Raw Food Diet
I love the idea of a raw food diet. I hate the idea of a raw food diet. I mean, I get the concept; food that hasn’t been cooked is enzymatically alive, and these live enzymes make it so we don’t have to use so much energy to digest the food. Also, all the vitamins, minerals, etc are more prevalent and easy for the body to use (assuming a normal digestive ability).
Actually eating a raw food diet, however, is all kinds of problematic. Food should, really, taste good, and, I am afraid, food tastes better when it has been cooked. I can’t understand how if by nature we run better on raw food, nature created us to desire the stuff cooked. Think “raw potato” versus “baked potato”, and you understand what I mean. Only the very committed raw foodist is hankering for a mouthful of raw potato, and even then I think they are just saying that because they want to believe its true.
My own compromise on this is to include a raw food portion to each meal. Usually it is a salad of some kind, but I have experimented with some raw food main dishes. Some of them are even tolerable. Somewhat.