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After completing the Raw Food Diet Experiment, I made a list of the pros I experienced during the
raw food diet. If you are still on the fence about starting your own 30 day raw food diet experiment,
this list may just be the nudge you need. I've sent it to a few of my friends and two have decided to
go raw for 30 Days. If the list is helpful to you, please let me know by making a donation. It is
appreciated and will ensure that I will be able to continue doing more experiments in the future - all
of which I will post for your benefit. And now, the Raw Food Diet Pros:
Weight Loss
Just about everyone I've met, who has gone on this diet, has lost weight. If you are trying to lose
weight in a healthy way, then there is no healthier way than eating raw natural foods. I personally
lost 15.8 lbs while on this diet and I wasn't even trying. In fact, I was trying to eat more than I
needed in order not to lose weight. If you are trying to lose a few pounds, then try the raw food
diet. Not only will you lose the weight but you will feel great while doing it. There's no need for pills,
powders, fancy meal plans, set portions, or fees. That, plus zero cooking time! Just go to your
local Whole Foods or Farmers' Market and buy the produce. Then come home, wash it, peal it,
and eat it. I lost an average of 3.687 lbs in a week. If you eat a lot of processed food, as well as
fast food you will probably lose more weight than me. Just keep in mind that if you eat processed
food along with fast food on a daily basis, your detox period may also be more intense. With that in
mind, you may not want to jump into 100% raw food all at once. If you do decide on eating 100%
raw, then I recommend reading 10 Ways to Become a Raw Foodist.
Less Need for Sleep
On my Standard American Diet (SAD), I usually slept 6-7 hours a night, sometimes only managing
5. On 6-7 hours of sleep, I functioned at a normal capacity. My cognitive abilities were average
and I preformed tasks within reasonable periods of time. If I slept 5 hours, I slowed down. I felt
sluggish and my productivity suffered as a result.
On the raw food diet, I averaged around 5 hours of sleep a night. Even so, I still felt more alert on
5 hours of sleep while eating raw than I normally did sleeping 6-7 hours eating the Standard
American Diet. Thus on a raw food diet, not only did I need less sleep, but I was also more alert on
less sleep when compared to the Standard American Diet.
If you are a person that needs to accomplish many things and those things cut into your sleeping
time, which in turn decreases your cognitive capacity the next day, then I would strongly consider
the raw food diet.
As to why this is the case, I have a theory. If you remember my post on enzymes, you'll remember

2. than on a raw food diet your body doesn't have to use as many resources to aid in digestion. Thus
there are more resources left over for repair (this not only means repairing the body, but the mind
as well). And when does repairing of the body and mind occur? At night - when you are sleeping.
On the SAD, you're causing damage to your body every day by ingesting harmful toxins from
cooked and processed foods. Your body has less resources and more damage to deal with, so in
order to fix the damage your body keeps you sleeping for longer periods of time. If you try to wake
up before the body has had a chance to repair itself, you wake up feeling tired. This is your body's
way of telling you, it has not finished repairing itself yet.
When you eat strictly raw foods, you dramatically reduce the toxins you ingest. Your body also
uses less of its own resources to aid in digestion, thus you have more resources available and
less damage to repair. Over time your body uses those resources to repair the damage
cooked/processed foods have caused. Without new toxins coming in, your body gradually repairs
all the major areas. As time passes you need to spend less time sleeping because there's less
and less damage for your body to repair.
Increased Endurance
Normally when I'm at the gym, I need about 30 sec to 1 min of rest in-between my sets. The
workout is not high intensity...yet. Still I lift weights and do many sets which do require rest. On my
normal diet, I fatigue faster and run out of energy quicker so I need more time in between sets to
recoup. On the raw food diet, I noticed I either had a faster recovery time or I didn't get too tired in
the first place. In some cases I was literally walking from machine to machine. This didn't happen
right away; the results came on Day 7 and continued onward.
