Leslie Kenton Raw Energy Food Combining Diet

A new approach to weight loss that combines biogenic recipes with the raw energy magic for effort-free fat loss.

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Food combining is a smart way to shed unwanted fat without counting one calorie. It is also a way of living that will prevent premature aging, illness and fatigue. Containing an outline of suggested menus to get you started, Raw Energy Food Combining Diet is packed with hundreds of mouthwatering recipes - including fabulous fruits and seeds to supersalads, soups and vegetables - from which to choose your meals every day of the week. Not just a weight-loss diet, Raw Energy Food Combining Diet will make you feel more alive than ever before. It is easy:

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Food combining really works. It is capable of taking excess weight off a body so simply it can be hard to believe. It can also help heal any number of long-standing ailments, from arthritis to depression, chronic fatigue, skin disorders and stomach ulcers. So good are the effects of food combining that it is little wonder the `uninitiated' (including doctors and scientists who have never tried it ) often find its beneficial results hard to swallow. How can something so simple do so much for so many? Food combining is also fun. Add the raw energy element to it and you create an unbeatable combination to help you tap into energy you never knew you had.

A little miracle of nature, the Raw Energy Food Combining Diet is the easiest and most pleasant way imaginable to shed excess fat without ever going hungry. In the process it can rejuvenate and regenerate a body and heighten vitality, making you look and feel great.

Far from being some new fad, food combining diets have been tried and tested for almost two hundred years. In the last century they were used as a way of healing illness and of helping the body establish a high level of well being. The American doctor William Howard Hay became famous for his food combining `cures' ) cures which he consistently attributed not to his own skills but to the skills of Nature herself. Once one learns to live within Her laws, he insisted, Her gifts to us are endless. Food combining was also widely taught by the Natural Hygienists in the United States and by that branch of the medical community in Europe working within the long tradition of naturecure. In recent times, public awareness of the importance of food combining has grown thanks to simple guide books, such as Food Combining For Health by Doris Grant and Jean Joice, and the American, Dr Herbert Sheldon=s Food Combining Made Easy. Although there are often minor variations between them, each tradition which incorporates food combining as a tool for establishing radiant health or for fat loss uses the same core principles.

When it comes to weight-loss, the Raw Energy Food Combining Diet is the most effective diet of all. It adds the amazing properties of living foods to the simple technique of separating concentrated protein foods ) such as eggs and cheese, meat and fish ) at a meal, from concentrated carbohydrate foods ) such as bread, cereals and potatoes. It is a system of living based on natural fresh foods - vegetables and fruits, wholegrains, seeds, nuts and eggs, with or without dairy products, fish, poultry and game.

Raw energy, where 50 per cent or more of your foods are eaten raw, has been used far longer than food combining ) in fact for thousands of years ) as a way of improving physical health and enhancing awareness throughout the civilized world. Raw Energy principles also form the basis of health and rejuvenation treatment at Europe's and America's finest health farms and spas. There, people pay a small fortune to have their bodies renewed. You can experience the same benefits of exclusive spas and health farms by using the Raw Energy Food Combining Diet at home and instead of having to pay through the nose for it, it can cost you only pennies.

Those who benefit from these spa treatments include women with cellulite, people whose metabolism has been drastically slowed down by indiscriminate use of nutritionally inadequate crash diets, and those who can't seem to shed fat at all except on starvation fare. They also include men and women who have difficulty shedding excess pounds because of food sensitivities and addictions and people who are riddled with guilt at what they see as their `lack of self control'. By this I mean those of us who sit down to have one biscuit with a cup of tea only to find to our horror that we have devoured the whole packet. Finally, they include a few of us who, even on a healthy diet of natural foods, still have a tendency to hold on to the fat deposits in our bodies.

The Raw Energy Food Combining Diet is as different from standard weight-loss regimes as a wild horse is from a taxi cab. There is nothing mechanical about it. Nor do you have to count calories or go hungry; unlike most diets, raw energy will never leave you looking haggard or feeling washed out. Instead it supports health and good looks in the highest possible way.

In fact, `Raw energy' is an apt name for a way of eating and living which can enhance cellular vitality, restore healthy metabolism, put virtually endless energy at your disposal, and encourage your body to rebalance its biophysical and biochemical functioning so that it slowly but surely returns to its natural size and shape.

