In the past, raw food has languished amid erroneous connections to E.
coli and salmonella illnesses.
The truth is both E.
coli and salmonella live beneficially as part of a health gut flora.
Given this fact, the idea of eradicating these microbes is ridiculous, especially since they are everywhere.
Are we better off for our extensive use of anti-bacterial soaps and creams? for waging war on "germs"? Not in the least.
In reality, we're worse off, because anti-bacterial products kill everything and cause bacterial imbalances.
They are basically pesticides.
Ironically, they actually contribute to bacterial infections, which arise when an imbalance occurs and there is an overgrowth of a particular bacteria.
Interestingly enough, even the idea that these bacterial overgrowths are the actual problem and not an immune response to a problem has yet to be proved.
But incidences of over-growth aside, many of the cases of so-called E.
coli or salmonella "poisoning" are really anaphylactic reactions to medications.
So, why the war on raw foods if they're so healthy? Without getting sidetracked and going into the details of the economics and politics of food, simply follow the money.
No doctor gets paid if you're well, only if you're sick.
The obvious motivation of the medical community is illness.
Without it, there's no profit.
Think about that next time you're asked to contribute to a disease foundation.
They only get paid to look for a cure, not to find it.
But, I digress...
In short: chemicals plus cooked food is the perfect storm for ill health and premature death.
Chemicals cause the immune system to be suppressed and cause unhealthy changes in whatever food is grown in them.
Cooking further acidifies and destroys any nutrients that might remain.
Acidic food creates an acidic body pH.
Couple that with nutritionally dead and empty calories and you've got the perfect environment for a whole host of ailments from the common cold to cancer.
At last, the benefits of an organic raw food diet are beginning to come to light.
Not only is organically grown raw food nutritionally dense, enzymes, which make raw food bioactive, accompany those nutrients.
Raw food is living food designed to support living organisms.
It's no accident that raw food detox diets and raw food weight loss diets work.
They give the body what it craves.
All it needs is cooperation from your brain and your tongue.
There are great raw food recipes that will trick your tongue into thinking you've not changed your bad eating habits at all.
There are also ways to find the motivation to ignore your taste buds and eat it anyway.
But even that is short-lived.
Since you get new taste buds every two weeks, you only have to put up with protests from you tongue for a short time.
When the new taste buds take over, they'll love the new raw food.
So, what are you waiting for? It's time to get healthy and get raw about eating.