Raw materials: benefit and harm

Eating only raw foods is called cheese eating. Its adherents, of whom there are not so few in the population at the moment, firmly believe in the exceptional usefulness of such a "diet". However, according to medical experts, in addition to its advantages, raw food has disadvantages.

What is cheese-eating?
Raw food is a system of nutrition based on products which have not been heat-treated, namely, roasting, cooking, baking, etc. It is allowed to eat raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, vegetable oils (but only cold-pressed), cereal grains, dried fruits (without seasoning).

What is the benefit of this type of diet, and when is it better to refuse it?

Raw food is often referred to as a type of vegetarianism, but its main factor is to preserve the nutritional value of products due to the lack of heat treatment.

There is no unequivocal scientific evidence as to whether raw food is suitable for any period of human life.

Grounds for cheese eating
Proponents of cheese-eating believe that there are a number of advantages to this type of food:

The heat treatment of food destroys useful vitamins and trace elements;
heat treatment produces chemical compounds that are not inherent to nature and are dangerous to health (trans isomers, trans fats, dioxin, etc.);
the variety of food and flavour enhancers lead to unwanted overeating;
when mixing different foods, digestion difficulties occur, as well as digestibility of some vitamins;
due to heat treatment and changes in the binding states, it is difficult to digest trace elements and vitamins.
Types of cheese eating
There are several variants of cheese eating, which are quite different from each other, and are united by their refusal to eat food prepared by heat treatment.

What's good about cheese eating?

Varieties of cheese-eating:

Omnivorous - eat any food in raw or dried form (meat, fish, seafood, eggs, milk). However, sometimes milk is excluded;
vegetarian - fish and meat are excluded, but you can eat milk and eggs, dairy products;
vegan, the most common type of cheese eating. All animal products of animal origin are excluded from the diet, only raw vegetable food is allowed;
carnivorous (raw meat-eating) - the least common type of raw food, the essence of which is to eat raw seafood, fish, meat, game, animal fat and eggs. Fruits and vegetables are kept to a minimum in the diet;
fructorianism is the diet of raw berries and fruits. There are no cereals and vegetables that are not fruits (carrots, beetroots, potatoes, radish, cabbage) in the diet.
Raw food: benefit and harm
It is believed that raw food is useful because originally in the human food chain there was no cooked food, which does not exist in nature, as well as meat and milk, so raw food - the most biologically natural.

However, as with any other food system, raw food has its pros and cons.

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