The Raw Food Diet

Losing Weight With A Raw Food Diet

A raw food diet or natural, uncooked diet is a novel plan that can help you to lose weight faster in a healthy and natural way.  This diet plan, which stresses whole food and grains in the uncooked form, also encourages the use of organic and fully vegetarian meal-plans.





Before you start on this diet, remember that your menu is mainly restricted to uncooked fruits and vegetables, fresh juices, dried fruit, water, seaweed, grains, nuts, 


 
legumes and other things that are fully natural and of plant origin, meaning no more of anything cooked not even a small bowl of soup.  More than most diet plans, this is one that you will want to research well and prepare for in advance.
If you are wondering why fruits and veggies are different if they are cooked versus uncooked, then know that uncooked food has more essential enzymes in it which are destroyed by heat during cooking.  These essential enzymes help for a faster and easier digestion of the food.  Moreover, a fully plant-based diet has more fiber and a lot fewer fat and calories which, as all of us know, helps us to stay healthy and slim.

The raw food diet calls permits chopping, blending, juicing, or dehydrating at low temperatures.  This way, you get all the goodness of the food as it is in it’s natural state.
Some do believe that a raw food diet is not fit for some people, such as pregnant women, children, or those with anemia or who are prone to osteoporosis.  But there are pregnant women who remain healthy and fit throughout pregnancy while following a raw food diet plan, and according to them it is not the diet plan itself that is a cause for concern, rather it is an unbalanced approach to it that may be unhealthy.

A downside to this diet plan is the fact that some chemicals like the lycopene present in tomatoes and carrots have been proven to become more beneficial when they are cooked than when eaten raw.
Besides helping you to lose weight in a faster and healthy way, a raw food diet plan may also improve your heart health, boost digestion, increase your energy levels and give you healthy and glowing skin.
As with all diet plans, consult a doctor before you switch to a raw food diet and make sure that you have adequate quantities of nutrients when you are on it.