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 Speaking of a raw food diet, they mean a special food system, the diet of which includes foods that have not undergone heat treatment: raw and dried vegetables and fruits, root vegetables, sprouted cereals, eggs, milk, nuts, seafood, jerky and fish.
Proponents of a raw food diet, in support of their nutritional system, argue that our distant ancestors lived on only raw fruits and vegetables, root vegetables, and nuts. They did not have the opportunity to cook food, but this did not prevent them from being strong and resilient.
If we consider this topic from a religious point of view, then gluttony has always been considered a sin. Most often, the population of developed countries indulged in it. The very need for thermal processing of products arose in connection with the growth of the population of cities. Numerous residents needed a lot of food that could be stored for a long time. For this, they were invented conservation, cooking, frying, etc. Nevertheless, today for most people, the enjoyment of the taste of food is almost the only pleasure in life. Adherents of a raw food diet argue that people do not need food for pleasure, just as taste buds are created only to distinguish fresh food suitable for food from spoiled food.
It is not easy to completely switch to eating only raw foods. The fact is that most people from childhood have become accustomed to a certain diet and are not able to sustain on a raw food diet for several days. However, the raw food diet has its own subtleties and exists in several forms. An omnivorous raw food diet implies the use of not only plant, but also animal food (dairy products, eggs, meat and fish). Meat and fish, as a rule, are salted and dried before use, because in their raw form they are dangerous to health, since they can be infected with larvae of parasites (bovine or pork tapeworm, broad tapeworm, etc.).
In this sense, it would not be superfluous to mention that when buying these products, it is necessary to pay attention to the presence of the conclusion of the sanitary-epidemiological station. Vegetarian raw food diet permits the consumption of plants and herbs, roots, fruits and vegetables, as well as eggs, milk and dairy products. As a matter of fact, it differs from ordinary vegetarianism only by the prohibition of heat treatment of food. The raw vegan diet only allows for plant-based foods.
There is also such a direction as fruitarianism. His followers eat only plant fruits. Adherents of a carnivorous raw food diet eat mainly jerky, fish and game, eggs and dairy products, and eat plant foods in small quantities. A mixed raw food diet means eating several foods at a time, while a monotrophic diet does not allow such mixtures.
In a raw food diet, it is fundamentally important to use raw foods, since, according to raw foodists, when a product is heated even to 45 degrees, it loses its beneficial substances, and at a higher processing temperature, some chemical compounds that are not found in nature and are harmful can form in it the human body.
However, do not forget that there are foods that are toxic to the body in their raw form, such as beans or sprouted alfalfa. And raw milk and eggs can cause salmonellosis and encephalitis. And eating vegetables and fruits from supermarkets is not always safe and healthy, since it is no secret to anyone that they are subjected to special treatment with chemical preservatives to extend their shelf life.Thus, a truly healthy and safe raw food diet can be only if you eat food grown in your own garden or dacha, located in an ecologically clean area.
Savenkova A.
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