Raw Vegan Pyramid

So....I've come to realize that there are a lot of people who do not know what it means to eat raw food and what the term "raw" really stands for, so I thought I should clear a few things up.

For my meat loving friends out there, I'm sorry to say in the raw food world ....there is no love!

- Raw food is made up of organically grown fruits, vegetables, nuts & seeds only. (Basically every form of food that you can find naturally, which has not been processed and its form has not been manipulated by man.)

- Meat and dairy are not raw foods

- Raw foods are not heated above 112 degrees,

therefore the enzymes are not destroyed in the cooking process

- Raw foods retain an enormously higher nutrient value than cooked foods (Enzymes aid in digestion and absorption of food, when food is cooked it cause toxicity in the body which can lead to illness)

- Alkaline PH is high in raw foods, which is ideal for optimal health, a body which is over acidic usually suffers from acute or chronic diseases

- Raw foods = food that is "alive" (in its purest form)

- Raw food is sometimes listed as a "diet" but it is definitely a life style (I will discuss this much further in my next post because it agitates me..)