The Raw Food Diet
Have you every felt that you were being scrutinized for your eating habits by the media and advertising on what you should or should not be eating? The decisions on what we eat are mostly unhealthy but our minds tells us that it tastes wonderful which makes it's hard to crack the habit. What then happens all to often is our health takes a nosedive as we are not willing or able to adjust our diet and exercise.
Our emotional and physical well being can drastically affect our nutrition and how we eat. Losing your appetite after you received information in the form of bad news shows that our emotions are an integral part of our health. Physical fitness is just as important and something that is often overlooked or put aside.
If your a beginner or a practiced raw food dieter this article may help steer you in an ever more clear path towards your overall health. Below are some thing to think about
1. The evil food cravings
As we make the decision to start a raw food diet we feel the need for processed and cooked food. This need is persistent and hard to resist but is a perfectly normal experience.
In has been my experience that there are two reasons for our cravings: our nutritional and emotional responses.
Continuing to have cravings for cooked processed foods because of the failure to adhere to a regular habit of eating your vegetables and fruits makes it easy to pinpoint the nutritional aspects.
The sticky part is being able to eat as much fruit as you need to get your calories while not consuming more fat than you should and consequently consuming enough greens to get your daily intake of minerals.
A low fat diet is always the best way to steer you away from the cravings. While we unknowingly like fat it also increases our cravings. A nutritional and healthy path is always the best defense against the feared "cravings".
There are several sites like www.fitday.com will show you what your daily calorie intake of fruits and veggies should be but remember that an average fit man consumes 2500 to 3000 calories while an average fit woman consumes 1800 to 2500 calories each day.
2. Physical Fitness should always included daily
Are you aware that you cannot be healthy without being physically fit? In the past few years we have suffered losses of athletes young and old by way of a heart attack. This stems from being physically fit but unhealthy.
Your health may still suffer even though you are watching your diet. You need to get to where your body fat index is optimal and you are above average in your fitness routine or you won't get the results you want.
Keeping your blood sugar in check is another advantage of being physically fit. Your body processes the food better as it moves it through your body. Keeping physically fit with a good program will also help your body digest it's food better while adding more health benefits.
As always, improve on your areas of weakness first as these will be the hardest to overcome and bring greater joy early on when you achieve your goal but most of our weakness resides in the fitness portion of our lives.
3. Make sure and Eat Fruit Before Each Meal for the best affect.
One of the easiest and fastest ways that I know of to make the move to a raw food diet is by eating fruit before each and every meal, including lunch and dinner. The idea is to eat some fruit when you are the most hungry before anything else at the beginning of the meal. Eating as much fruit in the beginning as you're comfortable with then, and you will find that you will eat much less of the meal itself!
When you're making the move to a raw food diet make sure and include fruit at the beginning of every meal like we mentioned earlier. Did you get in trouble when you were a kid for eating fruit before a meal? Now that we're grown up we need to change our eating habits by satisfying our sweet tooth's with fruit which will curb our craving.
4. Including Whole Grain in Your Diet
Your focus should be to pursue eating 100% whole grains because our bodies convert the sugar in these rich carbohydrate sources at a slow rate which keeps our bodies energized longer than simple sugars. The fiber contained in these grains will help you to quickly flush and eliminate toxic waste that forms in the body and the grains themselves are loaded with antioxidants much needed by our bodies. This is the type of diet that our ancient ancestors consumed who felt and stayed looking young and working hard long into their senior years. Health food experts around the globe have stated for years the benefits of a diet that is high in whole grains and the ever growing evidence has become overwhelming. Whole grains are the best way to get complex carbohydrates during your daily routine.
There is no mistaking it, you can either make the time and take 2 months to start a regular routine putting a healthy raw food diet lifestyle together, or you can take 2 years or 20 years out of your life! Choosing the shortest route to success will be doing your body good. - 17273
Our emotional and physical well being can drastically affect our nutrition and how we eat. Losing your appetite after you received information in the form of bad news shows that our emotions are an integral part of our health. Physical fitness is just as important and something that is often overlooked or put aside.
If your a beginner or a practiced raw food dieter this article may help steer you in an ever more clear path towards your overall health. Below are some thing to think about
1. The evil food cravings
As we make the decision to start a raw food diet we feel the need for processed and cooked food. This need is persistent and hard to resist but is a perfectly normal experience.
In has been my experience that there are two reasons for our cravings: our nutritional and emotional responses.
Continuing to have cravings for cooked processed foods because of the failure to adhere to a regular habit of eating your vegetables and fruits makes it easy to pinpoint the nutritional aspects.
The sticky part is being able to eat as much fruit as you need to get your calories while not consuming more fat than you should and consequently consuming enough greens to get your daily intake of minerals.
A low fat diet is always the best way to steer you away from the cravings. While we unknowingly like fat it also increases our cravings. A nutritional and healthy path is always the best defense against the feared "cravings".
There are several sites like www.fitday.com will show you what your daily calorie intake of fruits and veggies should be but remember that an average fit man consumes 2500 to 3000 calories while an average fit woman consumes 1800 to 2500 calories each day.
2. Physical Fitness should always included daily
Are you aware that you cannot be healthy without being physically fit? In the past few years we have suffered losses of athletes young and old by way of a heart attack. This stems from being physically fit but unhealthy.
Your health may still suffer even though you are watching your diet. You need to get to where your body fat index is optimal and you are above average in your fitness routine or you won't get the results you want.
Keeping your blood sugar in check is another advantage of being physically fit. Your body processes the food better as it moves it through your body. Keeping physically fit with a good program will also help your body digest it's food better while adding more health benefits.
As always, improve on your areas of weakness first as these will be the hardest to overcome and bring greater joy early on when you achieve your goal but most of our weakness resides in the fitness portion of our lives.
3. Make sure and Eat Fruit Before Each Meal for the best affect.
One of the easiest and fastest ways that I know of to make the move to a raw food diet is by eating fruit before each and every meal, including lunch and dinner. The idea is to eat some fruit when you are the most hungry before anything else at the beginning of the meal. Eating as much fruit in the beginning as you're comfortable with then, and you will find that you will eat much less of the meal itself!
When you're making the move to a raw food diet make sure and include fruit at the beginning of every meal like we mentioned earlier. Did you get in trouble when you were a kid for eating fruit before a meal? Now that we're grown up we need to change our eating habits by satisfying our sweet tooth's with fruit which will curb our craving.
4. Including Whole Grain in Your Diet
Your focus should be to pursue eating 100% whole grains because our bodies convert the sugar in these rich carbohydrate sources at a slow rate which keeps our bodies energized longer than simple sugars. The fiber contained in these grains will help you to quickly flush and eliminate toxic waste that forms in the body and the grains themselves are loaded with antioxidants much needed by our bodies. This is the type of diet that our ancient ancestors consumed who felt and stayed looking young and working hard long into their senior years. Health food experts around the globe have stated for years the benefits of a diet that is high in whole grains and the ever growing evidence has become overwhelming. Whole grains are the best way to get complex carbohydrates during your daily routine.
There is no mistaking it, you can either make the time and take 2 months to start a regular routine putting a healthy raw food diet lifestyle together, or you can take 2 years or 20 years out of your life! Choosing the shortest route to success will be doing your body good. - 17273
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