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The Raw Foods Diet For Health And Weight Loss
By Michael Bens
Though it will probably never become a mainstream way of eating, there are those who swear by the raw foods diet. Not only will this diet help you lose weight, but it is also supposed to be healthier than any other way of eating. The concept is simple, though it may not be so easy to follow. Because proponents of the raw foods diet believe that nutrients are destroyed when food is cooked, they eat all or most of their food in its raw state, or as close to raw as it can be.
Needless to say, the raw foods diet is a vegetarian diet. In fact, it contains no animal products at all, so it is a vegan diet. And it’s not for everyone – clearly, some people would find this way of eating too restrictive. However, it’s not quite as restrictive and monotonous as you might think. There are many great raw foods cookbooks out there and they show you how to prepare a wide variety of main courses, desserts and snack foods using only raw fruits and vegetables as ingredients. It may surprise you to find, for example, that there is a substitute for pasta that can be made on the raw foods diet – the ‘pasta’ is actually shreds of vegetable, such as squash, carrot or potato.
Though it’s called raw foods, some food on this diet is cooked a little – just not for very long, or at a high temperature. There is not doubt, though, that the bulk of the diet is made up of salads and other raw vegetable dishes. Of course, fruit and fruit juices round out this eating plan.
The good news is this – if you follow the raw foods diet, you can eat as much as you want, and there is almost no doubt that you will lose weight. Most fruits and vegetables are so low in fat and calories, and so high in water and fiber, that eating them will actually help you to lose weight. So, as long as you stick to the foods on the diet, you are almost certain to succeed.
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