by Sarah Womer
With flu season upon us compounded with the swine flu “threat” there’s
something that’s not being talked about!
A raw diet keeps you healthy even when others around you are sick!
It’s true!
Personally speaking, from the moment I started eating a 100 percent raw diet, something amazing happened: I stopped getting “colds”! It doesn’t
matter if you eat the “typical” raw diet with more fruit, nuts, and
seeds than essential leafy greens or a diet with an abundance of leafy
greens — as long as it is un-cooked, it is going to do so much protect
your health!
If you aren’t sure, let me tell you a personal story:
It hadn’t been very long that I was eating raw– maybe 8 months –
when my aunt brought over an organic vegan stew with gluten free
noodles. Well, I thought about it and had some. It was vegan, it was
essentially what I would have eaten anyway except it was cooked. So
was it really that bad? Even though it never upset my system (and
believe me, if it was bad to eat I would have instantly chucked it
from my body willingly or not!) two days later I got a full-blown
cold.
I was congested, feverish, and fully sick. You could call it detox, but it was transferred from my son’s friend to my son and then to me. Generally, this doesn’t happen and worse case scenario I get a little bit of a raspy voice. I took a day of fasting and some teas and then drank some green smoothies and instantly felt better.
If this wasn’t a clear indication that eating raw was protecting my body from breaking down and helping me thrive in the mean time, I don’t know what is!
But before I say that it was “raw food” that did the trick, let me reiterate and say that not only did raw food help me recover, it was the dark leafy greens and green smoothies that really kept me healthy!
And there is the key to staying free from sickness this “sick” season — you don’t need any kind of shot but wheatgrass and any kind of medicine except for green smoothies! As long as you are eating raw foods and including at least one green smoothie in your diet every 1-2 days, you will be heads above the rest!
This isn’t to scare you into eating raw but to motivate you to stick with it! Sometimes it can be hard to be the only raw person in the house, in the community, or whatever your situation may be. So if you hardly ever hear it, hear it now: YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING; YOU ARE MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES. And your stick-to-it attitude will pay off great in the long-term! 
** Sarah Womer is one of our Blogging Beauties and her Bio can be found here: Meet The Blogging Beauties!
** We are not medical professionals so any advice offered is personal opinion and information only.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:49 am
I, too, have found that since I started following a raw foods lifestyle, I’ve been free of the common ailments I hear from folks around me: colds, allergies, heartburn, constipation . . . on and on it goes.
By eating fresh, raw live foods, we give our immune systems the strength and the ammunition it needs to fight off the germs/viruses, etc.
Thanks for pointing out this important element to our lifestyle.
October 31st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I concur!
I have been eating 75-80% raw for about 5 years now. Before that, I was regularly hospitalized for sinus/asthma problems that made it almost impossible for me to breathe at times (a lifelong problem). Now those problems are all but gone and the asthma meds sit around pretty much unused…I can hike/exercise without fear of wheezing. Colds: I used to get several a year, so severe that they often caused asthma/chronic bronchitis that led to the hospitalization noted above (I have always been resistant to the flu and have never had flu shots). Now, if I get one cold a year, it doesn’t go down to my chest, only lasts a day or two and is so mild that people don’t even notice that I have one. I also think that the probiotics that I take daily, regular servings of fermented (raw) foods and monitoring my nutritional intake and taking vitamin supplements as needed also has a lot to do with my health. When I was young and eating a S.A.D. (diet) I noticed that regular intake of vitamins usually kept the colds away. Oh yes, and the constipation is gone as well too (heartburn has never been an issue for me).