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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.
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I have a friend who went on raw food for 8 months- besides losing a ton of weight (he was very overweight before) I could swear his skin looks 10 yrs younger. I totally want to- but the food although it says reduces cooking time actually takes MUCH longer to prepare. u can spend 3 hrs a day making food- and if it’s going to be organic- can also cost a lot.
Out of all the diets I’ve tried, I have had better success on this diet. I have been transitioning to the raw food slowly for the past couple of months and noticed a tremendous difference in energy levels, low blood sugar, lower cholesterol, normal blood pressure, clearer skin, just to name a few. Talk to your doctor, join support groups on and offline, research which plan works for you! What works for you may not work for someone else.
I have been following the Blood Type Diet (type O) for 2 months now and feel great but think the Raw Foods Diet may be the missing piece to those pesky last 10 pounds I’ve been trying to shed for 20 years.
Any other Blood Type dieters out there with wisdom to share with one going to the Raw Foods Diet?
why would you put your phone number? haha i’m going to call you! no i’m joking but man raw food gives you energy!! wooooooo I think something non raw everynow and then is ok too though just so you can eat out or something like avo tacos with chips y salsa! and soy or rice milk smoothies with raw fruit you know? it takes alot of commitment to go alll raw 90% is good enough for me you will lose weight quick on this diet and feel great it just gets kinda tough if you don’t eat enough calories umm eat nuts sprout some chickpeas and make raw hummus for raw veggies and make guacamole for raw veggies vitamins are easy to get if you get a VARIETY of foods and calories can get up there when you use nut butters and oils and avocado!! if your ok with raw meat you could get plenty of nutrition and unless you have your own animals you can’t get raw dairy
hi i’m 21yrs old and live in ky. i want to try this lifestyle but don’t have much support could some one be my txt buddy or something? my number is 859 652 0297 thanx!
As a 50+ aged obese women, who has tried probably 70% of the diets on this list, I find that this “raw food diet” has been the most successful adventure into the dieting world that I have taken. As in all dieting, you must exercise some intelligence and pay attention to your bodies reactions, but once a person gets past the detox stage of any diet, good things should start to happen. And with this diet, good things have finally begun to happen for me.
hey im 15 and im doing a project on this but it looks real interesting so im thinking about doing it and im determind to do it and i just wan to know like for how long i have to do this diet and what are some things i need to eat for breakfast lunch and dinner so if anyone can respond that would be great im also gonna work out while doing the diet so how long until i get the body that i want?
If you’re considering doing this diet, make sure you have a good blender. To a raw foodist a good blender is like a good oven.
The best way to start this diet is by making green smoothies and by slowly eliminating processed foods. You’d be amazed just how many hours a simple smoothie will keep you hunger free. You can find recepies & instructions for this all over youtube.com . Good luck
At the start of the raw foods diet, I felt nausea and even had mild headaches. I was detoxing. The first few days were a mixture of bliss (from eating raw) and what have I been doing to my body all these years. When I was vegetarian, I went from a size 5/6 to a size 12. I though being a vegetarian was the healthier option, but I got fat in spite of help from nutritionist and doctors. So, a friend asked me to take a raw food challenge. This is the best thing I could have done. My skin got clear, I dropped a dress size and have tons of energy (I don’t need Red Bulls or Starbucks anymore). I have only been on this diet a few weeks and a lot has changed for me. I feel blessed.
I would advise anyone to talk to a doctor about detoxification on a raw diet, so you know why and how your body is changing. I would also recommend talking to a nutritious who is familiar with raw foods, vegan and/or paleo diets.
I have found books by Natalia Rose helpful, David Wolfe’s website, Muata Ashby’s Kemetic Diet and Detox 101 invaluable resources.
Above all listen to your body. When you do the right things for it, it thrives.
I just purchased the book and I am trying to get as much information as possible to do everything properly! I will let everyone know my progress good or bad! Thanks for all the input everyone had, it is helpful to see the pros and cons!
Two questions:
What’s the simplest way to get introduced to this way of eating?
How do I know if I’m getting enough vitamins and minerals and protein?
i see sheep’s milk yogurt in lots of organic markets, health food stores, safeway, freddie’s, whole foods,…..
mmmmmmm am lovin it
Where on earth would the average American find sheep’s milk yogurt, organic or not???
The raw food diet is wonderful, as the CEO of http://www.rawguru.com I talk with many people that have had success with the raw food lifestyle. People experience weight loss, radiant skin, happiness, and those who suffer from aches or even dis-eases eventually heal and become better than ever.
Not sure of the accuracy but WHFoods.com seems to be a good source of info for this kind of diet. You can see the content of different foods and even search for foods by essential nutrients. Seems like a good resource for this.
although this diet works wonders, and after struggling with an eating disorder for 6 years, helps shape a healthier lifestyle- YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL! there are too many people who don’t realize that although you are ”only” eating raw/live food, you can still get enough calories. any person who wants to diet smartly has to remember that the base physiological need of calorie intake/day is 2,000 calories. and that is at the very least. starving yourself at a 1,200 calorie diet like we’ve all been told is the calorie intake of weight loss (which, it does make you loose weight), is unhealthy. it does not only turn your metabolism into fat-storing mode, but also wreeks with sideaffects. (consuming 1,200 calories or less a day is NOT enough for your body, and your body WILL try to fight back). If long-term weight loss is desired, a long-term living plan is a necessity. So pick a ”diet”, or ”lifestyle”, that will work best for you, and for your life, and remember to stay healthy! Everything you can imagine is in your reach!
p.s.-this diet does work wondres. i just adivse anyone looking for solely weight loss to stay away. as we all have heard… ”detox” diets can be dangerous to some is misused and cause dehydration, poor concentration, rapid weight-loss (which your body won’t maintain when you’re done btw), etc….
good luck and good health wishes to all (:
I need help converting to a raw food diet for health purposes. Can someone help me? Please email me at wendlynn19@yahoo.com.
