Eat raw food to help get a flat tum... food enzymes where they come from and what they do for us....

Raw food....

I have to say I love it. My little girl is going through a fad of wanting to eat all her vegetables raw. I've taken to making up a crudite plate for most meals with a dip such as hummus or sour cream or a mild salsa for her to nibble on. I'm quite impressed at how keen she is on raw cauliflower. I'd never really considered offering her many of these raw veg thinking she'd hat ethem - but to my surprise she eats a good deal. I am convinced that there are two factors to this, firstly they get given fruit or raw vegetables (like carrot sticks) for snacks time in school. and secondly we grow so much of our own veg she has a vested interest in them.

It must be good. Gillian McKeith is always waffling on about raw food and food enzymes and how you should eat a high percentage of raw fod each week. Heading towards summer that will get easier but I have been having lots of raw veg snacks between meals. With an oat cakes or rye bread and a smoothing of cashew butter or soy cream cheese. Pretty scrummy actually.

Food Enzymes are contained in raw food and are fabulous to help you with digestion, they also help you to absorb vitamins and minerals. To explain things better they initiate the process of digestion in the mouth and stomach. Food enzymes contain the right tools to digest protein, fats and carbohydrates. Research has proved the importance of raw foods in our diet. The enzymes in raw food help start the process of digestion and reduce the body’s need to produce digestive enzymes.

So all in all - raw food helps you digest your food, process fats and protein and helps you body to absorb all those vitamins and minerals.

Vegan... is it the best way to become a skinny minny?

Just a quick post. I've been pondering the whys and wherefores of wether to stay vegan or not. On the one side its really good for my weightloss so far. I am back down to 10 and a half stone and am a size 10 edging towards an 8. I feel much healthier and the gall stone attacks have gone away.

But I am not being a vegan for the reasons most people are. I do miss cheese, and eggs and meat. I know that some lean meat might be good for me. I have been chatting to my freind Gwen who is a dietician and she thinks now I have got the gall stone situation under control I'd be best to re-introduct lean meat - chicken and fish to my diet and eggs. Which is a relief as the duck started laying again last week after their winter hiatus.