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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.

Depression can be stopped in its tracks. Pharmaceuticals aren’t the only or best way to reduce depression. Administrating drugs for what many times is a lifestyle condition is the wrong approach. High potency drugs can cause more problems then they solve. The numbers and variety of legal drugs are increasingly suspected of causing this problem. Some common drugs that are known to cause depression are: barbiturates, amphetamines, pain killers, beta-blockers, high blood pressure medications, heart medications and psychotropic drugs.

Depression Solutions

A good diet has many benefits that help with mood disorders, ADHD, cognitive function, and depression. The biggest barrier to brain health is a poor diet. After decades of of looking at mental disorders as separate from overall health, the tide is turning. There is a relationship between what you eat, how much you exercise, and what you think.

Essential Fatty Acids

Two-thirds of the brain is composed of specific kinds of fats. The two kinds of fatty acids that your body can’t manufacture and needs from food sources are the ones the brain depends on. These are the essential fatty acids (EPAs): Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) the foundation of the ”omega-3″ group of fatty acids, and Liolic acid (LA) the foundation of the “omega-6″ group of fatty acids.

These are the building blocks of brain cells. Food sources of Omega-3 (ALA) are flax seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, sea vegetables, green leafy vegetables, salmon, sardines, mackerel, trout, olive oil, grass fed beef and dairy. Linolic acid (LA) is found in expelled cold pressed oils, like sesame, primrose, flax, and others. The other sources are pumpkin seeds, avocados, poultry, cashews, acai berry, and spirulina. Many of the foods that have omega 3 contain Linoleic acid.

The brain makes docosehexaenoic acid (DHA) from (ALA) and (LA). Scientist at the National Institutes of Health has associated the increase in depression in North America with the decline of DHA. This is the most important fat for all cognitive functions.

B Vitamins

The B-complex vitamins are essential to both mental and emotional health. The B vitamins can’t be stored they depend on our daily consumption of them. They are destroyed by alcohol, refined sugar, nicotine, caffeine, and stress.

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is used by the brain to help convert glucose into fuel, it is the primary source of energy for the brain. Deficiencies can lead to fatigue, depression, irritability anxiety, and insomnia. Simple carbohydrates such as sugar drains the supply of all B complex vitamins.

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) aids is the processing of amino acids. the building blogs of serotonin, melatonin and dopamine. These are know as the happy hormones.

Vitamin  B12 is important in preventing Anemia, which can cause mood swings, paranoia, irritability, confusion, dementia, and depression.. Folic Acid is need for DNA sysnthesis.

Lifestyle 

With our modern lifestyle many people shouldn’t be a stranger to depression. Depression is more than genetics. This condition is more than minor worries; it is the collapse of our agriculture system. The quality of our food supply is dismal. As our nutritional foundation is giving way our mental illnesses will sky rocket. Just by looking at the rates of autism, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and bi-polar disorders you can see the hair-curling trend. This is unprecedented and is setting the stage for a boon in prescription medications.

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.