Do you believe the raw food diet is the healthiest diet?

Question

I have been doing a lot of research and I do believe the raw food diet is the healthiest diet. I have decided to just stick with the raw food diet. I mean, I still want to do a lot of juicing, but not exclusively. I want to include whole raw fruits and vegetables in my diet as well. I think this diet is the original diet of humans before we became corrupt and started eating the corpses of other beings (gross!).

The raw foods diet is not a fad. The meat eating diet is the fad. The original man ate a diet of raw fruits and vegetables. It was only after man became corrupt, that he started eating meat and giving up morals.

You know, I laugh when I read some of these replies. You people are like the blind following the blind. You people can't think for yourselves. You just believe what ever you were told. You people are sheep.

Answer 1

I have done some research into the raw food diet before answering your question and yes it sounds like a healthy diet.
It also recommends this diet for people who:
Want the easiest way to remove fat from diet
Want the easiest way to lose weight
Have an eating disorder

If you want to live off a raw food diet then go ahead, eat what you like, I really don't care.

But you say that that fruit and veg is the original diet of humans. You are wrong and as I unlike you are able to quote my sources, here it is

In scientific circles it was always assumed that the first people ate meat, says paleontologist John de Vos from the Naturalis museum in Leiden, the Netherlands. But two years ago, sound scientific evidence for this claim was found.
In fossil remains of the Australopithecus Africanus, the predecessor of man, researchers found carbon compounds that relate directly to meat consumption. This puts an end to all the stories that prehistoric man lived off fruits and vegetables.
Eating meat is a natural condition of man. The first human tools were knives to scrape the meat off bones. 'That doesn't surprise me at all, says De Vos. 'We know that apes, such as chimpanzees also eat meat on occasion.' Neanderthal man, one of the prehistoric men that didn't survive, had a diet that consisted almost exclusively of meat.

http://www.animalfreedom.org/english/column/desirable_meat.html

And btw calling people sheep is not very accurate and doesn't pass as insulting, as I have sheep and and obviously know a lot more about them than you do about them.

As you seem to upset the vegan community on here more than anyone else I actually believe now that you are not a vegan and are deliberately asking these questions for entertainment value only. You enjoy upsetting vegans with your questions and know that they will also bring the meateaters in as well hoping to cause even more discord between the two. You prove this by the content of your questions.

Answer 2

It's true that raw fruits and vegetables have more vitamins. We started cooking foods for a reason though. Raw vegetables are not as easily digested. Cooking actually help release some of the vitamins and make it accesible. I'm not sure which gives more vitamins to the body. I think for some nutrients, it's a net increase, while others it's a lost when cooked. The other reason we cook food , is to kill pathogens. It's even worse, now with factory farming. One contaminated lettuce can contaminate an entire lot of lettuce. By the way, how are you going to get proteins. I guess nuts, but try eatting a raw bean. Even shuckies aren't that pallatable raw. I guess you can eat spouts. If your a vegetarian, You shouldn't worry about maximizing your vitamins. In some coutries, they do compromise. They would put the vegetable in a boiling water for a quick dip. It would kill the bacterias on the surface, while the inside would be still raw. I strongly suggest you do this for green onions.

Answer 3

Without a doubt it's an important part. But health requires vigilance in other areas as well. A raw vege diet with a variety of other nutrient sources like beans (and even some meats like chicken breast, pork loin and whitefish) helps you cover the nutrition bases. Exercise is equally important. No matter what your diet is, a sedentary lifestyle is going to make you unhealthy. Note: For some people exercise is a difficult hurdle to leap. Trust me when I say that when you get off of your butt and exercise you will feel better and have more energy for the rest of that very first day. You will sleep better too. As you ease yourself into a better diet team that up with easing into an exercise regimen. I promise you will feel better.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

From all the books, online resources and people with personal testimonies praising the raw vegan food diet, I also agree it has to be the healthiest! I am not currently raw, but want to be in the near future!

Answer 6

Some foods need to be cooked to increase the bioavailability of the nutrients.

Overcooking can destroy nutrients. You need to learn to cook things to maximize their nutrient value.

I don't think that raw foods are going to do you a lot of harm - but neither is properly cooking your food. Humans have been cooking their food since the discovery of fire!

I'm a vegetarian - I cook a lot. I make most things from scratch and don't eat processed foods. I think this approach is healthy and probably as healthy as eating raw foods.

Good luck to you!

Answer 7

The body is definitely using many unhealthy calories, along with workout making you shed them swifter

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

I really don't fully agree, but this is really interesting. In some ways it makes a lot of sense, but in some ways it does not. Yes, it is probably healthier in that it is not genetically modified, added to or depleted. This diet does not have strange additive and man created poisonous altercations. My concern with this diet is that people used to not live for so long and got ill more easily and one factor was malnutrition. There are many diseases from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. In general a nice balanced diet is healthy. It is really important to be cautious of what you consume and not blindly put the fork to your mouth. Awareness is not bliss when it come to healthy eating because we realize how limited our options really are.