The Raw Food Lifestyle

A raw food diet is a whole new way of thinking about food.

There are a number of different recipes which are both tasty and simple to make. For example, there are raw food lasagna's, soups, pasta's, pizza's, raw deserts and many other types of familiar dishes. The raw food diet blends fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds into all kinds of delicious cuisines.

Your imagination may have no limits with using the varieties of raw foods.

The raw food lifestyle has been around for many years. Benefits mentioned in connection with this lifestyle include losing weight to increasing energy. The experts in the raw food field believe that by cooking foods above 118 degrees it diminishes the quality of the food by destroying the natural enzymes which degrades the proteins and nutrients in the food.

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It is believed that the body must use it's own enzymes to digest foods that don't have enzymes or the enzymes have been cooked out of the foods. So this process creates additional work in the digesting process which overtaxes the body's own resources over time.

A raw food lifestyle is often done in steps to adjust to going from a more traditional cooked food diet. The transition normally takes time to implement as it is recommended to begin slowly to include more raw foods into your daily routine.

Some people strive for 50% or 60% raw while others embrace it 100%. It is up to you and once you begin to feel and see the difference then you may choose to continue adding more raw foods to your diet.



There are some different kitchen tools that help to make the raw food dishes as you won't typically be using the microwave or oven. Some of these kitchen gadgets for preparing raw foods include:

• A good blender such as a Vitamix to blend tasty smoothies and sauces.

• A dehydrator to dry fruits, shredded raw potato mixtures, portabello mushrooms, sauces and other food items that you might want to soften the texture by slowly dehydrating the foods.

• A food processor which can chop up nuts and vegetables quickly.

• A sprouting jar which is just a basic quart jar with a screen top for draining purposes. Learning how to sprout raw nuts, seeds and beans is a lot of fun as you watch these little seeds sprout into nutritious live foods to add to various dishes.

• A dehydrator which can be used to extract the moisture from the food and can make a variety of food items aside from dried fruit.

• A spiralizer gadget is the best little hand tool to thinly slice, spiral or make spaghetti noodles out of raw vegetables.

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Working with raw foods can be a lot of fun because there is just so much that you can create. All it takes is a little instruction and a some inspiration and you will have some healthful dishes that you can enjoy and share with friends and family. Have fun and experience what the raw food lifestyle is all about.

I have personally studied and practiced this type of diet for myself for a short term. It can be challenging unless you really commit to learning how to make it work for you. For me, I make more of an effort to have some raw foods in my diet each and every day.

It can be a great short term way of cleansing and detoxing the body, however, I think it would be prudent to work with a coach that is well versed in this way of eating.

To learn more about raw foods from the leader in the industry, David Wolfe Learn more about this Raw Food Certification course I took this course by David Wolfe through the Bodymind Institute and I found it to be very informative and engaging on the subject of raw foods.

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