Consuming a high raw diet does many amazing benefits for your body. When you eat food high in nutrients your body is clean and your hunger usually decreases as well as your craving for “unhealthy” or “bad foods”.
The raw organic food diet is a diet based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit (goji berries, mulberries and etc), and seaweed. Heating food above 116 degrees F is believed to destroy nutrients, enzymes in food that can assist in the digestion and absorption of food. Cooking is also thought to diminish the nutritional value and "life" of food. Raw foodists believe that if you consume mainly uncooked foods you will achieve significant desirable weight loss and weight stability, also you will not put the weight back on. They also believe that a raw organic food diet enhances your body's ability to prevent and fight diseases, especially chronic diseases.
Following a diet based on the benefits of raw food is an excellent way to lose weight in a natural way and it will also help you to improve your health. It is not only important that you eat it; you must know what the benefits of a raw food diet. The raw food diet contains much fewer trans fat and saturated fat than the typical diet. It is also low in sodium and high in potassium, magnesium, folate, fiber and health-promoting plant chemicals called phytochemicals.
Pros and Cons of a raw food diet are:
Pros: much better skin, more energy, weight loss, sustained weight loss, better blood test results (cholesterol and lipid levels)
Cons: requires a lot of organization, motivation, can be difficult to keep it up, especially when going out to eat, requires a lot of preparation
The diet and lifestyle choices you are confronting today are much more than just good ideas you read about in some book -- you are choosing to increase your life energy or choosing to ignore it. So don’t waste your food, yourself, and the planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are have the ability to transmit their life nutrients directly to you.
