Science has long understood the healthy benefits of eating raw food or foods that are not fully cooked. When food is cooked the chemical components of that food change. During that change, valuable healthy vitamins and minerals are lost. Our body is a chemical processing plant. We know that our body breaks down proteins to make different and more complex chains of proteins. We know that our body uses certain vitamins for specific purposes, such as, fighting off infections, growing new cells, etc. It should come as no surprise to most people that eating raw foods brings a health benefit. In the following paragraphs we will look briefly at some of the health benefits of eating raw foods.