One of the varieties of vegetarianismis a raw food diet - food only raw plant foods. Adherents of the raw food diet claim that plants can be consumed only in their natural form. Hence another name for this area - Naturism naturist According to the ideas, raw power plants is extremely useful, because it is in the living fruits and leaves contain living energy of the sun, producing plants during photosynthesis. By and large, the benefits of plant food in its raw form has long been known. Back in the early 20 th century physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner argued that the value of products is determined by their accumulated solar energy. By the end of the twentieth century, the researchers concluded that plants really are able to accumulate solar energy in DNA and emit a special microwave that really healing way affect the body of those who eat the plants in their natural form.
One of the most famous raw foodists in the world -American doctor Herbert Shelton, author of numerous studies on nutrition and starvation. It is thanks to him that the idea of a raw food diet found an echo in the huge number of fans of a healthy lifestyle. Following Shelton, followers of a raw food diet claim that three meals a day - one of the most serious errors of mankind.
The habit of eating three times a day, there was amost recently with the growth of wealth and the development of civilization. But until quite recently by historical standards, the right way of life except for two meals a day. In ancient times the Greeks and Romans generally eat once a day. Shelton disagrees with the famous statement that the breakfast - the main meal of the day. In his opinion there are very harmful in the absence of hunger, the more high-calorie food. In the morning, as a rule, a person is not tired and needs a food exists. Therefore, raw foodists are advised to skip the morning meal, or, in extreme cases, do fruit or fresh juice. Lunch, too, should be light, according to the principles of naturism.
The most dense meal - a dinner afterworking day. But there are special recommendations: dinner must be a few hours before bedtime, after a brief rest. If there is too much and too often, the body is forced to spend a life force, early aging and wear.
