I know a lot of older people that are switching over to healthier eating of raw food instead of cooked because of health issues or lessening the chances of heart disease and diabetes. When I say raw I mean vegetables, fruit, and nuts of course. More and more people are cutting meat out of their diet and doing less cooking, I’m not sure I can totally do that at this point though because I still like it and no matter how you cook vegetable burgers they just don’t taste like meat.

Everyone knows that when you cook food it can destroy the protein, vitamins, and fat and the natural enzymes that help you digest them will break down. We know that raw food has a higher nutritional value and you’ll fill up quicker because of the fiber and extra water so you eat less and lose weight. Raw food also has more flavor than cooked food so you need less salt and spices that can irritate your stomach and other parts of the digestive system.

For those people that are into saving energy and money and recycling just think this raw food diet would be very low maintenance I don’t like to cook anyhow, but Bill does. You wont spend hours slaving over a hot stove, you wont have messy dishes and pots and pans to scour or run your dishwasher very often and it’s environmentally friendly because you can put the leftovers in the compost bin. Bill certainly wouldn’t know what to do with himself then.

We would also use less energy resources and help the environment because it would encourage more organic farming and less transporting so that would mean less carbon dioxide emissions and with more orchards planted that would release more oxygen and help minimize the Greenhouse Effect. It would mean a lot less garbage to dispose of and less cans and other recyclables to worry about.

It would mean healthier bodies with less digestive disorders and certainly less free radicals that occur from cooking and doesn’t that mean less risk of cancer? I’m actually trying to talk myself into this because I know I’d feel better and lessen the risk of a stroke or heart attack. I certainly wouldn’t want that because I don’t want to be a burden on Bill, but then again it would at least give him something to occupy his time with when he retires.