Humanity has always looked for and will continue to look for ways of such a way of life that will help heal various diseases and prolong life. Until now, this has not been done, but people who adhere to the fundamentals of a raw food diet are convinced that they are on the right track.
A raw food diet is a special diet that only allows you to eat raw foods. Moreover, the most common vegan raw food diet, which includes only plant foods.
What foods do raw foodists eat?
A raw vegan diet includes the following foods:
• raw plant foods;
• honey and beekeeping derivatives;
• sauerkraut, herbal tea;
• vegetable oil, salt and soda.
The plant diet includes the widest range of fruits, berries and vegetables, nut mixtures, cereals, as well as food prepared from them without any heating.
Raw foodists do the seemingly impossible and prepare these dishes without heating them or adding milk, eggs, meat or fish.
What are the benefits of a raw food diet?
It is not worth talking about a raw food diet as a panacea for all diseases, however, the undoubted benefit of using raw plant foods is to cleanse them of toxic substances, antibiotics, and heavy metal salts.
A vegan raw food diet is quite effective in helping in the presence of any problems in the field of digestion, diseases of the respiratory system, allergies.
It should also be noted about the appearance of additional energy, which before the transition to a raw food diet was spent on the assimilation of ordinary food.
Negative sides of a raw food diet
The decision to join raw foodists must be taken very seriously, as 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 fructose rejection;
• imbalance in the diet, that is, the use of a limited range of products, for example, only apples;
• there is no idea about the processes that begin to occur in the body during the 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 to prevent damage to the tooth enamel, as well as monitor the amount of fluid consumed.
According to experts, the transition to a raw food diet should be gradual, so that the body slowly adapts to changes in the diet.