My theory is that fruits and vegetables are easily broken down. The molecular properties of fruits
and vegetables are less complex than SAD foods. Fruits and vegetables are just glucose,
vitamins, minerals, and water. Less complexity means less use of vital enzymes and energy. The
energy conserved during digestion is surplus energy that's available for other activities like
working out. One example to ponder is meat and bananas, which one do you think you can chew,
swallow, and digest faster?
Increased Strength
While on the raw food diet I experienced strength gains at a rapid pace. This is all while losing
weight. When I experienced strength gains in the past it was accompanied by an increase in my
body weight as well. The strength boost first became apparent on Day 7 (link), when I went up in
each of my exercises by a total of 5 lbs. By the end of Day 30, I was up a total of 20 lbs in each
exercise. Up until this diet, I had reached a plateau in terms of strength. If you are an athlete and
strength is a factor you might want to give this diet a try. After eating raw foods for 30 days, I went
back to eating cooked foods of all kinds again. Shortly after, I lost the gains I had made up until
that point. The loss in strength came fast and I was at my previous capacity within a week. As a
side note, my endurance went down dramatically as well.
Increased Energy
If you feel like you never have enough energy to get everything you need to accomplished, then

3. you may want to consider eating raw foods. After the 7th Day, I noticed a substantial increase in
energy. I'd compare it to drinking coffee, but this is a cleaner energy without a crash or jitters. The
energy is like a constant stream of power. There are no short circuits and the system is always
powered on. While on raw foods, if you feel yourself slowly gliding to a lower energy level you just
eat a piece of fruit and you jump back up to your previous levels.
Increased Libido
This particular pro gets a little graphic, so please skip it if you are the type that gets queasy. I
started having more frequent erections after Day 8, but I didn't post about it in my journal because
I didn't think anyone would want to read about it. Still I decided to include it here because there are
men out there with erectile dysfunctions and over half of them could probably be cured if they
didn't ingest so much processed cooked food. Instead of making poor food choices and then
taking pills to force a change in their bodies, they could just as easily take up a raw food diet and
see their vitality improve. I noticed that while on the raw food diet, I was more responsive and in
tune with members of the opposite sex. I also noticed dramatic improvements in arousal and
stamina, so if you're love life needs a boost, the raw food diet can definitely turbo-charge it.
Bouts of Euphoria
Do you like being extremely happy for no reason? I do too and during the raw food diet I
experienced these intense feelings of joy. These short bursts of euphoria usually lasted anywhere
from 1-3 hours, with a few cases lasting as long as 4 hours at a time. During these periods of
euphoria I felt joyous. Every cell in my body was full of good feelings. Like the feelings you get
when you are about to go on a much wanted vacation, or have a crush on someone, or like being
a kid on Christmas morning. Remember those feelings? If you want to experience those same
feelings, start eating raw foods. You will have powerful feelings of excitement, joy, and
peacefulness all mixed into one. I haven't figured out the food combination to bring them about as
frequently as I'd like (they are addictive feelings after all), but from my experiences they came
about after I ate fruit or drank green smoothies. I didn't notice the same euphoria when I ate non-
green vegetables or fats. I must attach a disclaimer here because your body won't necessarily
work the same as mine, so I encourage you to try what works for you. Trying fruit or green-
smoothies is a good place to start. If the feelings don't come right away, hang in there. I didn't feel
extreme joy until the 19th Day of this trial, this was a full 9 days later than on my December 08
trial.
Positive Emotions and Tranquility
After week 1, I noticed I felt positive emotions a majority of the time. I first noticed that I had
become more confident. Those voices in my head that said, "You can't do this" or "You lack X and
Y" or "You're not Z enough" slowly became whispers and gradually disappeared. After that, I
became less agitated at things that would normally irk me. An example - being cut off in traffic - I
didn't care. I entered a Zen-like state where I was calm and contemplative. I felt more connected
to the world and the people in it. More intuitive about people's emotional states when I was talking
to them. I could pick out their emotional states even if they were trying to put on a front. Then I
started to feel like sharing those good feelings, I really wanted others to feel good. I became more
generous, I would try to brighten people's day by doing little things for them. One co-worker was
sick, so I went out and got her some fresh chicken soup (up until that point I didn't even know her

4. that well). A friend's car stopped working so I offered him my own and I didn't even charge him for
gas. Gasp!
