For lunch, I buy a couple of pears at the supermarket, four or not, preferably five bananas and a bottle of water. I also have some nuts - hazelnuts mixed with almonds and a few dates. My heart skips a beat as I walk past the shelves of dairy products. I walk past the bread. I walk past the waffles. I don't even look towards the meat counter. Only forward - straight to the checkout. I heard somewhere that raw foodists are so fine with their circulation that they do not freeze.

Then I sit on a damp bench in the park outside the art gallery. Under the gusts of wind from the Kama I make my own modest meal.

How did I get here?

In case someone does not know, a vegan raw food diet is when you eat only raw vegetables, fruits, legumes, cereals, berries. No pasta for you, no rice, nothing that has been cooked above 40 - 50 degrees.

What kind of quirk is this? Let's say the sting of animals - you refuse animal products, clothes made of fur and leather. You are no longer an accomplice in the murder. A humanist and nature lover would be satisfied with this, so why throw away the frying pan?

Then, raw foodists believe that only raw or "live" cuisine provides a person with the necessary and normal set of nutrients. And, in general, it provides natural digestion. Whether this is so is a moot point. There is enough scientific and pseudo-scientific research on the raw food diet. The main thing is that veganism is for the soul, and a raw food diet is kind of for health.

My jump into raw production came as a surprise not only to my family, but also to myself. Even on Saturday, I eat dumplings, traditional for this day of the week, with gusto (as it happened in the family: Shabbat means dumplings, dumplings means Shabbat). And already on Monday - I mix banana with dill and wheat germ for breakfast.

Therefore, my transformation into a raw foodist happened on Sunday, but how exactly it happened - thank you, I don't remember.

Probably, it just became interesting: "Will I be able to?"

Now I recall with a grin the first days of the "experiment". As on the first night, I dreamed that I sneaked into the kitchen and stealthily eat chicken cutlets. How I almost drank kefir when I was asleep. How two basins of salad were prepared for dinner: one, smaller - for the family, the other, more spacious - for me.

Articles about a raw food diet scared me, they said that at first there could be digestive problems, and I would be covered with acne and sweat terribly. But nothing of the kind happened. By the end of the first week, I realized that the satiety of a raw foodist was almost indistinguishable from the persistent hunger of a "normal person."

By the beginning of the third week, I had learned to love this feeling. It was surprising that by the end of the day there was still a whole bunch of energy that needed to be used somewhere. I pulled out from behind the sofa and wiped the dumbbells from the dust. Almost took up yoga.

Meanwhile, friends and acquaintances began to look at me strangely. Some voiced vague fears like, "Are you not afraid that one day you will be blown away by the wind?" Or: "You seem to be hooked on something ..."

I laughed it off, they say, the grass is different from the grass.

Anyway, I felt that I was doing everything right. As if I got rid of some unnecessary obligation, as if I passed an exam in a boring subject.

And so, I am sitting on a wet bench, blown by a cold wind and filled with inner pride. I happily consume the fourth banana.

But cold. Coldly.

And I repeat to myself: "Raw foodists do not freeze, raw foodists do not freeze, raw foodists do not freeze."

Having come to the conclusion that our ideal food is fruits and vegetables, we involuntarily wonder if warm countries, where fruits and vegetables grow in abundance all year round, are not our natural habitat. Unfortunately, the ancestors of most of us chose countries with a not very favorable climate for life. Most readers live in cold climates where only a meager selection of local fruits and vegetables is available most of the year. A hundred years ago, a resident of Canada would hardly have been able to eat mostly raw fruits and vegetables all year round. But today we are inundated with imported food from all over the world. Why not take advantage of these modern advances? Now healthy eating possible for everyone, despite the steady deterioration in the quality of the products.

If you have the opportunity to move to warmer places and equip your own little sunny paradise there, I warmly recommend that you do so and sincerely wish you success. But not everyone has such an opportunity. I am aware that most readers are unlikely to plan to move to Hawaii, Mexico, Costa Rica or Florida in the next few years.

The winter diet of raw-food northerners does not have to be very different from that of the southern people. Cold weather slightly increases our calorie (energy) requirements, which can be satisfied with just a little more food. Many people think that you need to eat more fat in winter, but this is not the case. The extra calories you need can be obtained from carbohydrates such as bananas.

