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Weight Loss: Raw Food Diet


Submitted by Kevin Pederson on February 17, 2010
A raw food diet is an ideal weight loss diet plan. This type of diet ensures that you eat healthy, well-balanced and nutritious food that will help you lose weight easily and ensures that you don't stay hungry just because you are dieting. Ideally, a raw food diet contains vegetables, nuts, fruits, seeds, grains, sprouted seeds, rolled or flaked grains, dried fruits, fruit juices, spices and herbs. Some raw food diets also contain poultry and fish. For instance, raw fish like cervice, sashimi, cured fish or cold smoked fish is ideal in a raw food diet. Similarly, raw meats like fillet americain, steak tartar, cured meats or cold smoked meats are also a healthy addition to your raw food weight loss diet plan. This diet ensures weight loss as it reduces intake of calories and carbohydrates. In addition, this raw food diet ensures a high fiber and water content that works to prevent any overeating. A sample raw food diet meal plan would entail fresh fruit salad with wheat germ, fresh almonds, pumpkin seeds and organic coconut cream or sheep's milk yoghurt for breakfast. For lunch, an ideal raw food diet meal includes a salad of tomatoes, various leaves, onions, yellow bell peppers, parsley and a dressing of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Dinner in this sample raw food diet plan includes a raw mixed vegetable blended soup, an avocado, sunflower-seed cheese and a banana and raspberry sorbet. To make this sample meal plan more nutritious, ensure that you drink adequate amounts of water and other fluids and add some nuts, legumes and seeds to every meal. The most important thing to remember while planning a raw food diet for weight loss is that the foods should preferably be organic and alkaline. Organic foods contain many more nutrients and alkaline minerals that will help speed up your weight loss process. Alkaline foods, unlike those that are acidic, help you lose weight faster.

In addition to your raw food diet, you can also try a weight loss diet exercise regiment. Daily workout routines are an effective method of losing weight. Simple aerobic exercises like using a treadmill, water aerobics, simple walking routines and running help burn fat quickly and strengthen your body.

Exercise caution with regard to weight loss fad diets as many of them have dangerous consequences. It is advisable to eat a well-balanced and healthy diet rather than stick to weight loss fad diets that generally tend to favor one type of food over the other. 
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