raw foods: I was told eating raw foods are good for you, does this mean not cooked? Like salad, fresh veggies, fresh fruit, nuts, any other examples?|||yes, not cooked. You can eat anything raw. Potatoes, beets ( they're good), nuts, seeds, lentils, chickpeas, fava beans, vegetables of all kinds, peas, corn, zucchini, carrots, cauliflour, herbs, you name it. I eat raw. I love the diet- it has changed my body in ways I didn't think possible. Much more energy, I never feel bloated despite eating a ton and my body feels very clear and clean inside- no bloating, no aching constipation or grogginess when I wake up. I would never have known I'd feel this good. I eat a lot of pulses- legumes, like chikcpeas, lentils, fava beans, lima beans , pinto beans. I soak them for day, sometimes a week, you keep refreshing the water, and they turn soft, smooth and creamy tasting, and they plump up a lot. IN the end it's like eating peanuts, only softer. To a bowl of soaked lima beans, I add peanuts, chopped tomato, corn, green peas, herbs, diced onion, some curry paste, cucumber and salt and pepper and that's a really good salad. There's a womman on youtube who makes AMAXINg raw food, here is a fantastic creamy chocolate cake, you woldn't belive it. THe thing with raw foods is this: any time you cook or heat food0 the nutrition plummets. The cellulose walls of fruit and veg disintegrates and the texture becomes soggy and bland- and this also releases gases from foods like cauliflour, broccoli and cabbage. With raw- this doesn't happen, You body sucks all the water and vitamins out of the veg, and digests it easily, because it is in its natural state- the body has to work much harder to digest waterlogged rotting vegetation, than raw fresh foods which still have their cellulose intact and with the gas compunds still in one piece. You get the vital living structures of food when you eat raw, and the food itself helps your body to digest it quickly and strip all the nutrients in all the food- instead of the soggy caved in slop that a cooked vegetable can be- in that case, all you're left with is waterlogged fibre plus few minerals and vitamins overloaded with gases, and your body feels the weight of that. HEre is the raw chocolate pie, it looks amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmoW7a9IB鈥?/a> I would recommend this diet to EVERY ONE, see how you feel after a week. You can eat gooey delicious comfort food raw too, it's not just crunchy cold carrots ( I dislike carrots)|||Oh yes - people who eat raw foods also eat raw meat and stuff. They'll eat raw liver - which is pretty sickening to think about. But I've heard it isn't bad. Obviously raw vegitables - nuts - stuff like that - probably raw eggs. Eggs are the best proteins you can get - so consider them first. Figure out a way to eat them raw - like you drink them raw in "egg-nog". Anyway - people who eat raw foods say it's a minor miracle what it does - but maybe it's just because they live through eating stuff that nobody else would eat.|||Yes, raw means uncooked. Sprouted grains and beans are the only other ones I can really think of. Fresh juices and dehydrated foods are also examples, but those are just different forms of ones already listed.|||yes thats what it means raw vegetable like tomatoes lettuce bell pepper nuts onions tender green beans mushroom anything in salads....uncooked is raw food...it can also be cereal|||Raw fruits and vegetables, uncooked, just straight up the way it is.|||Raw means uncooked, so any fruit and veggie that is not cooked|||Raw just means uncooked. You get the full nutrients that way.|||http://living-foods.com/