When I say "easy food", I do not mean "fast food" (e.g. instant noodles). Fast food needs time and energy to manufacture. I am talking about having food without doing many things on it, not even genetic engineering. Food before existence of electric power supply was healthier because human could not do many things on the food. When I was a kid, I kept on wondering why people cook vegetables that can be eaten uncooked. People who do not like to cook should like this article more.

Things that are good for the body are things that do not need much effort to prepare. For example air is readily available for us. Breast milk is easily available from mother for baby. And our food should not need much time to prepare too. The most we should do to our food is grow it and wash it. Likewise to exercise we do not need a machine (e.g. a running machine). And the only thing we should do to our drinking water (due to the pollution today) is to filter it, not to chlorinate it, not to boil it.

Daily food is the best medicine. And it is the easiest way to utilize to maintain health because hungriness will push us to eat anyway. The motivation factor is basic but strong: being hungry. Other things that are also good for health usually lack of strong motivation due to lazy human behavior, for example doing exercise. Just utilize the urge to eat and drink to improve health. We cannot expect everybody to do exercise. We modern humans are not lazy to eat but are quite lazy to exercise.

Are raw vegetables and raw fruits good for health? Doesn't freshness mean something good? Do people who say no by giving excuses like taste, civilization and germs eat their apple cooked? Diet does not enhance or lower our intelligence or conduct. Some people say ancient human became human after eating cooked food. Dogs, cats, rats and cockroaches have been eating human processed food...do they become human?

We do not have to choose our food like in the acidic and alkaline food theory. We also do not need to calculate calorie or nutrients. Taking out a food chart or a calculator before meal is too much. Animals do not calculate those but they still live. And some animals only eat a specific thing but they still live healthily. The best things for health are available around us cheap. We do not need expensive supplement or ginseng. Our ancestors did not take supplements. The more time we spend on doing something to the food, the worse the food become. The more we squeeze our brain to think of how to prepare food, the less nutritious the food become. Also how many times we spoil the food with mistake in cooking? Rich people are more susceptible to  illness. Emperors and kings had shorter lifespan due to their delicate food. Less processed food means saving of energy too. And it is easier to wash the food plate after eating. Think of the environment in this matter and we will be rewarded with good health.

Some merchants even hide food that turns bad by cooking. Some of such bad food can be detected when it goes into the mouth, but some cannot be discovered if the merchants heavily flavor the food. Food that is not cooked if turns bad can be immediately distinguished by just looking at it.

Many vegetarians still suffer chronic sickness. I personally think the only explanation to this is they eat processed food. A lot of processed food does not even exist naturally, for example margarine. Our body definitely cannot handle those. There is no harmony.

We do not need to buy food to farm animals for milk but just need herd them and they will find their food. If the milk comes from animals that are not herded (instead confined in limited space and fed with unnatural food mixed with chemicals), then it will definitely bring damage. More damage is added by pasteurizing the milk. Pasteurized milk is not fresh milk, but raw milk is. Both pasteurized milk and raw milk can be contaminated if the handling is not hygienic so there is no point for pasteurization. We should only drink raw milk from herded animals. If such milk is not available (due to the law funded by commercialization), then we should not drink milk at all.

Do not make it an ideology by giving it a name like 'raw foodism' (such word cannot be easily found in dictionaries). It should be something normal. What we eat does not make us more righteous than others.  I believe consuming unprocessed food will make us sick less but it will not make us 100% no sickness.

Some people cannot tolerate raw food because their stomach indulges with processed food so they should change slowly. Perhaps some say they do not like to eat food raw. Then at least they should avoid any manufactured food, even the ones that are used to cook their food (e.g. processed palm oil, white sugar). Also some say they do not like to eat cold food, then they can quickly dip their food thru boiling water (not boiling oil).

There may be even some plants around that we can eat directly as snack as we walk by. Our great grandparents should know this better.

Anyway we live in society, so when someone invites us to have their food, we should not decline it for socialization sake. Do not try to force others to follow what we eat - that is obnoxious. Just avoid buying such food ourselves. If the place we live do not have raw vegetables and fruit, then we should eat whatever available there. If the place we live has fresh fruits and vegetables all year long, we should really appreciate it.

Even you are already ill due to consuming processed food, if you stop having it, then the illness will probably stop by itself slowly.

Last words
People who do not cook should not be shy about it but to say that it is a right thing not to cook. Health should be cheap. If we avoid eating processed food, then not only we save money not buying it, but also save time working on a cure for the illness they cause.