Ten Adventages Of Eating Raw by Susan Jorg

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The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases. 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. When I speak of eating raw, I am referring to fruit, nuts, and vegetables that taste good to the majority of humankind in their basic simplicity direct from tree, bush, or vine.

I realize it isn't easy to simply abandon thousands of years of tradition and revert back to 100% raw food. Margaret Mead once said, "It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet." So to the point, here are 10 advantages to a diet of fresh, whole raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts that may lead you to find a greater place for them in your diet.

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 fiber to meet your body's needs.

2.) Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods, so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestive system or over stimulate other organs.

3.) 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, not to mention the break it gives Mom or Dad.

4.) When you are eating raw, there's little chance of burns, unless you're in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun too long. Just think! No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires.

5.) Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked-on oils or crusty messes. And any inedible parts go directly to the compost pile.

6.) 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.

7.) A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a healthy body, and a healthy body will not become diseased.

8.) 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.

9.) 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. Nuclear power would be clearly unnecessary. And think of how 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.

10.) Eating raw saves you money on food, vitamins, pots and pans, appliances, doctor bills, drugs, and health insurance.

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.



Susan Jorg,

Estacada, Oregon

Source: Vegetarians in Paradise/Raw Food Diet/Fruitarian/Living Foods Diet

 
Originally Posted by chococat123 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Has anyone tried this? I don't have the guts or stomach to do this. i agree^^ im curious how safe that would be
 
Raw food is good, but it's not the cure for everything - and there's things that you NEED to cook in order to eat - like potatoes, meat, poultry (specially), eggs.

 
Raw food is good for you, but I have seen a few studies that illustrated just how effectively the human body has evolved to handle all sorts of things, not just raw produce.

There was one experiment in the UK when they had two groups of people contained in a house for a week or two (I forget how long). One group had to eat all raw and only raw produce, both in drink and solid food.

The other group got to eat a balanced diet that included cooked meat, and a small indulgence or dessert occasionally.

At the end of the study, they took readings of everybody's metabolic functions again. There was absolutely no bit of difference whatsoever between Group A and Group B.

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Now I personally think there is a benefit to incorporating alot of raw produce into the diet. You get more nutrients per calorie that way. But I will not make it 100% of my diet. I actually prefer to be an omnivore, I get more enjoyment from my meals that way.

 
Originally Posted by Babette Pardoux /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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 fiber to meet your body's needs. The statement that heating up food "destroys enzymes" and therefore lowers the quality of the food is completely illogical. The whole point of the digestive system is to break down nutrients into their smallest particles and build new things with them. A human body has very little use for a plant enzyme. Also, if the enzymes and proteins aren't damaged through heating, the very low pH of the stomach will rapidly do the trick.
 
^ Karen, I have also noticed that strange terminology also, "destroying enzymes". I think with heating foods, especially boiling them in water, you can leech nutrients out, but alot of the essential stuff is still there. It's much better than... not eating your vegetables at all.

I don't know about the destroying enzymes argument, but I do know that heat definitely denatures proteins. Denaturing does lower the amount of useful protein the digestive tract can absorb, but I am not about to eat raw meat. I think we get along fine with the cooking.
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What i do think, above all things, that the keys are MODERATION and VARIETY. Eat everything, raw, cooked, boiled, grilled, fried , dirty (not too much, LOL), clean, whatever you want, but not too much.

Every day the new 'fashion' on food will begin - eat raw, eat cooked, eat only meat, eat only vegetable, only stay under the sun and drink water, eat only desserts (i wish! LOL), eat only fish, only fruits... You get what i mean
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But the truth is - the body benefits more if you eat a little of everything, which means - fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk (even if people demonize it), carbs... Like that, there's vitamins you only find on animal source (B12 comes to mind), other things you find only in veggies (fibers) and etc.

 
I love sushi..but thats it! My bf mistakingly got me rare steak and I felt like a cannibal...all the blood and shit..ICK! never again...

 
Originally Posted by Karen_B /img/forum/go_quote.gif The statement that heating up food "destroys enzymes" and therefore lowers the quality of the food is completely illogical. The whole point of the digestive system is to break down nutrients into their smallest particles and build new things with them. A human body has very little use for a plant enzyme. Also, if the enzymes and proteins aren't damaged through heating, the very low pH of the stomach will rapidly do the trick. My thoughts exactly... I mean the body uses the proteins contained in food and breaks them down to aminoacids which then it uses to build the proteins that he needs. That's the same principle why that story that said eating gelatin improved nails and such because of the collagen it contains is not true. The body breaks the collagen down and when it gets the amino acids, he doesn't know you want him to rebuild the collagen and send it to your nails.
I want sushi now lol... badly.

 
Originally Posted by Nox /img/forum/go_quote.gif ^ Karen, I have also noticed that strange terminology also, "destroying enzymes". I think with heating foods, especially boiling them in water, you can leech nutrients out, but alot of the essential stuff is still there. It's much better than... not eating your vegetables at all.
I don't know about the destroying enzymes argument, but I do know that heat definitely denatures proteins. Denaturing does lower the amount of useful protein the digestive tract can absorb, but I am not about to eat raw meat. I think we get along fine with the cooking.
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Oh, there are lots of good arguments to include raw food in your diet, but the "destroying enzymes" bit isn't one of them.Enzymes are proteins, and yes, proteins will be denatured in heat. They will also be denatured in high or low pH - the stomach has a pH of 1 or 2, so that will destroy proteins efficiently, even if you eat raw food. The stomach also contains pepsin, which breaks down the proteins. So, the proteins are basically "destroyed" before they reach the intestines, whether you heat your food or not.

 
Originally Posted by Karen_B /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh, there are lots of good arguments to include raw food in your diet, but the "destroying enzymes" bit isn't one of them.Enzymes are proteins, and yes, proteins will be denatured in heat. They will also be denatured in high or low pH - the stomach has a pH of 1 or 2, so that will destroy proteins efficiently, even if you eat raw food. The stomach also contains pepsin, which breaks down the proteins. So, the proteins are basically "destroyed" before they reach the intestines, whether you heat your food or not.

i've never really thought about this. i know heat can destroy vitamins, i know for example vitamin C is very fragile. but frankly i don't like much this argument. i an admit some of it can be destroyed but not all. besides, i can eat an apple raw, but if i do more than that, i know what my intestines will say.
 
I have heard it works for dogs and also some people feed raw to their cats but never heard of this for humans. Assume it would be a vegetarian diet?

 
Originally Posted by Karen_B /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh, there are lots of good arguments to include raw food in your diet, but the "destroying enzymes" bit isn't one of them.Enzymes are proteins, and yes, proteins will be denatured in heat. They will also be denatured in high or low pH - the stomach has a pH of 1 or 2, so that will destroy proteins efficiently, even if you eat raw food. The stomach also contains pepsin, which breaks down the proteins. So, the proteins are basically "destroyed" before they reach the intestines, whether you heat your food or not.

I studied in university to become a chemical engineer. That terminology is not foreign to me at all. Actually, I think it is a bit oversimplified, the way it is stated above. My argument is that denaturing by heat, and denaturing by hydrogen bonds (pH) are not equivalent.
 
Originally Posted by landlord /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have heard it works for dogs and also some people feed raw to their cats but never heard of this for humans. Assume it would be a vegetarian diet? i don't think so. you don't need to refuse to eat meat to eat also raw fruits & veggies, the two for me are independent, it depends on your personal choice.
 

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