Don’t you just hate it when you can’t eat your favorite cheese pizzas at your best friend’s pizza party ? You are on a diet and you don’t deserve this at all! You should be there enjoying all you can. But, of course, you have to take care of your health.
For all those who are on a diet, especially on a raw food diet, here are some interesting facts. For those who do not know what rawism is, here is some food for your thought.
A diet of plant foods in their most natural state, uncooked and unprocessed is termed as raw food diet. To be on a raw food diet means to be on a bone-breaking diet. Since this diet consists of 75% fruits and vegetables raw foodists have to do a lot of kitchen work from peeling to dehydrating their foods. Most raw foodists believe that cooking veggies at a heat of 116 degrees F would destroy their nutritional values and digestion-helping enzymes. Raw and natural foods are also healthy with less sodium and high phytochemicals with no life endangering fats.
1) Not all raw foodists are on a weight loss plan. For some, it is just their lifestyle, mostly a belief.
2) Not all raw foodists are vegetarians. Animal fats are not a part of raw food diet. Yet, some people add cheese, milk and raw eggs to their diet.
3) They never use their ovens but dehydrators.
4) Health experts point out that it doesn’t matter even if the enzymes in foods are destroyed by cooking as the body uses its own enzymes for digestion.
5) And, in order for certain phytochemicals (beta-carotene in carrots) to be absorbed, it needs to cooked.
6) Raw food diet is not healthy for all. Some raw foodists find themselves at a health risk with vitamin B12 (the main source being meat) deficiency leading to anemia and neurological impairment. Some long-term raw foodists may fall prey to Osteoporosis and nutritional deficiencies of calcium, iron and protein.
7) Children, pregnant and nursing women, anemic people and older people are not to follow this diet.
Now what’s stopping you from choosing the best weight loss diet available ?
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