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A raw foods diet is beneficial in two major ways, by only including foods that have healthy attributes and by excluding foods and heating methods that wreak havoc on the body over time.

The three main topics on foods that are included in the raw food diet are…

* Vitamins and Minerals: abundant in a raw foods diet in easily absorbed forms
* Phytonutrients and Antioxidants: beneficial, plant based compounds
* Enzymes: vital catalysts that are easily broken down by heat

The main topics on foods that are beneficial to exclude are…

* Animal Products: tainted with hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides
* Processed Foods: preservatives, dyes, refined sugars and flours, hydrogenated oils, coffee, alcohol, and chemicals.
* Cooked Food Toxins: there 5 major categories of these toxins

1. Acrylamide – formed mainly by carbs (especially potatoes) at high heat
2. AGEs – cooking fats and animal proteins
3. Heterocyclic Amines – from cooking muscle meats
4. Nitrosamines – caused by heating preservatives
5. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) – caused by incomplete combustion of carbon containing fuels like gas, wood, oil and coal.

Each of the above topics are covered in detail in the training and education videos on Rocking Body Raw Food. Here is a link to the site if you want to check it out.

>> Rocking Body Raw Food

It’s interesting stuff, but more important than all the science is the easy way the course shows you to apply these nutrition facts in your everyday life. You won’t eat this food if you don’t crave this food. That’s why this on line raw food diet course offers a smattering of flavors from Italian Ravioli to Tortilla Soup. And if you are the type who cant resist sweets. The program includes a WHOLE raw dessert recipe book in the bonus section.

Are you ready to try raw foods and experience the glow for yourself?

>> Your Raw Food Detox Diet Plan

About the author: Joy Houston is one of the leaders in bringing raw food nutrition to mainstream eaters. She is a certified educator in the benefits of raw food nutrition and a raw food chef that has made raw cuisine accessible through on line classes. She is the author of two books; The Delicious Revolution and Rocking Body Raw Food. To learn more about her inspiring raw foods story click and get a free PDF recipe book, click HERE.

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Is coffee the first thing in your body each morning? Do you rely on it to wake you up and jump start your day? What do you reach for you need to stay focused and alert? More coffee or maybe sugar filled energy drinks? These are quick fix solutions that tax your adrenal glands, throw your blood sugar for a loop, and leave you feeling far less energetic when you come down. What if you could have that energy and focus without putting your body through wringer?

The best way to have consistent energy from the moment you wake, is to eat a diet comprised of primarily fresh fruits and vegetables. These foods are living and are a more direct, clean source of energy for your body. Learning the techniques use in raw cuisine, you can find shockingly delicious ways to cut out the dead, low energy foods from animals and replace them (at least most of the time) with foods that offer a STEADY, reliable source of energy. You can learn the art of raw cuisine and give your body a two week vacation from the Standard American Diet you’ve probably been fed your whole life with this on line raw food course.

>> Rocking Body Raw Food

You will see that the two week program is offered by a raw food chef and nutrition educator who has created DAILY videos to guide you through learning raw foods.

But the real reason you reach for coffee or a quick buzz, is because you can’t wait for the results an over all healthy diet offers. So here is s sneak peak at the foods used create a better buzz for your body…

* Raw Cacao
* Maca
* Acai

In the Rocking Body Raw Food program you’ll learn how to incorporate Superfoods in delicious ways to have sustained energy without taxing your body’s sensitive systems. Keep the balance, have the energy, and enjoy the side effects of eating a raw food diet; glowing skin, shinny hair, and a Rocking Body.

>> Your Raw Food Detox Diet Plan

About the author: Joy Houston is one of the leaders in bringing raw food nutrition to mainstream eaters. She is a certified educator in the benefits of raw food nutrition and a raw food chef that has made raw cuisine accessible through on line classes. She is the author of two books; The Delicious Revolution and Rocking Body Raw Food. To learn more about her inspiring raw foods story click and get a free PDF recipe book, click HERE.

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With all the attention raw food celebrities are getting for their healthy glow and rocking bodies, many people are asking the question “What is the raw food diet?”. It’s much different than you might think. You won’t be living on carrot sticks and sushi. What you will be living is life at a whole new level. How can that be? Because you have probably been exposed to these foods your whole life:

* processed sugars
* refined flours
* hydrogenated oils
* meat, dairy and eggs tainted with hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides
* food dyes
* preservatives
* cooked food toxins

The raw foods diet is about stepping off the roller coaster these foods put our bodies on. It is an opportunity to see how you look and feel without these highly processed foods. Give your body a vacation from dealing with these taxing foods and it will have time to heal itself. That healing can take many forms, but the most common is loosing fats,especially around the mid section, thighs and bottom. Why?

