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raw food diet- This particular diet is lifestyle that supports eating only living and raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and seaweeds. Any food item is heated or cooked above 116 degrees F. As this food is raw or cooked on very low temperature this it provides major improvements in health.

Benefits of raw food -Proponents of the raw food diet believe it has numerous health benefits and it includes increased energy, improved skin appearance, better digestion, weight loss and reduced risk of heart disease. It is low in sodium and high in potassium, magnesium, floated, fiber and health-promoting plant chemicals called photochemical.

The reasons are not known, but the experience is unmistakable. Weight normalizes, which generally means a reduction in fat. At the same time, a person feels extremely energized. It’s as if energy would rather be burned up than converted to fat.

Protein- This diet is abundant in protein. Cooked protein becomes a sticky mess that doesn’t digest well at all. Raw plant foods provide all the protein we need, in the right form for easy assimilation.

Side effects- Raw foods certainly aren’t safer than cooked food but some claim.  Most commercial chicken and a good deal of beef and pork, sadly, are loaded with bacteria and parasites.  Cooking kills this, unless the meat is rancid.  Major and surprising sources of food-borne illness, however, are raw sprouts, green onions and lettuce.  These must be washed thoroughly before consumption.  Raw milk is dangerous and mostly illegal to buy. Raw (sprouted) kidney beans and rhubarb are poisonous.

This may include occasional headaches, nausea sensations and mild depression. Many doctors say that these symptoms are short-lived. If these symptoms persist, you should seek the help of somebody who is experienced with detoxification symptoms.

How to Introduce the Raw Diet to Children- In recent years there have been lots of buzz around the medical community regarding the benefits of raw food. People have begun raw food diets and are seeing and feeling the benefits and how it’s affecting their bodies. With this comes the realization that by incorporating raw foods into the diets of their children, they can begin to enjoy the benefits at a very early age. Children can be very picky eaters though and it can be a struggle to get them to eat anything new. When a young child is accustomed to eating cooked foods, the difference in taste and texture with raw food can take some time for adaptation.

raw food diets are nutritious eating patterns popular among those who want to lose weight and those who desire overall well-being. These diets focus on fresh, raw, and natural food while they do away with anything that’s cooked or heated. The reason? Well, according to the followers of these types of eating pattern, much of the nutrients needed by the body are lost during cooking and heating of food above 116 degrees Fahrenheit. And if a person really wants to enjoy good health, the best way is to go raw.

The Benefits of Raw Food Diet

Going raw on food offers a lot of benefits, not only in terms of health but as well as when it comes to practical reasons. Among these benefits are the following:

•    Rawfood diet is beneficial to overall health

1.    It reduces unhealthy fats in the body and risks of heart disease
2.    It reduces the occurrence of certain types of cancer like bladder cancer and oral cancer
3.    It also reduces occurrence of cold and flu
4.    It improves digestion due to the preservation of digestion-enhancing enzymes in raw foods
5.    It gives more energy—even if you eat only a small amount of food

•    Raw food diet is also proven to improve aesthetic physical aspects

1.    It’s proven to improve the health of the skin, making it look radiant
2.    It also makes a person look younger
3.    It is an ideal means for losing weight

•    Preparation of raw foods is easier and simpler, so it’s more practical

1.    raw foods do not require the complicated process of cooking, and they can be easily prepared with simple equipment like blender and juicer
2.    Cleaning up after meals is also easier when you go raw—no greasy residues or whatsoever
3.    Preparing raw foods do not require a lot of ingredients and utensils, so you can save more on your expenses

All these benefits are more than enough reasons to go raw in your diet. But, before you do so, before you jump into raw food consumption, you must know that there are also some risks with raw food diets. You must be aware of these so that you can counter their effects and get only the best benefits.

The Risks of Raw Food Diet

Raw food diet is no doubt an ideal eating pattern, but it also has some limitations and risks. For one, there are some foods whose nutrient contents are best absorbed when cooked. These foods include eggs as well as some vegetables like tomatoes. Aside from this limitation, there are two risks with an all-raw diet. These are the following:

1.    Food poisoning. First and foremost, most plant foods are exposed to chemicals like pesticides. Therefore, if you’re eating raw, be sure that you choose the food you eat. It’s also important that you thoroughly wash and clean the food before preparing it.

2.    Nutrient deficiency. Researches have shown that while raw food diet is rich in some nutrients like Vitamin A, it is lacking in other nutrients like Vitamin B12 and iron, calcium, and omega 3. Therefore, if you’re going into this kind of diet, you may need to take vitamin supplements.