Preference for local produce

Some philosophers, such as macrobiotics, argue that exotic and imported foods are harmful. If you take this point of view, it turns out that oranges, bananas, avocados, papaya and mango are contraindicated for Canadians, and apples, pears and blueberries for Indians. If you think about it, there is no particular difference between the body of a Canadian and the body of an Indian - both belong to the human race. Not to mention that we can easily fly to India and eat mango there ... Will this change anything in the constitution of our body? Or will these fruits suddenly become useful to us? What if we decide to move to India altogether? Our stomach, intestines and other organs will remain the same.

I understand that critics often pay attention to the quality of products and ecological problems associated with imported food. Of course, imported mangoes and those plucked straight from the tree are two big differences. Still, it is better to eat imported mangoes than cereals that have been in the warehouse for months, or even apples, which are stored in huge refrigerators, sometimes for a whole year, before reaching the counter. But today, thanks to an efficient supply system, very high quality food products are available to us. For example, in Montreal, I can get better quality mangoes than those that I have tried in the countries where they are directly grown.

On the environmental side, I agree that eating imported foods is unfriendly to our environment. However, if I were limited to local produce, I would have to eat withered apples and shriveled carrots for months. I just couldn't eat like that! Thus, the use of imported food is another compromise. However, it should be noted that the production and export of fruits and vegetables, in general, requires fewer resources than the production of animal products or even grain. Again, no one forces you to buy imported products from very distant lands - for example, durian or coconuts from Thailand.

Product quality

Local produce is scarce during the long northern winter. Lettuce sometimes travels to us from southern agricultural farms for weeks. In this situation, it is useful to buy or grow the freshest sunflower greens. In essence, sunflower seedlings can be considered a green vegetable. Sunflower greens are easy to grow at home. Cut off just before eating, these sprouts are by far the freshest and tastiest of winter vegetables.

How not to freeze

Many raw foodists complain that they are cold and give weird advice on eating spicy vegetables like cayenne. capsicum and garlic. However, these vegetables are toxic (see Chapter 7) and create only the illusion of warmth, in reality they produce the exact opposite effect. The feeling of "pleasant warmth" in the body after eating hot pepper only means that the body has activated metabolic processes to neutralize poisonous substance capsaicin found in cayenne pepper.

A typical reason raw foodists "freeze" in winter is because they eat cold foods. From fruits that have not had time to warm up after the refrigerator, you, of course, will chill, or even catch a cold. I advise you to avoid cold food in every possible way during the winter. Remove the fruits and vegetables that you will eat tomorrow from the refrigerator - they should be room temperature... If you want to eat something straight from the refrigerator, soak it in warm water for ten minutes.

The best way to keep warm in winter is exercise stress... Aerobic exercise can speed up your metabolism by 10% compared to resting. For clarity, this means that if you exercised vigorously for an hour without generating any heat at all, your body temperature would rise to 60 °! Our body emits this excess heat through sweating, and yet you can always dispel the feeling of cold with a little morning workout.

Tropical fruits or temperate fruits?

Disputes about which fruits of which climatic zone are better do not subside. One of the theories claims that tropical fruits are preferable, since our body is more adapted to them at the genetic level. That is, papaya, bananas, mangoes are supposedly healthier than apples, pears and berries. True, I have never come across convincing proof of this idea. Personally, I think all fruits are equally good, and pears, apples, peaches and cherries are just as wonderful. tasty food like papaya, mango and lychee. I love variety and enjoy eating all the fruits that the land gives us, depending on where I am at the moment and what I can get. Many of the most delicious fruits not very well known - cherimoya, lychee, jackfruit, durian. As the role of fruit in human nutrition grows, the variety of species available to us will expand.

Excessive self-reflection of ZOZhnikov

I don't always google my symptoms, but when I google I always find cancer © Hypochondrik

It's okay to listen to your body. Even more is necessary. However, raw foodists sometimes go too far.

You've probably heard the story that raw foodists are freezing? They are supposedly experiencing unusual coldness. I have a question for raw foodists: In the 30-degree heat, are you cold too? Are you cold in the tropics too? In the solarium, if someone walks, are you also cold? Of course not. And if you are now freezing in the tropics under the sun, then you probably have a temperature under 40 and you urgently need to bring it down.

The cold theme is very revealing. Everyone is freezing, but for some reason the raw foodists suddenly decided to get confused on this. If you deliberately do not temper and live in a cold country, then you simply cannot stay cold. Another point is that raw foodists often at the same time refuse alcohol, which "warms". Hot drinks, therefore, are called so. Alcohol thickens our blood, and the intelligent organism, in response to poison, immediately tries to remove it. We perceive this process of intoxication and subsequent detoxification as “it has become warm”. Now think, maybe you were always cold, just before the body was so busy with self-cleaning that you did not notice it? On a raw food diet, all senses are heightened. Perhaps your body is now feeling the real temperature of the environment?

