Raw Food Vs Cooked Food - Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

Plain and simple, cooked foods have been chemically altered. Simple chemistry teaches that heating compounds to high temperatures causes chemical reactions. Well, the same is true for the cooked food you put in your body and unfortunately it means accelerated weight gain.

On the other hand, raw undamaged foods still contain the natural chemical structures that help shed excess pounds and keep them off. When proteins and sugars (present in virtually all food) are heated above 118 degrees Fahrenheit, they react chemically to form harmful compounds.

The result of broiling, steaming, roasting, toasting, or frying is the formation of heterocyclic amines or HCA's. Over 135 scientific studies (a list of which you can find here) show that HCA's:

•     Increase stress
•     Strongly stimulate appetite
•     Cause drowsiness

This is why cooked meals can leave you run down, stressed out, and worst of all unsatisfied. And when you're stressed, the body's evolutionary reaction is to enter 'fat storage' mode. So you overeat because cooked foods stimulate appetite and then most of your meal ends up on your belly. Cooking also causes mutated or "trans" fatty acids to appear in foods. These unnatural formations are practically indigestible to the body and almost always stored as fat.

While cooked food contains harmful compounds that sabotage weight loss and generally make you feel lousy, raw foods are naturally abundant in the phytochemicals that "fuel" the body and promote and ideal weight. Switching from the standard American diet to a primarily raw diet means losing 1 pound a day or more. Results appear quickly and continually because of enzymes and fiber.

•     Enzymes

Enzymes (which are killed by the cooking process) are the metabolic "workers" present in all living food. They aid your body in breaking down nutrient-dense raw foods into compound that are of immediate use to the body - so nothing almost nothing is stored. Your body's recognition of the high quantity of usable vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants in raw foods signals the secretion of Leptin. This hormone makes you feel full and satisfied and tells the body that - because it is receiving ample nutrition undamaged by cooking - there is no need to store fat.

•     Fiber

The high-fiber count in natural foods helps weight loss results show up fast and stay noticeable. By pushing metabolic waste products created in digestion through the digestive tract for evacuation, fiber clears the body of mucous that would normally be stored between your muscle tissue and your skin. The result is the immediate deflation of "puffiness" all over the body for a tighter look. Continual consumption of fibrous natural food stuffs helps keep the body in an alkaline state and prevents the dreaded "yoyo-ing weight" phenomenon.

When the blood is made acidic by cooked food and metabolic wastes, the body quickly reverts to storage mode in an effort to remove acid from the bloodstream and regain a natural pH (measure of acidity). Fiber moves metabolic waste out of the GI tract before it affects blood pH to prevent storage of unwanted fats. This along with regulation of blood pH by powerful alkaline minerals in raw foods equates to consistent weight loss and figure maintenance.

On the raw foods diet, you don't have to worry about your weight creeping back up on you. Give your body the balanced nutrition it needs - undamaged by excessive heat - and steady slimming is easy. Natural foods keep your body in a natural healthy state without the frustration of unpredictable lose-gain patters.

Most modern dietitians are ignorant to the biological design of raw foods that helps you lose weight and keep it off. Discover the proven raw food weight loss techniques to slim down quickly and and gain boundless energy. Learn how to achieve and maintain an ideal weight easily on the natural diet for flawless figure.
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