| In this day and age, everybody wants to improve their | | | | vegetables (carrots, celeriac). Another category of |
| looks with a thinner waist line. For that, people may | | | | vegetables includes lettuce and celery. The vegetables |
| need some directions for finding healthy solutions to | | | | named here can be found as items on a list of raw |
| lose weight. The best choice someone can make in | | | | low carbohydrate foods. All these fruits and |
| order to lose weight and gain health, energy and vitality | | | | vegetables are the common components of raw food |
| is switching to a raw food diet. | | | | recipes. |
| People discover each day the benefits of raw food | | | | Now that the categories have been established, here |
| recipes. When switching to a raw food diet you will | | | | are some rules of combining them in order for you to |
| see improvements to your daily behavior like improved | | | | avoid fermentation in the intestines, indigestion, water |
| sleep, some anti-aging benefits, increased vitality and | | | | retention and toxicity. Sweet fruits are to be eaten |
| health. Owing to such advantages, the popularity of | | | | with other varieties of sweet fruits only or with |
| raw food diets is bound to increase, because we all | | | | sub-acid fruits. Don't eat acid fruit with anything other |
| want to improve the way we look and the way we | | | | than celery and lettuce. Avocadoes and olives should |
| feel about ourselves, don't we? | | | | be eaten with non-starchy vegetables. Melons should |
| In the beginning people didn't cook their food and they | | | | be eaten alone or not eaten at all. These are |
| consumed it raw. Eating like this helped them keep | | | | combinations that you should try. But there are a few |
| very healthy. Our bodies are built so that we can | | | | combinations that you should try to avoid like starch |
| consume raw foods. The only thing we need to do is | | | | and acid (tomato and potato), protein and protein |
| to rediscover the way we were in the beginning and | | | | (avocadoes and nuts), sweets and starch (maple |
| enjoy all that nature has to give us. Consuming raw | | | | syrup and rice). Think about these combinations when |
| foods helps our bodies because they contain enzymes | | | | you are developing your own raw food recipes. |
| that help digestion. These enzymes are destroyed if | | | | Raw food diets are not all about fruits and vegetables. |
| the fruits and vegetables are cooked. Our body | | | | Organic foods can also be included in the diet. Organic |
| digests the foods through its own enzymes, but the | | | | cheese is very nutritious and can be included in raw |
| enzymes in our body also give us energy. Therefore, | | | | food diets because it does not involve a cooking |
| when we use the enzymes in our bodies for digestion | | | | process that destroys enzymes. You should make |
| and not the ones in fruits and vegetables, it means that | | | | sure that the organic cheese you buy is organic, and |
| our energy levels and vitality are decreased. | | | | not a scam. The process that is followed by farmers |
| Basic guidelines for planning your healthy raw food | | | | to obtain organic cheese consists of letting nature take |
| recipes recommend that you should include in your diet | | | | its natural course, from harvesting the milk from the |
| mostly fruit and vegetables, which are our most | | | | cows and letting it coagulate with no help from |
| biologically conducive meals. Something that can help | | | | additional catalytic agents. Incredible products made |
| you in planning your raw food recipes is the categories | | | | from raw ingredients and that may include organic |
| in which fruits and vegetables are divided. | | | | cheese can be found here, on |
| Fruits can be divided in sweet fruits (tropical fruits, | | | | The most reliable way to improve our health and |
| persimmons, sweet grapes), acid fruits (lemons, citrus), | | | | vitality is by switching to raw foods. Raw food recipes |
| sub-acid fruits (apples, pears, tart grapes) and fatty | | | | can easily replace our daily food and in most of the |
| fruits (avocadoes, durian). Melons constitute a separate | | | | cases they taste better than cooked foods. Organic |
| category of fruits. Some of the vegetable categories | | | | cheese can be also included in the diet as a |
| are non-starchy greens (spinach, cabbage), fruit | | | | component that improves the nutritional value of the |
| vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes) and root | | | | foods. |