Raw Food Diet - Why Should You
Eat Raw Foods?
Raw Food Diet - Why Should You
Eat Raw Foods?
If you've been hearing a lot about raw
foods lately it's because people are finally starting to pay
attention to what they're putting into their mouths and the
effect it's having on their bodies. It's long been known
that healthier diets are those that include a lot of fruits,
veggies, nuts and seeds and are often referred to as the raw
food diet.
Raw food diets are not the kind of
diet you go on to just lose weight although you'll lose a
lot of weight fast, but a lifetime approach to a better
quality of life and superior health.
Raw foods are also called living
foods, and are essentially foods that are alive. Cooked
foods include all those foods that have been cooked, canned,
processed, packaged or refined, etc., in other words,
anything that is no longer alive.
Adding more living foods to your diet
has many health benefits. People find they need less sleep, have
much better mental clarity, can focus and concentrate on
tasks, have lots of energy, lose weight, get sick less often
or not at all, get rid of various ailments, have less aches
and pains and more.
Raw foods retain the enzymes they need
to digest it properly. If foods are not raw then the enzyme
structure has been tampered with by heating and they can no
longer do their natural job which is to digest the food they
are a part of. This makes the body work harder and the raw
food community experts believe it's because the body has to
tap emergency enzyme supplies in the pancreas to digest the
cooked food. This makes one feel tired and less energetic
after eating whereas if you eat living food you feel
energized after eating.
Heating, (including pasteurization),
also damages or nullifies many of the vitamins, minerals and
beneficial phytonutrients.
It's easy to start incorporating more
fruits and veggies into your diet without it being a totally
raw food diet.
I believe we need a lot more fruits and veggies than is now
promoted in the media.
For breakfast you can have two or
three fruits along with whatever else you're having except
try to eliminate as much cooked, dead food, as you can. For
lunch have fruits and veggies or a huge salad and eliminate
any bad foods.
Or have the huge salad for dinner along with some fruit and
then have whatever you'd like for dinner. For snacks eat
more fruit or nuts, for example.
You can easily learn to fix some of
the simple raw food recipes that are found in raw food
un-cookbooks. You can make things like candy, fudge, pie and
cakes that are all healthy and include nothing
cooked. Of
course the best diet is one of all raw foods but if you're
unable to do that you'll still greatly benefit from changing
your diet to a more healthy way.
You can buy fruit at reasonable prices
if you shop farms, farmer's markets and watch sales in the
whole foods stores etc. Or maybe grow some of it
yourself if you can or join one of the community
gardens!
Besides you may be giving up some expensive healthy food in
the process because your body won't have room for it with
all the fruit, veggies, nuts and seeds you're
eating!
I'm in excellent health after changing
my diet to all raw foods in 1999, curing myself naturally of
breast cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, acid reflux, sinus
infections, digestive problems and many other
ailments.
Try changing your diet to include more
living or raw foods even if it's slow-going and you'll start
to see some wonderful changes in your health. Soon you may
find that besides feeling great you really do enjoy more of
a raw food diet
For more tips on raw food diets, recipes, losing weight with
raw foods, curing breast cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia,
sinus, digestive and sleeping issues, acid reflux, headaches,
allergies, etc. see a nurse/raw food expert's:
http://www.RecipesRaw.com
and http://www.MyNaturalBreastCancerCure.com
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