Raw Foodist Diet
Master Your Health With Raw Foods by Ginger Robbins
When it comes to health, the real common denominator is energy. And we know to get this energy we need a balance of proper nutrition, exercise and rest. Exercise is fairly straightforward — there’s a way to do it that suits everyone. Rest is simple too, if we can make the time, and reduce our stimulant intake so that we can actually sleep at night. But nutrition seems to continue to be a puzzle. Many diets can help one condition or another, but very few offer a complete picture: a lifelong path to high energy and vibrant health. Ready to make a real change? It’s time to have a look at the Raw And Living Foods diet.
The idea of the Raw Food diet is immediately ignored by many people, thinking they’ll be forced to eat only “rabbit food” for the rest of their lives. Nothing could be further from the truth! True “raw foodists” are also exceptional gourmets. The meals and deserts are like nothing you’ve ever seen (along with giving you energy like nothing you’ve ever felt!). The latest “cookbooks” are a feast for the eyes as well as the tongue, and these meals are actually very easy to make. Nothing to burn!
Interestingly, there’s a lot of opposition to eating this way — clearly from folks who either haven’t tried it, or haven’t given it a real effort. Claims are made that raw food is hard to digest (while somehow all life on the Planet got along quite well for millions of years without cooking!) or that the food will be too cold (have they tried a raw Jalapeno?).
There’s truly a difference in the available nutrition in raw and living foods. While some research indicates some nutrients are “liberated” by cooking (made available), it’s well known that far more are destroyed. And in that destruction are some of the most important nutrients of all: enzymes. Because we haven’t figured out a required level of these crucial molecules, they seem to be overlooked in mainstream discussions of nutrition. However, consider what they do: there is an almost uncountable number of chemical reactions going on in our bodies all the time. Enzymes make these reactions possible — and while we make our own, its far more effective to receive them from our diets. A deficiency in enzymes has been implicated in nearly every major epidemic illness we see today.
You know that fatigued feeling you get after eating? For many people, it seems to happen after every single meal. What’s happening has several facets: we’re having a reaction to the toxins we’re ingesting (recall the recent discovery of “acrylamide”, a cancer-causing agent found in cooked, and especially deep-fried foods). We’re also having to expend more energy digesting the foods because the naturally occurring enzymes are not present, and many people are becoming glucose-intolerant from un-naturally high levels of refined carbohydrates. It’s been found that our immune system reacts strongly when cooked foods are ingested, just as if we were exposed to any other toxic material.
Enzymes, the alkaline environment, and the high levels of minerals present in The Raw food diet have made it popular with leading edge physicians. There have been reports of people cured of diabetes by following the diet with the modification of a very low sugar intake. It has also been proposed to be the foundation of alternative cancer treatments, in that cancer cells cannot survive in highly alkaline environments.
From a more esoteric standpoint, when whole, organic, plant-based food is not heated when prepared, the enzymes remain intact, micro-nutrients remain intact, and the life force of the food remains intact. Raw food proponents make the natural connection that the life force of the food is readily available to our bodies, where it would not have been otherwise. The food you’re eating was alive a short time ago, with roots in the ground, converting sunlight to energy — why kill it by cooking it if you too want to have the greatest amount of life force?
The case for the raw food diet is really very extensive: from healing ourselves to healing the planet (which we may cover in another article), and the greatest proponents of raw food are committing themselves to personal and planetary evolution. This is really just a quick peek at why one might want to consider eating this way, and there are whole books on the subject for those of you interested in learning more. It’s an exceptionally intriguing topic, very much worth further investigation!
About the Author
The author is a co-founder of Ananda Aromatherapy Essential Oils. More information on the therapeutic use of essential oils can be found at The Ananda Apothecary.
