Want to Lose Weight? It is NOT necessary to be a 100% Raw Foodist, to lose weight and feel great. You can be very healthy without taking it that far. So, how does one ideally begin the journey to better health? There are a lot of diets out on the market today. You've probably heard of many, such as the Zone Diet, Macrobiotics Diet, South Beach Diet, Maker's Diet and others. We wouldn't want to dismiss any of these programs, because they can all produce positive results to some degree. We have personally witnessed people lose weight and heal from degenerative diseases after adopting some of these diet plans. There is, however, one common denominator that allows these programs to succeed: They all require people to leave out eating certain foods, without exception. Foods such as refined sugars and processed starches are often completely omitted. As a result, a person's health can improve considerably. The reason a 100% Raw Food Lifestyle is such a GREAT way to live is because you leave out everything that is damaging to the body and just keep in the stuff that helps nourish us. It is critically important to understand that: What you leave out of your intake completely without exception is the way to ultimate health. What you don't eat is actually more important than what you do eat. When people think about eating more healthily, they often think in terms of ADDING IN something – maybe more broccoli or a handful of goji-berries, even a vitamin supplement maybe? In truth, you can eat Raw Foods until you are blue in the face and you're not going to fully heal UNLESS you simultaneously LEAVE OUT the cause of the illness, which means omitting certain damaging foods, COMPLETELY. It's not so much about what you add in it's what you leave out that really helps... ;) We like to categorize the primary foods consumed by humans into the following five groups: Animal Protein Dairy Refined Sugar - e.g. standard candy, bakery items, cakes, cookies Processed Starches - e.g. bread, pasta, cereal Raw Vegan Foods - vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, sprouts and seaweeds If what we leave out of our intake completely without exception is the way to ultimate health, then it makes sense to first eliminate the food groups that are most damaging to the body. The two most damaging food groups are the refined sugars and processed starches. THAT IS THE SECRET! That is what all those other diets do. Their plans usually require that you leave out the refined sugars and processed starches, without exception. If you can do that one thing, you are on your way to ultimate health; you can live a very healthy life. In our own experience, our health could not truly move to the next level as we started to lose weight, until we had COMPLETELY removed the processed starches and refined sugars from our intake. We also highly recommend staying away from cooked (red) meat, sea food and pasteurized cow dairy products. Those can all seriously undermine our health. Take the first step into your own well-being, radiant health and optimal body weight, by implementing more plant based, living foods into your diet. You will witness how your body transforms itself into the powerful machine that nature had provided to all of us.

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