Raw Food Diet

[Mango]

Is the point of the raw diet to lose weight of for the laxative effect?

I hear the raw food diet is supposed to normalize weight. It basically gives you sugar from fruits and veggies are supposed to energize you.
The theory is that cooked food go into fat production and does not metabolize as well as raw foods.

Once you start the diet, you have to stick with it and can't mix cooked foods due to the acid in the stomach it produces and doesn't mix well with raw foods.

I know a little bit about it because my doctor is treating me for Lyme disease and some people are following the diet to give them more energy.
It has to be supplemented with some vitamins though.

I just take vegetables and fruits in capsule form Doc gives me since I do not need to lose weight nor do I wish to just eat raw foods. The capsules provide all the nutrients, antioxidants etc. you would get from eating the recommended amount of them daily, which no one possibly consumes! It's quite a bit.

I still have some cavewoman in me, and got to have a burger or a steak now and then

 

[Kimmifunn]

Is the point of the raw diet to lose weight of for the laxative effect?

Again..I ate from a raw food salad bar. Not going to stick to it. But I was toxic for 24 hrs. That's for sure. I can't imagine eating like that ALL the time.

 

[Kimmifunn]

Again..I ate from a raw food salad bar. Not going to stick to it. But I was toxic for 24 hrs. That's for sure. I can't imagine eating like that ALL the time.

I didn't answer your question. Sorry!
Mango did.
I re-toxified myself.
You have to get used to what they were serving.
That's so not normal.

 

[audie]

:roll: ...oh Lord...I bet audie answers this one!

now why would you think that ?

 

[30A Skunkape]

The raw food diet is so shocking to us since we generally eat nothing but processed junk. Evolution equipped us with a gut designed for raw/whole foods but that has been overlooked by our processed food consuming society. So, when we eat an American sized portion of 'raw food', the effect is shocking! Is it any wonder why there are scammers getting rich touting 'colon cleansing' as a cure all for every malady from arthritis to zoster?
So many folks have never had a normal gut because all they have consumed their adult lives was processed to the point of eating toilet paper;add a little bulk and, voila', the natural cure! I think we can all learn something from Kimmi's trip to the raw bar :clap_1: