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Raw Food Diets
There are a number of diet plans based on Raw Foods. Generally these diets are plant-based, and are comprised of at least 75% raw food. Apparently raw foods contain the enzymes that are thought to be removed during the cooking process.
Raw Food
A Raw Food diet is generally made up fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted seeds and grains, dried fruit and juices, rolled or flaked grains, herbs and spices. Some people add cooked grains and legumes, good quality fish and poultry (although a number “raw food-ers” are strict vegans).
List of Raw Food Based Diets
| 12 Steps to Raw Foods | Helps readers to avoid the pitfalls of adjusting to a raw food diet as well as to maintain this way of eating as a long-term lifestyle. |
| 28 Day Raw Detox | A cleansing program that is based on a raw vegan diet in combination with a variety of whole food nutritional supplements. It will appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about the raw food diet or get a kick-start on a healthy lifestyle weight loss program. |
| 300 Raw Food Recipes | Raw Food For Everyone is a recipe book containing a bountiful selection of recipes, a primer of raw food preparation methods, and a comprehensive guide to the ingredients that are used in raw food cuisine. |
| 80 10 10 Diet | A raw food version of a low fat plant based diet, similar to that popularized by Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Doug McDougall. |
| Ani Phyo Raw Food Asia | A raw food cookbook offering readers a unique and tasty selection of Asian American Fusion recipes. |
| Beyond Broccoli: Vegan Raw Diet Deficiencies | Highlights the potential problems with vegan and vegetarian diets, including the nutritional deficiencies that may arise when these diets are followed for an extensive period. |
| Crazy Sexy Diet | A low-fat, vegetarian – or better yet, vegan – program that emphasizes balancing your body’s pH by eating more lush whole foods, low-glycemic fruits, raw veggies, alkalizing green drinks, and super-powered green smoothies. |
| Drie’s Cancer Diet | A raw diet that is designed to help your body fight cancer. |
| Eating For Beauty | Raw food advocate David Wolfe outlines his recommendations for a diet that will cleanse and nourish the body as well as increase beauty. |
| Eating In the Raw | Written by supermodel Carol Alt who says that now in her late forties she claims that she is at the healthiest, slimmest and most energetic that she has ever been due to a raw food diet. |
| Fruitarian Diet | Fruitarianism: The path to paradise is written by Anne Osborne who is a long term fruitarian. For eighteen years Obsorne has eaten only fruit and has also raised her two children on a fruit diet. |
| Gabriel Method | Not a strictly Raw Food Diet but has a strong raw food emphasis. |
| Going Raw | A practical guide to getting started eating raw and setting up a raw food kitchen. |
| Green Smoothie Recipes | 200 recipes and guidelines for making delicious raw green smoothies. |
| Hallelujah Diet | The diet is fundamentally a vegan raw food diet. The basic guidelines of the diet are simple: consume 85% raw foods and 15% cooked foods. |
| Juice Lady: Turbo Juice Diet | A weight loss plan that emphasizes fresh vegetable juices and raw foods. This juice diet will appeal to dieters who are interested in improving their health and nutritional intake |
| Instinctive Nutrition | Based on eating raw foods that instinctively appeal to us. It can renew health and vitality, alleviate chronic illness and promote weight loss. |
| Lazy Raw Foodist’s Guide | Provides readers with information to help them incorporate a nutritionally balanced raw food diet into a busy lifestyle. It also includes food selection, cleansing and detoxification, kitchen equipment and psychological factors associated with eating raw foods. |
| Live Food Factor | Referred to as the encyclopedia of the raw food diet, outlines the theory and practice of eating a diet based on uncooked foods and highlights the variety of benefits. |
| Liver Cleansing Diet | This liver detox diet is raw foods based. |
| Metabolism Diet | Mostly raw or slightly cooked approach based on your metabolism type. |
| Mucusless Diet | Focuses on healing the body using only vegatables. Which can be consumed raw. |
| Neanderthin | A Paleolithic diet based on what a caveman would eat which was basically raw food based. |
| Quantum Eating | An advanced level in the raw food lifestyle where you eat a 100% raw food diet with two meals a day that are taken in the first part of the day. |
| Raw Food Cleanse | An introduction to the benefits of a raw food diet and includes a selection of cleanses ranging from 3 to 28 days. |
| Raw Food Detox Diet | Written by nutritionist Natalia Rose as a guide to help those who wish to gradually transition into a raw food diet. |
| Raw Food Diets | A general review of all raw food diets, describing their basic componants. |
| Raw Food For Real People | By Chef Rod Rotundi, aims to demonstrate that preparing raw foods doesn’t have to be hard and a raw food diet can be a fun and delicious way to eat. |
| Raw Food Revolution | This diet will help you to lose weight, gain energy and feel younger while feasting on foods that nourish your body and delight your senses. |
| The Remedy | Supa Nova introduces readers to the benefits of a healthy diet with an emphasis on a high intake of raw foods and green juices. It includes a five-day cleanse and a five-week program that allows for a gradual adjustment from a standard way of eating to a raw vegan diet. |
| Sunfood Diet | A raw vegan diet that contains a balanced intake of green vegetables, sweet fruits and plant-based fats. These foods make up 80% of the diet with the remaining 20% coming from other raw foods or any other foods that one feels is appropriate for them. |
| Your Natural Diet | Since the natural diet of human beings was composed of raw fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts and as such they advocate a diet composed entirely of raw plant foods. |
Raw Food for Weight Loss
Weight loss is almost a certainty on this diet, due to it’s vast differences to the conventional Western diet. Calorie and carbohydrate intake are reduced leading to weight loss. It is hard to overeat on a diet due to the high water and fiber content – another reason why weight loss may occur.
