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Raw Food Living is the optimal choice. Cooked food is poison, your body treats it as poison. Cooked food makes you look cooked. Cooking food above 115-118 degrees kills the enzymes and a lot of the nutrients in the food, making it useless! The vegan and vegetarian diet sucks for the most part because a lot of them eat cooked processed foods. Raw Food is the way to go! Woooo! Eat RAW!
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Do you really believe this? A vegan and vegetarian diet sucks for the most part? Not a persuasive way to start an argument or discussion!
A raw food diet is a reasonably healthy choice, but not an ideal one from a health standpoint. Many critical nutrients are better absorbed when cooked. Plus, because of the very high content of water in raw foods, it becomes difficult to get sufficient calories. So, many raw fooders consumer to many nuts and seeds instead of focusing most calories on veggies. By steaming veggies, you take some of the water content out, and can consume more of these nutrient dense foods daily. You also make certain nutrients and phytochemicals more bioavailable. I think rougly 70% to 80% raw is ideal, with added legumes and steamed greens (or waterbased soups). This way you don't need to overly consume fruits and seeds and nuts to get the necessary caloric density.
Also, as with any vegan diet, you should have a supplement that contains a reliable source of B-12 and D (depending on where you live)
Best,
Joey