Get Your Game on by Eating Raw Food

If you have not heard that eating raw food is all the craze these days, stay tuned. Raw food is not just for a niche group of health food buffs anymore, it is going main stream. The raw food diet, as some call it, is turning many lives around in a big way. Raw food has many advantages, but the one that stands out, is the foods ability to provide a steady stream of an all important and life giving building block, known as the "enzyme."

When food is cooked above, let's say around 115 degrees F, most enzymes are destroyed, along with collateral damage to essential vitamins and minerals. In the modern diet, food is processed, packaged, and loaded down with a variety of unnecessary toxins and synthetic chemicals. Food that is massed produced by giant food manufacturing companies is designed to produce profits and not healthy humans, plain and simple.

Once highly processed food, which is already toxic, is ingested it then begins to increase in toxicity as it ferments in the human digestive system for sometimes days after it is consumed. This stresses the body, causes poor sleep patterns and plays havoc with the normal functioning of the human body. After years of continued poor diet based on processed foods, the body backs up with toxins and man made chemicals. To rid the body of these toxins will require choosing one of the various detox programs made popular today.

One very effective detox program gaining in popularity is known as a juice fast. It is always good practice to consult with your family doctor before every beginning such a program. However, once you are given the green light by your physician, beginning a raw food juice diet can be very beneficial. Only you can select the number of days you will juice fast. A short fast would be perhaps three days, where a very long fast would entail perhaps 30 days, which is not for the faint of heart.

On a true juice fast, no food is consumed, and all nourishment comes from the juice of fresh raw vegetables and fruits. Over the course of the fast, the cells of the body are flushed with juice from living food that is enzyme rich, vitamin rich and mineral rich. On a micro scale, cells are detoxed at the cellular level as the juice of carrots, celery, cucumber and a long list of other veggies is consumed three times a day as all regular meals are replaced. When doing a juicing fast, people will generally drink to their hearts content as more is better, and yet any excess body weight just seems to melt easily away. Some of the juice concoctions taste amazingly great, such as this easy to prepare Pina Colada recipe shows.

On a macro scale, the liver and kidneys are flushed and detoxed over the course of the raw food juice fast. Some juices are especially well suited at cleansing these organs of elimination, such as beet and parsley, to name just a few. One should never jump blindly into a program as powerful as an extended raw food juice fast, but should research it and learn as much as possible in preparation for such a journey.

The time has come for people to stand up and take responsibility for their health, as large food corporations will never do it for us. We must first consider detoxing and cleansing to remove years of accumulated toxins from our vital organs, followed by an ongoing living foods diet, rich in life giving enzymes, vitamins and minerals. So, put on your game face, get focused and get serious and after just a short time of being nutritionally centered you will feel great, look vibrant and see your world in a new and exciting light.

This highly informative article about eating raw food is brought to courtesy of the Raw Food Recipes web site.