A Little Bit About Raw Food

Deciding to make a positive change in your health and wellbeing can be difficult in the fast-food, convenience store filled world that we live in, but it can also be one of the most life-changing, rewarding decisions you will ever make. Choose to look at eating raw not as a diet, but as a lifestyle. The more often and longer you eat raw and living food, the more that you will find your life has been transformed in ways you never imagined possible.

Raw food and living food includes whole, unprocessed, and unheated foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, raw nuts and seeds, cold-pressed oils, and often sprouted seeds and grains. Generally, foods are not heated above 105 to 115 degrees. Past this point, enzymes necessary for the proper digestion of the food are destoyed and the nutritional profile of the food is compromised.

When you eat raw foods, you eat food that:

Is in its most delicious, healthy, and natural state!
Contains no preservatives
Contains no artificial flavoring, coloring, or dyes
Contains no processed ingredients, refined sugar, or table salt
Is gluten, dairy, and meat free

Raw foodists are not alone in their desire to eat healthy, fresh, unprocessed food. Raw food guru and author, David Wolfe, estimates that "at least 1 million people in the USA embrace some aspect of the raw-food diet, based upon traffic at various Web sites and the 100,000-plus copies of his book, The Sunfood Diet Success System, that have been sold since 1999," (1).

1. "Healthful, Raw-food Trend is Picking Up Steam", Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY

For more information about raw food and the raw food lifestyle, visit:
Living Bliss Raw and Living Whole Foods

Sunfood Nutrition