Do Raw Food (Living Food) Diets Promote Good Health?
“In nature all animals eat living foods as yielded up by nature. Only humans cook their foods and only humans suffer widespread sicknesses and ailments. Those humans who eat mostly living foods are more alert; think clearer, sharper, and more logically; and become more active. Best of all, live food eaters become virtually sickness-free! Cooking is a process of food destruction from the moment heat is applied to the foodstuff. Long before dry ashes results, food values are totally destroyed.” —TC Fry These words of TC Fry, a passionate proponent of the raw foods diet, highlight the central beliefs of this eating style (also known as the living food diet). Fry later loosened his dietary restrictions to include cooked foods, a change that many raw foodists blame for his death.
