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Raw Foods and Positive Thinking

What we eat and how we eat is going to affect how we think. Eating right can even help you along the path of positive thinking. When you eat clean and healthy real raw foods, you cleanse your body of toxins and you will be able to think clearer. You will also be able to get rid of toxic emotions and become more present in your body and in your thoughts. “We are what we eat.” This is a very true saying and is probably something that you are familiar with. What we put in our bodies is going to translate into how we act, how we look, how we think and even how we feel.

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Healthy Body - Healthy Mind

“What we sow, we shall definitely reap”. This principle can also be applied to the response of our minds in relation to our eating habits. When we clean up our diets, we also clean up our minds. It is like sowing good seeds to reap good fruits. When we choose clean food and organic as often as possible, when we refuse to take in all that other crap, therefore, our minds will be cleaner too.

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Falling Off a Raw Food Diet

Falling of a raw food diet can happen to anyone – for both people who are experienced and those who are new to the way of eating. It is something that just happens. There is no shame in it. Just get back on the raw food lifestyle and move forward. Don’t be so hard on yourself, there is no need beat yourself up over it.

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Food - Friend or Foe?

Food –Friend or Foe? Naturally, people crave food to satisfy their hunger while others just want to gratify their taste buds and sometimes their emotions. Some opt to adjust their food intake whenever they feel that something wrong is going on with their system or physical condition. When one can learn how to love oneself, then you can have a healthy relationship with food. In this article, you will understand how you can treat food as a friend and not a foe. Food as Foer

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Does Your Body Talk

This may sound crazy, but if you really take the time to listen and to feel, you’ll find that Yes, your body is indeed talking to you. Think about it. What do all those aches, pains and tiredness at the end of a long hard day mean? It means that you have most probably exerted yourself too much. What about your emotions and your mental state? We all get the blues. We all get depressed for one reason or another. What about headaches, aches or upset stomach? These are all ways that your body is using to tell you that something is wrong. Does your diet have anything to do with it?

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Your Relationship With Food

Your relationship with food is more than just one of need and nourishment. It reflects your relationship with yourself. It is going to show whether you are a loving and nurturing person or if you are the kind that binges and criticizes. How you are with your food is going to show how you are with yourself and whether that relationship is a healthy one or not. Really!!

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How Much Raw food is Enough?

There is a lot of debate surrounding this subject. Some people say that you should go 100%. Others disagree. There are those who say that the only way to get the best from raw food is if you take nothing else but it. Other people say that a diverse diet composed of 50% to 70% raw food will do just fine. Many things are open to debate in the raw food world. Take cacao for example, some people advocate its use and say that it is the answer to your chocolate cravings. Then again, there are those who say it’s toxic and that it’s better to stay away from it.

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Ease & flow with Raw

While change is inevitable in many situations, it is possible to welcome change positively. Although change in lifestyle or eating habits will definitely require adjustment, incorporating more raw foods to your eating habits are attainable. It’s just about ease and flow...yes, it is as basic as ABC or 123. Just being aware with what your body dictates, listening to your body will make you wiser in choosing the right foods. In this article, we will discuss the ABC’s in changing your eating habits. The ABC’s in Changing your Eating Habits:

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Disordered Eating

This is something that most of us probably have. It happens because we are not listening to our bodies well enough. We can have distorted eating habits when we eat the food we eat out of convenience and because it is what is readily available. We also distort our relationship with food when we tie it with emotions. Food should be more than that. You need to have a healthy relationship with what you eat. It needs be something that nourishes you and it not something that can cause you harm. Let us look at some of the reasons why we may not be eating in the healthiest way possible.

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Weight Loss and Raw Foods

Raw food is often associated with its benefits, and weight loss is one of the most popular. It is one of the top reasons why people are drawn to this lifestyle. When you clean up you diet, as you will with a raw foods, weight loss is going to follow. You will start to develop a better relationship with your body and eat only when you are hungry and foods that leave you feeling energized and good. Plus, you will also be providing your body with all the nutrients it requires – no need for excess eating, and as a result, you will start to shed the extra weight.

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What Really is Healthy Eating

You are probably familiar with the Standard American Diet (SAD). It is what’s taught and what’s advocated by a lot of people, but is it really healthy eating? With so many of the items found on it processed, enriched, and sugar laden does it really seem like something you should be following, does it? I certainly don’t think so. However, many people do think it is good for them and many people think that they are eating healthy by following the SAD way. But, just look at what it spells. You can do a lot better by choosing organic and real food – less of that man made stuff.

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What is Really Eating You?

Whatever issues you may have in your life can have an effect on how you deal with food. If you binge or if you starve yourself, there is a chance that it may be caused something emotional. When we treat food as something more than its original purpose, which is to nourish us, it may be time to start asking the question – “What is really eating me?” instead of eating everything in site or refusing to eat anything at all.

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Raw Foods – A Lifestyle NOT a Diet

The word ‘diet’ has received a negative reputation. People who say that they are on a diet seem to imply that they are restricting themselves, in one way or another. The word unfortunately has, even come to become synonymous with starving one’s self. That is why I do not like to attach DIET to raw foods because it is not a diet, instead it is a lifestyle.

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