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What are the health advantages of eating raw living food?

Today, the modern North American diet is extremely low in raw living foods. As a result, disease is the number one killer of people. Think about that for a moment. At a time when medical knowledge is the best it has even been in the history of the world, heart disease, cancer and stroke are the leading causes of death. When you are on a raw living food diet, you get a better chance to beat the odds of dieing from one of the 'big 3'. Typically, people who eat this way have more energy, have fewer sick days, require less sleep, are more alert, detoxify their bodies, experience healthy weight loss and have lower cholesterol. If any of that sounds preferable to the way you are living today, continue reading.

Raw living foods are beneficial because the live enzymes in fresh fruit, vegetables, sprouts, wheat grass, etc are destroyed by temperatures above 116 degrees Fahrenheit. These enzymes are important because they aid in the digestion of your meal. Cooked foods lack these enzymes. Additionally, in the cooking process, some food molecules can become toxic. As a result of eating raw living foods, calorie for calorie you are getting a much higher concentration of nutrition. This means your body will get the same nutrition from less effort. This in turn results in your body having more free energy and resources to detoxify itself. Once the detoxification happens, most people find weight loss happens effortlessly.

Pound for pound, raw living foods like sprouts and wheat grass contain more protein than meats.

Some of the best raw living foods you can eat are sprouts and wheat grass juice. These power packed foods are high in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and proteins. Pound for pound, they actually provide more protein than beef, chicken or seafood. In addition, they contain nice amounts of natural chlorophyll. They contain small amounts of natural sugars, are easy to digest and very inexpensive to grow at home.

Now, if you have health challenges, make sure to consult a professional health care provider before changing your diet, even to a raw living food diet. In addition, since each of us is different your results from this way of eating will not necessarily match anyone else's. One thing for sure, a raw living food diet is better for you, better for the environment and there is plenty of evidence to suggest it can make you healthier in the long run.

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