Is it safe Raw Food Diet?
Raw food diet was first coined by Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), a Swiss doctor who examined the raw food for the treatment of patients. Eating raw food version of Banner is consume food that is not cooked, and not exposed to pesticides and herbicides (weed killers chemicals), which includes fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
Currently the raw food diet has undergone variations. Some choose to consume 75% -80% based food plants that are not cooked or cooked to a temperature of not more than 57.5 degrees Celsius. There also choose animal products such as unpasteurized milk, cheese from raw dairy ingredients, raw fish meat and other meat that is cooked not too ripe.
Nurfi Afriansyah, SKM, M.Sc Applied Technology Center Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Ministry of Health said, milk and dairy, such as cheese, providing many nutritional benefits. However, milk 'raw' (pasteurized milk without) can contain harmful microbes which can be a serious risk to health.
The study, reported United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States shows, between 1993 and 2006 more than 1500 people in the United States sick from drinking milk 'raw' or eating cheese made from milk 'raw'. The CDC also reported that the consumption of unpasteurised milk 150 times as likely cause of food-borne diseases (diseases caused by contaminated food) and the risk of hospitalization 13 times greater than consuming pasteurized dairy products. Unpasteurised milk can carry the bacteria Salmonella, E-coli, and Listeria, which raises a lot of food-borne illness, especially in people who have weakened immune systems (the elderly, pregnant, and children).
Pasteurization (heating process at least 72 degrees Celsius for 15 seconds) to help ensure the safety of milk from contaminated possibility of dangerous microbes. Pasteurization does not cause lactose intolerance and allergic reactions; not decrease the nutritional value of milk; and can be deadly dangerous microbes without eliminating important antibacterial substances in milk is healthy (lactoferrin, lactoperoxidase, lysozyme). Fish and meat undercooked also similar. Half-baked cooking process still gives 'opportunities' to the microbes in fish and meat (both susceptible polluted) to survive and cause food-borne.
Eating raw vegetables to optimize nutrient intake is not always true. Cooking vegetables can actually help facilitate the process of digestion of nutrients in it-as referred to in the British Journal of Nutrition study. The results showed that those who undergo strict raw food diet had lower levels of lycopene in the average. Though lycopene is needed by the body as an anticancer and cholesterol lowering.