This diet can be very challenging to follow, particularly from a social and shopping perspective. However cooking time can be reduced!
Protein can be low unless appropriate levels of legumes, nuts, and seeds are eaten.
Generally a good diet, but potentially difficult to sustain. Proponents of the diet claim the diet has anti-aging properties.
couldn’t this diet be extremely unhealthy? i don’t know much about raw meat but i do know, if you eat it, it can make you very sick! for all the people looking for a diet, i would go for something a little healthier! i’m not even going to try it because it probably tastes gross and also isn’t good for you at all.
I have found that the more healthy foods I add into my diet while reducing the intake of unhealthy choices, the less I desire the unhealthy choices. I allow myself to crave something, I buy it and eat it, but will notice that it becomes less “yummy” each time. Cooked food now tastes bland, like I’m trying to eat seasoned styrofoam (we’re broke, so the horrid feeling of having paid good money for seasoned styrofoam helps too). Sugar has an aftertaste of which I was previously unaware and I was ever so happy to start being irritated by it.
I do many “transition foods” where the point is to eat the raw and good for me item, although there may be too much fruit or cane sugar involvement for it to be really on my ideal diet (low-glycemic raw like in the diabetes reversal documentary which has also been shown to reverse fibrocystic ovaries, so who knows what else it could reverse, I wouldn’t mind never getting sick again, that would be just fine).
So one bunch of raw kale, one internet search for kale salad recipes to help me create one homemade jar of strawberry balsamic vinaigrette, and one hour later I’m on track with an incredibly tasty salad that makes me go back to the store for more kale!
@Raven Lavender
Please give me an example of a daily menu for you. I’m having a hard time feeling full after most raw meals…
How can I maintain my weight (not lose) by eating raw on 2 meals a day? I am 68 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weigh 122 pounds.
This was a very informative article. A raw food diet can truly help you lose weight by empowering your body with vitamins, minerals, enzyms and nutrients necessary to properly live a healthy lifestyle.
@sam: the big key, as I’ve heard others mentioning this question on here, make sure you keep your fluids up, and eat plenty of fruits as well (this will really assist in keeping your blood sugar from falling) also, if you’re going completely raw, it doesn’t mean just uncooked. That also means no dressings on your salads. (Lemon mixed with a bit of vinegar is a very simple topper that gives just enough flavor to make it enjoyable rather than a task.) I grew up loving and eating mainly vegetables so I have never found any issue with this “crash diet”, but others complain of strong cravings for sugar binges. Sugar is a processed food and is not a part of the raw lifestyle!
I really want to give going raw a try. I’ve never done aything like this before, but I’ve been researching it for some time And I really do believe its the right direction for my life. I’m 19 ujust graduated high school Andd I have no job and really hoping for some advice that might be able to help me get started. Please?
@miranda baked potatoes are not ok and neither is alcohol because for the most part it is a product that is changed in some way by implicating amounts of heat. @ehlysa if you can manage through the first couple of weeks without feeling the need to binge, and you do light to moderate exercise, it won’t take long at all. Give your body a week to adjust to the fact that it is being detoxed, before you start stepping on the scale. It takes a lot of diligence, but I was walking a mile everyday and sticking to this diet and in 2 weeks I had lost the 20lbs (3 if you count that first week I mentioned). Since you are no longer taking it a lot of calories or fat, your body will initially think it is being starved and will hoard every last calorie it can get its hands on. Once it recognizes it is being fed the same amount, just in healthier means, it will shed fast.
I am a raw vegan, and I find this article to actually be a pretty succinct article on raw food diets. I totally agree that it is probably the high water content and high levels of fibre that contribute to weight loss on raw food diets.
I have personally lost quite a bit of weight on a 100% raw food diet, and I certainly did not count calories or watch my fat intake at all. I feel as healthy as ever and I know that I look so much better now, too.
It can indeed be difficult in social situations, but it can also be a great conversation starter.
All the best,
Laura-Jane the Rawtarian
I am a raw vegan, and I find this article to actually be a pretty succinct article on raw food diets. I totally agree that it is probably the high water content and high levels of fibre that contribute to weight loss on raw food diets.
