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Low Fat Raw Vegan:
The Only Sensible Way To Eat
A low fat raw
vegan diet just makes sense, and adhering to its
three central tenets - to the largest extent
you're capable - is the sanest way to live.
The healthy
raw diet I endorse on Raw-Food-Health.net is
definitely a low fat raw vegan diet (also called a
high carb raw vegan diet, or condensed to LFRV),
and it's worked wonders for me.
On this diet I've overcome
my colitis, lost tons of weight, and achieved
fantastic levels of health and fitness.
So many people experience such a huge
range of benefits by eating this way,
ranging from the reversal
of physical diseases to overcoming
mental disorders, that it's hard to believe
more people don't embrace it.

Tenets of a Low Fat Raw Vegan Diet
Although there are many
nuances, the basic reason why a healthy raw diet is
so effective lies in its ability to meet three
criteria: it is low in fat, uncooked, and avoids
animal products like meat, dairy, and eggs.
If you follow these three tenets, you'll be steered
toward all the right decisions because doing things
the wrong way becomes hard or impossible.
Eat A Low-Fat Diet
Overwhelmingly, science tells us that the longest
lived, most disease resistant, and most athletically
dominant populations adhere to a low fat diet.
What does this mean in practice? It means keeping
your percentage of calories from fat below 10
percent, and the elimination or minimization of
fatty foods like oils,
nuts,
and the small number of fruits that are very fatty,
such as avocados.
Why is this important? When people eat too much fat,
the body's ability to transport and uptake sugar,
the fuel that runs every cell, becomes highly
impaired. This leads to high blood sugar and type
two diabetes, a condition that's reached
epidemic proportions in the western world.
Personally, my face
breaks out in acne, I don't feel good, and my
athletic performance declines when I try eating fat
for 20-30 percent of my calories.
Eat Only Raw Food
When we eat
any sort of processed food, whether it's a plate of
steamed vegetables, frozen fruit, or a
preservative-ridden pop tart that's sat on a store
shelf for 6 months, the nutritional quality of our
food is less than optimal and we may be opening the
way up to diseases.
Some processing methods -such as freezing- only do
minor damage to a food, but cooking is undoubtedly a
problem, sapping
many of the nutrients we require from the finished
product. Cooking also causes carcinogens to
form in food, such as Heterocyclic amine (HCAs) and
a number of other toxic elements.
Eat Only Plant Foods
The longest-lived populations eat little meat,
dairy, and eggs and all signs point toward a
correlation between the intake of this animal
protein and the development of a wide range of
diseases.
Meat,
for instance, is linked to the development of heart
disease, while
dairy is known to destroy bones, constipate, and
cause cancer.
On the other hand, intake of fruits and vegetables -
particularly raw
fruits and vegetables
- is the element science has correlated with long
life and disease prevention more than any
other factor medical science can bring to bear.
Low Fat Raw Vegan: A Beneficial Restraint?
When you follow these three rules, a kind of
beneficial dietary restriction takes place that
stops you from making nutritional errors and keeps
you on a good path.
Want to undereat on fruit and instead get your
calories from salad? Because this diet is low in
fat, there's no way you can get enough calories to
sustain your weight unless you're taking in enough
fruit because of the low fat requirement. Vegetables
just don't have enough calories to make it work.
By excluding cooked foods, we also eliminate many
foods that harm us because they are only edible or
palatable in an uncooked state, such as all
grains.
But Isn't This Diet Boring Or Miserable?
Although I started
eating a raw diet to to cure my colitis, I now
love it for the satisfaction and energy it gives
me. I have no
cravings or desires to eat other foods so
long as I'm getting in enough calories from raw
fruit.
And just because you're a low fat raw vegan
doesn't mean you can't get creative with
recipes. Some of the most amazing recipes I've
ever had have been LFRV.
Check out Savory
Raw Dressings and Sauces and see for
yourself.

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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.
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out Savory Raw Dressings and
Sauces!
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