Does Eating Raw Extend Your Life Length?

We will go back to the history of mankind and know how they eat their meals. Since early times, mankind has preferred ways of preparing food.

From the time when a conventional method of cooking, using wood and fire as the primary way of cooking meat from animal carcasses, developed into a modernized way of preparing foods to kitchen ovens with the use of gasoline, high tech equipment to grill chicken, pork and fish, ovens for baking, and many more.

The health benefits and nutritional content of each food have been engineered, even without cooking, the beginning of a raw diet plan, to enhance the efficiency it can bring to a person and promote the safest way to preserve the health benefits and nutrients it can bring.

Do you know enough amount of cooking methods?

Does eating raw extend your life length?

The question is, does the method of cooking food preserve the life of an individual? Or should foods be in a raw form to bring out the freshness and nutrients of these foods and their wondrous effect on our bodies?

Some nutrients are destroyed in the cooking process, while others have been highly available even if the food undergoes cooking.

Nature has a way of revealing things that can’t be answered by science in some way. It needs to be proven, and it takes time to look for an answer.

While raw foods have nutrients available in their fresh form, if they undergo the cooking process, some nutrients will increase and some will be destroyed.

How scary can cooking be?

Back when man did not have access to high-tech equipment for cooking foods and ingredients that are naturally fresh and organic, there was no record of diseases other than what we have today.

The mortality is much higher and according to the World Health Organization, as of the year 2017, the 10 leading causes of death (heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, influenza, and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide) remained the same as in 2016, considering 6 out of 10 diseases from this data are diet and lifestyle-related diseases.

Data from the National Vital Statistics, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy for the U.S. population in 2016 declined to 78.6 years in 2017.

In an age where fried foods and processed goodies are sold everywhere, and most families are exposed to foods in fast food chains and restaurants where they pay high to eat their favorite dish, as time goes by, continuous records of morbidity and mortality rates from non-communicable diseases increased because of a modernized diet from foods rich in preservatives and were processed differently than the type of foods served from the early times.

A study conducted by Roni A. Neff, Danielle Edwards, and Julia Wolfson of Public Health Nutrition, Cambridge University Press, entitled; Reducing Meat Consumption in the USA: A Nationally Representative Survey of Attitudes and Behaviors stated that “The USA has the fifth-highest per capita meat consumption in the world.

Meat consumption in the USA exceeds healthy levels by 20% – 60% based on recommendations in the 2015 to 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

According to the study result wherein 1,112 US adults selected from “GfK Knowledge Works” based on a web survey, Two-thirds reported reducing meat consumption in at least over three years, with reductions of red and processed meat most frequently.

The most common reasons for reduction were cost and health; environment and animal welfare lagged. Reported meat reduction was most common among those aged 45-59 years and those with lower incomes quoted.” This study showed insight into reduced meat-eaters and yes, vegan people also exist in numbers.

According to a survey conducted by Harris Poll from “The Vegetarian Resource Group Asks in a 2016 National Poll”, 3.4% or 8 million Americans ate a solely vegetarian diet and 0.4% or 1 million Americans ate a strictly vegan diet.

Even so, Americans aim to lower meat consumption and there are vegetarians. Why does the data still show a high prevalence of mortality from several diseases that do not exist back in the early times and the number is increasing year by year?

Does eating raw extend your life length

How do greens make you feel alive and wonderful?

Does the cooking method destroy our foods’ health wonders and nutritional benefits? Or does it only contribute to another problem that leads to food safety and sanitation issues?

And are vegetables healthier than meat?

Does it prove enough that eating raw foods rich in fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, even pods and beans, will make our lives healthier and longer than eating different kinds of foods that we can see everywhere on social media, television, advertisements, fast food chains, and famous restaurants?

We can look for some answers based on recent studies showing the difference between raw foods’ health effects versus cooked and processed foods.