04/12/2022
BENEFITS OF EATING RAW ✨🧘♀️
🍀 More energy
Fruits almost digest itself, which means your body uses less energy to digest and eliminate what it ingests, freeing up much vital energy for other various tasks such as healing and cleansing. As a result, your energy levels skyrocket to unimaginable heights on raw foods, unbeaten by any other diet.
The more processed the food you eat, the less it satiates you
The satiety mechanism of the body can be more effective while we eat naturally occurring foods – raw fruits and vegetables, and not artificially prepared meals, such is the case of most cooked food.
Cooked food destroys many nutrients in foods
Applying heat to foods provides no nutritional advantage to the food and it is harmful to us. Many nutrients are deadly toxic if we overdose on them.
🍀 There small instances where by heating food, certain nutrients are more easily absorbed by the body, like lycopene from tomatoes, indoles in broccoli, and antioxidants in carrots. However, these theories ignore the facts that thousands of other nutrients are impaired or wrecked during the cooking process while wrongly assuming that some nutrients are better than others, instead of trusting our own bodies to extract what it needs in order to thrive.
🍀 Cooking renders food toxic
Cooked foods stimulate the immune system to cause an inflammatory response. When you eat cooked food, your body reacts as if poisoned. This triggers an immune response called Leukocytosis where the white blood cells increase.
Leukocytosis was once considered a normal reaction to eating, but it does not happen when we eat raw foods.
🍀 Reduced cancer risk (Acrylamide)
Acrylamide is a neurotoxic industrial chemical used in the plastics industry, found in cigarette smoke, and in many cooked foods that have been found to potentially cause cancer in humans. It is most notably present in starchy foods, like potatoes and bread cooked for long periods of time.
🍀 It’s easy to overeat cooked food
You need extra will power to control yourself when eating most cooked and processed foods because of their calories, strong flavours, and extra use of condiments, which make you want to eat more. This isn’t the case when consuming most raw foods.
🍀 In fact, you can eat as much fresh, raw fruit as you want and never get fat, which is the same theory that holds why wild animals don’t get fat. In fact, the only species on the planet that have weight problems are humans and domesticated animals whose eating habits we control, such as dogs and cats.
