The raw food diet is a lifestyle diet where at least 75% of all food consumed eaten raw and never commercially processed or cooked. Origins Raw food has its origins in prehistory. As humans gradually developed tools and learned to control fire, a raw food diet gave way to a diet of cooked food. Modern interest in a raw food diet began in the 1930s. Ann Wigmore (1909-1994) was an early pioneer in using raw or "living" foods to detoxify the body. Herbert Shelton (1895-1985) was another early advocate of the health benefits of raw foods. Since the 1980s, several raw food diets have been promoted as cures for cancer. However, although the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute support a diet high in vegetables, including raw vegetables, they do not support a raw foods diet as prevention or a cure for cancer. Raw food began to develop a more high-profile following in the 1990s, as celebrities such as Demi Moore and Woody Har-relson embraced a raw food diet.
- ISBN10 1105100200
- ISBN13 9781105100208
- Publish Date 10 December 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English