Eating Raw Foods And Modern Health
As people all over the world look for new ways to take control of their health and their environment, alternative diets rich in living and raw foods are becoming increasingly popular. These include the raw vegan diet, acid alkaline diet, raw foods diet and living foods, all featuring fresh, nutritious and minimally processed ingredients that work in harmony with healthy bodily functions. Eating raw foods and growing sprouts is usually always a part of this process for the convenience, nutrition and versatility that makes them a worthy dietary supplement.
There is a changing trend moving towards personal health as people become more educated about the potential repercussions of depending on the standard western medicine path of using supplements or corrective action through medication once a health symptom surfaces. This trend is seeing a significant swing towards the foundational approach of using food and lifestyle as a preventative medicine. And why wouldn’t they, as the cost of healthcare increases along with the amount of people that are ineligible for health cover, many proactive human beings are looking for alternatives.
It is a developing and increasingly acceptable belief these days that preventative medicine is by far the best medicine. By assessing daily practices and lifestyle decisions, you can really hold the reigns of your overall health. In the United States and spreading around the world at a disturbing rate, fresh vegetables and living foods are being replaced by fast, fried and over processed foods. These common foods that constitute a major component of the American diet mainly consist of starch, processed meat, corn syrup, bleached flour, and foods that are deep fried in variations of different harmful oils, like canola oil.These factors have combined to triple the obesity rate among young and middle aged Americans in the past 25 years. As more and more people are informed of this issue, the interest is increasing exponentially to find simple ways to integrate more basic living foods into their diet, which is why growing sprouts is rising in popularity.
One of the challenges that face individuals looking to integrate a healthier diet is that a lot of the most prominent individuals and groups that endorse the healthier choices are very extreme in their views, sometimes rallying against the people who m
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ake these “unwise” nutrition choices, rather than looking at the overall societal factors that have created the situation as it is. The team over at Seeds of Sustainability believes that human beings are naturally intelligent, adaptable creatures that will overall make progressively wiser decisions as those options become available, and that focusing too much on the problems tends to enhance them. For this reason, we suggest to anyone who is transitioning to a healthier, more oxygen rich diet to do so at a comfortable rate. For many people, they are taking this approach to make decisions that are more respectful to their body and the environment, so it makes sense to not make the transition a trauma for the body in itself. It is very common when individuals try to transition too rapidly from a typical western diet to a vegan, vegetarian or raw foods diet to go into an intense and uncomfortable detoxification process, commonly known as a “healing crisis.”
We believe strongly in adding living foods to the diet rather than taking something else away, and gradually increasing the percentage of living foods you take in over time. Using this approach you will come to your own conclusions of what you want to keep eating and what you will move away from, without feeling like you are sacrificing something. The body is far more intelligent and self regulating than most of us give it credit for, and it is important to keep this in mind as we analyze our lifestyles and decisions. If you are looking for a simple way to start this transition, growing sprouts offers a fast and affordable option to obtain highly nutritious and versatile foods, to supplement your current diet. Using the Marche Sprouting Method makes this process even easier, as it requires no daily rinsing of your sprouts and enables you to grow as little or as much sprouted foods as you require in just 72 hours.
By: Robin Marche
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Robin Marche is the author of the Seeds of Sustainability program. His passion for natural foods and nutrition has developed over a lifetime and one of his most notable discoveries is an alternative method to the
sprouter for growing sprouts with no daily rinsing.
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