Vegetarianism: Raw Food Movement

Within recent years a new vegetarian dietary trend has burst upon the scene. The raw food movement eschews enzyme-depleted cooked foods in favor of high-enzyme raw vegetables and fruits. It would be more accurate to say that the trend started back in the 1830s with Sylvester Graham, who recommended living on unfired vegetables and fruits as the optimum diet. The raw food movement was given its greatest public exposure in the modern era by Bernarr Macfadden, who for the first four decades of the twentieth century ran a successful publishing empire while living ostentatiously on a raw vegetarian diet.