The raw of the crowd

-CONNECT contributor Holly looks at the health benefits of eating raw food.

PEOPLE experience many benefits from eating a high percentage of their food raw, including chronic conditions clearing up, reaching their ideal weight, clearer skin, needing less sleep, feeling less cold, and looking younger.

Live food brings light and energy into the body and creates a healthy environment to help clean out disease, and heal and rejuvenate the body. It gives energy without unbalancing or artificially stimulating the body or brain.

It can help build more connections within the brain and make it more balanced and so expand consciousness.

This heightened intuition, a feeling of connectedness and contentedness have become known as the ‘raw-food high’. With more energy we rise out of reacting to our circumstances and become more proactive, finding it easier to focus and become more creative beings. So a diet high in raw food can help us be successful in our lives, but also, due to its calming effects, it supports meditation and other similar practices.

But many people are put off incorporating more raw food into their diet because it seems so bland and boring. This does not have to be the case!

Practically any cooked dish can be replicated with raw vegan ingredients. Pates, pizza, pasta, puddings and pies, risotto, soup, sausages and sauces, cakes and crackers can all be made with vegetables, fruits, nuts, sprouts, herbs and spices and cold-pressed oils.

I, and my two youngest children, have been eating and thoroughly enjoying a raw diet for three years.

Raw Cuisine workshops include recipes that are simple, quick and affordable, plus all the information you need to get a balanced diet.

We also cover raw ingredients, translating cooked recipes to raw recipes, superfoods, wild food, sprouting, body types, food combining and overcoming bad nutritional habits.