anyone ever tried the raw food diet?
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My friend has been eating nothing but raw vegetables for about a year now.  He swears that he feels great!  He certainly looks great, has good skin tone and all.  But he has to eat ALOT of veggies and he eats ALL Day long!  He runs marathons and has lots of energy.  I think he lost about 20 pounds from his belly and it is still off.
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If by "raw" you mean dry uncooked, unsoaked, I would venture to say not a good idea.\n\nHowever, I eat uncooked rice, only sprouted/soaked in water for 24-48 hours. This softens it up enough to eat, and removes the enzyme inhibitors that raw dry rice (or any grain for that matter) has that is so very bad for your body. \n\nAvoid any unsprouted grains whenever possible. The enzyme inhibitors wreak havoc on the body's main means of communication within itself. Enzymes. These are how our organs and our system as a whole remain in communication with itself. Remove the means of communication, and you damage the system.
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This goes into an interesting area.  There is a book out there called the Warrior Diet.  It talks of this very style of eating.  It can be healthy but you have to do it right.  This was basically the diet of natives and other hunter/gather societies.  Our bodies are probably more adapt at this diet then the crap we have forced into over the last 70 years.  I would change it up from apples to other nutritious fruits.  Read the Warrior Diet and get a better prospective.
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You mean there is really a diet out there I haven't tried!!!
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I have started eating at least a half a cup of raw broccoli a day.  It really helps with daily eliminations.
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---\nAfter trying for 10 years. I finally lost 150+ lbs (12 stone) and kept it off for over 3 years now. I am now in amazing health, all around, not just thinner.\n\nI did it without medicine, workouts, religion, going hungry or hating my food and without an operation or secret formula. I had tried counting: calories; carbs; fat; etc. I had tried jogging, swimming, weights,  aerobics, crazy medicines and starving! But nothing ever worked well or lasted very long.\n\nI also had Hypertension, High Blood Pressure, Chronic Asthma, vision and hearing loss. constant colds and ills, annual flu or pneumonia and more. I was approved for bypass surgery and  taking usually between 16 and 20 pills a day.\n\ntake a look at my before and after pictures...\n---------------------------------------------------------------\nI'm Chris...\nhttp://www.fromsadtoraw.com/Journals/Chris/Pictures/RawPictures.htm\n\nhttp://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/personalgrowthnow/album?.dir=/bfa5&.src=ph&.tok=ph1YNpEBJB8qTLBg\n\nmore info:\nhttp://www.thelighthousewebworld.com/raw.htm\n\nhttp://www.rawguru.com/rawgurus.html
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I have found some RAW, ORGANIC, LIVE, WHOLE FOOD in powder form.  I have had allergies but they went away when I began taking this stuff made of totally organic vegetables, fruits and other ingredients.  Send me an email privately and I will tell you more if you wish.  \n\nzhebee
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No.  It sucked.  I was hungry all the time.  I only lost 1 pound the first week then nothing for two weeks.  I gave up.  It doesn't help you make the actual changes you need.  I found its diet and exercise that work the best.  I did the body for life thing and it worked for me.  I lost 50 pounds in 6 months and have kept it off for 3 years.  good luck!
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I have read the book. It's very informative. Alot of what he talks about relating to what you eat is confirmed in a book by Jordan Ruben called The Makers Diet.
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Before a very stressful period of my life which caused me to gain weight, I had a killer set of abs thanks to Billy Blanks: Abs and Glutes exercises. I know this sounds like a sponsored promotion, but I assure you. using that DVD regularly (every other day, if possible) had me sporting a nice ladylike 6 pack!\n\nVegetarianism is cool, but optimum health is achieved with a vegan or raw food vegan/mostly vegan diet. The raw food diet is especially good as you can eat as much as you like, but make sure it is raw (i.e humungous salad for dinner, smoothie with a fruit pudding for breakfast, stuffed lettuce/peppers for lunch etc).\n\nSit-ups/crunches alone, suck. \n\nA personal trainer once told me that one of the greatest things you can do for your abs is going for a sprint, keeping a mental focus on your abdominal area. Not sure how true that is!
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Yes. Many examples:\n\nSalmonela - leave raw chicken meat for three days outside of the fridge and then eat it. You can try with eggs, too.\n\nCholera - start with traveling to foreign countriesand look to consume raw or undercooked seafood from warm coastal waters subject to sewage contamination. \n\nI guess, you get the idea. It's possible to get yourself a disease.
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Yes I have.  I have seen no difference..........BUT...... I joined a gym for the exercise and watch my food intake.  I have lost 76 lbs in a yr and half.  No pill can do that.  Stay with the natural...no meds!
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Yes.\n\nPlease, please please don't continue with this unhealthy diet treadmill as it will mess up your body's metabolism (that's how your body deals with food). Diets put the body under additional stress. You need fat on your body to ensure it develops properly and that you don't have bone thinning or fertility problems later in life. I suggest you go to http://www.dove.co.uk/uk_en/ and check out their campaign for real beauty feature - every woman deserves to be made to feel beautiful without conforming to an impossible to achieve image created by the media. \n\nIf you're worried about it, read the following carefully and think about what you want and why you want it. Is it to fit in or is it because you want to be healthy (not thin, thin isn't automatically healthy).\n\nThere is no such thing as a safe quick weight loss. Diets and diet pills don't work they just act on the pituitary gland (this is a part of the body in the brain that helps make your body work properly). Diets make the body lose water not fat (water loss means weight loss). It's good to exercise or run about and have fun as anything which raises your pulse and makes you sweat is good. If you don't eat enough the body goes into "famine" mode if it doesn't get enough norishment (ie, it thinks it's being starved) and stores anything it does get as fat, rather than glucose (glucose is a form of sugar which is what every cell in your body uses for energy). Every cell in your body respires (this is like breathing - good stuff goes in and bad goes out) and this uses energy, ie, food. Without enough energy, your metabolism slows and food is stored as fat. Incidentally, who says you need to lose weight and do you really need to lose the weight? The only thing guaranteed to get a body healthy (note I don't say "lose weight") is to exercise and eat a healthy, balanced, wide variety of foods plus the occasional treat in moderation (this stops any food becoming "naughty" and therefore craved). Please note that body muscles weigh four times more than body fat because the fibres are so much closer together. Some fat is important on the body though as it helps regulate hormonal levels in the body and prevents osteoporosis and other bone wasting diseases in later life. Some fat is important on women as too little can cause periods to stop and fertility problems. Girls are made differently to boys and a totally flat stomach and no hips isn't healthy on a woman. The question to ask yourself is - how do you look in a mirror - not how much do you weigh. If you think you look untoned, then include some excercise using light weights (low weight, lifted lots of times) into your life.\n\nI have friends who have taken up Pilates and although they never lost weight, their clothes looked fantastic on them, their posture improved and their entire bodies firmed up. I watched this happen. Pilates strengthens your core muscles (the ones that hold your skeleton in place) which makes you stand properly which makes you look slimmer. I believe that yoga also does this although I don't know anyone who has done this. Additionally, try dance (old style ballroom / salsa) as this is a fun way to tone up. Any excercise / activity that raises your heart rate and makes you sweat BUT IS FUN will ensure you stick to it and get fitter.\n\nAdditionally, drink lots of water. Lots of people eat when they are in fact thirsty. If you feel hungry, drink a glass of water first and if you're still hungry half an hour later, then eat. Eat sensibly and regularly and don't forget to eat breakfast (so named because it "breaks" the night's "fast"). Missing breakfast starts the day off badly as your body will just crave and store anything you eat later as fat. Try to avoid having too many fizzy, sugar filled drinks or a lot of fried (especially deep fried) foods. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. Try n
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I started the atkins diet once and carried on for six months.  I was a size 20 and after six months size ten.  \nNever had a problem with loose skin.  I had lost appetite whilst on the diet which meant it took me another to years to come back to a size twenty.\n\nI was contemplating going on the diet again but found out recently that eating red meat in large quantities has been proven to increase breast cancer.\n\nThe trick whenever u r dieting is to drink a minimum of three litres of water and u wont have a problem with loose skin and dont even bother with moisturisers, they dont even go skin deep, if u know what i mean!!!
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That sounds kind of weird! I don't know if I would trust or try it. Just eat light, exercise daily, and drink lots of water. Good Luck!!
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Not sure if it works yet, but I am trying it. I started today. I bought a 14 day plan and menu on ebay for cheap. It looks fairly easy to stick to compared to other diets I've tried. send me an email\n\nchuckehall2000@yahoo.com
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The maple syrup diet, i heard beyonce tried it, i'm sure if you typed in google maple syrup diet it would come up with it i wanna try it!