Raw Food

Apple Broccoli and Cucumber Salad With Walnuts

RAW FOODS - Each and every day, we should all incorporate raw foods into our meals. Raw foods are still ALIVE, whereas processed foods, cooked foods, and all meats and animal products are DEAD. It stands to reason, then, that human bodies comprised of living cells demand living nourishment for peak health. Many valuable but fragile vitamins, enzymes, phytochemicals and probably other things as well are destroyed during cooking.

By adding fresh-as-possible, preferably organic vegetables, fruits, seeds, and nuts to your diet, you will be greatly enhancing the nutritional value of your eating regimen.
I have heard marvelous stories about people, once very, very sick, who were able to reverse their conditions by switching to a mostly raw foods diet. Obviously, there is something excellent about raw food. One minister I know of advocates and himself eats an 85% organic raw foods diet. He and those he has influenced have greatly reduced the occurrence of sickness and disease in their lives and have completely healed from maladies which the medical community had not been able to effectively treat through drugs and surgeries.

Currently, I eat about 40-50% raw, which means incorporating raw foods into every meal. My goal is to increase my ratio of raw to cooked food. While I would support anyone�s desire to eat raw foods exclusively, a good place to start is simply to include some raw foods on your menus.
If you're not accustomed to eating raw foods, try adding a little at a time, until you maximize your ratio of raw food to cooked food without suffering hunger between meals. By all means, experiment! By eating a wide variety of both raw and cooked foods, you can obtain a lot of good nutrition and be satisfied.