Real health cannot be measured by the absence of disease alone. It goes far beyond. Real health is not so much a state as a living process ) a process through which you can make greater and greater use of your innate potential for creativity, aliveness and joy. Helping you get there is what the Raw Energy Food Combining Diet is all about.

Have you ever seen a young horse racing from one end of his field to another for the sheer pleasure of the feeling of movement in his body? Watching him move with dilated nostrils and mane blowing free can give you a real sense of what a high level of well-being ) health in its broadest sense ) is like: ease, freedom and above all aliveness.

The Raw Energy Food Combining Diet can help you experience this. It has already helped thousands who have used it either because they needed to shed excess fat from their bodies or because they were less healthy than they wanted to be.

Michelangelo claimed that he never imposed any shape or form onto the piece of marble he was carving. He insisted that instead he simply used his sculptor's tools to reveal the natural form hidden within the stone. In many ways an overweight body is rather like his marble. Within it is hidden its vital, naturally healthy and lean form. Raw Energy Food Combining is nothing more than an efficient tool for helping to uncover it ) a biological method of `living sculpture'.

The idea that steady and permanent fat-loss can take place as a result of eating natural delicious foods while avoiding certain food combinations is going to come as a shock to some people ) both nutritionists and laymen alike ) who have been brought up to believe that counting calories and going hungry is the only way to shed excess weight. Old assumptions about weight-loss die hard. And, as you might imagine, such a diet is decidedly unpopular with the multi-million pound slimming industry, which survives on people's failures ) failures which keep selling diet products almost as fast as they can be manufactured. But it can be a godsend to people who have struggled long with the battle of the bulge and who genuinely want to get rid of fat which does not rightly belong to them, and to `run free' as the horse does.

Grasp the basics of raw energy and you need never spend hours pouring over long lists of what goes with what or fretting over whether or not the salad dressing contains apple juice which may or may not go with your poached fish. The diet is easy to put into practice. It is a question of feeling your way into a new way of thinking about meals. Once you familiarize yourself with which foods belong in what general categories you will find it is child's play to plan meals.

In this little book you will find all you need - recipes, guidelines for a raw energy lifestyle, plus a fortnight of meals to inspire you. There is also a reference list of foods and categories and a chart to tell you what goes best with what. Meanwhile, here are the first principles:

First, let's look at the rhymes and reason most weight-loss diets fail, then we'll get on to the good stuff - how to make it all work.

Everybody who's ever read a diet book knows that slimming is supposed to be a piece of cake. The `weight-loss gurus' tell us: `One pound of fat is equal to 3,500 calories. Just tighten your belt, count your calories and subtract them from the number your body needs for energy.' (At this point they refer you to one of those dreary weight/height charts.) `For each 3,500 calories you cut out you'll get a pound lighter. What could be easier?'

It looks great on paper. Trouble is for most of us it just doesn't work. Why? Because nobody ever got fat just because they had a big appetite. Neither are you likely to achieve permanent slimness by counting calories alone.

The common myths about slimming are based on three beliefs. The first is the notion that weight-loss depends on the conscious mind balancing the body's energy intake and expenditure. The second is the idea that your body exerts no biological control over how much fat it stores. The third is the presumption that calorie-consumption is the significant factor in body-weight. All three beliefs support a multi-million pound slimming industry with all its hype, but all three are false ) as dozens of scientific studies have shown.

What really determines weight-loss and maintaining it afterwards is not some abstract formula of calorie deprivation but rather how fast your body metabolizes ) burns up ) both the excess fat it is carrying and the food you take in day to day. This in turn largely depends upon how much cellular energy is available for the job and how efficient is your metabolism.

Sad to tell, the fatter you get, the slower your metabolic rate becomes ) especially on a typical low-calorie slimming regime. In fact so inefficient can the metabolism of overweight people become that some who weigh more than 260 pounds can maintain their weight on as little as 1,000 calories a day.

The very act of going on a low-calorie diet slows your metabolism even further: your body learns to conserve energy because it feels thrown into a situation of potential starvation. This leads to rebound eating as natural hunger breaks through the constraints of personal resolve. Research carried out since the turn of the century has confirmed all of this over and over again. Yet it is something diet books still conveniently choose to ignore.

Instead they tend to push some kind of guilt trip on people. They make you feel that you are lacking willpower or perseverance if, after ten days on some 1,000-calorie regime, you feel sluggish, slow, tired and dull, and then break your diet in a desperate attempt to restore energy and regain a sense of comfort.

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