Not only benefits: the dangers of a raw food diet, Angelina Jolie’s favorite diet

Public people, especially women, taking care of their appearance, use different diets.

A few years ago, the raw food diet itself became a new trend in healthy lifestyle culture. This trend was immediately picked up by world-famous stars - Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto and Madonna, writes a foreign edition.

In general, a raw food diet excludes any heat treatment of products (cooking, frying, drying or steaming). Fans of such nutrition argue that the products retain their beneficial properties, nutrients and enzymes, therefore, they only benefit the body.

However, doctors have not yet come to a consensus on whether such nutrition is beneficial.

In March of this year, it became known that in one of the neighboring countries, a one-month-old child died of starvation in the family of a syroid blogger. According to investigators, the man tried to accustom his son to “proper” nutrition right from childhood. And although the criminal case has not yet been completed, the forensic examination found that the death of the child was associated with malnutrition and, as a result, pneumonia. The father of the baby himself claimed that he wanted to raise a “pranoid” from his son - a person who feeds only on solar energy.

This case, unfortunately, is not the only one.

What is a raw food diet?
A raw food diet is a diet in which food is not processed or pasteurized. It includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted grains and legumes. In general, there are five main varieties of the raw food diet.

Vegetarian raw food diet - the case when people who adhere to such a system exclude meat and fish from their diet, sometimes they also refuse to eat eggs, but this does not always happen. If a person continues to eat eggs, then only in raw form. In addition, a vegetarian raw food diet implies the presence in the diet of milk and dairy products, of course, unpasteurized.

Vegan raw food - this type of raw food diet is considered the most common, despite many restrictions. Its fans completely exclude dairy products, meat and fish, like vegans, and do not heat food over 40-49ºС.

Paleo raw food - this type of food is also called a meat-eating raw food diet or nutrition of the Paleolithic era. Adherents of this type of diet almost completely exclude fruits from the diet, but actively lean on almost unprocessed (food cannot be cooked more than 40 ºС) eggs, fish and meat, believing that it was raw animal food that contributed to the prehistoric evolutionary development of the human brain.

fruitarianism - Ideally, fruitarians should consume only thermally unprocessed fruits of fruit plants and, with rare exceptions, berries. But for the most part, those who call themselves fruitarians also eat raw vegetables. The difference between fruitarians and raw foodists is that they do not eat nuts, legumes and cereals.

Monotrophic raw food diet - in simple terms, this is a kind of mix of a raw food diet and a separate diet: at one meal, fans of this type of food eat only one type of food (for example, nuts or apples).

Foods allowed in a raw food diet are beans, dried fruits (dried in natural conditions), fresh fruits and vegetables,
vegetable juices, grains, young coconut milk, nuts, purified water, seaweed, seeds, organic or natural foods, not processed.

We’ve talked about the flexitarian diet before. This is a semi-vegetarian diet that allows you to completely abandon meat.