The Raw Food Diet

By Diet | Oct 6, 2009

The Raw food diet is easy and effective. It not only works to lose weight, however, it improves your health. This diet helps you feel energized. The theory behind the diet is that a large part of cooked food turns into fat production, because heat and acid change it, making it un-metabolizable in other complex processes. On the other hand, raw food should break down into components which can be directly metabolized in a variety of cells.

In the Raw food diet your intake is based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods. When you heat foods above one hundred and sixteen degrees Fahrenheit, you are destroying enzymes in food that can assist in the digestion and absorption of food. It also is thought that when one cooks food, you are diminishing the nutritional value of food.

The diet is almost all living or raw foods. The Raw food diet is great because there are numerous health benefits. It not only increases your energy, but it improves your skin appearance, betters your digestion, improves your weight loss, and reduces your risk of heart disease. Unlike other diets, the raw food diet contains less trans fat and saturated fat. It also is low in sodium, high in potassium.

If you are interested in some good preparation techniques, you could: Sprout seeds grains and beans, juice vegetables and fruit, soak nuts and dried fruit, blend your foods, or dehydrate your foods.

So, are you wondering what you can eat? The answer is anything unprocessed, preferably organic, whole foods such as: fruit, vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, dried fruit, seaweed, legumes, dried fruit, unprocessed organic or natural foods, freshly juiced fruit and vegetables, purified water, and young coconut milk. Delicious!

Start your raw food diet today! I have provided for you a sample meal plan, but of course your personal meal choices can and should vary.

BREAKFAST: Fresh fruit salad topped with almonds and pumpkin seeds; and a side of coconut milk.

LUNCH: Salad with veggies, sprouted lentils, seed cheese and olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing.

DINNER: Raw vegetables blended to a soup, half an avocado, fruit and sun tea.

Raw foods add fiber to your diet and assist in optimum colon health. Using an herbal colon cleanser like Co-Clean will also improve colon health by promoting increased energy, improved concentration, clearer sinuses, clearer skin and weight loss as the backed up toxins are purged from the digestive system.

Jennifer Hughs