Raw Food PreparationI present seminars and demonstrations on whole food choices, resources and preparation techniques. People learn simple and delicious ways to improve the quality of their diet.
Raw food is more than salad. Natural, living foods can be skillfully transformed in to flavorful, beautiful and pleasing menu choices that will delight the palate and the eye. A raw food diet is primarily comprised of uncooked, unprocessed, often organic and sustainably raised plant-based foods. While the exact definition of raw food varies, a basic guideline for raw food is that it is not heated above 118° F (48° C).
Some people who choose a mostly raw diet will eat appropriately selected seafood, meat and dairy products in their food choices. When consuming more fresh produce as a staple, the body progressively requires less food. While eating more nutrient rich raw food, the body steadily becomes healthier, and metabolic efficiency increases. So does its ability to absorb and assimilate more nutrients.
It is well understood and recognized in scientific literature that heat breaks down vitamins as well as fatty acids and produces undesirable cross-linkages in proteins, particularly in meat. Eighty million species on earth (about 700,000 of which are animals) thrive on raw food. Only humans apply heat to what they eat. Humans on average as a race, die at or below half their potential life span from chronic illness that is largely diet and lifestyle related.