If you are thinking about switching to a raw foods diet, here are ten reasons to make the jump:

1.  Less prep time = more free time . Rather than slaving over a hot stove to make your meals, your most utilized food prep machines will be your juicer and a good knife, and if you should so choose, a food dehydrator. The time you save in the kitchen can be used at the gym, or with the family.

2.  Greater nutrient density in all of your meals . Many cooking processes leach out valuable nutrients, and boiling is one of the worst culprits. Veggies that are stewed are left as limp, tasteless, and having lost as much as half of their original nutritional value.

3.  Raw foods will have more living enzymes. These wonders will aid in your absorption and digestion of your raw diet, meaning that you will get the energy from your food more quickly, and eliminate the waste products in a more timely means.

4. If you are one of the lucky few who can find raw dairy products, you will be fortunate enough to be getting for free what many others have to pay extra for. Those costly probiotics yogurts and beverages comprise cultures that are killed off in the pasteurization process, and added back in later for your benefit. Raw dairy simply skips the killing of these helpful bacteria in the first place.

5.  You will have more energy than you thought possible and will be able to devote more  for your day-to-day activities. All those wondrous nutrients, vitamins and other benefits from your raw diet will leave you looking like a new person. You will feel brighter, more energetic, and more able to tackle some new exercises to compliment your healthy eating.

6.  Raw foods naturally have fewer chemicals than processed foods  that have been cooked or otherwise processed with heat. The apple you hold in your hand, at worst, might have pesticides on it, which can be washed away. But that package of apple sauce? It contains much more than simple apples, unfortunately.

7. Raw eating means fewer carcinogens entering your system as well. Many methods of preparation that involve heat often leave a charred surface on the food – charring which has been found to include known carcinogens in many cases. Skip the charcoal, and you head off the problem altogether.

8.  A raw food diet is far healthier than the standard american diet . Increases in energy will mean an alertness like you have never experienced before; your fuel will give you the strength to go further and get more exercise; and all of those vitamins are great for your internal systems.

9.  Raw foods will give you beautiful glowing skin and hair . Raw salmon, nuts and other items in your routine diet will contain fatty oils that will give your skin a young glow that no makeup can match, and your hair will regain some of the lustre that you might have found lacking lately.   

10.  Most notably, you will surely lose a lot of weight eating raw foods . All that healthy fuel will encourage your body to burn existing fat reserves, and allow you to work harder during exercise, building muscle that will aid in the consumption of fat stores.


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