Chances are that you’ve probably heard people talk about a raw food diet and how healthy it is for you, but did you ever wonder exactly what it is they’re talking about? Perhaps you envisioned raw oysters and beef on your dinner table. That doesn’t sound too appealing doesn’t?
In fact, a raw food diet is simply eating food in its natural unprocessed state. You probably already are on part of a raw food diet. If you snack on fruits and vegetables without cooking them, then you’ve eaten raw food.
Raw food, or unprocessed food is much better for you because the act of processing the food strips it of a lot of its vital nutrients. You’ve probably heard that cooking vegetables can leach out a lot of the vitamins and it can also destroy the important food enzymes as well. Packaged foods, that you find in the grocery store like potato flakes to make mashed potatoes and other foods that have been processed in some way to make an easy package meal not only have little nutritional value, but your body simply isn’t made to process these foods.
If you think about raw foods as being the natural foods the way that they come from the earth, then it makes sense that these are easier for our bodies to process as these of the foods are great ancestors ate and there really hasn’t been that many generations since grocery stores, and therefore prepackaged foods, were invented.
Raw foods are packed full of vitamins, minerals and food enzymes. These food enzymes are important, although you don’t hear a lot about them. One of the things they do is help you digest your food and getting enough enzymes can help your body with the digestion process which takes a lot of energy, and if your body is spending less energy on digestion it will have more energy for you to do the things you like. Did you ever wonder why you feel so tired after you eat a big meal of cooked foods? One of the reasons is because food enzymes are destroyed by cooking, so there are no enzymes to help your body digests that big meal you just ate.
People in a raw food diet eat about 75% of their food as raw and whole foods. This includes fruits, vegetables, sprouts, raw nuts, seaweed and other foods in their natural form.
Raw foods can be prepared in a couple of ways. One of the most popular is juicing. Many people go on a juice fast where all they do is drink the juice of raw organic fruits and vegetables. Even just drinking fresh juice in the morning can give your health a boost.
Another way that people eat raw foods is to use a food dehydrator. This takes all the moisture out of the fruits and vegetables so they can be easily stored for long periods of time without going bad. A food dehydrator uses hot air to dehydrate the food but it keeps the temperature under 116°F so that the vital food enzymes are not destroyed.
Of course, you can simply eat your fruits and vegetables the way nature intended picked straight from the tree. Nuts can be a great raw food that you eat for snacks as well, but be careful because most of the nuts you find in the grocery store are cooked. You need to make sure you get raw nuts which you probably will have to buy either online or from a health food store.
You don’t have to all of a sudden start eating 75% of your foods as raw foods in order to enjoy the health benefits of the raw food diet. You can gradually increase the amount of raw foods you eat as time goes on and you will notice how much more energy you have and how healthy you feel. Remember, you are what you eat!
Lee Dobbins
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When overweight individuals are told they have to change their eating styles, the dread that comes with this thought is at varying degrees. In other words, some people’s pre- weight loss eating habits are not as bad as what someone else’s is. Their lack of losing fat may have to do with some other factors. It’s the fast food junkies that face pure panic when they are told they must change their eating habits. Part of the problem, and part of the failure for some people is they try to make the transition too quickly. Just as some people can quit smoking cold turkey, while others have to wean themselves off.
If you have tried all kinds of methods to try to switch to a healthy diet and it has failed, then try this slower but perhaps more effective method.
Start in the morning and plan your meals for today. Don’t consider what is good or what is bad for you at this particular moment. Don’t even think about the fact that you are starting a life style change. Now write out a list of healthy foods for each of those meals. Use five food items for each meal. Next, pick out one healthy food that you like the best out of each one of the categories. Now remove one of the unhealthier foods and substitute it with one of the healthy foods in each group. Continue doing this on a regular basis until you have eventually replaced all of the unhealthy foods with the healthy ones. This is just one of the many innovative ways you can become health style savvy. Don’t worry if it takes a while between each transition that’s fine, just stick with it, eventually you won’t even remember what fast foods were. You will naturally have moved to healthier eating.
