Mankind has always sought and will continue to look for ways of a lifestyle that will help heal various diseases and prolong life. So far, this has not been possible to do, but people who adhere to the basics of raw food diet are convinced that they are on the right track.
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A raw food diet is a special diet that allows the use of only raw foods. Moreover, the most common vegan raw food diet, which includes only plant foods.
What foods do raw eaters eat?
A vegan raw food diet includes the following foods:
• raw plant foods;
• honey and beekeeping derivatives;
• sour cabbage, tea from herbs;
• vegetable oil, salt and soda.
The plant diet includes the widest assortment of fruits, berries and vegetables, nut mixes, cereals, as well as food prepared from them without any heating.
Raw foodists make the seemingly impossible, and cook these dishes without exposing them to heat and without adding milk, eggs, meat, fish.
What is the benefit of a raw food diet?
It is not worth talking about raw food diet as a panacea for all diseases, however, the undoubted benefit of eating raw plant foods is to cleanse poisonous substances, antibiotics, and salts of heavy metals.
A vegan raw food diet helps quite effectively in the presence of any problems in the field of digestion, respiratory apparatus diseases, and allergies.
It should also be noted about the appearance of additional energy, which, before switching to a raw food diet, was spent on the assimilation of ordinary food.
Negative aspects of raw food diet
It is necessary to take raw food eaters very seriously, because in certain cases eating raw food can turn into a big disaster. This can happen in such cases:
• there are difficulties in the assimilation of raw food due to the rejection of fructose;
• unbalanced diet, that is, the use of a limited range of products, for example, only apples;
• there is no idea of the processes that begin to occur in the body in the process of transition to a raw food diet.
It should be noted that with a raw food diet, the body begins to experience a deficiency of vitamin B12.
It is necessary to carefully monitor and care for the oral cavity in order to prevent damage to the tooth enamel, as well as to monitor the amount of fluid consumed.
According to experts, it is necessary to switch to a raw food diet gradually, so that the body slowly adapts to changes in the nutrition system.