Clear Thinking/Consciousness/Increased Intuition
The shift in brain capacity when you adapt a raw food diet is amazing! It's like coming out of a fog
that you were not even aware that you were in. You feel as though you just got an upgrade. When
you're on the raw food diet everything is sharper, cleaner, and faster. Ideas are flowing like a river
as opposed to your mind being like a lake on cooked food.
I have a computer game that I play from time to time. It has different brain games that challenge
you to use your mind. Everything is timed and the problems are not too difficult. I've had the game
on my computer for close to a year and I play it about once a week for around an hour. Well after
being at the same mental level for a while, I dramatically improved my scores on memory,
intuition, and analysis.
The reason why I noticed an increased brain capacity could be that I was no longer poisoning my
system with the toxins that are present in cooked and processed food. When I ate raw organic
foods I ingested few to no toxins which meant less repetitive damage to my body and mind. Over
time my body had repaired the major troubled spots. Since my body had more resources available
left over to repair my brain, it concentrated on that. After the repairs took place my mind was able
to process things in a fraction of the time it took it on the SAD. Hard to believe? Try the raw food
diet out for yourself and you'll see massive improvements in your cognitive capacity.
Clearer Sinuses
By the end of the diet I hardly every needed to blow my nose. Most of the time my sinuses were
clear and I felt I could breathe quite easily. I don't have allergies, so I'm not stuffed up normally,
but what I noticed is that on a SAD diet my mucus was green and atrocious.
It felt like I had little green trolls living in my nose up all this time and for the first time in years they
had taken a vacation. I usually have some thick boogies that are dark green and I blow them out in
my sink in the morning (fun fact). In any case, I rarely had any green mucus in my nose after the
end of the 2nd week and after 30 days of raw foods, I noticed even less of it.
Cleaner Mouth/Breath
If you place a premium on fresh breath (and who doesn't?), then that's just another plus of the raw
food diet. When eating cooked food my mouth usually had a gritty feeling unless I brushed right
away. After switching to raw foods I would have a fresh feeling in my mouth. The exception being
green smoothies. Green smoothies were usually think and creamy and would tend to leave a film.
Still if I swished some fresh water through my mouth, it would clean off any residue. I cannot say
the same for my standard diet. If I ate cooked meat, I had to brush and floss, otherwise in a couple
of hours I could feel the bacteria starting to fester.
No Sleepiness After Meals
If you adopt the raw food diet, you will not want to sit on the couch and take a nap after meals.

5. After you eat raw foods, you'll feel energized and ready to take on the world. You might even let
out a few roars and beat your chest. If you are eating mainly fruit and greens on your diet, much
like I am, your meals will be processed in a fraction of the time it normally takes for your body to
process cooked food or meat. This means less down time and more time available for you to
accomplish your goals.
Healthy Glow
After being on the diet for 15 days, co-workers started saying that something was different about
me. I had told a couple of them that I was on the raw food diet, so obviously they suspected it
could be due to the diet, but there were others who didn't know what was different about me. Their
subconscious must have picked up on something. It was kind of funny to listen to some comments
like, "Something's different about you. Did you get a hair-cut?" or "You seem to be radiating, like
your glowing or something." I don't know if it was just the glow, or a combination of the glow and
some weight loss, but I thought I'd mention the glow phenomenon here.
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These are the pros of eating a raw food diet. If you have tried the 30-Day Raw Food Diet
Experiment and found some other pros, I'll be happy to add them as well. You can let me know by
going to http://www.outsidetheboxexperiment.com/contact/
About The Author
Teodor Lazar is an individual who is committed to helping people fulfill their goals in life. He writes
authentic, detailed, and value filled articles which focus on health, wealth, and relationships. You
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