Raw foods: what is all the hype about? 24
So exactly what is all the hype about raw foods? Is this just some fashionable new age mumbo jumbo that sounds impressive when chatting up your hot yoga teacher or is there something more to it? Most of the general population wonders why anyone in their right mind would want to follow such a regime…it sounds like a life based on restriction and deprivation. Images of people walking around starving half to death munching on raw carrots all day are what jump to mind.
So I’m going to attempt to set the record straight, from my first hand experience with being high raw (eating raw foods about 80% of the time). A raw foods diet consists of eating living foods only. This includes uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains. No food that has been cooked over 112 degrees. Many raw foodists are also vegans meaning they do not consume any animal products whatsoever, but non-vegans can include raw fish, meat and dairy products.
