How can we achieve natural weight loss? Most of us are raised to eat a certain diet by our parents. These includes eating meat and dairy, and most of our food is cooked. We are brought up on fast foods.

Long before our ancestors discovered fire and weapons, when we "hunted and gathered" it meant hunting for edible plants and fruits and then gathering them! This is the way we lived for, by far, the greatest part of our evolution. All animals in nature eat raw foods. We are the only animal on the planet which cooks its food. The presence of digestive leukocytes suggests that consuming cooked food is foreign to the human body. It also suggests that the consumption of cooked food compromises the immune system! Some of those who eat raw food loose weight naturally without even knowing.

People who have shifted to a raw vegan (plant based) diet have experienced natural weight loss, improved health, increased energy, and a variety of other benefits. Many have experienced weight "just slipping off!" It seems that when we return to a diet natural for our bodies, they work more efficiently, and health returns to us. In the last century, in our most recent generations, we have been eating more and more cooked, preserved, and processed foods, including canned and other packaged foods.

Since I was not overweight before moving to an all-raw food vegan diet, I cannot confirm first hand the natural weight loss experienced on this diet, although I have experienced other benefits. At one time I had experienced high blood pressure, I had gastritis/ulcer, and I was plagued by migraines, among other things. As I moved towards a plant-based diet, much of this was eliminated. I have all the energy I need for exercising and find myself more motivated to do it!