raw foods: I've heard you feel better when you only eat raw. I mean look at this lady! she looks 20 years younger! http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.ph鈥?/a> I also wanna look younger when I'm her age... although I am in my 20's, so... but I think if I eat raw vegan now I'll look better when I'm older.|||Personally speaking I can attest it feels amazing to be raw. A raw diet is labeled as 85% + of all food eaten raw. I wouldn't have done it if not for necessity one time- much easier to just be raw a few months. It makes you feel as you're actually supposed to feel, and until I"d eaten this way I don't ever remember eating this Type of normal food. After all, nature gives us all we need, and it doesn't give use cooked food. Heating ruins the vitamins and the textures. Your body isn't as easily able to digest and get nutrients from cooked food - it's a bit like rummaging through rubble to find your clothes, when you're eating cooked food, there is too much stuff in the way- broken cell walls, sheets of indigestible fibre that have fallen on the nutrients. YOu immediately feel very alert and very vibrant. It's like actually having your electricity switched on inside, as compared to the feeling you usually have when eating cooked food- like a fluttering light switch which is dull, sometimes cutting out, sometimes flashing on, but never 100% reliable, and always too dull. You feel incredible . You have the most energy you are supposed to have, and it was feeling this wayrealizedsed that food is grown by mother nature for us to eat as is, much like a brand new battery. We ruin our bodies with dull wattage batteries cooked in the oven or microwaved til all they can do is give off low running juice. It's easy to do this diet- you don't need to do much. A blender is a good tool- you can make chocolate pies, cakes, tarts, salads, raw breads, raw cereal. My favorite is raw bircher muesli- grated apple, walnuts, raisins, oats, raw almond milk and brown sugar. Theres' a raw chocolate pie I do- with raw coco, avocado, dates, agave all blended, then put into a raw crust of oatmeal, cashew flour and seasonings. LEt it chil, and oyu have an amazing chocolate tart. Raw food diets are the best for your best health, but there is NO way, I would try push this on anyone. Not because I think it's a bad idea, but because I know what I thought before I did it. I was mildly interested but thought it sounded ridiculous, impossible to maintain, hard to digest, too cold, crunchy, not comforting enough. DUe to how it makes you feel- no bloating, no tiredness, no sluggish feeling after a big meal, and total alive mashed up energy the next day, I know it's the best way to eat ever. But I couldn't have done it without being pushed somewhat, by circumstanceSeeinging as you are asking, go for it. Make sure you always have comforting foods- avocado,raw bread, dates, coco, oatmeal, soking lentils, green peas ( soaked green pea soup is amazing), papaya, banana, peanuts, almonds and cashews and all the foods you now want to eat but don't.|||She looks great, but most of the change is due to weight loss and ditching the old lady hairstyle. Going raw is so involved and is such a complete change, that I just don't see someone sticking with it for possible appearance benefits twenty years down the road. Most people who go raw do so to cope with a chronic illness which has been unresponsive to traditional methods- like migraines, allergies, hormone imbalances, IBS, eczema, Chrohn鈥檚, Chronic Fatigue, RA, obesity, etc.|||Raw meat can give humans worms, people say that isn't true but it happened to my step sister.|||Looking good when you're older is only partly controllable though diet choices, and there is no medically sound evidence that one healthy diet is better for aging skin than another. Most of it has to do with having good genes. Eating a raw-only diet is generally a healthy way to go, but you don't have to go this far. There's no guarantee that eating raw, vegan, or vegetarian will make you look any better at 40 and 60 than you would if you had eaten a healthy omnivore diet (meat, veggies, grains, eggs, dairy, fish, nuts). Eat healthy foods, eat the right amount, and exercise. You can do this with raw foods, vegan, vegetarian, or omnivore. Biggest things that make you age prematurely: 1. Sun (tanning when you're young turn eraser sized spots into brown blotches around age 40 and it ruins the elasticity (collagen), so your skin looks thin and saggy early) 2. Smoking: (collagen in skin starts dissolving in smokers usually by age 30 and it goes really fast after that) 3. Not drinking enough water. Being chronically dehydrated wrinkles the skin because the cells aren't plumped up with enough water. Being hydrated also lets your body more easily flush out all of the waste products we naturally and unnaturally accumulate. Skin moisturizers help here too. 4. Lack of exercise. Good muscle tone and a healthy amount of body fat (not too little, not too much) helps people to age gracefully. Being weight-stable throughout life means you won't have extra flappy skin if/when you lose weight. Being too thin (no muscle tone) makes you look boney, sunken, and older than you actually are. 5. Lack of calcium: Especially for women, once we hit our 40's, we start losing a lot of bone mineral and the bones can soften and sort of "squish" into new shapes. When the spine bones soften, you develop a hunch (dowager's hump) which makes you look and feel old. Keeping your back muscles strong, your posture good, and your calcium levels high will ward this off. Some people can even develop this hunched over look in their late 20's. 6. Uncontrolled hormone swings: For women, pregnancy and aging can wildly change our hormone balance for the worse. This can make the skin thin (and wrinkly) and our hair can thin or fall out. Keeping regular doctor visits and awareness of how your body is behaving will help minimize these swings so they don't cause you to look older than you are.