Healthy diet is a diet with raw foods in it. Foods in these category, which are all plant foods, give you the most nutrients for the fewest calories.
These foods supply most of the vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, and enzymes your body needs. Eating a wide variety of these foods will help you achieve top form.
It is very important for health and fitness to include some raw foods in your diet.
Raw food, sometimes called living food, is a type of vegetarian cuisine using foods that have not been heated above 118 F. When foods are heated above that temperature, enzymes in them are destroyed and the foods lose much of their nutritive value.
A basic raw foods diet includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sprouted whole grains eaten in their raw state, but prepared very tastily.
Eating more fruits, vegetables, and other plant based foods is great for your health. Enjoying them raw, however, offers some additional health benefits. For example, eating raw foods:
- Leads to almost automatic weight loss, without feeling of hunger or deprivation because raw foods are filling and delicious
- They assist in better digestion
- Can reduce LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol, that clogs up arteries).
- They may reduce the severity of inflammation in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis
- Helps normalize blood pressure
- Allows for higher intake of vitamins A, C, and E, potassium and copper than eating cooked foods
- Helps improve your skin, so you look younger
- Leads to increased energy
Eating raw foods all the time would be going to the extreme. As a general rule, just remember that the closer you can get to fresh, whole, natural nutrition, the better your health will be. I know that, the more raw food I eat, the better I feel.