Raw Food Diets Part 1 - Juicing, Raw Food Veganism and Fruitarianism!

Raw Food Diets Part 1 

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Juicing, Raw Food Veganism and Fruitarianism!

 

Juicing

Since I did a post in juicing yesterday, I thought it would be prompt to talk about people's lifestyle choices in relationship to this first before we move into other areas and analysis of nutrition. 

Juicing is the act of taking raw fruit and vegetables as a product and placing them through a juicer to produce two key processed products. The first product made from juicing are the raw, live enzymes, minerals, vitamins, sugars and salts inside of a concentrated natural juice which you drink. The second product is the fibre and concentrated food cluster which, when stripped of its nutritional benefits is only useful as compost or use as an organic worm farm.

Why juice?

People who juice tend to be health conscious, may be going through a health crisis or are the types of people who want to have more energy in their lives. More energy, means that the may have to juice up to three times a day in order to help their digestive, immunological and similar systems along.

For weight gain or weightloss juicing is also paramount, for like hempseed oil, juicing not only clears up the skin but also helps people maintain their weight better. Considering this, Juicing can be considered a form of superfood and many people who are in my social circles juice alongside their physical actitivities such as yoga or Martial arts in order to increase their lifeforce. This is something to consider if you are metaphysically minded. Metaphysical pursuits also tend to follow along in other philosophies such as Raw Food Veganism, a topic we will now discuss below.

Raw Food Veganism/Fruitarian Diets.

Are you suffering a health good crisis? Do you want to lose or gain weight? Do you want to live a more natural lifestyle?

If so then raw food Veganism/Frutarianism is for you. I lived as a raw food vegan and fruitarian for a year each in 2008 and 2009 and I found the lifestyle both a challenging interesting. Ultimately what I found out about trying both lifestyles was that the human body is omnivorous and requires a variety of nutrients in order to excel and survive. However, both lifestyles over those two years cleaned out my body and up until that time I found that I had suffered a few depressive episodes.

These depressive episodes ceased when I started to juice, eat raw fruits/vegetables and limiting the amount of processed foods that I have in my diet available to me. At the present time I am a highly charged and motivated individual and it is hard fro me to think back about the person I was before I changed to a raw food diet. Indeed, when Iundertook the diet and just ate 100% raw vegetables and raw fruits what I experienced was a series of herxheimer reactions or periods of intense detox. These  intense detoxes made me incredibly ill as my body began to release a series of environmental toxins which I had built up over a very long time.

After these reactions from the detox, my skin, facial muscles, health and need for sleep all improved. Thus I consider having a raw food diet to be a lifestyle.

Undertaking a Raw Food Lifestyle.

In order to undertake this lifestyle and diet you need to be eating at least 80-100% raw food. This involves making meals, buying a variety of mixed fruits and vegetables whilst also avoiding animal products such as meat, eggs, milk, eggs and similar dairy from any animal altogether. This is not an easy task to undertake and be prepared to give up restaurant food and a social life (no kidding). The proponents of both lifestyle choices be that a fruitarian lifestyle where you just eat fruit or a raw food vegan where you just eat vegetables claim that their healthy lifestyle choices can cure cancer an AIDS.

While I personally feel that there are cures to both ailments, I do not think that it comes from these healthy choice lifestyles but rather from a combination of them both with supplementation and advanced Medical procedures not yet available to the public.

Some things to look out for and consider about raw food diets.

* The first is that you can become anaemic - FAST!!! Unless your aware of iron supplements, vitamin B, use of oranges, hempseed oil and silverbeat/spinach.

* Secondly you also lack a lot of protein when undertaking these diets and lifestyle choices. This is why people push lentils, soy and legumes in order to get the important non-animal proteins. Both have their advantages and disadvantages upon oral administration. I.e. Soy is a Xenoestrogen and has been shown to both feminize some men and cause cancer in some women. These are some other topics I will discuss in the upcoming weeks as time allows and considering that I have said very little about lifestyle choices and health on my blog, I do recommend that before you or any other person take up any diet which they are considering - That they do their own research.

Doing your own research means that you read a lot about a diet both online and in a textbook, it also means that you contact your medical doctor, dietician and/or naturopath. This wayyou can get a series of important and varied opinions from professionals, whilst also making up your own mind on where you wish to take your life and your health.

Until Part 2 of this article,

Count. Daniel John Fogarty, Wednesday 13th of November 2013