Benefits of Eating a Raw Food Diet

Jan. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- You want to improve your health and your lifestyle. If you are considering what type of diet you will embark on for your upcoming change, consider the raw foods diet. It is, of course, important to eat healthy foods. It gives you the best advantage when it comes to your immune system fighting off disease and having sustained brain power and energy to run your personal engine.

Raw diets are sometimes called ‘superfood diets” because you eat only the best foods you can get and in their healthiest form. Although people eat green beans in their daily diet, for example, most of the vitamins are lost in the canning process, then further in the heating process. By eating the green beans in their more natural state you’ll retain as much of the vitamin and mineral content as possible.

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Fresh fruits and fresh vegetables have a cleansing effect on the blood. They work to detox the blood and help maintain the correct PH. Cooked veggies MAY create an acidic condition and the raw ones cause the opposite effect having an alkalizing effect.  , This makes for good balance in acidity  levels. Your ph balance is critical when it comes to resisting disease. Some forms of cancer are dependent on the levels of alkalinity  in your body.

If you are looking for a diet that will provide you with energy and good general health, the raw foods diet may be just what you need. You’ll get all the nutrients you need and antioxidants as well. Those are good for fighting disease and cancers.

Certain bacteria are good for your body and are present in raw foods. You need specific bacteria to flourish in your colon to aid digestion and the expelling of the toxic waste from your body. This helps in weight loss and to give you good general energetic health.

Raw foods can be easily eaten as snack foods to help get you started if a full raw food diet is too drastic a change for you. It’s as simple as changing your snacks from potato chips to carrots cut into sticks or chips. Buy some raw almonds or pumpkin seeds and eat a handful whenever you’re hungry. The protein keeps you full longer and the roughage does the job it’s meant to do.

Getting kids to join you in your quest for better health through diet isn’t as hard as you may think. Younger kids, especially, get a big kick out of the old celery filled with peanut butter (raw, jungle peanuts, of course!) and raisin ‘ants.’

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