Raw Lifestyle

A balanced raw food diet consists of 6 essential groups.  They are vegetables, fruits, seeds, including sprouting seeds, nuts and healthy grains.  The sixth component is an abundance of pure filtered water.  This balance is necessary to attain a state of ultimate health and is especially important for growing children, athletes and pregnant or nursing mothers.  Fermented foods such as sauerkraut and Kim Chee are very beneficial to the intestinal tract.  Good healthy oils such as Olive oil, coconut oil and grapeseed oil add a high level of saturation to your menu.  If you want to be fully alive and be all that you can be, you need to eat food that is alive.  Raw natural foods help to prevent diabetes, heart disease and cancers, to name just a few of the diseases we can avoid by eating a natural plant based diet.  A Raw Food diet is a Healing diet.  Cooking destroys nutrients and the basic chemical structure of food is altered. 
 
Food is considered raw and alive when it has not been heated above 118 degrees F.  Cooking destroys live enzymes and 30% to 50% of the vitamin content and minerals are rendered less absorbable.  If you feel you must cook, and you may very well fell this way during the transition from a S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) diet to a Raw Food Lifestyle, use the lowest possible temperature for the least amount of time.  Steaming is the preferred method of cooking and allows the food to retain the greatest amount of vitamins and minerals. 
 
Another important point to make is that everyone will transition at their own comfortable pace and it is very important to not be hard on yourself and enjoy this wonderful journey.  If you are in a situation where you are starting this journey for a very serious health issue, please remember that Raw Food is the ultimate healing diet for your body.  The amazing healing properties of  raw super foods will bring your body to a state of homeostasis very quickly.  I will provide you with a green smoothie recipe that is so powerful it will bring the Vital Life Force to every cell in your body.  In my opinion, there are two main items that must be eliminated immediately from your diet and from your home.  These two items are sugars and most grains, they are highly addictive and will steer you down the wrong path as will any addiction.  They are extremely detrimental to your good health and have, in fact, brought us to where we are today in our current medical conditions.  We have limitless choices of very healthy options to replace sugars and most grains in your food plan.