The transition from the usual food that has been cooked to raw food should be gradual. It is necessary to prepare psychologically for a complete change of lifestyle, immediately eliminate fried, smoked food and pastries, gradually move from cooked food to raw.
To adjust oneself emotionally is the most important stage. Only the firmness of spirit will allow you to complete the transition to useful raw foods. You must understand that you unite with nature and will use only fresh products in unchanged form. Perhaps you will have to change your place of residence in a big metropolis to a cozy house in the village, change jobs, friends. Cancel in your life hiking in restaurants or visiting bars, picnics with kebabs.
Always remember that in its majority, the raw-food men have excellent health, fine skin and hair, they are less susceptible to oncological diseases and are long-livers.
The correct raw food diet is to eat only raw foods, preferably those that you raised yourself or tore in the forest, the meadow, etc. It is very important that the vegetables or fruits are not subjected to chemical treatment, when they are grown, growth stimulants are not used.
Definitely, fruits and vegetables from store shelves will not work. Peeling fruit from the peel to use the middle of the fruit store is also wrong, since the peel contains a lot of useful substances necessary for the raw food.
Raw food is a way of life in which a person draws near to nature and consumes only fresh raw products of vegetable origin or seafood.
How do I switch to raw diet?
After you have set yourself a confident goal to switch to raw diet, you should gradually replace the usual dishes with raw foods, that is, every day in the diet include more greens, berries, fruits, leafy vegetables, and reduce the amount of other food.
When switching to raw food, immediately exclude sausages, smoked products and other similar products that are rich in spices and fats. Sharply give up fried foods, as it contains complex fatty compounds and inflicts maximum harm to the body. Gradual transition from the usual food to raw food is needed because in the intestine that microflora that you "fed" for years and if you sharply change the diet, you can provoke a malfunction in the work of the entire gastrointestinal tract.
The intestinal microflora is involved not only in the processing of food, but also in the production of certain vitamins, and if the habitual diet for new products is sharply changed, the immune system of the organism will suffer.
With raw food, you can use nuts, but try not to lean on them in the first weeks of a new way of life. Nuts contain complex compounds that feed on the same microflora that loves all fried foods. The longer the change in microflora goes, the more you will be drawn to ordinary food.
The transition to raw food is better to start at the end of spring, when the first greens appear. The organism "yearned" for fresh shoots
The length of the change of the usual table for raw fruits takes about a month, so you can steadfastly fix the result of raw food in the summer, when there is no shortage of assortment of fresh crops.
In the fall, stock up apples, watermelons, cabbage, carrots and other fresh fruits that will be useful in the winter. At this time of year, you can eat sprouted grains of cereals, dried fruits , nuts, seeds and home-made sauerkraut.