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The Evo Diet: An Insight into the Raw Food Lifestyle

Learn about the Evo Diet, its impact on health, reproductive function, and reasons for going raw. Explore how our digestive system has evolved and adapted to cooked food.

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The Evo Diet: An Insight into the Raw Food Lifestyle

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  1. Iron, Part II Sept 10

  2. The Evo Diet • Called Evo Diet because theoretically these were the foods we evolved to eat • 9 individuals with extremely high blood pressure

  3. Giessen Raw Food Study • 513 raw foodists, ate 70-100% raw food • Raw food included uncooked vegetables, occasionally meat, cold-pressed oils, honey, and dried fruits, meats, and fish. • Chronic energy deficiency • The more raw food women ate, the lower their BMI and the more likely they were to have partial or total amenorrhea

  4. Reduced Reproductive Function • Raw foodists, anorexics, and marathoners report problems conceiving • Westra’sHow to Do the Raw Food Diet with Joy for Awesome Health and Success: seminal emissions and menstruation meant to remove toxins from the body

  5. Reasons for Raw Food • Theory: When foods are cooked they might lose their living or active enzymes • Truth: Enzymes are cooked in our guts anyways • Instictotherapists – minority group among raw foodists – we are so closely related to apes, we should eat like them

  6. What Happened? • Our ancestors utilized bush meat, raw fruits and vegetables and other natural products. Why cant we? • The genetic coding for a well-adapted digestive system could have been lost by chance • We have small digestive systems relative to other apes, but this allows us to process cooked food proficiently

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