Eating a plant based diet will help you overcome many illnesses, lose weight, and make you feel great. You’ll also be helping the environment due to eating fewer water greedy animal products, and use less packaging due to eating fewer processed foods.

Eating this way can be easy too. But, there is a lot of confusion due to the different types of plant based diets, and different “gurus” who proclaim to know what’s best. You’ll need to decide what type of plant based diet works best for you.

80/10/10 Raw Food Diet

This diet consists of eating only whole food raw plant based food consisting of 80 percent carbohydrate, 10 percent protein and 10 percent fat. Most people who are on the 80/10/10 raw food diet do not eat processed oils and added processed sugars. Continue reading →

When it comes to dietary fat there are a lot of approaches. Some diets say that all processed and additional fats are bad for you, and others allow for so-called healthy fats to be added such as olive oil.

Here we’ll go over the different ideas and you can come to your own conclusions about which is best for your individual health needs.

No Added Overt Fat Approach

This is a way of eating that is proposed by Doctors McDougall, Esselstyn and Colin T. Campbell in their plant based ways of eating.

They all argue that overt fats like olive oil, or coconut oil are processed food and that it’s important to steer clear of not only processed food, but of adding too many fatty foods of any kind to your diet. Continue reading →