Posts Tagged ‘fruit’

It is possible to spice up your life by adding a variety of fresh produce to your meals. There are ways to sauté without adding any oil or fat. There are luscious desserts, which don’t call for white flour or white sugar.

These recipes are for people who want to eat vegetarian or a high quality protein diet and keep the food as fresh, and wholesome as possible. These recipes will be utilizing a wide variety of produce and spices. They will be whole grain, cooked and raw vegetables, along with fruits and herbs.

The recipes will cover breakfast, lunch, dinners, and desserts. By utilizing the variety of fresh produce, grains, beans, spices and protein you will be consuming vitamins, minerals, and enzymes which will produce a more vibrant and radiant life.

You will taste and feel the difference by adding fresh ingredients. All recipes will be easy to prepare perfect for a fast paced world. Good taste should be fast and easy to come by. From sauces to easy deserts there will be something to please the palate. 

These culinary delights will be for your ultimate well-being and in a simple step by step form. Some will introduce you to new and exotic ingredients, but most will be everyday produce, protein, and herbs creatively combined for luscious meals, and desserts.  

The flavors, textures, and colors will enliven your palate, so that meals are more appealing to the senses. We want to take you on a journey to a time and place where food was enjoyed from the preparation to the finished product.

When you devote time to preparing food you are investing in a long and healthy life. An anti-aging regimen starts in the kitchen. We will show you not only how, but where to get some of the ingredients for these healing recipes.

Some of the recipes will be good for fruitarians, vegetarians, and those who like to add some grass fed dairy or meat to the diet. All the recipes can with a few adjustments work for any diet preference.

The simplicity of most of the recipes makes them wonderful for family time. These are the type of recipes to get the whole family involved. Food should be enjoyable and health rendering without the stress of long preparation time.

Many of the meals are festive and make great holiday meals. They also incorporate great tips and product recommendations. By utilizing the dynamic variety of flavors and textures, which come with plant food, you will ultimately enjoy greater health, vitality and a very happy palate.

A raw diet saves lives. This is a diet, which is high in nutrition, and low in calories. It usually is a raw vegetarian diet, heavy on fruits and vegetables. What a raw diet may be doing is supplying the body with micronutrients, while getting rid of accumulated toxins.

The Raw Diet

The raw diet, especially if there is juicing and blending involved makes digestion easy, and leaves energy for the body to work on healing. The diet takes the  burden off the digestion system and provides vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that are in short supply.

The raw food movement is a quiet revolution, which is changing the way we think about food. The emphasis is on high quality nutrition. Raw food provides a way to eat that is more in tune with nature.  The diet is trending upward., because it is the living definition of living food.

This is a stand alone diet, it doesn’t depend on any store bought supplements. The only additions are some supper foods, which the diet naturally contains plenty of. The question is why aren’t more people choosing a more raw diet?

Anti-Aging

Millions of people are looking for anti-aging products and procedures, this diet would be the ultimate way to stay young at heart and reverse human aging. When I say young at heart we are talking about the best way to keep your cardiovascular system in peak working order. What is critically important is that you feed the cells so they are powered to provide your body with cellular energy. The mitochandria are the cellular energy generators, which supple your body with all the energy for a long healthy life.

The combination of a raw foods with nutrient dense sources of cooked items may be the way to implement a mostly raw diet for most people. Physical performance depends on a host of bio-active nutrients. It also depends on what you are capable of absorbing from the food. For centuries we had a diet so different from today’s eating. We are starving our body by feeding it calorie dense, nutritionally sparse foods.

Benefits

The truth is people are unwittingly starving their bodies and have no idea of the extent of the problem. At one time we provided nutrition from raw and cooked foods. What has happened is in the the last 70 plus years we lost control of our food supply. Now our cooked food can’t deliver, and even our raw conventional and even organic produce are growing in poor nutrient depleted soil. What this says in today’s world: we are more vulnerable to the effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Synthetic vitamins aren’t the answer, only biological active ingredients are bioavailable. The synthesis of these nutrients will depend on all the components of the plant being intact. There aren’t any full spectrum vitamins and minerals except from the source.

In order to maintain mental acuity and physical vigor you have see the fuel you are providing your body with is supporting this. I hope this article gives everyone food for thought.

Remember common sense should prevail. A healthy diet with grass fed beef and some cooked food is still the road to health.

The papaya is sweet, succulent and when served ripe has custard like taste. That the papaya thwarts cancer cells in the lab makes this an even sweeter choice. Papaya contains anti-oxidant nutrients like beta-carotene, vitamin A and C, flavonoids, folate, B vitamins and pantothenic acid. It also contains small amount of minerals like calcium, chlorine, iron phosphorus, potassium, silicon and sodium.

Papaya Cancer Protection

The Papaya provides a blast of luscious sweetness while delivering powerful immune boosting nutrients. Papaya fights cancer because it has the powerful combination of lycopene, and carotenoids. It has shown promise against hormone related cancers as well as other types. In the case of breast cancer cells research shows it can stop the growth and metastasis process.

The nutrients in papaya have been shown to help prevent colon cancer. Papaya’s fiber is able to bind with cancer-causing toxins in the colon and keep them away from the healthy colon cells. Papaya’s folate, vitamin C, beta-carotene, and vitamin E have each been associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer. These nutrients provide synergistic protection for colon cells from free radical damage to their DNA.

Papaya may reduce a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer. This comes from research published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Men who frequently consumed lycopene-rich fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, apricots, pink grapefruit, watermelon , papaya, and guava were 82% less likely to have prostate cancer than those who consumed the least of these fruits. Drinking green tea while on a diet high in lycopene-rich fruits offered stronger protection. There seems to be a synergistic effect that offers substantial protection.

Papaya and Cancer Research

Scientists at the University of Illinois think this anti-oxidant activity contributes to its effectiveness as a cancer fighting agent. The University of Florida researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D and colleagues in Japan have documented papaya’s dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors. These include cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. Researchers in Japan found the mechanisms of action in a type of isothiocyanate found in papaya known as BITC (Benzyl isothiocyanate} that underlies the relationship between cell cycle regulation and appropriate cell demise.

Adding papayas to your diet is a powerful way to ensure you are getting a nutrient-dense fruit that is a rich source of cancer fighting nutrients. The key to health is to get nutriton in and cellular toxins out. It is common sense that what works to protect against cancer are whole foods with a broad-spectrum of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.