Raw Food Diet Weight Loss Review

Here’s a review of the popular raw food diet weight loss program that may help you slim together with some recipes.

The raw food diet is a way of eating that just allows you to eat food as nature intended in a kind of detox manner because it excludes any meat.

It concentrates on the items produced naturally from plants and trees so includes all fruits and vegetables, pulses, nuts and seeds so is mainly thought to be a vegan or vegetarian diet although people believe it leads to weight loss – which it probably will because there is no fat in fruit and vegetables although there are natural sugars.

It’s believed by the folks that promote raw food as a way of dieting that certain enzymes that help the digestion system absorb nutrients are destroyed by heating or cooking the raw ingredients.

Benefits of The Raw Food Diet

Perhaps like any diet that cuts down on saturated fat and calories following a regime of eating unprocessed natural foods as they are produced can only have overall health benefits. So like any other low fat/ healthy type diet this regime is likely to initially give you:

• more energy
• weight loss
• improved skin conditions
• better concentration
• be less lethargic

As your body gets used to the new intake of these foods you will probably have much less cravings for “bad things” such as burgers or sweets. It will take some time for these changes to be noticed but you will notice that you are looking forward to eating the “raw foods”.

Additionally eating raw foods means you should consume less trans fatty acids, lower sodium and higher fiber, potassium and magnesium. You can get plenty of iron from watercress, spinach, nuts, and dried figs and prunes. Demi Moore was once on this diet and lost weight as a consequence.

Potential negatives of this diet

Like any vegan will testify eating just fruit and vegetables means you may have nutritional deficiencies such as iron, calcium, protein, calories and vitamin B12 in your diet  and so you may need to take additional vitamins and supplements to compensate for not getting these naturally and get the things you need.

As the human body has developed into accepting today’s processed foods you may find yourself feeling “spaced out” initially like other detox type diet programs.

The lack of carbohydrates taken will also likely lead to bad breath rather like the atkins diet and get headaches and fever symptoms as your body withdraws from today’s eating habits. It may take at least 2 weeks for your body to adjust to the changes (but of course you should seek medical advice before changing any diet).

Because of the mix of foods and the speed of digestion of fruit and vegetables (it really only takes perhaps 1 hours to digest food completely) you may find yourself feeling hungry all the time so the actual volume of food you need to take will increase.

Challenges

Some of the hurdles to overcome may not seem obvious and the main one might be the ability to find fresh produce all year around unless you live in a sunny state like Florida some foods are almost impossible to locate in the winter months.

The other side is to keep the diet interesting. Certainly there is so much you can do with raw fruit and vegetables and recipes are required to keep you going. (just look at the vegetarian options at restaurants and you’ll know what we are talking about !)

This type of diet may not be suitable for all including children, pregnant women, older people and persons at risk of osteoporosis and anyone thinking of changing their lifestyle in terms of what they eat should consult their doctor in the first instance.

We hope that provides you with an overview for the raw food diet weight loss review and if you have any thoughts or have tried this diet yourself just let us know by posting below.

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