, Estacada

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