| Have You Heard About "Eating for Energy?" |
| Written by James B. Hussey | |
| Thursday, 04 February 2010 | |
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Have you head the buzz about the raw diet? It's gaining popularity and buzz, and for more benefits than simply losing weight, but a "new and old" way to eat for a long and healthy life. We eat so unhealthy these days, always unwrapping and cooking away nutrients, that we don't even consider what we're putting into our bodies, and how far we've fallen away from our healthy and all-natural roots.
Have you head the buzz about the raw diet? It's gaining popularity and buzz, and for more benefits than simply losing weight, but a "new and old" way to eat for a long and healthy life. We eat so unhealthy these days, always unwrapping and cooking away nutrients, that we don't even consider what we're putting into our bodies, and how far we've fallen away from our healthy and all-natural roots. Eating for Energy means consuming food in its natural and untreated form. There are several street-smart reasons for why this is so necessary for health. Processing and cooking food can take so much of the basic nutritional value from the meal. Consider some of the conventional wisdom you've heard about during your lifetime, such as: If you cook pasta just to the al dente (or medium) stage, it will have more calories, yes, but it will have more of the nutrients in it than if you cooked until it was soggy. Or you probably remember hearing not to peel carrots or potatoes so deeply, because most of the nutrients and values are just under the surface. Eating for Energy means eating unprocessed, unmolested in any way, organic, whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, dried fruits, seaweeds, etc. It is a diet that is at least three quarters uncooked! Cooking destroys flavor and nutrition from vegetables and fruits. Eating this way means eating more the way our great-great-great grandfathers and mothers did. They didn't cook often, and certainly didn't cook or process fruits and vegetables. They ate them whole. Their water wasn't from a tap; it was natural spring water. Maybe they drank some coconut milk on occasion. For a moment, before you think the author of this article has gone bananas, just picture the thousands of grease traps under every restaurant in America alone. Imagine that's your arterial wall instead! Is a stroke a part of your future? What about the big "C?" This isn't manipulation, this is your health: get a newspaper or ezine and read about the rising statistics on obesity, diabetes, cancer and all the other dire ailments. Do you think it may have a thing to do with a poor diet? "Eating for Energy" is a way out of the madness, a path toward real change in your health. Doesn't it just stand to reason that this is how our bodies were created to eat? It's a way of eating that's in harmony with our better nature and in harmony with our own common sense. Our bodies were meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means exercise, certainly, but it also means eating natural, raw foods that require more energy to metabolize them. The Article Author: Learn more about Eating for Energy. Stop by James B. Hussey's recommended site where you can find out all about a healthy way to eat and live more healthy. |
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