Francisco Bujan: Hi! This is Francisco Bujan from www.vitalcoaching.com. We are talking about staying fit and topic for this video is Why Raw is Good. Well, we are talking about eating nutrition strategies and what I want to tell you here is a little bit more about eating raw food and why it is good for you, why it is good for your body, why it gives you a boost of energy. When you eat food, when you process it, most of the times you lose a very big part of the nutrients which are contained in original product.
For instance, if you take banana a fruit or a vegetable, every time you actually heat it, you will lose maybe 50-60% of the qualities that make this fruit good for you to eat. So the key here is not to heat the vegetable or the fruit. It's not to process it. To take it exactly as it is, to use it in its original state so that the life force content that you have in this product is still preserved when you take it in your body. These bite off is one of the top nutrition strategy that you can start applying straight away in your life if you feel that your diet is unhealthy.
It is simply eating more raw, lots more. Right now in my diet I think I am at probably 80% of raw food. The only reason to why I am not at 100% is because I live with somebody and we share meals and sometimes I am not the one cooking and I don't want to be too fanatical and make it hard on this other person. So I eat cooked meals as well. They are just nice. I still enjoy them but if I had the choice or went out by myself I will probably shift my diet to probably 95% raw food.
Every now and then there is a tiny little bit of processed food for instance, I eat some yogurt or I will have something which is like olive oil or other products which are little bit processed but most of it, probably 95% stays raw. It means that I would take fruits and mix it within shakes, really break it down or have food that's nice. And I would take vegetables, cut them in very, very small and have lots of salad with that.
It is very frequent with me to have a salad for lunch and a salad for dinner. The breakfast will be based on fruit on whole flour. This is kind of cream that I already showed you earlier. So now it's very much possible to do it. The only reason that why people don't eat raw is simply because of habit, because we were born within a certain context in the western world or at the eastern world wherever you live where we are used to people cook our meals. Very often for hygiene reasons people cook, for instance, in a third world countries, you will have to cook your meal so that you -- the ingredients that you use are clear from some bacteria and other worms or whatever you might have which will be bad for your body. But the habit itself of cooking is something that we learned from a long time ago. It's not really that much needed anymore.
One day I realized that why do I need to cook these vegetables? It's not needed. Most of the vegetables that we use including cabbage or even broccoli. Do I need to? Surely, okay. If you don't want it 100% raw you can steam it so that, then it will be -- its going to be crunchy but really nice.
The same with carrots, with most of the vegetables that we use. They don't need to be cooked. Tomatoes don't need to be cooked. So you can even eat them raw. You gain much greater benefit from these nutrients. What happens when you do that? What happens when you actually get more nutrients from the food you eat? It means that you will need to eat less. Your body saturates or it stops sending you hunger signals as soon as it reaches it point of satisfaction on the nutrients level. So when you don't give your body what it needs, it keeps on sending hunger signals.
If the micro nutrients have been broken down by over heating, eventually you don't get everything that you need in your body and need to eat twice as much. I will come back for more in this topic because it's an essential one. Take care and have a great day. Bye-bye.
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