No, it is not.
As long as you eat the main foods that the human body has evolved anatomically and physiologically to thrive (fruits and vegetables) in significant amounts (90-95% of your diet), another 5-10% of what you eat does will not matter much.
To put into perspective, let’s say you eat a diet of most sweet fruits, green moderate amounts of fat and shows limited on a daily basis. However, once a month, you will eat in your favorite restaurant.
This one meal once a month will not have much effect on your health. Of course, you may feel dizzy the next day – or even a few bites into the flour – but your overall health will not suffer much.
That’s what you do on a regular basis, and not what you do from time to time.
Instead, if you eat meals and often a big meal of fruit once a month, you will not experience the rewards of healthy meals, because it will be overshadowed by your regular habits.
In fact, you probably experience negative after eating the fruit (ie, bloating, gas, etc.) because of the condition of your body, your frequent consumption of cooked food. And the magnitude of these consequences will of course depend on what you actually ate food (fast food is more likely to generate a response more severe than a home cooked meal vegan).
So. . . Cooked foods are ok?
As I’m sure you know now, I recommend a 100% raw food diet as optimal for humans. While consumption of cooked food is often not necessarily going to harm you as much health-wise, it certainly does not help either.
Cooked food provides absolutely nothing in the way of nutrition that can be obtained from raw fruits, leafy green vegetables tender, nuts and seeds. In fact, it provides much less because so much has been damaged during the firing process.
Even “healthy” low-fat meals cooked vegan vegetables steamed with rice can not be measured by producing first because damages cook all food consumed to some extent.
Do What Makes You Happy
Do not think just because you think it is optimal or because all the raw food fanatics are telling you on YouTube. Do it because it gives you good results and ultimately makes life more enjoyable.
Personally, a 100% raw diet works great for me. I eat delicious food as much as I want when I want, while maintaining my position as a young girl. If I could do with cooked food, you better believe I’d be loading on the cookies and cupcakes.
But it’s just me.
If you go 100% raw makes you happy, fine. If you go 50% raw makes you happy, it’s wonderful. If you go to 1% gross (Thanks to this piece of lettuce on your lean BLT) makes you happy, great!
Just be happy, right? : D
As long as you eat the main foods that the human body has evolved anatomically and physiologically to thrive (fruits and vegetables) in significant amounts (90-95% of your diet), another 5-10% of what you eat does will not matter much.
To put into perspective, let’s say you eat a diet of most sweet fruits, green moderate amounts of fat and shows limited on a daily basis. However, once a month, you will eat in your favorite restaurant.
This one meal once a month will not have much effect on your health. Of course, you may feel dizzy the next day – or even a few bites into the flour – but your overall health will not suffer much.
That’s what you do on a regular basis, and not what you do from time to time.
Instead, if you eat meals and often a big meal of fruit once a month, you will not experience the rewards of healthy meals, because it will be overshadowed by your regular habits.
In fact, you probably experience negative after eating the fruit (ie, bloating, gas, etc.) because of the condition of your body, your frequent consumption of cooked food. And the magnitude of these consequences will of course depend on what you actually ate food (fast food is more likely to generate a response more severe than a home cooked meal vegan).
So. . . Cooked foods are ok?
As I’m sure you know now, I recommend a 100% raw food diet as optimal for humans. While consumption of cooked food is often not necessarily going to harm you as much health-wise, it certainly does not help either.
Cooked food provides absolutely nothing in the way of nutrition that can be obtained from raw fruits, leafy green vegetables tender, nuts and seeds. In fact, it provides much less because so much has been damaged during the firing process.
Even “healthy” low-fat meals cooked vegan vegetables steamed with rice can not be measured by producing first because damages cook all food consumed to some extent.
Do What Makes You Happy
Do not think just because you think it is optimal or because all the raw food fanatics are telling you on YouTube. Do it because it gives you good results and ultimately makes life more enjoyable.
Personally, a 100% raw diet works great for me. I eat delicious food as much as I want when I want, while maintaining my position as a young girl. If I could do with cooked food, you better believe I’d be loading on the cookies and cupcakes.
But it’s just me.
If you go 100% raw makes you happy, fine. If you go 50% raw makes you happy, it’s wonderful. If you go to 1% gross (Thanks to this piece of lettuce on your lean BLT) makes you happy, great!
Just be happy, right? : D
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