Raw Food Diet?

Question

Does anyone have experience with this diet.
I am considering it but have my reservations. I am active at work all day and also play sports two days a week and am wondering if I could keep up this lifestyle on the raw food diet.

The people I have met on this diet look healthy but are not very athletic or active so I can not really trust their advice.
I'm looking for personal experiences of active people who have tried or practice this diet.

Answer 1

try googling the 80/10/10 diet, I am about 80 percent raw, 20 percent cooked or deydrated. Yes, I think you, as an athlete, could thrive on it. There are some great groups on yahoo, rawschool, livingfoods, pathofhealth. All with great advice. Good luck and good choice!

Answer 2

I'm guiessing this diet will not work for you. If you are busy at work, yes, you might could bring yoru own lunch, but what about supper? If it's a night you are going to sports play, you can't exactly eat out much on a raw diet. I'd worry about getting adequate protein, iron, calcium, and B nutrients.

Instead, maybe just include as many raw fruits and veggies as possible, and supplement w/ a few cooked or heated items.

Incidently, there are some nutrients that are more bioavailable after bing cooked, than if eaten raw. Cooking is not an evil thing.

Answer 3

Raw food has the most vitamins and mineral. The more you prepare the food, the more you loose some of the good stuff.

That said, it is an extreme diet. If you are athletic, you are unlikely to get sufficient protein from raw food alone. Also, if you are not used to eat a lot of raw food already, you may get digestive problems until your body adjusts.

Why not eat a lot of raw food along with other healthy cooked food - say a piece of steamed salmon?

Answer 4

Raw food diet;
per day
2-3 citrus fruits
2 bananas
2 potatos
2 bowls of greens
2 beets
2 carrots
1 tomato
The above can be in solid or juice form
alfalfa or bean sprouts, and mushrooms
are also good for the raw food diet
Warning if your not use to raw food diet gradually go to it taper off the cooked foods gradually increasing your raw food diet!
If U eat raw foods and no cooked foods get
them straight from a farm or farmers market!

Answer 5

Well to be healthy you do not have to eat raw.Just eat a lot of Fruits and Vegetables Organic of course. Try this link it has a lot of helpful info: http://www.vegan.org

Answer 6

I do not have personal experience with raw but here are some raw/athletic links -

http://www.foodnsport.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/questions/training.html

http://www.rawfoodlife.com/Articles___Research/Raw_food_for_Athletes/Power_Foods_for_Athletes/power_foods_for_athletes.html

Good luck!