How and Why Raw Food is Good for You

If you’re familiar with the Raw Food Lifestyle, you probably know just how healing and invigorating raw and living foods are for your mind, body, and soul. If you’re just tuning in, keep reading!

When you cook food, you lose at least 30% of the nutrients and 100% of the enzymes in that food. Nutrients are the building blocks of cells in our bodies and enzymes aid digestion and other bodily functions. Further, cooking food chemically changes the molecular structure of raw plants which may convert to toxins, carcinogens, mutagens and free-radicals associated with diseases like diabetes, arthritis, heart disease and cancer.  You could almost call them ‘healing food’

Having a good balance of raw foods in your diet help reduce these toxic risks by flooding your body with the most nutritious food possible, giving your body the ability to heal and rejuvenate at a deep cellular level.

One of the most important aspects of raw food is enzymes. Enzymes are the building blocks of life! Our bodies’ enzymes are responsible for every single action in our body: from chewing and digesting our food, to waking up in the morning and brushing our teeth. Your body produces some of it’s own enzymes, but you also need help from your food.

If you don’t have enough enzymes, your body won’t have the energy to develop new cells, fight off infections, or digest your food. By feeding your body raw foods, your body is literally being fed energy! When your body has help from foods’ enzymes, you’ll have more energy than ever imagined! This extra energy can be used to heal your body and help create the vibrant life you’ve always wanted.

Raw foods also help your body reach an alkalized state—where healing, weight loss, and detoxification occur.

There are two types of foods: acidic and alkalizing foods. Acidity encourages decomposition, decay, disease and energy loss. Alkaline foods support detoxification and balance in the body. Our natural body creates both acidity and alkalinity, but the Standard America Diet overloads our system with too much acidity. Foods like sugar, meat, alcohol, cheese, and chocolate are very acidic and damaging during the cleansing and healing process.

Green leafy vegetables, growing sprouts, and fresh fruits are all alkalizing and cleansing—which is what a Raw Food Diet is based on!

Eat Clean: At the Raw Food Institute we flood our bodies with all of these alkalizing, cleansing foods in order to reach optimal health and rid ourselves of build up toxins.

With the extreme benefits from enzymes and the detoxification of alkalizing foods, raw food allows for:

• Increased energy
• Better digestion
• Weight loss
• Reduced risk of heart disease
• Reduced risk of diabetes and cancer
• A great sense of wellbeing
• Improved skin appearance
• A connection to your food and surroundings
• A highly ethical and sustainable diet

But the Raw Food institute takes raw food one step further. We focus our energies on LIVING foods such as sprouts and fermented foods that are in their growth stage—when the plant is producing the most nutrients!

We also use medicinal and healing foods like fresh wheatgrass, medicinal mushrooms, and superfoods to make healing and revitalizing as powerful as possible.

When healing your body, you need the most clean, nutritious, and powerful foods. Raw Food provides the life force you need to create your most healthy self! Raw foods have the power to help aid serious disease, rebuild your body, and create vibrancy in your life!

If you want to learn more about raw and living foods and The Raw Food Institute Program please click here.

To get inspired with our delicious raw recipes visit this link.