By knowing all the benefits and risks of raw food diets, it would be easy for you to strike correct balance. This will ensure that you get only positive results and avoid the negative ones.

When starting out on a raw food diet it will be prudent to get some perspective as to where you stand right now. First and foremost, don’t just accept the hype surrounding raw food diets and just jump into it.

Rather take it slowly and easily and incorporate a raw food diet into your daily life.

So here are the most important things that you should know when starting out on a raw food diet:

a. Raw food is rich in dietary fiber: This is almost critically important to maintaining a good digestive system, in fact every stomach related problems from stomach burns to gastritis, constipation and even appendicitis.

b. Raw food is high in caretenoids like beta-carotene which is extremely important in protecting you against cancer and other life threatening ailments.

c. You can eat as much as you like and still not get fat.

d. raw foods can help you conquer obesity and help you stay slim.

e. It can boost your body’s natural defenses against colds, flu, measles etc.

Clearly even just incorporating a raw vegan food diet in bits can yield more benefits that you can enjoy.

The biggest fact that will most probably stop you is the “routine” that you have become acclimatized to. You know the old 3 meals a day routine that is so common everywhere. While being an office goer might warrant the need to have three meals a day (although by no means necessary) you should try to have little “snacks” or “mini-meals” several times a day.

Eat only as much as you feel like. The biggest problem with the three meal routine is that people end up literally stuffing themselves as they wont get to eat for many hours.

Try some raw recipes and see what works for you, in the end only you have to gain and there is absolutely nothing to lose.

When starting out on a raw food diet it will be prudent to get some perspective as to where you stand right now. First and foremost, don’t just accept the hype surrounding raw food diets and just jump into it. Rather take it slowly and easily and incorporate a raw food diet into your daily life. So here are the most important things that you should know when starting out on a raw food diet:

a. Raw food is rich in dietary fiber: This is almost critically important to maintaining a good digestive system, in fact every stomach related problems from stomach burns to gastritis, constipation and even appendicitis.

b. Raw food is high in caretenoids like beta-carotene which is extremely important in protecting you against cancer and other life threatening ailments.

c. You can eat as much as you like and still not get fat.

d. It can help you conquer obesity and help you stay slim.

e. It can boost your body’s natural defenses against colds, flu, measles etc.

Clearly even just incorporating a raw vegan food diet in bits can yield more benefits that you can enjoy. The biggest fact that will most probably stop you is the “routine” that you have become acclimatized to. You know the old 3 meals a day routine that is so common everywhere. While being an office goer might warrant the need to have three meals a day (although by no means necessary) you should try to have little “snacks” or “mini-meals” several times a day. Eat only as much as you feel like. The biggest problem with the three meal routine is that people end up literally stuffing themselves as they wont get to eat for many hours.

Try some raw recipes and see what works for you, in the end only you have to gain and there is absolutely nothing to lose.

Are you really eager to go raw, but just can’t seem to muster up the courage to get started?

These are some of the top 10 benefits of the raw food diet that most every raw foodist has experienced.  If this doesn’t convince you to go raw, I just don’t know what will!

#1: Improved digestion

If I had to give you my top raw food benefit, improved digestion would be it.  It is the one result that almost every single person who attempts a healthy raw diet experiences.

Not only that, but it usually occurs very quickly.  Almost every digestive issue can be solved in just a few short days, if not less.  Whether you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome or just the occasional upset tummy, you will see major improvements after going raw.

However, if you continue to abuse the #1 food combining rule, than your results will not be as great.  No amount of raw food can undo the effects of the sugar-fat combo.

#2: Permanent Weight Loss

Hmmmm…maybe permanent weight loss should be the top benefit?

I don’t think it’s going too far to say that close to 99.9999999% of people struggle with their weight at some point in their lives.  Many of us go on diet after diet after diet hoping that we will see *some* kind of change in our weight.

Unfortunately, the only change that most of us witness is a higher number on the scale.  And if we do happen to lose weight, it’s usually at the expense of our health (i.e. calorie restriction, dangerous diet pills, frozen food programs, etc.) and typically comes back to haunt us sooner or later.

On the other hand, eating a healthy raw food diet allows you to lose weight *permanently* while improving your health substantially.  Plus, you get to eat *pounds* of food on a daily basis, without any guilt!

#3: More Energy

Unlike what you read/hear from many well-known raw foodists, raw foods do *not* give you energy.  Nothing you eat does, whether it’s a burger or a banana.  Eating food of any kind *requires* energy, just as everything else that you do during the day requires energy.

What makes following a healthy raw vegan diet truly special is that it requires less energy to process inside your body.  2 pounds of grapes literally takes *minutes* to be fully digested by the body.  This is opposed to cooked foods, or even a complicated fatty raw dish, which take hours to be digested.

The one *true* energy provider is sleep, which brings me to benefit #4…

#4: Better Sleep

Since I’ve been raw, I rarely ever feel tired when I get into bed.  Even after being raw for so long, I still get ready for bed sometimes and think, “Gee, I’m not going to be able to fall asleep right now.  Maybe I should just stay up for a little longer.”

However, I convince myself to get into bed and the moment my head hits the pillow, I feel so relaxed.  Within minutes, I’m out.

The best part?  When I wake up, I feel completely awake and ready to begin my day.  No more groggy mornings for me!

This is a far cry from my bedtime routine from two years ago.  My routine was this: feel absolutely exhausted by 4pm.  Try not to fall asleep at the wheel on the way to a client’s house.  Feel a little better after a 30-minute nap.  Feel exhausted again by 7pm.  Get into bed still exhausted by 10pm.  Remain awake for an hour.  Wake up at 7am groggy and grouchy.  Repeat.

Yikes, that makes me tired just writing it!

#5: Mental Clarity

I’m sure that many non-raw foodists will disagree with this one.  Raw foodists are supposed to be tree-hugging, hippie nut jobs, right?

On a raw food diet, because you are no longer weighing your body down with hard-to-digest cooked foods, you have more energy to use your brain!

Of course, this has a lot to do with sleep as discussed previously.  Because we spend less energy digesting our foods, we sleep more soundly.  This means that we have more energy during the day, meaning our thoughts are generally much clearer and our focus greatly improved.  We are more mentally, and even emotionally stable.

It’s really a cycle, isn’t it?  The more raw foods you eat, the better you sleep.  The better you sleep, the more energy you have.  The more energy you have, the more mentally stable you are.  The more mentally stable, the easier it is to stay raw.  The longer you stay raw…

#6: Soft, Smooth, & Clear Skin

To be honest, I’ve always had pretty good skin.  I’ve had maybe three blemishes in my entire life.  In fact, the worst my skin has ever been was for the first few months *after* I gave up salt!  But that’s for another article…

I’m not trying to brag.  I just want to be honest.  I’m not here to make up crazy transition stories about how going raw made me grow 5 inches taller and gave me the power of flight.  Although I have gone down almost 2 full shoes…

Anyway, I’m sure that many of you struggle with skin problems, whether it’s a blotchy skin tone, dry skin, oily skin, visible pores, blemishes, etc.

You *do not* need an expensive, chemical-laden skin treatment routine that only serves to further irritate your already abused skin.  All you need is a good heapin’ helping of water-rich raw fruits and veggies.

And some sunshine couldn’t hurt either.

#7: Thick, Healthy, & Shiny Hair

I’ve always had really thick hair, but it was very dry and hard to manage before I went raw.  The worst part was that I would shed like crazy!  My Mom was always pulling handfuls of my long locks out of the rollers of the vacuum.  Yuck!

Now that I eat plenty of nourishing, water-rich foods, my hair is silky and soft.  And I’m no longer a shedding machine!

#8: Healthy Teeth & Gums

But aren’t your teeth supposed to rot out of your head when you go raw?

NO!  The fact that so many long-term raw foodists have suffered tooth decay is simply a testament to the fact that the mainstream raw food diet *does not work*.

On a healthy raw food diet full of sweet fruit, moderate vegetables and little fat, you will not experience teeth problems.  In fact, the condition of your teeth and gums is likely to improve!

The real key is to have a solid dental care system in place and not to make dehydrated foods the base of your diet.

#9: No More Aches, Pains, or Minor Illnesses

How many of you have struggled with “everyday” illnesses and pains such as headaches, migraines, colds, flus, tummy aches, joint pains, muscle cramps, allergies, etc.?  We all have at some point!

I used to struggle with

anemia restless leg syndrome muscle and joint pains in my legs and feet seasonal colds about 3-4 times a year (pretty much whenever the weather changed) the flu every couple of years headaches heavy menstrual flows and horrible cramps in my abdomen and lower back that left me in tears

And of course there were the seemingly random and unexplained aches and pains that would crop up every once in a while.

Every one of these has been *completely eradicated* since I went raw.  No more headaches.  No more colds.  Perhaps best of all, no more heavy periods and gut-wrenching cramps!  Sorry, guys, but that really is a big one for us ladies.

#10: Save Some Green

When you decide to take your health into your own hands and go raw, you can expect to save *heaps* of money in the process.

No more money wasted on unnecessary drugs, supplements or “superfoods.”  No more expensive doctor’s fees.  No more high insurance rates.

You can finally focus on *you* and spend that extra time and money on the things that actually make you more…well, you!

Still Waiting to Go Raw?

What are you waiting for?  Each day that you remain a slave to your aching back, your extra fat, or even your trip to the local pharmacy, is a day that you could be living raw and loving it!

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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit. com. In this excerpt, Dr. Gabriel Cousens hand what addiction can do for you.

NEWS The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, the founder of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and author of “Conscious Eating” and “spiritual Nutrition. ”

KEVIN NEWS: I am extremely excited about it. So why not start talking about detoxification? What’s your story? How were you involved there?

GABRIEL NEWS: Well, first I explore a spiritual perspective. In 1982, the mine was one of 40 days of fasting.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: is the file. . . probably the best way to start – it was a great way for me to start but I really do not recommend for most people.

KEVIN NEWS: [Laughs]

GABRIEL NEWS: In 1988 I really started doing retreats for fasting people.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.
GABRIEL NEWS: and a lot of different searches. We have, in fact right now we are in the midst of a spiritual yoga juice fast.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: So it’s really fun to share together. In the tree we do, we actually changed 2 different fasts. It is where people come every once a week, and what we had just called a detox fast.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: Then we had a spiritual fast, which is like a week at a seminar. It’s really a 9-day fast. So, that’s kind of what we do. This is one of the main things we focus. We have developed a lot of research in technology along the way with it. I think the most important thing to understand is that fasting is the most natural and most potent means of detoxification. Paracelsus, the great physician of the Renaissance in the 16th century and so on, discussed the most powerful healer is fasting.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: and Hippocrates, one of the great Greek physician, also said that fasting is the medical procedure. So why not work fast? Because it activates a vital force, and is the life force that stimulates the body that gives him enough energy for detoxification.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: So, the model we can take is that the cells are filled with toxins, but they are also overloaded.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: And they are not as able to get the toxins. So when we fast, we stimulate a process of activating cells, and also, I’ll use it to call it a diffusion process. What we mean, as you’re pulling toxins through the law of fasting by doing what we do, eliminating in many areas, we do brushing of the skin which we’ll talk. . . we enemas and colonics.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: We do not clean the kidneys and liver. We breathe to clear the toxins out of the lung. We help people to gas, so that they – here in Arizona, you can be outside naked in certain areas, so you are getting a full body cleansing in the air. So all these things begin to reduce the toxins naturally. And in this way, it starts with. . . cells. But the key is truly vital force, which is strongly activated by the power of fasting.

KEVIN NEWS: OK. And you spoke about detoxification, I mean, what are some things that we need to detoxify from?

GABRIEL NEWS: Life!

KEVIN: [laughs]

GABRIEL NEWS: Really We have physical toxins, emotional, mental, spiritual and toxins.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: And when people come here to Patagonia, Arizona, they received a very, very clean air and the clean water. People are then able to rest and relax because in most people in the modern world have lost touch with their pace.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

NEWS GABRIEL: touch What life is about, they have lost the sense of what life is like, and substance of their mission, their sacred mission in life. And if the fast is a time to restore and put us in contact with your sacred rhythm, your sacred design, and also get in touch with the rhythm of the planet. We live in the cities, the pace of the planet, you know?

KEVIN NEWS: Yeah.

GABRIEL NEWS: You can not see the sunset because the skyscraper is in the path, and it is as if kind of thing. So fast, in a deeper sense, helps you reconnect with your essential self. Now, that said, we will focus a bit more about the physical part of it and various fasts have different effects.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: At 7 days is fast that we do. Now we – just to be clear, there are people who come here and they fasted for 80 days.

KEVIN NEWS: Wow.

GABRIEL NEWS: 90 days, and had enormous benefits. We’ll talk later. I think a week is fast may be more appropriate for people and a good place to start. First, fasting is not something new. It is 5000 years old. Almost every culture has.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: and in the animal world, dogs can fast until 60 days. Salmon swim upstream for months without food. Penguins go 3 months without food. It’s part of it – the cycle of nature.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: But why a week, and why is it worked. What we found is that it takes about a week according to my research to get rid of toxins from the colon. Now, where do toxins from the gut? Well, they come to this – most people have pathogenic bacteria in the intestine.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: And because we eat too much, and we are not digesting well. To. . . pathogenic bacteria begin to eat the food rotting, and it turns into toxins.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: This is what we are talking about in particular.

KEVIN NEWS: And those are reabsorbed?

GABRIEL NEWS: And they get reabsorbed into the body. They come in the nervous system. They go around the body. In 1917, just to make it clear, this is not some sort of an idea found in 1917 and Sedderly Eldrich, two doctors at the AMA, okay?

KEVIN NEWS: -ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: Now, this is the way that the AMA people do now. But this time they were on it. They have cited 517 cases of compensation whereby the intestinal toxicity, people return to their depression, their anxiety, their paranoia, their lethargy, their amazement, their general feeling of malaise.

KEVIN NEWS: Wow!

GABRIEL NEWS: Really impressive! Okay, so they understood that the toxicity in your gut has been affecting your – how your mind. It has been affecting your mood. It was touching your clarity. OK, it’s true! The Russians had done research with schizophrenics. And they took the supposedly incurable schizophrenic and put on a water fast. We do not recommend the water really fast. There are a danger to her, but I do not even know if they have juicers, Russia, so I’ll just say it like that.

KEVIN NEWS: [laughs]

GABRIEL NEWS: and especially when the research has been done and what they found was 28-35 days in water that is a severe water fasting. That 65 percent of schizophrenics is now cured.

KEVIN NEWS: Wow!

GABRIEL NEWS: and the only time they relapse is that they ate meat. Now, what the reason is that schizophrenics have a certain pathway or some schizophrenics at least 65 percent.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: or when they eat meat, the bacteria of putrefaction produce 6 times higher 5-hydro skatole. Skatole is one of the toxins from the bowel. And it was literally that – have a nervous system schizophrenic.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: So that’s how powerful it can be. Now, in 1933, Dr. Bassler 5000 cited cases where people healed sinus, sciatica, nearly all the items that you may think you know that arthritis, new emotional problems, and related fields again clearing of intestinal toxicity. This is not a metaphor in other words. These are real – toxins are real things. You got skatole. I will not enumerate all of the ammonia.

KEVIN NEWS: And how do you know if you?

GABRIEL NEWS: Well, everyone has them.

KEVIN NEWS: OK. [laughs]. So it’s like there is coverage, everyone has that. It’s just a matter of

GABRIEL NEWS: Exactly. Now, when you are fasting, when we fast because we are fasting the whole world, we have a youth center in Israel.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: By the Dead Sea, so strong and they have to be viewed kindly.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: and have been quick here, or you – you know, often outside of our weekly 10 days detoxing. And basically if you do not like the food, and you’re not overeating. . . food while you are fasting frequently, you do not have a lot of toxins in the colon. You’ll get a little bit.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: Most people tend to accumulate overtime, especially if they do not have much acidophilus. So, it’s pretty endemic. And the good news is really in a short time within 1 week, we measured the indican which is a measure of intestinal toxicity.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: In 1 week, 6 days, most people, no excuse me, one hundred percent of the population we we tested showed no indican in urine.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: So we know roughly 6 per day on a juice fast, you do with your colon toxins. And it’s also about time the mental condition of the individual begins to emerge. And they are beginning to have an enormous amount of energy. There is a large amount of energy you get when you get the toxins. On a 60th birthday 4 years ago, we – day 5 or 6, I’m not 601 push-ups.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: and this is something I could not do while I eat. I was up to 550 something like that. I do not break the barrier.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: The reason is, there is this – even if someone who is – you know eating the right foods, 100 bills Food per cent, and you know that the manufacture of juice, and do all that on a regular basis, there is certain amount of toxins that you build. It’s something for everyone.

KEVIN NEWS: OK.

GABRIEL NEWS: and just that the difference in 5 days jus dissipated the toxins to give extra strength. Once after a fast of 7 days, we did the Mount Chester who was in the 90s. We walked a group of us walked on the mountain of Chester. Usually it is a journey of 2 days to go to 10,000 feet, and the 2nd day you go, and camping, then you go over 2000 feet.

KEVIN NEWS: A-ha.

GABRIEL NEWS: We started at 3 ‘o clock in the morning. We reached the peak of about 11.

KEVIN NEWS: Wow.

GABRIEL NEWS: and we just walked right too because we had that extra energy.

KEVIN NEWS: Wow. That sounds good. I think that is probably almost everyone in this appeal could use a little extra energy. [laughs].

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