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Whether you're looking to shift a few pounds in a week, drop a dress size for a big event or want to change your eating habits forever, find the best diet to suit you in our guides below...

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The Raw Food Diet

The perfect diet for the time starved – the raw food diet involves no cooking as it is believed raw food has higher quantities of vitamins and minerals and that cooked foods can contain toxic residues.

Rules

At each meal you eat two-thirds raw vegetables and fruit and one-third meat (except pork), fish and dairy products. Cereals and starchy foods are banned as they require cooking or baking and the diet advises that you build up to 100% raw food gradually by having one meal with steamed vegetables per day, moving on to one steamed vegetable meal per week before adopting the diet fully – this gives the body time to adapt. It can also help to banish bloating and sticking to water, pure fruit juices (not from concentrate) and herbal teas only, will further aid regular digestion.

It is important to vary your fruit and vegetable intake to ensure you are getting a good balance of vitamins and minerals. An easy way to do this is to make sure you have a variety of colours on your plate at each meal.

Foods allowed are: fresh or dried fruit, honey, raw or fermented vegetables, nuts, vegetable and fruit juice, nuts, seeds, oils, seaweed, raw meet, fish and shellfish.

A great book to follow for the raw food diet is Carol Alt's Eating In The Raw.

Pros

This diet is high in vitamins, it reduces appetite and leads to significant weight loss.

Cons

If you are reducing your intake of fish, meat and whole grains then it is a good idea to snack on nuts and seeds, which are high in protein and to also take a daily multi-vitamin and omega 3 supplements.

It is a difficult diet to follow if you eat out a lot.

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