Pros and Cons of Raw Food Diet

90-100 % Raw

50-75% Raw

Less than 50% Raw

- You may have constant cravings and obsessive thoughts about cooked food

- You have to be creative about what to prepare for lunch/dinner, and what to eat when you are dining out with your friends and family

- There is a very high risk of slipping and bingeing

- Very difficult to manage the diet when visiting friends and family for few days (and they normally cook for everybody

- Over time your body becomes less tolerant to cooked foods (highly sensitive); which means risk of being ill when eating cooked foods for few days in a row (like during festive season)

- You have to highly motivate yourself daily, especially in the first few months

- You have to exclude some foods from your diet like sweet potatoes, grains, beans and legumes (unless you sprout them)

- Very easy to slide down to lower % of raw foods eaten

- Your healing (if that's your goal) will be much slower than if you are eating 90-100%, and your symptoms (of whatever you are trying to heal) may stay as before

- There is a risk of getting another dis-ease or minor illnesses like colds, headaches, allergies, and infections

- It is easy to slip to all-cooked-food day, especially during holidays and celebrations

- You become less creative (than if you are on 90-100% raw) and often rely more on what’s in the fridge, which means you might cook food much more often (e.g. stir-fry whatever you can find in fridge - as I did)

- If you are healing dis-ease, this approach may not give you any benefits at all. The symptoms may be very difficult to control

- Very high risk for infections and other dis-eases

- You might be less healthy overall (than if you are on a higher % raw), you might live less years as well

- It is not an anti-age approach, and you will probably look ‘average’ as the years go by.

- There is a high risk of developing physical and psychological dis-ease when you get to your old age

- You tend to forget about ‘raw’ approach and that you wanted to become a 'raw foodist' , and you might lose all the enthusiasm and motivation for being one and for learning new raw recipes

- You tend to forget about all the benefits of ‘raw’ food lifestyle

+ it’s the most beneficial diet for healing many dis-eases, and maintaining superb health

+ with time, you will look younger than your peers, and probably live longer than them too

+ Your body will go through the total detoxification mode, and it will be free from any parasites, and impaired and carcinogenic cells

+ You skin will be magnificent after only a few weeks, less pronounced wrinkles, no spots and blemishes, pores will look tighter, and skin will look fresh as if after exercising

+ You will have slim body and small waist

+ This diet gives you much more variety than a 100% one

+ You can still have your favourite cooked foods

+ Easy to manage social events, dining out, and when you visit friends and relatives

+ Nobody is looking at you like you are a weirdo, or feeling sorry for you when you tell them you’re doing this for health reasons

+ Less/no risk of binging

+ There is a much higher probability/possibility to maintain this approach long-term (or even all your life)

+ You can eat what you want!