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?

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.

Addressing the issue of vitamins, most importantly, discuss the foods that contain them and how we consume in our daily diet. He mistakenly believed to exist miracle foods or harmful food. However, the problem is the excesses or deficiencies in the diet.

A good way to contribute to the mineral body needs to consume daily is a good dish and a fruit salad. A good way may also be taking a daily prepared juice in a blender, preferably on an empty stomach, as absorption of vitamins is best when the stomach and intestines are empty.

We should not peel the fruit as the highest content of minerals are found in the skin. It is advisable to wash well to remove any traces of pesticides. Another good step is to use the water to cook the food to make broths and soups.

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).

Team Pamela von Hurst at Massey University in New Zealand has therefore sought to study the effect of vitamin D supplementation on resistance to insulin. For this, the researchers administered 100 micrograms per day of vitamin D for 6 months to 42 women and a placebo (a pill without active ingredient) to 39 others.
The women in question, originally from Southeast Asia, were aged 23 to 68 years but more importantly, were insulin resistant. None of them followed by a possible treatment for diabetes.
The results show a significant decrease in insulin resitance in women supplemented with a parallel increase in their sensitivity to insulin even. The amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas has, meanwhile, remained unchanged.
This study, which deserves to be confirmed by another larger scale, could open opportunities to prevent or at least delay the onset of type 2 diabetes, which already affects over 150 million people in worldwide, including 3 million in France.