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Stress Can Throw You Off Your Diet Plan
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I’m sure you’ve heard of the long-standing joke, stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Unfortunately, it’s no joke when stress throws you off your diet. You’ve been diligent and worked hard to stick with you diet. Then wham, out of nowhere life throws you a sucker punch and you feel all stressed out. What is the first thing you do to combat that? You guessed it, eat your favorite comfort food and lots of it. It can be very discouraging when that happens.
However, the good news is you can bounce back before stress causes any permanent damage to your healthy diet.
There are some natural alternatives to traditional medicines to combat stress. One way is to plan time for meditation each day. We all have busy lives with our work and raising a family. Read More→
That is a question asked very often by skeptics of the raw food diet. If you’ve just started your journey, you may be asking yourself, “Where do I get my protein?” You had better get used to being asked that question from virtually all of your family and friends, plus a large section of the general population.
Most people believe that protein is almost only found in animal products. If you cut out dairy products as well and become vegan, especially raw vegan where you will not eat processed meat substitutes, a lot of the people you meet will be anxiously examining you for signs of protein deficiency. They probably would not be surprised if you dropped down dead in front of them just from not eating meat.
Of course, this is ridiculous. There are many raw food protein sources, even for raw vegans who do not eat raw meat or unpasteurized dairy products. What is more, most people in western societies consume far more protein than they need. Read More→
A raw vegan diet consists of unprocessed, raw plant foods that have not been heated above 46 °C (115 °F). Followers of this type of diet believe that foods cooked above this temperature lose much of their nutritional value and are less healthy. Some “Raw foodists” go as far as saying foods heated above that temperature may be harmful to the body.
Many foods that could be sold raw, such as milk and almonds, are pasteurized to reduce the risk of Microbial Disease. It sounds crazy to pasteurize almonds whereas fruits, which are much more likely to carry bacteria if not thoroughly washed, are sold raw in grocery stores.
Many raw vegan recipes include foods such as agave nectar, which are processed food products, and it is hard to know exactly what temperatures have been used in the preparation. Read More→
Improve You Health and Spiritual Wellness with Raw Foods
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A raw food diet can help you improve the overall health and wellness of your mind, body and spirit. If you ever considered a raw food diet or are learning more about the benefits of living foods, you will find this article valuable.
The first thing to remember when considering the benefits of going raw is that everything that we would naturally eat is a living organism. Even if we are vegan, we eat vegetables that contain a life force in the form of enzymes. In fact, it could be said that all food in its natural state contains its own perfect mix of enzymes and our body was designed to consume foods in this state.
We can use the enzymes in the food in the early stages of the digestive process, along with the enzymes that our own body produces. This helps food to be digested completely. Read More→
Millions of people have either tried or are interested in learning about the raw food diet. Several celebrities who are interested in the health benefits or are looking to lose weight have also made the raw food diet even more popular.
Some people made raw foods a way of life and thus made a permanent change while others go raw temporarily to lose weight or give their bodies a break while they fight a disease. Either way, if you are considering going raw yourself, you need to know something about the basic principles of the raw food diet. Read More→
If you are a regular tea drinker, you know there are many flavors to choose from. Visit your local grocery store and you’ll find aisles packed with many varieties of tea. One of the more popular flavors for health benefits is green tea. If you haven’t tried it yet, you may be missing out on a great natural health drink.
And if you have, you may have noticed that it has a nice, gentle flavor, but did you know that it provides more than just flavor? Green tea has been around for a long time and is better known in other countries as a healthy and healing type of tea.
It probably has the most health benefits of any kind of beverage or food item we know about. Green tea was developed centuries ago for the sole purpose of healing. The Chinese are the ones who first realized the benefits it holds and found a way to harness it for consumption. Read More→
Discover the Healthy Eating Secrets You Can Use to Lose Weight & Feel Better Than You Have in Years. With all the foods out there claiming to be low-fat or fat-free or cholesterol free and with all the conflicting research that one day says a particular food is bad for you and the next says it is good, deciding how to “eat healthy” can be extremely difficult. Learn more about 