Controlling Menopause With A Raw Food Diet

Kris T Smith

  Menopause is a challenging phase in every aging women's life. However, there are quite a number of solutions that can be utilized to lessen, or better still bring to an end, the fierceness associated with most of its symptoms. At this moment in time, different solutions have been hyped as having the ultimate power to suppress menopausal symptoms. While most of these solutions tend to work, it's important to note that some may end up affecting your health status in ways that can out do the expected gains. It's out of that reason that women are advised to visit their medical doctors for solutions that can work without posing adverse side effects to their bodies or health.

Understanding raw food

Raw Food Weight Loss - Can You Lose Weight on a Raw Food Diet?

    If you've been hearing a lot more about raw food diets and raw food weight loss in particular you may be wondering if you can actually lose weight on a raw food diet.

   First of all what is a raw food diet. Unlike other diets out there and totally unlike weight loss diets it is basically a diet that consists of raw foods. Living foods as some people call them. A raw food diet can be whatever you like as long as it incorporates a lot of or all raw foods. What do I mean by a lot? Well technically that means usually 75% to 80% raw foods. 100% is good to aim for but many find that they can't give up certain comfort foods.

Weight Loss and Beauty Through a Raw Food Diet

Susan Schenck

    Raw diet promotes beauty. To begin with, one reaches his or her ideal weight more readily and maintains it with much less effort than on a cooked diet. Many people lose 15 pounds in a month or two with no feeling of deprivation whatsoever. Obese people lose much more than that while eating raw fats all they want, including raw "ice cream," avocados, nuts and olives. Raw fats (from avocados, olives, nuts, seeds, coconut butter et al.) are actually needed by the body to maintain youthful skin, hair and glands. They are rich in the essential fatty acids linolenic acid and linoleic acid that are denatured by heat.

  Raw food pioneer Dr. Ann Wigmore wrote, "The effectiveness of live foods and fresh juices, especially wheatgrass juice, has bankrupted many complex theories about why we become fat and how to reduce quickly ... Among our guests at the [Hippocrates Health] Institute, the average weight loss per week is between four and fifteen pounds" (The Wheatgrass Book, p. 59).