Live Raw – Live Well
MAKING THE TRANSITION TO A RAW FOOD LIFESTYLE – for your vibrant health and the environment is definitely “counter-cultural.” It requires learning new habits, slowing down and paying attention to what we put into our bodies. Is it possible to make a transition to a raw food diet in our fast paced world? You bet, many have been doing it for years. It only seems like it’s the latest “new thing.” But stop in the health or cooking section of your local bookstore and the shelves are brimming with “no-cook” cook books and other books on the subject of the wonderful health you’ll achieve by going 100% raw or at least increasing the amount of raw, live, nutrient rich foods in your diet.If you are used to a meat and potatoes, fast food, packaged food lifestyle – it may be difficult, but the rewards are vibrant health, excessive energy, youth returned and amazing healing. Author Gabrielle Chavez wrote in her book – “The Raw Food Gourmet” something that I connected with. When she would see cooked foods she used to enjoy, she would fondly remember them and let them go.
I have found that the first thing people say about Raw foods is: “But I need protein in my diet.” Protein is everywhere in food. Eating food without cooking it, preserves the enzymes – which are also protein. Enzymes are vital to our digestion and we have less of them as we age. Eating cooked foods makes our poor overworked pancreas divert energy to produce enzymes for digestion instead of doing what is was made for: producing enzymes to support protein metabolism processes for a healthy body. Is it any wonder that there is a rise in diabetes!
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