Because fat is a safe place to store acids and toxins that build up from eating the Standard American Diet. When you stop eating that way, your body doesn’t have toxins to store. It even has time to break down the existing toxins stored in that fat. And guess what, when the toxins are broken down the body doesn’t NEED fat as a safe storage place. Being magically wise, the body lets that unneeded fat go!

What would your body look like if you gave your it a break from processed foods? Glowing skin? Shinny Hair? Could you see those abs at last?

How would your moods be different without exposure to the hormones in animal products? Is it depression, PMS, or ADD? Or does the potpourri of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, dyes, flavorings and preservatives affect these conditions in ways we cannot yet understand?

Do you want to find out?

Check out this site and tour this easy to follow 14 day diet.

>> Rocking Body Raw Food

It is easy because you are guided by a raw food chef who makes recipes fast, easy and delicious? Of course healthy eating would be easy if you had a personal chef showing you what to make everyday.

That’s what Rocking Body Raw offers…

>> Your Raw Food Detox Diet Plan

About the author: Joy Houston is one of the leaders in bringing raw food nutrition to mainstream eaters. She is a certified educator in the benefits of raw food nutrition and a raw food chef that has made raw cuisine accessible through on line classes. She is the author of two books; The Delicious Revolution and Rocking Body Raw Food. To learn more about her inspiring raw foods story click and get a free PDF recipe book, click HERE.

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Run For Your Life!
But First, Why Do People Go Vegan?
What Are The Health Benefits?
That’s Incredible Because…
What About Vitamin B12?
Let’s Go To China
Eat Less Food, Mainly Plants.
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Does Being Vegan Necessarily Mean You’re Healthier?
Oprah Going Vegan – What A Joke!
Look At It This Way…
Too Much Meat Is Obviously Not Good.
Is Veganism Really Green-Friendly?
Eat For Health? What Does That Even Mean?
So, How Do We Do That?
Here’s Another Simple Trick To Healthy Eating…
Why Should You Do What I Propose?
In Fact, I’ll Tell You What My Mission Is…
Just Imagine This For A Second…
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By Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN - Eating for Energy

Eating a raw food diet is essentially a way of eating that does not involve the heating of foods. Part of the premise lies in the fact that heating foods above 118 degrees fahrenheit destroys their inherent food enzymes, a vast majority of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and their all important life force.

Chemical Changes in Cooked Foods

Heating foods radically changes their chemical properties making them less “recognizable” in once ingested. For instance, heating an egg renders into a solid mass whereas it began in a liquid, gelatinous. This occurs because the heat of frying or boiling denatures the protein structure within the egg, essentially making it more solid. As a result, this heated egg is now much more difficult for the human digestive tract to break down.

Another process that occurs with cooking foods is known as glycosylation. This is when sugar literally attaches to protein molecule. Glycosylation has been linked to the premature breakdown of the body’s cell and many other undesirable health conditions.

The Importance of Raw Food Enzymes

The reason that the natural food enzymes are so important is that our bodies have only a limited ability to produce its own enzymes. Bear in mind that our bodies produce metabolic and digestive enzymes. The latter are used to breakdown foods whereas the former are essential to every single reaction in the body. But the problem is that we only produce a finite number.

When you eat cooked foods, you force your body to use more of its own enzyme reserves to digest them. Overtime, this is just like continually withdrawing money from your bank account without making any deposits. Eventually, you will run out of enzymes!

When you have no more enzymes, you no longer have any life – it’s that simple.

Eating raw foods help you make more “deposits” into your enzyme bank account, allowing your body to preserve its own precious enzymes for more important uses such as breaking down problematic cells, immune complexes, and more.

What Can You Eat on a Raw Food Diet?

A raw food diet is mainly vegan for the simple reason that it isn’t healthy or advised to eat raw animal products. Therefore, a raw diet contains no dairy, meat, or other animal products. Other than that, the choices are endless. Most raw foodists have diets that consist of vegetables, fruit, nuts, and seeds.

The amazing part is that the possibilities are truly endless with raw foods. Many people think of not being able to eat meat or wheat as a huge limiting factor. But the fact remains that processed, dead foods are dangerous to your body and there are tons of delicious and nourishing raw food recipes that will give you so much more than you can possibly imagine.

My Own Raw Food Experience

I started following a predominantly raw food diet in 2007 and it literally changed my life. From improved skin complexion to having more energy and mental clarity, I can’t tell you how much better you can look and feel by eating the way nature intended for you to eat.

Growing up on dead foods like wheat, dairy, and meat literally destroyed my body and at the young age of 17, I lost my hair to Alopecia as a result of my immune system which had gone hay-wire and began attacking itself. Again, this was caused by years of abusing my body with foods that it was allergic to.

However, since eating a raw food diet, my health has never been better. My hair has returned (although I keep my head shaved because I like it like that now) and I have more energy than a teenager on red bull!

That’s why I wrote Eating for Energy. If you’d like to experience the same kind of health and vitality then I urge to make the raw food diet more apart of your lifestyle!

About the Author

Yuri Elkaim is one of the world’s leading holistic nutrition and health experts. If you want to lose weight and live your healthiest and most energetic life ever, then you can learn more about his raw food diet book, Eating for Energy and get started with a FREE 6-part Energy Secrets e-course by visiting EatingforEnergy.ca today.

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By Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN - Eating for Energy

If you’re reading this article, you may be wondering about the benefits of a raw food diet, right? Well, the benefits of eating more raw foods are numerous and once you understand them you’ll probably wonder why you haven’t eaten more raw in the past. You’ll also think twice about eating dead cooked foods ever again.

Raw Foods Give You More Energy

I don’t think I know of a single person who eats at least 80% raw foods who doesn’t enjoy far more energy than the average person. I know that when I transitioned away from eating a diet made up of breads, dairy, and cooked foods, and adopted more of a raw foods diet, my energy went through the roof. And I’m not talking about the quick surge you would get from an espresso but rather long-lasting energy that enables you to do more with less.

For instance, eating raw will allow you to sleep less and have far more energy than you ever thought possible. When I’m eating at least 80% raw, I can easily function on just 4-5 hours of sleep. I literally bounce out of bed and don’t require any naps throughout the day. Oh yeah, did I mention that I workout every single day as well? Sometimes, even twice!

Energizing Enzymes

There are several reasons why a raw food diet will give you more energy. First, raw foods are rich in food enzymes. Enzymes are required for every single reaction in the body. Unfortunately, our bodies only have a finite number of these enzymes, so when we run out, we run out of life! To add to this, when you heat foods above 118 degrees fahrenheit, you destroy the food enzymes that are naturally present in all raw foods. Therefore, if you eat a predominantly cooked foods diet, you’re not getting enough food enzymes, which means that your body will have to produce and use more of its own to digest and metabolize your foods.

The more energy your body needs to divert towards digestion, the less energy you will have for other activities. You will feel more lethargic and tired as your body is trying to breakdown “dead” foods and figure out what to do with them.

So, the food enzymes inherent in raw foods are a big reason for boosting your body’s energy. They are the spark plugs and are intricately related to the next property that make raw foods so energy-boosting.

Life Force

When raw foods are left intact, they are also known as living foods. They are called “living” because they carry an incredible amount of life force.

Now, since every living being has an aura or energy field illuminating from their body, which foods do you think would enhance yours? High energy raw foods or cooked foods that dead? I think we both know the answer.

As I like to say, “eat alive and you will thrive”.

Weight Loss and Beautiful Skin

The other highly sought-after quality of a raw foods diet is its ability to help you lose weight and beautify your skin. Almost all raw foodists have reported losing weight they could never lose. At the same time, they notice an instant improvement in their skin. They look younger and have a natural glow that comes about because of the “living” nature of raw foods, their abundance of enzymes, and of course the plethora of nutrients that are ingested when eating more fruits and vegetables.

You will find it easier to lose weight on a raw food diet because your getting more nutrients and, therefore, your body won’t crave “dead” foods. Second, the enzymes help to breakdown the foods you are eating and excess energy and fat stores in your body. Third, raw foods are water-rich, which helps you feel more satiated, as well as hydrated.

Many of these reasons also help us explain why living foods make you look younger and beautify your skin. Enzymes, life force, water, and high quality nutrients all play a role in natural skin care.

We could talk about the benefits of a raw food diet for hours but the only to truly understand them is to experience them for yourself. So why not take action today and enjoy the health, the body, and the vitality that you deserve!

About the Author

Yuri Elkaim is one of the world’s leading holistic nutrition and health experts. If you want to lose weight and live your healthiest and most energetic life ever, then you can learn more about his raw food diet book, Eating for Energy and get started with a FREE 6-part Energy Secrets e-course by visiting EatingforEnergy.ca today.

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