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Weekly Wellness Tips – Raw Foods

05/11/2022

By Alison Wilder

The idea of a raw food diet is the consumption of unprocessed, whole plant-based, ideally organic foods.

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The Raw Food Diet generally includes items such as:

• Beans, seeds, grains, legumes, and nuts
• Sun-dried and fresh fruits
• Raw vegetables
• Freshly prepared fruit and vegetable juices
• Purified water
• Seaweed

With a raw food diet, a minimum of 75% of a person’s intake should consist of uncooked food. Plant-based diets either significantly reduce or completely eliminate people’s genetic propensity to developing chronic diseases, such as Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

Here are some of the pros and cons of a raw food diet: