Raw Food Diet
Leslie Kenton has published many books about raw food diet(s). These include the Raw Energy Food Combining Diet, Raw Energy Recipes, Juice High and The Raw Energy Bible. These books relate a way of eating, which involves fifty to seventy five percent of the foods you eat, not being cooked. This way of eating can rejuvenate your body, heighten energy, balance your emotions, prevent colds and flu, intensify athletic performance and give you greater mental clarity.
Recent research into the raw food diet has proven the powerful anti-oxidant protective effect of fruits and vegetables, when they are not cooked. These foods have real power, they detox your body and restore metabolic balance.
Many natural healing practitioners use a raw food diet as a natural medicine, because they recognize most of its health enhancing properties come from the noteworthy ability of fruits and vegetables to eliminate wastes. These type of diets usually form the basis of expensive detoxifying routines in spas worldwide.
When you cook or eat processed foods, many essential elements for health are destroyed. This includes proteins, vitamins and minerals. However the raw food diet ensures you receive optimal levels of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, proteins which are easily broken down and fiber.
There is a wide spread misconception that in order to be healthy, you have to put in a lot of hard work, but eating a raw food diet does not mean you have to deny yourself anything and you will never be hungry, or have to spend hours in the kitchen preparing your meals.
This really does compare favorably with the so called normal way to lose weight and remain healthy. The problem with low calorie diets is they slow your metabolism, so that your body learns to save energy, as it feels threaten with starvation. This usually leads to rebound eating, because you feel hungry all the time.
Eating a raw food diet, helps you harness the power of nature so that you can uplift your spirit, renew your body and change your life in ways you never thought possible. The best thing of all is when you are on a raw food diet you will learn that food never ever, tasted as good as this before.
