Because from thirty to eight-five percent of the nutrition in foods is destroyed in cooking. Common sense tells us that a cancer patient can not afford to eat anything that is not health giving. There are two more reasons for eating raw foods. Cancer cells proliferate only where there is not enough oxygen for cells to be healthy. Give the area and the whole body optimal oxygen and cancer can't proliferate.
Raw foods contain an abundance of oxygen.
In cooked foods, oxygen is destroyed. This is a fact. Another reason to eat raw foods is that they give more energy. They contain all the nutrients. Immunologists say that we all have cancer cells in our bodies but a healthy body doesn't develop cancer because it has a defense system with specialized cells that can recognize cancer cells and destroy them.