This is an epidemic that is taking its toll on society. There is a crisis and many just don’t know what to do. I feel that an answer can be found in raw foods or becoming a full fledged raw foodie.

Raw foods help to promote weight loss and maintain a healthy weight if done using the proper techniques. That means eating well balanced meals that will provide your body with all you need to reach your best possible health peak.

A diet high in raw foods, especially fruits and vegetables help to promote weight loss for a number of reasons. They are low in unhealthy fat, low in calories, high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals, and raw foods help you to eliminate waste quickly. They also aid in weight loss because they help reduce cravings for sweets, keeps your energy steady so that you don’t overeat from because you are too hungry or become tired because you are eating too many dead foods.

When you eat foods that are high in nutrients and low in calories, you will lose excess fat at a more rapid rate.

By incorporating more raw foods into your diet you will be able to exercise more effectively, think more clearly about what you putting in your body, and have a mental state of mind that will help you know that your health is important.

Eating more raw foods actually turns on your body’s metabolism at the cellular level and regulates hormones that help to control appetite so that you don’t eat what your body does not need. You are able to digest the foods better, allowing your hunger to decrease as well as the cravings for the bad food that packed on all the unwanted weight. Without all the toxic chemicals in your body that existed when you consumed high far processed foods, your body is able to rid the waste and stop holding on to unwanted fat cells that accumulate over time, causing weight gain.

It has been stated in many farming magazine that if you want a cow or pig to gain weight you feed them more cooked foods. It you want them thin give them more live raw foods. When you think about that fact it really makes you think that maybe we are doing this cooked food thing all wrong. The real way to release unwanted pounds is not through the fat-free, sugar-free, low calorie foods that permeate the food industry. Even people on that type of diet are encouraged to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. If you really want to drop the weight, pick up a raw carrot or two and start eating.

Need more convincing? Let me introduce you to 3 raw food weight loss SUPERSTARS!

Angela Stokes – This is the gal that actually introduced me to the concept of raw foods. Before that time I had only heard of it in passing but Angela’s warmth and her experiences with raw foods sucked me right in. Oddly enough the one other person who really inspired me other than Angela was a raw foodie named Matt Monarch and I later found out that these two were engaged. Anyway Angela lost over 150 pounds on the raw diet!

She also has a raw food weight loss plan with recipes, workouts, advice, and video tutorials that can be purchased called the RevitaLive Plan.

Philip McCluskey is another inspiring raw foodist. He reached 400 pounds and was ready to get a gastric bypass after trying just about every diet and trick out there. He went 100% raw vegan and has now lost almost 200 pounds!!!

Britanie Faith – This lovely young woman lost about 70 pounds with raw food and started modeling.

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