Raw Food Diet For Beginners - How To Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Improve Your Health

By Susan Ellerbeck

The Raw Food Diet has taken the world by storm. The reasons are obvious.

With so many fad diets out there, we need a better way to lose weight, feel great, and improve our health.

Chronic disease and cancer rates are going through the roof. We need change.

Instead of processed and genetically modified foods we need a natural way of eating.

The Raw Food Diet promotes healthy, long lasting weight loss. It improves overall health, increases energy and enhances appearance.

But how does it all work and how do you begin?

Raw Food Diet For Beginners explains how the Raw Food Diet works in a clear and simple way. It shows how easy it is to add raw food to your lifestyle, and enjoy all the health benefits real foods have to offer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Ellerbeck
• Release date: Jan 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781497780637

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Raw Food Diet for Beginners

The All Natural Way to Lose Weight

Feel Great and Improve Your Health

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Susan Ellerbeck

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Copyright © 2012 Susan Ellerbeck. All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used,  reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, in any manner whatsoever without written permission.

Disclaimer

This information is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice and treatment. Readers are strongly advised to consult a qualified medical professional regarding the treatment of medical conditions. The author and publisher shall not be held liable or responsible for any misunderstanding or misuse of the information contained in this guide or for any loss, damage, or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by any information, treatment, action, or application of any food or food source discussed in this guide. This information is general and is offered with no guarantees on the part of the authors or publisher. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Nothing in the guide is to be considered personal, legal, or professional advice.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One

Early Eating

Human Digestion

Enter the Enzymes

The Results

Raw Foods

Chapter Two

Modern Foods and Nutrition

Processed Foods 101

Hands Off the Food!

Why Processing Matters

The Impacts of Handling and Processing

Beneficial Flora

Enzymes and Modern Food

Enzymes 101

Enzymes and Food Processing

Cooking Changes pH

Destroys the Vitamins

Minerals into Inorganic Compounds

Changes from Living to Dead

AGE

Making the Change

Chapter Three

A Raw Diet Explained

Breaking Down the Diet

The Opposition

The Responses

Debunking the Raw Food Myths

Chapter Four

Adding Raw Foods to Your Diet

Making the Switch

Transitional Tips and Pointers

Getting Started

Eating Plans

Recipes

Smoothies and Juices

Smoothie Basics

Green Smoothie

World's Best Smoothie

Savory Smoothie

Super Sweet Mango Smoothie

Summerific Peach Smoothie

Crazy Simple Carrot Juice

Reliable Veggie Juice

Breakfast Friendly Foods

Oatmeal

Yogurt

Rolled Energy Bars

Carob Nut Chews

Lunchtime Favorites

Wraps

Raw Gazpacho

Super Duper Cole Slaw

Vegan Cheese

Salad Dressing

Mayonnaise

Dinner Friendly Recipes

Best Dinner Salad

Pasta Sauce

Pesto

French Fries with Ketchup

Ketchup

Introduction

Food sustains life, but it is almost unbelievable how many types of food we eat. Most of them, however, are defined by the ways they are prepared and enhanced. We eat foods with geographic descriptions, i.e. Thai or Italian. We eat foods described purely by how they are cooked barbecue or steamed, and we eat foods by various other terms such as pickled, kosher, etc.

This book is going to explore something a bit different. In the following pages we'll look at an extremely unique way of eating known as the raw food diet. This is not some new dieting technique or a quirky trend, but is a way of life here on Earth for thousands of years.

Raw foods were the very first kinds of foods that human beings could eat. Naturally, they had different types of teeth and jaw structures in the days when raw plants and meats had to be torn apart in order to be eaten, but this established how our bodies worked.

In this guide, we are going to look at eating on a step by step basis in order to understand how it works and why unprocessed and uncooked (i.e. raw) foods are the best choices. We