Raw food is clean, complete, nutrient-dense, and delicious. A raw diet can slim you down, energize you up, and strengthen your body and immune system for optimal health. Cooked foods, on the other hand, are fattening, nutritionally deficient, energy-stealing, and worst of all, toxic. In chemistry class, we learn that through heating chemicals we can initiate reactions in which one substance is transformed completely into another. Similarly, the cooking process (heating food above 118 degrees Fahrenheit) changes chemical structures of compounds found in food. Unfortunately, cooking food turns the nutrients essential to human health into disease causing agents. The 80% or more of nutrients destroyed by cooking don't just evaporate, they are transformed into carcinogens, heterocyclic amines, Read more [...]