Whey Eating a Raw Food Diet
Eating a raw
food diet is essentially a way of eating that does not involve the heating of
foods. Part of the premise lies in the fact that heating foods above 118
degrees fahrenheit destroys their inherent food enzymes, a vast majority of
vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and their all important life force.
Chemical Changes in Cooked Foods
Heating foods
radically changes their chemical properties making them less
"recognizable" in once ingested. For instance, heating an egg renders
into a solid mass whereas it began in a liquid, gelatinous. This occurs because
the heat of frying or boiling denatures the protein structure within the egg,
essentially making it more solid. As a result, this heated egg is now much more
difficult for the human digestive tract to break down.
Another
process that occurs with cooking foods is known as glycosylation. This is when
sugar literally attaches to protein molecule. Glycosylation has been linked to
the premature breakdown of the body's cell and many other undesirable health
conditions.
The
Importance of Raw Food Enzymes
The reason
that the natural food enzymes are so important is that our bodies have only a
limited ability to produce its own enzymes. Bear in mind that our bodies
produce metabolic and digestive enzymes. The latter are used to breakdown foods
whereas the former are essential to every single reaction in the body. But the
problem is that we only produce a finite number.
When you eat
cooked foods, you force your body to use more of its own enzyme reserves to
digest them. Overtime, this is just like continually withdrawing money from
your bank account without making any deposits. Eventually, you will run out of
enzymes!
When you have
no more enzymes, you no longer have any life - it's that simple.
Eating raw
foods help you make more "deposits" into your enzyme bank account,
allowing your body to preserve its own precious enzymes for more important uses
such as breaking down problematic cells, immune complexes, and more.
What Can You
Eat on a Raw Food Diet?
A raw fooddiet is mainly vegan for the simple reason that it isn't healthy or advised to
eat raw animal products. Therefore, a raw diet contains no dairy, meat, or
other animal products. Other than that, the choices are endless. Most raw
foodists have diets that consist of vegetables, fruit, nuts, and seeds.
The amazing
part is that the possibilities are truly endless with raw foods. Many people
think of not being able to eat meat or wheat as a huge limiting factor. But the
fact remains that processed, dead foods are dangerous to your body and there
are tons of delicious and nourishing raw food recipes that will give you so
much more than you can possibly imagine.
My Own Raw
Food Experience
I started
following a predominantly raw food diet in 2007 and it literally changed my
life. From improved skin complexion to having more energy and mental clarity, I
can't tell you how much better you can look and feel by eating the way nature
intended for you to eat.
Growing up on
dead foods like wheat, dairy, and meat literally destroyed my body and at the
young age of 17, I lost my hair to Alopecia as a result of my immune system
which had gone hay-wire and began attacking itself. Again, this was caused by
years of abusing my body with foods that it was allergic to.
However,
since eating a raw food diet, my health has never been better. My hair has
returned (although I keep my head shaved because I like it like that now) and I
have more energy than a teenager on red bull!
That's why I
wrote Eating for Energy. If you'd like to experience the same kind of health
and vitality then I urge to make the raw food diet more apart of your lifestyle!
