Live To Eat, Or Eat To Live?

This is a question that few folks think about. And most of these people actually live to eat, rather than eat to live. What do I mean by this? When you shop at a regular grocery store, you are nearly 100% guaranteed to end up with genetically modified foods, foods with MSG(under a wide variety of names. Check this site out for more help on this, with Soy(this is not a healthy food unless fermented), canola oil(I don't care who tells you it's healthy, or even safe. No one has been able to prove this yet, and all the evidence shows us otherwise), NutraSweet(listed under many names), and much more additives that are very toxic.

People buy food at specific stores mostly due to price. But how much money can you save? Perhaps $1,000 per year? And how much does a bout of cancer cost? Or two or three bouts of cancer? How about Alzheimers? How about Dementia? Is it worth it? Many still believe it is.

If you are one who believe that health should be a priority, and not an occasional pasttime, that you, and you alone, are responsible for your health, then perhaps this message will not be in vain. I know it's not. You are reading it. So what to do with your diet?

Raw foods are great foods. Especially when they are organically grown. I do everything possible to avoid non-organic, due to the very high probability of genetically modified organism in those foods, that have no business being there. That, and there is a high likelihood of pesticides and herbicides in non-organically grown foods. Pesticides and herbicides do what? Kill. Makes sense, if you want to reduce the population or/and keep customers for life in the medical industry, doesn't it?

Foods I eat on a regular basis include:
~Kiwi
~Banana
~Most berries
~Potatoes
~Tomatoes
~Romaine Lettuce
~Sprouts I grow

And more of course. The potatoes and tomatoes are the only ones listed above that are not always raw. As raw, organic foods though, they are superbly beneficial to your health. Potatoes are not very healthy in a cooked state.

The reasons I use the above foods, and I kept that list short to keep this blog posting from being 4 pages, is this:

Kiwis are loaded with an enormous amount of enzymes. All live foods have live enzymes. All cooked foods are devoid of enzymes. Enzymes are required for every function of the body and mind. EVERY function. If one consumes large amounts of raw foods, they will have more energy, better and more memory of dreams, have far less health problems, have a better attitude, have better vision, mobility, sex. When one obtains a health problem, the body is simply letting you know, you need to cleanse. Raw foods cleanse. And this one cleanses fairly well. Kiwis are also abundant in a large variety of nutrients.

Bananas are a good food, in a variety of ways. Although it is not a food high in potassium, as you are led to believe by the food industry. Potatoes are much higher. But they do have potassium. They have a fiber that really helps the body's regularity, they have many live enzymes, and have a moderate amount of nutrients.

Berries have some excellent healing capabilities. Or perhaps better said, would be that they help the body to heal, due to the compounds found in the berries. For instance, raspberries and strawberries have ellagic acid, which helps the brain. The American Cancer Society states that ellagic acid helps reduce cancers, and helps the liver to remove cancer causing substances from the blood. Berries are rich in enzymes, and the darker berries have the most powerful healing agents that we are aware of, out of berries in general. Berries are known to be very good cleansers of the digestive tract.

Potatoes are rich in the compound lutein, as are spinach and kale. Lutein is a an anti-oxidant known to help eye health. Raw potatoes are loaded with very beneficial enzymes, that will help keep blood sugar in better control, give added energy(do not consume just before bed or you may not sleep), helps the digestive system, helps the dreaming process, helps rheumatoid arthritis, where cooked potatoes aggravate arthritis. I highly recommend this raw food. For many, it is an acquired taste. I grew up eating them.

Tomatoes are just a superbly beneficial food. They are medically known to help reverse cancers, are a high source of vitamin C, Harvard studies show that men who consume 3 of more servings of tomatoes per week, have a 45% less risk of prostate cancer. Tomatoes are also rich in betacarotene and lycopene. The darker the color, the most of these compound in the food.

Romaine Lettuce is one of the best, if not the best, lettuce to consume, in my opinion. This lettuce appears to have more nutrients than any other currently produced. Romaine is much higher in nearly all nutrients, between it an Iceberg.

As for sprouts, I recommend not just one sprout, but many. Alfalfa, Red Clover, Broccoli(medically known to help cancers), radish. These sprouts all contain nutrients with concentrated amounts of phytochemicals (plant compounds) that can protect us against disease. I used to eat a quart of these every day. If you choose to consume this many, bear in mind, that because all live greens will thin the blood, you may get cold with this many in a 12 hour period. This is a good site to give some added information on the immense value of sprouts.

Do You Garden?

I don't know about you, but I love to garden. Organically, or course. Many people use natural compost from compost bins they have on their property, to increase the nutrient value and taste of their foods. Something else I started doing a few years ago was adding powdered herbs into the soil.

I started with Kelp, but found for a few plants, it was a bit salty, so for the most part now, I use organic alfalfa powder. The plants thrive on this due to the nutrients you have added to the soil. Fertilizers you buy in stores seldom have nutrients to speak of; they are simply an unbalanced form of chemicals, which your food(and your body) would rather do without.

Here is something I would not suggest doing if you are not living a healthy lifestyle, and this is using urine supplementation. While this may not sound appealing, if your diet is clean, your plants will show you how much they love it. It is as if you have given them rocket fuel. The human body does not absorb nutrients well, for a variety of reasons. So the nutrients leave the body through our waste.

When I saw plants that a close friend of mine started this on, from start to about 5 days, I was shocked. She used the urine therapy on just part of a row, and just water on the remainder. The urine part of the row was over 3 times taller in that short period of time, than the rest of the row. And these plants were all about the same height at the start; roughly about an inch. The formula for this: 8 parts water to one part urine. Your plants will appreciate you if you do not have drugs in your body. This includes the use of most hairsprays, since those chemicals absorb directly through the scalp. Just somethings to consider.


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