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Super Healthy Food Artichoke

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Artichokes are A Super Healthy Addition to Your Diet Artichokes are super healthy for the body. They are packed with unique ingredients, along with common ones, which contribute to your overall health. Improves your gut health, heart, skin, anti-aging, lowers cholesterol, great for weight loss and even prevents and treats cancer.  Packed With Vitamins and Minerals Artichokes are one of the best foods for antioxidants, low in calories, high in fiber, good amount of protein, and many nutrients and minerals like vitamin K, folate, potassium, iron, magnesium, and vitamin c (Brown).  Artichokes are Great for Weight Loss Definitely a great healthy addition to your diet. A great way to help you lose weight because it is low in fat and calories. High in fiber means it will help you feel full. Artichoke includes a bunch of other ingredients to help you lose weight such as vitamin C and potassium. It helps people to build muscle by being good in protein, which also helps people burn more calorie

Raw Food Diet Disadvantages

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The Disadvantages of The Raw Food Diet Raw food diets have disadvantages along with advantages. Whether one outweighs the other is debatable. It is very hard to debate facts and that is my intent with this post focused mostly on the negative effects of the diet.  A raw food diet has nutritional deficiencies like lack of B-12, low HDL cholesterol numbers, not enough nutrients like calcium or vitamin D to support good bone health, and low body weight due to lack of calories inside the diet ( Livestrong) . Iron and iodine are two nutrients lacking with this plan as well (Cleveland Clinic).  The diet weakens muscles due to lack of protein, almost 100% of the people experienced tooth erosion in one study, and another study found it to increase infertility in women with about 70% experiencing disruption with their menstrual cycle and a third developing amenorrhea (Petre).  The diet is restrictive, time consuming and puts people at a higher risk for food poisoning because of the raw uncooked

Eating A Raw Food Diet

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 Lose Weight Quickly with A Raw Food Diet Image by Tumisu from Pixabay If you want to lose weight quickly, a raw food diet is the way to go (Team). In addition to the rapid weight loss, studies have proven your body experiences improvements in your gut health, it optimizes your heart, and keeps your blood sugar levels healthy (Team). The diet has its origins way back in the early 1800's after a clinic was opened by Oskar Bircher-Benner after he ate raw apples that cured his jaundice (Mudge).   Benefits of Raw Honey   Raw Honey contains at least 14 vitamins and minerals, over 5 important antioxidants, and over 3 beneficial enzymes for your body (Boldt). All raw food diets contain 4 enzymes that break down fiber, fats, carbohydrates and proteins inside your gut (Bailey). "Eating raw vegetables gives you the most enzymes, vitamins, and minerals needed for good health" (Piedmont).  Who knew raw honey contained so much. I just thought it was another sweetener with not many he