Wendy D Hearn
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Nutrition by Natalie
Nutrition vs. Conventional Medicine
Take A Pill
Americans are constantly being bombarded by pharmaceutical commercials with the message of take a pill.
High cholesterol, acid reflux, depression, insomnia, allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, shaking leg syndrome, social anxiety disorder, ADHD, GERDs, sexual dysfunction,; it doesn’t matter what’s wrong w/ you, big Pharma has a pill that’s right for you.
In this video Natalie discusses the different between the conventional medicine approach of just taking a pill to a preventative approach of health; nutrition.
This video discusses the three most profitable classes of drugs; Statins (Drug prescribed for high cholesterol), Proton Pump Inhibitors (drugs prescribed for heart burn, upset stomach or acid reflux disorder) and Antidepressants, prescribed for depression.
Common Statin drugs include Lovastatin, Simvastatin, Atorvastatin, Fluvastatin, Pravastatin and Rosuvastatin.
Common Proton Pump Inhibitors include, Aciphex, Prevacid, Nexium, Prilosec, Protonix, Zegerid and omeprazole.
Common Antidepressants include Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin.
This video talks about common side effects of these three classes of drugs.
There may be more to your health than simply taking a pill.
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Achieving Good Health
A natural and organic food diet is an approach to life that promotes good health and long life, one that is likelier to give the nourishment the body requires.
Eating Your Way to a Good Health
You can attain perfect good health by eating foods that are natural and organic and by becoming free of the comestibles that introduce or create poisons in your body. Here is a tiny advice for maintaining a healthy approach to living through nourishment and attaining good health.
If your digestion is broken, avoid bread, potatoes, and other starches when eating beef. Eat green salads, fruits, and starchless veggies like cooked string beans, cooked celery, cooked spinach, and squash before eating meat to promote good health. Meals prepared in the whisker are highly recommended for those with frail stomachs. Continuously add cooked starchless plants to your diet, then stewed fruit, and then lettuce, tomatoes, and uncooked foods for a more attainable good health.
If you smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol, tea, coffee, cola drinks, and cola drinks you are utterly paralyzing your 260 tastes and diminishing the possibility for good health. Beginning each meal with something raw will re-educate these tastes to the fragile, natural flavour of uncooked foods, though not if you continue to employ these damaging, addictive stimulants. The cleaning of the individual cell is crucial for folks that would like to quit smoking and stay focused in achieving good health.
More Foods For Good Health
A fruit fast of oranges or grapes, as an example, for two or three days duration sometimes renders the hunger acceptable as the self-determination will be nicely positioned to function with bigger success, such as good health. Nicotine makes a direct attack on your blood stream and weakens your will. If you travel, maintaining a health diet for good health is a little tricky, though not totally very unlikely. You can take along a supply of dried fruits and raw nuts and seeds. Another idea is to take along a tiny bottle of salad dressing consisting of full, pure apple cider vinegar and unsaturated oil like soy, olive, or safflower. Keep all these in mind and, in no time at all, you will achieve that good health you deserve.
Confused about nutrition? Don’t be. The path to better health is simple-and agreed upon by almost all scientists. In this week’s UltraWellness podcast, Dr. Mark Hyman explains how to optimize your nutrition and which supplements are crucial for vibrant health.
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Healthy Breakfast Food Recipes – Nutrition by Natalie
Natalie tell you five different healthy breakfast items and how to cook or make them. A good breakfast is key to your health and wellness.
Items include, Smoothie, Breakfast Taco, Yogurt Parfait, Oatmeal or an English Muffin with Egg and Fruit.
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The controversial Dr.Sebi speaks.
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DR.SEBI
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Dr. Sebi prepares us to understand that which is natural and that which is unnatural. He lets us know that the human body is inter-related to plants. He has arrested such pathologies as cancer, diabetes, leukemia, sickle cell, heart dysfunction, herpes, mental illness and AIDS.
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