Like a lot of us, George was eating too much of the wrong food and not enough healthy food. He liked a drink and didn’t really get as much exercise as he should either. (Sounds a bit like the old me of a few years back!)
He was a bartender, which didn’t really help with his eating habits – pizza and beer were a regular part of his diet.
One day he suddenly flipped – enough was enough – and he made the drastic change of going raw! He wasn’t looking for a particular type of diet – more of a total body and lifestyle change. Going raw is pretty “total”.
Going with a raw food diet means you can either go completely raw, eating noting but raw food all the time, or you do it in bursts – eating raw food only for one week in six for example, or go 50-50 where you eat some raw food ever day but don’t give up cooked food either.
George went the “bursts” route and used the raw food diet for a cleansing body detox and weight loss regime.
Supporters of the raw food diet say that you can’t improve on nature, so eating raw food is getting the best that nature has to offer. One such guy is Tim Van Orden – a long distance runner who consistently beats his competition in pretty much ever race he enters.
So why go raw? Well, raw food diet followers believe that once you cook food above 116 degrees a lot of the valuable enzymes and nutrients are destroyed, rendering the food nutritionally low and of less use to your body.
Personally I like the raw food diet, though I’m not a “all or nothing” kind of gal. I take the 50-50 approach – I still love my cooked food (roast chicken dinner being one of my faves), but I also recognize the benefits of raw food, so I eat a lot of raw veggies, raw fruit and lots of home made juices which I concoct in my juicer. It’s one of the best ways to lose weight that I know, and it worked wonders for me.
What do you think?
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