Raw Food Diet

17 Jun

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What is the raw food diet?

It is a lifestyle that supports eating only living and raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and seaweeds. Nothing is heated or cooked above 116 degrees F.A raw food diet creates major improvements in health. The reasons are not known, but the experience is unmistakable. Weight normalizes, which generally means a reduction in fat. At the same time, a person feels extremely energized. It’s as if energy would rather be burned up than converted to fat.

Raw food diet is catching on with people of all ages across several countries in a big way. Before we go on to what are the different kinds of foods that can be considered raw foods, and that what the advantage of such foods are, an understanding of what raw food actually means, is very important.

What are the Benefits of the Raw Food Diet?

Proponents of the raw food diet believe it has numerous health benefits, including: Increased energy, Improved skin appearance, Better digestion, Weight loss, Reduced risk of heart disease. The raw food diet contains fewer trans fats and saturated fat than the typical Western diet. It is also low in sodium and high in potassium, magnesium, folate, fiber and health-promoting plant chemicals called phytochemicals.

Protein:

This diet is abundant in protein. I averaged 40g of protein per day, which is more than enough to meet my needs, even with daily exercise and strength training sessions every week. I was aiming to average at least 25g of protein per day, which is very easy to achieve on this diet as long as I consume sufficient calories.Cooked protein becomes a sticky mess that doesn’t digest well at all. Raw plant foods provide all the protein we need, in the right form for easy assimilation.

Raw foods certainly aren’t safer than cooked food, as some claim. Most commercial chicken and a good deal of beef and pork, sadly, are loaded with bacteria and parasites. Cooking kills this, unless the meat is rancid. Major and surprising sources of food-borne illness, however, are raw sprouts, green onions and lettuce. These must be washed thoroughly before consumption. Raw (unpasteurized) milk is dangerous and mostly illegal to buy; trust your source. Raw (sprouted) kidney beans and rhubarb are poisonous.

Are there any side effects?

Dr Gina Shaw, raw foodist and author of Nutrition and Emotions: How to Transform your Life through Optimum Nutrition (GLS Publications, £7.99) says that some detoxification effects may be experienced as your body attempts to shed some toxicity.

This may include occasional headaches, nausea sensations and mild depression. Dr Shaw says that these symptoms are short-lived. If these symptoms persist, you should seek the help of somebody who is experienced with detoxification symptoms.

How to Introduce the Raw Diet To Children:

In recent years there has been lots of buzz around the medical community regarding the benefits of raw food. People have begun raw food diets and are seeing and feeling the benefits… and how it’s affecting their bodies. With this comes the realization that by incorporating raw foods into the diets of their children, they can begin to enjoy the benefits at a very early age.Children can be very picky eaters though and it can be a struggle to get them to eat anything new. When a young child is accustomed to eating cooked foods, the difference in taste and texture with raw food can take some time for adaptation.

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