In addition to this, remember those moments when you are supposedly "cold". What are you doing at this moment? Are you passionate about something that makes you happy? Perhaps you are in an environment that, in principle, is not interesting to you or annoys you. Suppose now you are freezing. And if you found out that in the evening you have a plane to the Maldives (or wherever you want) and you have an hour to get ready. I think you would forget about the cold :)

The essence of the raw food diet itself is to live more efficiently in order to achieve goals and fulfill dreams. And sometimes we forget about it and begin to inflate the elephant out of a fly. If we are passionate about something, remember, in these moments we may not even feel pain. And if it's boring, then everything starts to piss off.

Simply put, excessive self-reflection comes from idleness and boredom. And the nature of boredom is not doing your own thing, NOT doing what you really want to do.

Excessive monitoring of your condition, searching for the causes of pseudo-malaise, panic over every pimple - all these are symptoms of banal hypochondria. What is hypochondria? Hypochondriacal neurosis, as an excessive concern about one's own state of health, can arise as a result of experienced grief, stress, illness of a loved one or one's own. Excessive custody by parents can cause the development of hypochondria in a child during adulthood... Think of the movie The Aviator, which beautifully illustrates how you can intimidate a child for the rest of your life. Although, there we are talking about OCD, but in our topic, the very motive of cleansing the body, living in this society, is doomed to failure.

Also, hypochondria can serve as a shift in the focus of attention from a more important problem that really worries you. Quite often, due to the inability to influence things outside, we use self-reflection as a way to control at least ourselves and our body. The world seems to the hypochondriac to be full of danger, so self-control is a way to calm down.

But again! Listening to your body is normal, you need to be tested, you need to control your condition if you want to be healthy. It is precisely about the obsessive desire for purification. And if we look at people who advocate purity of body and mind, these are real neurotics - classic cases from psychology textbooks. By listening to neurotics, all you earn is neurosis. Do you need it?

Future raw foodists who have fallen under the influence of neurotic lecturers, or who are prone to hypochondria, begin to convulsively google symptoms and find a long list of diseases. As a rule, this spills over to the Internet, where a person prone to hypochondria finds a bunch of like-minded people. In particular, YouTube is a temple of self-reflection. It is customary to discuss and disassemble everything here. What practical value does it have? None, because even if you have symptoms of a real illness, no one will give you good advice without knowing your situation.

Friends, if you feel that you are sick - take tests and save yourself from the "headache". It doesn't matter if far-fetched or real. And sitting on forums or guided by the subjective feelings of bloggers is fraught with real health problems.

If you do not understand why you need a raw food diet, then you inevitably slide into the subculture of whiners, who, in fact, do not care for what reason they feel pain. So what do you want?

Are you sure you want to switch to a raw food diet?

Having come to the conclusion that our ideal food is fruits and vegetables, we involuntarily wonder if warm countries, where fruits and vegetables grow in abundance all year round, are not our natural habitat. Unfortunately, the ancestors of most of us chose countries with a not very favorable climate for life. Most readers live in cold climates where only a meager selection of local fruits and vegetables is available for most of the year. A hundred years ago, a resident of Canada would hardly have been able to eat mostly raw fruits and vegetables all year round. But today we are inundated with imported food from all over the world. Why not take advantage of these modern advances? Nowadays, healthy eating is possible for everyone, despite the steady deterioration in the quality of food.

If you have the opportunity to move to warmer places and equip your own little sunny paradise there, I warmly recommend that you do so and sincerely wish you success. But not everyone has such an opportunity. I am aware that most readers are unlikely to plan to move to Hawaii, Mexico, Costa Rica or Florida in the next few years.

The winter diet of raw-food northerners does not have to be very different from that of the southern people. Cold weather slightly increases our calorie (energy) requirements, which can be satisfied with just a little more food. Many people think that you need to eat more fat in winter, but this is not the case. The extra calories you need can be obtained from carbohydrates such as bananas.

Preference for local produce

Some philosophers, such as macrobiotics, argue that exotic and imported foods are harmful. If you take this point of view, it turns out that oranges, bananas, avocados, papaya and mango are contraindicated for Canadians, and apples, pears and blueberries for Indians. If you think about it, there is no particular difference between the body of a Canadian and the body of an Indian - both belong to the human race. Not to mention the fact that we can easily fly to India and eat mango there ... Will this change anything in the constitution of our body? Or will these fruits suddenly become useful to us? What if we decide to move to India altogether? Our stomach, intestines and other organs will remain the same.

