When you begin to eat raw food, you will notice positive changes in how you feel shortly after you begin. This is your body, in a sense, thanking you for giving it the optimal fuel it requires to function properly. If you have low energy, catch colds easily, or feel you have poor health in general, you may want to take a look at what you are eating, and make the switch to raw food.

How Your Body Reacts is a Good Indicator

Some people have a good meter when it comes to knowing what food is harmful to them or not. For example, a slice of a child’s birthday cake from your local grocery store, you know, the one with the bright blue frosting, can make an adult feel like their body is under attack after just one bite. With good reason, it’s filled with body attacking ingredients.

That was an extreme example. Let’s look at something less obvious, like a veggie sandwich on french bread. This type of bread is made with refined flour, preservatives, and sugars, which all works against your body. If you are eating white bread consistently, it can affect your body in a negative way. Quick Tip: Try wrapping your sandwich contents in fresh kale or lettuce for a healthy alternative.

You shouldn’t have to try different foods to see if they affect your body in a negative way or not. You can simply eat raw food, and know you are doing your body a world of good with each bite. In addition to this, eating fresh raw food, as compared to frozen or canned food, will ensure less nutrient loss. Take a look at this interesting comparison between fresh, canned and frozen fruits and vegetables. Your body will surely benefit from a raw food diet, and you will know this is true based on how you feel after each meal, as well as how you feel in general throughout the day.

Why Does Raw Food Have a Positive Impact on Your Body?

Firstly, a raw food diet mainly consists of fresh, unrefined, whole plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. These items are prepared without cooking, and therefore consumed the way they were meant to be, in their raw state. This aids in the preservation of nutrients and other important elements. Without even getting into details, that alone sounds like raw food can make a huge positive impact on your health.

Uncooked Means More Nutrients

Subjecting your food to cooking processes that involve heat, will cook away your meals essential vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. This will strip away a lot of your foods nutritional value. Our food was meant to nourish our bodies to keep us alive and well. Therefore, eating food that has had its nutrients taken away is setting yourself up for a higher risk of becoming unhealthy, unenergized, and having less protection against fighting off diseases.

Consuming raw food will do the opposite for your body. Eating food in its fresh raw state will fill your body with vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients. These elements will build-up your immune system which will lower your risk of disease, and give you more energy. This is when you can feel your body saying, “Thank You”.  Your body will be thankful it doesn’t have to work so hard to process all the unwanted, unhealthy elements you were eating before you made raw food your main diet.

Give Your Body a Gift- Eat Raw Food!

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