Raw Food Diet

Eat all you want as long as it is raw

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Imaging eating almost anything you want, as much as you want, without gaining any weight. According to the Raw Food diet, this is all possible as long as the food you eat is raw. If you eat your food raw you will even lose weight.

A Raw Food diet consists of unprocessed, preferably organic, whole foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, grains, legumes, dried fruit, seaweed, unprocessed organic or natural foods. At least 75% of food consumed should not be heated over 116 ° Fahrenheit (46,67 ° Celsius). The Raw Food diet contains fewer trans fats and saturated fat than the typical Western diet.

The picture above:  raw tomato sauce with olives, celery, spinach and walnuts on zucchini noodles.

Blend your fruits and vegetables to release the nutrients

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Young coconut milk, fresh fruit and vegetables juice and purified water is also part of the Raw Food diet. If you drink fresh juice your body will absorb more of the vitamins and minerals than if you were to eat the fruits and vegetables whole. The explanation of this interesting fact is that many of the nutrients are trapped in the fiber and by blending fruits and vegetables, you break down the fiber and release the vital nutrients.

Cooked food is not good for our health and affects our weight

We all know that when we cook our food we will lose a lot of nutrition. But what happens to the nutrition? Does it disappear? No, but it gets transformed by chemical reactions created by carcinogens, mutagens and free radicals. Cooked food changes its nutrition into free-radicals and poisons, that affects our health badly and affects our weight.

Live enzymes from a Raw Food diet, like Lipase and Protease, are an important factor that can lead to easy weight loss. Lipase is an enzyme that helps your body to break down fat. Protease helps break down proteins and eliminate toxins, essential when you are burning fat.

Unfortunately it’s not only cooked food that can damage our enzymes. There are other factors as well such as stress, coffee, air pollution, food irradiation and poor sleep. No wonder we are enzyme deficient. Problems with the digestive system, immune system, stress levels, colon, skin or energy levels etc are other symptoms that your body is not in balance. Overweight is really just a “symptom” of a body out of balance. When your body is out of balance it will damage the important enzymes mentioned above. When your body is in balance your weight will automatically/naturally be in balance as well. So eating raw and enzyme-rich foods is more than just a weight loss issue since it affects your whole being.

Lose weight with raw food

If you want to lose weight there is another important factor why a Raw Food diet can be helpful. If you don’t get adequate nutrition from your food, your body goes into starvation mode and stores as much fat as it can while continuing sending signals that you are hungry.

If you still have your hesitations about the fact that a Raw Food diet might help you lose weight than consider this: If a farmer wants to fatten up their hogs quickly they feed them with cooked potatoes, not raw. If you want your cattle to gain weight you feed them cooked grain, not raw. If the animals are given raw enzyme rich foods they will never gain weight regardless of calorie intake. When 3000 primitive Eskimos were studied Dr Levin of Omaha, Nebraska, relieved an interesting fact. During 3 trips to the Arctic the Eskimos ate large amounts of fat in the form of raw blubber and other fats as well as raw meat, only one of the 3000 Eskimos were found overweight.

You should be aware that some people experience a detoxification reaction when they start the Raw Food diet, especially if their previous diet was rich in meat, sugar and caffeine. Mild headaches, nausea and cravings can occur but usually disappears after a couple of days.