I understand that critics often focus on food quality and environmental issues associated with imported food. Of course, imported mangoes and those plucked straight from the tree are two big differences. And yet it is better to eat imported mangoes than cereals that have been in the warehouse for months, or even apples, which are stored in huge refrigerators, sometimes for a whole year, before they reach the counter. But today, thanks to an efficient supply system, very high quality food products are available to us. For example, in Montreal, I can get better quality mangoes than those that I have tried in the countries where they are directly grown.

On the environmental side, I agree that eating imported foods is unfriendly to our environment. However, if I were limited to local produce, I would have to eat withered apples and shriveled carrots for months. I just couldn't eat like that! Thus, the use of imported food is another compromise. However, it should be noted that the production and export of fruits and vegetables, in general, requires fewer resources than the production of animal products or even grain. Again, no one forces you to buy imported products from very distant lands - for example, durian or coconuts from Thailand.

Product quality

Local produce is scarce during the long northern winter. Lettuce sometimes travels to us from southern agricultural farms for weeks. In this situation, it is useful to buy or grow the freshest sunflower greens. In essence, sunflower seedlings can be considered a green vegetable. Sunflower greens are easy to grow at home. Cut off just before eating, these sprouts are by far the freshest and tastiest of winter vegetables.

How not to freeze

Many raw foodists complain that they are cold and give strange advice to eat hot vegetables like cayenne paprika and garlic. However, these vegetables are toxic (see Chapter 7) and create only the illusion of warmth, in reality they produce the exact opposite effect. The feeling of "pleasant warmth" in the body after eating hot pepper only means that the body has activated metabolic processes to neutralize the poisonous substance capsaicin contained in cayenne pepper.

A typical reason raw foodists "freeze" in winter is because they eat cold foods. Fruits that have not had time to warm up after the refrigerator will naturally make you chilly, or even catch a cold. I advise you to avoid cold food in every possible way during the winter. Remove the fruits and vegetables that you will eat tomorrow from the refrigerator - they should be at room temperature when used. If you want to eat something straight from the refrigerator, soak it in warm water for ten minutes.

The best way to keep warm in winter is to exercise. Aerobic exercise can speed up your metabolism by 10% compared to resting. For clarity, this means that if you exercised vigorously for an hour without generating any heat at all, your body temperature would rise to 60 °! Our body emits this excess heat through sweating, and yet you can always dispel the feeling of cold with a little morning workout.

Tropical fruits or temperate fruits?

Disputes about which fruits of which climatic zone are better do not subside. One of the theories claims that tropical fruits are preferable, since our body is more adapted to them at the genetic level. That is, papaya, bananas, mangoes are supposedly healthier than apples, pears and berries. True, I have never come across convincing proof of this idea. Personally, I think all fruits are equally good, and pears, apples, peaches and cherries are just as great, delicious food as papaya, mango and lychee. I love variety and gladly eat all the fruits that the land gives us, depending on where I am at the moment and what I can get. Many of the tastiest fruits are not well known - cherimoya, lychee, jackfruit, durian. As the role of fruit in human nutrition grows, the variety of species available to us will expand.

So the summer flew by, I did not have time to look back, as winter rolls into my eyes.

Autumn gives us wonderful fruits, many animals prepare food for the winter. Migratory birds fly away to warm regions to winter, and the bear hibernates. Winter! Cold, hunger, wolves howl in the cold. And raw food beginners, with their new type of food, also begin to howl like wolves from cold and hunger. Let's look at this situation from the other side together. All animals and birds freeze in winter and eat "winter food", which is not so rich in choice and quantity. Many animals starve and even die in search of food and from the cold. It is completely normal for all inhabitants of this planet to feel cold during the cold season! This is completely natural! There are people who fly to warmer regions, like those very migratory birds, to spend the winter in more comfortable conditions. If you are wintering in cold climates, it is advisable to prepare for winter. Winter is the most difficult period for any person, including a raw foodist. I am a terrible "frost" in life, I have never been tempered, always two pairs of tights under trousers in winter 🙂 Does it sound familiar? So I want to say from personal experience, I began to freeze much less in the second year of raw food diet! The blood becomes cleaner, the lifestyle changes, and winter is not at all terrible. 🙂 The main thing is to cleanse the blood, change the way of life and thinking, and then everything will work out. But at the beginning of the journey it is always difficult, especially the first raw-food winter.

