Simple question: Is your meal substantially nutritious?

You need to be asking yourself this question all the time: Is there substantial  nutrition in your meal?  Here is an example of an average daily meal plan: For breakfast: eggs, hash browns, toast coffee.  For lunch: turkey sandwich, cole slaw, bag of potato chips and a Coke.  For dinner: steak, steamed carrots, mash potatoes, bread roll, butter, and chocolate cake for dessert.  I am not going to go into the reasons behind why most of this food is a problem because I want you to understand one extremely important factor:  Most all of this food has been cooked to death.  By death I mean, that a majority of all the vitamins and nutrients that the body craves have been cooked out of the food and that this food has not enough substantial nutrition.  Not to mention that the digestion involved is soo difficult for the body for a variety of reasons.  An optimal nutritious diet requires you to eat food that contains vitamins, nutrients and enzymes found primarily in living food or food that is uncooked.  For a while, I was a 100% Vegan Raw Foodist.  I no longer abide by that, but I advocate 50-60% uncooked food.  When your entire meal is all cooked food, the enzymes and nutrients have been by and large decimated by the cooking process.  A diet rich in nutrients and enzymes (found in vegetables and fruits) also curbs your appetite, whereas a diet of mostly cooked food will ultimately keep you hungry.