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On the topic of raw food health, a lot of health experts consider a raw food lifestyle to be the most healthful diet for man and animal. Yet, others feel including a bit of raw meat, and perhaps fish (assuming the meat was raised and fed well), and also some raw eggs (with the same caveat as for meat - brought up healthfully) into the diet is necessary to see the best health.

Regardless if a person partakes in the raw veggie diet or a lifestyle that includes raw animal flesh, eggs and fish, the food being in it's raw state is suggested to NOT be void of important enzymes. Enzymes, they say, are required for the proper digestion and assimilation of all foods, and each and every food has it's own enzyme that the body needs to help with digestion. Although it hasn't been proven, it has been said that if the food does not have the important enzymes present, the body must use some from the "finite" (opposite of infinite) store that exists inside the body. The enzymes are necessary for many bodily functions and as they become exhausted unnecessarily, it is suggested that it is conducive to early clues of aging.

Aside from a decrease of enzymes in cooked food, it is suggested that the health value of the foods are also diminished. In essence, the mineral and vitamin content is depleted, many times to the extent of being completely void of any nutritional benefit. A little heat can be utilized on a food for it to be still regarded as "raw" and end up with minimal or no loss of nutritive benefit. In fact, scores raw diet recipes are created administering heat with a food dehydrator. The food dehydrator will be set to be certain that it does not reach the "maximum" heat permitted for the food to be still considered "raw". That temperature may change depends who you listen to (also for the food you are preparing) but a temperature of about 115 degrees Fahrenheit is a safe heat.

When discussing the raw food diet, raw foodists check out at all scenarios. They relentlessly try for perfect health. They even look at food combining. It is said that combining certain foods in one meal can perhaps lead to fermentation or digestion issues. The mixing rules are elaborate and a giant chart was construct to attempt to make matters simpler.

A lot of raw fooders practice mono eating to avoid any food combining problems. This entails eating a single whole food and waiting for it to fully digest before eating anymore food. This has the potential advantage where your body will index the healthful value from the one food and create cravings for the one food when your body requires a specific nutrient that the food provides. For example, if the body is in need of potassium it might create cravings for a banana assuming you have consumed a banana by itself in the past and permitted it to digest entirely before eating any other food.

When discussing a raw vegan diet, a general rule of thumb is to never mix fruits with any other food, which includes veggies. But, combining fruit with green veggies, as you would when preparing green smoothies has proved to not have the same negative affects as mixing vegetables and fruits. Greens, even though considered to be veggies, as they are usually referred to as "dark green leafy vegetables", are now often added in a catgeory all alone. So, raw food advocates might differentiate greens, fruits and veggies.

Whatever the situation someone turns to a raw food lifestyle, be it for simplicity and/or health, the biggest assertion for a raw vegan diet may be that we should very well be consuming what nature has given to us, and maybe we should be eating it in it's raw and natural form.
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