Eat It Raw and Organic to Improve Your Health!

By Dr. Brenda Cobb

Food nutrition can directly affect your health in a positive way. It has become the 'American way of life' to pick up dinner at the fast food drive-through, deli counter, or frozen food section of the grocery store. These quick and easy cooked foods may be convenient, but it's taking a toll on good health. If most of the foods you eat are cooked or processed you're not getting true nutrition. Cooking food destroys all the enzymes and compromises vitamins and minerals so many people are undernourished yet overweight.

Modern day society has made it easy to grab food on the run and eat whatever is easily available without considering the consequences. The film 'Supersize Me' featured a previously healthy young man who became 30 pounds overweight, with high blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides in just 30 days after eating fast food from McDonald's everyday. Foods full of additives, preservatives, chemicals, colors, dyes and those which are genetically altered, irradiated, and chemically fertilized are contributing to poor health, low energy, depression, learning disabilities, and a host of other serious ailments.

You can change the vicious circle of bad health into a continuous path of good health by changing what you eat. Organic raw and 'living' (sprouted) foods are full of enzymes, vitamins, and minerals, the elements needed for good health. The human body requires enzymes for every function from digestion to conception. Without enzymes the body will shut down and die. Cooked food is devoid of all enzymes. There are enzyme powders and pills but these can't take the place of living enzymes found in fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and grains. Pills are not as effective and can be quite expensive. Vitamins, minerals and enzymes are in organic fresh fruits and vegetables and since you're going to eat anyway, why not get your nourishment and your vitamins and minerals all in one source?

Diseases are caused from toxicity and deficiency in the body so it is of the utmost importance to detoxify on a regular basis and to build the body up with good nutrition. Drugs are being used to treat diseases caused from enzyme and nutrient deficiencies, but drugs are not the answer. Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity are at epidemic proportions and the health of the American public is steadily deteriorating. The United States is the fattest nation on the planet and one of the reasons for this is that people are not getting nourished at a cellular level so they feel hungry all the time.

Junk food has become a part of the daily routine for many people and there are few healthy choices in the school cafeterias. The top foods eaten by children are french fries, pizza and burgers. It is rare to find fresh fruit and raw vegetables available in the school lunch line. If there is a salad bar it is usually covered in toxic preservatives to keep the lettuce from turning brown.

Conventional produce is grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with pesticides. These toxins contribute to poor health. Organic food is free of these chemicals and tastes better too. You may pay a little more for organic produce, but the price is well worth it when you consider the positive effects on your health.

Celery contains compounds known as coumarins that are useful in cancer prevention, lowering blood pressure and in reducing migraines. Celery is a wonderful reducing food because it has few calories and a high water content. It is very alkaline and counteracts acidosis, purifies the bloodstream, aids digestion and helps clear up skin problems. Apples are astringent and therapeutic because they are naturally antitoxic. They contain pectin which acts as an intestinal broom and bulking agent which binds with radioactive residues and removes them from the body, along with lead, mercury and other toxic heavy metals. There are hundreds more of these types of fruits and vegetables which have amazing health benefits.

Food is nourishment and medicine provided by Mother Nature so that we can live a long and disease-free life. When you make poor food choices you pay the price, so learn all you can about organic raw and living foods and start adding more of these nutritious and delicious foods to your diet. You'll feel the difference with more energy and vitality and you'll be rewarded with good health.

Brenda Cobb is the author of The Living Foods Lifestyle, Colon Cleansing For Optimum Health, 101 Raw and Living Food Recipes, Get Started Now Towards Better Health, and The Living Foods Lifestyle Training Manual. She is founder of the Living Foods Institute, featuring classes in the Living Foods Lifestyle and detoxification treatments to help people restore and maintain optimum health. For more information about classes and seminars call 404-524-4488.

Resources:

“ Alternative Medicine - by Burton Goldberg
“ Rebuild Your Health - by Dr. Ann Wigmore
“ Enzymes, the Fountain of Life - by D.A. Lopez, M.D., R.M. Williams, M.D. and K. Miehlke, M.D.
“Whole Foods Companion - by Dianne Onstad