March Is National Nutrition Month

March is national nutrition month. Incorporate more raw foods into your diet as a means of improving your overall diet and health.

A raw food diet focuses on increasing the consumption of raw foods. Raw foods are eaten in their natural, unprocessed and uncooked state. This maximizes the amount of vitamins, minerals and nutrients consumed. Raw foodists, or people practicing a full raw food diet, get 75% to 100% of their overall food consumption from raw foods.

Cooking foods can decrease their vitamin and mineral content by up to 70% to 80%. Instead use a food dehydrator to beneficially warm foods without heating them too much and destroying nutrients.

Don't want to commit to a full raw food diet? No problem, any increase in raw food intake is worthwhile and good for your overall health.