Raw Food vs Processed Food

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FINAL DRAFT Food is strongly needed by the living things to survive so as human beings. We required a wide variety of the foods with different nutrition to keep us healthy. Raw foods which is from the natural resources such as vegetables, seafood, meats and also the fruits that freshly plucked from the trees used to be the daily menu for a family. However, with the development of the food processing industry, the processed food or cooked food are slowly taking over the portion of the raw foods in the diet of the human beings especially for those are living in the urban side like big cities and the well-developed countries. In the same time, the risk of having 21 century diseases which are heart diseases, cancers, diabetes and also obesity has increased to a level that has becoming an issue that should be solved. If this problem becomes even worse in future, it results in a rise of unhealthy or fatality of population in the world. Thus, raw food is a solution for health problem nowadays. Raw food contains vital nutrients to enable the life processes in the human body can be carried out in a well manner, trains body systems and also detoxifies our bodies. Raw food helps our body to maintain the metabolisms and internal conditions by providing the essential nutrients to the body itself. Enzyme is one of the nutrients that will be found only in the raw foods. They are the biological catalysts that can speed up the digestive system. (Priscilla Soligo) Foods are rich in enzymes actually ‘predigest’ themselves in the stomach because the enzymes are used to carry out a process called autolytic digestion. By the autolytic digestion, it will be as much as 75 percents of the meal broken down before stomach acid involved in the digestive system. (Barron, 2009) In an addition, our bodies will not be able to utilize the vitamins and minerals from the absence of the enzymes.
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