Category: Raw Food Lifestyle
Adopting the Right Position when Defending your Diet and Lifestyle
| 2013 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle, Tips and Advice |
Raw Food – one of the most socially inconvenient diet and the ways you can fight with it.
Do you think when you adopt a healthy diet, changing thus your lifestyle as well, you’ll get everything you want including good health and strong relationships?
No, you can’t, unless you adopt a right position and take reasonable steps.
Relationships aren’t only about food. A strong relationship implies more than sharing food together; it’s about sharing the same preferences, hobbies or ideas.
Making relationships based on things that don’t imply food makes them truly strong and special.
But what to do when these relationship imply family members?
How to Correctly Pass on Raw Food Diet
| 2012 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle |
Raw Food Dieting Works Better if Taking Small Steps to It.
You’ve heard a lot about raw food and you’d like to bring some changes in your dieting and in your life but it’s always hard to give up something you already have, something you already know and going up with head in something you don’t really understand to the end.
You just want to have a better skin, a better health and lose some pounds. If that’s about you, stop and think if you really need this and what do you really need.
Transitioning to raw food should be done conscious and with pleasure. If you’re doing this only because one of your friends is eating raw but you don’t understand why you’re doing this, you may choose to add some fruits, vegetables and nuts to your daily menu. Understanding raw food diet is essential for a healthy and a non-depressive transition. Any strict diet brings stress to the body but a slowly transitioning may help you get the best results.
Living vs. Cooked Food
| 2012 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle |
So what exactly is living food? This is food that is alive, raw and fresh like salads, vegetables and fruits.
Here are some positives of eating this way:
1. There are no preservatives or add colors.
2. Provide a lot of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and trace elements.
3. There is a very high water content so you keep very well hydrated.
4. Very appetizing to look at.
5. Because of the firm textures you have to chew them very well so we eat more slowly and feel fuller.
6. The body can easily and quickly process and absorb living food. It would be less work for your digestive system.
7. These foods are much safer and have less man made chemicals in them
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How to Initiate Children into Raw Food Diet
| 2012 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle |
Tips to get your kids excited and wanting to eat raw vegan foods
Grow the food yourself – Kids love helping in the garden so why don’t you plant one. It’s a great introduction of living foods and will allow your children to see up close how food grows and how it ends up on the dinner table.
If you have to use containers on a small patio of your apartment then do it, your children will still be able to grow their own foods, maybe some grape tomatoes. Kids are much more likely to eat something they grew themselves!
Pick Your Own – If you just can’t have your own garden then find those farms that let you pick your own produce. The children will love helping you pick the veggies and fruits.
Go and Forage in the Wild – It’s a ton of fun for the whole family to go out and forage in the wild for nuts, berries, sour grass and lots of other delectable treats.
Differences between Raw and Cooked Food
| 2012 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle |
Regardless of location, language or culture, I have observed hundreds of people from all walks of life touch on mental and emotional breakthroughs, creative inspiration and a renewed outlook on life just by steadily increasing the fresh foods in their diet. Witnessing and partaking in this avenue of the human experience in different cultures has shaped my humble understanding about who we are and how people can consistently heal, not to mention elucidate great ideas of what we can become.
In an era where artificiality encroaches upon the core of modern consciousness, I am grateful to consistently partake in personal aspects of peoples’ food choices and see them make conscious strides in their lives. By ‘conscious strides’ I do not only mean in terms of people achieving their very real health goals such as weight loss, luminous skin or slowing the rapid turnover of cancer cells, but also the genuine excitement and sense of authenticity that is a consequence of repairing one’s body from within.
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Eating Raw On a Budget
| 2012 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle |
When you mention a raw, organic lifestyle, most people think it’s too expensive to follow such a plan. Actually, if you think about what you aren’t buying once you convert over, you’ll see that it’s actually not as expensive as you think. It also depends on what you decide to pick up at the stores. And as for the recipes, you will learn that you can substitute a cheaper item. Nuts can add up, but you can easily use sunflower seeds in place of most other nuts, with a slight change in the taste, but not enough to matter, in my opinion. And as you become acclimated to the raw food diet, you will also find that you no longer need all the fancy recipes and you are happy with eating more simple foods. I have found that when you first start out eating raw, you will crave the more high fat foods, like nuts and avocados, but as time goes by and your body is getting the nutrients that it has been needing for so long, your cravings disappear and you don’t require as much food. (Yet another reason eating raw is not as expensive as you think.)
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Eating Raw Foods is More of a Lifestyle Than a Diet
| 2012 | Filled under Raw Food Lifestyle |
Evolution happens: as we become more educated about the disturbing trends in manipulating the global food supply, the practice of eating Raw Foods is more of a lifestyle than a mere dining trend.
This specific, intentional lifestyle is a thoughtful, modern-day embrace of only those plants that nourish and support the physical body, enabling detoxification and maintaining optimum states of health, as vitality is our core state.
By eating “RAW”, that is, uncooked, unprocessed, pollutant-free, non-irradiated foods, ensures that the cellular structure of the plant is not fundamentally altered, and that the residues from these practices are kept out of the food and out of our bodies. By and by, it is also an educated intolerance of the increasing amounts of food additives, dubious food engineering and processing that taint the global food supply, contaminating not only the human body and brain (!) but also the creatures with whom we share this planet.
