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What You Should Know about the Raw Food Diet

I'm sure you've heard about the Raw Food diet. It was a buzz a couple of years ago and has gained popularity as a great way to loose weight.

What is the raw food diet?

A raw food diet means consuming food in its natural, unprocessed form. There are several common-sense rationales for why this is a good idea. It is all about eating unprocessed, uncooked, organic, whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, dried fruits, seaweeds, etc. It means a diet that is at least 75% uncooked! A raw food diet means eating more the way our ancient ancestors did. Our healthier, more fit ancestors. They cooked very little, and certainly didn’t cook or process fruits and vegetables. They ate them RAW.

Doesn’t it just make sense that this is how our bodies were meant to eat? It’s a way of eating that’s in harmony with the planet and in harmony with our own metabolisms. Our bodies were meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means exercise, certainly, but it also means eating natural, raw foods that require more energy to digest them.

There are a few things you should know before embarking on the raw food diet. First, while you are eating as close to natural as possible, you cannot eat raw meats since they harbor bacteria and parasites.

Second, restricting yourself to a pure raw diet can be an extreme change and might be hard to stick to. Instead of limiting yourself to only raw foods, simply add more servings of raw fruits and vegetables to your diet. Find your balance of a healthy well balanced diet and stick with that.

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