i've heard that eating raw,live, and fresh foods help you to gain weight is this true?
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Yeah, I wouldn't eat raw meat.  You'll end up with something that you haven't counted on.....
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I'm not a dietician, but I would imagine - initially - you'll have a 3-ounce weight gain since you physically consumed the food.  However, your body will break the food down, obtain the nutrients from it, and use it for your body's basic metabolic functions.  \n\nWeight gain comes from intaking more food than your body needs to thrive.  Weight loss comes from obtaining your ideal caloric intake to maintain your current weight, and lower the overall daily calories.
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I have tried it and it is very strict. They send you the food for the whole day including the snacks, BUT it is very little and you CANNOT eat anything else! if you ate whatever they sent you and still hungry - guess what? if you eat anything else you will actually gain weight because the food they send contains exact amount of calories you can consume throughout the day to lose about 1 lb a week (at best). The food isn't that great either. I am very picky, I like to cook and pretty good at it and had to make myself eat the food they provided. Although it smelled good the taste just wasn't there.\nOn the other hand a friend of mine (not so picky with the food... AT ALL!) was on that diet for 5 months and she managed to lose 6 pounds.\nEveryone is different. In any case, good luck to you!
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Bananas can make you gain weight but I think, in general, that this is very false. Fruit is great for you.\nToo much may give you the runs but fruit is very good for your GI tract and helps clean it.\nI went on a fruit diet for 3 weeks and had nothing but fruit.\nI lost a lot of weight but felt great.
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to be sure, it is not only food that improves metabolism. it is also amount of physical work that you do. if you do enough physical work that would digest the food that you eat. Things like bannana  and apple will just act as a catalyst for the process.
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Before attempting any drastic change, the best thing to do would be to go to a doctor. They can tell you exactly how much weight you need to gain to be 'average' which will make you healthier.\n\nThe best way to put on weight is with a diet of things like potatos, pasta, rice, meat and dairy products, but make sure you still try and eat five portions of fruit or veg a day. Also, have three square meals a day.
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How To Gain Weight \n\n\n\nThis one seems like a no-brainer, eh? How do you gain weight? You eat. You cannot gain weight without eating... in the exact opposite of losing weight, actually, you cannot gain weight without consuming more calories than you burn off. \n\nThe bigger question, in our weight-loss worshipping world, is why would you want to gain weight? Fact is that sometimes we become too thin, dangerously so, to the point where we begin to suffer all these negative side effects and eventually death. Sometimes gaining weight is a pretty attractive option by comparison. Being at a healthy weight helps every system of our body function better, allows us to heal from damage, and gives us reserves as protection against stress or illness as well. \n\nThe tougher part of weight-gain is how to do it in a healthy manner. Just as rapid weight-loss can be dangerous, so can rapid weight gain. Many EDs who go through rapid recovery end up with too high a bodyfat percentage, too much fat stored around their internal organs, compromised health, and high cholesterol. This is in part because traditional anorexic "recovery" diets are aimed at bulking up the patient as quickly as possible by fat-loading everything they eat with no thought for the health quality of the food being given. \n\nIt's safer to aim for a gain of one or two pounds a week so as to not put undue stress on your recovering system and to know that you're rebuilding bone, muscle, and nutrient stores instead of just frantically storing fat. It's more important to restore your body's protein, elemental, vitamin, water, fat and sugar balances than to simply send the numbers on the scale up. Once you do this, given sufficient raw materials your body will rebuild itself more strongly. \n\n\n \nIn The Beginning\n\nIf you're deciding to gain weight, odds are it's because you're underweight. If you're underweight, barring a purely illness-related weight-loss problem which should really be addressed by a doctor instead, you have probably not been eating enough. If you haven't been eating enough for a while, your digestive system will need to be retrained. Same goes for extended or extensive purging... it screws with your entire system, and there will need to be plenty of time devoted to patience and healing. \n\nExtended periods of time with insufficient solid food intake causes your entire digestive system to slow down and lose efficiency. Amounts of digestive chemicals in production may drop, and the tiny fingerlike cilia that absorb foods in your small intestine may become paralyzed or die off. The peristaltic muscles that move food through your system may weaken or atrophy. Large meals or a lot of food at once may confuse your stomach and intestines to the point where they cramp up and have trouble remembering what to do at all. All this will need to be repaired slowly, given time to reaccustom itself to the concept of processing and utilizing food again. \n\nStart with liquids. Rehydration is extremely important, since without food our overall water content drops significantly, and the digestive process requires a great deal of water. In the first few days of refeeding you may notice a sudden gain of several pounds... this is most likely, if you're doing everything right, your water balance trying to straighten itself out. You may feel bloated for a while as this happens and it's extremely important that you allow it to take care of itself and do not try to correct it with diuretics; limiting caffeine, which acts as a diuretic, may be a good idea here. Potassium can also act as a mild diuretic but do not try to limit that, as it's an important electrolyte and part of rehydration is bringing your electrolytes back up to a good strong level. You may benefit more from drinking water and juice between meals, instead of with meals, as liquids during meals can make your stomach feel fuller and may slow digestion a bit.
