What's Wrong With High-Fat Raw Recipes?

There's a big problem with the raw food movement today.

The mainstream raw food diet is even higher in fat than the Standard American Diet. But raw foods are “healthier”
aren’t they? So how can this be?

Since I started on the raw diet over 14 years ago, I’ve seen the raw-food movement boom like crazy.

Now you’ll find row after row of raw recipe books, over 100 raw or “raw-friendly” restaurants in the USA, website after website on the subject, “super-stores” on the internet that sell raw foods by mail, and every year more books and DVDs are coming out than ever before.

But here's the big problem, I will estimate that about 95% of raw food movement still promotes a very un healthy Diet of vegetables and fat, with very little fruit (if you’re lucky).

What's wrong with these high fat raw recipes?


The high-fat raw diet is a fad.

It’s not a sustainable diet, and it’s also one of the unhealthiest and most nutritionally unsound diets ever designed.

Here's what's wrong with high-fat raw recipes:

- High-Fat Raw Foods Don’t Satiate.

Raw food recipes are based upon three key elements: fat, salt and vegetables. They often lack any significant quantities of carbohydrates, and for that reason they are extremely unsatisfying.

For example, try picturing yourself eating butter without bread… you’d feel that something was missing, right?

Because vegetables have almost no calories, and just eating raw fat is extremely unsatisfying, eating a fatty high-fat raw meal almost always leaves you with a feeling of dissatisfaction and hunger at the end, because your body didn’t get enough of what it needs. Carbs!

- Raw Food Recipes Often Contain Ridiculous Amounts of Fat.

No dietician or health expert in the world would ever recommend drinking half a cup of oil in one sitting, but that’s often the quantity of fat contained in these raw recipes, whether in the form of actual oil, nuts or avocados or a combination of all three.

High quantities of fat leave us tired, sick and miserable.

- Raw recipes are often based on nuts. It would seem to make sense to base the raw food diet on the healthiest foods on the planet: fruits and vegetables. Yet, almost every single raw food restaurant I have visited bases their cuisine on nuts and seeds, and avocado in an attempt to mimic comfort food recipes. When in fact these recipes are unhealthy to begin with!

By comparison, this type of cuisine should be renamed “The Nut Diet” because that’s often what it seems to be. Picture a “taco” made with lettuce leaves, and filled with nut pâté, avocado guacamole, a sour cream made with cashews, and very small amounts of tomatoes or vegetables. That’s often the typical meal at a raw food restaurant, or found in your average raw recipe book.

But where are the fruits? Where are the vegetables? You will barely find them on the menu. In fact, I’ve often found it’s easier to make yourself a decent salad and fruit plate at a steak house than a raw vegan restaurant, where often fruits are conspicuously missing from the menu.

- Garlic And Salt… Can We Please Have a Recipe Without That Stuff? Although most restaurants still serve very salty foods, raw vegan restaurants haven’t really learned their lessons and still serve high-sodium meals and often everything is spiced up with garlic.

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Introducing: The Low Fat Raw Vegan Cuisine
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Over the years, I've often asked my readers what they think is missing in the raw food movement in terms of educational material.

The number one response I got back from them has always been the same: "We want DVDs showing us how to make low-fat raw food recipes".

I finally released my first series of Raw Vegan DVDs.

Here are some important highlights that make this series completely unique:

* With over 3 hours of information, the two DVDs in the
series literally show every single kind of essential raw food meal you can present

* The first DVD in the series features ONLY recipes where
no overt fats are used. This includes: fat-free dressings, soups, salads, and more!

* The second half includes recipes with a moderate amount
of fat, such as dressings, soups, salads, and desserts

* Throughout the DVD, charts and slides highlight the
main points and give additional information.

If you haven't yet ordered these DVDs, I want to give you a chance to do so.

Along with the main DVDs comes a special bonus, "The Low-Fat Raw Vegan Diet in Practice" that goes into specific tips on how to organize your daily menus and get all the nutrients you need.

Normally, this bonus sells separately. But for the next 48 hours, you can get it as part of your order and save $19.95

Just make sure you enter the coupon code: RAWDELICIOUS

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Yours for health and success,

Frederic


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