Since cooking takes many valuable nutrients and vitamins out of food, the raw food diet consumption is the way of feeding your body with what it requires. For example, a raw carrot greatly gives more nutrition than a cooked carrot.

Furthermore, cooking changes the chemistry of foods that often cause difficult digestion.

Why do we have so many digestive problems in this country nowadays?  This answer is that we are taking foods into our bodies in a form that we are unable to absorb. To eliminate constipation of the bowels, cells and circulatory system, we should consume high fiber and high water foods. It benefits our clarity of obstruction as well as blood flow delivering nutrients and oxygen to living cells in the body. Moreover, enhanced blood flow carries away their toxic metabolites.  

Obesity is generally found in these days.

Obesity is endemic in this country. The diet industry is more profitable than the oil companies. Why? Because the way we eat and prepare our food practically guarantees that we’ll overeat. Psychologists tell us that we overeat because our souls are hungry. But in reality, our bodies are hungry, even though we may feel full. When you start giving your body the nutrients it craves, overeating will cease.

Eating raw foods is a boost to your metabolism as well. It takes a little more energy to digest raw foods, but it’s a healthy process. Rather than spending energy to rid itself of toxins produced by cooking food, the body uses its energy to feed every cell, sending vitamins, fluids, enzymes and oxygen to make your body the efficient machine it was intended to be.

You’ll naturally stop overeating, because your body and brain will no longer be starving for the nutrients they need. A starving brain will trigger the thoughts that make you overeat. The brain and the rest of your body don’t need quantity; they need quality.