I have personally lost quite a bit of weight on a 100% raw food diet, and I certainly did not count calories or watch my fat intake at all. I feel as healthy as ever and I know that I look so much better now, too.
It can indeed be difficult in social situations, but it can also be a great conversation starter.
All the best,
Laura-Jane
Hi Chantal, Have you looked at this book? http://www.everydiet.org/diet/dries-cancer-diet
Dear Friends,
I have two friends who have both cancer(kidney and stomach) and diabetes. PLEASE help me and give me ideas on what they can eat. Especially smoothies are hard to make without a sweet fruit. Which fruits should I use?
God bless.
Can someone post some sample vegan meals please? I have severe IBS and need to eat more raw foods. Thanks.
Hi,
I am 5ft, 9 inches tall, about 60 pounds overweight. I started the vegan diet last week, and I am shocked how it curbed my out of control eating binges. The problem that I am having is that my blood sugar drops too low at times. How can I keep my lood sugar level?
Thank you for this website.
Best regards,
Sandra
Two years on Raw Primal Diet is working for me!
After years of getting very little help from Western Medicine (Western Medicine did not even openly aknowledge most of my Health problems); I spent 30+ years working with a wide variety of Diet/ Supplement/Natural Medicine approaches for an equally wide variety of Chronic Health Problems that started with a severe resistant Candida Infection at the age of 20. This persisted for 15 years before it was recognised as the cause of my Health Crashing in my early 30′s.
Since then, after 20+ years of very concerted efforts and 100′s of Thousands of Dollars – I could no longer justify the expense.
Three years ago, I started eating raw Juices in preparation for getting off all supplements. I found Weston A. Price Foundation and a source of Raw Milk which lead me to folks who have found the Primal Diet very helpful.
I spent 6 months reading, informing myself and transitioning onto Primal Diet. Continued improvements kept me going. A workshop and consult with Aajonus Vonderplanitz 18 months ago gave me a Prescribed Primal Recovery Diet for my particular Health Problems.
Over the past 2 years, maintaining 95% Primal Diet has made 10 X the difference to my health than any of the dozens of Diets/Pharmaceuticals/ Specialists/ Supplements/ Amino Acids/ TCM/ Herbs/ Homeopathics/ Acupuncture/ChiGong/PhysicalTherapy/Chiropractic/ Massage/Orthotics/ Meditation/Spiritual & Energy Work/Flower Essences etc that I have used.
I am off 90% of the Supplements – and the severe Chronic Fatigue, Fibromayalgia, Sleep Problems, Joint Problems, Skin,Dehydration (hands/feet) and Pitting Oedema (claves), Hair, Stomach,Bowels, Adrenals, Thyroid, Liver, Gall Bladder, Heart Palpitations etc etc have shown 75% improvement.
Yes it does take time and trouble to make the Fresh Raw Food and to take that Lunch Bag out the door with me – but the results are worth it. And we have saved enough $$$ on Supplements that we have been finally able to manage a car loan.
One does need help to get the right combination of foods. This is a whole new ball game for most of us -and takes time to adjust till it works.
Aajonus has been excellent. Gabrielle Cousins and David Wolfe appear to also help people make astounding recoveries and have incredible knowlege on the healing properties of all things Vegan ( though personally – I experienced the most improvement after introducing raw meat – so find their low blows to the worst forms of meat production unfair to ethically minded omnivors like myself). I have found the Raw Paleo Forum and Raw Paleo Diet Sites very helpful when I have questions on raw nutritional info and recipes.
I eat out occasioally for social congeniality etc – but my body works so much better on raw. I was on cooked food as my health deteriorated . . . so go figure!!
i have a blowted stomach and would really like to get rid of it but i a coke junkie. hw do i get rid of my tummy
Mary, I don’t think it would be a good idea for your body type. It sounds like you are already very petite. I had a friend try this and she was about your size. It did work but she also wasn’t getting enough nutrients and fainted a lot.Or would constantly be light-headed
I am new to the raw food diet as prescribed by Natalie Rose in ‘the raw foods detox diet’.
* I am wondering what kind of raw grains or starches are out there. I don’t want to simply eat nuts for dinner because I feel they are addictive (but important)
*Does anyone know how this would work for a 20 yr old 5’2” 115 lbs girl. Would my body even lose anything?
I am waiting for the results to happen but I am optimistic. Overall, the diet feels very freeing
Hello, I am a vegan and just yesterday I decided that I would start transitioning into the raw food diet. I have been vegetarian my whole life, and have never really been overweight but not as healthy as I would like to be. I reckon it will be hard to stick to because cooked food is everywhere! But reading all of these positive comments make me feel like its well worth it. I will definitely try this!
I have found that eating a raw vegan diet has helped ease the mental stress of eating disorders because you become more connected with the food you eat and your body’s functions. you also feel better about what you are eating!
i am about to start this! wish me luck. also how long will it take to lose 20 pounds on this diet?
thanks!
was wondering if you are allowed to have any alcohol if you eat only raw foods. love my red wine also are baked potatoes ok?