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10 Great Reasons to Eat Raw Food


Sometimes, we just need to remind ourselves why. Why we need to exercise, why we need to work on our diet. Why we need to incorporate more healthy, raw foods into our diet. Here are a few of my favorites:

1. When you start incorporating more raw foods into your diet, you are automatically starting to eliminate the foods that are unhealthy. Chemicals, harmful fats, refined starches, refined sugar are just a few.

2. You can actually prevent and reverse disease by incorporating more raw foods into your diet.

3. Generally you will improve your health and well being. More energy, and a sense of well-being accompany healthy foods!

4. Weight loss is a naturally occurring benefit when you eliminate the super processed foods and replace them with more raw food.

5. It is better for the environment. Animal products contribute a very large percentage to our greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention the land and water usage and pollution.

6. Vitamins, minerals and photo-nutrients are more available from food in it’s raw state.

7. Cooking foods…especially at high temperatures forms substances that are harmful to your health (acrylamide, advanced glycoxidation, heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons).

8. Enzymes! Some types of enzymes that are available in plants are responsible for converting some phytochemicals in to extremely beneficial elements for your body. These enzymes are released when the plant is chopped, mashed, pureed or chewed. Cooking destroys these beneficial enzymes.

9. Cooking dramatically reduces food’s phytochemical content. Research also indicates that cooking reduces or destroys the ability of antioxidants in food to do their job.

10. Last but not least, for me, I just feel better. Much better. So much better.

I would love to hear your reasons for incorporating more raw foods in your diet!

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30 Comments

  1. Melissa Sutton-Navarro wrote on August 23, 2010

    i’ve always been lactose intolerant, but i noticed i started developing additional food sensitives. they were getting really bad until i decided to go vegan again and then they stopped for a bit and then started up again. i’ve also been subject to a myriad of other physical annoyances, but after deciding to go raw for sustainability and health reasons, i also noticed the intolerances i used to have and the small physical problems disappear. i try to stay as gluten free as i can as well (i am not 100% raw) and with my entire diet modification, i have never felt better!

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  2. Carmen wrote on August 22, 2010

    I have realized that eating raw food gives you enrgy and avoids you from eating cookies or candies.For instasnce,I love eating almonds!!

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  3. El wrote on August 21, 2010

    I completely agree. Almost all of our meals have been raw this summer. With such incredible farm-fresh flavor there’s almost no point in cooking!

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  4. Faith Lubitz wrote on August 21, 2010

    Great comments everyone- Sekhmet, I am also underweight right now. I’m not 100% raw though. Don’t have a lot of money to see naturopaths etc. But I will share that I have many dreams with guidance in them. One told me recently to get a colonic…and I haven’t done that yet. If your colon/GI system is gunked up, you don’t necessarily assimilate or absorb the food you’re eating…so that might be something to consider. Here’s another weird one…my 100% raw roommate Eric just told me he’s seen people posting on raw chat boards that they lost weight when they added in nuts etc. So maybe we should be cutting back on the nuts, fat etc. ? I’m still figuring it out…

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  5. Susan wrote on August 21, 2010

    I can so relate to the energy comments! I am gearing up to go shoot a wedding after a late night restaurant shoot…I NEED my green drinks and raw food!!

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  6. jeannine wrote on August 21, 2010

    I like to be real. Raw foods are real foods. I feel better eating more real foods.

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  7. J@WholeBodyLove wrote on August 20, 2010

    Love this! So true! MY energy is now incredible. The feeling is amazing.

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