Ever Tried a Raw Food Diet?

A raw food diet never appealed to me. Like you, I enjoy a hot meal! I try to stay away from processed foods and cook most everything myself. I think if we can avoid chemicals and preservatives and eat a balanced diet we'll be just as healthy as those on a raw food diet. Lots of diets have their good points. I tend to pick those up and combine them with other bits of wisdom to find the best way to eat that suits me. Unfortunately, as you point out, many of these diets insist we eat very expensive foods and that's just not feasible these days!

It sounds interesting though I doubt I will ever do it. I think personally you would be better off buying a juicer and making some juice drinks. I used to have the juice-man juicer, until the evil ex took it away. Now its broken. But I am thinking about getting another one. Although being diabetic I cannot really eat or drink fruit. Except cantaloupe. I know you can juice just about anything with it like Broccoli, tomatoes, you name it. I once juiced carrots and believe me, they were awesome. So that might be the better way to go.

It hold no appeal for me either. I do love veggies but like them warmed. I do like some fruit but not enough to eat it everyday...and the cost, you are right....right now the seasonal veggies and fruits are past and the prices have went up. It would cost too much!

In theory a raw food diet is great. In practice I have yet to see a raw food version of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and cannot see myself convertring any time soon. Thats said I did discover a lovely recipe for a date and avocado spread on a raw food site when I was working hard to lose weight. 1 small avocado Handful of dates A few pecans or almonds Whizz together in a blender. Spread on oat cakes. Eat. Yummy.

I tend to eat lots of salads, fruit and raw veggies. I don't think I would like raw all the time as as you say how do you keep warm when its cold! There is nothing nicer than a baked spud ot warm your tummy up when its cold

All I know is that if I eat only fruits and vegetables all the time I will get the diarrhea. :P

How can a raw food diet be healthy if it takes so much to meet nutritional needs that one has to have purees and juices? That's not natural and I thought the purpose of eating raw food was to have an extremely natural diet (as in way back in time). I eat raw fruits and vegetables, nuts and roots, but I do like a good hamburger or piece of chicken (cooked!) on a more or less regular basis. I don't think I could handle a raw food diet. I can't even eat raw oysters!

Raw food is fine but we have become so accustomed to having food cooked that it seems the logical way to eat it now. As you say it is fine if you are having salad, fruit etcetera, but this type of intake is usually only a fraction of our normal consumption. There would be a vast amount of foods that could not be eaten this way because many of the meats etcetera require cooking in order to ensure that we eliminate bacteria. Even if we made a concerted mental effort to become used to eating all the food raw and adjust to the taste, we would have a far smaller choice available. This type of diet would certainly work for me because I would end up eating very little.

In the hot summer I could possibly handle a mostly raw diet but not in the colder months. In spite of what many people say, however, there are foods that are more nutritious cooked. You can absorb nutrients from Spinach better if it is cooked, especially with a little oil. I agree that all the fiber is excellent for us and that is something I need more of all of the time.

I am afraid the raw food diet doesn't agree with us.Grant that some goodness is boiled out of the vegetable and the like, but eating hot food has been our acquired character,no way should we eat raw food like primitive man now.In addition, how do we solve the problem of disinfecting the raw food?

I have never been on a raw food diet but I try to eat more raw food and unprocessed food. The key is eating foods with only one ingredient and to prepare it with all the spices and herbs instead of the premade/prepackaged foods found in the store. If you cannot pronounce or cannot recognize the ingredients on the package it is processed and probably full of sodium also. As far as the raw food, it is better to get a juicer and make your own juice using the raw food. One juice I make is with carrot, orange and cabbage. Adding fruit to the vegetable when you make your juice will make it taste way better and will feel more natural to you. It's better for kids also because they will not know it's vegetables.

Whew, for a moment there, I thought you were eating raw meats! xD Well, anyway, I guess that it's a good idea to eat unprocessed foods, because it's how nature intended us to be. Well, evolution came and look at what it's doing to us... one third of America's population is obese, haha.

Yes, I have and I've studied a lot about the topic as well. Since I wanted to go raw, I also went vegan. I was vegan for about seven months, added egg whites back into the diet, and still eat a lot of raw foods. The living enzymes in the foods themselves will help to fight off diseases as well as cancer causing agents. I still plan on becoming completely raw within the next year. I do enjoy warmer food, but you can still bake food in the oven at or below 170 degrees. You can also purchase food dehydrators that will heat the food a little. I love spinach and apple smoothies

Hi there! I don't think I can ever try a raw food diet! I would rather eat low fat, high in fiber, less salty food and exercise. I can't see myself eating raw foods. Ok, I eat sashimi and sushi, but just occasionally, and I don't think I can eat it everyday! But I guess for some people raw food diet would work for them and won't mind eating raw foods just to loose weight and be healthy. But for me I'll stick to what I have ever since. :)

Hello, I am a diabetic and have read if I were to go on a plant based mostly raw food diet the symptoms of diabetes would virtually dissapear. I have tried a vegan diet that contained a lot of raw foods. Frankly I don't know how people can sustain a life style like that. For one, you are always hungry and therefore in a bad mood, Another reason why this raw food diet can be dangerous is because so many more bacteria live in your gut, as they are not killed by cooking. So an overgrowth of bacteria and inflammation can occur. If you look at the teeth structure of people you will note that we are omnivourous, designed to eat plants and animals. Also people are the only beings that have learned how to use fire. I am convinced that these two factors contributed to the development of healthy human populations. I agree with you that on a cold winter's day when you come in from physical labour or excercise a hot bowl of soup does wonders. I doubt if a smoothie made with kale and fruits would have the same effect, although of course smoothies are also healthy but maybe better taken at breakfast.

Does curry go into the raw food diet? Because if not, then no, I never tried that diet.

This kind of diet or food.. Isnt for me. But I saw on cnn health that its working for many around the world.

i still eat the same food that i usually eat. but honestly i also want to go on a raw food diet. i believe it is good for our body as compared to processed and cooked food. the enzymes present in raw fruits and vegetables as well as its fresh juices are the ones needed by our body to strengthen our immune system and perhaps to maintain the natural alkaline state of our body. unfortunately, we are bombarded with processed, cooked, and mostly preserved foods. these could actually toxify our organs and even weaken our immune system. but its really hard to maintain natural raw food diet in an environment that caters the opposite. how i wish i could it would be possible to sustain a raw food diet.

Sounds blandly apetizing. No I haven't tried it, but i have no idea if I can sustain it because of difficulties looking for the menu plan or diet plan. Yes expensive too. So I will just to convince myself (since it is expensive) that I like hot cooked food. It's accessible, it is cheaper and with the type of work I have I don't think I can sustain that. I need strenght and energy to work with the running children. Sometimes when I diet I have a tendency to mental block. I dont know why maybe my body system longs for real food.

Unless you're a seal, I see no point to a raw food diet. You can get sick from eating too much raw food. Cooking food helps kill bacteria and other harmful things that are in food.