::: The RAW diet :::

Ok now that summer is over and the year 2007 is slowly coming to a close, I figured I would start my New Year’s Resolution months early. What is it you ask? Of course it’s to “Lose Weight”! I mean isn’t that everyone’s resolution every year? Anyway, I’m browsing through all the new fad diets trying to figure out which ones are the most effective and all. I looked at the South Beach Diet which wasn’t going to work because I didn’t feel like giving up my extra hour of sleep to cook some crazy egg white omelet. I looked at the Atkins which starves you to the point of nervous break down, loads you up on protein and then slowly introduces carbs back in the picture, I’m not down for that. Then of course there’s the good old Carbohydrate Addict’s (hello my name is **Bleep** and I’m a Carbohydrate Addict) diet, which deprives you of carbs the majority of the day to the point that you’re just famished by the time you actually get to have them (at dinner of course). Obviously I’m not disciplined enough to do any of those diets I’ve just mentioned so in furthering my study I ran into a old friend that was on something called the Raw Diet. Yeah, I said it, the PRIMAL RAW diet. We caught up and talked a little bit about our lives which inevitably led to his new diet. I mean brotha was just chillin drinking a mixture of milk, RAW eggs and honey out of a empty syrup jar! He drank that like it was the best thing ever and swore up and down that it was safe and effective. Well folks, I’m here to give you a little back ground on the newest dieting fad.

The Primal Raw Food (Paleolithic) diet is a carnivorous, low carbohydrate raw foods diet. This is basically a diet that was based on the practices of the cave men. Very nice. People on this diet eat just about everything RAW such as meat, fish, fruit, leaves, roots of plants, mushrooms, nuts, eggs and honey. Now that that’s established, lets go on to what you can’t eat. You cannot have any veggies that are not edible raw (grains), starchy vegetables (beans and potatoes) certain nuts (cashews) or refined sugars. Interestingly enough, you can have no dairy products because they cannot be found easily in nature. Oh, and no WATER, unless it’s naturally sparkling water. You can drink it if you want but it’s not needed. WHAT?! Ain’t that crazy?! Apparently all the juices from the fruits you are taking it should provide enough so you don’t need WATER!

Now, on this diet, you generally intake 2/3 plant product (to cover the water you AREN’T drinking) and 1/3 animal product. Back to this raw meat jive. You should be looking for farmed meats such as free range poultry to grass fed beef, quail or rabbit. Now, you can warm this meat if you want to but it’s not required and if you choose to do so, it can’t be via microwave ovens and may be heated to room temperature, or up to 41 degrees. Lovely.

After I did my research, I figured that once again, this diet wasn’t for me. So what have I chosen to get me started on my path to weight loss? Um… the gym and the typical diet of eat less calories and burn more! Ha.. while all you RAW foodies order a plate of RAW T-Bone steak with freshly cracked RAW eggs, I’ll be munching down on my Chef Salad, Light Ranch on the side please, oh yeah, and a glass of WATER!

Written by: ~ MacKinzey

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