Eating a raw food diet is a method of controlling the amount of natural supplements and reducing the amount of chemical preservatives and other detrimental oxidants and pollutants, we ingest with a diet consisting of primarily cooked foods. We all need the nutrition, that cooking our food, takes away.
it isn’t as easy today to find processed foods with the natural vitamin and mineral content we need to maintain a good overall health picture. Manufacturers have found chemical additives that will add years to the shelf life of our food supply. People are looking to natural, uncooked foods, without all the added toxins and are more often turning to this type of food because of it’s natural ability to produce a feeling of well being and promote their good overall health.
A great variety of shapes and sizes are one thing that can add to the creativity of preparing unprocessed meals. The array of colors in vegetables gives us a rainbow to work with and all colors hold nutrients and vitamins we need for the processes our body undertakes to sustain human survival.
Lots of people hate vegetables. This is probably a result of nurture, as we have been fed processed and sweetened foods from infancy. Most people are used to sweetened tastes that come along with these foods and find it difficult to the unsweetened and natural versions of these same ingredients. An uninformed society is finally coming around and changing dietary lifestyles for the better has become an important focus in a lot of peoples lives.
Getting back to nature is something we can do, to better sustain good overall health conditions. Most would agree that today’s world is filled with fast food chains and convenient ways to satisfy our appetites quickly. They are also aware, through the media and tons of other available written publications, of the detrimental effects this type of diet can have.
Sometimes this realization is a necessity for people suffering from dietary problems such as obesity and diabetes. They have learned that through the introduction of healthy non processed foods, They can gain a level of control over their afflictions. These changes can be life altering. A responsible approach to diet is a stress point with most physicians and other health care professionals.
Adding sweeteners and sugars to our foods has become common place. It’s up to the individual to control what they ingest. Getting processed foods in a hurry is an easy task. Getting natural foods that are lacking in preservatives and possess only the vitamins and minerals we want, is becoming a lot harder today.
Manufacturers have found that distributors of their products are requiring them to have a longer shelf life and this has led to the introduction of many harmful chemical, as well as biological preservatives being introduced to the food chain, that are not normally encountered in nature. Eating these has led to many new and as of yet possibly, many other unknown issues that haven’t been discovered.
Reducing sugars and increasing natural supplemental vitamins and minerals, in your daily dietary intake, is where you should start. Applying raw foods to your daily routine will make you feel better and help to sustain over all good health.
Raw food has become pretty popular throughout the globe. Yes, people actually eat food without cooking it, but they are safe about it. The raw food recipes we have will show you how it’s done.