Raw Food Challenge!

I hope someone out there is ready to take the one week challenge.

Find out why it is healthier to turn to natural food before it is too late...
http://www.lifepositive.com/body/holistic-recipes/recipes/rawfood.asp
:happy: A huge golden-brown roasted steak, dripping with butter. Surrounded by finger chips and garnished by a sprig of basil and creamy mayonnaise. The aroma of exotic herbs. Your taste buds tingle. You almost feel the steak melting in your mouth. Yummy, isn't it? But wait! What about the cholesterol you are inviting into your system?

If you are health-conscious and have sufficient will-power, you may push away this delicious picture and go for something more banal, like a boiled salad. But is that really as healthy as it seems?The new mantra doing the rounds is that any-repeat, any-cooked food is avoidable. "In cooked food," says Jehangir Palkhivala, an Indian yoga therapist, "life forces are taken away from the food. Raw food can be consumed easily without exerting pressure on our organs."

And this is only for starters.

Nutrition science is fast gaining the reputation of being a healing and preventive device. Dr Nand Kishore Sharma, a naturopath in New Delhi, India, feels that most diseases are caused by bad food habits. "Unnatural food, which includes any form of food not found in nature, generates toxins that gradually poison the body," he says. From his 'Fireless Kitchen', Dr Sharma gives patients regenerative or natural food for degenerative diseases. This, he claims, has cured many. "I have even seen people grow new teeth and hair at 60 and 70 years of age," he says.

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\What is the Raw Food Diet?

The raw food diet is a diet based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed.

Heating food above 116 degrees F is believed to destroy enzymes in food that can assist in the digestion and absorption of food. Cooking is also thought to diminish the nutritional value and "life force" of food.

Typically, at least 75% of the diet must be living or raw.

What are the Benefits of the Raw Food Diet?

Proponents of the raw food diet believe it has numerous health benefits, including:
Increased energy
Improved skin appearance
Better digestion
Weight loss
Reduced risk of heart disease
The raw food diet contains fewer trans fats and saturated fat than the typical Western diet. It is also low in sodium and high in potassium, magnesium, folate, fiber and health-promoting plant chemicals called phytochemicals.

These properties are associated with a reduced risk of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. For example, a study published in the Journal of Nutrition found that consumption of a raw food diet lowered plasma total cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations.

yes it does sound crazy and it takes discipline, but you have a chance to feel the best you've every felt in your life! Jus one week. ok 5 days.
I'll even give you a flower -- here. :flowerforyou:

I like my meat raw sometimes, but you can count me out on this. I'd be lost without my jello 60 cal, my birds eye steam fresh veggies, my chicken. Nothing like a nice marinated london broil with soy, worchester, a pinch of ginger, cracked pepper, some salt, and a pinch of mustard seed cooked over the grill to a rare medium rare, of course ill turn the grill on a higher flame on one side to fufill those who don't want it med/rare like when asked how I want my meat I say " Slap the cow in the *kitten* on his way through the kitchen and I'll cut the bell off his head" and if im lucky theyll bring out medium rare!:drinker:

barracuda!
you have me rollin with laughter!
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I don't blame you, although (hysterical) your juicy descriptions are absolutely NOT Fair considering my neeeed for discipline at this very fragile moment in my food and diet time of life. :grumble: grrrr a london broil would suit me jus fine.:embarassed:

Raw Day #3
Tamarinds - Raw, 6 fruit (3" x 1")
Lettuce - 0.5 c
Vegetable - Bok Choy, 0.6 cups raw (56g)
Kroger - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 1 tbsp.
Spectrum - Balsamic Vinegar, 3 Tbsp
Green Giant - String Beans - French Cut, 0.15 cup
Mangos - Raw, 1 fruit without refuse
Life Extension - Chitosan, 2 capsules
Breadfruit - Raw, 0.7 cup
Chaokoh - Coconut Milk, 1/6 cup
Breadfruit - 0.5 cup
Chaokoh - Coconut Milk, 1/10 cup
Oil - Vegetable, coconut, 1 tbsp
Mangos - Raw, 2 fruit with skin
Oil - Vegetable, coconut, 1 tbsp
Life Extension - Chitosan, 2 capsules

Total Calories - 1200

Raw meats can definitely be a part of the raw food diet. I havent ventured into the raw meat (beef/chicken) diet just yet. But I love sushi! :smokin:

Healthier Me, i will not try raw meats any time soon. I too am a bit squeemish about that. But i love my sushi!

Raw Food Challenge Day #4


Nuts - Cashew nuts, raw, 4 oz
Raisins - Seedless, 0.3 miniature box
Tamarinds - Raw, 4 fruit
Mangos - Raw, 1 fruit without refuse
Oil - Vegetable, coconut, 1 tbsp
Fresh Produce - Bell Peppers (Green), 0.2 c
Breadfruit - Raw, 0.4 cup
Lettuce - Iceberg raw, 1.5 cup
Kroger - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 1 tbsp.
Wendy - Chili - Small, 0.3 cup (needed the meat!)
Margarita, 0.4 cup (woops! outing with the boys):embarassed:

calories 1200