A
fruit
and vegetable diet is about as ideal as you can get. When you
stick to sweet fruit for your main source of calories and also eat
plenty of vegetables to round out your mineral intake, you're taking in
more nutrients per bite than you could with any other food source.
There's simply nothing your body needs that it can't get from plant
foods.
One of the major benefits of fruits and vegetables is that they can be
eaten raw, the only state in which their vital nutrients are intact and
the disease-causing changes brought about by heat have not occurred.
Just a bit of heat can drastically reduce the amount of nutrients in
any given food, and cause the denaturement of protein, one of the
causes of disease.
"Besides agreeing with the aims of
vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a
vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human
temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
- Albert Einstein,
1930
Learn exactly how eat destroys the food you eat and robs you of your
health here.
The Fruit And Vegetable
Diet: Weight Loss
People who go on a raw fruit and vegetables diet tend to very quickly
drop weight, shedding water weight
rapidly when toxins like salt are
eliminated, but also steadily dropping a pound or two a week of fat.
Raw food weight loss works because, among other reasons, fruits and
vegetables are considerably lower in calories than most other foods
like meat, dairy, eggs, and other processed foods.
Learn more about how to shed pounds painlessly here.
The Fruit and Vegetable
Diet: No Meat, Dairy, Or Eggs
There's nothing in meat, dairy, or eggs that provide the
body with anything it needs for optimal health.
Quite the contrary, scientists have long known that those who consume
animal protein greatly increase their chance of dying of heart disease,
cancer, and numerous other diseases.
Read the many reasons to avoid meat here,
and why dairy should be avoided here.
The Fruit And Vegetable
Diet: Ultimate Nutrition
Want protein? You've got it. Want phytonutrients? They're there too.
All the Vitamins and minerals science has identified? Check and
Check.
"The greatest delight
the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation
between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They
nod to me and I to them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Fruit And Vegetable Diet: Practical Application?
So what does a raw fruit and vegetable diet looks like in application?
It's simpler than you'd think.
The first course of a dinner meal might consist of 15 peaches, with the
second including two heads of lettuce, tomatoes, celery, a bit of
avocado, and a fantastic dressing.
Does the thought of eating all that salad daunt you? A healthy low fat
raw vegan dressing will make the idea a lot more appealing.
Sinfully delicious raw dressings can
spice up your salad every night of the week. Don't worry, they're also
low fat and incredibly healthy.
Find out how to create amazing salad dressings and sauces from scratch.