Ever wonder why commercial diets don't work? 

Do you suffer from skin problems, digestive problems, chronic fatigue or weight loss problems? The list goes on and on...

           The American diet has reeked havoc on the human body.

Of the millions of species of living organisms on the planet Earth, how many of them cook their food??? The answer is only 1, HUMANS! Animals in nature do not experience problems with obesity, as well as so many other diseases common among humans.

    RAW FOODS MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Most people don't realize what's in their food that they eat on a day to day basis. There are different reasons why people resort to all types of diets. The most common and also the strongest of these reasons is represented by the extra pounds, leaving aside all the other illnesses. The strong desire in today's society to be thin has brought about a range of diets that are doing more harm than good.

If you've tried hundreds of diets before with no success, the raw food diet may be the last one you attempt. This natural way of eating helps you to burn fat at a faster rate, gives you much more energy, improves your concentration, dramatically improves your health and can even help to boost your mood.

 Obesity is a dangerous chronic disease, affecting more and more persons, including children and teenagers. It is proved to have devastating effects to what health and, as a consequence, mortality is concerned.

This should be a convincing reason for us to do something before it is too late. In order to treat a thing for good, you must first get rid of what causes it. So, finding and eliminating the cause of extra weight is what should concern us. Why are so many people overweight? Why all the extra fat, which bears so many health risks?

Well, the answer is very simple: because most people are eating unhealthy food, in an unhealthy manner. Eating unhealthy food means allowing toxins to invade our body.

We all eat this kind of food sometimes, and the effects are to be seen in time. To avoid such a thing, you should begin consuming raw foods right away!

If you've been hearing a lot about raw foods lately it's because people are finally starting to pay attention to what they're putting into their mouths and the effect it's having on their bodies. It's long been known that healthier diets are those that include a lot of fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds and are often referred to as the raw food diet.

Raw food diets are not the kind of diet you go on to just lose weight although you'll lose a lot of weight fast, but a lifetime approach to a better quality of life and superior health.

Raw foods are only raw if they're un-processed, un-altered, and un-cooked. Raw food dieters typically eschew canned, packaged, or man-made foods because they're very bad for you.

Raw foods are also called living foods, and are essentially foods that are alive. Cooked foods include all those foods that have been cooked, canned, processed, packaged or refined, etc., in other words, anything that is no longer alive.

 Eating cooked food can cause all sorts of health problems from cancer to obesity.

As its name implies, a raw food diet is based on consuming unprocessed organic or whole plant-based foods. At least 75% of the food remains uncooked. The diet includes foods like fresh fruits and vegetables.

There is a ton of information and controversy regarding the raw food diet on the internet. We have the propagators, the persecutors, the passionate and the bewildered. Most of the chief persecutors zoom in from angles of nutritional deficiency, dissatisfaction with their food, body temperatures and laws of nature.

Before engaging in a never ending war, and I do not think it is wise or advisable to, let's examine what raw foods are all about.

Raw foods refer to fresh fruits, vegetable, nuts & seeds which are uncooked, unadulterated with intact vitamins & minerals. They basically contain "life" in them ie. if you plant them, they grow. Once we heat a food beyond a certain temperature and process them with artificial ingredients, the "life" is removed and some substances may even turn toxic.

If you plant the seeds from a fresh apple, you get an apple tree. If you plant the seeds from a packet of apple crisps, you get either nothing or mold. Does this make sense?

And, why is the world shifting towards higher consumption of organic produces? Because we have finally acknowledged the fact that long-term ingestion of pesticides, artificial fertilizers and other farm chemicals is causing disease and death. We recognized that the addition of these chemicals are harmful to our bodies and planet earth.

With this clear definition in mind, let's move on to nutritional deficiency. This is probably the most debated about in the history of nutrition. We don't even need to talk about protein deficiency because the protein myth has been busted a zillion times.

"The only protein-deficient diet is the starvation diet!" by Dr D.Graham (raw foodist, author of 80/10/10, and trainer of world class Olympic athletes)

A more interesting area would be vitamins & mineral deficiencies.

First of all, we must be reminded that nutritional deficiencies can be prevalent in ANY diet, be it meat-based, all types of vegan, or raw vegan diets. There is no standard benchmark to say that you will be deficient in certain nutrients if you adopt a certain diet. Why? Because everybody is different. Person A & B can eat the same identical diet but depending on their body conditions, may experience different results.

For example, research has shown that when a group of calcium deficient people were put on a water-fast, their tests show that some of them were no longer deficient in calcium after the fast. Since they did not ingest anything during the fast, they could not possibly have obtained it from food. It could just mean that calcium has been contained in their tissues which had been unabsorbed all along.

Those people had a problem with assimilation of calcium, rather than that with a deficient diet!

For people who have had bad experiences eating raw foods, it could just mean they had assimilation, digestion or even mental block problems. Do not underestimate the power of the mind!

A Raw food diet is the most logical diet for humans. After all, our hunting and gathering ancestors ate a large majority of their diet in raw form.

When we look at our anatomy in terms of signs of our ability to catch and kill animals without the use of weapons or tools, we see that we do not have the natural tools, such as claws and sharp teeth, for killing the animals humans now commonly eat.

 Our anatomy seems to not be designed for such activities. While animals in nature, which actively kill animals for food, have sharp teeth, hinged jaws, acidic saliva, very strong stomach acid, and short intestines, humans have none of these. Our teeth are designed for grinding, our jaw is hinged and does not unlock like those of animals which kill and eat animals in nature.

We have alkaline saliva, very weak stomach acid compared to carnivorous animals, and we have very long intestines. Prior to our discovering weapons and tools, if we consumed any animals at all, they likely would have been small, slow, or injured (or dead) animals, and only on rare occasion as long as we had a supply of plant-based foods available. When there is food natural for humans available, then there is no need to look "outside" our natural diet

 A diet of raw foods is a completely natural diet which consists of organic and unprocessed food only. The main idea is that cooked food loses its qualities: the vitamins and minerals are destroyed during the process. A higher quantity of food enzymes is preserved in raw foods, which satisfies your nutritional needs.

Ever burned your self by touching a hot pot or stove? Well think about the damage those temperatures cause your food. Cooked food is constantly under these conditions. Cooking living food rapidly kills the benefits of living food.

Our bodies produce their own cholesterol. That is why there is no need to consume "dietary" cholesterol, which means there is no need for us to consume animal products! If our bodies need more cholesterol, they will produce more! If we choose to go outside our natural diet and consume animal products, our bodies may then have too much cholesterol, which becomes a burden. It's no wonder there is an epidemic of cardiovascular disease among westerners, who eat a large percentage of animal products.

When we look at true instincts, are we naturally drawn to animals for food? When hungry, do we instantly salivate at the sight of an animal? Do we instinctively want to catch or tackle that animal and take a bite of its flesh? Or suck its blood out? If people salivate at the thought of animal flesh, they are likely imagining a plate of food, already prepared: cooked, marinated, seasoned, with sides of other cooked seasoned foods. That has nothing to do with a human's natural diet.

 In nature all animals eat living foods produced by nature.  Only humans cook their foods and only humans suffer widespread sicknesses and ailments. Humans who eat mostly living foods are more alert, think clearer, sharper and more logically and become more active. Best of all, live food eaters become virtually sickness-free and fat free!

  If you try a raw food diet, you should to plan your meals in advance to insure that you are receiving the maximum amount of nutrients. Also, it can be time consuming to prepare all the foods you need so make sure that you set aside the time to chop, blend and puree for each meal every day.