What if, one day when you are chopping the ingredients for cooking a meal you would instead decide to serve them as they are? Well, carrots are eatable even in their raw state. They bring many vitamins in the body and they are rather tasty. But besides apples, oranges and the other fruit, what else would you eat without cooking it first?
The main object of raw food diets is exactly this one. History teaches us that the human being is inhabiting the earth for more than five million years. The main menu she had included fruit, roots or raw meat from hunted animals. Combining these elements in different ways according to the geographical areas where they lived the humans have lived and evolved. By parting the history of the humans in twenty equal shares, in nineteen of them they have eaten raw food and in the last one they have started cooking it with heat and fire.
It is only normal to start wondering why did fire change our menu so drastically in the past 250000 years, since before that for an extremely long time we lived, thrived and evolved only on raw food? That is the scientific base on which the raw food diet has started gaining adepts. Unlike the vegans, who pay attention to what they eat, but still cook their vegetables, those who eat raw food have nothing against meat, but are definitely against heat cooking. That is why they eat mostly fruit, seeds, nuts, vegetables, seaweed and freshly squeezed juices.
Apart from those, the persons who have become aware of the deficiencies this type of eating could cause have also adopted eggs, fish and raw meat as part of their menu. Dairy products in their most natural form, like milk, are also accepted by those who have opted for this lifestyle.
Among the greatest advantages this lifestyle could have, one of them is that it helps detoxify the body. After many years of eating processed food with toxic elements in it, this process could be painful. But it is worth going through it because the results are amazing. Once the body regains its balance the energy levels increase, and the body fat is reduced. Heart diseases happen less often to those who feed themselves according to the raw food diet. The fact that you will have to eat large amounts of food can be for some persons a disadvantage while others might enjoy doing that.
The main object of raw food diets is exactly this one. History teaches us that the human being is inhabiting the earth for more than five million years. The main menu she had included fruit, roots or raw meat from hunted animals. Combining these elements in different ways according to the geographical areas where they lived the humans have lived and evolved. By parting the history of the humans in twenty equal shares, in nineteen of them they have eaten raw food and in the last one they have started cooking it with heat and fire.
It is only normal to start wondering why did fire change our menu so drastically in the past 250000 years, since before that for an extremely long time we lived, thrived and evolved only on raw food? That is the scientific base on which the raw food diet has started gaining adepts. Unlike the vegans, who pay attention to what they eat, but still cook their vegetables, those who eat raw food have nothing against meat, but are definitely against heat cooking. That is why they eat mostly fruit, seeds, nuts, vegetables, seaweed and freshly squeezed juices.
Apart from those, the persons who have become aware of the deficiencies this type of eating could cause have also adopted eggs, fish and raw meat as part of their menu. Dairy products in their most natural form, like milk, are also accepted by those who have opted for this lifestyle.
Among the greatest advantages this lifestyle could have, one of them is that it helps detoxify the body. After many years of eating processed food with toxic elements in it, this process could be painful. But it is worth going through it because the results are amazing. Once the body regains its balance the energy levels increase, and the body fat is reduced. Heart diseases happen less often to those who feed themselves according to the raw food diet. The fact that you will have to eat large amounts of food can be for some persons a disadvantage while others might enjoy doing that.
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When you are interested in shamanism, you may want to refer to the work of Lujan Matus.
