What is Raw Food Diet...

==== ====For Raw Food Diet Tips, check this out:http://www.realdiettips.com==== ===="Eating primarily raw foods is a gentle, delicious, nature oriented, and gradual way to restorehealth" - Gabriel Cousins M.D. Excerpted from Conscious Eating"To be truly healthy and to ensure adequate protection from environmental hazards and pollution itis important that you get an abundance of vital nutrients from live, uncooked foods, and freshjuices." -Ann Wigmore Excerpted from The Hippocrates DietThe Raw Food Diet is a pure vegetarian diet consisting of mostly raw organic fruits, vegetables,nuts, and seeds. Food is consumed in its natural whole state and not heated above 118 Deg F.Why Raw Foods?When you eat foods in their whole natural state all the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids,essential fats, phytonutrients, bioflavonoids, and plant hormones remain intact and ready forassimilation by the body.Doctors recommend at least 9 servings a day of fruits and vegetables for optimum health; the rawfood diet takes it a step further by increasing the intake of the amazing health promotingsubstances found in fresh produce.Here are just a few of the healing substances found in fresh produce and researchers arediscovering new ones all the time.Bioflavanoids- naturally occurring plant compounds that are: antioxidant, anti-mutagenic, anti-carcinogenic, anti-aging, and promote structure and function in the circulatory system.Phytonutrients-concentrated in the skin of many fruits and vegetables. Potent antioxidants that canneutralize free radical damage. Free radicals are highly reactive chemical substances that canlead to premature aging and disease.Why Not Cook Your Food?A variety of research has shown that cooking food above 118 Deg F and above:Destroys a good percentage of heat sensitive nutrientsDestroys the nutritive value of fat, and cooked fat has been shown to contain carcinogenicsubstances and free radicals

Alters protein into substances that disrupt cellular function and speed up the disease and agingprocessCreates the formation of acrylamide that has been shown to cause cancer in animal tests and istoxic to the nervous system of both humans and animalsAcrylamide is especially present in cooked starchy foods such as grains and potatoes.What Are the Benefits of the Raw Food Diet?Many people have found that on a mostly raw food diet:*Their energy level increases and they have more staminaThey naturally normalize to their ideal body weightTheir skin becomes clearer and they often start to look youngerTheir mental alertness increasesThey decrease their sleep needs by at least one hourTheir digestion improves and they become "regular"They get less colds and flues than the general populationMany people have also seen improvements in chronic health conditions such as asthma, chronicfatigue, fibromyalgia, lupus, and other autoimmune disorders. Even if you decide not to eat acompletely raw food diet you will notice positive improvements just by adding more raw organicfruits and vegetables to your diet.*These statements are from anecdotal evidence and have not been evaluated by the FDA. Beforeyou embark on a new diet regime please consult with your health care provider.What Do You Eat?Typically most people on the raw food diet eat fresh organic fruits, fruit smoothies or vegetablejuices for breakfast. For lunch they might eat more fruit or a vegetable dish such as a salad orblended soup. For dinner they might eat a large salad with a creamy nut or seed based dressingor avocado. Once you learn how to prepare raw foods you can make raw food dishes such as rawpizza, raw lasagna, raw spaghetti, raw crackers, raw nut or seed pates, raw tacos, blended rawsoups... (etc.) With a little creativity and the right kitchen tools the possibilities are endless. To getstarted right away just start adding more fresh fruits and vegetables into your routine. Add asmoothie or piece of fruit to your breakfast and a large salad at lunch and dinner. Snack on freshorganic fruit, vegetable sticks, low temperature dried fruits, or a handful of raw organic nuts andseeds.What Raw Items Can I Buy at my Local Health Food Store?

Organic Produce: including all organic fruits, vegetables, sprouts, and wheatgrassRaw items in the bulk department such as: organic raw nuts and seeds, low temperaturedehydrated fruits, and various seaweeds and algaeThai or Mexican Young Coconuts (Also know as Green or White Coconuts)Raw nut and seed butters (ex:raw almond butter, raw hemp seed butter, and raw tahini)Raw honeyRaw fermented cabbage sauerkrautPrepared low temp. dehydrated raw food snacks such as energy bars, crackers, chips, seasonednuts and seeds, cookies, brownies, and raw candiesSome health food stores might even have prepared raw foods in the deli or refrigerated section.Typically you will find raw desserts, raw pizza, raw dips and pates, raw salad dressings, andsalads.If your local health food store has a juice/smoothie bar you can ask for a fresh raw vegetable orfruit juice or a raw fruit smoothie. Fresh wheatgrass juice might also be available.If you local health food store does not carry these items please feel free to request them.I hope I inspired you to learn more about the raw food diet.Cecilia is a raw food teacher in Sonoma, California. For more information on the raw food dietcheck out Cecilias raw food website: Becoming Raw Your Online Source of Inspiration andInformation for Becoming Raw and Living a Glowing Life!Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Cecilia_Benjumea==== ====

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What is Raw Food Diet...

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