Why Eat Raw Foods?

Why eat raw foods? Bottom line is: Raw foods are more nutritious than cooked.

learn why to eat raw food with Raw Moxie and Cheri Simmons The importance of nutrition in our diet is becoming widely known. But many people don't understand what "nutrition" means. One definition is:

The taking in and use of food and other nourishing material by the body. The nutrients contained in this food are extracted, absorbed and then used as "fuel" for growth, repair, movement, thinking, and for many other bodily functions. That is, these nutrients are used to maintain and sustain life. - NutritionAtoZ.com

Nutrients are much more than vitamins and minerals. Those are a small part. Nutrients include amino acids, proteins and enzymes. These are critical for our health, for keeping our immune system functioning properly so we won't get sick, to repair injuries, heal from the effects of disease, for energy and to fuel and maintain our brains.

Proper nutrition isn't important for good mental and physical health-it is vital!

However, when heat is added to the food we eat, it damages these critical nutrients - vitamins are lost, proteins coagulate and are more difficult for the body to use, amino acids break apart, enzymes are destroyed.

Eating food that has been subjected to heat is like building a house using inferior materials like rusted pipes, wood infected with dry rot, frayed wiring and inferior concrete.

Just as a house built with defective materials will decay, leak and break apart under stress, inflammation will cause our tissues to swell and leak, nerves won't be able to transmit impulses from the brain to our organs properly, mental processes will break down and repairs to injuries will slow down. We will have less energy and our bodies will age quickly.

Why eat raw food? Prevent disease and illness! People who include raw food for health in their diets are amazed to see:

Their immune systems improving and becoming more efficient at preventing illness and disease, and healing faster.
They have a greater amount of energy.
Their digestion is better with less bloating,
Their thinking abilities improve with memory and mental clarity enhanced.
The effects and symptoms of most chronic illnesses lessen or improve.

Why eat raw food? It is the easiest, yet the most vital way to become the healthy, vibrant, energetic person you deserve to be.

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