Raw food diet is becoming increasingly popular in the 21st century.

More and more people prefer to eat raw food, giving up its heat treatment, which includes frying, cooking, smoking, baking, steaming and other types of food processing. One of the most common types of food that is consumed raw foodists include raw fruits and vegetables.

All major raw food diet fruit variations account for 50% of the menu, and in the case of fruit fruitarianism use up to 75% of the diet. However, most raw foodists do not consume fresh fruits and vegetables (which are expensive), and dried vegetables and fruits (dried fruits), and some vegetable oils cold pressed. Eat some raw foodists raw cereals, so, in particular, is very popular raw buckwheat. Its seeds are germinated in water for one day, and then eaten.

Proponents of the raw food diet are of the opinion that eating raw is necessary, first of all, because the man originally ate in nature like this, and that in nature there is cooked or fried foods. By the way, gradually getting used to the raw food and enjoying all its advantages, you can be the order of sushi Kaluga. Sushi on this cuisine is quite inexpensive, they are of excellent quality, and, most importantly, many of the ingredients in them are placed raw or half-baked.

However, on the other hand, in science, there are no data on the benefits of a raw food diet, and especially about whether it is possible to take raw food only during such periods of life, the growth of the body, pregnancy, lactation, and so on ...

On the other hand, medicine has the opposite data: since a 1999 study found that one-third of study participants over 45 years old suffer amenorrhea. Other scientific research has shown that raw foodists are more prone to destruction of tooth enamel than the representatives of the traditional forms of power. One Finnish study found that representatives of this form of power found low levels of omega-3 material, which protects the human body from cancer.

Raw food can be divided into five major subgroups based on what feed raw foodists: omnivorous raw food (the use of all the products in the crude form); vegetarian raw food (except meat and fish, but the use of raw eggs and milk); vegan raw food (eating only raw plant foods); fruitarianism (food only fresh fruits and berries) and carnivorous raw food diet (eating raw meat, eggs and fish, while fruit and vegetables are almost not used).