The first principle to whole food
healing is discovering how to eliminate the cause of disease by removing
negative foods and poor eating habits.
You must replace inferior
foods with those of quality. Eat whole grains instead of refined grains,
unrefined monounsaturated oils for refined (rancid) oils, and organic foods for
chemically treated foods.
It's important to know how to
supplement deficiencies (which is what causes most diseases) with
strengthening.
In the long term, when whole foods are eaten,
supplementation of deficiency is more successful than by separate nutrients in
a pill. Supplements have merit but when the diet is optimal, they aren't
needed. And, consider this, even "natural" vitamin supplements are
usually more than 90% synthetic! Vitamins in whole foods are immeasurably
more effective. For example, 70 mg of vitamin C ingested in the form of
one cup of broccoli strengthens your immunity more effectively than 700 mg of
synthetic vitamin C. In the broccoli not only is absorption maximized but
you also get beta-carotene, chlorophyll, enzymes, minerals and
phytochemicals.
Here's another example:
Exactly how minerals should be balanced internally is a biochemical
puzzle to scientists and their theories change year to year. All the
minerals in your body are in a delicate, dynamic balance. If a deficiency
in, say, calcium exists, other minerals will be out of balance, too. In
fact without adequate magnesium, phosphorous and vitamins A, C and D, it
appears that calcium cannot be absorbed at all!
A favorable mix
of all known nutrients is found in a balanced whole food diet.
Studies also show that long-term
supplementation with isolated vitamins (A, C, E, etc.) neither cure nor prevent
serious diseases.
Clearly the safest, most effective route is to
avoid nutritional extremes, and to eat the highest quality foods available,
which are unprocessed, unsprayed, organically grown food. These are much
superior in nutrition, taste and energy.
The foods you eat are your
choice. There are over 50,000 different foods to choose from originating
from all over the world, mostly in neat little packages for your
convenience. Easy preparation.
These processed foods give you more
time in your day but less time to live.
You don't have time not to have
the time to eat right. Your life depends on it!
Don't
dig your grave with a knife and fork. (Old English Proverb)
Next,
I think we should take a look at how this all happened to us!
How did we move away from whole foods and get taken in
by the processed food industry?
