The benefits of eating raw foods are quite astounding. While I was the first to admit I’m not a Nutritionist, I feel comfortable sharing my advice and personal experience with clients. Those who are serious raw food enthusiasts are actually referred to as those who practice Raw Foodism. No, that’s not a made up phrase! It refers to the practice of eating unprocessed, uncooked and/or organic foods as a main source of nutrition. For the purposes of this article, I’m going to keep it simple and just help you understand how the benefits of eating raw foods may enhance your overall health and fitness goals.
The Basics.
We have all heard from our Doctors or Personal Trainers that a healthy diet needs to consist of ample portions of fruits and vegetables. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” so to speak. This also includes fresh nuts and seeds as well. But that is exactly why we are encouraged to eat these fresh foods?
1. Raw foods have natural enzymes that make it easier for your body to digest or process. They also have a more consistent balance of water, fiber, and nutrients that are easily accessible to your body’s digestive system.
2. We are living organisms and fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds are live foods! When you think about it, a cooked seed won’t grow, but a raw seed will. Those raw and living nutrients are what we should strive to fuel our bodies with. Cooking foods reduce much if not all of its inherent nutritional value.
3. There are no preservatives in raw foods. Understand what the word preservatives actually means. It is a chemical alteration that is added to foods to preserve their longevity. These are not nutrients found in nature, and they are the ingredients that are foreign to the body.
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