Increasingly, we hear about some people who have given up meat and specially prepared food, lead an extremely healthy lifestyle and create an aura of some mystery around themselves, connected with the fact that something is wrong with them, like everyone else.. Let's try to figure out together what a raw food diet is - a new fashion that came to us from distant countries and “mows down” the ranks of healthy people, or a really qualitatively new level of human nutrition that can affect the purification of both bodily and mental health.

It is difficult to say exactly when the raw food diet appeared.. Many centuries ago, the first people had to be partly raw foodists (partly because they ate meat), because they did not yet know the fire, and therefore the cooking of food.. However, progress has gone forward by leaps and bounds and now you can find almost any product in almost any form in stores - raw, boiled, fried, dried, dried, and so on.. But more and more people are taking the side of a raw food diet - a food system that excludes the use of food that is subjected to any heat treatment.. Raw foodists, as a rule, consume vegetable oils, cereals (which are soaked), many exclude animal products, flavoring seasonings from their diet.

There are several main directions of the raw food diet: omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, carnivorous, fruitarianism.. The most common are vegan and fruitarianism..

It so happened that multiple clinics in different countries, which help their clients to fight excess weight, promote a raw food diet.. There have been many studies that have proven the benefits of such a diet.. But only as temporary food and only under the supervision of a nutritionist. That is, everything is rational and individually calculated. However, most people forget, ignore, or simply don't know that a raw food diet is a type of diet, and "

About harm later. Let's first find out what are the benefits of this most natural diet..

First, the feeling of lightness. People note that eating fruits and vegetables, they get rid of the feeling of heaviness in the stomach, from bouts of overeating, it becomes easier for them to move around, play sports, and more energy appears..

Second, weight loss. The abrupt transition from a regular diet to a raw food diet causes a person to lack energy intake, in calories, because it is very difficult to eat fruits and vegetables for 2000-2500 kcal per day. It affects weight.. In general, this is, of course, a plus for those who had extra pounds..

Third, getting healthier by getting more vitamins. During the heat treatment of food, a number of healthy vitamins, micro- and macroelements are destroyed, and in the raw form they are better absorbed by the body.. Therefore, a properly established raw food diet will help to restore the lack of vitamins exclusively in a natural way..

Fourthly, almost all raw foodists note the appearance of “mental lightness”: a desire to live and work arises, a good mood is almost always felt, motivation appears for important actions that were previously lacking strength..

These are the main advantages of this kind of food.. Now let's look at the negative aspects of the raw food lifestyle and see what is more - good or bad..

First, the lack of nutrients. It is very difficult to extract the daily allowance of vitamins D, B2, B12, calcium, zinc from fruits and vegetables, and protein is found, if not in meat, then only in legumes and nuts (and this is not suitable for fruitarians). For some short time, the lack of these elements is unlikely to significantly affect our health, but a long-term lack of proper nutrition leads to diseases.. According to research, raw-food women are more likely to get amenorrhea than others (women), many have erosion of tooth enamel, extremely low levels of omega-3 and vitamin B12 have been found..

Secondly, the inaccessibility of products. We live in an environment in which it is very difficult to get the right and correct amount of vegetables, fruits and nuts in winter.. Either raw foodists have to buy frozen food since the summer, or they have to pay triple the price for the food that is brought from warm countries only to specialized points.. Such a diet "

Thirdly, two cases of death of Igor Kozlov (21 years old) and Elena Nikitina (28 years old) became known, who practiced a raw-mono diet for at least 2 years.. Defenders of this nutrition claim that it is not associated with the deaths of these two young people, but it looks more than strange a stroke at 28 and death from hepatitis A at 21, the statistics of which show that only 0.5% of the sick die from it..

Fourth, the psychological need for diversity. Due to the fact that modern store-bought products contain more and more genetically modified cells, dyes, chemical additives and so on, we feel bad, we feel jumps in weight, we need to review the food we eat. Therefore, many people unknowingly switch to a raw food diet, thinking that now they will become healthy and beautiful, and even fashionable, often not realizing that such jumps create big problems for themselves in the future..

Four arguments against four. What is a raw food diet - benefit or harm, only you can choose. You can turn your diet into a healing process if you approach the raw food diet from a professional point of view, or you can cause significant damage if there is more fanaticism than common sense.. You choose.

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