If you think cooking is for the birds, you might like the raw foods diet where at least 75% of meals must be well raw.
The raw foods diet is based on the idea that raw foods contain enzymes which helps the body digest and absorb nutrients. Proponents of the diet believe that heating food above a hundred and sixteen degree destroys these vital enzymes.
Of course, this means that all animal products are no-no’s on the raw foods diet.
In addition, anything manmade or prepackage is off limits.
Fresh foods and vegetables, nuts and seeds, grains and purified water are all okay.
The raw foods diet encourages weight loss but it is also totted for increasing energy but reducing the risk of heart disease.
Even TV icon, Carry Bradshaw and her friends got in on the raw foods diet which was featured in an episode of HBO “Sex In The City”.
With the raw foods diet, you can definitely loose weight and skip the cooking all together.