Raw Food Diet Grocery Shopping, Ep21
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Organic Black Soy Beans -2.5 Lb- Black Soybean Seeds- Seed for Sprouting Sprouts, Cooking, Making Tofu & Soymilk $11.95 Black soybeans are a popular alternative to yellow soy beans that have more protein and less carbs. Some people find that black soy beans has less of a “soy” taste than yellow beans. These organic soybean seeds are a very versatile bean that can lower cholesterol and protect against cancer through its healthy protease inhibitors. These Organic Soybeans seeds also makes great soy milk, and can b… |
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Organic Black Turtle Beans -5 Lb- Called Black Bean & Spanish Black Bean – Seed Sprouting Sprouts, Cooking, Food Storage $19.95 Black Turtle Beans are common black beans so popular in Latin American and Carribean cuisine. They are dried and have a very long shelf life and are a great addition to any food storage program. They are excellent in beans & rice, bean soups, bean salads & more. They are an great source of protein and have a meaty texture and are very popular with vegans and vegetarians. When sprouted they make a… |
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Organic Black Soy Beans -1 Lb- Black Soybean Seeds- Seed for Sprouting Sprouts, Cooking, Making Tofu & Soymilk $6.95 Black soybeans are a popular alternative to yellow soy beans that have more protein and less carbs. Some people find that black soy beans has less of a “soy” taste than yellow beans. These organic soybean seeds are a very versatile bean that can lower cholesterol and protect against cancer through its healthy protease inhibitors. These Organic Soybeans seeds also makes great soy milk, and can b… |
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Agi’s Raw Food All Natural Breakfast Cereal-Wake Up Time-24 Oz- Pearl Barley Cereal for Vegan/Vegetarian/Living Food Diet $16.95 Vegan – No animal products or testing. Directions to serve raw: Soak 2 Oz. of cereal overnight in water. Rinse and drain in the morning. Add almond milk, rice milk, soy milk or fresh fruit juices. Sweeten to taste with raw honey, agave nectar or maple syrup. Add fresh fruit to make the cereal even more satisfying. Directions to serve cooked: Soak overnight as above and heat as desired. Why Soa… |
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Organic Black Turtle Beans -35 Lb- Called Black Bean & Spanish Black Bean – Seed Sprouting Sprouts, Cooking, Food Storage $105.95 Black Turtle Beans are common black beans so popular in Latin American and Carribean cuisine. They are dried and have a very long shelf life and are a great addition to any food storage program. They are excellent in beans & rice, bean soups, bean salads & more. They are an great source of protein and have a meaty texture and are very popular with vegans and vegetarians. When sprouted they make a… |
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Raw Food Made Easy For 1 or 2 People $10.72 Books Now 25% Off! Was $12.99, now $9.49. Getting 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day has never been so delicious and easy. In Raw Foods Made Easy, well-known Chicago-based cooking instructor Jennifer Cornbleet shares her favorite no-cook recipes, in smaller quantities ideal for one or two. 200 pages…. |
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The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss $7.95 Why you’re going to love The Raw Food Detox Diet You will . . . never count calories, fat grams, or carb grams, or measure foods again; see results even without deliberate exercise; eat liberal amounts of rich, satisfying foods; and open the flood gates for improvements in every area of your life. Natalia Rose’s proven program will set you on a course toward greater energy, a slimmer figure… |
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12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food $8.49 Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in 12 Steps to Raw Foods in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This bo… |
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Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: Or Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! or Consider Your True Nature $1.53 Used – There are dozens and hundreds of diets and books on diet and diet experts and ideas on diet in circulation today. Most people live on an omnivorous diet, that is, anything that is possible to chew up and swallow and live long enough to tell about, they will eat.Raw foodists maintain that only uncooked foods are fit to be eaten, that cooked food is the cause of virtually all disease and is always harmful to some extent. A cooked-food eater will, if he or she adopts a raw food diet, come to |
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Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: Or Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! or Consider Your True Nature $8.42 New – Raw foodists maintain that only uncooked foods are fit to eat, that cooked foods are the cause of virtually all disease. This book offers advice on becoming a raw foodist and explains in layman’s terms the value of the raw food diet. |
