What is "Eating for Energy?"
Have you heard about these raw food eating plans? It's gaining popularity and buzz, not just to lose weight, but a diet for a long and healthy life. We eat so much in the way of processed food that we don't even consider what we're doing to our health, and how far we've come nutritionally from our ancestral, agrarian roots.
A raw food diet means consuming food in its healthiest and most unprocessed form. There are several wise rationales for why this is such a great plan. Processing and cooking food can obliterate the basic nutritional value from the meal. Consider some of the common sense 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 overcooked it. Maybe you recall 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.
Think of all the grease trapped in grease traps, under every restaurant in America alone. Imagine that's your heart--gross! Is a heart attack a part of your retirement plan? Cancer? This isn't some scare tactic, just pick up a newspaper and read about the rising cost of healthcare, and ask yourself if there's a correlation to our diet. Do you think there just might be a link between obesity, diabetes, cancer and all the other dire statistics--and our diet? Think of "Eating for Energy" as a way out of the mad feedback loop...a way out of the cycle of unhealthy family trees.
Doesn't it just seem right that this is how our bodies were created to eat? It's a way of eating that's in harmony with our design and in harmony with our own metabolisms. Our bodies were meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means exercise, certainly, but it also means eating wholesome, natural foods that require more energy to digest them. - 17268
A raw food diet means consuming food in its healthiest and most unprocessed form. There are several wise rationales for why this is such a great plan. Processing and cooking food can obliterate the basic nutritional value from the meal. Consider some of the common sense 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 overcooked it. Maybe you recall 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.
Think of all the grease trapped in grease traps, under every restaurant in America alone. Imagine that's your heart--gross! Is a heart attack a part of your retirement plan? Cancer? This isn't some scare tactic, just pick up a newspaper and read about the rising cost of healthcare, and ask yourself if there's a correlation to our diet. Do you think there just might be a link between obesity, diabetes, cancer and all the other dire statistics--and our diet? Think of "Eating for Energy" as a way out of the mad feedback loop...a way out of the cycle of unhealthy family trees.
Doesn't it just seem right that this is how our bodies were created to eat? It's a way of eating that's in harmony with our design and in harmony with our own metabolisms. Our bodies were meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means exercise, certainly, but it also means eating wholesome, natural foods that require more energy to digest them. - 17268
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