Raw Foods: An Alternative Medicine

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Raw food is becoming popular nowadays especially amongst the health connoisseurs who are in their never ending quest for healthy lifestyle and clean living. A friend of mine, who is a vegetarian and a breast cancer survivor told me the benefits of eating raw foods. Raw foods in my own definition are uncooked fruits, vegetables and nuts. This friend of mine who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer five years ago, went into this special diet consisting of raw foods. And luckily, she is still alive up to now. When her doctor told her that she only have less than a year to live, she fought back by taking alternative medicines and jumping into the raw foods diet. Her doctor told her that there is a risk involved in alternative medicine but she replied “I’d rather take that risk than die without trying” and her doctor agreed.

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Basically, her alternative medicine is simply eating raw foods. According to her, when food is cooked over 112 degree centigrade, it loses all of its enzymes. Enzymes are important for every body function. As we grow old, our body’s natural source of enzymes gets depleted and there is a need to replenish this source through the foods that we eat. Definitely, cooked food is not one of them.

Her daily diet includes:

• Three cups of spinach
• Two-three cups of fresh lemon juice
• One-half cup of almond
• One-half cup of  banana
• One-half cup of carrot
• One-half cup of coconut juice

She also includes strawberries, cucumber, celery, turnips, sugar beets in her diet specially when she gets tired of the above ingredients. She also make sure that she drinks at least two tablespoons of extra virgin coconut oil.

I am personally not a believer of alternative medicine, however, looking at my friend, I guess alternative medicine is true after all.