Raw Food Diet Review
A natural hygienist is the one who eats mostly raw food consists mainly of fruits and some vegetables. True life evidences have shown a marked reduction in disease occurrences and increased vitality in people who pursue raw food diet.
How raw food diet affects the mental and emotional health?
If you have been predominantly eating cooked food for a large part of your life, it would come as a surprise to you that most of your bad moods and emotions could well be caused by your food.
Most people who switched over to a raw food diet have mentioned a marked improvement in their emotional states. They feel more positive, vibrant and their capacity to handle stress seems to increase. They feel less tired and more productive which in turn increases their self esteem and sense of well being.
People who eat raw food mostly consisting of fruits, find that they are less susceptible to mood changes. They feel less irritable and livelier.
According to the hindu principles, food can be catergorized as
- Pure food (Sattvic)
- Stimulating food (Rajasic)
- Impure food (tamasic)
Raw food, consisting of fresh fruits and vegetables, are classified a Sattvic food or pure food. The intake of these foods induces a calm and peaceful mind, there is no restlessness or irritability.
Spiced cooked food, non-vegetarian and vegetarian, would be classified as Rajasic food. The intake of these foods causes restlessness, irritability,. Over-excitement and nervous disorders. The mind is not calm and is mostly noisy.
Processed non-vegetarian food like sausages and sweets made from diary products would fall under this category. Intake of these foods results in dullness of senses, a state of stupor, lack of energy, loss of vitality and a lower standard of living.
If your children are constantly restless, you should try changing their diet to mostly raw food and see the difference. Most people tend to take medication without first sorting out their diet.
How raw food diet affects your digestion?
The simplest food to digest is fruits. Actually fruits don't even need to be digested, when chewed properly they are simply passed on to the intestines for assimilation. Fruits are made of glucose units called fructose. The purpose of digestion is to break the food down to allow the intake of glucose in the intestines, since fruits are already units of glucose they are easily passed on without any need for breaking them down.
Fruits take around 20 minutes in the stomach before being passed on to the intestine. Bananas are the only fruit which take 45 minutes to get digested.
Vegetarian raw food gets digested in a couple of hours. Very little effort is required for the digestion. When you eat a salad made of raw vegetables you can except to feel light and energetic after the meal because there is minimal energy wasted on digestion.
Non-vegetarian food requires between 8-12 hours for digestion in most cases. When the food combination is wrong, it might even take 15 hours. The acids produced in our stomach digestive juice is not as strong as the ones produced in the stomach of carnivorous animals like lions and hyenas. The acid produced in a human stomach is very mild.
Raw food reviews by parents
Most parents who started giving their children raw food diet observed a increase in their energy levels and concentration. The kids were found to be less troublesome and they were also well behaved.
It was difficult for most parents to feed a complete raw food diet to their kids, so they kept one meal as consisting of raw fruits mostly breakfast. If the kids were not in a mood to eat fruits they were given steamed veggies, but most were compensated by feeding fruits as snacks. They were given no processed food and cooked food was mostly steamed instead of frying.
The benefits of eating fruits can only be realized through experience, even the worst of non believers tend to agree that they feel like a new person when they follow a raw food diet.