Contrary to what you may think, the raw food diet is not about eating raw meat like lions and tigers!
The raw food diet is actually the closest thing that exists to the perfect diet for humans. I’m talking here about fruit and vegetables and some nuts. Eating food as it comes from nature without cooking it.
Recipes
Did you know that our current way of eating – combining flavours into recipes – is only a modern invention. We have only been doing this for a few hundred years. If you think about it, many of us expect our food to always taste like a delicious and spicy recipe. This leads many people to overeat because they want more of this “pleasure”.
Cooked Food
Now don’t get me wrong. Cooked food tastes great, I love it. But did you know that the cooking process transforms the ingredients? They lose at least half of their natural nutrition.
Raw Food
Take a look at vegetables. With few exceptions, there is simply no need to cook them, most can be eaten raw. They also taste much better this way and the body prefers to digest them this way.
How About Meat?
The simply truth is that we are not meant to eat meat. We don’t need it and our bodies have a real hard time digesting it.
Think about it – with very few exceptions like steaks, how often does meat taste good without any flavouring added to it?
And even when we don’t add flavour, it is still bad for us. Take the example of chicken breasts. They taste like cardboard! Chicken wings and thighs taste much better. They’re also loaded in saturated fats which will clog our arteries.
Diabetes And The Raw Food Diet
Did you know that this diet can cure diabetes? Take a look below.
Athletes Need Meat Protein
That is false. Check out this video below of Tim Van Orden, athlete who exists on the raw food diet.