Raw Food Healing Diets
Thursday, January 31st, 2008By Kikat Jasi Raw food healing diet or cleansing diet consists of those very same watery fruitsand non-starchy vegetables one juices or makes into vegetable broths, buteaten whole and raw. Heating food does two harmful things: it destroysmany vitamins, enzymes and other nutritional elements and it makes manyfoods much harder to digest. So no cooked vegetables or fruits are allowedbecause to maintain health on this limited regimen it is essential that everypossible vitamin and enzyme present in the food be available for digestion.Even though still raw, no starchy or fatty vegetables or fruits are allowedthat contain concentrated calories like potatoes, winter squash, avocados,sweet potatoes, fresh raw corn, dates, figs, raisins, or bananas. Andnaturally, no salad dressings containing vegetable oils or (raw) groundseeds are allowed. Nor are raw grains or other raw concentrated energysources. When a person starts this diet they will at first experience considerableweight loss because it is difficult to extract a large number of calories fromthese foods (though I have seen people actually gain weight on a puremelon diet, so much sugar do these fruits have, and well-chewedwatermelon seeds are very nourishing). Eating even large quantities of onlyraw fruit and raw non-starchy vegetables results in a slow but steadyhealing process about 10 to 20 percent as rapid as water fasting.A raw food cleansing diet has several huge advantages. It is possible tomaintain this regimen and regularly do non-strenuous work for manymonths, even a year or more without experiencing massive weight lossand, more important to some people, without suffering the extremes of lowblood sugar, weakness and loss of ability to concentrate that happen whenwater fasting. Someone on a raw food cleanse will have periods of loweredenergy and strong cravings for more concentrated foods, but if they havethe self-discipline to not break their cleansing process they can accomplisha great deal of healing while still maintaining more or less normal (thoughslower paced) life activities. However, almost no one on this diet is able tosustain an extremely active life-style involving hard physical labor orcompetitive sports. And from the very beginning someone on a raw foodcleanse must be willing and able to lie down and rest any time they feeltired or unable to face their responsibilities. Otherwise they will inevitablysuccumb to the mental certainty that their feelings of exhaustion oroverwhelm can be immediately solved by eating some concentrated food to”give them energy.” Such low-energy states will, however, pass quicklyafter a brief nap or rest. Something else gradually happens to a body when on such a diet. Do yourecall that I mentioned that after my own long fast I began to get more”mileage” out of my food. A cleansed, healed body becomes far moreefficient at digestion and assimilation; a body that is kept on a raw foodcleansing diet will initially lose weight rapidly, but eventually weight lossslows to virtually nothing and then stabilizes. However, long-term rawfooders are usually thin as toothpicks. Once starchy vegetables like potatoes or winter squash, raw or cooked, orany cereals, raw or cooked, are added to a cleansing diet, the detoxificationand healing virtually ceases and it becomes very easy to maintain or evengain weight, particularly if larger quantities of more concentrated foods likeseeds and nuts are eaten. Though this diet has ceased to be cleansing,few if any toxins from misdigestion will be produced and health is easy tomaintain. “Raw fooders” are usually people who have healed themselves of a seriousdiseases and ever after continue to maintain themselves on unfired food,almost as a matter of religious belief. They have become convinced thateating only raw, unfired food is the key to extraordinarily long life andsupreme good health. When raw fooders wish to perform hard physicalwork or strenuous exercise, they”ll consume raw nuts and some raw grainssuch as finely-ground oats soaked overnight in warm water or deliciouslysweet “Essene bread,” made from slightly sprouted wheat that is thenground wet, made into cakes, and sun baked at temperatures below about115 degrees Fahrenheit. Essene bread can be purchased in some healthfood stores. However, little or no healing or detoxification can happen onceconcentrated energy sources are added to the diet, even raw ones.During my days at Great Oaks School I was a raw fooder for some years,though I found it very difficult to maintain body heat on raw food duringchilly, rainy Oregon winters and eventually struck a personal compromisewhere I ate about half my diet raw and the rest fired. Excerpt from How and When to be Your Own Doctor More amazing Weight loss tips at www.fruitsmoothierecipe.bravehost.com/weightloss.html For more Health Tips just about everything, visit www.medicalfactsandfallacy.bravehost.com/tips.html Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kikat_Jasi http://EzineArticles.com/?Raw-Food-Healing-Diets&id=289072 phentermine 37.5 online consultation phentermine no prescription necessary buy phentermine 37.5 online phentermine out prescription