I have highlighted some top tips for raw foodists in winter:

• Prepare for winter in advance. Like squirrels and other animals, you can collect and dry berries, nuts and seeds, fruits and herbs. You can dry yourself with wild plants, leaves and flowers for teas, freeze berries and fruits, and make healthy jams (Jerusalem artichoke syrup and grated berries). You can make green juices from any greens, wild plants and freeze for winter. Prepare warm clothes and chop wood for the stove or fireplace, as well as dry the brooms for the sauna 🙂
• Move more, exercise! People are not bears, they do not hibernate, so in order not to freeze, the main thing is to move more. Movement is life! Normal blood circulation warms a person. ( What to do if our vessels are clogged with all sorts of slags? Drink warm water with lemon juice in the morning). As soon as you feel cold, start jumping, running, dancing. It is not necessary to practice any special sport or go to the gym, movement can be created anywhere, with any finance and conditions (and even in the office!). Do you have internet? Turn on youtube, there are a lot of sports channels now. Pick a nice girl or boyfriend and do aerobics, yoga, dancing, dumbbells. You can just turn on the music and dance, rage and move with the children at home or on the street. I squat a lot when I watch my favorite youtube channels 🙂 Move, move and move again!
• Baths, saunas, hot baths. In Russia, people basked in the bath. In the bath they gave birth, healed and conceived children. This is a great way to stay healthy and warm during the winter. If you do not have the opportunity to go to the bathhouse or sauna, you can replace it with a home hot bath. In Japan, all Japanese take a hot bath every day with the whole family. All family members first take a shower, after which they plunge into a hot bath clean in turn. The bath can be done with sea ​​salt, add essential oils and decoctions of herbs. I go to a gym, where there is a sauna and hot baths, in winter they save me a lot.

And of course, warming food and drinks!

