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A Raw Food Diet Can
Change Your Life
The Body Runs Best On Fruit,
So Give it What it Wants
My fuel is fruit.
That fruit is the basis of the raw food diet
that changed my life, healing me and giving
me energy and strength. I take no shakes or super
foods- just as many cantaloupes or grapes or
banana smoothies as I want.
Fruit sends me running up mountains and keeps me
going long after my competitors have dropped into
the distance behind me. Their bodies run on grains
and meat, mine runs on a raw food diet, and that, my
friends, is all the difference in the world.
You truly are what you eat.
Your health, energy, mood,
and how young you look is based on your diet more
than anything else, so why fill your stomach with
anything but the best?
The optimal human diet is whole, fresh, raw, ripe,
and plant-based. Most of the diet is fruit, but it
also contains plenty of leafy
vegetables and a limited amount of overt
fat.
Read about how greens play a critical role in the
diet here.
This way of eating adheres naturally to the formula
of at least 80 percent of calories from
carbohydrates, a maximum of 10 percent from fat, and
up to 10 percent from protein.
The American Or Western Diet
How do you do
in comparison? The average American eats about 40-50
percent of calories from carbohydrates, 16 percent
from protein, and 30-45 percent from fat.
Much of the fat is from meat,
eggs, and dairy,
and many of the carbohydrates come from processed
and denatured sources. A very small portion of that
diet is made up of raw fruits and vegetables. A frugiverous raw food diet blows it away in terms of
nutrients and ease of digestion.
You don't have to sit with a calculator to figure
out if you're following the diet formula because if
you eat proper foods, the ratio will be in line. Go
ahead and consume fruit until satiation three times
a day. All but the few fatty fruits -avocados and
durians, for instance- are fine to eat in whatever
amounts you like.
Follow up dinner with a huge bowl of salad. Plug
everything into a website like Nutridiary.com
if you'd like to verify that you're on track - Yep,
you're eating right; it's that simple. That's pretty
much the diet in a nutshell, and your key to
raw, fruitarian paradise.
Wondering if you're meeting your RDA
nutrition requirements? Find out.
Worried about not getting enough protein? Read all
about the body's needs here.
Wondering if
you should be supplementing with superfoods and
vitamin pills? Click here.
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Sinfully
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Let's Talk Quantity
The foods you'll be
consuming on a healthy fruit-based raw food
diet are also
less calorically dense, so you can, and you'll
need to, eat more mouthfuls.
Forget about
dieting and counting calories. Let hunger be your
guide for once. If you're truly hungry- a
sensation that is felt in the chest or breastbone,
and not the stomach, which rumbles when emptying-
eat till you're satiated.
Have you ever
noticed that even after large dinners that fill
your stomach you're still craving something?
More often than
not that something is sweet, so you eat dessert to
satisfy yourself. That should tell you something.
Your body
is designed to run off of simple sugars, and
only plenty of simple sugars from fruit on a raw food diet will fill
that nagging hunger or craving for something
that stays with you.
For details on
how to defeat cravings once and for all, read this article.
Undereating At First Is
Normal, But You Have To Change Quickly
Because most
people are used to eating small quantities of
high-calorie food, you may need to work on
expanding your stomach's ability to stretch when
you first change to a raw
food diet.
That's ok,
because the vast majority of people are
under-muscled and over fat, so the weight you lose
while adjusting will be welcome.
You'll eventually
want to track your calorie intake for a few days
to make sure you're on course, however. Let's
imagine you're a six foot tall male who weights
170 pounds.
You go for a
morning run for about 45 minutes at about 7.5 mph.
You're a sales clerk, so you spend a lot of time
walking around.
A quick stop over to
nutridiary.com will tell you that without the
exercise I would need 2,984 calories. The
running ads 722 calories, bringing me to 3706
calories I need to replace in a day.
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All The Delicious Fruit
You Can Eat
For breakfast you might eat
a luscious, juicy watermelon in two sittings,
which accounts for 1,355 calories. Your lunch
is a banana smoothie, or 12 medium bananas,
which equals 1,260 calories.
Your dinner
is 10 kiwi fruit (464 calories) , followed
about an hour later by a large bowl of salad
with four tomatoes, a small piece of avocado,
and some assorted vegetables (235 calories).
For a snack
you may eat 100 grapes at 161 calories. The
grand total is 3,571 calories for the day, and
your ratio is at six percent fat, seven
percent protein, and 87 percent carbohydrates.
Perfect.
If this seems
like a lot of food to you, don't worry. If
you're not doing a ton of exercise (though you
should do some) you'll need less. A
5-foot-tall nonathletic woman would only eat a
fraction of what a 6ft tall runner would.
He'd need to
eat more on a cooked food diet as well.
But I enjoy
the quantity of food I consume, and you'll
find yourself loving this diet as well.
If
you're sedentary or eager to lose weight quickly, feel free
to eat less, but be aware that when you're
under eating on calories you may start to
get cravings.
To
set up your own free individual health
plan to make sure
you're on the right track, click here.
Following
Up
This is
only meant to be a brief introduction to the raw food diet
and the science behind it. Additional pages
of information are located around the site.
Feeling
daunted by the idea of switching your diet
dramatically? Take a smart first step on the
path a simple switch to the ultimate
vegan breakfast, the banana smoothie.
Want an all-inclusive guide to adopting a healthy raw food diet? Get all your questions answered in questions answered in Raw Food We.
Hope you
enjoy the site, and happy eating.
-Andrew
Perlot
Raw
Food Diet Sources
(1) "Trends
in Intake of Energy and Macronutrients- United
States-1971-2000," Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report,
February6,2004, pp.80-82. Department of
Health and Human Services. Centers For
Disease Control and Prevention..
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