Challenges Of Eating A Raw Food Diet And Tips To Deal With Them

Also, foods such as avocadoes, coconuts, olives and various types of nuts and seeds contain fats and help to fill you up. This helps to control your desire to gorge on cooked foods.

To keep the enthusiasm going, improve your nutrient intake and to make sure that you give your taste buds new sensations, learn and try new raw food recipes. There are many books and websites which focus on this area. You can even attempt raw food versions of some of your favorite cooked recipes.

Then there are social gatherings and situations. Do you go? Can you resist the temptation of delicious cooked foods? Should you bring your own food? Do you want to face the comments, questions and perhaps even ridiculing of your friends and relatives?

Being aware and focused on your reasons for going on a raw foods diet is a good way to help you remain committed. As many raw foodists have said, the good and vibrant health as well as bountiful energy make the sacrifices well worth it!

For your raw foods, you may want to consider going organic. While organic produce is generally more expensive, again, the advantages and health benefits of organic food make them well worth it too!

Preparing raw foods diets

In terms of food preparation, because there is no cooking, which destroys bacteria and viruses, there may be a need to observe higher standards of food hygiene.

However, having said that, the health benefits of eating raw and the potential harmful effects of cooked food more than balance this out.

Eating a raw foods diet – nutrition issues

To help your body obtain its dose of needed nutrients, try to consume a wide variety of fresh raw food. Eating different colored foods help with this. Another tip is to eat in-season produce, as that would make sure you consume many different kinds of raw foods throughout the year.

Personally, I would also recommend taking a good whole food supplement. For myself, I take one which combines several of nature’s superfoods, such as wheat grass, barley grass and spirulina, among others.

When eating raw foods, it is a good idea to chew your food well. This way, you are better mixing food with digestive enzymes, increasing the surface area of food, as well as breaking down certain compounds in food. These translate to better digestion and assimilation of nutrients.

In addition, you can benefit more from the enzymes and phytochemicals in raw plant foods. Chewing well is a piece of advice which applies, actually, not just to raw food diets, but to any type of food you are eating.

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