95% Raw vs. 100% Raw - The Gap is HUGE!, Article by Matt Monarch

The following information is for education only and is not meant to diagnose, prescribe, or treat illness. It is valuable to seek the advice of an alternative health care professional before making any changes.



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I am not here to say that a 100% Raw Food Diet is "better" than a 95% Raw Food Diet or vice versa. In this article here, I simply want to outline what I pereceive as a MONUMENTAL difference between these two eating styles. The first KEY for health, for most people, is to eat a diet that consists solely of whole foods, void of all processed foods. Once you have mastered

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Your chances of living degenerative disease-free in the long-run have increased EXPONENTIALLY. Once you are eating a whole foods diet void of processed foods, then you can choose, if desired, to slowly eliminate the next most obstructive damaging foods within that wholefoods diet and so on. For example, you might want to eliminate wheat and replace it with quinoa or you might want to eliminate whole grain bread and replace it with a flax and seed cracker.



The more obstructive and/or the more dense the foods that you eliminate from your diet, the more detoxification (withdrawals) occurs from ALL of those foods that you have just eliminated COMPLETELY. The GAP between being a 95% Raw Food Eater vs. a 100% Raw Food Eater is HUGE and I am about to explain why!...



Please note: this article is based on anecdotal information and personal experience...



When a heroin addict eliminates their drug, they kick and scream as they experience more pain from withdrawals than most likely any other pain they've ever experienced in their lives. When a soda and/or coffee drinker eliminates these drinks from their intake, they go into withdrawals and get SCREECHING headaches. When a smoker quits smoking, they go through MASSIVE withdrawals too. When a person on the Standard American Diet (SAD) chooses a 100% Raw Food Diet instead, they are not just eliminating one substance, such as coffee, soda, or cigarettes... They are eliminating TENS and TENS of substances, such as sugar, gluten, meat, transfatty acids, preservatives , food dyes, excitotoxins and much much more. If you think a cigarette smoker has it bad when they quit, have that same person then try to become a 100% Raw Food Eater.



I believe that one of the reasons why some people seem to think that a 100% Raw Food Diet is "not good" for the human body, is because the withdrawals they go through can be IMMENSE and overwhelming, leading people to conclude "this isn't good for me". You Will Get Sick!!! There is no avoiding that. It can be INTENSE, it can feel challenging to understand, and all of this is why sometimes eating raw can be perceived of poorly by some, due to all of this confusion.



It's simple: the more substances you eliminate from your intake, the more detox you will go through. This is why Water Fasting is the MOST detoxifying act you can do, because you are eliminating EVERYTHING from your diet except water. I like to consider a 100% Raw Food Diet as being like a "Raw Food Fast", because if you eat this way, you are eliminating everything from your intake except pretty much fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, which are practically ALL water.



So, why is there such a HUGE GAP between a 100% Raw Food Eater and a 95% Raw Food Eater?



A 95% - 99% Raw Food Eater consistently eats more DENSE foods compared to a 100% Raw Food Eater, 1 - 5% of the time, CONSISTENTLY. The 95-99% Raw Foodie hasn't eliminated these other "dense" substances completely from their intake and therefore these substances hold them back from going through MAJOR withdrawals from these dense foods. For example, if a 20 year cocaine addict went from twenty cocaine snorts a day to just one cocaine snort a day, they would still be intaking 5% of the drug that they have taken for 20 years. They WILL go through some sort of withdrawal period from eliminating the other 19 snorts of cocaine. However, they will be in for a REAL treat if they decide to eliminate the drug COMPLETELY from their intake! It will be SOOO DIFFICULT for them to do this, because they are going to finally go through the MAJOR withdrawals and cravings from the elimination of that last hit. That one remaining hit a day helps to hold their body back from eliminating the ONSLAUGHT of residues from cocaine that they intook for the last 20 years. That last 20 years of intaking cocaine is sitting in the cells and body just WAITING to come out, as soon as the drug is eliminated COMPLETELY from their intake.



Similarly, most of us have eaten the SAD for DECADES on end. Your body could be thought of as just WAITING for you to eliminate that last 5% of denser foods, even if these are whole foods. As soon as you do that, your body can finally UNLOAD, at a MUCH more RAPID rate, all of the junk residue that you have consumed for decades on end. I feel that this is a big reason why most people don't feel comfortable taking that FINAL jump into being a 100% Raw Food Eater. Whenever they attempt doing so, the withdrawals feel too EXTREME and they back off to 95 - 99% Raw.



MORE IMPORTANTLY, when you eliminate any substance completely from your intake, not ONLY will all of the toxins related to that substance leave your system, but OTHER substances and toxins that would not have left your body, can also be eliminated. In other words, if you eliminate cocaine from your intake, your body will eliminate all the toxins associated with that cocaine AND it will eliminate OTHER toxins from your body that may not have been eliminated so easily if you didn't stop intaking the cocaine. It's kind of like you remove the cocaine layer and then your body has the space to work on the next layer of toxins.



The BIGGEST difference that I perceive between a 95% Raw Food Eater and a 100% Raw Food Eater is the amount of bodily cleansing that will take place for each person. One perk of more detox is that the "cleaner" you become, the more of a vibratory antenna you become to that "Universal Cosmic Spiritual Energy", especially if you cleanse your colon on a periodic basis. I can feel energy and vibration more now than I have ever before. Additionally, the human body can become extremely efficient with a 100% Raw Food Diet. On the other hand, living this way means you deal with deep detoxification on an ongoing basis. I personally feel that the perks outweigh the negatives. All these perks and negatives are talked about in my first book 'Raw Spirit'. My second book 'Raw Success' really digs deep into these cleansing concepts, along with discussions around sensitivities and much more. I wish you all the very best with your detoxing journeys, however they may unfold ;-)