+Re: Regarding high protein diets

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Hello - I've done both the raw food and CRON diet and found the raw food diet very healthy for me. NOTE: " Raw food diet " is a misnomer. Even the most heated raw foodie (Dr. Cousins) advocates not more than 80% of the diet to be raw. One can be considered a raw foodie is anywhere from 50% to 80% of their diet is raw. If salads are a big part of your daily intake, as they are for a lot of people on this list, you maybe " raw " already.

The upshot is, you can be raw and have cooked tomatoes (to get lycopene) too!Some of the recipes are ingeniously high in nutrients, for example, the spinach tortillas made from raw spinach and flax meal. The diet is high in fiber, good fats from nuts and seeds and generally low glycemic unless you go for raw honey deserts and such. My triglycerides went from high to under 100.

The downside is the learning curve for prepping the food, buying the dehydrator and juicer, and it can be high fat (because of the nuts and seeds) though that would be up to you.YMMV but speaking as one lab rat, I never feel better than when eating raw. I don't keep it up because I have a family to cook for who want their standard American diet. It's just too damn hard to cook and " not cook " every meal.

There are a number of recipe books. My fav is from Cafe Gratitude.Best of luck,Andie