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