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Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: Or Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! or Consider Your True Nature $6.19 New – Raw foodists maintain that only uncooked foods are fit to eat, that cooked foods are the cause of virtually all disease. This book offers advice on becoming a raw foodist and explains in layman’s terms the value of the raw food diet. |
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Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: Or Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! or Consider Your True Nature $5.13 Used – There are dozens and hundreds of diets and books on diet and diet experts and ideas on diet in circulation today. Most people live on an omnivorous diet, that is, anything that is possible to chew up and swallow and live long enough to tell about, they will eat.Raw foodists maintain that only uncooked foods are fit to be eaten, that cooked food is the cause of virtually all disease and is always harmful to some extent. A cooked-food eater will, if he or she adopts a raw food diet, come to |
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Going Raw: Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle Revolution at Home $16.65 New – Going Raw combines the beauty and flavor of a gourmet cookbook with everyday recipes that are practical for the real-world home chef. There are utilitarian books that offer a lot of great basics but do not illuminate the content with stylish and instructional photography. Going Raw promises the basics (kitchen gear, pantry ingredients, how to plan your grocery shopping and menus, prep and storage techniques) and delivers delicious, simple recipes for the starter raw foodist. A 30 minute bo |
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Going Raw: Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle Revolution at Home $14.84 New – Going Raw combines the beauty and flavor of a gourmet cookbook with everyday recipes that are practical for the real-world home chef. There are utilitarian books that offer a lot of great basics but do not illuminate the content with stylish and instructional photography. Going Raw promises the basics (kitchen gear, pantry ingredients, how to plan your grocery shopping and menus, prep and storage techniques) and delivers delicious, simple recipes for the starter raw foodist. A 30 minute bo |
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Going Raw: Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle Revolution at Home $16.14 Used – Going Raw combines the beauty and flavor of a gourmet cookbook with everyday recipes that are practical for the real-world home chef. There are utilitarian books that offer a lot of great basics but do not illuminate the content with stylish and instructional photography. Going Raw promises the basics (kitchen gear, pantry ingredients, how to plan your grocery shopping and menus, prep and storage techniques) and delivers delicious, simple recipes for the starter raw foodist. A 30 minute b |
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Going Raw: Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle Revolution at Home $15.2 Used – Going Raw combines the beauty and flavor of a gourmet cookbook with everyday recipes that are practical for the real-world home chef. There are utilitarian books that offer a lot of great basics but do not illuminate the content with stylish and instructional photography. Going Raw promises the basics (kitchen gear, pantry ingredients, how to plan your grocery shopping and menus, prep and storage techniques) and delivers delicious, simple recipes for the starter raw foodist. A 30 minute b |
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Liquid Raw: Over 125 Juices, Smoothies, Soups, and Other Raw Beverages $10.92 Used – “Liquid Raw” features more than 100 easy-to-make and delicious raw food smoothies, soups, juices, and other raw food beverages. All recipes incorporate raw food techniques for the pure raw foodist, while being easy enough for anyone to incorporate into their diet. |
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Liquid Raw: Over 125 Juices, Smoothies, Soups, and Other Raw Beverages $10.92 New – “Liquid Raw” features more than 100 easy-to-make and delicious raw food smoothies, soups, juices, and other raw food beverages. All recipes incorporate raw food techniques for the pure raw foodist, while being easy enough for anyone to incorporate into their diet. |
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Liquid Raw: Over 125 Juices, Smoothies, Soups, and Other Raw Beverages $6.92 Used – “Liquid Raw” features more than 100 easy-to-make and delicious raw food smoothies, soups, juices, and other raw food beverages. All recipes incorporate raw food techniques for the pure raw foodist, while being easy enough for anyone to incorporate into their diet. |
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Liquid Raw: Over 125 Juices, Smoothies, Soups, and Other Raw Beverages $6.84 New – “Liquid Raw” features more than 100 easy-to-make and delicious raw food smoothies, soups, juices, and other raw food beverages. All recipes incorporate raw food techniques for the pure raw foodist, while being easy enough for anyone to incorporate into their diet. |
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