Eating raw is good for the planet because:

“Assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world s tropical rain forests.” NY Times, 2008

• Raw foodists choose food that is not processed, sprayed with herbicides, pesticides and that is not genetically modified. Today, even a polar bear baby is born with over 200 chemicals in his blood. If you eat raw you contribute to a cleaner world.

• Most raw foodists are vegan/vegetarian. Marianne Thieme, member of the Dutch parliament since 2996, estimated in 2010 that eating a vegetarian diet will reduce the world s CO2 emission by 58%.

• You need hundreds of pounds of soy, corn and other grains, to feed the animas until they are ready to be killed. Food necessary to feed the animals until they can be slaughtered. For cows it is estimated that you need 60 pounds of animal feed to get 1 pound of beef.

• People in Africa die from hunger. Rain forests are cut to make place for soy and corn fields to feed the animals. Soy and corn is heavily sprayed with tremendous amounts of chemicals and genetically modified. These chemicals pollute the earth and what is eaten by the animals is stored their fat.

• If everyone in the world would stop eating meat, there would be enough grain available to feed the world population (at least) 7 times! If every person in the world would stop eating meat just one day a week, i.e. every Mondayk they would save grains equivalent to feed our world population of 7 billion, ONE time. Just imagine.

  If meat would be of the past. Pollution would decrease tremendously, rain forest would be saved, Assembly-line meat factories would be of the past. Aggressive behavior would disappear largely, as well as obesity and many illnesses. The Dutch government has been talking about a tax on meat. I’m all in for it. World wide a tax on meat with a rate of 1000%!

What are the (health) benefits of eating a raw food diet?

The raw food diet benefits are endless. The major benefits are weight loss and better overall health.

When your diet consist of more than 75% raw foods, here are just some of the improvements likely to happen to you.

• More energy
• Up to 3 hours less sleep
• Weight loss
• More beautiful skin
• Clarity of mind and better memory
• Improved immune system
• Improved fertility
• Prevent or even reverse diabetes

Why eat raw food?

“Why is the benefit of eating food raw?” is another question I’m asked a lot. The most important reasons are to me that heating your food above 115 degrees F (45 Celsius):

• Kills enzymes. Enzymes help you digest your food. Your body can create enzymes but that process takes a lot of energy. This process makes you feel tired and heavy after a cooked food meal. Further, the enzymes your body makes are not as efficient and effective as the ones that were destroyed in your food.Consequently, your food is not be broken down as well and thus harder to digest. This also results in food starts rotting in your intestines, that parasites have more chance to survive

  It is further believed that your body has a limited amount of enzymes that it can produce. If the supply is finished, body organs will function less and less. It will accelerate aging.

• Changes the pH of the food and makes food acidic. We like to eat Read more