Hot raw food, although it might sound like an oxymoron there are in fact a few ways to prepare a raw meal such that it is hot, or at least warm. Hot food can still be considered raw due to the fact that the enzymes in food don’t break down until food is heated beyond 115F. So if you are getting tired of raw smoothies and salads here is a great way to put some variety in your diet.
Method #1 Raw Food Dehydrator
A food dehydrator is one of the most common methods to achieve a warm cooked taste in raw food. It works by using low heat to extract water out of food. To ensure that enzymes are not destroyed, be sure to keep the temperature setting on your dehydrator to under 115F. Using a dehydrator you can make raw crackers and even raw cookies.There are many great raw dehydrator recipes out there.
Method #2 Use Hot Water to warm raw food
Looking for warm raw meal on a cold day? Cooking with heated water is another method to make warm raw dishes. Just make sure that the water is under 115F. This method is used to make a variety of fantastic warm soups, which are great pick-me-ups during the winter time.
Method #3 The finger rule
Another method for preparing a warm raw dish is to use the stove. The trick here is to slowly heat by keeping heat setting on low. As long as you can stick a finger in the dish it is not too hot to kill the enzymes. If you want to be more precise however, you can use a thermometer. This method is great for making delicious warm raw chili.
The dehydrator, warm water and low heat on the stove are three great ways to expand your raw food cooking. Enjoy using these methods to explore new tasty warm meal recipes.
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One of the most lifelong and frustrating endeavors you can undertake is to lose weight.
It can be a minefield of diets, weight swings, mood swings, successes and failures. However for many dieters and would be biggest losers little attention is paid to one of the most crucial factors in the weight loss equation.
Your metabolism.
Speeding up metabolism can be a huge factor in weight loss. So lets look at what metabolism is and why speeding it up can be important.
What is metabolism? It isn’t a part of the body. It is actually a bodily process, really in fact a series of processes. It’s a process that your body uses to turn food into energy.
That’s right. Food goes in and the body converts that food into energy to fuel the running of the body. It’s a constant process that goes on without you knowing it.
Your body uses energy to fuel a range of body processes and this fuel comes from the calories in your food. If you have too much energy, or calories, your body stores this as fat.
The body can use the energy that it gets to either create energy/fat cells in your body, or to help break them down to release energy. These two processes are the opposite of each other. What you want your body doing is spending more time breaking energy cells down and less time creating more energy cells. The process of speeding up your metabolism changes the balance between creating more energy cells, and breaking them down.
Faster metabolism, more energy cells broken down.
There are ways to speed your metabolism and this aids in your weight loss program. It’s not an answer all on it’s own but it greatly helps your chances of success. But it does take a little effort.
You can’t speed up your metabolism overnight. It takes some time, but doing so can be one of the very best things you could ever do for your weight loss program. The time and effort can be well worth while.
You get your body working for you rather than against you if you speed up your metabolism.
But you won’t find a lot of talk about speeding up metabolism in the general losing weight literature because there’s not much money to be made from it. There’s no expensive program to sell, no pre made meals to sell, not much really. It’s really pretty simple.
But just because you don’t read a lot about increasing your metabolism don’t ignore it. It can be one of the best things you can ever do for your weight.
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