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Low Fat "In a Nutshell"

The low-fat diet (roughly ten percent of total calories consumed) is universally recommended by health experts for maximum health and fitness results. Understanding the low-fat concept can be a bit tricky for some people, as even small volumes of fat can provide such high quantities of calories as to be misleading.

One tablespoon of oil provides more calories than an entire head of lettuce, for example. In the raw world, where the average raw fooder is eating 65% of daily calories from fat (based on nutritional analyses of over 5,000 people over the last 20 years,) eating low-fat means consuming a diet that is predominated calorically by fruit and predominated in terms of volume by vegetables. It is physically impossible to consume a sufficient quantity of calories from whole, green vegetables. In order to do so, the average woman would have to eat over forty heads of lettuce daily and the average man would have to eat over fifty heads of lettuce per day. If they were physically active, they would have to add another ten to fifty more heads of lettuce. Obviously, even forty heads of lettuce per day is not realistic. Even a diet that is 50% vegetables by volume is likely only about 3-4% vegetables by calorie. When too much vegetable matter is eaten one is therefore driven to consume more fat as a source of calories, as there is no physical room for any other source. Fruit must therefore predominate the diet, in terms of calories, or else fats will totally overrun it.

10% of calories from fat is recommended by noted nutritionists and health professionals such as Pritikin, McDougall, Harris, Heidrich, Fuhrman, Gregor, Barnard, Klaper, Campbell and most others. Yet most teachers in the raw movement dismiss their advice. This is scientifically unacceptable, especially when one considers the fact that few raw leaders have the requisite medical or nutritional training to justify such flagrant disregard of accepted physiological facts.

If you would like to see your health and fitness blossom, it is time to merge science with philosophy by eating a low-fat raw vegan diet. This common-sense approach uses fruits and vegetables as staples. Fruits and vegetables have been recognized as health food for over three thousand years. Are you ready to experience the health and vitality expressed by our anthropoid cousins? If so, you must be willing to eat the low-fat raw vegan diet that they follow.

Original source: foodnsport.com

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