Most of people are raised to eat a certain diet by their parents. For most of them, that means eating meat and dairy, and nearly all our food is cooked. We are brought up on fast foods. We eat fried foods, baked foods, sautéed foods, steamed foods. We eat foods with preservatives, artificial colors, and artificial flavors, many even eat fake fats.
 There is a new "fad" diet that people all over the world are involved in. Nevertheless, as this "diet" is far more natural than the standard American diet or standard western diet and brings us back to our roots of eating raw plant-based foods, it may not go by too quickly as "fads" be likely to. Long before our ancestor’s revealed fire and weapons, when we "hunted and gathered" - it meant hunting for edible plants and fruits and then gathering them. This is the way we lived for, considerably, the greatest part of our evolution. Before fire and the arrival of cooking, we, likewise all animals in nature, has eaten raw foods and now we are the only animal on the planet which cooks its food. But animals in nature don't seem to have the wide-ranging list of diseases that humans do, including obesity.
The consumption of cooked food causes digestive leukocytosis, which is the unexpected boost of white blood cells in the bloodstream after consuming cooked food. The existence of digestive leukocytosis suggests that consuming cooked food is alien to the human body. It also suggests that the consumption of cooked food is exposed to jeopardy the immune system. That’s why it's no wonder that so many raw faddists are healthy.
People who have choose a raw vegan plant based diet have experienced natural weight loss, improved health, amplified energy and a variety of other benefits. It seems that when we go back to a diet natural for our bodies, they work more efficiently and health returns to us. It is natural for "raw faddists" to eat all they want, on condition that it is raw, and still enjoy weight loss. While this diet has not been well studied, common sense tells us that before we learned to cook with fire, we were eating raw foods. Over the centuries we continued eating a lot of raw food. In the last century, in our most recent generations, we have been eating more and more cooked, conserved and processed foods, as well as canned and other packaged foods. Cooking foods is known to destroy enzymes, as well as devastate or decrease many other nutrients. There is no surprise that diseases have been growing and obesity is an epidemic.
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