A Raw Food Diet Can Change Your Life

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.

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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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

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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