So why the raw food diet? One of the best explanations I have heard for why we should eat raw, living foods is because they are LIVING! They are actually still alive, their nutrients and enzymes are 100% intact.  If you take fruit for example and put it in your fruit bowl and ignore it for a few days, it will continue to ripen until it spoils.  If you take that same fruit and stew it with some sugar, will it continue to ripen?  Of course not!  But why? Because it is dead. Cooking food effectively kills it. There are plenty of arguments that cooking expresses certain nutrients that would not otherwise be available and that is true.  But for every one nutrient that is expressed through cooking, 10 000 are destroyed!  I prefer to lose one rather than 10 000, wouldn’t you?  Cooking is one of the most nutritionally damaging things we can do to food, and for what? Without artificially spicing and salting it to high heaven, it’s pretty bland. Continue reading →