TIP #5 — Get Raw At Night
For many people eating a lot of raw foods can be a fad. But there are many others who believe that this is for their own benefit as this is a big first step in being able to walk away from processed foods.
It is known for centuries that many famous people consumed raw food for better health. Leonardo de Vinci, Russo, Hippocrates and even Tolstoy are among them.
Even today many famous people and celebrities try to follow their footsteps and eat raw food in order to live a healthier life and maintain great appearance as a bonus.
For many people a mainly or totally raw food lifestyle, is the result of a genuine search for an improvement in their lifestyle.
Why Eat Raw Food?
There is a good reason why living food becomes so popular. Raw veggies with your last meal and as a snack can greatly help your fatburning along.
In general raw food can be categorized into four main groups: vegetables and fruits, sprouts of all kinds, dehydrated breads and fruits, and fermented food with friendly germs. A vegetarian food which is not baked, cooked or heated over 48 Celsius or about 120 Fahrenheit degrees is considered as a raw food.
Enzymes assist to digestion
The biggest advantage in eating living food is in one word: Enzymes. Enzymes also known as a “Life-Force” and or “energy” of food assist in the digestion of foods.
Heating the food over 48 degrees is breaking up all enzymes and you lose their blessed work. Some of the enzymes are created by our body to support it in the most crucial tasks your body performs while others are consumed from the food you eat.
The role of enzymes is to help in adjusting the food and consume less food but enjoy better feeding. Heavily cooked food is less nutritious.
Health benefits of eating living food
One of the biggest advantages that raw food eating is offering is that it helps in maintaining balanced body weight. Although the subject of this article aren’t a well known over weight problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, different cancers etc.
The benefits are too many to mention: a normal weight, improved immunity system, better night sleep, higher energy level, better digestion system, preventing skin disease, less fat in the blood, low cholesterol and prolonged life span.
Eating the correct blend of raw foods is another point to consider. It’s crucial to avoid mixing of vegetables and fruits, sweet fruits and sour fruits, fat and fruits.
The reason is that every food group is digested by a different enzyme and the mixing them can to lead to a swollen stomach and unpleasant heavy feeling, Or even to an urge to take a nap while you have just eaten and should feel alive and energetic.
I hope that by now you are convinced that consuming living food could change your life for the better. But how should you start consuming raw food?
Try starting with red peppers because they’re sweet. You will eat virtually every veggie raw at night without thinking about it. Give it a shot.
There is one more benefit that becomes very popular recently. Eating only living food will clean all toxics out of our body and prevent unpleasant bad breath, gazes, etc. to take your body one step further to a healthy clean state.
However, before you perform any change in your diet please consult your doctor and make sure your diet fits your medical condition.
This is the fifth and final tip from series of five a promised earlier. So, burn more fat and stay leaner, this will keep you healthier too. The fatloss is well worth it.