Transcend food fads and diets and adhere to the ultimate diet: Natures Diet.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS The Dubious Flexibility of Scientific LiteratureAnthropology: What Did Our Ancestors Eat? - Our ancestors have been cooking for almost 2 million years.In Ayurveda, the discussion isn’t so narrow as to one is bad and one is good.Many things are taken into account, including The Eight Factors Determining the Utility of FoodThe Importance of Agni (Transformation)Common cooking methods used to enhance the nutritional value of vegetables, increasing bio-accessibility of health-promoting constituents.Foods That Have A Higher Nutrient Value When CookedRaw Foods Are Cleansing - Perhaps a little to cleansing...Raw Food Will Cause Weight Loss, But You're Losing Healthy Tissues!Reported Benefit of Raw Food: More Energy - true but also false. Raw foods increase vata and catabolism. Raw foods can easily leave individuals depleted in the long run.The Raw Food Diet Has Never Been Time Tested - Historically the diets of humans last centuries, not 10 years! And they never dipped in and out of fads. They maintained the same diet for generations.The Wisdom of Ayurveda Regarding Diet and Food10 Rules For Taking Food.The multitude of ways to process a substance.Vegetables That can be Eaten Raw (according to Ayurveda)Tips on cooking.Vital Veda's Digestive Tea to ignite the digestive fire (agni) and digest the thick toxic substances (ama).HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW!Starting and growing a podcast requires a lot of time, energy, and money.Do you appreciate this information, and want to support my intention to deliver as much life enriching knowledge as possible to as many people as possible?The easiest, and most effective way you can help is to do this:Subscribe to the show by clicking “subscribe” in iTunes.Write us a review in iTunes and your podcast appShare this show/episode with 1 friend right nowYou’d be amazed how much these three simple steps do to help us grow!Here’s the magic link for reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/vital-veda-podcast-ayurveda-holistic-health-cosmic/id1402499244In addition, share this episode with every friend that you think will benefit from this knowledge.Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening, and joining me on this evolutionary journey.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=y_kaqK9wLLV2hJsCYl7mFwBcEPNGyuzRIZuHMW5dxoRj2vyQJPvcov1xOO9ZUsn_lG-6Km&country.x=AU&locale.x=AU)