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 | The organic foods sourcebook, Elaine Lipson, McGraw-Hill, 2001This book is clear and easy to read. It explains wy organic food is a healthy choice. It also provides a perspective on how our choices can improve the world. |
 | Fit for life, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, Warner books, 1987 |
 | To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What You Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-Friendly Food; Cindy Burke, Da Capo Press, 2007 |
 | Rawvolution, Matt Amsden, William Morrow, 2006 |
 | A Field Guide to Buying Organic, Luddene Perry, Bantam, 2007 |
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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milkMichael Klaper
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| Friday, 21 November 2008 09:52 | ||||||||||||||
 A diet of raw (living or sun) foods is vegan in nature, but the food has not been exposed to a temperature above 105ºF/40ºc . The advantage of a raw diet is that the nutritional properties and enzymes in food are not destroyed through cooking. Qualities of food remain as they are in nature and as we have evolved to consume them. For example, vitamin C is altered during thermal treatments such as pateurization. Cooking in addition may reduce the potential of foods to combat cancer. However, certain specialists are not in agreement with a full raw diet as certain foods are made more digestable through cooking(1). Besides, others argue that the bio-availability of certain fruits and vegetables is improved through cooking(2). Other specialist recommend that it is optimium for raw food to cohabit with cooked ingredients in an ideal diet. In order to adopt a raw diet, it is necessary to source certain tools such as a dehydrator or a mandolin.  As Matt Amsden, a gourmet raw chef states, eating raw is more than a diet, it's a way of life. Adapt your way of life to eat as much raw food as possible and your body will change for the better. Your quality of life will be improved, you'll have more stamina, more energy, you'll need less sleep and you'll feed physically stronger. You will become another person! Testimonials from Matt Amsden and David Wolfe: Eating Raw gives punch to your life! (1) Khalil NM. Nahrung 2001;45(4):246-50 (2) McEliot AJ et al. Canc Epidemiol Biomark Prev 1999;8 :227-231 (3) HEALTH & FOOD numéro 50, Décembre-Janvier 2002 - Nicolas Guggenbühl Image source: Flickr gpeters - 3462052136 For more insight into this topic, see these articles:
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