By eatraw on August 5, 2009
Raw Cooking
Raw cooking might sound like an oxymoron, but it’s actually the name for a fantastic, and delicious type of food preparation that helps preserve more of the essential nutrients in foods. It’s an excellent way to combat one of the common complaints about a raw diet: that it gets boring quickly. Cooked food isn’t eaten without preparation and flavoring, so there’s no reason we ought to be eating raw foods the same way. A little bit of artistry allows us to eat raw without feeling like we have to give up enjoying our meals.
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By eatraw on August 5, 2009
Raw Calories – Getting The Nutrition You Need Without Heating Or Processing
A fully or partially raw diet has many health benefits – you have only to do a search on the Internet or check your local library to hear about some of them. However, unless you eat correctly, you won’t be able to experience all the good things that raw food has to offer. Remember – just because it’s raw doesn’t mean it’s nutritionally balanced. We’ve got to pay attention to what we’re eating if we’re going to get the right caloric intake. No one should be hungry all the time.
While there are a few omnivorous raw eaters, the majority of people consuming raw food are vegan, and the majority of foods that offer significant benefits are light on calories. Some foods are not easily digestible by humans in their natural state, either, or they contain toxins we have trouble dealing with. Raw potatoes are not a good idea for most of us – we just can’t get the benefits they offer. That means that, unless you want to spend every moment of every day grazing, you’ll need to know which foods are the most nutritionally dense.
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By eatraw on August 5, 2009
Raw Dog Food
You may have heard about people who are feeding their dogs a raw meat based diet, rather than commercial pet foods. Some people say that raw dog food can cure a number of digestive problems and allergies, help pets live longer, and allow them to enjoy their food more, as well as preventing problem conditions in the long run. With claims like that, it can be easy to wonder if this is really true, and if we can sustainably feed our pets raw food.
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By eatraw on August 5, 2009
What Everybody Should Know About Raw Cat Food
Feeding your pets a diet based primarily on raw meat has been getting a lot more popular. After all, in the wild, cats are carnivores. Yet, we feed them food made mostly of rice and corn. This seems a little strange, and it might explain some allergies, behavior problems, and other issues cat owners are faced with. However, raw diets have also been criticized for not providing enough nutrition. That can make things fairly confusion for the pet owner who wants the best for his or her cat. Wondering if raw cat food is a viable option for you and your pet? Let’s take a look at some things you should know before feeding raw.
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By eatraw on August 5, 2009
Raw Pet Food
You may not be aware of the ingredients used in the average commercial pet food. Many people picture their dogs and cats healthy, wholesome foods, but the reality is a lot different. Most ingredients used in pet foods are not considered palatable by humans, and are actually waste products from producing human food. Our pets eat the things that human beings throw away, from defleshed and defatted carcasses to grains that have already been pressed for oil and had much of their starch removed. A lot of commercial kibble simply isn’t good for your pet.
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By eatraw on August 4, 2009
Health Benefits of Juice Fasting
Juice Fasting for Weight Loss, for Detox and a Lot More
Do you know that one of the most powerful health therapies used throughout the world is juice fasting?But what is juice fasting and what makes it a powerful therapy?
We know that there are several kinds of fasting that different individuals practice in whatever way that suits to their needs, reasons, and preference. It may vary from those for religious reasons that fast until sundown to those who take nothing but water for long periods. If the fasting is for health purposes, it makes sense to support your body’s needs while you reduce or remove some necessary elements from your diet. And the basic elements that you need to take out from your diet are cooked food and animal products. This includes the denatured packaged products such as white flour, refined sugar, and all animal products such as red meat, poultry, fish and eggs. The best single method to accomplish these ends is juice fasting.
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By eatraw on August 4, 2009
Health Benefits of Goji Berries
Go Get a Bowl of Goji Berries
Goji Berries have been used in traditional Asian medicine for over 5,000 years. You can find mentions of this extraordinary berry in Chinese medical texts as much as 5,000 years old. Goji Berries come from a pristine, certified organic region in the Ningxia province of China. This is the same amazing place where they hold a festival each year to celebrate the Goji Berry and its amazing health benefits.
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By eatraw on August 4, 2009
Maca Root: Health Benefits & Attributes
Maca Root is a vegetable root or tuber, distantly related to the Mexican Wild Yam. The plant grows close to earth and produces a tuber approximately the size of an egg. The Maca root grows wild in the Peruvian Andes just below the glacial icecap. It only grows in areas of extreme weather conditions such as freezing, high winds, and intensive sunlight. The rich soil located at these high plateaus of Peru where it is very cold and oxygen poor may account for the high levels of trace minerals found in Maca Root. Interestingly, no other food plant exists in the world that will grow at so high an altitude and survive. Native shepherds learned quickly that at higher elevations where the Maca grew naturally, their grazing herds became healthier, their stamina increased, and they became much more sexually active.
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By eatraw on August 4, 2009
Health Benefits of Raw Cacao
Raw Chocolate
Not just “Food for the Gods”
For many of us, the lure of chocolate can be overwhelming. But why is that so?
Cacao contains certain chemicals and sensory properties that make the product very appealing. The sugar in chocolate releases serotonin (a brain chemical related to a positive sense of well-being). In spite of its physical properties, chocolate is not a physically addictive food. However, some people may find themselves psychologically addicted to chocolate. However, this may not be true for raw cacao.
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By eatraw on August 4, 2009
Health Benefits of Spinach
Popeye popularized spinach, but it’s too bad he ate it out of a can!
It has been known that spinach, with its dark green leaves, are an extremely healthy food. Popularized by the cartoon character, Popeye, spinach is known to have considerable positive health effects. We know that Popeye made himself super strong by eating spinach, but you may be surprised to learn that he may also have been protecting himself against osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer, arthritis, and other diseases at the same time.
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