Raw Food For Natural Beautiful Skin and Beauty
July 30, 2009 by Diana
Filed under Natural Beautiful Skin
Having natural beautiful skin comes naturally with eating a raw food diet on a consistent basis. Having natural beautiful skin doesn’t come from using the right cosmetics, going to the spa frequently, or using the right cleaners, it comes with eating right.
“One of the earliest diets known to man – consisting entirely of raw, plant-based foods-will go down as one of last year’s hottest health, fitness, and gourmet trends. It is much more than a fad of the moment,” says raw nutrition expert and author David Wolfe. “A raw food diet is now considered a viable way of life for serious health seekers around the world.” The living food movement, led by Wolfe and other high-profile raw foodists, has begun to replace the vegetarian movement as a healthy alternative to the fast food, pre-packaged, fat-laden meals most Americans eat today.
Why Raw?
The raw-food culture is a mix of alternative health devotees, spiritual seekers, and hot trend spotters. Hollywood is not new to the raw lifestyle-Wolfe has personally counseled actors Alicia Silverstone, Alison Lohman and Woody Harrelson, motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, and model/Playmate Rebecca Scott. Wolfe and his chef staff have prepared raw feasts for The Grateful Dead, K.D. Lang and Lisa Bonet have attended seminars.
To anyone who eats cooked food, the idea of eating only raw food might seem extremely restrictive, too taxing on your body. Yet there is solid evidence that a living plant food diet eases digestion, boosts energy, and eliminates carcinogens.
As the nation embarks on their New Years’ resolution goals, Wolfe urges people to seriously look at the safety of the Standard American Diet (also known as the SAD diet.) “Fifty percent of the U.S. population dies of heart disease,” he notes, “which is caused by poor diet and is therefore preventable and even reversible with proper diet, as tens of thousands of cases have shown.
“In the next ten years, cancer will surpass heart disease as the number one killer in the United States. We know that the best way to prevent cancer is to limit our exposure to carcinogens. The number one way of exposing ourselves to carcinogens is through cooked commercial food. Raw plant food actually contains anti-carcinogenic nutrients, so it’s an obvious better choice.”
Superfoods and Natural Beautiful Skin
Superfoods are vibrant, nutritionally dense foods that have recently become widely available and which offer tremendous dietary and healing potential. In this lively, illustrated overview, well-known raw-foods guru David Wolfe profiles delicious and incredibly nutritious plant products such as goji berries, hempseed, cacao beans (raw chocolate), maca, spirulina, bee products, and a host of others.
Superfoods are powerful sources of clean protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, good fats and oils, essential fatty and amino acids, and other nutrients, they represent a uniquely promising piece of the nutritional puzzle. Each superfood is described in detail, accompanied by easy and delicious recipes. This accessible guide presents persuasive arguments, based on sound science, for the pivotal role of superfoods in promoting nutritional excellence, health and well-being, beauty enhancement, sustainable agriculture, and the transformation of diet, lifestyle, and planet.
In David Wolfe’s book Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future
Why Now?
Some suspect that baby boomers are a significant factor – they are getting older and are looking for alternative solutions to their health issues.
Wolfe sees the timing as something more elemental. “Everything in the universe works in balance: Hot/Cold, Boom/Bust, Yin/Yang,” he says. “The raw-food movement represents a movement towards purity, controllability, and accountability of food quality. It balances the “anything goes” philosophy of industrial age and fast food. It represents a beautiful opportunity to step into the future of computer age food that allows us access to the best, instead of settling for less than excellent choices.”"
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