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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.

Calorie counting is going off the deep end in American culture. Calorie counting is not benefiting the American public. Calorie content of food is not an indicator of the amount of weight you will gain. The amount of weight you gain will depend on your choice of food, and the amount. To many this may seem like calorie counting.

Calorie Counting Fails

Calorie counting is not functional when you consider the deeper meaning of food. That is because our concept of calorie counting in not rooted in nature. Calorie counting has become popular with consumers because of how food is sourced.

The aesthetics of the packaged food is more of a problem than calories. What is in the packaged food is responsible for mitochondrial decay and aging, cellular degeneration, cardiovascular disease, and the obesity epidemic. The calories provided are a mute issue.

Plenty of people who counted calories wind up with a gastric bypass. It isn’t because they couldn’t count it is precisely because they could count. They most likely were told to count the calories.  Most people are looking at the wrong numbers. When they consume food they are looking at calories and not necessarily nutrients. When your body has adequate nutrients it stops feeling starved and the craving subside.

Nutrients Count

According to Bruce Ames who developed the Triage Theory of Aging, obese people are hungry all the time because the body is craving missing nutrients such as magnesium. Dr..Ames is emeritus professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In the Life Extension Magazine dated August 2011 he states that Americans are filling up with junk and are wildly deficient in vitamins and minerals. No where in the article does he blame obesity on too many calories.

People who opt for gastric bypass have bypassed the laws of nature. They weren’t getting enough nutrients to support their body. These surgical interventions for obesity are not reserved for only morbid obesity, they are now being approved for people who are overweight and tried everything else.

Macronutrients

To run your metabolism you need the basic macronutrients and these come from fats and carbohydrates. Every metabolic pathway requires micronutrients to supply the calories. Low fat, no fat and no calorie sodas are not the solution but the problem. We are a society obsessed with the calorie count of every morsel of food we put into our mouths.

Metabolic function depends on how we prioritize what we consume. If calorie counting is on top of the list we will suffer an alarming rate of both obesity and chronic health problems. So far that looks like the course of action America has taken to fight the rising rate of obesity. Calorie counting is more that a phrase or faze we are going through, it is what is blatantly touted as a cure for the obesity epidemic.

ADHD-diet related what a surprise. A new study from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a “Western-Style” diet in adolescents. The research findings have been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders.

Western Diet

Research isn’t needed for this association. For many years western trained medical professionals claimed diet doesn’t influenced behavior or physical conditions. Now, we started to spend research dollars to see what was obvious, you are what you eat.

To assume that food doesn’t make a difference, when that is the fuel that runs the body, is preposterous. Your brain needs vitamins, minerals, and good omega 3 fatty acids. The high sugar content displaces and depletes the vitamin and minerals. 

Nutritional studies

What was found was a diet high in western type foods; the typical junk food diet doubled the risk of having an ADHD diagnosis. The appropriate title should be flying high, which is what happens on a high sugar diet.

An adolescent’s diet usually consists of fast food, and high sugar snacks. Plus the fact that they consume more calories than they can work off. They not only jeopardize their brains functions, but put their health on the line.

At this time of life emotional upheavals are also diet related. For an adolescent this is the time to develop balance and strength coordinating yesterday’s best with tomorrow’s promise. It is a time to pursuit passions and maturity.

ADHD

What ADHD is in plain terms is multiple dysfunctions and out of sync responses. It denotes scattered out of order responses from a person ill equipped to find the right mix of emotions, and control to express them with.

They miss everything and anything because of their scattered attention. What this says is that a possibly friendly and outgoing child resonates with a scattered presence. What can cause this is a diet high in processed foods, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup.  

Help

Knowing where to look for help means you must experiment with the diet to experience a difference. Health-conscious consumption will take the bite out of ADHD and enhance focus.

The food of today is the actions of tomorrow. It is as simple as that.