Hi I have oscillated between eating a raw diet and a cooked foods. I found that I developed high blood pressure and gained 14kgs over 18 months when I stopped eating raw foods and went back to cooked foods. I have since gone back to eating a raw diet and feel 100% better. I am in my late forties and look and feel a lot younger (so people tell me). On the raw food diet I have heaps of energy, never get colds,the flu or viruses. I had a skin cancer on my leg that disappeared when I ate totally raw food for a few months, and I need very little sleep when eating live foods, but wake up feeling refreshed. I am a health professional and do recommend that people at least try eating more raw foods in their daily intake for better health. I am a convert and will not eat cooked foods again.
Hi Hillary,
There are tons of resources, and though the change can be difficult to make, the benefits of the lifestyle change are AMAZING and you will not regret it. I’d be happy to guide you in the right direction, but am not sure how to contact you, as leaving an email on a public site would not be the wisest idea.
Trust me /…IT WORKS!!! u know what i do…when i wanna grab that fried chicken wing…i just go like , u know what God made this apple beautiful and fresh so ill eat it the way he made it, no coocking no friying! Just keep ur faith in God. He wants us to eat, but not to overeat, you know eating proportionally and as healthy as possible. Do it for Him, thats why we give Him thanks b4 we eat,,,=so eat healthy for Him!
God Bless
ps-it doesnt mean i dont eva get tempted…im not perfect either!
I am thinking about starting a raw/live foods diet. Just rescently many people in my life have died from cancer, been diagnosed with diabetes, and suffer from heart conditions. Personally, I am experiencing things like horrible digestive problems and gas-passing. I eat horribly! I eat the SAD. I do not exercise well, either. I love reading the many different articles and research papers on the benefits and drawbacks of a raw food and live food diet. I also grew up for a few years as a vegetarian. However, the more I think about this topic, the more obsticles I come up with. I have many many questions and am looking for advice about the practicality of a diet like this. My lifestyle is not at all conducive to a diet like this (and I’m not sure there is anything I could do to change much of that…in the near future. Does anyone have any adivice about where I can go for help?
P.S. Mushrooms are fine to eat, and have Iron and lots of other phytochemicals in them that can even help prevent and treat cancer as well as other diseases! Reishi, Shitake, and Maitake are good ones to look for, though it would seem that other mushrooms would have similar effects, being in the same group.
To increase the amount of Iron you can have something with Vitamin C in it, like citrus and tomatoes.
This can be a challenging diet, (I’ve tried it on a part-time basis and it’s hard since most don’t live this way and at social gatherings there aren’t usually many raw options. There are ways around this- bring your own or get together with like-minded people who are also trying to eat raw.)
There are lots of delicious raw recipes out there – including ones that are versions of traditional favorites- you can make bread, smoothies, salads, even desserts!
One doesn’t even have to go totally raw (such as if they aren’t able to or love certain cooked foods so they can’t give it up). There are health benefits to even being partially raw- like I mentioned- better health, weight loss, younger looking skin, and so forth.
So, sure it’s not everyone, but if you are curious and want to give it a try there are so many resources, just make sure it makes common sense and it’s balanced in nutrients. If you have questions, there are those who have lived this way who will probably be able to help you.
Good luck and good eating!
Although I am not a raw foodist (yet), I have seen so many examples of people who PROPERLY follow this diet and overcome so many health problems and yes, lose weight as well as look younger! This diet allows for eating more food, and yes carbs, (healthy ones- what is the anti-carb sentiment on this website- carbs are NOT the enemy, though refined ones can create problems. The bias against carbs in general is based on faulty science, though there is some truth to there being insulin resistance- which can come about from REFINED carbs and fat, as well as little or no exercise! BTW, insulin resistance can be overcome by exercising and changing your diet to a more natural one, such as this diet. There was a study fairly recently where people were able to overcome their diabetes and throw away their insulin in a relatively short period of time! I’m sure it’s on the net somewhere!)
Anyhow, after much research, this seems to be one of the healthier diets- IF someone can have enough willpower to stick with it and can design a well-balanced version of this diet. There are lots of good resources out there if you are interested in this type of lifestyle. There are those who are successful at it and can help you- look online for help and answers.
There are so many benefits to this way of living that after much thought I am going to do this when I am able to. Organic produce does cost more, and organic is the best type of produce to have, even though fruits and veggies have phytochemicals that can help to detoxify poisons from pesticides and other nasty man-made chemicals added to our food supply!
If you want to try it, good luck! If it’s not for you then I hope you can have success as well in your quest for weight loss and better health!
thanks for the recommendation, oshinn i think i will try it sometime.
i am interested in this diet, anybody practice it already
sounds quite boring… i love my stir frys so i probably wouldn’t be able to participate in this diet
If your eating active and living nutrients then your body benefits massively, this truly is a very good diet.
hey is it ok to use mushrooms as its a good sorce of iron??
i am a raw foodist after struggling with an eating disorder and depression for years… once my body adjusted to the new diet and started getting rid of toxins, i felt REALLY good. like, really REALLY good. it’s not really a diet, it’s a lifestyle… and the changes your body undergoes are magnificent, if you’re ready for them and in tune with them. i urge anyone who wants to experiment with raw foodism to learn about it thoroughly so you don’t have any vitamin or calorie deficiencies, but to definitely try it if you’re interested.