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The diet of raw foodists
The diet is a diet of raw foodists “imported” from America. Let’s see what is included.
The raw foodists exclude from your diet all foods that have been cooked. It is practiced mainly on a diet for health reasons. In fact, according to the principles of raw food diet, cooking would disperse all the vitamins and minerals they are made of food (in other words, consider the raw food as “live”, while the cooked would be “dead “). Furthermore, according to raw foodists cooking of various foods is a “practice” new and therefore not essential to the human organism.
Raw food are consumed in the diet: fresh vegetables, grains (just germinated), herbs and some cheese. Rarely eat eggs. The most rigid rule out the meat and some consume fish.
The main advantages:
- helps clean the intestines
- lose weight
- Helps to hydrate to a greater extent
- There is a time savings (due to not having to cook)
Disadvantages:
- Lack of vitamin B12
- Iron deficiency
You think it is a correct and balanced diet?
Balanced Food and Nutrition
All vitamins have very specific functions on the body and must be contained in the diet to prevent deficiencies. There is no magic food that contains all the vitamins, only the right combination of food groups cover the requirements.
But you do not have a feed that covers all the essential nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals) for life, no vitamin by itself will solve the problem of malnutrition, either growth or the infections.
Vitamins are just as important as protein, minerals, carbohydrates, fats and water. All these nutrients play an important role in the body properly functioning and must be present in the diet to prevent deficiencies, malnutrition and dehydration in the case of water.
Human beings by their nature tend to believe that if something happens in our bodies is the absence of an element, and such is the promotion or marketing of vitamins, which leads to an easy solution, so far as to go to the pharmacy , store or “specialized” in food supplements and vitamin and mineral closest to locate the multivitamin (medicine) that contains the vitamins in our view we need.
Vitamin D to prevent diabetes?
Already known for its beneficial role on bone, vitamin D may also be useful for reducing insulin resistance, and thus possibly prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. At least, that suggests a New Zealand study showing that vitamin D supplementation significantly increases sensitivity to insulin.
Among other properties, vitamin D is prescribed to patients for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, with its essential role in bone mineralization. But it would also play a role in insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar (glucose) in blood. When the weight, blood pressure, cholesterol increases, metabolism is disturbed (the metabolic syndrome) and the cells become gradually as insulin resistant. This can lead to more or less long term, diabetes (elevated too high and prolonged blood sugar, risk of complications).