Raw food Cook healthier at under 42 degrees

Raw food is also a healthy alternative for children?

03/20/2015

Raw food enjoys a growing popularity as a healthy food culture. The Ludwig family offers here with their blog „Nordic raw“ comprehensive information on the raw food diet and describes her life with this particular diet. „We are convinced that a conventional diet limits the development of our health and our full potential“, Nutritionist Ute Ludwig and her husband Achim report.

The day begins with the Ludwig family from a small village near Hamburg, for example, with raw porridge made from cracked bare-ground oats with chia seeds and water, according to the news agency „dpa“. Even the two-year-old daughter Karla is highly satisfied with the food. „She loves this breakfast, also with banana, nut milk and hemp seed“, becomes mother Ute of the „dpa“ cited. The Ludwigs feed themselves according to own data exclusively from raw food, whereby no food is heated over 42 degrees. „Being a raw food does not just mean eating differently, it's also a whole lifestyle behind it“, explain on her family blog. It also shows how diverse the raw food diet actually is. From cakes, Christmas biscuits and sweets to salads, bread, pancakes or burgers, the range of recipes ranges.

Underrated raw food
Until today „Raw food underestimated by most people“, reports Sonja Reifenhäuser, food coach from Berlin, in the contribution of „dpa“. In fact, there are many possibilities, „to feed yourself with raw food full and varied.“ It is not without reason that the demand for green smoothies, raw cakes with cashew nuts and avocado filling or energy bars made of cocoa and dates is growing in the big cities, in trendy cafes and vegan supermarkets. Raw food is on the trend, but this does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with a fundamental change in diet. The Ludwigs, however, rely exclusively on raw food. Smoothies are drunk regularly with them, with daughter Karla in spring and summer, the necessary leaves, for example, dandelion or Giersch, with their mother in the garden can collect, so the announcement of „dpa“.

Risks of vegan raw food?
Possible deficits in the nutrient intake of their two-year-old daughter do not worry the Ludwigs, even if doctors at this point often show critical. For example, the Hamburg specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, Annette Lingenauber, of the „dpa“ quoted with the statement that „just a raw-vegan diet is not dangerous“ be. For example, lack of meat, fish, eggs and dairy products threatens a lack of vitamin B12 with the risk of neurological damage. The advocates of the special form of nutrition are, however, aware of the risks as a rule, because an intensive examination of the food and its components takes place, reports Sonja Reifenhäuser „dpa“. Of course, there are risks with this diet, but the great demand for information shows how intensively the raw food dieters are dealing with the topic. In the Ludwig family, who also eat raw vegan, for example, B12 is taken as a dietary supplement to avoid a deficiency. The little Karla show so far no signs of a nutrient deficit and is a real Wonneproppen, the Ludwigs report.

Avoid dogmatic nutritional requirements
According to Annette Lingenauber, the scheduled regular visits to the pediatrician are especially important if parents decide in favor of this diet. So could „important parameters such as growth and weight development are observed during U-studies“, becomes the Specialist in Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of the „dpa“ cited. For the two-year-old Karla, the vegan raw food is completely normal today and she shows according to the parents a healthy appetite. How this will develop in the future, according to mother Ute remains difficult to assess. A dogmatic diet, however, they wanted to avoid in any case. Even today, Karla should „eat other things, for example when she's with grandma and grandpa or with friends“, quotes the „dpa“ Ute Ludwig. An approach that is also advocated by Sonja Reifenhäuser. Because „Diet must be fun for children“ and „This also includes that mom and dad do not forbid everything and you try from other pots“, so Reifenhäuser. In other words, it is to be welcomed, when parents once test the raw food kitchen, because this offers many opportunities for children to experiment with food and taste. (Fp)

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