Some people come to the raw food diet because they are suffering from health problems, often chronic diseases.
Many people do believe that consumption of uncooked foods can heal or prevent disease. However, it is important to understand that raw food is not, in itself, medication. What it may do is to put less stress on the body than cooked and processed food, freeing up the body’s resources for homeostasis (the natural healing power of the organism).
The purported health properties of raw food, therefore, are not so much related to properties of the food itself but to the body’s own power to heal itself if its resources are not hijacked by having to deal with toxins such as those we ingest on a standard western diet.
Even simple cooked vegetables, while not exactly toxic, are said by raw food eaters to place the digestive system under some stress because they are not in their natural state. Our systems, the argument goes, were built for the consumption of food gathered from the wild before the invention of cooking. So raw vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds (and perhaps raw meat from wild animals) were what the human body was built to eat, and what it can most easily and naturally assimilate.
That is why the 100% raw food diet is said to have a positive effect in respect of so many different diseases.
The Benefits of Raw Food – http://www.rawfoodbenefits.com/
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