Top Ten Reasons Raw Food is Good
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.
Sign up for the OV Daily Newsletter
OV Social
1) This is only partially true... cooking some foods can destroy vitamins, while cooking other foods makes them easier to digest. Raw foods are also harder to digest, giving you less energy per unit of food consumed.
2) Very much not true. I've had cooked food as is, and raw food with spices added.
3) Also not true, to process raw foods for consumption can take a good amount of time and energy.
4) and if nobody ate nuts then there wouldn't be a chance for some to get stuck in ones teeth.. this is probably the silliest of the bunch
5) This isn't much of a a point, the clean up time is largely trivial, and does not speak to the nutritional or caloric content.
6-8) Such statements calls for a [Citation Needed]. both of these claim that raw foods can prevent or heal illness without providing any studies that demonstrate that.
9) This ignores the amount of energy that would be required to both produce and transport that amount of food. It also ignores that a significant amount of our energy goes to heating / cooling and lighting our buildings. Further it ignores that all those raw foods would still have to be packaged for transport. Finally, and most humorously, the production of oxygen would reverse the greenhouse effect.
10) Life force?
...this is definitely a persuasive and well written summary in support of what your advocating. I just might make up my mind once and for all.