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Eating Organic and Going Raw Can Get Expensive. Here are Some Tips.

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:40:31 +0000

It could be expensive having a new food habit eating raw foods. Having your own garden is the viable solution. If you have a back yard you can grow a pretty decent sized one. Otherwise, get a few planters and grow a couple of tomato plants along the patio wall, and put a couple of eggplants inside the porch door with one large circular planter. Make each veggie plant its own design with imminent works of art. I put a little garden here of one type of vegetables and then another one on the south side of the yard. The sky is the limit what you can do.

If you know someone who owns an organic garden, volunteer to assist them in exchange for food items. Most people need help, and the larger the garden the more help they will need. You take care of the geenhouse, weed, monitor customers who need assistance, and prepare plants for reselling. Only a few people refuse good honest labor; I know I wouldnâ€™t! Working in a garden all spring, summer and fall is exhausting work; it is a blessing if someone offers to help.

When you find sales on fresh or organic veggies at the end of summer, buy them at bulk and either can or freeze your favorite dishes. If you have a huge deep freeze you can freeze quite a bit of items. Otherwise, have a dehydrator and have them dried. A special storage is not needed and can be added to soups and stews, casseroles, or eat by using your hands in the middle of winter as it is snowing outside.

See what’s available in your community or neighborhood. There are a lot of opportunities that are waiting for your abilities and skills, but they wonâ€™t come knocking on your door!

Good luck with your new raw food ways!

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Introduction to Some Super Foods

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:59:27 +0000

Wheatgrass is the young grass of wheat, picked immediately following growing. Wheatgrass can be squeezed or dried and powdered into flour for for use to drink. Scientists have prepared many publications about wheatgrass since she believed wheatgrass can be used for fighting tumors. Majortiy of wheatgrass content is chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the foundation of all plant life, and is probably the most tonic nutrient. Researchers has believevd that chlorophyll supresses growing of unfriendly microoganism. Wheatgrass does contains a number of , a few thousands different enzymes not present in other foods. Wheatgarss is a fabulous healthy food for person on diet, for young men, and for people trying to keep a healthy immune mechanism.

Maca is an hardy plant in Andies. Maca lives on high lands, and grows well only in bitterly code weather and in bad lands. It has been studied that hypocotyls is the major elements of naturally grown and healthy maca root on high altitude. Since hypocotyls do not form in warm environments or in hot environment, cultivated maca in other regions than Andean high lands have no same content of hypocotyles and different components as the naturally grown and green maca root. Maca root is usually used as food or herbal medicine. Additionally it contains uridine and glucosinolates so forth so on. Maca has been grown and consumed by people for thousand of years. It can enhance their immune mechanism. Maca also regulates women’s hormonal irregularities.

Spirulina is water living filamentous cyanobacteria with round trichomes in left-hand spiral. Spirulina lives naturally in tropical and subtropical ponds with alkaline and high concentrations of carbonate and bicarbonate. Spirulina is commonly used as food . For hundreds of years Aztecs have been using Spirulina. The earliest documentation indicates that spirulina present in Lake Texcoco, and was collected and traded as supplements. The first Spirulina company was established in 1970s. Recent years spirulina has become a common thing in the world, and has been recognised by the FDA, WHO and other medical authourities as healthy supplements.

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You Really Are What You Eat

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:19:38 +0000

Recent dietary research has uncovered 14 different nutrient-dense foods that time and again promote good overall health. Coined â€œsuperfoods,â€ they tend to have fewer calories, higher levels of vitamins and minerals, and many disease-fighting antioxidants.

Beans (legumes), berries (especially blueberries), broccoli, green tea, nuts (especially walnuts), oranges, pumpkin, salmon. soy, spinach, tomatoes, turkey, whole grains and oats, and yogurt can all help stop and even reverse diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimerâ€™s, and some forms of cancer. And where one might have an effect on a certain part of the body, it can also affect the health of other body functions and performance, since the whole body is connected. With these 14 foods as the base of a balanced, solid diet, weight loss gimmicks and other fly-by-night programs can become a thing of the past in your life.

Conversely, the ill-effects of an unbalanced diet are several and varied. Low energy levels, mood swings, tired all the time, weight change, uncomfortable with body are just a few signs that your diet is unbalanced. An unbalanced diet can cause problems with maintenance of body tissues, growth and development, brain and nervous system function, as well as problems with bone and muscle systems.
Symptoms of malnutrition include lack of energy, irritability, a weakened immune system leading to frequent colds or allergies, and mineral depletion that can trigger a variety of health concerns including anemia.

And since the body is connected, realizing that an unhealthy body will result in an unhealthy spirit only makes sense. When we nourish our body with these superfoods and complement them with other nutrient-dense and healthy fresh foods, our spirit will be vitalized and healthy as a direct result.
Many modern diets based on prepackaged convenience foods are sorely lacking in many vitamins and minerals, which can affect our mental capacities as well, and cause irritability, confusion, and the feeling of â€˜being in a fogâ€™ all the time.

Superfoods can be the basis of a sound, healthy, nutritious solution to curing many of these ailments and more.

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Don’t Eat Canned, Eat Fresh

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:25:45 +0000

Buying food items in cans lack in nourishment and are usually loaded with salt and preservatives in todayâ€™s grocery stores. The process of freshness goes from fresh fruits and vegetables, to frozen foods, and down to canned foods. Being last on this list, these canned items are slowly becoming obsolete.

When these canned foods are being cooked, the heating process destroys about one-third to one-half of the riboflavin, thiamin, vitamins A and C. And when they are stored, they lose an additional 5 to 20 percent of those nutrients. Other vitamins decrease slightly.

A great quantity of produce when picked for harvest will begin to lose some of its nutrients. If it is handled properly and canned quickly, it can be more than or as nutritious as fresh fruit or vegetable. This fresh harvest will lose half or more of its vitamins with the first two weeks: but if not kept chilled or preserved, the fresh vegetable or fruit will lose nearly half of its vitamins within a couple of days. The regular consumer is advised to eat a varieties of food each day as compared to only one type of food.

The thing to remember is everything depends on the time between the harvesting and the canning and freeing process. Generally, the vegetables are picked straightaway and taken to canning or freezing divisions when their nutrient contact is at its peak. How the good is canned also affects the nutrients. Vegetables boiled for longer than necessary and in large amounts of water recede much of their nutritional value as compared to those only thinly boiled.

When we get fresh vegetables or fruit at the farm, they are definitely contain more nutrients than frozen or canned â€“ this is a fact. Buy at least frozen, if you can’t afford to buy fresh.

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