Some facts about raw food diet
Raw food diet includes the products of animal fiber and phytogenous products. Raw food is the first food of the primitive man. Some northern peoples still feed with raw meat and fish. Raw food is really very necessary to the every day meal. A healthy man should have raw fruits and vegetables the whole year round.
Raw food can be presented as:
- a great number of fruits and vegetables intake;
- only fruit intake (fruit days);
- fruit and vegetable juices intake (liquid diet);
- animal products intake: raw milk and milk products, raw fish, livers, meat and so on.
Raw food diet is recommended to people with:
1. Chronicle bolts, as the cellulose, pectin and other parts of the fruit-vegetable ration rouse the bowels peristalsis.
2. Obesity and diabetes that need low calorie vegetable intake.
3. Gout, hypertension, heart decompensation as a fasting day made of raw apples, apricots, peaches, strawberry, that are rich in potassium and provide diuretic effect.
4. Atherosclerosis as a fasting day made of 2 kilos of apples, oranges, watermelons, peaches and other fruits.
5. Livers and bile passages diseases, gastritis, icterus, cholecystitis and hepatitis.
6. Chronicle lever diseases as fruit and vegetable juices made of strawberry, grape, carrot, oranges, lemon and raspberry.
7. Chronicle dyspepsia and digestive diseases
Grape and banana diet is very popular in France, Italy, Bulgaria and other countries. Due to the high grape sugar and potassium content this diet has strong diuretic effect. When curing with bananas one should eat those 300g in weight 6 times a day as porridge. They should be ripe.
Fruit diet can be applied together with sour milk, rice or manna porridge, potato pure with milk and butter without salt. This combined diet is very like the vegetarian one. Fruit juices are rich in microelements, vitamins, pectin, fruit and grape sugar, fruit acids (lemon, apple, vine and so on).
Raw food diet can be added by some types of animal meal: raw mare or goat milk, raw egg’s yolks, raw livers, veal meat. Nut the products should be taken from healthy animals.
Weak and anemic children that has intensive mental work can eat raw livers with jam or honey as a paste with parsley, black pepper and salt.