The raw truth

The raw food diet is the way to a radiant health - or is it a slap in the face for science?

At some point or another, most foods have their superstar moment. Currently, it is so that raw food. The idea is simple: plant-based raw "live" foods that have been exposed to more than 47 degrees is not to heat up, and you have the same foods as cooking, eating eating when supplied with more nutrients functions.

Because claims for people living a raw lifestyle when food above this temperature to warm, you have more of their nutritional value, delete it after your body naturally occurring digestive enzymes digest preparation are difficult to destroy.

There must be strict, as some debate among followers is. Approximately 85% of the time between 75% raw food (at least 80% of a raw diet is considered optimal), while the other eating a 100% raw food. Although some meat to eat, the vast majority, either a vegetarian or vegan diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, flowers, algae, cold-pressed oils and many rungs stick.

So, unhealthy fats, processed foods are made, hormones, artificial fragrances and preservatives - with all the good news is that the average Western diet too many vulgarities and fruit and a day veg to consider the recommended five portions of some functions.

Alkaline-forming foods (green leaves, some not sugary cereal and a pumpkin, tomatoes and eggplants like fruit) in abundant, highly acidic foods (meat, refined sugars, trans fats, processed soy products, coffee and soft drinks) and remove what is the answer to all our problems is diet.

So we need to remove from the oven and a vow of crude oil?

Yes (say raw food)
Celery and carrots is all this so long as the food is supposed to be 47 degrees, it is still raw is shown below. Eating cooked food you depletes finally the body of the enzymes can not digest more food properly. The result, they say, is a feeling of lethargy and fatigue.

80% - the percentage of raw food in your diet, which is considered optimal from raw food.

Maybe (diet experts)
Many aspects of raw foods are very healthy, the fact that the processed, refined foods and whole foods are eliminated and an emphasis on including heart-protective fat. But the diet may lack certain nutrients. While they are generally more nutrient foods that are not processed are in hot or high, in fact, some nutrients better absorbed in foods that are cooked. For example, the beta-carotene found corpse, in orange, red and yellow vegetables have the ability to absorb, is increased when these vegetables are cooked.

No (scientists)
Since the human body is already required enzymes, making food to digest (considering that the food is heated its enzymes destroyed) for this way raw food 'argument of food is based on wrong.

Crude for beginners

1. Gradually your existing diet of raw foods in the newer introduce, and 30 days for such wheat, dairy products, trans fat and sugar from your diet foods is obliged to rectify.
2. Yes, a salad for lunch or a raw smoothie for breakfast - a day meal and try to keep crude oil.
3. Cucumber slices on the one hand, a bowl of fruit or a dip with raw nuts mixed with fresh herbs - Adding vegetables to every meal raw.

Before you start
A raw food diet for pregnant and nursing women, infants and children, the elderly and is not suitable for those at risk of osteoporosis. Always a radical lifestyle changes, consult your doctor before.