Monday 1 June 2015

Best Raw Foods to Add to Your Diet Today

You don’t have to adopt a completely raw diet to see the benefits from adding more raw foods to your daily routine. Even swapping one cooked food for a raw option at each meal can make a difference in how you look, feel and perform.

Some of the benefits of eating more raw foods include:

    Increased energy production and mental clarity
    Natural cleansing effects
    More available enzymes to break down your food and absorb nutrients,
    Less risk of over eating (eat as many raw fruits and veggies as you like and you’ll still never reach that comatose-full feeling you get from cooked foods)
    Less food packaging
    Digestive regularity
    More antioxidants
    Better complexion

Here are the top 10 raw foods you should be adding to your diet on a regular basis. The pros? They’re all amazingly delicious foods that you don’t have to choke down for the sake of good health!

Source : www.fullcircle.com/goodfoodlife/2012/02/02/10-best-raw-foods-to-add-to-your-diet-today/

How does the Raw Food Diet work?

Pros & Cons

    Fruits and veggies dominate the menu
    Nearly guaranteed weight loss

    Tedious meal prep; equipment required
    Lots of rules

There are numerous variations of the raw food diet, and you have the power to shape your own. Typically, though, about 75 to 80 percent of what you eat each day will be plant-based foods never heated above 115 degrees Fahrenheit. (Very few people follow a 100 percent raw diet.) Most followers are vegan, but some choose to consume raw animal products, such as raw (unpasteurized) milk, cheese made from raw milk, sashimi, raw fish and certain kinds of raw meat. You’ll eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds and nuts, including cashews, sunflower seeds and raw almond butter; some foods are marked as raw and sold at grocery stores, while others require home-prep. Grains are also OK, as are dried organic legumes (think lentils, chickpeas, adzuki beans and mung beans) eaten raw. Other common choices include cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil; raw virgin coconut oil; and raw coconut butter. Freshly-squeezed vegetable juice and herbal tea are also staples.

Source : health.usnews.com/best-diet/raw-food-diet

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