Transitioning to a Raw Food Lifestyle

Transitioning to a Raw Food Lifestyle

by Jack Albritton

Many people who want to lose weight, improve their health and have more energy are turning to a raw food diet these days. There is so much information out there that it can be difficult to decide where to begin.

Transitioning to a raw food lifestyle slowly will help to make the process easier and the change long term. How slowly you transition will depend largely on how you have been eating prior. If you are coming directly from a standard American diet, you are going to want to go slower than someone who has previously been vegan or even vegetarian.

Don’t underestimate the mental aspect of making such a radical lifestyle change. Especially when that change involves taking away a major portion of the food you have eaten all your life.

As a good friend pointed out to me the other day, we have been programmed into thinking that our bodies need the meat, dairy, breads, sweets and grains. Somewhere, deep down, psychologically there is a fear, a little voice telling us we are going to starve to death eating like this.   READ MORE

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