SKEPTICAL ABOUT RAW VEGAN.

First thing i heard about vegetarian, i thought that the concept is all about not eating any kind of animal product but after i read and knowing some info about this diet, this diet actually has  varieties of diet that still apply the same concept of not eating or using any animal products.

I met Jennifer from UK who came to stay at my mom's homestay when she came to Ranau (MandarouHome). She is a raw vegan only consuming raw food that is raw vegetables and fruit. Not eating any cooked food and drinks caffeine or any products that has been wrapped with plastic. When she told me that she is a raw vegan and that is why she want a place to stay that is near to the market (my mom's homestay is quite near to the market and Ranau town. Only 5 minutes to get there by strolling) so it convenient for her  to get her food supply.

                                                           (JENIFER WITH ME AND MY SON AND MY DAUGHTER)

I never heard about raw food before. But if you asked me about VEGETARIAN, i can give you full info about it, but the RAW FOOD VEGAN DIET.... i'm blur.....and still blurrrr.... what excetly is that RAW VEGAN.

Jennifer do tell me about Raw Vegan but i'm sooo skeptical about this diet because those who apply this diet doesn't need to cooked their food when they want to eat. They just eating it raw because if we cooking our food specially the vegetables the heat will kill the nutrition from the veges.

Really....really... does the cooking do kill the nutrition inside the veges? i never heard this info before and i'm not really agree with it. What if we eat the  raw veges then we got sick because we don't cooked it? 

I not satisfied with the info that been told by Jennifer so at home i'm doing my own research about this diet (like a CSI agent doing research hehehehhe) with a big help from MR Google ;) (i'm in love with him ).   

This is what i found out from Mr Google 

Raw veganism is a diet that combines the concepts of veganism and raw foodism. It excludes all food and products of animal origin, as well as food cooked at a temperature above 48 °C (118 °F).^{[citation needed]} A raw vegan diet includes raw vegetables and fruits, nuts and nut pastes, grain and legume sprouts, seeds, plant oils, sea vegetables, herbs, and fresh juices. There are many different versions of the diet, including fruitarianism, juicearianism, and sproutarianism.

Motivations

Addition to the ethics of eating meat, dairy, eggs and honey, raw vegans may be motivated by health, spiritual, financial, or environmental reasons, or any combination of these.

In terms of health, some raw vegans believe that cooking foods destroys the complex balance of micronutrients. They may also believe that, in the cooking process, dangerous chemicals are produced by the heat interaction with fat, protein, and carbohydrates such asadvanced glycation end-products (AGEs)^[1] and others^{[citation needed]}.

Other followers of a raw vegan diet place importance on spiritual gain. For example, Ruthann Russo, Ph.D, (author of two books on the raw foods diet) says that the movement aims to look at "the way food, living, treatment of the earth, our treatment of each other, and our quest for physical, spiritual, and mental health all fit together."^[2] (link not working)

Forest gardening is a radical raw vegan lifestyle with a number of motives. For example, it can be viewed as a way to recreate the Garden of Eden.^[3] Developed by raw vegan Robert Hart, forest gardening is a food production system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporatingfruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables.^[4] The three main products from a forest garden are fruit, nuts and green leafy vegetables.^[5] Forest gardens are probably the world's oldest and most resilient agroecosystem.^[6]

After i read and do more research on  it i become dizzy and confused because i never thought that we can eat raw food. It is good for our healthy and it's also one way that can reduce weight in a natural way. I'm soo scared to take the slimming pil or any weight lose product because  the effect from taking the product will damage your organ specially our liver system. I love myself, i love my body and that is why i don't smoke, i don't drink alcohol but i need to reduce my weight but in the natural way.... maybe this is the answer....