'Good foods' mean more than just salads

Can a raw diet be healthy?  Is there more to it than daily salads?  Is cooked food evil?

The answers to these questions are perhaps, yes, and no.  A raw food diet, also known as a living diet, can be healthy, but it does take planning and effort, the same as any diet.  There are more than just salads in the raw diet.  People on a raw food diet make everything from soup to cake--just not the way we think of them.  And although cooking foods can destroy certain enzymes, it helps with the absorption of others.  Some foods cannot be eaten raw--buckwheat, kidney beans, and potatoes cannot be eaten raw.

Dieting with low calorie fruits and vegetables

When people talk about a raw food diet, they are not simply talking about food that is uncooked, but specifically raw fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and seaweeds that have not been cooked above 116 degrees F.

Although raw food is a diet plan, it is also a philosophy.  Living food, living body.  Dead food, dead body.  Now, if you don't embrace the living food philosophy, you probably won't want to become a 100% raw foodist.  Since there haven't been long term studies on raw food living, it is hard to know what benefits or dangers that there might be to a 100% raw food diet. 

 

Weight loss program and cookbook recipes

A raw food diet is a low calorie diet, although rich in many nutrients.  A low calorie diet is one of the components of any weight loss program.  Raw foods are some of the best diet foods.   

 

If you don't like following any one diet guru's advice, but simply want to incorporate the best diet foods into your life, pick up a couple of raw cookbooks.  There's no need to go 100% raw, but you can discover some delicious low calorie meals to make up for pizza night.