Raw Food Is A Powerful Way To Detoxify

Eating a raw food diet is a powerful way to detoxify and cleanse your body of all the waste that you have accumulated from years of eating processed foods. A diet rich in raw foods can put you on the path toward greater energy, clearer skin, a slimmer figure, and health. But making the transition too quickly can have negative effects on the body. This is a great way to detox but it doesn’t happen all at once but it is a very effective way to detox over time.

Raw food provides maximum nutrition with minimum calories. Raw foodists do not cook using a traditional stove or oven. They use food dehydrators that give vegetables and cookies a good crunch.

Raw foods include fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouts, grains and legumes in sprouted form, seaweed, spirulina, chlorella, and fresh juices. These live foods contain a wide range of vital life force nutrients. Eating raw doesn't have to be boring. A wealth of delicious recipes are now available.

Raw foods don't need all the junk in them to preserve them, they are preserved from their own natural ingredients. They do not have the natural enzymes removed, which is the case with cooked foods. By the time raw food gets down to the stomach, it has already begun to digest with minimal energy needed by the body. This is the best way to give your body the nourishment it needs.

Raw foods have much more nutrition, therefore you need to eat less to satisfy your bodies nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys the enzymes which help digestion. Raw foods in general are a lot easier for our bodies to digest. Raw foods include friendly micro-organisms that are good for the immune system and digestion by populating the digestive tract with beneficial gut flora. These micro-organisms are killed by cooking food.

A raw food diet can be hard to eat when you're not used to it. Raw foods have very little if any processing. You need to slow down and chew your food. Raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body's needs.

Raw foods contain an abundance of oxygen. In cooked foods, oxygen is destroyed. Foods that are not heated beyond 116 degrees retain enzymes, and beneficial natural enzymes aid in digestion and absorption.

 by Carol Branwen