• Drink warm, warming drinks. In ancient Russia, in the cold, they drank the warming drink Sbiten. This is a kind of drink made from honey, St. John's wort, sage, ginger and pepper. On the Internet you can find different recipes of this drink, you can make it raw. I brew every day herbal teas in a large thermos for the night, pour the herbs not with boiling water, but with warm water 60-80C. Based on these teas, I make various warming and nutritious tonics. A very popular and delicious tonic is honey, lemon and fresh ginger root. In Tokyo, all houses are without central heating, everyone is insulated as best they can, usually air conditioners. I woke up in the morning, but it was difficult to get up, as it was very cold in the apartment. The first thing is warm tea from a thermos. Ginger is very warming and awakening. In the evenings, I often pamper myself with warm cocoa based on hemp and carob milk.
• Add more fat to your diet, increase the calorie content of your menu, as squirrels eat more nuts and seeds. In summer I don't eat nuts at all, I just don't feel like it, and in winter I often make sweets from nuts and seeds. You can add good oils to your diet.
• Warm soups. Enzymes are destroyed at a temperature of + 46-48C, which is warm enough for a soup. Buy yourself a culinary thermometer and you will always be calm about the usefulness of your warm meals. 🙂 Based on milk from seeds or nuts, I make delicious soups. Ripe avocado warms up very much, I add it to soups.
• More greenery! Greens should be present in the diet all year round, and especially in winter. I wash all the salad greens in warm water, and I also put the salad on a warm plate (just warm the salad bowl in hot water or heat it in the oven). If in your area greens are very expensive in winter, be sure to freeze and dry the greens in the summer to make yourself green cocktails all winter.
• Make salad dressings. I want to season salads with sauce in winter, to make them warmer, so I often make sauces based on avocado. Also good are nut and seed pastes, very tasty with chopped vegetables and herbs.
• Warm porridge. In the morning I like to eat warm porridge made from soaked quinoa or buckwheat (soaked in warm water in a thermos overnight). I also dilute flaxseed porridge with warm almond milk.
• Warming foods and spices: Include in your diet as many foods as possible, such as ginger, cinnamon, cloves, carrots, rutabagas, parsnips, pumpkin, buckwheat, dried fruits, oils, jams (raw) and honey.
• Warm raw food meals. In winter, I use a dehydrator more often, make various chips, snacks and sweets, and warm drinks and soups. If you have an oven, you can simmer turnips, beets, and other root vegetables. I don't really like root vegetables, so I rarely eat them.
• Seasonal fruits. In winter in Japan, the season of persimmon and citrus fruits is very warming for the body and soul! 🙂 Orange juice every day is the sun in a glass, and the sweetest Japanese persimmon is my favorite fruit, brings me joy and delight every winter! Look for fruits and vegetables that are only eaten during the winter, they are especially tasty and healthy.
• Dates. Winter is the season for fresh dates in many countries. They begin to be harvested in the fall and stored in the refrigerator until May. During this period, you can find fresh dates that easily tolerate shipping from the USA, Israel or Iran. Look for small organic date farm owners, order directly from the owners. Dates are the most valuable fruit that contains everything a person needs. They warm, nourish and heal. Try not to buy store dates, they are all pasteurized and chemically treated for long storage.
• Don't drink a lot of juices... According to Ayurveda and ancient Chinese concepts of yin-yang, liquids extinguish the internal fire of the body, cool. If you eat a significant amount of watermelon, your limbs will freeze even in summer.
• If not at all?! I know many raw foodists who introduce steamed vegetables and cereals in the cold season. If you are very, very cold and difficult, you can introduce a small amount of steamed vegetables. For example, add some broccoli, pumpkin, cauliflower, or carrots to your green salad. Choose gluten-free cereals, the best will probably be buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth, hemp, flax and millet. If you decide to introduce boiled porridge for the winter period, be sure to eat fresh salad before porridge.
• Winter Holidays New Year and Christmas the biggest holidays for the CIS countries to this day. These days, the hardest part is to stick to a raw food diet. Prepare as many delicious raw food dishes and drinks as possible. Let your family and guests be surprised and taste the raw food. It's good if your family is all raw food, but what if not? But what if nothing at all? Then enjoy your family's vegan food, sometimes family is more important and more valuable than any raw food diet in the world! 🙂 In Japan, New Year eat long buckwheat noodles so that life is long, this tradition has long taken root in our family. The first winter I made zucchini spaghetti for myself, every time I avoided meeting with my husband's parents and relatives, and then I decided that family and its comfort are much more important. It is important to remember that a raw food diet is not a sect and, most importantly, without fanaticism. Family holidays and family love are important elements of our life. Sometimes you need to sacrifice something in order to maintain comfort and harmony in the family. Eating cooked food occasionally for the family good will only strengthen your mental health. Just be sure to add fresh salad or smoothies. Personally, I have headaches after boiled cereals, so I know that if I had to use them, the next day I had better cleanse my intestines in order to avoid headaches.
• Mood. Most often, you want to eat something harmful when you are in a bad mood and depression. You need to cultivate resistance to stress, look for other ways to get rid of it, survive a failure, a quarrel, or just PMS. In winter, we are less likely to be in the sun, we have less vitamin D. depression, blues, melancholy, the so-called autumn-winter depression begins in people. 🙂 To tell the truth, I am also less likely to be in the air and in the sun, so I drink extra vitamin D. This is not necessary, but it helps me. In addition, I make tonics from the Japanese reishi mushroom (this is a dry powder from a tree mushroom, sold as a medicine), and in the CIS there is a wonderful chaga mushroom (also a medicine), it also helps with depressive moods. Good music, reading books, meeting like-minded people are great ideas for boring winter evenings!
• The quality of food is more important than the assortment! In my opinion, it is much more important to pay attention to the quality of the food than to the assortment. In summer, it is always easier to find natural fruits and vegetables, pick berries and mushrooms, pick nuts, and in winter it is more difficult. Organically grown cereals are better than pesticide-treated apples and grapes. Supermarket greens grown on foam rubber in water won't do you any good. One organically grown carrot has three times more vitamins and minerals than 3-4 regular supermarket carrots with lots of chemicals. Look for quality food. Grow it yourself or look for good natural products. For some, it may be easier and cheaper to find quality cereals than buying organic fruits, make your choice in favor of your health. A raw food diet on chemical vegetables and fruits will not bring you health, and possibly harm, do not forget about it!

I wish you a warm and short winter!

On a note: They have a warming effect: eggplant, mustard, coriander, onion, olives, carrots, peppers, parsley, turnips, beets, celery, pumpkin, red beans, horseradish, wild garlic, garlic, peas, cabbage, apricots, cherries, pomegranate, grapes, cherries, peaches, apples sweet, Walnut, raisins, figs, ginger, chestnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, nutmeg, dates, pistachios, hazelnuts, dried fruits, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, sesame, turmeric, fenugreek, celery, cumin, basil, dill, laurel, marjoram, buckwheat , corn, wheat, bran, millet, red and black lentils, mustard oil, corn oil, hemp oil, sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil.