Raw food diet
I didn’t believe it myself when I read about it.
An American woman who has settled down in Punjab, India lives entirely on raw food. Its then that I came across a diet called raw food diet where raw and organic plant-based foods are the order of the day.Now what on earth can you eat if nothing is cooked?
Fruits, veggies, sprouts, dried fruits, legumes, seaweed, freshly made veg and fruit juices, coconut milk(fresh) are some of the things you can live on. Why do people go in for this kind of diet? Well their claim is that cooking food causes te food to lose any nutritional value it has. The nutritional content of fruits and veggies are destroyed when exposed to heat and water. Raw food is rich in enzymes and these enzymes are essential if healthy digestion is to take place.
This kind of diet is believed to help detoxify the sysytem and leave you fresh and rejuvenated. But take your doc’s advice if you want to stay on this diet for more than a week. There are chances that you can get Irritable Bowel Syndrome if you take in an excess of raw food diet. But since fruits are so low on calories, there is a positive chance that it helps in weight loss. Just make that you scrunch on nuts since nuts are a high source of protein. ALso keep in mind that such a diet is low on iron as well. Patients with cancer and pregnant women should stay off this diet, since it guarantees weight loss.
raw food diet, enzymes, irritable bowel syndrome, nuts are a high source of protein
August 1st, 2007 at 4:04 am
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