Better Health - Eat Living Foods

By Brittney Miller

Everyone knows fruits and vegetables are healthy for your body, but do you know why? Fruits and vegetables are considered a live whole food when they are uncooked, and live whole foods are an important part of our diets that we may be missing. This article has some information on live whole foods and why they are important.

Live whole foods are plant-based foods that are alive and raw but unheated or uncooked. Which may include beans, fresh juices, nuts, seeds, sprouts, fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes, etc. These raw live whole foods contain a wide range of vital life force nutrients and live enzymes like amino acids, minerals, vitamins, etc.

Many who have been on a raw live food diet have seen great health improvements from eating this way. They have said to have higher energy levels, mental alertness, better digestion and skin appearance. Losing weight can result as well by eating live whole foods.

By this time you may be a little more curious as to what eating live whole foods can do for you, and how safe it would be to go on an all raw food diet.

Before starting any diet you should first talk to your doctor. In my opinion however, I would not suggest going completely on a live whole food diet. It seems to me that by eating this way you would be missing some key vitamins and minerals that you can only get from other kinds of foods like dairy products or meat.

By far one of the best ways to approach any diet is balancing. A healthy well balanced diet with raw foods as your main source of nourishment with plenty of variety seems like your best bet. Try to stay away from processed foods, and go for organic if at all possible.

For most of us, it isn't realistic to be eating a diet composed of all organic live whole foods due to the time, money, and effort it requires. However I do believe that if we include more living foods into our diets, we will feel much healthier. Cutting back on processed foods and replacing them with more fruits and vegetables will greatly increase our general health and nutrition.

To me there is nothing wrong with eating live whole foods, just as long as you are eating a well balanced diet. Organic is always the best way to eat anything, since you are not putting chemicals into your body that don't belong there. That's not always possible as we all know, but if you eat as much organic as you possibly can that's good too.

As with anything you should do plenty of research and consult your doctor.

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