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Green tea, white tea, and I recently heard eatting raw chocolate can help raise metabolism. But as for raw chocolate...I'm not sure.
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Gain Weight Step 1 - eating!\n\nEating is the first and most important factor that is needed to gain weight. It's simple - you need to eat more calories than you burn. This does not mean eating anything and everything that is not nailed down. Carefully plan your meals with foods that will help you gain lean mass, not fat. I suggest 6 meals. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and three other small meals scheduled throughout the day. The goal is to eat every 2.5 to 3 hours.\n\nFocus on foods such as steak, chicken, fruit, milk, vegetables, cheese and assorted types of nuts. It's recommended to eat 4 - 6 pieces of fresh fruit a day, and at least four tall glasses of milk. Milk is a great, cheap protein source - take advantage of it. A sample snack meal would be a glass of milk, an apple, and a hand full of peanuts.\n\nGain Weight Step 2 - lifting!\n\nAs stated, proper eating is of utmost importance when attempting to gain weight, but if you do not lift weights, the majority of that gained weight will be fat - not muscle.\n\nWhen trying to gain weight, I suggest working out three times a week. You need to lift hard and then recover for the next workout. Focus on the big exercises such as squats, deadlifts, bent-over rows, chin-ups, bench press, & military press. These are the exercises that will turn those extra calories into muscle. You are not going to gain much by doing lateral raises and step-ups every workout. You need the multiple-joint lifts that will shock your system and stimulate your body into growth. Focus on getting strong by adding a small amount of weight each workout. If you focus on strength, size will follow. Case in point, look around at your local gym - the strongest guys are also the biggest.\n\nGain Weight Step 3 - supplements!\n\nTo gain weight, you do not NEED supplements, but they will help you gain the weight quicker. That's what they are, supplements to an already good diet and training program. Think of supplements as the finishing touch.\n\nI like to keep things simple and, therefore, I suggest only two types supplements for those wishing to gain weight. The first is a weight gain shake. The shakes I recommend are ProLab's N Large 2. It's the best value out there. The way N' Large 2  will help is by giving you a large quantity of calories in one small serving. It will provide you with 620 calories in one easy shake and is especially great for people who do not have time for breakfast, or snacks while on the go. Just mix a serving with water or fruit juice and gulp it down in a just a couple of minutes. Get yourself a Shaker Bottle to make it even easier.\n\n\n\n\n(I got these answers from the website below...check it out, it has some great advice)
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every food you eat can actually make you gain weight, it depends on your metabolism (basal energy expenditure) and the physical activity you do. Nutrition bars frecuently are made low in fat for relieving some hunger or in case of protein bars it adds an extra protein suplement to your diet. If you want to  gain weight you have to increase the daily calory intake in a balanced diet, overcoming your increased metabolism . Also you  have to discard some wasting diseases, consulting your physician (infections, thyroid disorders, etc)
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To gain weight, you should increase the number of calories in your daily diet by about 300 calories.  Have larger size helpings of  food at meals. Proteins are needed for building muscles, so having high protein food like eggs, milk,  peanut butter, protein shakes will help. Also have more of  starchy foods and drink lots of water. More information to gain weight at http://www.toloseweight.org/gainweight.html
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yes definitely u gain weight.
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No, but keep in mind...weight gain is cumulative. Depending on the time and composition of the food, some will leave the system and some will stay. Foods break down into proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You might not retain the foods you eat at one sitting, but overtime your body will store more fats and fluids than you need.
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It's a normal mechanism in your body. In cold, your body needs more calories to burn to generate heat and keep you warm, so the brain told you to eat more. What you need is to watch what and how much you eat. And yes you will gain weight if you eat more than your body use. Maybe you haven't fell that now, but you will.
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Raw whole eggs are a phenomenally inexpensive and incredible source of high-quality nutrients that many of us are deficient in, especially high-quality protein and fat.\n\nYou can read more about the myths of eating raw eggs at the link below....
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I would not suggest this as a healthy lifestyle, but If you eat lots of fats and sugars together like a burger with ice cream or a soda, then you will gain weight. It will put pounds on in no time. The key is to eat them together.  But for a  normal diet, you also need veggies and lean meat too. And dont consume too much sugar at one time for too long, cause it will throw your body off balance. Drink water too instead of pop, even though pop will make you plumper.
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Gain muscles by eating a good diet with extra protein and lifting weights.  Make sure you are getting at least 2000 calories a day by keeping track, like dieters.  While doing that, you can see if you have a balanced diet.  Don't just start eating fatty foods to gain weight.  You will cause health problems.  If you keep a record of what you eat, you also have the proof to shut people up.