Raw Food Benefits For Weight Gain: Edition #3

In keeping with my mission to help people understand raw and living foods better, I’ve decided to start a weekly series here on Raw Food Switch.

This week I will be focusing on the benefits of raw food for weight gain. Yes, you read that right, last week I wrote about weight loss, but raw food can help with both conditions. Some people have a hard time gaining weight, and they look thin to an unhealthy level.

Raw foods can help you fill out more, without eating a tub of ice cream per day. It’s all about feeding your body, as you’ll see below!

1. When Eating Lots of Calories Is a “Good Thing”

When you’re eating raw food, you tend to get hungry faster, depending on what you ate before transitioning to raw. Fresh fruits and vegetables are light and easy to digest, so you get hungry after they’ve passed through you.

This means you’re bound to eat more small meals throughout the day. When you’re eating more often, you give yourself the fuel you need. Your body never has a chance to go into starvation mode.

2. Giving Your Body What It Needs

Raw food has a lot of nutrients, enzymes, and minerals that you might not be getting from a regular fast-food type of diet.

If your body doesn’t get the building blocks it needs, then it’s not going to build muscle or other tissues that make you gain weight and look healthy.

And don’t worry about the protein: raw leafy vegetables have tons of protein, and so do hemp seeds, and other nuts and seeds.

3. Finding The Right Weight For You

Alissa Cohen often said that eating raw and living food will help you to find your true body. If you’re overweight you will lose weight, if you’re underweight you will gain weight.

Each of us has an ideal body weight that matches our body’s metabolism and genetics. It’s just a matter of feeding yourself with the best food you can find, and then letting your body do the rest to find its ideal weight.