Why not just eat more raw foods?

[Guest guest]

Why is it so necessary to eat all raw foods? Why

not increase your raw food intake instead of making a

lifestyle out of it? Don't the same health benefits exist?

<br><br>Also, how do you determine the health benenfits of raw

foodism vs. cooked vegetarianism? Both will cause most

Americans to lose weight.

[Guest guest]

Matndenver,<br><br>Read some of the earlier posts

in this club and visit some of the links in the link

section. Many raw foodist believe that " cooked food is

poison " to the body. So eating NO cooked food is better

than a LITTLE cooked food.<br><br>For me, weight loss

is a benefit of eating raw food but not the main

reason for doing so. It's the quality and

appropriateness of the food to the human body that is important.

Raw fruits, vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts have

their enzymes intact--cooked foods do not. Raw foods

are easier to digest (good) and provide more

nutrition (good). So while both ways of eating cause people

to lose weight I believe raw food helps to build a

stronger and healthier body.<br><br>Take a look through

the past posts. You will find some good descriptions

of how well people are doing on a totally raw diet.

I see the benefits in my health and they coincide

with what is posted by others.<br><br>While I think

cooked vegetarianism is much better than meat eating I

don't equate vegetarianism with health. Cooked

vegetables are just as " dead " as cooked animal products and

therefore don't provide the human body with optimum

materials to build healthy cells. But cooked vegetarianism

does not have the saturated fats found in a meat diet

and so it is vastly superior in that

regard.<br><br>-Orionsdad

[Guest guest]

The nature of addictions is that we only become

addicted to toxic substances, ie alcohol, nicotine , drugs

etc. We know cooked food is toxic because it kills

people, lab animals, etc. Cooked food is the mother of

all addictions. When you get over cooked food

addiction, all other addictions magicaly dissapear. I have

been addicted to a lot of crap in my life, as I gave

up each addiction I would go through the same

withdrawal symptoms. The first one is denial, as long as I

denie I have an addiction, or that the substance is

even addictive, I don't have to deal with it. When I

get past that, the next thing I say to myself is;

" Why can't I just smoke 5 cigaretts a day, why do I

have to quit completely " . The reason of course is

because addictions ALWAYS get worse. If a hungry lion is

attacking me, I have to stop him, slowing him down won't

keep me alive.<br><br>Doug

[Guest guest]

Actually, there are plenty of overweight

vegetarians and vegans. Because of the dependency on cooked

grains in the diet, along with dairy and possibly eggs

for vegetarians, the system gets clogged

up.<br><br>Natural Hygiene (Raw Foods, Biogenic Living) keep the

systems flowing naturally, allowing for weight

loss.<br><br>Of course, exercise is the critical element in the

equation. Reducing caloric intake will not net weight loss

unless we are burning calories through exercise. The

body will go into fasting or starvation mode and hang

onto what it has if it thinks it is not getting enough

calories.