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Have You Heard About \”Eating for Energy?\”
Monday, February 8th, 2010Welcome back!
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.
When you use the \”Eating for Energy\” system, it means eating unprocessed, raw, organic, whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, dried fruits, seaweeds, etc. It requires a diet that is at least 75% raw! Cooking takes out flavor and nutrition from veggies and fruits. Eating for energy means eating more the way our ancient ancestors did. They didn\’t cook often, and certainly didn\’t cook or can 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 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.
Looking to find the best way to be healthy? Eating for Energy can show you how, or visit James B. Hussey\’s recommendation to find the best advice on eating to live healthy.
